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Public Porn: Students should report lewd behavior
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 2, 2009In September, UF spent about $3,500 to install hand sanitizers on campus. Hopefully Library West is well stocked, because they're about to experience a sharp increase in demand.
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Death Beds: Tanning beds not worth the health risk
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 2, 2009With winter approaching, sunny skies give way to pale thighs for some UF students. But many trying to hold on to that elusive summer tan take excessive risks to retain it.
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Congress Republicans must listen through the shouting
By PAUL MURTY | Nov. 2, 2009Attention Republicans in Congress:
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Senate should not vote on resolution
By JUSTIN WOOTEN | Nov. 2, 2009The Resolution Affirming Support for the State of Israel that Senate will be voting on tonight is a travesty. Every word of it represents the extremist pro-Israel position, from the first Whereas clauses that subtly try to deny any right of Palestinians to the land and which gloss over the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that took place during the founding of Israel, to quotes from president Ahmadinejad of dubious authenticity and support for sanctions against Iran (not unlike the ones that killed 500,000 Iraqi children in the 1990s), to trying to cover up the slaughter of over 1,300 innocent civilians by Israel in Gaza this December and January.
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SG should adopt resolution denouncing Goldstone report
By Jordan Greenberg | Nov. 2, 2009Of many issues to be presented at the Student Senate meeting tonight, one is a resolution calling for the Student Senate to denounce the Goldstone report. The Goldstone report is a UN document ratified by 25 of the 47 nations involved in the UN. It was written after a fact-finding mission by Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda.
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Coverage should have included police reactions at similar parties
By SKEET SURRENCY | Nov. 2, 2009In regards to your article covering Sunday morning's violent incident involving Fest goers and local police, I find it extremely interesting that the only perspective on the incident was from the police.
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UF should think before expanding student union
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 1, 2009As planning begins for the renovation and possible expansion of the Reitz Union, UF administrators and the Student Government must take care not to alienate students and faculty who are facing tough times.
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Margaret Sanger unfairly represented
By Desiree Orofino | Nov. 1, 2009I was alarmed by the one-sided discussion of Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger in Thursday's Alligator article. Margaret Sanger was not a eugenist, a racist or an anti-Semite and was in no way affiliated with Nazi ideology. In fact, Sanger's books were of the first to be burned by the Nazis, as they contradicted their anti-family-planning agenda. Additionally, Sanger consistently stated that family planning decisions should be made on an individual basis, not on a social or cultural basis, which of course directly contradicts core eugenics ideology.
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Web has become double-edged sword
Nov. 1, 2009Forty years ago, Leonard Kleinrock sent the first message over what is now known as the Internet. The message - the word "log" - was to be sent from a computer terminal at University of California, Los Angeles to another terminal at the Stanford University Research Institute, but it wasn't a complete success.
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Music deserves some air time
By Peter Turner | Nov. 1, 2009I would like to respond to letters from Gene Cowell and Meagan Gregory approving of the recent changes to WUFT-FM's radio schedule. Although I'm happy that some new NPR programming has been introduced, such as "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me" and "This American Life," in other respects the changes have been for the worse for anyone with an appreciation of music. Classical music has been shunted off to HD radio, and jazz has gone away altogether.
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College defends WUFT-FM programming change
By Paul Gordon | Nov. 1, 2009We are grateful to the many north central Florida residents who have supported our expanded news talk and public affairs programming on WUFT-FM.
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Mayor explains stance on serving meals
By Pegeen Hanrahan | Oct. 29, 2009Q: Is it true that the City Commission took action to prohibit St. Francis House from serving more than 130 meals at holidays?
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Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 29, 2009The 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...
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Michigan ordinance similar to local Charter Amendment 1
Oct. 29, 2009For an off-year election, Nov. 3 is shaping up to be pretty interesting day at the polls.
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Station switch to NPR a good move
By Meagan Gregory | Oct. 29, 2009I 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.
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New radio format rewarding, enriching
By Gene Cowell | Oct. 29, 2009May 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.
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East Gainesville not dependent on AGH
By Kathleen Fette | Oct. 29, 2009Your 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.
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AGH closure is good business, bad call
By the Editorial Board | Oct. 28, 2009Shands 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.
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‘Halloween ain’t what it used to be’
Oct. 28, 2009Halloween 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.
