The Coalition Against Police Brutality does not share the Editorial Board’s faith in Margolis, Healy & Associates.
The City Commission works for us, the taxpayers, just like the police are supposed to.
The Alligator’s coverage of the shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong has been shameful. The story was first reported not as a front-page headline, as warranted, but buried deep within the paper. What pressing development grabbed the front page headline that day?
Much of the Alligator coverage in the past two weeks has dealt with the actions of the University Police during the tragic shooting of graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong. But another, equally great tragedy is the scant coverage of the extremely poor response to a man suffering from poor mental health.
On March 4, the Alligator Editorial Board commented on what they called the Unite Party’s “naughty audio.” However, the editorial and the administration’s silence on this issue reveal the true problem in Student Government: apathy.
I was misrepresented in the Alligator on Monday concerning my knowledge of the city’s strong anti-discrimination protections.
In today’s elections for City Commission’s District 4, students should choose Randy Wells. Wells has a proven track record of getting results and bringing people together.
My name is Jonah C. I’m a fifth-grade student in Harlan, Iowa. My class is studying the geography and history of the United States. I need your help to complete my state project. I picked the great state of Florida. It would be greatly appreciated if you could send me a post card, souvenir or any information on Florida wildlife. My teacher would also like a license plate. Thank you for your time.
Like many people in the UF community, I would like to know why five University Police Department officers were unable to physically restrain a student with disabilities who was “armed” with a cane?
The Unite Party claims to represent the wants and needs of the entire UF Student Body.
Amidst all the turmoil of the recent UF student government election, one important fact seems to have been forgotten: The critical repairs that the Reitz Union needs aren’t going away simply because the referendum vote didn’t pass. The reality is $42.5 million dollars of problems still remain in our student union.
I am writing in response to staff writer Jared Misner’s article about Marvene Edwards. I was aghast at some of the offensive, condescending phrasing and terminology Mr. Misner employed while telling this woman’s unparalleled story of courage in the face of certain death and unspeakable physical abuse. I found his use of the flashback sequencing in his storytelling quite distracting and a hindrance during reading, and the lack of a proper timeline left the article formless. Mr. Misner’s description of the town of Princeton, Fla., was full of unnecessary data — what was the point of mentioning the racial and financial makeup of said suburb? His likening Ms. Edwards’ drug addiction and HIV infection to leprosy literally left me agape. Mr. Misner’s classification of Ms. Edwards as an inhabitant of another world further alienates her from society as a whole, something I am certain Ms. Edwards would not welcome. I do not believe that this writing style did Ms. Edwards’ story justice, and I hope that in the future your writers will perhaps show some more sensitivity to the subjects of their human interest articles.
I am shocked and saddened that a publication that claims to be as progressive and tolerant as the Alligator would publish Paul Murty’s vile and hate-filled rant Friday about a group of Americans exercising their constitutional right of assembly, the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Despite 56 percent opposition to a new fee, Student Body President Jordan Johnson and Alex Cornillie, the Renew Your Reitz campaign spokesman, say that the issue of a fee to pay for Reitz Union expansion is not off the table.
Student Body President Jordan Johnson shows contempt for democracy. On Thursday morning, the lame-duck president asked the UF Board of Trustees to move forward with creating a new tuition fee to fund an unnecessary expansion of the Reitz Union, ignoring the will of the majority of students who voted against such a fee in last week’s election.
I want to give a sincere thank you to all the students who voted in elections Tuesday and Wednesday. Especially those who helped the Student Alliance party gain a historic 20 seats in the Student Senate. Over the course of the campaign, the Student Alliance candidates and supporters demonstrated incredible character, integrity and devotion.
Over the past several weeks and the next few weeks, students have and will continue to be trolled hard. For those unaware of what trolling is (we’ve all been trolled), trolling is when someone purposely antagonizes others by posting inflammatory content, thereby causing others to rage. It’s like the Hatfield-McCoy feud. One party makes a claim; the other counters. It never ends. This back-and-forth also reminds me of a “Girls Gone Wild” tug-of-war: Everyone pulls for his or her own side, but in the end both sides end up dirty and in some awful video. So, to all of UF, do whatever you can do to end this repetitive and boring back-and-forth. Or do nothing. I suppose you’re getting trolled if you do something because you’d be raging – bummer. Oh well, you now know you’re being trolled every day, and in writing this I’m even trolling myself. Damn. Whatever it be, don’t feed the troll. And don’t rage hard when you get trolled hard.
In response to David Hanan’s letter likening UF’s tolerance of the Dove World Outreach Center on campus to tolerance of genocide, I’d like to make a few points.
Double voting has been a concern in Student Government elections for years, and there have always been allegations directed at the Greek houses. If Supervisor of Elections Ariana Alfonso is worried about double voting, she should advocate for a switch to online voting tied to UF IDs. The centralized list of who has voted would prevent any double voting and save the Student Body tens of thousands of dollars each election.
I find it interesting that there is no limit to how many stacks of pancakes IHOP can give away, and yet the city imposes a 130-meal limit when St. Francis House feeds the homeless.
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