Today would be a great day for you to reevaluate how you think about the people around you. What if you found out today that one of your friends were gay? What if your cousin told you he or she were transgender?
The Alligator made a very real contribution to UF's sports culture with Tuesday's article "The Family Business." Although football has rightfully maintained its cherished position at the epicenter of Gainesville life, the city and the school can only benefit when any one of the cadre of talented female athletes who represent The Gator Nation at the track or in the pool or on the volleyball court, soccer pitch or softball diamond receives deserved and positive attention.
Today was a bad day. I failed another assignment. I missed the bus and got caught in the rain. I argued with my family. I stubbed my toe. The Reitz Union Food Court was out of spicy sushi rolls.
Add it to the list of things you thought you'd never have to pay for in college: a new technology fee.
I would like to offer some supplemental information about Students for a Democratic Society's transparency and socially responsible investment campaign and our recent meeting with UF President Bernie Machen.
It appears that being president of Student Senate wasn't enough for him. Now that Robert Agrusa has ended his term for Student Government, he's moving into real-world government. Or at least the Gainesville City Commission.
Garrett Tyler and Jack Berry appear to have nothing to do with Tony Joiner. But there are moral lessons to be learned from Gators athletes leaving their sport and a football player's run-in with the law.
In light of violent events at Virginia Tech and on other campuses, students and their parents should be aware that if a person is 18 or older, their parents might be unable to obtain medical information about their child, even in an emergency situation. This is because federal law requires physicians and health care facilities to keep a patient's medical information confidential, pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). There are severe penalties for those who violate these provisions.
Imagine our surprise when we heard UF President Bernie Machen finally decided to meet with members of Students for a Democratic Society who descended upon Tigert Hall more than a month ago.
Monday's editorial showed the editorial board's remarkable ignorance when it asked if a national run was in the works for Gov. Charlie Crist.
"Ketchup" season has begun. You've already had your first exam, and it was probably a bad idea to go drinking the night before. Unfortunately, the rest of your fall semester will be spent catching up from the work you skipped.
Rumor has it that we are in the midst of Hispanic Heritage Month. This was news to me and apparently, news to many other people as well - including some Hispanics. Maybe I've been living under a rock, but I haven't seen any posters, heard of any celebratory events or seen anyone in Hispanic Heritage Month T-Shirts.
This is just what we love to hear. The sustainability-obsessed, tree-hugging, bicycle-powered, compact-fluorescent-light-bulb-buying (which we recycle when they burn out because they contain potentially harmful mercury), recycling enthusiasts here at the Alligator are, like, totally excited, man, about the proposed biomass plant that will eventually be built at Gainesville Regional Utilities' Deerhaven site.
If all news is bad and no news is fake, then wouldn't that make all fake news good? I don't see why not.
As the Arctic ice cap melts at an alarming rate and the biggest recent headlines are about global warming, it's easy to think that the issue would be moving its way rapidly up the policy priority ladder for governments (notably ours) to slam the brakes on a catastrophe. Just read this week's Time Magazine, and you'll see that what's turning governments' heads toward the North isn't the glaring nightmare of a global climate shift but rather, the almighty dollar.
One of the things that has been driving me nuts this semester is the seemingly complete lack of manners presented by a few students in our lecture halls. What should you do when your instructor starts to speak? Shut up and listen, right? I didn't show up to listen to you chatting with your girlfriends about how lame today's video was or your thoughts about yesterday's test in a completely different course.
Everyone is to be excused for believing that the Gators football program existed within the broader UF community. The Tony Joiner incident has demonstrated the reverse: The UF community falls within jurisdiction of the Gators football program. What is good for the program trumps what is good for the greater community.
Well, well, well. It seems Gov. Charlie Crist has finally come around to our side. Not willingly, of course. That would be crazy talk.
I just want to say that while, like anyone else, I was disappointed by the loss to Louisiana State University, I want to commend each and every one of the players for an impressive show - I think many people forget that these kids are mostly 18, 19 and 20 years old, and many of them made only their sixth collegiate start (all too many their sixth collegiate game) and, despite that, for 50 minutes, they dominated the No. 1 team in the nation in a very hostile venue.
Something seems a little shady.
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