Opinion
Cats more appropriate pets while in college
By Wesley Campbell | Feb. 1, 2011Are you a cat or dog person?
Opinion
Opinion
Players don’t deserve special treatment
By Daniel E. Colley | Feb. 1, 2011Janoris Jenkins has again been arrested. On this occasion, he is charged with possession of marijuana. During 2009, he was arrested and charged with affray and resisting arrest without violence. Affray, in case you are wondering, translates to fighting and is a charge used by law enforcement officials reserved for UF football players and other celebrities that they don’t want to charge with assault or battery.
Opinion
Two to Tango: Both sides of abortion debate face trouble
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 1, 2011As if either side needed to garner any more controversy, Planned Parenthood is getting ready for battle with the anti-abortion group Live Action over sting operations in several clinics across the country.
Opinion
Anachronisms 101
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 1, 2011An Abraham Lincoln researcher attempted to literally rewrite history when he changed a date on a presidential pardon from April 14, 1864, to April 14, 1865.
Opinion
Students aren’t obligated to take fliers
By Victoria Shelley | Feb. 1, 2011I’d like to address the UF Student Body in response to Laura Ellermeyer’s column on fliers yesterday. If you don’t want a flier, don’t take one. Period. As someone who’s passed out fliers before, I can tell you that I will not be offended by a “No, thank you” if you don’t want my flier. In fact, if you’re just going to throw it away, please don’t take one. We don’t want paper wasted any more than you do because it’s costing us money, and we might not have enough for the people who are actually interested.
Sports
Gators preparing for make-or-break week under national spotlight
By ADAM BERRY | Jan. 31, 2011Billy Donovan often stresses to his players the importance of focusing on the things they can control. This week, that could include their own destiny.
Opinion
Distributing fliers annoying, wasteful
By Laura Ellermeyer | Jan. 31, 2011As Patches O’Houlihan from the movie “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” wisely declared, “You’ve got to learn the five D’s of dodgeball: dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge.” I never thought these words would assist me at UF.
Opinion
Rights Fight: Judge calls health care reform into question
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 31, 2011The recent health care reform may be due to tumble like a row of dominoes.
Opinion
Stubborn politicians self-serving
By Charles Dahan | Jan. 31, 2011Zack Smith makes a fundamental mistake in his Jan. 31 column, “Compromise DeLay-ing the Inevitable.” In it, Smith argues that Tom DeLay demonstrated ideological consistency by refusing to compromise with Democrats. Yet partisanship, as Smith writes, is not a “philosophy [that] may have intellectual teeth.” Instead, it is a methodology for attaining one’s political — or ideological — goals.
Opinion
Government work rewarding for students of all backgrounds
Jan. 30, 2011It’s that time of year again. If you are an underclassman like I am, the economy is still looking down, and you could use a well-paying internship or job to get you through the summer. For those UF seniors about to enter the “real world,” the job market is terrifying.
Opinion
Balancing Act: Obama caught between the ideal and the real
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 30, 2011Whether we admit it or not, stability drives most of our decisions. It’s why we prize houses, steady jobs and reliable transportation. We might say we tire of routine, but without it, civilization as we know it would not exist.
Opinion
Compromise DeLay-ing the inevitable
By Zack Smith | Jan. 30, 2011Hobbes. Locke. Montesquieu. Tom DeLay?
Sports
Nothing worse than Irish curse
By BILL O'CONNOR | Jan. 27, 2011Twenty years ago, I darted down a Dublin hospital corridor.
Opinion
Obama selling image through address
By Bob Minchin | Jan. 27, 2011So, who watched the State of the Union show this week? Did anyone really think that Snooki would actually lay off the booze?
Opinion
Corporate model a detriment to academia
By Joseph Dillon Ford | Jan. 27, 2011I read with dismay the article “Students band together to save professor’s job” in your Jan. 25 issue. I do not know lecturer David Small, who, after 11 years, is being unaccountably dismissed from his post in UF’s department of computer and information science and engineering. Evidence suggests he is an excellent educator who is much appreciated by his students.
Opinion
Conspiracy theorists ruin discussion at Accent event
By Justin Eastridge | Jan. 27, 2011The 9/11 truthers at the Valerie Plame event should be ashamed of how they conducted themselves.
Sports
No ‘I’ in team, but one in ultimate
Jan. 26, 2011When the UF ultimate team gathered to practice Wednesday evening, the most obvious element of its game was missing.
Opinion
FDA should let gay men donate blood
By Jared Misner | Jan. 26, 2011I can’t help but wonder how Monday’s poll results asking how many of us have donated blood will inevitably be skewed by the number of potential respondents who felt too ashamed to answer one way or another.
Opinion
Every American wants to “win the future”
By Chad Mohammed | Jan. 26, 2011Hours before President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, the National Assessment of Educational Progress published an assessment of science proficiency among the country’s fourth-, eighth- and twelfth-graders. The results were disconcerting: Only 34 percent of the fourth-graders, 30 percent of the eighth-graders and 21 percent of the 12th-graders studied qualified as proficient. This might be the “Sputnik moment” the president described in his speech that night.
Opinion
Code Red: US phases out terror alert system
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 26, 2011Don’t get us wrong, we love orange. Supposedly, we bleed it.
