Opinion
Coming Out: Legislators should embrace ruling
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 20, 2010Virginia Phillips is quickly becoming the most powerful woman in America.
Opinion
Opinion
Abolish federal scholarships for the sake of equality
By Christopher Marth | Oct. 20, 2010I 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?
Opinion
Columnist’s argument flawed
By Doug Martin | Oct. 20, 2010Brian 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.
Opinion
Acceptance a slow and individual process
By Nate Rushing | Oct. 20, 2010UF student Nirav N. Patel was quoted Wednesday as saying “I feel like we’re still segregated here. It sucks being in an old southern school.”
Opinion
Columnist grossly misinformed
By CHRIS MOODY | Oct. 20, 2010Brian 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.
Opinion
Lack of whiny pop and Papa Roach good for UF
By Dan Fitzpatrick | Oct. 20, 2010In response to Sean Quinn’s Wednesday column, I think Rock 104 changing format is just what this town’s radio monoculture needs.
Opinion
Limbo-gration
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 20, 2010If 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.
Opinion
Column misdirects sentiments
By Chris Wood | Oct. 20, 2010Brian 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.
Sports
Big plays bigger than red zone
Oct. 19, 2010Look at Florida’s “Keys to Success” chart, and you will only see one assignment for the offense: succeed in the red zone.
Opinion
Public education mars America’s desire for greatness
By Brian Amos | Oct. 19, 2010If 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.
Opinion
Justice for some: Administration not exempt from obeying law
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 19, 2010We’re proud of our justice system in this country. We don’t imprison Nobel Peace Prize winners like China does, unless you count that whole Martin Luther King Jr. situation when we threw the book at him for being black.
Opinion
The day the (Rock 104) music died
By Sean Quinn | Oct. 19, 2010Feb. 3, 1959. July 12, 1979. And now, Oct. 15, 2010. What do all three of these dates have in common? They’re all considered days when the music died.
Opinion
Mad as a Hatter
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 19, 2010If the Tea Party gets any more laughs, or gets any crazier, we’re going to have to start wondering if it’s Kool-Aid in their cups rather than chai.
Opinion
A serious need for America
By Dave Gallo | Oct. 19, 2010It’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, 2010A 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.
Opinion
Sowing Secrets: Facebook users should value privacy
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 18, 2010Put that hoe down! Step away from the wandering stallion. And leave. Just leave that sad brown duckling in the pond.
Opinion
Tragedy reminds people of the importance of accepting others
By Ashton Charles | Oct. 18, 2010As students, we should each take the opportunity to learn a lesson of acceptance and civility from the recent tragedy at Rutgers University.
Sports
Columnist examines sports gender roles
Oct. 18, 2010This 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.
Opinion
Hot As Ice
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 18, 2010It’s not often we say this, but Nelly might be on par with Nostradamus.
Sports
No sense in sugarcoating anymore, Gators are just not a good team
Oct. 17, 2010Well, there’s really no other way to put it.
