Future scholars will look back on the Great Healthcare Debate of 2009 and scratch their heads out of curiosity and confusion.
I attended my first SG meeting Tuesday night. Nothing could prepare me for the absolute clusterf**k I witnessed. A large constituency of SG was able and willing to vote on a $1.35 million bill without even reading where the money was going. If you aren't aware, SG is being pressed by the UF Administration to give up 6 percent of its budget for "service fees." Nevermind what those are; UF doesn't want you to know, and many senators felt the same way.
The lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of the student who did not stand during the pledge is not "frivolous." What is frivolous is being kicked out of his math class because he did not want to pledge allegiance to the United States.
I was scanning over the Opinions section Wednesday and noticed the results of Tuesday's poll amidst the frivolous quarrels over Guevara. Fifty-one percent of people don't like riding the bus? I know this has been said before, but RTS workers are seriously under-appreciated.
I should not be surprised that, when the Alligator reported on the active role the International Socialist Organization took in organizing for the National Equality March in Washington D.C., Rafael Yaniz accused the paper of trying to "indoctrinate" its readership.
I'm going to go ahead and go on the record right now. I want everyone to know that I absolutely and wholly intend on permanently ridding the world of poverty, genocide, war and any other possible negative affliction.
First off, I would like to congratulate all of you who got a ticket to the Florida-Arkansas game. I have only been able to get one ticket this year.
Once upon a time, we had time to sleep. But unfortunately, school has taken precedence over the rest we would prefer to have. We haven't seen our pillows since Wednesday, and our mothers think we're dead. Still, we trudge through this cesspool of a semester to deliver you a we-didn't-think-it-was-possible-to-function-on-five-hours-of-sleep-every-two-days-until-we-tried edition of...
After UF gymnast Melanie Sinclair's arrest Tuesday, a lot of questions remain unanswered.
Definitions of peace largely assume that it must revolve around an end to conflict or hostilities. The kind of peace the Nobel Prize Committee rewards has always stood out as a more organic whole than simply the humanitarian vibes that immediately follow human conflict--freakin' Ghandi never even won a Nobel Peace Prize despite five nominations.
Americans have become obsessed with promoting breast cancer awareness, and corporations have noticed.
By reading today's Alligator, it seems that the paper should be renamed Granma UF or The Socialist Newsletter of Gator Comrades. The International Socialist Organization was prominently quoted in one article without a counter position from a group that may not support their issue. Another article positively framed an event about a health clinic set up by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez without mentioning that he has stolen land without payment, a la Cuba's Fidel Castro, has nationalized private businesses and has shut down more than 50 private radio stations, television stations and newspapers critical of his totalitarian tactics. And the kicker was the opinion column calling Che Guevara a "hero" with laughable propaganda that failed to mention Guevara's death squads of innocent Cubans. The Alligator's motto "We Inform. You Decide." should be changed to "We Indoctrinate. You Obey."
It takes a TV show to make me appreciate being a woman in the 21st century.
On Tuesday, I was very pleased reading Paul Murty's guest column, "Che is a hero, not a terrorist." This article, the superb cover story on the National Equality March and the report back on Hugo Chavez' health care campaigns in Venezuela made for a very progressive issue that made my day a happy one. In response to Friday's anti-Che Guevara rally, my friends and I hastily organized a counter-demonstration, using a flag with Guevara's portrait and the slogan "Hasta la victoria siempre" scrolled at the bottom.
Last night at about 5:30 I was studying in the Reitz Union for my two Wednesday exams. The room gradually got a bit louder. People dressed in black hustled and bustled about but were being generally unobtrusive.
I have great reservation writing this response to Paul Murty's Tuesday column because I'm afraid it will give his ignorance an air of legitimacy. The letter was the most fallacious, logically incoherent and misleading piece the Alligator has published in months.
In the next academic year, graduate students may receive a $500 stipend increase, thanks to a vote by the Graduate Assistants Student Union.
I am responding to Tommy Maple's column, "Philly no friend of man's best friend," in Thursday's Alligator. I am an out-of-state freshman from Philadelphia. Actually I am from South Philly, so although I should have "at least two emotional and psychological disabilities," I sincerely hope you take what I am about to say into consideration.
Although the use of public transportation in Florida is relatively unimpressive overall, Alachua County manages to stay ahead of the curve.
PostSecret, the popular community art project created by Frank Warren, is the opposite of advertising. And that's a damn good thing.
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