As thousands travel home to see their families, jam chocolate eggs and marshmallow chickadees down their gullets at a pre-diet-Oprah-like pace and put on their best “Christ-y” faces, we present a special sugar-coated, Jesus-juiced Good Friday edition of Darts & Laurels.
Amidst all the discussion about health care reform, infamous Bush-bashing organization Answer (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) held its annual war protest recently in Washington, D.C., to mark the seventh anniversary of the United States’ congress-approved invasion of Iraq.
In response to Ryan Weiss’ letter to the editor yesterday, I would say that a student-run newspaper is the perfect place for a column like CJ Pruner’s. I thought his column was great, and it gave me a good laugh before class. I don’t think anyone expects you to take these columns too seriously — have you ever read Tommy Maple’s columns?
Who is complaining about ladies night?
Recently, the city of Gainesville’s Office of Equal Opportunity has brought to light many local establishments that are in violation of the city’s discrimination ordinance. These businesses frequently sponsor promotional activities designed to specifically attract females, giving preference to one gender over the other.
The fourth film in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise certainly caused a cheer from half of us and a groan from the other half, but it’s very likely that we will all see it.
As Google and China continue their convoluted Mexican standoff across the South China Sea and our country slogs through divisive political struggles and rampant joblessness, I decided to do something proactive and start a cult.
For a city that prides itself in being environmentally friendly, Gainesville is about to get a heap of garbage dumped on it — hate-spewing, bigoted, “Christ-loving” garbage.
No matter your politics, as a citizen of the world and a product of history, you must recognize that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are pivotal moments in our age that will have repercussions for decades to come.
As a 1989 graduate of UF from the College of Journalism and Communications, I think it is absurd that the two documentary graduate students, Jon Bougher and Roman Safiullin, can’t include their recent footage from Haiti in their film due to UF’s ban on post-earthquake travel there.
I am a student in the Documentary Institute. Jon Bougher and Roman Safiullin are my classmates. I want to echo my professor Churchill Roberts’ words that the university should be embarrassed over the controversy that has risen around Bougher and Safiullin’s thesis film.
CJ Pruner’s column on Monday regarding Jordan Johnson’s political legacy had a few minor errors that I want him to acknowledge. One, while it is implied that the article is written by CJ Pruner, I cannot help but feel that others deserve credit for its content, namely, Michael Moore movies and malt liquor. Additionally, the article concludes by saying that he is a “journalism junior.” I would like to recommend a more appropriate description, perhaps “cynical moron.”
The University’s decision to censor the documentary film thesis of journalism students Jon Bougher and Roman Safiullin should raise red flags for all students. Bougher and Safiullin, whose thesis centers on a Haitian aid organization, happened to be in Haiti when the earthquake struck. They may have lived to tell their story, but the University doesn’t want them to.
It has been said that “anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the Left.” The Monday editorial “Idol Hands” is vivid proof this is true.
We’re always surprised at the new levels of hypocrisy some people reach, and the recently proposed Florida House of Representatives Bill 315 is no exception.
If you could ask Secretary of Education Arne Duncan anything you wanted, what would it be? Would it be about the value of your degree when you graduate?
This is to correct something a letter said Friday: Americans do not elect leaders to alter their country. Now just to quickly get to my point, a leader is meant to usher in what is best for a group of people.
The city’s actions prohibiting bars and restaurants from serving ladies’ nights specials are anything but an anti-discrimination attempt. If the city wants to stop promoting stereotypes and societal divisions, maybe it should focus its efforts on making sure that men and women are treated equally in the workplace, especially in matters of equal pay for equal work.
Bright Futures should not be a need-based scholarship. It was merit-based not to reward students for being successful in high school, but to entice those successful students to stay at Florida schools.
It would seem that Dove World Outreach Center has a pastor appropriately named. Having viewed the video of his hate-filled rhetoric concerning a runoff election for mayor of the fine city of Gainesville, I believe that the minister in question, Wayne Sapp, definitely is one. Hatred in the name of Jesus is simply unbiblical, hypocritical and unacceptable. Shame!
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