Opinion
Call for columnists
By Megan Howard | Aug. 28, 2024The Alligator opinions section thrives on local and student voices.
Opinions
Opinion
The chase for prestige: a required cost or misallocation
By Abraham Hilu | Aug. 26, 2024Ben Sasse, former president at University of Florida, sent out a public statement via X on July 18, stating he decided to resign after 17 months due to a long history of family health issues. I first felt surprised and melancholy. However, I looked back at an insightful lesson my professor taught me which is “Gators have thick skin.” This means to become resilient during challenging times.
Opinion
Book banning means limiting perspective, silencing crucial conversations
By Amaya Borroto | Jan. 23, 2024My kindergarten teacher was the first to introduce me to the world of books. I have always remembered that first orientation at our tiny public school library, the student ID card that would act as my passport into universes beyond my wildest dreams.
Opinion
Representation matters
By Joe Newman | May 22, 2023Representation matters. Having two top editors of Asian descent for the first time in The Alligator’s 117-year history matters. Their voices, their perspectives and life experiences matter – not only for their newsroom but for the UF community.
Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Twenty years later, we will #NeverForget
Sep. 10, 2021A letter to the editor from Alexander Munguia, Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom at the University of Florida
Opinion
Health and safety concerns from a UF faculty member
Aug. 30, 2021UF President Kent Fuchs and the Board of Trustees have turned their backs on the UF campus community. Their decision to ban even temporary measures puts all of us at risk and it represents a fundamental failure to rise to the needs of the day.
Opinion
One Love at UF
Aug. 30, 2021Importance of relationship education today: A CDC survey showed more than one in three women — 44,981,000 victims — and one in three men — 35,236,000 victims — experience contact sexual violence, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner.
Opinion
UF, the prison-industrial complex, and you: Boycott today, but what else can you do?
Feb. 4, 2021The demands being made in the recent Reitz boycott may be new to many current students, but they have deep histories within two interrelated struggles on UF’s campus: one towards food justice and the other away from the prison-industrial complex at UF.
Opinion
Letters to the Editor from an economics major on the Gamestop frenzy
Jan. 31, 2021Forum sites (notably Reddit) had been quietly talking about the possibility of GameStop actually turning into a profitable company, and loudly talking about the opportunity of a short squeeze. And in mid-January, they got their chance.
Opinion
GATORSAFE App: The Big Stick of UF’s Modern McCarthyites
Jan. 28, 2021While the UF administration employs GATORSAFE as a tool of discriminatory policing, students must refuse to attend face-to-face HyFlex classes in solidarity with our instructors' right to do the same.
Opinion
Professors and Students Hate HyFlex—So Why Is UF Doing It Anyway?
Jan. 21, 2021As the vast majority of UF students have discovered during the first week of this semester, spring classes are a ‘worst of both worlds’ amalgam of digital and classroom learning when well-planned remote learning would be safer, cheaper, and more effective.
Opinion
Snitches go to heaven, partiers go to hell
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 31, 2020Sing like a canary in a COVID-19 coal mine.
Metro
The Alligator doesn't have an SG endorsement. Here's why.
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 19, 2020The number of opinions sections over the last two months has decreased. You might’ve noticed that.
Opinion
Darts and Laurels: Sept. 20
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 19, 2019Those all-nighters are really starting to catch up to you. Your caffeine intake maxed out like a credit card on your fifth cup of Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew.
News
UF Student Government mismanaged your money
By Zachariah Chou | Aug. 22, 2019Florida State University has a circus. UF has our Student Government with better clowns.
News
You belong in college
By Matthew Diaz | Aug. 22, 2019You belong in college. And there’s nothing wrong with you if you don’t feel that way. I’ve been in a similar place too, like I’d somehow duped the admissions committee into letting me past the gate. It can be so easy to fall into that spiral of self-doubt, that feeling of being out-of-place among “better qualified” classmates. I get where that comes from, and if you feel that way, I can’t emphasize enough how wrong you are.
News
Spilling the tea on undergraduate success
By Preston Jones | Aug. 22, 2019Somehow, it’s already my sixth first day of school here at UF, my second first day of law school, and yet I still have no idea what I’m supposed to write about. My editor kindly suggested I write something using my experience from these four years of undergraduate and one year of law school to help new UF undergraduate students be successful. As I have zero experience being a “successful” undergraduate student, (no seriously, I was the worst, just ask my stressed-out parents how excited they were when they got my degree in the mail), I thought I’d share a few things that got me over the finish line during the many times I thought I wasn’t going to graduate.
News
This semester, dare to defy your status quo
By Ben Lima | Aug. 18, 2019For a college senior like me, the beginning of the Fall semester is a time to look forward, consider job prospects and tie up loose ends academically. It is also a time to reflect on experiences, good and bad, from the last three years. As my journey at UF has shown, a semester or two in college can alter the course of your life.
News
A tale of a few streetlights
By Zachariah Chou | June 20, 2018I can’t say I knew a lot of things when I started my first term as senator for Infinity Hall. Not only does our Senate lack any sort of transitioning between past positions, but I also happened to be the first ever senator for Infinity Hall — so it’s not like anyone could tell me what my predecessors were up to.
Opinion
Listen to those you disagree with, but not all of them
Nov. 26, 2017In this political climate, it can be tempting to surround yourself with like-minded folks and call it a day — online and offline. On our social media, it would be easy (and, let’s face it, understandable) to unfollow every user who posted a status update or wrote a tweet decrying a politician you admire or denouncing a policy you believe would help people. You could even replace the lost profiles with more accounts of people who agree with and amplify your views. But is this the right thing to do?
