In the wake of President Barack Obama surprising the planet by winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, I would like to throw his name into the conversation for another prestigious award: the Heisman.
As you read this, I am hard at work imbibing the contents of my giant, green Bubba Keg on a bus to Baton Rogue.
I awoke bloody and in sharp pain at 2:25 a.m. on Sept. 4. I couldn't tell you what city I lived in, what my name was or what happened.
In a strange twist of fate, a single city has clumsily tripped into the epicenter of the debate over animal cruelty in America. This city has taken a bold stand in favor of dog fighting on legal and social levels, voluntarily placing itself in the line of fire against existing federal law and overwhelming public opinion.
I hate to break it to everyone who got worked up over the Student Government elections last week, but nothing new happened.
The reason students don't participate in Student Government is that it fails to make a step toward a greater society. Apathy isn't the issue, relevance is.
Oct. 11 is National Coming Out Day, an internationally observed day offering support for members of the LGBT community who want to publicly disclose their sexual orientation or gender identity to their friends and family.
The Internet is making us rude.
Florida politics has always been a giant petri dish of sleaze, and the Florida Legislature is always a spectacular orgy of corruption. However, the one topic that has always been off-limits was oil drilling around Florida. Overwhelming public support for a drilling ban - and the overarching concern for what is left of the natural environment - has stood out every year.
The members of the UF Pride Student Union have read the Rev. Terry Jones' column yesterday, but few of us were terribly shocked.
At my internship this summer, one of my editors told me that when she graduated from college in the 1970s, people never asked her what she wanted to do with her life.
Two days ago, during the clusterfuck of Student Government elections, I had two dissimilar but equally disturbing events occur that I thought explained how voting results were so systematically banal, year after year.
"Big Brother is watching."
We believe that it's time for Christians to stop hiding behind a message sugar-coated with love, peace and prosperity.
Former Secretary of State and retired four-star Gen. Colin Powell met with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office in mid-September to discuss the looming question of what to do about Afghanistan. While no one can be certain of what the two discussed, questions from the so-called Powell Doctrine probably floated around the room.
I have enjoyed the hectic media buzz surrounding the widespread condemnation of ACORN - the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - workers over the last few weeks. The travesty against pimping that transpired in these videos should forever place shame on the houses of every pimp in the country, if not the world.
If any of you went to the Health Care Forum on Monday night hosted by Student Government's Chomp the Vote, you would have noticed that the student organizations participating in the discussion included only the College Democrats and the College Republicans.
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