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Singles should seize V-Day opportunity
Feb. 8, 2010I think Valentine’s Day is really a holiday for singles.
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EDITORIALS
Palin's announcement is no shocker
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 8, 2010You betcha!
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EDITORIALS
And another thing about Palin...
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 8, 2010And just when you thought our ranting about Sarah Palin was over, the Editorial Board is here to issue you another full serving.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Alligator op-ed section is too liberal, indecent
By MATT SIMONS | Feb. 8, 2010I was at Shands yesterday and read the latest edition of the liberal rag you call the Alligator. If nothing else, it is good for a laugh.
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Gator Growl wants Student Body’s opinion for 2010 show
By Bryan Griffin | Feb. 8, 2010Some people may think it is awfully early in the year to begin talking about the next Gator Growl, but people have been planning the 2010 Growl since late December.
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Technological advances like Facebook more than just fun
By Will Penman | Feb. 7, 2010There’s this new thing out that’s pretty fantastic.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Columnist lacks original ideas
By NERI STEIN | Feb. 7, 2010The new Friday columnist, Paul Murty, is absolutely horrible. He doesn’t have any original ideas, and it’s pretty obvious he doesn’t actually research his articles past Wikipedia. The economy is not well on its way to recovery. He talks about the preachers on Turlington Plaza as if it’s breaking news and then the issue of gun control as if he knows everything, when actually he offered no ideas of his own whatsoever. At least last week’s column, “Modern Tea Party is deeply flawed,” was relevant to today. Could he write something that isn’t dripping with disdain for anything Republican?
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Columns full of rambling
By Chris Marth | Feb. 7, 2010I’m getting a little tired of Paul Murty’s column. I was bemused by — if not OK with— his argument that we should do away with guns. I’m a little less OK with his ignorant generalization of the Tea Party movement. And while I think Tea Partiers are all crazies, I don’t stand on a podium and spout my ignorance of their cause. I really don’t care if the opinions section is inflammatory, inspiring, sweet, horrendously offensive or boring, but please demand that thought be put into the opinion, otherwise it just becomes ignorant rambling. And I’d rather have one of those terribly boring sexToons than more ignorant rambling.
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Palin taking ‘retard’ comment too far
By Ryan Spencer | Feb. 7, 2010Well, it finally happened. I suppose it was only a matter of time before one of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s well-rumored, profanity-laced harangues would surface while he was in office. Indeed, it was only a snippet of his Chicago-sharpened talent, but it was worth the wait.
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EDITORIALS
Sex Ed
By Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 7, 2010The Editorial Board would like to offer a bit of advice for all of you aspiring politicians out there: Don’t make a sex tape, OK?
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Do Ask, Do Tell: America should end military discrimination
By Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 7, 2010On Sunday, military newspapers released the results of a survey that revealed a sharp decrease in the number of active-duty troops who oppose people who are openly gay and serving.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
SG needs real reform
By JUSTIN WOOTEN | Feb. 4, 2010If undergrads ever want to see a change in Student Government, it isn’t going to come through a self-defeating, lawsuit-happy “Indy” party that does nothing but whine in Senate chambers and does ridiculous stunts on election day. And it isn’t going to come from the party that acts as a mouthpiece for the administration. What needs to happen is real electoral reform. Students need to be represented and participate in the system — not decide between which party is worse, which is nearly impossible at this point.
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US Senate should put end to gender pay discrimination
By LINDA MERIC | Feb. 4, 2010A year ago, dozens of women’s and civil rights activists gathered at the White House to watch President Barack Obama sign his first piece of legislation into law: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Super Bowl commercial should not be prejudged
By DAVID RUIZ | Feb. 4, 2010I am writing to express my full support for the Tebow family ad that is expected to air during the Super Bowl. I am outraged at women groups such as N.O.W. for denouncing and condemning the 30 second ad before they even get to see it. From what I gather regarding the ad, it will discuss Pam Tebow’s courageous decision and story to have Tim. Why is the ad vilified as anti-abortion simply because it has a pro-life message? I do not believe for a moment that either Tim or his mother will be chastising others for their opposing views during the commercial. Tim Tebow has been a model student, athlete, humanitarian, and young man. Those that differ with his pro-life position should in no way call into question his integrity and passion.
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Darts and Laurels
By Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 4, 2010Happy Friday, Gators.
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Modern Tea Party is deeply flawed
By PAUL MURTY | Feb. 4, 2010I don’t understand the Tea Party. I’ll admit that I’ve spent the past day trying to research what they want on the Internet, and the only thing I can come up with is they just don’t want to pay taxes. I can understand the frustration. I hate when I go to Publix to buy a newspaper and I have to pay an extra 6 or 7 cents in sales tax. But that’s mostly because I just don’t feel like getting that much change.
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Tebow ad is stealing Super Bowl limelight
Feb. 3, 2010Starring in a controversial anti-abortion commercial bankrolled by a fundamentalist Christian group, Tim Tebow headlines the first-ever “issue ad” aired on Super Bowl Sunday and has effectively hijacked the pre-Super Bowl hype machine.
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EDITORIALS
GOP Barbie Larimer’s views cheapen Republican women
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 3, 2010When the Editorial Board read that Republican National Committee co-chair Jan Larimer thought women need “more hand-holding” than men throughout the election process, we envisioned a patronizing man who happened to have a Scandinavian first name. We were wrong.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Student Alliance party should put its money where its mouth is
By Chris Jaeger | Feb. 3, 2010Mark McShera’s letter to the editor Tuesday was an example of how disgusting, vile, hateful and forgetful members of the Student Alliance party can be.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Groups should not be judged by the most extreme of their members
By Deepthy Alias | Feb. 3, 2010I have concern over the prevalence of the “Islam is of the devil” T-shirts on the UF campus.
