Opinion
Machen’s stance on cans hypocritical
By Alison Hightower | Aug. 27, 2009What a surprise. President Machen doesn't like Budweiser marketing orange and blue beer cans in Gainesville.
Opinion
Opinion
Student Government steeped in mystery
By Gary Benedix | Aug. 27, 2009Why is it that our Student Government does not allow students to know what is going on? During my time at UF, I have seen a Student Government steeped in mystery and one that rarely interacts with the student body. I have seen SG officials ignore students, break the law and show an overall discontent for the issues facing us. As the lawsuit filed by Frank Bracco demonstrates, SG does not want us to know what is going on. SG has not only denied individuals the right to know what happens at public meetings, but it even goes so far as to not allow students to have the voting records of our elected officials, including our Student Body president who sits on the Board Of Trustees.
Opinion
Bill concentrates too much power in SG
By Alden Gillepsy | Aug. 27, 2009At Tuesday night's meeting of the Student Senate, the Unite Party passed a bill called the Executive Order Establishment Act, a bill that represents a serious threat to the democratic process within Student Government.
Opinion
Rays have bandwagon fans like everyone else
By Kyle Krutek | Aug. 26, 2009This is in response to Casey Peterson's letter to the editor, "Students should root for Rays," expressing the belief that his dedication to the Tampa Bay Rays somehow reflects the dedication of all Rays fans.
Opinion
SG officials shouldn't get perks
By Jonathan Ossip | Aug. 26, 2009Tuesday was a sad day for democracy within UF Student Government. In that night's meeting, the Student Senate voted to keep giving top SG officials perks that are out of reach for ordinary students. They also illegally moved several powers of the Senate to the Unite-controlled executive branch, essentially creating the new office of Student Body Dictator.
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
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
