Sports
Strained relationship with media limiting coverage of superstar linebacker
Oct. 15, 2009I really like Brandon Spikes.
Opinion
Sports
Picks Column: Arkansas
Oct. 15, 2009This year we decided to invite UF beat writers from some of the major newspapers in Florida to increase the competition level of the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column.
Sports
Be sure to take a moment to soak in unique experiences
Oct. 15, 2009As reporters, we spend a lot of our time looking down.
Opinion
SG disregards where student money goes
By Eric Fredrick | Oct. 15, 2009I attended my first SG meeting Tuesday night. Nothing could prepare me for the absolute clusterf**k I witnessed. A large constituency of SG was able and willing to vote on a $1.35 million bill without even reading where the money was going. If you aren't aware, SG is being pressed by the UF Administration to give up 6 percent of its budget for "service fees." Nevermind what those are; UF doesn't want you to know, and many senators felt the same way.
Opinion
Patriotism not required for education
By Jaime Astorga | Oct. 15, 2009The lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of the student who did not stand during the pledge is not "frivolous." What is frivolous is being kicked out of his math class because he did not want to pledge allegiance to the United States.
Opinion
Bus drivers deserve respect from patrons
By Greyson Thigpen | Oct. 15, 2009I was scanning over the Opinions section Wednesday and noticed the results of Tuesday's poll amidst the frivolous quarrels over Guevara. Fifty-one percent of people don't like riding the bus? I know this has been said before, but RTS workers are seriously under-appreciated.
Opinion
Reader’s indoctrination claims invalid
By Mark Jaskowski | Oct. 15, 2009I should not be surprised that, when the Alligator reported on the active role the International Socialist Organization took in organizing for the National Equality March in Washington D.C., Rafael Yaniz accused the paper of trying to "indoctrinate" its readership.
Opinion
Giving peace prize for 'intentions' wrong
Oct. 15, 2009I'm going to go ahead and go on the record right now. I want everyone to know that I absolutely and wholly intend on permanently ridding the world of poverty, genocide, war and any other possible negative affliction.
Opinion
Gators shouldn't cheat deserving fans
By Robert Cousin | Oct. 15, 2009First off, I would like to congratulate all of you who got a ticket to the Florida-Arkansas game. I have only been able to get one ticket this year.
Opinion
Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 15, 2009Once upon a time, we had time to sleep. But unfortunately, school has taken precedence over the rest we would prefer to have. We haven't seen our pillows since Wednesday, and our mothers think we're dead. Still, we trudge through this cesspool of a semester to deliver you a we-didn't-think-it-was-possible-to-function-on-five-hours-of-sleep-every-two-days-until-we-tried edition of...
Sports
Florida may be as dominant as '08
Oct. 15, 2009It's hard to look at Florida's dominant close to the 2008 season and say the Gators made any mistakes, but apparently they did.
Opinion
Jailed Gymnast: Lack of logic put Sinclair behind bars
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 15, 2009After UF gymnast Melanie Sinclair's arrest Tuesday, a lot of questions remain unanswered.
Opinion
Right finds peace in war against Obama
Oct. 15, 2009Definitions of peace largely assume that it must revolve around an end to conflict or hostilities. The kind of peace the Nobel Prize Committee rewards has always stood out as a more organic whole than simply the humanitarian vibes that immediately follow human conflict--freakin' Ghandi never even won a Nobel Peace Prize despite five nominations.
Sports
Lack of passing game could bite UF later
Oct. 13, 2009The Florida football team is 5-0, ranked No. 1 in both polls, quarterbacked by one of the best college football players of all time, led by one of the best defenses in a long while and should coast into the Southeastern Conference Championship Game.
Opinion
Breast cancer marketing overwhelming other diseases
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 13, 2009Americans have become obsessed with promoting breast cancer awareness, and corporations have noticed.
Opinion
Alligator shows socialist slant
By Rafael A. Yaniz | Oct. 13, 2009By reading today's Alligator, it seems that the paper should be renamed Granma UF or The Socialist Newsletter of Gator Comrades. The International Socialist Organization was prominently quoted in one article without a counter position from a group that may not support their issue. Another article positively framed an event about a health clinic set up by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez without mentioning that he has stolen land without payment, a la Cuba's Fidel Castro, has nationalized private businesses and has shut down more than 50 private radio stations, television stations and newspapers critical of his totalitarian tactics. And the kicker was the opinion column calling Che Guevara a "hero" with laughable propaganda that failed to mention Guevara's death squads of innocent Cubans. The Alligator's motto "We Inform. You Decide." should be changed to "We Indoctrinate. You Obey."
Opinion
Women should embrace feminism
Oct. 13, 2009It takes a TV show to make me appreciate being a woman in the 21st century.
Opinion
Protest of Che Guevara misguided
By John Story | Oct. 13, 2009On Tuesday, I was very pleased reading Paul Murty's guest column, "Che is a hero, not a terrorist." This article, the superb cover story on the National Equality March and the report back on Hugo Chavez' health care campaigns in Venezuela made for a very progressive issue that made my day a happy one. In response to Friday's anti-Che Guevara rally, my friends and I hastily organized a counter-demonstration, using a flag with Guevara's portrait and the slogan "Hasta la victoria siempre" scrolled at the bottom.
Opinion
Flash mobs too loud, obtrusive for indoors
By Chad Kimes | Oct. 13, 2009Last night at about 5:30 I was studying in the Reitz Union for my two Wednesday exams. The room gradually got a bit louder. People dressed in black hustled and bustled about but were being generally unobtrusive.
Opinion
Protest challenged views of misinformed Guevara supporters
By JOHNATHAN LOTT | Oct. 13, 2009I have great reservation writing this response to Paul Murty's Tuesday column because I'm afraid it will give his ignorance an air of legitimacy. The letter was the most fallacious, logically incoherent and misleading piece the Alligator has published in months.
