Sports
Glamorous wrinkles not always the answer
By CALLOVI< | Nov. 3, 2009Urban Meyer loves adding new wrinkles to his team's game plan.
Opinion
Opinion
Column doesn’t present all facts
By Benjamin Camenker | Nov. 3, 2009Paul Murty's Monday column was so shamefully dishonest that I felt I had to respond. He claims the Republicans are not listening to voters, when it is the Democrats in Congress who have pushed through multiple 1,000-plus page bills they haven't read (and have broken campaign promises by not giving the public time to read them, either). The latest Pew poll shows only 34 percent support for the new congressional health plan, with an opposition of 47 percent. And the opposition is growing. Mr. Murty, it is not the Republicans who are ignoring the will of the people.
Opinion
Israel not being held accountable for actions
By Alex Salam | Nov. 3, 2009Israel has repeatedly defied United Nations resolutions. What other developed country in the world would be allowed this lawless refusal to abide by UN resolutions? Moreover, since its occupation of the Palestinian Territories in 1967, Israel has not implemented one single resolution stipulating its withdrawal from the occupied territories and refraining from all activities in these territories.
Opinion
Machen responded well to rusting bicycle problem
By James N. Beeler Jr. | Nov. 3, 2009This letter is to commend President Bernie Machen for an extremely prompt response to an e-mail I wrote to him regarding the rusting hulks of bicycles that have dotted campus since I arrived in fall 2008 as a graduate student. I wrote this e-mail Monday afternoon expressing my dismay at having to constantly dodge the rusty carcases of abandoned bikes, and was pleasantly surprised to receive a personal response that evening. Further, a phone call came from the appropriate person at UPD the next morning, with a pledge that the issue would be handled immediately. When I arrived at ARCH today, the worst of the problem was gone. Kudos to President Machen for making the time to care about the small problems.
Opinion
Murty’s statements about Republicans biased
By James G. | Nov. 3, 2009This is in response to Paul Murty's article on Monday that could only be described as a "slaughter of logic." Paul, your article was nothing short of a biased attempt to prove that the Republicans are all evil, racist Halliburton employees who rape women. I am not kidding. At one point in your article, you somehow deduce that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson was a racist for saying "you lie" to Obama.
Opinion
Library patron should be commended for reporting lewd behavior
By Kenny Picciano | Nov. 3, 2009I am writing to give my full support behind Tuesday's Alligator editorial, "Public Porn." Reading that a brave patron of Library West had the courage to turn in this "jerking-class hero," Christopher Wallace, did nothing short of erect a smile on my face.
Opinion
Good riddance to judge who refused to marry interracial couple
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 3, 2009Last month, an interracial couple seeking a marriage license was turned away by a Louisiana justice of the peace on the grounds that their marriage was "mixed." The refusal was met with an eruption of criticism from civil rights groups and public officials, including Louisiana's governor, Bobby Jindal.
Opinion
IM language doesn’t make literature
Nov. 3, 2009I don't know when we, as a culture, got this idea that reading in any form is better for kids than watching TV or playing video games.
Opinion
RTS must act to make crossing streets safer
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 3, 2009The death of Erin Pelton Monday night is a tragedy to say the least. A 2008 UF graduate with an animal biology degree, she aspired to become a veterinarian, and friends say she had a promising future.
Sports
Home crowd gets glimpse of four new Gators
Nov. 2, 2009First impressions are important in a relationship.
Opinion
Public Porn: Students should report lewd behavior
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 2, 2009In September, UF spent about $3,500 to install hand sanitizers on campus. Hopefully Library West is well stocked, because they're about to experience a sharp increase in demand.
Opinion
Death Beds: Tanning beds not worth the health risk
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 2, 2009With winter approaching, sunny skies give way to pale thighs for some UF students. But many trying to hold on to that elusive summer tan take excessive risks to retain it.
Opinion
Congress Republicans must listen through the shouting
By PAUL MURTY | Nov. 2, 2009Attention Republicans in Congress:
Opinion
Senate should not vote on resolution
By JUSTIN WOOTEN | Nov. 2, 2009The Resolution Affirming Support for the State of Israel that Senate will be voting on tonight is a travesty. Every word of it represents the extremist pro-Israel position, from the first Whereas clauses that subtly try to deny any right of Palestinians to the land and which gloss over the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that took place during the founding of Israel, to quotes from president Ahmadinejad of dubious authenticity and support for sanctions against Iran (not unlike the ones that killed 500,000 Iraqi children in the 1990s), to trying to cover up the slaughter of over 1,300 innocent civilians by Israel in Gaza this December and January.
Opinion
SG should adopt resolution denouncing Goldstone report
By Jordan Greenberg | Nov. 2, 2009Of many issues to be presented at the Student Senate meeting tonight, one is a resolution calling for the Student Senate to denounce the Goldstone report. The Goldstone report is a UN document ratified by 25 of the 47 nations involved in the UN. It was written after a fact-finding mission by Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda.
Opinion
Coverage should have included police reactions at similar parties
By SKEET SURRENCY | Nov. 2, 2009In regards to your article covering Sunday morning's violent incident involving Fest goers and local police, I find it extremely interesting that the only perspective on the incident was from the police.
Opinion
UF should think before expanding student union
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 1, 2009As planning begins for the renovation and possible expansion of the Reitz Union, UF administrators and the Student Government must take care not to alienate students and faculty who are facing tough times.
Sports
Meyer’s speech inspires team
Nov. 1, 2009JACKSONVILLE - You and I may never know the actual words.
Opinion
Margaret Sanger unfairly represented
By Desiree Orofino | Nov. 1, 2009I was alarmed by the one-sided discussion of Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger in Thursday's Alligator article. Margaret Sanger was not a eugenist, a racist or an anti-Semite and was in no way affiliated with Nazi ideology. In fact, Sanger's books were of the first to be burned by the Nazis, as they contradicted their anti-family-planning agenda. Additionally, Sanger consistently stated that family planning decisions should be made on an individual basis, not on a social or cultural basis, which of course directly contradicts core eugenics ideology.
