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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

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"'One Day Like This' - Elbow, Glastonbury Festival 2014" by Kris Williams
NEWS

For Your Entertainment: Music festivals–then and now

It’s no secret that music festivals have grown immensely in popularity. A temporary escape from reality, music festivals gather hundreds of artists for relatively inexpensive prices (cheaper than seeing your favorite bands individually, too). However, has their growing popularity potentially compromised the performances of the artists?


WLGYL: 20 something couple
NEWS

When Life Gives You Lemons: The truth about being 20-something and in a relationship

Being 20-something and in a relationship isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Yes, it can be wonderful. But with one extreme comes the other. Because, let's be honest, 99.999% of relationships aren't rainbows and butterflies all the time. We deal with real life s***. We get irrationally angry, overly upset and make stupid decisions. We're 20-something and that's what we do. We're still emotional wrecks; we still haven't figured out what we want, and we don't yet know exactly what we need. We are working on it, but in the interim we should stop believing that the "right" relationship will be perfect. It won't be. 


TWISJ: Hobby Lobby
NEWS

This Week in Social Justice: Hobby Lobby ruling aftermath

The recent Hobby Lobby supreme court decision found that closely held corporations (any company that has a limited number of shareholders) do not have to comply with the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that insurance plans cover women’s contraception if that conflicts with the religious beliefs of the business’s owner. 


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

University of Miami sells forest land, soul to Wal-Mart

It’s easy to forget, what with daily strange Gawker headlines and a certain highly anticipated magical theme park opening, that Florida wildlife is in danger. From rising sea levels threatening the southern coast to black bears ransacking neighborhood trash as a result of overdevelopment to Big Oil drilling in the Everglades, Florida’s natural resources are under attack. 


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Republicans can’t ignore Palin and D’Souza’s siren song

In “The Odyssey,” Odysseus must avoid the mythical sirens who lure sailors to their doom on the rocky shoreline of their island. Though the songstresses are enticing, Odysseus and his crew, with the assistance of some beeswax with which they filled their ears, force themselves to ignore the dangerous distraction in order to preserve their best interest.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Speaking out against Israeli attacks

The situation in Palestine that has taken place over the past four weeks has brought us to speak out against the unjust collective punishment being levied on the Palestinians by the state of Israel. 


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