Sports
Tebow needs another milestone to be greatest of all time, but he shouldn't
Aug. 26, 2009When it comes to a player's legacy, perception is reality.
Opinion
Opinion
Progress Party shouldn't promote power
By Taylor Cinalli | Aug. 26, 2009I was very disturbed to read in Wednesday's Alligator Progress Party Leader David Schneider's blatant intellectual dishonesty. To say that giving the Student Body president the unilateral ability "to create executive orders to create offices, departments and policies" would "discourage too much centralization of one power," as the article stated, is exactly the opposite of what is going to happen.
Opinion
SG should bring back New York Times
By Zoe Ziliak | Aug. 26, 2009When I arrived on campus early Monday morning, I immediately headed to the newspaper dispensers near Turlington to get my copy of the New York Times. They only held copies of USA Today. I assumed that particular dispenser was simply out of the New York Times, so I checked the one near Library West. Again, only USA Today.
Opinion
DUI campaign sends wrong message
By Joseph Trimboli | Aug. 26, 2009Drinking and driving is bad - there is no denying that fact. As somebody who files claims for an insurance company, I have heard the horror stories from the victims' families first-hand. I agree that Fabulous Rides sounds like a fabulous program and the student body president ought to be commended for trying to promote awareness of its existence in an effort to reduce drunk driving. However, his approach sells the dangers short.
Opinion
Anti-Islam shirts pathetic ploy to get attention
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 26, 2009The Dove World Outreach Center has already blurred the lines between a church and a for-profit enterprise and the lines between a place of "outreach" and a place that calls for exclusion.
Sports
Playing through injuries just part of the game
By CALLOVI< | Aug. 25, 2009Despite what you see on Saturdays or hear in jokes, Tim Tebow is still only human.
Opinion
Scooter taxi service will keep drunks off road
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 25, 2009Students who want to celebrate their return to Gainesville will have a chance to do so safely on Wednesday night.
Opinion
Internet invites people to gossip more
Aug. 25, 2009Sometimes, I think about how much the next generation will change because of the Internet, and I feel old in anticipation.
Opinion
Lawmakers should ban ‘reptiles of concern’
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 25, 2009A 2-year-old girl getting strangled by her parents' escaped Burmese python should finally convince Florida to ban the sale of dangerous reptiles.
Opinion
Teachers should abide by textbook law
By Don Kershaw | Aug. 25, 2009So it's that time of year again: mass textbook buying. Some would think that the new law signed last year, the Textbook Affordability Act, would help prevent some of the usual headaches that are associated with buying required textbooks.
Sports
Sports show common bonds even overseas
Aug. 24, 2009They say that travel expands the mind, but in the few short weeks I spent in England, Ireland and the Netherlands this summer, I found just the opposite to be true.
Opinion
Nation's addiction to bickering, celebrity news steals air time
Aug. 24, 2009Health care reform, Michael Jackson and Lady GaGa's penis. What do all of these things have in common? Together they comprise 99.9% of the news cycle, and I never want to hear about any of them ever again. Under any circumstances. Period.
Opinion
Schools need foreign language focus
By Allison Griner | Aug. 24, 2009Having taken French classes since high school, I am always impressed with someone who has actually learned to be fluent in a foreign language.
Opinion
Students should root for Rays
By Casey Peterson | Aug. 24, 2009This is in response to Kyle Maistri's "Fanifesto," in which he groups the Tampa Bay Rays with the Yankees and Red Sox as three baseball teams which are off limits to bandwagon fans.
Opinion
Towers should be more tolerant
By Lisa Laniewski | Aug. 24, 2009Moving back to campus after summer break is a hectic experience, and something that happened today made it more stressful. My daughter and I, in between moving into her new apartment near the campus and shopping at several local stores for essentials, decided to go to a local restaurant for a quick takeout lunch. Traffic was, as it always is on the last weekend before classes, very heavy with new and old students buying from every type of area
Opinion
Release of mass murderer is not justice
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 24, 2009Justice and compassion may be abstract concepts, but that doesn't mean they elude all definition. Actually, we know for a fact that the concepts of 'justice' and 'freeing a mass murderer" are mutually exclusive.
Opinion
At 22, transition to UF just as difficult as freshman year
By Ashley Cruel | Aug. 23, 2009This past summer, while everyone was in a chilled-out, lazy summer mood, I was the girl armed with her class schedule, 50 fliers, a campus map and the bus schedule. I was the one spinning around wildly with a deer-in-headlights look on my face, trying to figure out where my next class was.
Opinion
Student Body president outlines goals for coming semester
By Jordan Johnson | Aug. 23, 2009To all you students who are new to UF, welcome to the next four years of your life. Returning Gators, try to cut the freshmen some slack and welcome back as well.
Sports
Publish the country's best sports section and get involved? Yes we can!
Aug. 23, 2009It might be a year late, but we here at alligatorSports believe in change too.
Opinion
All students welcome to open house
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 23, 2009Want to hang out at our house? Well, Friday is your chance. 'Cause it's Friday. You ain't got no job, and you ain't got shit to do.
