Sports
Young Alli working to adjust to new game
Aug. 11, 2009Imagine what it must be like to be Stephen Alli.
Opinion
Sports
Five pick-up basketball archetypes
By ADAM BERRY | Aug. 5, 2009There's something special about pick-up basketball.
Opinion
Grads should look forward
By BEN CAMENKER | Aug. 4, 2009It has been my secret dream for three years now to hijack my commencement speech. I had the perfect plan. There was just one problem; there will be no big-name speaker. When I learned this, it hurt. Because, Gators, there are issues we must discuss.
Opinion
Smokers need to collect their butts
By Doug Barlow | Aug. 4, 2009Thank you for your editorial piece "Campus ban removes smokers' rights." However, it neglects to mention one of the main problems with smokers: the fact that they just throw their butts on the ground no matter where they are at.
Opinion
Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 4, 2009Change is afoot in Gainesville right now. All it takes is one look at the Alligator parking lot full of cars crammed with clothes, kitchen utensils and random boxes to know that summer is coming to an end, and everyone is ready to begin anew in his or her freshly leased pads. But, before you get too excited (and crumple up this paper to use as packing material), we would like to present you with an are-there-really-only-two-weeks-until-fall edition of…
Opinion
Nudity should be embraced, not taboo
By DARREN D'ALTORIO | Aug. 4, 2009Sunday nights, trash nights, before I roll the garbage out to the curb, I strip off all my clothes and leave them in a little pile on the bench by the front door. Naked, I approach the street with the garbage can, which smashes the grass under its weight. It's one of the busiest streets in Akron, Ohio, during the day. But come 2 a.m., traffic is sparse. After the can is in position on the curb, I don't hurry back to my pile of clothes. Instead, I pace the dew-soaked grass, and I let the night air touch all the parts of my body it normally can't.
Opinion
Cronyism still permeates SG
By Frank Walch | Aug. 4, 2009My name is Frank, and I used to be a senator. For the past 12 weeks, I served as a replacement senator in the Student Senate, and my term ended last Tuesday at the end of the last Senate summer session meeting.
Opinion
Progressive taxation not something to fear
By Jordan Miller | Aug. 3, 2009Johnathan Lott/s July 30th column is either deliberately misleading or laughably misinformed, possibly both. He implies that if marginal tax rates go up, the government will take "56 percent of every dollar" that a wealthy person earns. Is UF/s economics department really so bad that an economics junior doesn/t understand marginal tax rates? Honestly?
Opinion
Contractor tied to deaths
Aug. 3, 2009KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary that/s now the Army/s largest contractor, is a threat to the safety of our servicemen and servicewomen.
Opinion
Incomplete sentence for groper
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 3, 2009The man charged with 25 counts of battery last April has gotten his comeuppance.
Sports
Nelson's leadership of receivers key to success
By ADAM BERRY | Aug. 3, 2009During UF's run to a national title in 2006, David Nelson, a redshirt freshman, was one of several young receivers - including Percy Harvin, Louis Murphy and Riley Cooper - learning from the likes of Dallas Baker and Andre Caldwell.
Opinion
Campus ban removes smokers/ rights
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 3, 2009As if university students who smoke didn/t have enough to worry about already, UF will ban cigarette smoking on campus beginning in July 2010. Healthy Gators is quick to point out that only 9 percent of UF students smoke. But just because someone is in the minority doesn/t mean their rights should be taken away. Last we checked, this was America.
Opinion
U.S. culture defies environmentalism
Aug. 3, 2009Glee for green has been a long time coming in this country. What started out as an almost underground burlap sack movement has sprung into a multibillion-dollar enterprise and an entire culture, even generation, of planet-conscientious actions.
Opinion
Former GPD lieutenant's sentencing doesn/t fit the crime
By The Alligator Editoral Board | July 29, 2009Former Gainesville Police Department Lt. Bill Billings has finally faced the music.
Sports
Tougher non-conference schedule first step in the right direction
By ADAM BERRY | July 29, 2009The men's basketball team's season is already off to a better start than last year.
Opinion
SG should not determine content
By Neil Gundavda | July 29, 2009During last Tuesday/s Student Government Senate meeting, I was rather disturbed by certain comments that were made asking the Alligator to not report the events that transpired. Indeed, the reporter was specifically singled out and told to withhold publishing that the majority party voted down a string of proposed ethics legislation when they had done just that.
Opinion
Column allows Obama crush to overshadow common sense
By ROB MEYERS | July 29, 2009Matthew Christ/s column Tuesday was tired and a failed attempt at entertaining readers.
Opinion
Better to tax services than the rich
By JOHNATHAN LOTT | July 29, 2009Brian Miller/s column in Thursday/s Alligator showed his complete ignorance of basic economics and federal revenue code.
