In the back corner of UF's newly renovated weight room, just off the indoor sprint track, there is a cinderblock wall with paper strewn across it.
After reading Monday's article and editorial about the hand scanner referendum, I feel a few clarifications are in order.
Many people dislike politics because it sometimes seems that people choose to launch personal attacks on one another. It is a shame that politics are being treated the same way on the UF campus.
To UF students responding to Jamie Edgerly's letter regarding her opposition to gay marriage that ran in Monday's Alligator:
In the days following the first presidential debate of the general election, I had a lot of explaining to do.
It is my first year here at UF, and I already know the horrors of Student Government elections. I asked some of my friends who had gone here if there was any way out of listening to the pointless nagging of students running for Senate, and all I got were suggestions to just avoid them. This was hardly sufficient for me, so after some investigating, I found my answer in the election codes. If you wear a "No Campaigning" sign or something to that effect, candidates are forbidden to talk to you and risk a fine if they do. With that news, I implore you all to liberate yourselves from the time-wasting politicos.
I'm sick and tired of the notion that America was founded on Christian values. In fact, the Constitution has clauses that attempt to bar any religion from entering government. Before you fall back on "In God We Trust," you should know that the phrase did not become the nation's official motto until an act of Congress in 1956.
I had ESPN on my TV in the background Monday afternoon like I usually do, but when I looked up from my computer, I saw something strange.
Despite the flood of fliers, stickers and screen-printed, UF-colored T-shirts, the Alligator Editorial Board has respectfully declined its option to endorse any Student Government party for the fall election.
Usually picking the stories for the next day's edition of the Alligator is a relatively painless process.
With the passage of the economic rescue plan, the federal government has mobilized more than $700 billion to quell the parallel crises in housing and finance. While this massive allocation may mitigate the turmoil in the credit markets, there are broader economic ramifications to consider.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - This could become one big, complicated mess.
In Thursday's Alligator, Phil Kegler insisted that offensive coordinator Dan Mullen was not responsible for the Mississippi loss. While Mullen had nothing to do with the multiple drops, fumbles and the missed extra point attempt that lost us the game, Mullen did call to run tailback Jeff Demps up the middle and for two consecutive attempts into the end zone on the final drive instead of sticking with the quick option slants that got us into range.
I'll come right out and say it. I'm a Christian and I don't want gays to have the right to marry. Hate me or like me as you will. Marriage is supposed to be a sacred bond between man and woman in a one-to-one ratio. I want to see that bond protected.
Students for a Democratic Society is at it again, and this time its target is hand scanners at the gym.
Look, I know this is a football school. I know you want the women's soccer team to feel all warm and fuzzy. I know one or two people out there might even care about golf. But honestly, basketball season is only one month away. You are allowed to put in an occasional article about what's going on outside of Tebow and the gang.
As a first generation American, I have never allowed my father's Lebanese and Arab ethnicity to influence my political views as an American. This has changed, however, in this election. Sen. Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan, simply has a misguided foreign policy in the Middle East. While most Americans will agree that going into Iraq was a mistake, life is once again returning to normal in the streets of Baghdad. In the last eight years, democratic governments have been institutionalized in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, and a respect for human rights has emerged in American allies in the region, including Egypt and Jordan.
With the endless supply of political volunteers on campus during the past few months, you'd have to be living in a cave not to know that today is the last day to register for the Nov. 4 elections.
Every time I read the letters to the editor section of your paper, I'm forced to allow Student Government more time in my mind than it deserves. Someone even got closer to the point Friday by mentioning the frivolous spending of money by not only SG but governments in general.
Reading Michael Belle's column on Student Government, I found his comments regarding the shortcomings of district senators to be highly misguided. If Belle is looking for evidence of district senators' awareness of issues within their ZIP code, he need look no further than the Student Senate's recent resolution supporting the annexation of the area around Southwest 20th Avenue.
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