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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Raise Bright Futures standards

Mar. 24, 2010

Look at what has been on American television and what has been popular in American music for the past decade. Look at the countries that have been the most innovative in mathematics and physics for the past two decades; America is no longer one of them. Look at the American manufacturing machine and how it has been struggling for the past three decades. The list can go on.

Florida Alligator
THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

Total Breakdown

By THOMAS NASSIFF< | Mar. 24, 2010

What do you get when you throw 90 bands on six different venues in Gainesville? You get Total Bummer, Gainesville’s biggest do-it-yourself music festival.

THE AVENUE  |  LIFESTYLE

Atten-tion! Bootcamp pushes students to new levels

By LANCE FULLER | Mar. 24, 2010

For 30 seconds, you and a partner are shoulder- pressing a 30-pound tire together over your head. Just when your shoulders can’t take it anymore, you’re running 40 yards at full speed. Your jog to the next station is your break, only to throw a 10-pound medicine ball as hard as you can to your partner after squatting and then lunging forward with it. You throw back and forth with your partner for 50 seconds.

Florida Alligator
THE AVENUE  |  FASHION GFW

Fashion week ahead

By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 24, 2010

Fashion has no limits. It’s daring, risky and of course, fabulous. Tuesday evening, Gainesville Fashion Week and CovetedList.com proved the absence of style’s boundaries with a fashion show that featured outfits fitting women of all colors, heights and body types.

Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Columnist ‘too objective’

By Robert Perreault | Mar. 24, 2010

Matthew Christ: To which political party do you belong? I couldn’t tell after reading yesterday’s column. Maybe if you had spent a few words glorifying one of the two parties, I could have figured it out. Perhaps some shameless, ruthless bashing of all things related to your political opposition would have helped. I turn to the opinions section of the Alligator to see stubborn opining, not acceptance and compromise.

Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Samberg show disappointed

By A. Bern | Mar. 24, 2010

OK, so Andy Samberg is funny. Unfortunately, not as funny as many expected. With a lot of the crowd leaving before he finished making his last weird face or avoiding his last question in a strange voice, it seemed the event didn’t quite live up to SNL dreams. The Q-and-A setup might have been rather interesting — I am personally addicted to “Inside the Actors Studio” — if Andy had actually answered a majority of the questions. His attitude, dress and request that no pictures be taken (what am I supposed to do with all that empty space in my OMGsPrING2010 album on Facebook?) made Andy appear less like the silly, fun guy who sings about jizzing in his pants. I’d personally like a $72,000 refund.

Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

New Bright Futures standards will hurt everyone

By Jackie Simons | Mar. 24, 2010

I think the idea that the Bright Futures Scholarship Program is going to hurt minorities is ridiculous. It is going to hurt everyone. I’m a white, middle-class female, and I took the ACT three times before finally reaching the goal of 100 percent. I feel like we set a low bar for minority students, when in reality they have the same potential to achieve these scores. As a future teacher, I believe everyone can learn, and it’s about time everyone adapted that principle. The purpose of Bright Futures is to help hardworking students afford college. It’s an incentive. Bright Futures is trying to refrain from giving out such an incentive by requiring higher scores, but that makes it difficult not just for a certain group but for everyone. Minority students are capable, very intelligent and can achieve similar, if not better, scores than their Caucasian peers.

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