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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Police should switch focus to DUIs
By Ian Fisher | Jan. 10, 2008Congratulations, Gainesville Police Department.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Vote 'no' on property tax amendment
By Ben Cavataro | Jan. 9, 2008Thanks to the Alligator for publishing its editorial urging students to vote in the election on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The presidential primary and the Gainesville City Commission races will take place along with a third important question: the proposed constitutional amendment affecting property taxes.
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EDITORIALS
Reuse cities' plans to reduce waste
By the Editorial Board | Jan. 9, 2008The popular joke that you turn 21 years old when you move to Gainesville is something many UF students have taken literally at some point or another. Whether it's letting your friend buy you a drink and sneak it to you in a crowded bar or, more boldly, ordering a drink while cleverly making sure your wristbanded-less arms don't show, it's an all-too-common practice. But that doesn't make it legal.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Running Huckabee column irresponsible
By Jim Glover | Jan. 9, 2008In reference to the Mike Huckabee column published in Tuesday's Alligator, I would like to commend the editorial staff on their incredible and unbiased coverage of the upcoming presidential election. It is understandable that sometimes the editorial staff can become exhausted by their bashing of the Republican Party, and, inevitably, you have to look to the U-Wire to fill the opinions page with left-wing propaganda.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Clinton the real candidate for change
By Joseph Trimboli | Jan. 9, 2008While Barack Obama can certainly deliver an inspirational speech about change, this does not make him the most qualified candidate to deliver it. For the past 35 years, Hillary Clinton has worked to advance the interests of women, children and working-class families. During her time in the White House, Clinton took on the Republican attack machine that derailed John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid.
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COLUMNS
'Student-athlete' often an oxymoron
Jan. 9, 2008While high-school seniors all over the country are struggling to achieve nothing less than a 4.0 to get into their top-choice university, the star quarterback of their graduating class is receiving a full ride to wherever his heart desires. Admissions officers don't even glance at his grade point average.
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EDITORIALS
Underage, under arrest
By the Editorial Board | Jan. 9, 2008Homeowners looking to reduce their energy consumption can take advantage of the rebates Gainesville Regional Utilities offers for solar water heaters. Commuters looking for a way to conserve fuel can use the new Web-based Alachua County carpool program. These are just a few of the latest ways Gainesville residents can go green. And it's our guess, judging by the growing number of Toyota Priuses driving around town - along with UF's growing commitment to sustainability - that this trend is one that's here to stay. However, local government may be overlooking one of the most fundamental ways to protect the environment: recycling.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Pakistan not important for everyone
By Warren Rhea | Jan. 8, 2008In response to Anuradha Pandey's column Tuesday, so what? I happen to be one American who knows what's happening in Pakistan, and that's why I support those who don't care. Your generalizations about most Americans being close-minded and careless aside, I'm sorry some of us don't reel in shock after hearing about yet another country plagued by fundamentalist Islamic terrorism.Please stop trying to make us all feel bad because you think you're the only one who is informed about the world. There are others. And please stop berating Americans about their political knowledge by assuming foreigners know our domestic politics better than we do.
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COLUMNS
'Subprime' not a worthy selection
Jan. 8, 2008I feel misrepresented. I feel cheated. It's downright wrong.
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EDITORIALS
Vote despite partisan primaries
By the Editorial Board | Jan. 8, 2008While political pundits and election experts painfully regurgitate the results from Iowa and New Hampshire and supply their own twisted analyses, Florida is gearing up for its earliest primary ever.
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EDITORIALS
Have opinion, will write
By the Editorial Board | Jan. 8, 2008Ah, writing your very own Alligator column. While it may not get you to the front of the line at your favorite club or even so much as a free beer, it will give you a chance to voice your opinion and reach out to the UF and Gainesville communities. Oh, and you even get your picture in the paper. In fact, thanks to a little thing called the Internet, you may one day achieve worldwide fame for your perfect prose. The opportunity is yours.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Trustees wrong to give Machen more
By Benjamin Dictor | Jan. 7, 2008It is completely irresponsible for the UF Board of Trustees to approve nearly ,300,000 in performance bonuses for President Bernie Machen while the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences remains in crippling debt.
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EDITORIALS
RIAA losing digital war
By the Editorial Board | Jan. 7, 2008Just when you thought it couldn't get any lower than suing single moms for thousands of dollars, the Recording Industry Association of America has taken its fight one step further.
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COLUMNS
Interest in Pakistan too little, too late
By ANURADHA PANDEY | Jan. 7, 2008At last, another one of the Bush administration's foreign policy blunders has been placed under scrutiny: the protection of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf at all costs. I'm willing to bet that most Americans hadn't even heard Benazir Bhutto's name until she was assassinated, let alone had known that she was Pakistan's prime minister under a power-sharing agreement with Musharraf that the Bush administration orchestrated.
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EDITORIALS
UF can't keep repeating LSU's mistake
By the Editorial Board | Jan. 7, 2008Following the massacre at Virginia Tech last April, the university's officials were criticized for the amount of time that passed between the first time Tech student Seung-Hui Cho opened fire and the time students were sent e-mails warning them to stay off campus.
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COLUMNS
Lost phones make for lots of stress
By VINCENT MASSARO | Jan. 6, 2008There are two kinds of people in the world: those who lose their cell phones and those who do not.
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EDITORIALS
Still In Doubt
By the Editorial Board | Jan. 6, 2008On Thursday, a Leon County circuit court judge tossed out a lawsuit intended to clarify who has the right to control tuition - the state Legislature or the Board of Governors, the governing body of Florida?s public universities.
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COLUMNS
Machen shouldn't get bonus
Dec. 4, 2007So UF President Bernie Machen got almost ,300,000 in bonuses from the UF Foundation right before Christmas. It was approved by the UF Board of Trustees.
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EDITORIALS
'Tis the season to give? Bah, humbug!
By ADAM BERRY | Dec. 4, 2007I hate a lot of things, but I really hate Christmas. Instead of studying for finals and figuring out what I'm going to do after graduation, I'm thinking about what the hell I'm going to buy people for the holidays.
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EDITORIALS
Coal & Presents
By the Editorial Board | Dec. 4, 2007The last day of the semester is more than just the last day of classes. It's more than the promise of a solid four days of drinking - er, studying. It's more than the upcoming Winter Break.
