Sports
UF’s fate not in Tucker’s hands
Feb. 24, 2010Want to know what it’ll take for the No. 5 Florida baseball team to reach the College World Series?
Opinion
Opinion
America has chance to prove itself
By Eric Tegethoff | Feb. 24, 2010As one of the most important battles in the war on terror rages in the Taliban stronghold of Marja, Afghanistan, another battle is being fought on American soil over the fate of suspected terrorists.
Opinion
Serial Killer Whale
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 24, 2010Once again, a captive animal has killed its trainer, and this time, it’s close to home.
Opinion
Uphill Both Ways: Author misunderstands our generation
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 24, 2010We‘ve all heard an older family member at some get-together telling us about how stupid and ungrateful our generation is and how, in his day, everything was much better. But imagine if he sat down and wrote a book about it.
Opinion
Gainesville’s priorities are lacking
By Jason Ybarra | Feb. 24, 2010I find it interesting that there is no limit to how many stacks of pancakes IHOP can give away, and yet the city imposes a 130-meal limit when St. Francis House feeds the homeless.
Opinion
Online voting would solve problems
By William Foster | Feb. 24, 2010Double voting has been a concern in Student Government elections for years, and there have always been allegations directed at the Greek houses. If Supervisor of Elections Ariana Alfonso is worried about double voting, she should advocate for a switch to online voting tied to UF IDs. The centralized list of who has voted would prevent any double voting and save the Student Body tens of thousands of dollars each election.
Opinion
Recent Holocaust references inappropriate
By Lily Bruns | Feb. 24, 2010In response to David Hanan’s letter likening UF’s tolerance of the Dove World Outreach Center on campus to tolerance of genocide, I’d like to make a few points.
Sports
Florida continues to overachieve with victory over Tennessee
Feb. 23, 2010The Florida men’s basketball team did wonders for its NCAA Tournament hopes by beating Tennessee on Tuesday, as the Gators are trying to avoid their third NIT appearance in as many years.
Opinion
Mean Marsupial: School right to take stand against crude TV show
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 23, 2010The University of California, San Diego has graced the pages and airwaves of national media outlets quite a bit the past week. The school was in the news last week when members of its Greek community sent out a Facebook invitation to a “Compton Cookout.”
Opinion
Aptitude tests are an unreliable method of gauging worth
By Will Penman | Feb. 23, 2010For the job I’m going to have next year, I had to take a computer skills test this week. There were ten questions, each one testing a random aspect of using computers.
Opinion
Votes are representative of agreement
By Matt Christ | Feb. 23, 2010The topic for today is voting. Or, more precisely, not voting.
Opinion
Booty Booty Booty
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 23, 2010We’re all used to American Apparel’s advertising style. Commercials seldom have much clothing in them, and a trip to the company’s Web site offers nipple sightings galore. Even their child models often pose in an arguably provocative manner.
Opinion
Student Government endorsements were fair, bipartisan
By Casey Eckberg | Feb. 23, 2010I, like many students, am shocked at the Alligator’s choice of endorsements. I’ve been here for a few years now and I’ve seen the Alligator side with the “indie” party far more times than not. Therefore, when I see that the Editorial Board has chosen to make no endorsement between the presidential candidates, I consider that a major victory for the Unite Party.
Opinion
Reitz Union doesn’t need revamp
By Jordon Kalilich | Feb. 23, 2010By now, many students have probably seen the green signs that list the university’s reasons for wanting to expand the Reitz Union. I can’t be the only one who is outraged by some of the so-called problems with the current building, particularly the claim that there is “no place to study.”
Opinion
Campaign should focus on real issues
By Alan Martin | Feb. 23, 2010Why I am running for Student Senate:
Sports
Students at fault for O’Dome atmosphere
By CALLOVI< | Feb. 22, 2010Don’t blame it on the alumni section that Florida basketball home games are not as rowdy as they use to be.
Opinion
Rock the Vote: Students should care about SG elections
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 22, 2010It’s finally here – the first Student Government election day.
Opinion
Gators shouldn’t support sweatshops
Feb. 22, 2010Today and tomorrow, we’re going to have an opportunity to vote on a ballot question to register the Student Body’s opinion on whether UF should affiliate with the Worker Rights Consortium, a labor rights advocacy group that works against sweatshops through factory monitoring and investigations. If UF affiliates with the WRC, it will help ensure that UF apparel isn’t made with sweatshop labor.
Opinion
Student Alliance to improve Senate if elected for some seats
By Neil Gundavda | Feb. 22, 2010Recently, the Alligator published an endorsement of various executive candidates and certain referenda. However, the newspaper failed to mention the other group of students running for election. Forty-seven Senate seats are being contested during the spring election, and the Student Alliance party has a slate worth an endorsement from the Alligator. Amalgamating a diverse group of students, the Student Alliance Senate slate can be credited with many of the “70 Platform Points” of the Student Alliance. The Student Alliance slate, if given a chance at a Senate majority, will quickly act to annul more than $1 million in waste in Student Government. We will swiftly post our voting records online, mitigate the lack of transparency at the legislative level, pass legislation to encourage ethics at all levels of SG, expand free printing, promote sustainable practices and enact many other of the Student Alliance party’s published initiatives. The current Senate, thoroughly dominated by a Unite Party majority, has been relegated to a lackluster rubber stamp. Never contradicting the executive, the Senate has continually refused to invoke its powers of investiture and its right to check the other branches of SG. If elected to Senate, we will reinvigorate the legislative prerogatives lost to autocratic history. Fight for your rights as students and vote for the Student Alliance Tuesday and Wednesday.
Opinion
Frank Walch’s comparison of Unite Party to Nazi leaders is offensive, shameful
By Dara Schopp | Feb. 22, 2010As a Jew and as a decent human being, I was thoroughly offended by Frank Walch’s letter to the editor Monday that compared certain leaders of the Unite Party to Nazi leaders. Though Walch specified that he did not feel as though a Student Government politician could be described as being as evil as a Nazi figure (thankfully he was willing to grant that at the least), his letter is a blatant character-assassination attempt. Tell me, Mr. Walch, how on Earth one could possibly equate a few thousand dollars spent on alleged perks with a “fascist agenda”? How could you possibly insinuate that the hundreds of volunteers for Unite have been “coerced” into giving their time? How could you ignore the accomplishments made in the past year and instead credit the administration?
