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Sunday, March 01, 2026

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Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Negligence caused gay suicides

I am furious and cannot keep silent any longer. For those who are not aware, there has been a series of suicides over the last few weeks with a common theme: people who were being harassed for their sexuality. We all (or at least should) remember Matthew Shepard, the gay student at the University of Wyoming who was brutally beaten and left on a split-rail fence in the middle of nowhere to die.


Florida Alligator
METRO

Secretary of education holds conference on school costs

While some may view the combination of slashed budgets and skyrocketing costs as the death knell for the affordable college education in America, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sees it as nothing more than another round of challenges for what he still considers the greatest educational system in the world.


Florida Alligator
NEWS

Correction

In a story in Monday’s paper about homelessness in Gainesville, a quote was attributed to Craig Lowe.  It was actually said by Theresa Lowe, director of the Office of Homelessness.



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