Sports
If NCAA coaches were characters from ‘Mad Men,’ who would they be?
Aug. 22, 2010Tyler: To start from the top, obviously Urban Meyer is Don Draper.
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Freshman: Try new things, be individual
By ANDREW PANTAZI | Aug. 22, 2010I’ve got some advice for freshmen.
Opinion
Take advantage of time in Gainesville
By Bryan Griffin | Aug. 20, 2010Welcome to UF. You are now a student at the flagship academic institution of the state of Florida. With a University of Florida degree, you have endless career opportunities and a promising shot at some of the nation’s top graduate programs.
Opinion
Freshman Fun: Some friendly advice from the Alligator
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 20, 2010UF is a big place, and as your unofficial welcoming committee, we’re going to pass along a few tips to help you incoming freshman get accommodated a little quicker than we did.
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Find your passions while at UF
By Joe Glover | Aug. 20, 2010To: The UF Freshmen and Transfer Students
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UF president: ‘You are exceptional in a number of ways’
By Bernie Machen | Aug. 20, 2010Welcome to the University of Florida and The Gator Nation!
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Things to know before heading to your first Gators football game
Aug. 15, 2010Welcome to Florida. Take out your notebook, grab a pen and get ready to take your first class because I’m about to drop some knowledge on the incoming freshmen.
Sports
A speech Brantley should make, even if we don’t want to hear it
Aug. 15, 2010The best response to being asked how you will replace a two-time-national-champion, Heisman-trophy-winning quarterback whose likeness is being constructed into a statue in the very location you are asked to replace him:
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NCAA teams should not ban NFL representatives from practice
By ANTHONY CHIANG | Aug. 15, 2010Let’s pretend your high school refused to release your grades to universities across the country.
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New era of Gators football will be uncertain but fun to watch
Aug. 15, 2010Welcome to Year 1, A.T.
Opinion
Limiting freedoms is justifiable at times
By Chinedu O. Ikpechukwu | Aug. 4, 2010Freedom is an addictive thing, isn’t it? Each time we get a little bit more freedom to do anything, regardless of the positive or negative impacts, we cling to it like a mother clinging to her newly born baby. It is our baby. It is our everything. But why is this so? Why do we find it so difficult to let go of any kind of freedom? I would put my hard-earned Monopoly money on the reason being a human tendency, to grasp onto anything that enables us to express ourselves. Since expression can be quasi-defined as life, the opportunity to live to one’s fullest potential, which I believe is infinite, can be equated as freedom.
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Gators fans should leave lofty expectations at the door
By TOM GREEN | Aug. 4, 2010The Gators open up their preseason training camp today, and that can only mean one thing around these parts: UF fans already have their eyes on a trip to Glendale, Ariz., in January.
Opinion
So long, summer
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 4, 2010This long, hot and boring summer is finally coming to a close, and after all the dreadfully boring news that came out in the past few months, we think it should have come a lot sooner.
Opinion
Competition should extend to other services as well
By Jonathan Ossip | Aug. 4, 2010In Tuesday’s Alligator, the Editorial Board took a strong stance in favor of adding more Gainesville utility providers, finally bringing the free market to our power and water and working to stop the city-controlled socialists at GRU. Frankly, I couldn’t agree more.
Opinion
Paint the roses whatever color you like
By Bryan Griffin | Aug. 4, 2010We have about 80 years to live, and about one-third of that we spend unconscious. And I don’t mean because of an accumulation of hard nights at Midtown. Throw in work, education, eating, daily household and personal hygiene chores, and the roughly five years everyone spends in a line of some sort just waiting for something like a red light to turn green.
Opinion
Evil Event: Burn Quran Day deserves no attention
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 4, 2010Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe hasn’t wasted any time coming out in protest of Dove World Outreach Center’s plans for a Quran burning on Sept. 11.
Sports
With addition of Masoli, SEC has most talent at quarterback
By TOM GREEN | Aug. 2, 2010The Southeastern Conference just got tougher and deeper.
Opinion
Burn Quran Day is unchristian
By Kirsten Tedesco | Aug. 2, 2010As a Christian, I follow a basic commandment: Love one another as you love yourself. This does not mean love your Christian neighbors, and bully all others. It definitely does not mean that it is acceptable, in the name of Christ, to persecute those of another faith. On Sept. 11, The Dove World Outreach Center is planning an “International Burn a Quran Day.” They describe Islam as “a religion of the devil” and have been mobilizing using Facebook and YouTube to persuade others to their cause.
Opinion
We can all relate to ‘Jersey Shore’ cast
By HILARY SHEINBAUM | Aug. 2, 2010Jersey Shore: Two words that ignite controversy, YouTube impersonations and fist pumps.
Opinion
Adu-Brempong shooting investigation isn’t transparent
By Jeremiah Tattersall | Aug. 2, 2010When the Florida Department of Law Enforcement report cleared the five officers involved in the Kofi Adu-Brempong shooting we were upset but believed an internal investigation might bring about some disciplinary action. Now it seems UPD has reinstated all but one of the officers involved in the shooting with no actions taken against them. Maybe there was a slap on the wrist for mishandling the situation, but we don’t know.
