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Cheeseheads United
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 21, 2011The Wisconsin union crisis took us by surprise.
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American Lit 3-D: Film gimmick has no place in some films
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 21, 2011We’ve already established that we’re a little old-school with our love for physical books. While we learn to slowly embrace the digital reading revolution, we’ve overlooked another change. The influx of 3-D movies has been well-documented and discussed, but for the most part we haven’t worried about the reasoning behind the fad. If filmmakers want us to feel like those action-movie explosions are happening in our faces, so be it.
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Darts and Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 17, 2011Forgive us if we’re not as chipper as usual.
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Closed Borders: Digital books can’t replace tangible pages
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 16, 2011If you’re a bibliophile, you’ve probably heard the news that Borders declared bankruptcy. While the story may appear to be just another sign of an ailing economy, it’s also an indicator that we stand on the edge of a new era.
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Gleeful Usurpers
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 16, 2011Two decades of musical breakthroughs have been overshadowed by kids shrieking annoying mashups.
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Falling on Deaf Ears
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 15, 2011Comic book villains aren’t the only ones who can be two-faced. Actually, politicians could teach them a thing or two.
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Walk of Blame: Amblers don’t mean you any harm
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 15, 2011Apparently, people rage while they walk. And we don’t mean in a fun way.
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Pick Our Poison: Federal budget debate involves financial aid
Feb. 14, 2011As our leaders in Washington know, something’s got to give when it comes to higher education. Both sides of the aisle have marched their preferred program up the steps to the guillotine, and we’re waiting to see which one gets a nice shave.
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Penney Pincher: Search engine abuse skews results
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 13, 2011Think for a moment about how much trust we put into Internet search engines like Google. They are our springboards to the otherwise nearly impenetrable expanse of information available online.
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Seeking a Spectacle
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 13, 2011The game’s over, and our team won.
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Darts and Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 10, 2011Love is in the air — or is it those droplets of water that can’t decide if they’re rain or fog? Either way, Valentine’s Day is Monday.
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On the Table: Budget tests Scott’s bargaining skills
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 9, 2011Looks like it’s time for our favorite dead-eyed, Voldemort-impersonating governor to backtrack.
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State of Depression
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 9, 2011Quantifying misery sounds unscientific at best, but we were still interested to see Forbes rank the 20 most miserable cities in America.
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Unpatriotic Act
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 8, 2011Maybe House Republicans weren’t counting on their own turning their backs on the party. In a miscalculation, they brought a bill to renew components of the Patriot Act to the floor faster but required a two-thirds majority to pass. The yeas to renew outnumbered the nays, but the difference wasn’t large enough.
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Evolving Opinion: Educators dodge origin of life issue
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 8, 2011A recent survey of public high school biology teachers showed they aren’t sticking to the National Research Council’s recommendations on evolution. With 28 percent of the teachers focusing only on evolution and 13 percent advocating creationism within the classroom, we’re left with 60 percent quiet and not wanting to stir up controversy by endorsing one theory over another. Let’s recap: educators are shying away from supporting the principles they’re trying to teach simply because they are dealing with a touchy subject.
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Star-mangled banner: Super mistake forgivable
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 7, 2011Christina Aguilera’s mistakes while singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl made our stomachs sink.
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Long Division
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 7, 2011It seems counterintuitive that a school board would vote to undo a policy which led to better schools all over the district.
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Work it out: Minimum wage jobs aren’t the answer
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 6, 2011State Sen. Nancy Detert should avoid walking past an unemployment office anytime soon.
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Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 3, 2011Our friends up north may be buried in feet of snow, but we’ve got avalanches of a different sort on our hands. February brings with it a cascade of papers, exams and projects designed to clog our rooms with a blizzard of notes and handouts. As we dig ourselves out, we bring you the we’re-shaking-because-of-our-caffeine-dependency-not-the-weather edition of...Darts & Laurels.
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New Paper; Future uncertain for News Corp iPad app
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 2, 2011We have a loyal readership, but our newspaper is one of few thriving in paper form. As sharing information online becomes more popular, journalists continue scratching their heads and wondering how their organizations can survive in a world with free instant information. Some have websites readers subscribe to for a fee, but the results have varied.
