Sports
Picks column: Florida State
Nov. 23, 2010Like classes this week, we have decided to keep this edition of the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column short.
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Leafy Green
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 23, 2010Good news for drivers looking to stick it to the gas-guzzling Man: The Environmental Protection Agency labeled the soon-to-be-released Nissan Leaf as the best midsize vehicle for fuel efficiency and best car for the environment as the Leaf clocks in at about 99 miles per gallon.
Opinion
Why I’m thankful for print journalism
By Sean Quinn | Nov. 23, 2010Since I began writing this column at the beginning of the year, I’ve had a few regrets.
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Picture Perfect
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 23, 2010We airbrush models and magazine centerfolds without much thought. Beauty, we’re told, is only skin-deep, and our models need to represent the image of perfection.
Opinion
Four Loko banned; freedom may be next
Nov. 22, 2010Now that whining politicians and journalists have bravely taken a stand against the malt energy phenomenon known as Four Loko, maybe they can now turn their sights to another powerful combination that can be hazardous to those who imbibe it in too-large doses.
Opinion
Monday columnists’s assertions about Congressional lame-duck period are not correct
By Kyle Mitchell | Nov. 22, 2010Columnist Chris Dodson makes an inaccurate point about Congressional lame duck sessions in his Monday column.
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Florida’s wins against weak opponents mean nothing
By ANTHONY CHIANG | Nov. 21, 2010This blowout win was exactly what the Gators needed.
Opinion
Condomania: Pope’s ruling problematic, ineffective
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 21, 2010Never fear, Gators. If any of you were musing on your sexual morality and overall human decency and/or worth while contemplating a trip to confessional after your purchase of a box of Trojans, don’t you worry.
Opinion
No one will be safer without Four Loko
By Ian Mitchell | Nov. 21, 2010I come from a family where everyone for several generations has graduated college, and most of my immediate family own businesses. What I’ve noticed most since becoming a student at the university is that I have a very uncommon perspective.
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‘Girl with the Headphones’ not only one with immigration woes
By Gaura McLeod | Nov. 21, 2010People shouldn’t be protesting against immigration reform for illegal aliens. They should be protesting against the immigration laws and system as a whole. For a country founded on immigration, America has some of the most complex, unforgiving, expensive and xenophobic immigration laws of any developed country. The entire system is in dire need of major reform.
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Facebook e-mail accounts won’t make much change
By Katie Harroun | Nov. 21, 2010The fact that Facebook is revamping its messaging system is no cause for alarm or uproar.
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Lame-duck season should be revamped
By Chris Dodson | Nov. 21, 2010Lets be real, when you get fired from a job you’ve had for at least two years, are you really in a cheerful mood?
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Picks column: Appalachian State
Nov. 18, 2010We here at the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column wish it was Nov. 27 already.
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College Football karma does not exist; losing seasons not inevitable
Nov. 18, 2010There is no college football carousel.
Opinion
Meatless Mondays gives Gators the ethical nutrition we deserve
By Anandini Maharaj | Nov. 18, 2010Well, I guess the overwhelming number of us in support of Meatless Mondays were expecting a column like Nate Rushing’s Thursday’s column sooner or later.
Opinion
Columnist apathetic toward research
By Sophie Weaver | Nov. 18, 2010Nate Rushing, the point of eliminating meat one day a week is not strictly or primarily health related, although you do make some valid points even if you meant them to sound snarky and to ridicule the vegan/vegetarian movement.
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Palin family as dangerous as cave of bears
By Hassan Casanova | Nov. 18, 2010As I fought off those November blues, I decided to channel surf through the limited cable my apartment complex provides.
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Darts and laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 18, 2010We don’t even know where to start with the crazy this week, Gators. There’s so much to talk about with you, but we have so little time.
Opinion
Block tuition disproportionately affects single moms
By Megan Mccormick | Nov. 18, 2010I got pregnant with my first child at 18 and my second at 20. I’m now a single mom of two and a full-time student. From the start, I’ve refused to become just another unfortunate teen mom statistic.
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Columnist presents a distorted view of Meatless Mondays
By Jenn Warren | Nov. 18, 2010In reference to Nate Rushing’s Thursday column, the cows we eat don’t actually eat grass.
