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Opinion

Bright Futures should stay merit-based

Bright Futures should not be a need-based scholarship. It was merit-based not to reward students for being successful in high school, but to entice those successful students to stay at Florida schools.


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Opinion

Dove World pastor should ashamed for displaying hatred

It would seem that Dove World Outreach Center has a pastor appropriately named. Having viewed the video of his hate-filled rhetoric concerning a runoff election for mayor of the fine city of Gainesville, I believe that the minister in question, Wayne Sapp, definitely is one. Hatred in the name of Jesus is simply unbiblical, hypocritical and unacceptable. Shame!


Florida Alligator
Opinion

Current events bring sense of deja vu

Rarely is this question posed: Have I unknowingly been in the hot tub time machine or has the past week or so been a really wicked case of déjà vu? I have recently been asking myself this as a series of seemingly long-exhausted events came to an incredibly startling — OK, slightly entertaining — temporal intersection.


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Opinion

Band’s evolution reflects columnist’s

Music is a very important tool to measure what kind of mood you are in over an extended period of time. It can be difficult when your favorite band seems to betray all of its previous values in pursuit of a more mainstream sound, making it more aesthetically pleasing to the masses.


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Sports

Meyer gives story new life

Deonte Thompson didn’t make a whole lot of headlines on the football field last season, but he’s certainly made his fair share — unintentional as they may be — during the first two weeks of spring practice.


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