Opinion

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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

No denying rankings matter

By Danny Beaulieu | Aug. 23, 2007

Recently, U.S. News and World Report ranked UF as the 17th best public university in the country. Last year, UF was ranked No. 13 by the report, and UF President Bernie Machen was spearheading an aggressive campaign to get UF into the Top 10. Machen's obsession with the rankings was almost nauseating. Now Machen says, "The reality is, our change in the academic rankings is insignificant."

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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

New Alligator Web site full of goodies

By LYNDSEY LEWIS | Aug. 22, 2007

Here at the Alligator, we love to yak about how old our newspaper is.

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OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Rankings Game

By EDITORIAL BOARD | Aug. 22, 2007

As the fall semester begins and visions of football dance in your head, you can give yourself a pat on the back for getting into the No. 17 public university in the country, according to the U.S News and World Report.

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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Lawsuit makes illegal downloading not as sweet as it sounds

Aug. 22, 2007

Warning - this column may contain absurd, random song lyrics. You may be under investigation for illegally downloading music on campus. And wait, you may be one of the students or personnel the Recording Industry Association of America plans to serve with a lawsuit. "I don?t want to lose your love tonight," but UF is one of 58 universities nationwide receiving these pre-litigation letters from the RIAA as a part of its "education and deterrence campaign." Mo? illegal downloading, mo? problems.