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Darts & Laurels

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 29, 2009

The week is winding down at the Alligator as we prepare for Halloween, Florida-Georgia, the Fest, sleep... Fortunately, we've been working on our costumes all semester. Thanks to many long nights at the Alligator, accompanied by stimulant-fueled weekend study binges, we're happy to present you with a we-feel-like-zombies-every-day-so-we-don't-need-to-dress-up-for-Halloween edition of...

OPINION | COLUMNS

Michigan ordinance similar to local Charter Amendment 1

Oct. 29, 2009

For an off-year election, Nov. 3 is shaping up to be pretty interesting day at the polls.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Station switch to NPR a good move

By Meagan Gregory | Oct. 29, 2009

I am sure you are getting a large number of emails on the WUFT programming switch, so I will try to keep mine short. I am writing.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

New radio format rewarding, enriching

By Gene Cowell | Oct. 29, 2009

May I add my voice in support of WUFT-FM's current programming format, and I hope you will hear from many more who share my view that the new format offers an exciting, rewarding and enriching listening experience. It's impossible to fact-check the claims by those 40 music-lovers with the funds to buy a full-page ad in the Sun.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

East Gainesville not dependent on AGH

By Kathleen Fette | Oct. 29, 2009

Your editorial column "Closed Doors" was patently ridiculous. According to Mapquest Shands at AGH and Shands at UF are 1.42 miles apart. I hardly think a three-minute travel time will result in "cutting off access to those in need" and your hysterically dire predictions for infant mortality, STDs, homicide deaths, economic decline, crime, etc.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

AGH closure is good business, bad call

By the Editorial Board | Oct. 28, 2009

Shands HealthCare is closing the doors at AGH on Nov. 1, citing persistent financial losses and the weakened economy. In recent years, these annual losses have climbed to more than $12 million.

OPINION | COLUMNS

‘Halloween ain’t what it used to be’

Oct. 28, 2009

Halloween evolves for each of us as we go through life more than perhaps any other holiday. Thanksgiving is always about food, family and football, and how one celebrates Christmas as a child usually has lifelong repercussions on your religious or commercial meaning for the holiday.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Home Depot to ‘rot in hell’

By Josephine Gebhardt | Oct. 28, 2009

Home Depot to 'rot in hell'

OPINION | COLUMNS

Nation still devoted to consumption

By Lindsey Mills | Oct. 28, 2009

I may or may not be the vegan mentioned in Wednesday's column, "Being eco-friendly isn't always easy." Regardless, I think to view the carbon footprint exercise as a demonstration of the futility of lifestyle choices is way off the mark.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Editorial misrepresents ordinance

By Jim Austin | Oct. 28, 2009

The Alligator has vented its outrage over the city adhering to its 130-meals limit for St. Francis House; now for some facts.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Editorial Board misses point

By Jordon Kalilich | Oct. 28, 2009

Should a Home Depot employee be allowed to wear a button reading, "One nation under God"? This is the wrong question to ask. By claiming that Trevor Keezor's button didn't have a "patently offensive phrase" because it's a quote from the Pledge of Allegiance, the Editorial Board misses the point.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Cold Shoulder: City shouldn’t put a limit on holiday meals

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 27, 2009

The Gainesville City Commission's choice to enforce a 130-meal limit for St. Francis House this Thanksgiving shows how disconnected it is from many of Gainesville's residents.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Man shouldn't have been fired for wearing religious pin

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 27, 2009

An Okeechobee man said he was fired from his cashier job at Home Depot for wearing a pin that read, "One nation under God."

OPINION | COLUMNS

Being eco-friendly isn’t always easy

Oct. 27, 2009

Maybe it's selfish, but I like to believe that humanity has evolved to the point that allows me to have a few modern mechanical luxuries.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Exclusive Greek-only event furthers negative stereotypes

By ASHLEY ROSS | Oct. 27, 2009

When we were in middle school, stuck in an awkward stage wearing bowl cuts and braces, not getting an invite to the coolest party in town could've crushed some of us. Now, however, we're all grown up, and exclusive guest lists don't move us to tears.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Weather too hot for fall

By Alejandra Toledo | Oct. 27, 2009

Today's date? Oct. 27, 2009. The season according to any 5-year-old that you ask? Fall. The temperature as of 4:54 p.m on this day: 82 degrees.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Senseless Standard

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 26, 2009

The owner of a hotel in Taos, N.M. has become the subject of national media coverage for his questionable management style.

OPINION | COLUMNS

People in relationships shouldn’t settle

Oct. 26, 2009

I think that, in some cases, one of the most ethical, selfless things you can do in a relationship is end it. And I think one of those cases is when you realize that, by staying with your significant other, you'd be settling for them.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Pilots should have been flying, not using laptops

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 26, 2009

There is a time and place for everything.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Students: Speak out at Senate

By Fernando Figueroa UF student | Oct. 26, 2009

Anyone who made it out to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers protest on Saturday could tell you how just the struggle of these workers is. Because today there is a resolution being discussed in Student Senate that would help these people in their struggle, I hope we all have a chance to make it at 7:30 p.m. in Reitz Union Room 282 for a public debate so we can speak out for this righteous issue. Let's do our part to ensure slavery never comes back to Immokalee. I have faith the Progress Party will be able to push the legislation through.