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Help wanted: Desperately seeking... you
By EMILY FUGGETTA | Jan. 4, 2010It’s that time again.
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Blacklisted U.S. right to focus security efforts
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 4, 2010Residents of troubled nations like Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq face daily struggles that can sometimes mean life or limb. So it would stand to reason that an extra pat down at the airport would seem inconsequential, even trivial, to someone with such an intimate knowledge of what real hassles are.
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UF experiences help to prepare for future
Dec. 8, 2009Sunday morning, I woke up and started crying.
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Point of Christianity is love, not judgment
By Hannah Banfield | Dec. 8, 2009I have been very upset lately by the people supposedly “evangelizing” on Turlington Plaza. As I listen to them screaming judgments and insults, it breaks my heart. I have been a Christian for a few years now and while I still have many questions, one thing I do know is that the basis of Christianity is love. “For God so loved the world...” (John 3:16). “And do everything in love...” (1 Corinthians 16:14). These people are in no way showing God’s love but are giving Christians a reputation of being hateful and self-righteous. I am here to say that what they are portraying is not Christianity! Whoever they claim to be witnesses of is not Jesus because their teachings are not rooted in love.
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Supporting Gators is job of fans
By Ian Fisher | Dec. 8, 2009It is not the Alligator’s job to support the Gators. That duty is supposed to fall upon the fans. It seems to me that Randall Lockhart, who wrote yesterday about the sports section not supporting the Gators, doesn’t understand the Alligator’s role in covering UF athletics. Many students are with him in expecting the paper’s staff to be a cheerleader for UF sports.
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Gators football season not over yet
By PATRICK ANNESTY | Dec. 8, 2009Yes, Saturday’s loss in the Southeastern Conference Championship game was heartbreaking. And yes, Florida’s dreams of an undefeated season were once again quashed. But we must remember that the season is not over yet. The Gators still must represent the SEC in a New Year’s Day primetime bowl game against the undefeated Big East champion Cincinnati Bearcats. After the University of Alabama suffered its first loss last year to the Gators in the conference title game, the Crimson Tide gave up on the season and got thrashed by a determined Utah team out of the Mountain West Conference. We must not allow ourselves to suffer the same fate.
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Football loss can bring fans together
By Austin Shaw | Dec. 8, 2009First and foremost, I am a huge supporter of all Gators athletics, and nothing disheartened me more than to see the team I root for every Saturday of the fall semester come up short in a high-stakes SEC Championship game. There were no promises to be delivered at the postgame press conference and there are zero weeks left for us to exonerate our loss. There will not be a new plaque to add to the South Endzone of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium reading “SEC Champs 2009,” Tim Tebow will not be the quarterback that wins three national championships and no one here in Gainesville will be heading to Pasadena, Calif., in January, unless they are visiting family.
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Alligator distorts meaning of Rebel flag
By Ian R. Moore | Dec. 8, 2009The editorial “Road Rebel: Confederate plate no debate for state” struck me as a skewed and misinformed perception of what the Confederate flag or those who wish to fly it believe in. The fact that someone is willing to say “those who would buy it already have jacked-up pickups with mud tires…” shows that the only reason the confederate flag being flown is frowned upon is because of a large generalization to which the answer can be found in a middle school history class. The civil war was not fought on the grounds of “racism, bigotry and backward thought.”
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Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 7, 2009It’s not only the end of the week here at the Alligator, but the end of one great semester. We laughed, we cried... we got called names, and we cried some more (Well, a few made us laugh). But the saddest part of all is having to say goodbye.
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Fake Tans & Flip-Flops
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 7, 2009Our glowing governor, Charlie Crist, is bent on convincing Floridians that his ultra-conservative views will save the country from financial ruin.
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Re: Rights: Accuracy can prevent trivial technicalities
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 7, 2009“You have the right — in your anxious and confused state — to try to figure out what rights you may or may not have by deciphering the ambiguous statement I am currently reading in a robot-like voice — as if my true intentions are not to inform you of anything, but rather to show my disdain for civil liberties and humanity in general.”
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First year doesn’t set tone for future
Dec. 7, 2009A question for first-years here at UF: How was your semester?
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Column a ‘pick-me-up’ for readers
By Brad Bruggeman | Dec. 7, 2009Throughout the semester, I’ve always looked forward to Wednesday’s column. The sardonic humor underlying Hilary Lehman’s commentary on anything from the benefits of being judgmental to the lack of literary merit in the “Twilight” series has always been a welcome Hump Day pick-me-up.
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Alligator lacks support for Gators
By Randall Lockhart | Dec. 7, 2009After reading the Alligator sports page, I was greatly disappointed. Not because of our stinging loss to Alabama, but because of the lack of support. Nothing spoke of support for our team. I was at the Southeastern Conference Championship Game, and I stayed until the last second, cheering for our team. You could tell Tim Tebow and the rest of the team were crushed, and it pissed me off when Alabama fans cheered at Tim’s crying face.
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Govt. should put rights first
By Christina Garcia de los Rios | Dec. 7, 2009The following is an excerpt from a letter sent to New York State Sen. Tom Libous.
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Public reaction to loss disappoints
By Lindsay Waldron UF criminology senior | Dec. 7, 2009Three things to describe Tim Tebow: amazing athlete, outstanding character and 100 percent human. With humanity comes imperfection. Shocking, right?
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Road Rebel: Confederate plate no debate for state
Dec. 6, 2009As it turns out, the longest battle of the Civil War was not Gettysburg, or Marietta, or Yorktown.
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'Mock' Trial
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 6, 2009Italy’s courts threw the book at American college student Amanda Knox on Saturday, sentencing her to 26 years in prison for murdering her British roommate.
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Reader thanks columnist for writings
By Sophia Aiguesvives | Dec. 6, 2009Joe Dellosa,
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Graduate students deserve pay increase
By Luke Rostant | Dec. 6, 2009I am writing today to voice my opposition to the creation of any fee for the restoration or expansion of the Reitz Union.
