Opinion
NoSCAR
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 15, 2010Nothing says love like “Gentlemen, start your engines!”
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Student Alliance party should stop negative campaign
By Ryan Scott | Feb. 15, 2010Jonathan Ossip’s guest column today was simply a joke. Very funny, Ossip, but we all know you don’t have any friends on Fraternity Row.
Opinion
Student Alliance party asks students to contribute ideas
By Yevgen Sautin | Feb. 15, 2010The Student Alliance party has taken an unprecedented look at the issues. Instead of using regurgitated talking points, we’ve put serious thought and effort into a real platform. Most importantly, the Student Alliance party has focused on innovation and real ideas to improve student life and build a great future for UF.
Opinion
Genocide, abortion not the same
By PAUL MURTY | Feb. 15, 2010Genocide is the systematic and deliberate slaughter of a specific race, nationality or culture. This term applies to what happened in the concentration camps in Hitler's Germany, as well as to the slaughter of non-Arabic people of Darfur, Sudan, by the militant government. It does not apply, however, to abortion. No matter how you feel about the issue of abortion, everyone should be able to agree that it is not, at least, a genocide.
Opinion
Unconditional love not a realistic goal
Feb. 15, 2010Unconditional love is a strange thing to think about.
Sports
Don’t expect bias from our columnists
Feb. 14, 2010In the last two weeks, I’ve been called one of the best student journalists UF has ever had by a coach and told I have no idea what I’m doing by a member of UF’s media relations department.
Opinion
Abortion rights must be protected
By Megan Frazier | Feb. 14, 2010Access to a safe, legal, accessible abortion is a right that is protected in the United States today. Women in this country have the liberty to make the best personal decision for themselves and their families in the event of an unintended pregnancy.
Opinion
Unite Party attacks are unfounded
By Jonathan Ossip | Feb. 14, 2010In Friday’s Alligator, the Unite Party attacked the Student Alliance party for something they did not do. Let me be perfectly clear: The Student Alliance party did not participate in last week’s fliering with anti-Unite Party messages, and we don’t condone such activities.
Opinion
Student Alliance party not acting for students
By Michael Stromquist | Feb. 14, 2010As I sat in on the annual Student Government debate Thursday, I was all smiles as I took the opportunity to shake hands with old friends on both sides of the aisle and even some former colleagues from Freshman Leadership Council who were hosting the event. Like most UF students, I’ve been happy to avoid the politics and take the best of what SG has to offer: great memories, a chance to serve my community and a great love for my university and my fellow students.
Opinion
Danger nothing new in Winter Olympics
By Ryan Spencer | Feb. 14, 2010There was a considerable amount of finger pointing last week after Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died during a practice run for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I saw the video of the crash in which Kumaritashvili flew from his luge after exiting a turn over the 4-foot edge of the track, bounced off a rail and finally smashed head first into a support column – from a speed over 80 mph. He died before arriving at the hospital.
Opinion
Fear Factor: Anti-choice project ineffective, distasteful
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 14, 2010Today 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.
Opinion
Student Alliance’s distribution of flyers is wasteful, irresponsible
By JAKE KING | Feb. 11, 2010I 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.
Opinion
Reader distressed over Student Alliance party’s campaign tactics
By AMY HAMIL | Feb. 11, 2010I 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.
Opinion
Alligator’s criticism of Michelle Obama’s campaign is unwarranted
By IRIS | Feb. 11, 2010Way 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.
Opinion
Reitz Union fee will have large effect on undergraduates too
By RACHEL SHAPIRO | Feb. 11, 2010Let’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.
Opinion
Haiti needed help before earthquake
By DOUG JOHNSON | Feb. 11, 2010After 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.
Opinion
America needs voice for the center
By PAUL MURTY | Feb. 11, 2010I 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.
Opinion
Darts and Laurels
By Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 11, 2010With 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.
Sports
Loss could cost Gators Tourney bid
Feb. 10, 2010There must be something about the air in Columbia, S.C.
