Chances are you've heard of the major cuts on federal funding the House is proposing under its new leader and chronic crybaby, John Boehner. The new Republican majority is attempting to reduce our federal deficit, but it can't help imparting some of its moral and religious stances in the cuts.
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Mike Zunino is ready to take command.
The Germans had their blitzkrieg. The Spanish, their Armada. Kevin O’Sullivan’s arsenal of hurlers may do more damage.
Just one day before the season, Brian Johnson didn’t know if he was pitching this weekend — at least he acted like he didn’t.
Being ranked No. 1 is an honor bestowed on few. But entering the 2011 season, the top-ranked Gators couldn’t care less.
The expectations surrounding Florida’s freshman class should be backbreaking.
When the Gators were struggling during the early months of the season, the primary culprit was turnovers.
When asked what went right in Florida’s win over Mississippi State last month, assistant coach Brenda Mock Kirkpatrick gave a succinct reply.
Florida’s youngest swimmers led the team in the second day of the Southeastern Conference Swimming Championships, but two reliable veterans once again made their mark.
Maranda Smith already bid her farewell to The Gator Nation.
After beating up on the likes of Long Island and Jacksonville, the No. 5 Florida softball team will face its first real test tomorrow in its home opener against No. 22 North Carolina.
Since being named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Week on Feb. 2, Alexandre Lacroix has struggled.
With only five players boasting collegiate experience last season, Florida’s freshmen didn’t have time for a learning curve.
I was both disappointed and appalled to read Laura Ellermeyer’s column in Tuesday’s edition entitled, “Recycling proves wasteful in long term.” Leaving aside for the moment the fact that a first-year finance student such as Laura is entitled to hold whatever opinion she wants concerning recycling, I find it inexcusable that the Alligator would print such a socially and environmentally irresponsible article. First, it is a fact that recycling our cans, bottles, plastics and paper allows us to reuse our planet’s scarce resources over and over, thereby reducing the impact caused by the extraction of mineral, forest or petroleum products. Does Ellermeyer know that recycling aluminum cans saves 95 percent of the energy used to produce those cans from scratch? That means you can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one can of new material. Energy savings from recycling cans in 1993 alone were enough to light a city the size of Pittsburgh for six years. It also takes water — a lot of water — to process raw aluminum into cans. Why should we willfully waste resources when we can easily conserve them?
With Student Government elections just days away, the Unite Party and the Progress Party are hitting the ground running with their campaigns.
While some students choose are spending their Spring Break soaking in the debauchery of sun-kissed tourist destinations, David Ames is asking Gainesville residents to spend their break making a difference in the world.
Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll and Norman Augustine discussed ways to improve U.S. technological development.
“Do it my way, or the government will be shut down!”
In response to Tuesday’s column by Laura Ellermeyer, a student of finance, I think she missed the potential of a further means of reducing the cost of waste management. She — as is appropriate for finance majors and the students of economics — is preoccupied with the ebb and flow of money, not with the conditions of the planet on which we live. She recommends not recycling because it will save money. Unfortunately, she did not go far enough. To further the reduction in cost, she should have advocated that we could save more money by just dumping our garbage into the streets, where the recycling will be done by dogs, raccoons, opossums and the poor. That way we could fire all of the people who cart away our garbage and sell the trucks that are used to other cities that are stupid enough to insist on recycling.
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