Today and Tuesday, The Editorial Board suggests you avoid the Reitz Union North Lawn and the Plaza of the Americas — unless your idea of a good start to the week is being harangued by a pack of hungry anti-abortion activists.
I found the Student Alliance party’s recent distribution of flyers around the Plaza of the Americas and along Fraternity Row unnecessary and offensive. The flyers were placed sometimes on walls or cars (something I personally loathe), but mostly they were just thrown around on the ground.
I woke up this morning to find thousands of flyers scattered all over Sorority Row. The flyers were anti-Unite Party in their message and excessive in their nature. From what I understand, these flyers were all over campus in massive quantities.
Way to miss the point of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign in Wednesday’s editorial. There are way more worthy things to criticize than the first lady’s efforts to help America become healthier.
Let’s look at some numbers regarding tuition and fees. When I started at UF in fall 2008, tuition and fees were $126 per credit hour. Bright Futures Scholarship Program still paid 100 percent of this cost. This year, tuition and fees are $146 per credit hour. That’s a $20 increase per credit hour. This becomes $300 more in total for an undergraduate taking 15 credit hours. At the same time, Bright Futures no longer pays 100 percent of tuition and fees costs but a fixed $126. The $20 increase in tuition/fees had to come from the pockets (or other scholarships) of undergraduates.
After the recent catastrophe in Haiti, it has been amazing to see the result from the Student Body and the rest of the country’s helpers. It is becoming visible — the impact a group of people, especially a group of Gators, can make. But it is disheartening to see that it took a disaster as big as a 7.0-magnitude earthquake to spark this.
I would like to start out my column today by addressing the accusations directed at the Alligator and its staff by some readers. I will be the first to admit I lean to the left in my political opinions, but there’s not much I can change about that. This isn’t anyone’s fault. And if people from the other side of the political spectrum want to have their voices heard, I’m sure they can go to the Alligator’s open houses, just as I did, and get a weekly column. I honestly thought I was being closer to center than I actually was, so I will make a better effort to be a bit more neutral.
With spring break only three short weeks away, visions of beaches and bathing suits are already dancing in the heads of the Department of Darts & Laurels.
There must be something about the air in Columbia, S.C.
In November, about 75 graduate students showed up to a Student Senate meeting to voice their concerns about a resolution that would tax students for funds to renovate the Reitz Union.
In response to Bruce Friedrich’s column printed Wednesday, I must take a moment to point out the grave inaccuracies in both his perceptions and argument against the College Republicans’ People Eating Tasty Animals event. First, Bruce pointed out that I was not at his forum/speech held at UF in October. While this is true, it does not negate the fact that he did not show up at my event, either. Bruce was quick to make harsh and thoroughly misguided judgments as to the intent of the event and my beliefs on the issue of animal rights.
This week, the Editorial Board is taking a page out of Bill Maher’s book and issuing a “New Rule” of our own: Celebrities and politicians are no longer allowed to speak in public.
Hugs don’t mean much to us.
The announcement by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of an Iranian surprise that will “punch” the rest of the world and leave them “stunned” was met with an exaggerated yawn this week from a Western media enervated by vague threats from heavily bearded men.
Of all the twists and turns in Florida’s unlikely basketball season, there’s one fact that I can’t wrap my mind around.
Social media seems to have settled down into its middle age. People are happily married to their Twitter accounts and Facebook pages, some are stuck with Myspace, their high school sweetheart. A few even ended up with the strange one from the bar like Dogbook or Stache Passion.
Michelle Obama launched the “Let’s Move” campaign to end childhood obesity Tuesday. While the Editorial Board knows the program will succeed to the same extent the “Just Say No” campaign did, we question the methods the first lady plans to use to fix the growing problem by 2020. (She thinks America can kick this habit in a decade? Really?)
During my time as Student Body President, I have constantly tried to work with any student that has an opinion about how Student Government can improve the lives of students at UF.
As vice president of policy and governmental affairs for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), I have debated animal protection issues around the world.
Matt Simons’ letter in Monday’s Alligator absolutely infuriated me. It was so full of fallacies and ignorant homophobic assumptions that I don’t know where to begin.
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