After hearing many people voice their concerns over the possible funding decreases from our Collegiate Readership Program, I wanted to take this opportunity to set the record straight on a few things and hopefully assuage some of your fears.
What a surprise. President Machen doesn't like Budweiser marketing orange and blue beer cans in Gainesville.
What incredible happy news I first thought from reading the Alligator headlines on Aug. 27: "Machen: No more cuts." On the Web site version, I found a less misleading headline for the story: "Machen predicts end to budget cuts." The "end" of budget cuts will happen after we have "more" budget cuts. I liked the positive quotes from Machen: "economy seems to be stabilized," "gonna be a positive year after a 'negative year.'" All preceded by he's "ready to predict there will be no more cuts to UF's budget next spring."
Tuesday was a sad day for democracy within UF Student Government. In that night's meeting, the Student Senate voted to keep giving top SG officials perks that are out of reach for ordinary students. They also illegally moved several powers of the Senate to the Unite-controlled executive branch, essentially creating the new office of Student Body Dictator.
This is in response to Casey Peterson's letter to the editor, "Students should root for Rays," expressing the belief that his dedication to the Tampa Bay Rays somehow reflects the dedication of all Rays fans.
Drinking and driving is bad - there is no denying that fact. As somebody who files claims for an insurance company, I have heard the horror stories from the victims' families first-hand. I agree that Fabulous Rides sounds like a fabulous program and the student body president ought to be commended for trying to promote awareness of its existence in an effort to reduce drunk driving. However, his approach sells the dangers short.
When I arrived on campus early Monday morning, I immediately headed to the newspaper dispensers near Turlington to get my copy of the New York Times. They only held copies of USA Today. I assumed that particular dispenser was simply out of the New York Times, so I checked the one near Library West. Again, only USA Today.
I was very disturbed to read in Wednesday's Alligator Progress Party Leader David Schneider's blatant intellectual dishonesty. To say that giving the Student Body president the unilateral ability "to create executive orders to create offices, departments and policies" would "discourage too much centralization of one power," as the article stated, is exactly the opposite of what is going to happen.
So it's that time of year again: mass textbook buying. Some would think that the new law signed last year, the Textbook Affordability Act, would help prevent some of the usual headaches that are associated with buying required textbooks.
This is in response to Kyle Maistri's "Fanifesto," in which he groups the Tampa Bay Rays with the Yankees and Red Sox as three baseball teams which are off limits to bandwagon fans.
Moving back to campus after summer break is a hectic experience, and something that happened today made it more stressful. My daughter and I, in between moving into her new apartment near the campus and shopping at several local stores for essentials, decided to go to a local restaurant for a quick takeout lunch. Traffic was, as it always is on the last weekend before classes, very heavy with new and old students buying from every type of area
My name is Frank, and I used to be a senator. For the past 12 weeks, I served as a replacement senator in the Student Senate, and my term ended last Tuesday at the end of the last Senate summer session meeting.
Thank you for your editorial piece "Campus ban removes smokers' rights." However, it neglects to mention one of the main problems with smokers: the fact that they just throw their butts on the ground no matter where they are at.
Johnathan Lott/s July 30th column is either deliberately misleading or laughably misinformed, possibly both. He implies that if marginal tax rates go up, the government will take "56 percent of every dollar" that a wealthy person earns. Is UF/s economics department really so bad that an economics junior doesn/t understand marginal tax rates? Honestly?
During last Tuesday/s Student Government Senate meeting, I was rather disturbed by certain comments that were made asking the Alligator to not report the events that transpired. Indeed, the reporter was specifically singled out and told to withhold publishing that the majority party voted down a string of proposed ethics legislation when they had done just that.
Matthew Christ/s column Tuesday was tired and a failed attempt at entertaining readers.
I was enjoying Jon Silman's article about country music recently (Country music offers support, advice for all stages of life - July 16).
I was struck by Roberta Roberts/ article on Magic Hat Beers arriving in Florida because it came across as an advertisement for a bar in the guise of a legitimate story.
In response Matthew Christ's Tuesday column
In response to Tuesday's editorial
Solutions by The State News
