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Football > Law
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 7, 2007Something seems a little shady.
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Fall election turnout one of the highest
By Frank Bracco | Oct. 4, 2007The Alligator really downplayed this fall's SG election turnout. Considering the horrible weather, lack of real competition and limited campaigning, it was impressive to see this election garner one of the highest turnouts in fall campaign history. In fact, this year's turnout set a record for normal fall election turnout.
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Task force not representative of students
By Mark McShera | Oct. 4, 2007Well folks, it looks like Student Body President Ryan Moseley's Student Government administration is on track to let us down again. I am writing about the task force which will review UF's event management and the University Police Department's practices.
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Technology hinders new revolutions
By COLLEEN SHEA | Oct. 4, 2007Bubbling beneath the everyday lives of a growing number of college students is the urge to reignite the tie-dye colored flames of another hippie revolution.
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Election campaigning needs tweaking
By Kayla Muller | Oct. 4, 2007Hooray! SG elections are finally over. I no longer have to dodge perky Gator Party representatives as they try to attack me on Turlington Plaza. In high school, I was heavily involved with student government, but I never attacked unwilling participants as they walked to class.
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Darts & Laurels
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 4, 2007It's a wild, wild world. This week has proven that to us. Student Government elections always seem a little animalistic - shark-like senate candidates preying on unsuspecting students, poll workers who seemed as slow as snails, plenty of revelers at the Orange & Brew who had a whale of a time. After all, we're animals, too. So hear us roar in this week's menagerie of…
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Procrastination shows lack of discipline
By Christopher O'Leary | Oct. 4, 2007I'd like to respond to Wednesday's U-Wire column, "More useful classes, please."
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Meyer and Kevorkian events are separate
By Justin Roth | Oct. 3, 2007Andrew Meyer strikes again! However, this time we didn't see it coming. Only his actions could effectively assist in the suicide of another campus speech. I can only assume that in light of recent events, UF President Bernie Machen believes postponement of a "controversial" speaker will somehow ease tension and tame the chaos he has created.
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End of Student Government election brings calm
Oct. 3, 2007Because I could not stop for voting, it kindly stopped for me. Oh, Emily Dickinson's famous words will forever linger in my mind. Actually, I think it was traffic. Traffic kindly stopped for her, right?
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O'Dome needs better acoustics
By Ryan Winkler | Oct. 3, 2007First let me say, as an avid Lil Weezy fan, I enjoyed Monday night's concert at the O'Connell Center. However, I was a little disappointed with the show, mainly the sound quality.
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Language barriers can hinder learning
By Phillip Madrid | Oct. 3, 2007I hate it when I can't understand what some foreign teaching assistants and professors say.
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New student senators have their work cut out
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 3, 2007Was there ever any doubt?
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UF should not have postponed speech
By Scott Erker | Oct. 3, 2007UF's decision to postpone Kevorkian's talk is so reactionary. What message is this sending? Maybe we are being punished, and the powers-that-be do not have the confidence that we can listen to some old geezer speak about death without asking some pointed questions.
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Experience not necessary to critique
By Danny Sanchez | Oct. 2, 2007I'm sure Kyle Cox hasn't done a lot of things in his life as I haven't either. But to say that you cannot criticize someone because of never doing those things is ridiculous.
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Fundraising campaign comes at a price
Oct. 2, 2007The advent of the Florida Tomorrow campaign is a great chance for UF to address its cash concerns - but only if done properly. Even though it looks innocent enough, this campaign has a dark side, primarily the fattening of UF's endowment.
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Outgoing senators don't make the grade
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 2, 2007As another Student Senate session comes to a close, we just have to ask, to paraphrase Janet Jackson: What have you done for us lately?
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Student-run cafe would be SG-funded
By SKEET SURRENCY | Oct. 2, 2007It is reassuring to see that the Alligator editorial board appreciates the ideas behind the student-run cafe - a non-corporate, nonprofit, student-run space that serves cafe-style food and beverages at cost to consumers.
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Welcome Kevorkian with open arms
By Rocky Hu | Oct. 2, 2007In light of the infamous Tasering incident at UF on Sept. 17 as well as the controversial appearance by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University on Sept. 24, I urge my fellow Gators to welcome Dr. Jack Kevorkian to Gainesville with open arms. Education is not merely memorizing and regurgitating facts, but also taking the "red pill" if you will - that is, pushing our minds to the limit by immersing ourselves in controversial viewpoints. If no change of opinion occurs, then our original beliefs will be further cemented; otherwise, a paradigm shift will have occurred with our mindsets.
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No more excuses for voting procrastination
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 2, 2007We can understand if you didn't vote Tuesday. We'd be lying if we said we never used the rain as an excuse to skip classes, including Tuesday.
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Protests inevitable for Kevorkian's speech
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 1, 2007By now, you've probably seen the e-mail sent by UF President Bernie Machen about the slight delay for Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Accent-sponsored speech, which has been moved to Jan. 15. Machen & Co. claim this is for the safety of students because many students have already protested Kevorkian's appearance.
