The college degree you're working so hard to get doesn't mean jack. Last week, I mentioned a professor at New Mexico University, Marcus Ross, a paleontologist who believes dinosaurs walked the earth more than 65 million years ago but is also a Young Earth creationist. Yeah, doctorates don't mean a damn thing anymore.
Presidential candidates should be very clear on every issue, especially national security. For example, President Ronald Reagan emphasized the role of a strong military in keeping the peace. His policy eventually resulted in our Cold War victory and helped cause the breakdown of the Soviet Union.
On Friday, Kevin Homrich-Micocci's column was largely dedicated to an informative summary of the poor decisions, mishaps, lies and conspiracies recently perpetrated by the UF administration and its lapdogs in the Gator Party. However, he also somehow found reason to praise the Gator Party's ability to "get something done" and criticize the Orange and Blue Party's "impotence."
I urge everyone to think twice before getting this year's flu vaccine. While getting a little jab in the arm and saving yourself from illness sounds like a great deal, it's really not.
On a November morning in 1982, California residents awoke to see a San Francisco Chronicle story about Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Bradley with a headline boasting "Bradley Win Projected."
As a former Student Senator and a current student, I must say that Homrich-Micocci's guest column was factually inaccurate on many levels. I have sat on committees that discussed many of the problems he addressed. I am disgusted at the lack of insight or research into anything.
The theme of the 2008 presidential campaign, as with many others, has been a continued focus on topics extraneous to the core of our country's problems.
Sen. John McCain, please stop the nonsense. I'm tired of hearing about Ayers and ACORN. The roller-coaster economy needs your attention.
Boy were we disappointed when we got to the HOWL-o-ween Dog Costume Contest at UF's Equine Auditorium.
The 2008 presidential election is less than three weeks away, and Sen. Barack Obama is slightly ahead in most national polls.
Let's start on a good note this week. We'd like to offer a they-go-together-like-lamb-and-tuna-fish LAUREL to the UF Student Senate for their smooth and respectful transition.
It seems that the powers that be have lost their concern for the opinions of the UF student population. This year, we have been misrepresented and ignored by many of the different groups within our university.
The great thing about politics is that if you allow yourself to take a step back from the headlines for a second, you can feel how absurd the entire system can be.
There is a growing epidemic saturating college campuses nationwide: the hobby guitarist.
I found it strange that in an editorial that was otherwise touting the exact same principles as the Students for a Democratic Society-supported referendum against installing hand scanners at UF's gyms, there was need to chastise SDS for their "scanners-signal-the-apocalypse mentality."
I arrived at Tuesday night's first meeting of the new Student Senate apprehensive of what was to come. I was afraid of the ugliness that would follow when the gloves came off in the start of a new Senate session.
The new online ticket system is infinitely better than the old phone system.
During last week's Student Government elections, student voters overwhelmingly rejected the referendum to install hand scanners at Southwest Recreation Center. OK, they did more than reject the referendum. An 84 percent supermajority verbally scolded the hand scanners in front of their parents and bitchslapped the taste out of the scanners' mouths, all while peeing on the scanners' rug.
Erik Nyberg, SFC student
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