Greedy Gators: Students shouldn't take advantage of fans
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 5, 2009"No desire to go to Jacksonville on Halloween weekend." "I like money." "Can't make the game and know you really want to go!"
"No desire to go to Jacksonville on Halloween weekend." "I like money." "Can't make the game and know you really want to go!"
Happy Monday!
In case you've been sequestered in your house with a case of the swine flu (or "bacon fever" as we like to call it), it's gotten noticeably cooler outside, not to mention noticeably quieter.
It's pretty lucky that "Kate" still rhymes with "Eight."
Tufts University in Boston recently announced a new policy in which students are not allowed to have sex in their rooms while their roommates are present.
If you spend a day helping others this year, Disney will let you into the happiest place on earth for free.
Barbies have always offended feminists, Polly Pocket probably offended small people and Beast Wars most likely offended the intelligence of entomologists, but no doll could possibly offend as many people as the latest addition to the American Girl line.
Just when we thought the halls of the Reitz Union couldn't fit anymore cholesterol, Papa John's was announced to be the latest addition to the fast food mecca last week.
Thankfully we've already graduated high school.
As the sun set over a paper-littered Turlington Plaza last night, the Editorial Board was faced with a decision.
The Department of Darts & Laurels is starting to feel a bit fatigued. We're realizing we haven't attended enough class to actually pass our first exams, we've officially lost all of our school supplies and our back-to-school haircuts have morphed from shaggy-chic to somewhere in between mullet, puffball or worse. Basically, we miss our moms. If our hectic schedules allowed us to jet home for the weekend, we'd run into the arms of the women who would point us to scrapbooks of our previous academic achievements, take us to Target and buy us some Dixon Ticonderogas and remind us that we're not feral, despite our disheveled appearances.
Rethink Breast Cancer is rethinking its newest advertising campaign after critics say it focuses too much on sex and too little on the dangers of the disease.
Although President Bernie Machen said it was "time for action," outside of Tigert Hall on Wednesday, his decision not to give UF's official support for the DREAM Act - The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act - is slightly contradictory.
If the Food and Drug Administration wanted to prevent people from picking up smoking, menthol cigarettes would be included in the ban on flavored tobacco.
While UF students with flu-like symptoms are being encouraged to quarantine themselves in their homes, three Gators with the flu took the field on Saturday.
Major food corporations are hoping that the average American will cling to catch phrases rather than read food nutrition labels.
At last, UF and Aramark have responded to student outcry over high food prices on campus.
With the first round of exams approaching, UF may find itself with a pile of unexpected consequences.
You're all revved up and ready for your first real football game of the season, and it's sure to be a good 'un. We know you're already parked on the couch with your Gators Snuggie and have your first pre-kickoff drink in hand-and we're happy for you, and we're gonna let you finish-but not before we present you with this week's edition of last-week's-Darts-&-Laurels-was-one-of-the-best-Darts-&-Laurels-of-all-time edition of…
The Senate should not have voted to deny funds to ACORN - the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - on account of transgressions perpetrated by a handful of employees.