Words are heavy. Every letter of every phrase carries a weight that we as speakers tend to overlook. Diction is an influential tool, made powerful not by the mouths that voice it but rather by the ears that receive it. No matter what, somebody is always listening.
The following editorial was originally published September 12, 2001.
Iman Zawahry doesn’t like to leave her house on Sept. 11.
One by one, they approached the wooden towers.
When you walk into the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, blank gazes of soldiers stare back.
Although the Florida men's golf team ended its first Fall invitational in fifth place with two of its golfers finishing under par, coach J.C. Deacon wasn't satisfied with the results.
Starting today, UF students and visitors can monitor and pay for on-campus parking from their phones.
Florida’s volleyball team has been on a tear.
A former Disney Channel and Freeform actress is coming to UF on Friday.
Oluchi Ojinnaka-Taylor, 36, ran in memory of her daughter Saturday.
A conservative UF group announced plans Friday to invite journalist Milo Yiannopoulos to speak on campus in October.
For the second time in a week, police charged a man Friday for breaking a window at Fat Daddy’s.
A county detention deputy was charged Thursday for sexually assaulting a minor.
UF President Kent Fuchs and his wife are asking students to help design their holiday card.
On the 45th anniversary of New York’s Attica Correctional Facility riots, a group of Gainesville residents protested inmate mistreatment.
The UF Student Government Judiciary Committee failed to allow a bill reforming how political parties spend money during elections to be heard by Student Senate.
There was no way Antonio Callaway would drop this ball.
Ryan Murphy and his aunt had a bond that spanned across the country.
Last week in Darts and Laurels, we here at the Alligator gave a dart to the human respiratory system for causing Hillary Clinton to cough. This is problematic because it set off a series of nothing more than bulls--- arguments that — ignoring actual problems in this country — focused on personally attacking Clinton for her health. Typically, those who simply have nothing to bring to the table perpetuate these types of arguments. Ad-hominem attacks are nothing more than a distraction from a total ignorance of political know-how.
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