As drop/add came to an end and we all settled into our spring classes, we got to enjoy the time-honored tradition of seeing our tuition bill show its sinister face.
During a week littered with stories of tragedy, we’ve had to admit the hassle of drop/add period doesn’t warrant all our usual complaining.
After our show at Jeff’s Deli on Friday night, we comics decided a few squirts might induce slumber. We bolted to Mother’s Pub.
Wikipedia is celebrating its 10th birthday Saturday, and, fellow students, what would we ever do without it?
In 1996, Sheryl Crow opined on the human condition: “If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad. If it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?”
In the fall of 1962, when the United States and the USSR stood inches away from the brink of an international blood-letting, word reached the Kennedy administration that the hard-line Soviet government did not desire to lead the world hand-in-hand into the furnace. In a flex of diplomatic bravado, Secretary of State Dean Rusk boasted: “We’re eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked.”
Alex Tyus was thisclose to yet another heartbreak at Thompson-Boling Arena.
Let’s get one thing out of the way right now: Florida is not a consistently good outside shooting team.
I just dropped the book-bill bomb on my parents. Needless to say, warnings of “you better actually read these” followed. Of course I will, Mom and Dad … maybe.
A year later, some progress has been made. There’s still a long way to go, however, in rebuilding the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Maybe there are superheroes among us.
Picture this scene. It’s an ungodly hot September day and our Florida Gators football team take the field to deliver their traditional, early-season Charles Sumner-style canning of a non-conference powerhouse St. Cecilia’s School of the Blind and Anorexic.
The Alligator seems to have lost its way as a news source.
A lot of people have been slagging Gov. Rick Scott for his extravagant inauguration festivities last Tuesday.
“I might not even vote for it myself.”
While Chad Kimes’ vision for a brave new world certainly is breathtaking, his call for “forced abortions” is not a modest proposal.
As a rule of thumb, people don’t have their political affiliations carved on their tombstones. Parties don’t matter in the face of tragedy and grief, but the memories of the deceased and the pain of the survivors do.
I have a lot of favorite quotations I’ve read through the years. Some are great for inspiration, others provide a laugh and others just make me think. But there’s one in particular that always, for me at least, seems to rise above the rest in the abundance of potential Facebook-favorite quotations. Margaret Mead, famed anthropologist and author, once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Well, Gators, the late Ms. Mead would be proud of all of us. For we have, indeed, changed civilization.
Pilot: “Please make sure that your valuables are secured and your seat and dinner tray are in the upright, locked position as we prepare for takeoff.”
The pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy is truly silly. I have graduated from this school of thought into a much more sensible camp: pro-abortion. Abortion as birth control is a practice of the past; abortion as population control is what is needed for our society to function in the coming years.
Solutions by The State News
