Darts and Laurels for July 17, 2019
By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 17, 2019Your face reflects off the shiny wooden counter wet with spilled drink. “Is that really what I look like?,” you think to yourself.
Your face reflects off the shiny wooden counter wet with spilled drink. “Is that really what I look like?,” you think to yourself.
Knowledge may be priceless, but textbooks certainly aren’t.
Get your hiking shoes on and perfect your “Naruto run” because in another case of ‘the internet made me do it,’ it looks like we are raiding Area 51.
You may think choosing statues is irrelevant. But when Florida decides which two statues it’s going to send to represent us in our nation’s capital, they aren’t just statues.
Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned and abused in U.S. labs every year in the name of “science.”
Just because you have summer classes doesn’t mean you can’t tap into a youthful experience with exploration and adventure.
When the student senate returned for the beginning of the Summer B term, they did so with less senators and a lot more potential. Over the past few weeks, partisanship in the Senate chamber has risen to an all-time high, culminating in the departure of former senators Grabowski and Lima.
Nike, Colin Kaepernick, the American flag and slavery combined together to create a lightning rod of controversy last week.
Your body has an annoying amount of cortisol running through it.
Filters and Facetune can help, but what is the differentiation between putting your best self out there and pretending to be someone you’re not?
UF is planning for a lot of changes in the coming years.
Summer B marks the halfway point of summer session, but for most of the fresh faces on campus, this is just the beginning.
The time has come to leave this ghost town and return a week later when it’s renewed with young, innocent, naive and hopeful life.
What you should give goes beyond dollar bills.
Legislation to raise the smoking age isn’t the right way to curb tobacco use.
Tobacco should be regulated as the health risks it is.
On Monday, Kyle Kashuv, a Parkland shooting survivor, said Harvard rescinded his admission after screenshots showed him using racial slurs in late 2017 and early 2018. Earlier this year, the 18-year old high school outreach director for Turning Point USA (a conservative non-profit student organization) was admitted to the university class of 2023.
"This week, I would like to talk about an anti-Semitism resolution that almost passed in Senate and all the behind the scenes shenanigans that highlight the disfunction of majority party senators."
"I don’t want to be writing about these repugnant men....But these people are dangerous."
It’s the weekend, or at least your definition of it, as you only have class three days a week.