Opinion
Bill of Rights doesn’t know party lines
By Bob Minchin | Feb. 3, 2011Conservative thinkers could see this coming before President Obama was even elected.
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Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 3, 2011Our friends up north may be buried in feet of snow, but we’ve got avalanches of a different sort on our hands. February brings with it a cascade of papers, exams and projects designed to clog our rooms with a blizzard of notes and handouts. As we dig ourselves out, we bring you the we’re-shaking-because-of-our-caffeine-dependency-not-the-weather edition of...Darts & Laurels.
Sports
No reason for disappointment over UF’s 2011 class
By ANTHONY CHIANG | Feb. 2, 2011What? The Gators’ 2011 recruiting class wasn’t ranked in the top five? Not even the top 10? All the way down to No. 14?
Opinion
Timing isn’t everything
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 2, 2011Some states and cities are considering allowing the sale of liquor on Sundays for the sake of higher tax revenue.
Opinion
New Paper; Future uncertain for News Corp iPad app
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 2, 2011We have a loyal readership, but our newspaper is one of few thriving in paper form. As sharing information online becomes more popular, journalists continue scratching their heads and wondering how their organizations can survive in a world with free instant information. Some have websites readers subscribe to for a fee, but the results have varied.
Opinion
Bombs more important than our brains
By Chad Mohammed | Feb. 2, 2011In 107 days, the federal government spent as much money on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as it did on education. Granted, a large share of education funding comes from state and local sources, but if the Republicans have their way, even less money will go towards education.
Sports
Walker becomes Gators’ go-to guy late in games
Feb. 1, 2011Chandler Parsons may have come up bigger than anyone against the Commodores, but Erving Walker proved Tuesday this is his team.
Opinion
Cats more appropriate pets while in college
By Wesley Campbell | Feb. 1, 2011Are you a cat or dog person?
Opinion
Players don’t deserve special treatment
By Daniel E. Colley | Feb. 1, 2011Janoris Jenkins has again been arrested. On this occasion, he is charged with possession of marijuana. During 2009, he was arrested and charged with affray and resisting arrest without violence. Affray, in case you are wondering, translates to fighting and is a charge used by law enforcement officials reserved for UF football players and other celebrities that they don’t want to charge with assault or battery.
Opinion
Two to Tango: Both sides of abortion debate face trouble
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 1, 2011As if either side needed to garner any more controversy, Planned Parenthood is getting ready for battle with the anti-abortion group Live Action over sting operations in several clinics across the country.
Opinion
Anachronisms 101
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 1, 2011An Abraham Lincoln researcher attempted to literally rewrite history when he changed a date on a presidential pardon from April 14, 1864, to April 14, 1865.
Opinion
Students aren’t obligated to take fliers
By Victoria Shelley | Feb. 1, 2011I’d like to address the UF Student Body in response to Laura Ellermeyer’s column on fliers yesterday. If you don’t want a flier, don’t take one. Period. As someone who’s passed out fliers before, I can tell you that I will not be offended by a “No, thank you” if you don’t want my flier. In fact, if you’re just going to throw it away, please don’t take one. We don’t want paper wasted any more than you do because it’s costing us money, and we might not have enough for the people who are actually interested.
Sports
Gators preparing for make-or-break week under national spotlight
By ADAM BERRY | Jan. 31, 2011Billy Donovan often stresses to his players the importance of focusing on the things they can control. This week, that could include their own destiny.
Opinion
Distributing fliers annoying, wasteful
By Laura Ellermeyer | Jan. 31, 2011As Patches O’Houlihan from the movie “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” wisely declared, “You’ve got to learn the five D’s of dodgeball: dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge.” I never thought these words would assist me at UF.
Opinion
Rights Fight: Judge calls health care reform into question
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 31, 2011The recent health care reform may be due to tumble like a row of dominoes.
Opinion
Stubborn politicians self-serving
By Charles Dahan | Jan. 31, 2011Zack Smith makes a fundamental mistake in his Jan. 31 column, “Compromise DeLay-ing the Inevitable.” In it, Smith argues that Tom DeLay demonstrated ideological consistency by refusing to compromise with Democrats. Yet partisanship, as Smith writes, is not a “philosophy [that] may have intellectual teeth.” Instead, it is a methodology for attaining one’s political — or ideological — goals.
Opinion
Government work rewarding for students of all backgrounds
Jan. 30, 2011It’s that time of year again. If you are an underclassman like I am, the economy is still looking down, and you could use a well-paying internship or job to get you through the summer. For those UF seniors about to enter the “real world,” the job market is terrifying.
Opinion
Balancing Act: Obama caught between the ideal and the real
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 30, 2011Whether we admit it or not, stability drives most of our decisions. It’s why we prize houses, steady jobs and reliable transportation. We might say we tire of routine, but without it, civilization as we know it would not exist.
Opinion
Compromise DeLay-ing the inevitable
By Zack Smith | Jan. 30, 2011Hobbes. Locke. Montesquieu. Tom DeLay?
Sports
Nothing worse than Irish curse
By BILL O'CONNOR | Jan. 27, 2011Twenty years ago, I darted down a Dublin hospital corridor.
