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In an era where real wages aren't really increasing much and the rich are getting richer, it seems economically just for unions to protect workers from laws that would open jobs to labor force competition and market wages.

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Keeping cats indoors good for ecosystem

By Sarah Lane | Sep. 15, 2011

Do you let your cat roam free outside?

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Importance of education lost in the mix

By Akansha Mishra | Sep. 15, 2011

From the start of the modern education reform movement, presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have addressed education in different ways. However the primary issue remains the same. Education was, and still is, in need of dramatic reform.

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Good deeds important to gain perspective

By Ford Dwyer | Sep. 14, 2011

Many organizations around campus invited students to participate in events commemorating the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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Releasing balloons dangerous to birds, marine animals

By Eddie Roqueta | Sep. 14, 2011

Ever since we were little kids, we have been innocently releasing balloons into what we thought would be an infinite sky, floating on to Neverland.

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Judging sorority women is hypocritical

By Alex Guilmartin | Sep. 14, 2011

I'm a psychology major at UF. I'm also a male. That makes me what some would call a rarity.

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Rick Perry tries to extend executive power

By Nicholas Butler | Sep. 13, 2011

Weeks after Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his candidacy for president, it appears that the top-tier jocks in the endurance marathon, which has been underway for sometime, have finally been identified.

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Financial worries should not deter students from studying abroad

By Matt Caesar | Sep. 12, 2011

If paying for tuition, fees, rent, textbooks, food and personal expenses wasn't enough, I'd like to add another task to the typical college student's challenges: studying abroad.

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Sexism, honor crimes results of culture, not Islamic faith

By Muteb Alqarni | Sep. 11, 2011

A few days ago, I read a news story about a man from the Middle East who shot his daughter dead in the hospital after she gave birth to twins because her husband passed away four years ago.

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Great minds, intellect can help us preserve our liberty

By David Masten | Sep. 11, 2011

Quick, pop quiz!

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Towers symbolize rebuilding

By Suzette Cook | Sep. 8, 2011

I didn't know it would be the last photo I would ever take of the Twin Towers.

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Intolerance unwelcome as we move forward

By Akansha Mishra | Sep. 8, 2011

It was a day of sickening triumph on one end and undeserved heartaches on the other.

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We shouldn't wear a mask on the Web

By Alex Guilmartin | Sep. 7, 2011

Steve Jobs is done.

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Anti-activism assertion unfounded

By Conor Munro | Sep. 6, 2011

Luckily, students around campus don't take the Alligator's editorials seriously. Last Friday, in the Darts and Laurels editorial, the Alligator sent a very clear message to students when they threw a "we-don't-want-to-pay-higher-tuition-either-but-holding-picket-signs-isn't-going-to-do-anything DART to Students for a Democratic Society."

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Gamedays missing 'Florida Boy' standard

By Alex Orlando | Sep. 1, 2011

I spent my Saturdays last fall like everyone else: sweaty, jorts-clad and leaping into the arms of my buddies every time the Gators scored a touchdown. It was a great time. I mean, heck, we had to do something to get through another week of lectures. But there were times before, during and after the games when I would look around horrified - horrified at my fellow students who were stomping all over what I had previously thought was the reputation of southern universities.

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Education is a right, not a privilege

By Michela Martinazzi | Aug. 31, 2011

When I was a young girl, I remember being taught that "knowledge is power" and that those who do well in school will go far in life. These days, a very different phrase resonates through the halls of academia.