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Oral sex app ignores body intricacies
Mar. 9, 2014How was your Spring Break? Meet anyone fun? Get a tan? Learn how to perform oral sex from your phone?
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Lake Okeechobee restoration efforts shouldn’t be turned over
Mar. 9, 2014The Florida Legislature is attempting to seize total control of Lake Okeechobee, eliminating the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from the process and giving total water management control to the South Florida Water Management District. This proposal is a bad idea, as it overlooks the history of the management of the lake and related water bodies in regard to the Clean Water Act.
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Conservatives fail to accept changing US
Mar. 9, 2014Conservatives flocked to Washington, D.C., last week for the Conservative Political Action Conference to rally behind conservative leaders and discuss their core ideological beliefs. Sadly, the week produced the same rhetoric spouted by conservatives — most of whom identify as Republicans — that many young Americans and minorities, more often than not, reject.
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If a friend is incoherent, call for help: You won’t get in trouble
Feb. 27, 2014She was 19, smart, silly and beautiful.
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Venezuela column wrong
Feb. 27, 2014Eric Brown’s guest column demonstrated hypocrisy in two ways: Its title and its content emphasized why the viral video explaining today’s situation in Venezuela is one-sided. He then went on to emphasize the few improvements the Venezuelan government has accomplished while completely disregarding the country’s significant increase in murders, scarcity in basic day-to-day needs, tyrant rule over peaceful protests and censorship of the media.
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Venezuela column doesn’t give whole truth
Feb. 27, 2014Last Tuesday, a column ran in the Alligator titled “Viral video is one-sided” by UF student Eric Brown, in which he discussed Nicolás Maduro, Hugo Chávez and Venezuela. After reading it, I realized some things he said were partially true and some partially false.
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‘Religious freedom’ bill ignites controversy
Feb. 27, 2014The land home to the Grand Canyon brought a slew of controversy this week when reactionary legislators passed a religious freedom bill. The bill is an amendment that rides on the shoulders of an act that began after Native American Church members were fired for using psychedelic cacti more than a decade ago. It enshrines Arizona citizens’ rights to religious freedom by declaring that anything done or not done because of a “sincerely held” religious belief is well and good, so long as it doesn’t conflict with government interests.
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Net neutrality is a thing of the past
Feb. 26, 2014Think about the nature of the Internet. It’s anything and everything at your fingertips whenever you want it. One day, we will tell our children we lived in a time when information was truly free.
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It’s time to stop pretending what Student Government is and isn’t
Feb. 25, 2014The words in this column come difficult for me, as I have many friends and colleagues who are currently enjoying a momentous win with the Swamp Party.
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Get schooled: education system paradox in the US
Feb. 25, 2014Education has always been a hot-button issue in this country. One side of this polarizing issue demands respect for teachers unions; the other says standardized testing is paramount.
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Republicans to blame for Florida's ‘grim’ outlook
Feb. 25, 2014A new study released by the Leroy Collins Institute on Florida’s economic and fiscal health paints a bleak picture of the state’s present and future.
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Bearded ladies and double standards
Feb. 24, 2014Bearded ladies used to be ogled for entertainment as a part of freak shows that were popular from the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, but bearded ladies still exist today.
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Fresh approach needed to tackle SG corruption
Feb. 24, 2014Most UF students are by now familiar with the ongoing situation on campus. If you’ve read the disturbing ways the Swamp Party maintains its control over student leadership — as reported widely in the Alligator and the Fine Print — it’s not pleasant.
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Viral video is one-sided
Feb. 24, 2014Venezuela is in the international spotlight because of recent violent anti-government protests, which have garnered attention through social media. This past weekend, my news feed was filled with posts sharing a video titled, “What’s going on in Venezuela in a nutshell” and hashtags like #prayforvenezuela. I was immediately reminded of the frenzy involved with KONY 2012 in which people became “experts” on Uganda overnight.
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Food ignorance is not healthy bliss
Feb. 24, 2014For decades, popular food franchises and the American food industry have fought tooth and nail while the majority of the public just sits around and watches — or eats.
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Toy story: In the defense of sex toys
Feb. 23, 2014Wednesday night I found myself licking lube off my fingers in a classroom full of people.
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State legislatures are more important than Congress, so pay attention
Feb. 23, 2014In the age of cable news, political blogs and social media, it’s easy to focus on the political news in Washington, D.C. The noise clogs the pores of all three major cable news networks and permeates throughout the front pages of newspapers until it makes its way onto the web.
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Manners matter: a common courtesy guide
Feb. 20, 2014I always get pegged as nice. When I hold the door for a stranger: nice. When I tell someone his backpack is unzipped: nice. When I inform the barista at Starbucks someone left $20 unattended on the counter: nice.
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BuzzFeed, sponsored content trending
Feb. 20, 2014Thousands of years from now, historians and archeologists will be scouring Internet archives, and they’re going to find BuzzFeed. And it’s going to be really embarrassing.
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UF has beef, but we want bamboo
Feb. 20, 2014Many students and faculty are outraged with UF’s harsh decision to remove the popular campus landmark Bambooville. But the university’s behavior on this matter is far from shocking.
