Opinion
Opinion
Protestors held inaccurate signs
By PAUL MURTY | Sep. 16, 2009As I was driving to the movies past The Oaks Mall on Sept. 11, I saw a group of anti-Islam protesters complete with "Islam is of the Devil" T-shirts. The scene was appalling, and the only consolation I found was that no one honked for them or showed support.
Opinion
Vaccination should be personal choice
By Caitlin O'Conner | Sep. 16, 2009Reading the editorial about Gardasil now being required for female immigrants completely blew my mind. I don't understand how the government can do this and even begin to think it's acceptable.
Opinion
Liquor Cabinet
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 16, 2009While Student Body President Jordan Johnson can provide Fabulous Rides for those who have imbibed too much, he can't prevent his fellow SGers from driving his agenda into the ground.
Opinion
Kanye promotes meritocratic system
Sep. 16, 2009Kanye West and his enduring propensity to go off-script at inopportune television moments seems to have forced the entire mainstream media into a state of apoplexy.
Sports
Revenge will come after halftime
By CALLOVI< | Sep. 16, 2009It's hard enough to get Urban Meyer or any other member of the Florida football team to say anyting about Lane Kiffin or his remarks let alone get them to say what they plan on doing as retaliation for Kiffin's offseason comments.
Opinion
Pedestrians lowest on totem pole
By Greg Ramos | Sep. 16, 2009Somebody needs write down the hierarchy of the sidewalk, and I figure that person might as well be me.
Opinion
University money wasted internally
By Sebastian Ramirez | Sep. 16, 2009The Robin Hood cartoon depicting President Bernie Machen is one of the best I have ever seen in this newspaper. It's a rather humorous way to touch on something so delicate as the budget cuts.
Opinion
Student scalpers disgrace Gator Nation
By Kyle Krutek | Sep. 16, 2009To everyone selling their ticket for more than $100: Stop ripping off your fellow students. Stop entering the lottery just to sell your tickets. Fellow students should not be paying your rent to see the Gators play. You're worse for Florida football than if Urban Meyer left for Notre Dame. I hope something extremely inconvenient happens to you this week.
Opinion
Government should continue to fund ACORN
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 16, 2009The Senate should not have voted to deny funds to ACORN - the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - on account of transgressions perpetrated by a handful of employees.
Opinion
Long Shot
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 15, 2009Everyone has the right to decide what to put in their bodies, but a 17-year-old girl from Port St. Joe, Fla., is facing possible deportation for refusing a Gardasil vaccine.
Opinion
Obama should nix color-coded terror alerts
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 15, 2009The Obama administration should do away with the color-coded, terror-alert system instead of trying to tweak it.
Opinion
Middle Eastern children show compromise on the horizon
By Travis Hornsby | Sep. 15, 2009What causes human beings to hate so much that they are willing to end the lives of others?
Opinion
Arguing over facts prevents progress
Sep. 15, 2009You have a right to your own opinion," my mother likes to say. "You do not have a right to your own facts."
Opinion
Bright Futures needs higher standards
By CHRIS MOODY | Sep. 14, 2009I would like to defend Kyle Robisch and his column last week regarding Bright Futures scholarships. It seems Sarah Maloney is nitpicking the literal meanings of his words. Anyone deserving a need-based scholarship is required to have a certain GPA and SAT score. That is supposed to be the point of a scholarship - to give an incentive to be a well-educated student. What's the point in receiving a scholarship to attend the university because I can't afford it if I fail every single class I take? So cheers to you, Kyle, for making this point.
Opinion
Kanye's comments break record of idiocy
By Samuel Thomas | Sep. 14, 2009I have to admit, I usually hate everything on MTV and refuse to watch it, but when I got on Facebook and saw no less than 700 statuses along the lines of "Kanye West at the VMAs - what a terrible person!" it was of the utmost importance that I find the video online.
Opinion
Burger King
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 14, 2009A 68-year-old man was honored for 50 years of service at the same McDonald's in Missouri.
Sports
Expect the unexpected on Saturdays
Sep. 14, 2009You know what I love most about college football? The fact that the season never shakes out the way we think it will.
Opinion
Golden rule applies to relationships
Sep. 14, 2009I had a friend who was really into returning lost things to their owners. One of my more resonant memories of this is the time she found a teddy bear on the sidewalk.
Opinion
Most scholarships already need-based
By Colleen Morrison | Sep. 14, 2009I know the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program is flawed, but under no circumstances should it become an entirely need-based program. What Kyle Robisch fails to realize is that basically all of the scholarships available for Florida students are need-based. I worked extremely hard in high school, and it paid off in the form of an extremely high SAT score, a 4.3 GPA, passing five out of six AP exams and becoming a sports captain. However, when it came to scholarships, I received a measly $500 after applying for about 20. The vast majority of scholarships have a need-based component. I don't see how my parent's salary has anything to do with how much I achieved in high school. If we make everything need-based, it will discourage students from doing well in school and push them to attend schools that are less scholastically renowned.
