I would like to take this opportunity to clear up any issues raised in Monday's Alligator article and editorial regarding fees.
This letter is in response to Elizabeth Ruggieri's letter from Monday. Abortion is an on-going issue - one most people have a justifiable position on one way or the other. There will never be an objective "right" or "wrong" answer.
Why would Muslims on campus be offended if the fliers read "Radical Islam Wants You Dead," not "Islam Wants You Dead"? Islam on Campus' reaction only fuels the stereotype that criticism of Islam cannot coexist with the Western ideal of free speech.
In Friday's Alligator, Danny Beaulieu's letter complains of constant coverage of Ron Paul over other candidates, saying that Barack Obama leads Paul in a Facebook poll. Is the Facebook poll scientific? Could the poll have been influenced by the way candidates are campaigning?
Thanks for the story in Friday's Alligator about Michael Berry, who listens. I once worked for a Mental Health Association in a large city, where we regularly gave a mini-course for bartenders and hair stylists because we understood they frequently become an inviting stop for the transiently troubled. Mr. Berry has taken it to the next level, and, unlike "Lucy" of comic-strip fame, his encounter just is what it is. That's nice.
Gainesville has recently been afflicted with dorm-room robberies, downtown homicides and unfortunate traffic-accident casualties. In times like these, I would expect our tax dollars to be used wisely to protect us from recurrences. Instead, what did our honorable law enforcement officials choose to do? They responded to mounting pressure by creating a multi-agency narcotics unit, which, according to Gainesville Police Chief Norman Botsford, is the most important unit.
It appears UF has been blessed with more than its fair share of armchair experts on First Amendment rights, counterterrorism and so-called "Radical Islam."
It's that time of year again - the time when the UF Board of Trustees gets together to decide how it can make life harder for UF students, usually financially.
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and Wikipedia."
A friend of mine told me she would be supporting Ron Paul in the next election, so I found his Web site and took a look at the section titled "Issues."
Do the organizations that sponsored "Obsession" really expect Muslims not to be offended? And that if we are, as one person's letter blatantly implied, we are radicals, too?
If you're like us here in the Department of Darts & Laurels, you have four days to pull it all together and pass all your classes. Oh yes, it's crunch time. If you have eight 10-page papers to write, five exams you have to get A's on just to get C's in those classes, and homework assignments from September you have to beg your professor to accept, you've got quite a weekend ahead of you. So grab your venti iced soy mocha-frappa-whatever and stay optimistic for the next 72 hours with this week's how-the-hell-am-I-ever-gonna-pull-this-off edition of…
A great deal of Alligator articles and editorials recently have focused exclusively on Ron Paul, whereas there have been zero articles about any other candidates. An editorial Wednesday reported that 34 percent of Republican students on Facebook support Paul.
I hate to play the part of institutional memory for the Alligator, but I remember last spring semester when the editorial board went ga-ga for the Academic Enhancement Program, now known as the Tuition Differential Program.
Asking the groups responsible for recent ads for an apology does not put free speech in danger. This is not a question of free speech at all. There are no consequences for these groups for what they expressed.
As a professional student, I will graduate six figures in debt.
Just how radical is Ron Paul?
Recently, I was sprawled out on my couch, flipping channels and minding my own business, when I came across a program on The History Channel that freaked me out of my sloth-like daze. The television program I am referring to was, of course, about the apocalypse.
Here is the deal with Ron Paul: Ron Paul is a former flight surgeon and OB/GYN-turned Republican congressman with some Libertarian leanings ranging from sensible (ending the occupation of Iraq and the war on drugs) to the downright asinine (abolishing the Federal Reserve System, returning to the gold standard). Libertarianism has always had a strong Internet presence. This, coupled with the fact that college students spend a lot of time on the Internet, makes it clear why Paul is so popular with college students.
If the Alligator's editorial board wants to know why Ron Paul is so popular among college students, it should research Ron Paul's stance on the war on drugs. That's it in a nutshell. Only a few other candidates, Republican or Democrat, are even pro-medical marijuana.
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