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Mountain to God
By Athanasios Gentimis | Sep. 20, 2012Agnostic responds to Wednesday's column.
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Reader refutes columnist’s claim that everyone should vote
By Andrew Ellinor | Sep. 19, 2012This letter is in response to Anayo Ordu’s Tuesday column, “Voter apathy is absolutely pathetic.”
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Reader responds to Ordu's column
By Adam Glener | Sep. 19, 2012Editor’s Note: This letter is in response to Anayo Ordu’s Tuesday column, “Voter apathy is absolutely pathetic.”
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No need to fight when we can talk
By Nora Zaki | Aug. 26, 2012The Israeli government is in an uproar about United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visiting Iran for a summit hosted by the Non-Aligned Movement, a group of 120 countries that formed during the Cold War. Many countries are those the United States has sought to marginalize.
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Alligator misses the mark on Mars story
By Joe Haldeman | Aug. 21, 2012I was on campus yesterday and picked up a copy of the Alligator, which had a story on the cover titled “NASA sends rover to Mars, awes students.” This is good because students don’t know or care much about space flight.
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Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson deserves attention
By Jote Thompson | Aug. 21, 2012There is a storm brewing in America that will rock the world if it gets any worse. Americans are at the breaking point with a bad economy, corrupt banks and bought-out government officials.
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Guest column wrong about the role of government
By Gelin Looi | Aug. 1, 2012By no means did he say that an individual cannot make it; just that it is necessary to acknowledge that the government and taxpayers’ money pay for the infrastructure and the assurance of political stability necessary for businesses to emerge and grow.
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Alligator alumnae's column in support of the Alligator
July 26, 2012This column appeared Friday in The Miami Herald.
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Supporters' comments on Change.org
July 26, 2012Brian Steele: After working at the Alligator for nine semesters, I can confidently say that this student-run paper has the most passionate, dedicated, and hardest working staff I have ever seen, and that includes the organizations I have worked for post-graduation. We worked for less than minimum wage, but we did so because we cared. A lot. I will be very disappointed in my alma mater should this go through. What is to gain from this? Limiting the voice of students? As a top-notch university, which I believe UF is, is this really the way to develop young minds to go into their chosen fields? Diversity should be clear for all to see, not hidden in the corner.
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Link between HIV and heart disease needs more research
July 9, 2012In a study by Dr. Daniel Klein at the Kaiser Permanente in northern California, higher rates of coronary heart disease have been found in patients with HIV. With already-high rates of heart disease, more research and policy must be directed toward these health initiatives.
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A Gator Goes
July 2, 2012As I end my time at UF, I would like to say the following words to my fellow Gainesvillians:
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Young people seduced by anti-government ideology
June 21, 2012Two misguided columns that appeared in the June 14th edition of the Alligator demonstrate the perverse anti-government ideology that is consuming many of our young people, at the expense of reason.
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What happened to free speech and common courtesy?
June 21, 2012I’ve been a student senator since the last student government elections in spring, and one thing has been made abundantly clear in my short time in the Student Senate: the Unite Party doesn’t like being told that they’re wrong or that they’re corrupt and incompetent or even that you want to amend one of their bills to be grammatically correct.
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University should have stepped up after death of student
By Daniella Saetta | Apr. 22, 2012This is a call to the UF president, provost and dean of students.
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The Alligator should “Dart” itself
By Joe Courter | Apr. 12, 2012The next time the Alligator jumps to conclusions based on police reports, think again.
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Article about arrest of transgender person perpetuates stereotypes
By Laurie Reisman | Apr. 12, 2012Shame on Tyler Jett and the Alligator for publishing “Resident charged with shaking ‘his wee-wee’” on April 6. I believe this article exhibits extreme bias.
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Student Senate should recognize minority students
By Uzair Malik | Apr. 5, 2012I am appalled at the racism that exists in the UF Student Senate.
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Students should protest for the Syrian people
By Umair Asghar | Apr. 1, 2012Edmund Burke, an 18th-century Irish political theorist, once said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
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Murders the result of psychological issues, not religious extremism
By Nora Zaki | Mar. 26, 2012I am disturbed, saddened and ashamed at the barbaric killing of seven innocent people, including three children, in Toulouse, France, that occurred Tuesday.
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Graduate assistants are not a 'cost'
By Patrick McHenry | Mar. 21, 2012Cammy Abernathy, the dean of engineering, held a town hall meeting on March 12 during which she welcomed discussion from the engineering faculty in regard to budget cuts requested from the provost’s office.
