The SAT has a place in the college application process. It's not an arbitrary evaluation of a student's math and verbal abilities. It acts as a de facto intelligence test for applicants.
Dear politically minded people:
As we ready ourselves for another week of library camp-outs and all-night study sessions, it seems a little too easy for us to be negative. What's the point? We're busy, but so is everyone else, so we have no right to complain.
Regarding Anish Mitra's diatribe on "The Daily Show," I find it tragic that Mitra feels "the show's structure makes it painfully evident" that its future will be in jeopardy once Bush is out of office.
Since 1966, the Republican Party has been held together by a tripod of issues and standpoints: foreign policy, economic and fiscal conservatism and the creation of cultural resentment. Today, its case for the presidency has been whittled down to one argument.
To lead off, we'd like to shoot a get-your-hand-outta-my-face-and-just-mind-your-business DART at college admissions officers for using students' Facebook profiles to help decide whether a particular student is right for a school.
"Kevin is an American. He is in Moscow now. Repeat after me."
We thought our economy's fundamentals were strong.
It is baseless to say that America's founding fathers were, to quote Wes Hunt, "vehemently anti-Christian," and to characterize the preachers of the Second Great Awakening as swindlers.
Two years ago, the City Commission rezoned Buck Bay Mobile Home Park in northwest Gainesville. Buck Bay residents were then told by the new owner that they had to relocate their families to make way for a new single-family housing development.
Suneel Patel, 4EG
In response to Monday's editorial, "Plus Side: Minus grades not the end of the world," I would like to formally give the editorial board a giant middle finger.
With Sen. John McCain's addition of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket, we will undoubtedly suffer yet another campaign of constant claims about this nation's Christian foundation.
This may come as a shock, so you'd better have a seat. According to Kaplan Inc., people look at your Facebook profile - and they judge you.
We've long since passed the days of SAT prep courses, but we remember how painful they were. Laundry lists of obscure vocabulary words. Dozens of not-so-profound analogies. Geometry - ugh. Thank goodness those days are behind us.
Scott Erker, 8LS
I am writing to express my displeasure with Thomas Stewart's reporting on the Student Conduct Code revisions.
In regard to Brian Steele's column about the Gator offense's lack of flair, I just want to say his view may be a little rushed.
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