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All hugged out: Crist-Obama hug not that big of a deal
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 10, 2010Hugs don’t mean much to us.
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COLUMNS
Iran covering up ‘Lost’ set duplicate
Feb. 10, 2010The announcement by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of an Iranian surprise that will “punch” the rest of the world and leave them “stunned” was met with an exaggerated yawn this week from a Western media enervated by vague threats from heavily bearded men.
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EDITORIALS
Google Buzz entering social networking realm
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 9, 2010Social media seems to have settled down into its middle age. People are happily married to their Twitter accounts and Facebook pages, some are stuck with Myspace, their high school sweetheart. A few even ended up with the strange one from the bar like Dogbook or Stache Passion.
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EDITORIALS
Move it, move it: First lady’s exercise campaign unrealistic
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 9, 2010Michelle Obama launched the “Let’s Move” campaign to end childhood obesity Tuesday. While the Editorial Board knows the program will succeed to the same extent the “Just Say No” campaign did, we question the methods the first lady plans to use to fix the growing problem by 2020. (She thinks America can kick this habit in a decade? Really?)
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Student Government opposes union fee for grad students
By Jordan Johnson | Feb. 9, 2010During my time as Student Body President, I have constantly tried to work with any student that has an opinion about how Student Government can improve the lives of students at UF.
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Animal rights debate to inform students
By Bruce Friedrich | Feb. 9, 2010As vice president of policy and governmental affairs for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), I have debated animal protection issues around the world.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Monday's letter to the editor was homophobic
By Don Kershaw | Feb. 9, 2010Matt Simons’ letter in Monday’s Alligator absolutely infuriated me. It was so full of fallacies and ignorant homophobic assumptions that I don’t know where to begin.
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Singles should seize V-Day opportunity
Feb. 8, 2010I think Valentine’s Day is really a holiday for singles.
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EDITORIALS
Palin's announcement is no shocker
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 8, 2010You betcha!
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EDITORIALS
And another thing about Palin...
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 8, 2010And just when you thought our ranting about Sarah Palin was over, the Editorial Board is here to issue you another full serving.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Alligator op-ed section is too liberal, indecent
By MATT SIMONS | Feb. 8, 2010I was at Shands yesterday and read the latest edition of the liberal rag you call the Alligator. If nothing else, it is good for a laugh.
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Gator Growl wants Student Body’s opinion for 2010 show
By Bryan Griffin | Feb. 8, 2010Some people may think it is awfully early in the year to begin talking about the next Gator Growl, but people have been planning the 2010 Growl since late December.
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Technological advances like Facebook more than just fun
By Will Penman | Feb. 7, 2010There’s this new thing out that’s pretty fantastic.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Columnist lacks original ideas
By NERI STEIN | Feb. 7, 2010The new Friday columnist, Paul Murty, is absolutely horrible. He doesn’t have any original ideas, and it’s pretty obvious he doesn’t actually research his articles past Wikipedia. The economy is not well on its way to recovery. He talks about the preachers on Turlington Plaza as if it’s breaking news and then the issue of gun control as if he knows everything, when actually he offered no ideas of his own whatsoever. At least last week’s column, “Modern Tea Party is deeply flawed,” was relevant to today. Could he write something that isn’t dripping with disdain for anything Republican?
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Columns full of rambling
By Chris Marth | Feb. 7, 2010I’m getting a little tired of Paul Murty’s column. I was bemused by — if not OK with— his argument that we should do away with guns. I’m a little less OK with his ignorant generalization of the Tea Party movement. And while I think Tea Partiers are all crazies, I don’t stand on a podium and spout my ignorance of their cause. I really don’t care if the opinions section is inflammatory, inspiring, sweet, horrendously offensive or boring, but please demand that thought be put into the opinion, otherwise it just becomes ignorant rambling. And I’d rather have one of those terribly boring sexToons than more ignorant rambling.
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Palin taking ‘retard’ comment too far
By Ryan Spencer | Feb. 7, 2010Well, it finally happened. I suppose it was only a matter of time before one of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s well-rumored, profanity-laced harangues would surface while he was in office. Indeed, it was only a snippet of his Chicago-sharpened talent, but it was worth the wait.
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EDITORIALS
Sex Ed
By Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 7, 2010The Editorial Board would like to offer a bit of advice for all of you aspiring politicians out there: Don’t make a sex tape, OK?
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EDITORIALS
Do Ask, Do Tell: America should end military discrimination
By Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 7, 2010On Sunday, military newspapers released the results of a survey that revealed a sharp decrease in the number of active-duty troops who oppose people who are openly gay and serving.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
SG needs real reform
By JUSTIN WOOTEN | Feb. 4, 2010If undergrads ever want to see a change in Student Government, it isn’t going to come through a self-defeating, lawsuit-happy “Indy” party that does nothing but whine in Senate chambers and does ridiculous stunts on election day. And it isn’t going to come from the party that acts as a mouthpiece for the administration. What needs to happen is real electoral reform. Students need to be represented and participate in the system — not decide between which party is worse, which is nearly impossible at this point.
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US Senate should put end to gender pay discrimination
By LINDA MERIC | Feb. 4, 2010A year ago, dozens of women’s and civil rights activists gathered at the White House to watch President Barack Obama sign his first piece of legislation into law: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act.
