NEWS
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CAMPUS
Talent show draws 200
Feb. 15, 2010When four UF professors walked to the front of room 109 in Little Hall, they didn’t start lecturing.
El Caimán
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Feel Beta Fundraiser too busy stroking egos
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 15, 2010As Americans, the Editorial Board understands that people stroke egos in exchange for money. When bragging and brown-nosing rears its head in charitable events, however, we have to draw a line.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Beta Theta Pi sponsors event for Alzheimer's, scholarship
Feb. 15, 2010Dressed in cheerleading outfits bearing their letters, members of UF's Greek community strutted their stuff Monday in the second annual Beta Bring It On philanthropy event sponsored by Beta Theta Pi.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Two arrested after beating and leaving homeless man to die
Feb. 15, 2010Two St. Francis House residents were arrested and charged with attempted murder for beating a homeless man Saturday.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Reitz reopens Subway
By TATIANA QUIROGA | Feb. 15, 2010The revamped food stores on the ground floor of the Reitz Union did not come cheap.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
NoSCAR
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 15, 2010Nothing says love like “Gentlemen, start your engines!”
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Anti-abortion group hosts campus event, draws protestors
By MINCH MINCHIN | Feb. 15, 2010Warning: The full-sized photograph accompanying this story contains graphic imagery.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Student government fliers create conflict
By ELIZABETH BEHRMAN | Feb. 15, 2010A war of words between the Unite Party and the Student Alliance party is already underway even though students have a week to wait before Student Government elections.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Student Alliance party should stop negative campaign
By Ryan Scott | Feb. 15, 2010Jonathan Ossip’s guest column today was simply a joke. Very funny, Ossip, but we all know you don’t have any friends on Fraternity Row.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Student Alliance party asks students to contribute ideas
By Yevgen Sautin | Feb. 15, 2010The Student Alliance party has taken an unprecedented look at the issues. Instead of using regurgitated talking points, we’ve put serious thought and effort into a real platform. Most importantly, the Student Alliance party has focused on innovation and real ideas to improve student life and build a great future for UF.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Genocide, abortion not the same
By PAUL MURTY | Feb. 15, 2010Genocide is the systematic and deliberate slaughter of a specific race, nationality or culture. This term applies to what happened in the concentration camps in Hitler's Germany, as well as to the slaughter of non-Arabic people of Darfur, Sudan, by the militant government. It does not apply, however, to abortion. No matter how you feel about the issue of abortion, everyone should be able to agree that it is not, at least, a genocide.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Unconditional love not a realistic goal
Feb. 15, 2010Unconditional love is a strange thing to think about.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Christian students share faith at Turlington
By ASHLEY WILLIAMS | Feb. 15, 2010Each week on Turlington Plaza, a group of students participates in Testimonial Tuesdays and tell stories about how they became Christians, offering their message to anyone who wants to listen.
METRO
Alachua County sees drop in registered voters
By SAMANTHA DELGADO | Feb. 15, 2010Voter registration for the 2010 election ended Monday evening with 2,669 less registered voters in Alachua County than in 2009.
METRO
Crossword Tournament held over weekend
By Joey Flechas | Feb. 15, 2010When George Hyde put pencil to paper Saturday morning, he and about 80 people followed more than 300 clues to fill out more than 500 little white squares with various words and phrases.
NEWS
Super Bowl ads wrap-up
Feb. 15, 2010Here’s an open secret about Super Bowl advertising: In general, it pretty much all sucks.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF defensive tackle Gary Brown arrested
Feb. 15, 2010Police say he slapped one female and scratched another after they asked him to leave a party.
SPORTS
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
UF falls to Xavier, fails to pad résumé
By ADAM BERRY | Feb. 14, 2010After a slow start, Florida looked like it had a chance to snag another big nonconference win Saturday.
SPORTS
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Gators suffer blowout loss to Volunteers
Feb. 14, 2010In front of 16,451 fans at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tenn., the fifth-ranked Volunteers turned their rematch with UF into a rout.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Don’t expect bias from our columnists
Feb. 14, 2010In the last two weeks, I’ve been called one of the best student journalists UF has ever had by a coach and told I have no idea what I’m doing by a member of UF’s media relations department.
