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
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.
Opinion
Web has become double-edged sword
Nov. 1, 2009Forty years ago, Leonard Kleinrock sent the first message over what is now known as the Internet. The message - the word "log" - was to be sent from a computer terminal at University of California, Los Angeles to another terminal at the Stanford University Research Institute, but it wasn't a complete success.
Opinion
Music deserves some air time
By Peter Turner | Nov. 1, 2009I would like to respond to letters from Gene Cowell and Meagan Gregory approving of the recent changes to WUFT-FM's radio schedule. Although I'm happy that some new NPR programming has been introduced, such as "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me" and "This American Life," in other respects the changes have been for the worse for anyone with an appreciation of music. Classical music has been shunted off to HD radio, and jazz has gone away altogether.
Opinion
College defends WUFT-FM programming change
By Paul Gordon | Nov. 1, 2009We are grateful to the many north central Florida residents who have supported our expanded news talk and public affairs programming on WUFT-FM.
Opinion
Mayor explains stance on serving meals
By Pegeen Hanrahan | Oct. 29, 2009Q: Is it true that the City Commission took action to prohibit St. Francis House from serving more than 130 meals at holidays?
Sports
This year’s UF-UGA game won’t be worth remembering
Oct. 29, 2009If you're a senior like me (I would technically classify myself as a redshirt junior, but that's besides the point), and you spent the last three Florida-Georgia games getting wasted at the Landing or in the parking lot of Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, I feel sorry for you.
Sports
Picks Column: Georgia
Oct. 29, 2009We're eight weeks in, and it seems the cream is already rising to the top. We invited five "real" writers to participate in the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column for the first time this fall, and so far, the only thing they are "real" good at seems to be losing. Four of the top five places are held by alligatorSports guys with Phil Kegler being the lone Alligator guy in the bottom five. We're sure it'll only be a couple more weeks before we bask in our complete dominance. Anyway, now let's debate a top-10 showdown that will likely determine the Pacific-10 Conference.
Opinion
Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 29, 2009The week is winding down at the Alligator as we prepare for Halloween, Florida-Georgia, the Fest, sleep... Fortunately, we've been working on our costumes all semester. Thanks to many long nights at the Alligator, accompanied by stimulant-fueled weekend study binges, we're happy to present you with a we-feel-like-zombies-every-day-so-we-don't-need-to-dress-up-for-Halloween edition of...
