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Abolish federal scholarships for the sake of equality

By Christopher Marth | Oct. 20, 2010

I completely agree with Mr. Amos. We must abolish federal scholarships. What use do they serve anyway? It’s not like anyone actually wins them based on merit. If Mr. Amos cannot win these, then we must remove them from existence. After all, isn’t making everything equal for everyone regardless of their abilities and hard work really what this country is about?

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Columnist’s argument flawed

By Doug Martin | Oct. 20, 2010

Brian Amos’ column shocked me by its blatant disregard of the facts. Ronald Reagan, John Tyler and Herbert Hoover are not  first, second or third on the vast majority of scholars’ presidential rankings. A C-SPAN poll conducted in 2009 of presidential historians had Reagan at 10, Tyler at a measly 35 and Hoover at a slightly better-than-measly 34.

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Columnist grossly misinformed

By CHRIS MOODY | Oct. 20, 2010

Brian Amos Wednesday’s column in the opinion section was misinformed on the facts, and being he could one day be a politician making laws, I feel it is a must he realizes a few errors.

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Opinion

Limbo-gration

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 20, 2010

If a group of Republican lawmakers succeeds in its foolishly misguided endeavors, children of illegal immigrants might as well just put “Limbo” on their birth certificates.

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Opinion

Column misdirects sentiments

By Chris Wood | Oct. 20, 2010

Brian Amos is certainly right about one thing: Public education in this country is in shambles and is slipping even further year after year. However, in staying with general conservative folly, he attributes the cause of this to “big government” and the always-ambiguous threat of secular education. At least he makes no attempt to hide his intellectual provincialism, decrying even an an honest conversation about socialism.

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Sports

Big plays bigger than red zone

Oct. 19, 2010

Look at Florida’s “Keys to Success” chart, and you will only see one assignment for the offense: succeed in the red zone.

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Public education mars America’s desire for greatness

By Brian Amos | Oct. 19, 2010

If you’ve done as much study of the Founding Fathers as I have, one fact starts to stick out time and again: none was the product of public education. That’s right, the greatest men of American history were all schooled either in the rooms of a private institution or by the best teacher in the world: real life.

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Opinion

A serious need for America

By Dave Gallo | Oct. 19, 2010

It’s been a long and crazy road to these midterm elections with lots of rhetoric and lots of ridiculous commercials. However, now it’s time to have a moment of seriousness before we go to the polls in less than two weeks.

Sports

Meyer deserves some blame for Florida’s offensive struggles

Oct. 18, 2010

A  Craigslist posting for a new UF offensive coordinator hit the internet Monday because current offensive coordinator Steve Addazio “is the suckiest suck that ever sucked,” according to one Facebook status immediately following the Mississippi State debacle Saturday.

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Sports

Columnist examines sports gender roles

Oct. 18, 2010

This football season has been creating excellent opportunities to examine the role of women in male locker rooms, but the way the NFL backpedaled from a series of teachable moments is both superficial and predictable.

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