This past week revealed a disturbing trend at UF, something that the entire Student Body should be concerned about. Apparently it is becoming common practice around campus for students and bystanders to leave suspicious-looking backpacks lying around public areas and for the Gainesville Police Department bomb squad to respond accordingly.
Kyle Maistri is still fuming about the money he (would have) lost (if we condoned gambling here in the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column but we don't, so he isn't) because of Washington last week. And there are few things that Mike DiFerdinando loves more than Jake Locker and UW football.
Florida's running game seems to be living by the motto, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Amid a thorny nest of substantive issues and thoughtful debate about human agency, America proved last week that our real gift to the world is a bountiful supply of vaguely Asian, dysfunctional families ready to claw their way onto television. Our nation owes you a great deal of gratitude, Heene and Gosselin clans, for too many seem to have forgotten that our country was built on a burning desire to have one's own reality television show.
Let's just come out and say it - the health care system in America has really seen better days. From insurers booting sick people to the curb to the elderly having to choose between food and much-needed prescription drugs, the States definitely lag behind the rest of the developed world in providing health care regardless of age or socioeconomic status.
When I was growing up, duct tape was the solution to all problems.
The Oct. 6 Gallup poll reports that only 21 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing. Considering that so few people support the effort being made by congressmen, it seems obvious that Congress is failing to represent the will of the people.
Joseph Trimboli makes some good points in his letter to the editor, "People entitled to health care," until he says anyone who opposes the public option is either being paid off by the insurance companies or enjoys killing their fellow Americans.
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that 90's rock music holds the answers to virtually all of life's most important questions.
I would like to respond to the opinions in the Alligator that show a bias against health reform. And ignoring the likely possibility that these gentlemen watch Fox News, I'm going to try to debate with them rationally. First of all, studies show that 45,000 people are dying otherwise avoidable deaths every month based on the simple fact that they don't have health insurance. If that isn't worth fixing, I don't know what is.
Government's raison d'être is to be of the people, by the people and for the people. This is a core tenet of our republic. When the people wanted safe food to eat, the government provided it through the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Yesterday I got a text from my brother saying, "Stay away from the Reitz Union today. There's a bomb threat there, and the bomb squad was deployed."
In response to the letters today regarding health care, I think it is unfortunate that some think this way. What about children - do they not have a "right" to health care? They can't go out and get a job, and often their parents won't spend money on something that is not mandatory. They would rather go to the emergency room uninsured, and guess who pays the bill for them? We do with our hard-earned taxpayer dollars.
I know Darts & Laurels doesn't come out until Friday, but I'd just like to give a spot-on-nail-on-the-head-explanation laurel to Delta Upsilon President Matthew Panzano.
Guzzling Gators and boozing Bulldogs will have to find new ways to get wasted at this year's UF-Georgia football game.
Four years ago this week, my mom sent me a Halloween care package. It included Halloween decorations, a haunted house soundtrack for our dorm party and a tin of cookies.
Somewhere between christening Mike DiFerdinando - our often overly optimistic friend and colleague - "Butters," and trying to fit our group dynamics into that of the wildly popular TV show South Park, it occurred to me.
We've got a few bones to pick with university administrators after Monday's "bomb scare" in the Reitz Union.
Maine voters will go to the polls on Nov. 3 to vote on Maine's Question 1, a referendum that, if passed, will reject a state law that legalized gay marriage earlier this year. And through this prism, the refusal of Keith Bardwell, a Louisiana Justice of the Peace in Tangipahoa Parish, to sign an interracial couple's marriage license earlier this month becomes a lot more interesting, and not in a good way.
This is in reply to Matthew Christ's column, "Political gain halts health care reform."
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