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Pilots should have been flying, not using laptops
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 26, 2009There is a time and place for everything.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Students: Speak out at Senate
By Fernando Figueroa UF student | Oct. 26, 2009Anyone 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.
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Students should boycott Aramark
By Murielle Joseph | Oct. 26, 2009We often talk about justice and doing the right thing. Well, supporting the Coalition of Immokalee Workers is one way we could actually practice what we preach. Several food service providers have agreed to pay the one cent more per pound, but I have yet to hear that Aramark has decided to do the same.
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PETA approach too violent
By Amanda Watts | Oct. 26, 2009PETA's support for the humane treatment of animals is admirable, but their methods are questionable when they show violent videos with scenes of graphic animal abuse.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Gators need to give all in Georgia
By Morgan Kovel | Oct. 26, 2009Dear Gators football team,
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COLUMNS
Students should demand better wages for Immokalee workers
By Dave Schneider | Oct. 25, 2009Students are often insulated from a lot of issues outside of Gainesville. Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m., you have an opportunity to affect the lives of a tremendous number of farm workers.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Shower timers are intrusive, wasteful
By David Yakobovitch | Oct. 25, 2009As if I am not already mentored enough in my life, the Department of Housing wants to coach me on my wasteful showering habits after a stressful day at meetings, school and work.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
UF should address asbestos in dorms
By Matthew Gilton | Oct. 25, 2009There is asbestos in nearly every dorm on this campus. I live in Tolbert Hall, and we had exposed asbestos in our trash room at one time.
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COLUMNS
Obama should get his hands dirty
Oct. 25, 2009If Dick Cheney didn't earn the title "Darth" that New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd bestowed upon him when in office, he's certainly earned it throughout his personal life. His raspy, shallow voice that pines to whisper, "Luke, I am you father" is quick to criticize the current administration.
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EDITORIALS
Prepaid won't help those who need it most
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 25, 2009Last week, registration began for parents who want to purchase Florida prepaid college plans for their children.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
UF has money to repair Riker Hall
By CHRIS MOODY | Oct. 22, 2009When I saw on Monday that the third floor of Rinker hall would be required to pay $3,000 each for damages, I was flabbergasted.
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Professor shouldn’t have been reinstated
By Chris Marth | Oct. 22, 2009Good for the anthropology department for defending diversity and minorities. What could be more diverse and be a smaller minority than a reckless-driving professor who attempts to exchange drugs for gay sex near a church? Shame on UF for reinstating such a creeper.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Comedian with Tourette syndrome mischaracterized
By Maria Gonzalez | Oct. 22, 2009I was severely disappointed in the representation of Louis Centanni concerning the front-page article. Certain inaccuracies were statedthat all together misrepresented not only Louis himself, but all thosesuffering with Tourette Syndrome.
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COLUMNS
Government needed for health reform
By PAUL MURTY | Oct. 22, 2009While I believe that Neal Wheeler has the kernel of a good idea in his letter to the editor, he becomes increasingly more ignorant as the piece goes on. His idea that the government can't be counted on to fix everyone's problems is very true. The government can't, in fact, fix everything. Perhaps the government has tried too hard in the past to fix all the problems in American society, but this doesn't extend to health care.
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Medicaid could fix health care issue
By Chad Kimes | Oct. 22, 2009Mr. Wheeler makes an excellent point. If you can't afford health care, don't go running to the government to solve your problems. Just get on Medicaid!
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Asbestos nothing new on campus
By Billy Owen | Oct. 22, 2009As great as it is to read about our student senators feeling "uncomfortable" regarding the health of hotel guests, I would like to take this opportunity to remind our representatives that as residents of Rawlings Hall we live under these circumstances every day.
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EDITORIALS
Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 22, 2009It's been a busy week at the Alligator (go figure). Just when we thought exams were over and all was quiet on the West University Avenue front, another parade took us by surprise. This time, it was a festival of suck that hit us like a dump truck loaded with your neighbor's rotten Wu-Tang pumpkin that he carved way too early and allowed to marinate in the sun...
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UF should have sent text about threat
Oct. 22, 2009This past week revealed a disturbing trend at UF, something that the entire Student Body should be concerned about. Apparently it is becoming common practice around campus for students and bystanders to leave suspicious-looking backpacks lying around public areas and for the Gainesville Police Department bomb squad to respond accordingly.
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Fighting could resolve health care issues
Oct. 21, 2009Amid a thorny nest of substantive issues and thoughtful debate about human agency, America proved last week that our real gift to the world is a bountiful supply of vaguely Asian, dysfunctional families ready to claw their way onto television. Our nation owes you a great deal of gratitude, Heene and Gosselin clans, for too many seem to have forgotten that our country was built on a burning desire to have one's own reality television show.
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In Denial: Insurers shouldn’t restrict victims’ coverage
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 21, 2009Let's just come out and say it - the health care system in America has really seen better days. From insurers booting sick people to the curb to the elderly having to choose between food and much-needed prescription drugs, the States definitely lag behind the rest of the developed world in providing health care regardless of age or socioeconomic status.
