All UF students should stand up to cuts
By Abdul Zalikha | Apr. 24, 2012Facing budget cuts, UF is planning to do some serious damage to the CISE department.
Facing budget cuts, UF is planning to do some serious damage to the CISE department.
The scene with the most impact in “The Shawshank Redemption,” for me, is the one in which Brooks ties a rope to the ceiling, scribbles “Brooks was here” on the wall, and kicks the chair from under himself.
This month, Mitt Romney continued the disturbing and growing trend of attacking higher education when he said that President Barack Obama “spent too much time at Harvard.”
Sometimes those who are assumed to be the most truthful — clergymen and other religious figures — end up being the most disingenuous.
With the arrival of the first black president in the Oval Office in 2008, it seemed that the U.S. had made a giant leap in resolving race relations.
Repeat after me: “We, the members of the University of Florida community, pledge to hold ourselves and our peers to the highest standards of honesty and integrity.”
According to some political pundits, there’s a war going on in the United States.
While every UF Student Government election I’ve witnessed has been tinged with disgrace and folly, the last election was more embarrassing than I was prepared for, and its inordinate controversy deserves comment.
We're all familiar with people who claim to hate reading, yet spend hours perusing Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr posts.
With tension between Israel and Iran so heated that armed conflict seems inevitable, the U.S. military must decide on a plan of action should combat arise, and it must decide soon.