In case you've been sequestered in your house with a case of the swine flu (or "bacon fever" as we like to call it), it's gotten noticeably cooler outside, not to mention noticeably quieter.
I wholeheartedly agree with Michelle Isgut. The Alligator shouldn't report the facts in the public record.
For about 20 percent of the Student Body here at UF, the Student Government election season is exciting. Let's count within that group the Greeks (myself included), Hispanic Student Association, Black Student Union and other large to semi-large student groups that make up the majority coalition party in SG. Pepper in the socialists, progressives and random concerned students who make up the two minority parties and boom - we have all of the students who are currently giddy with excitement or absolutely irate over the election results. These students know (or are told) who they are going to vote for each and every election. Regardless, their votes are set.
Tufts University in Boston recently announced a new policy in which students are not allowed to have sex in their rooms while their roommates are present.
As a freshman, I had no idea what to expect when it came to Student Government elections at a university.
Is it so much to ask? Last night, two of my friends and I were enjoying the beautiful six-stair set by the music building, performing 180s and ollies and continually progressing through harder and harder tricks.
You're so damn predictable. Oh no! Another article bashing the majority party? And how is it that all this bad press somehow makes it onto the front page of the paper on election day?
In response to the "School Year Stretch" editorial in Tuesday's Alligator: The idea of bringing reform to the public school system is nothing short of completely necessary and painfully overdue.
It's pretty lucky that "Kate" still rhymes with "Eight."
Florida politics has always been a giant petri dish of sleaze, and the Florida Legislature is always a spectacular orgy of corruption. However, the one topic that has always been off-limits was oil drilling around Florida. Overwhelming public support for a drilling ban - and the overarching concern for what is left of the natural environment - has stood out every year.
If you spend a day helping others this year, Disney will let you into the happiest place on earth for free.
Barbies have always offended feminists, Polly Pocket probably offended small people and Beast Wars most likely offended the intelligence of entomologists, but no doll could possibly offend as many people as the latest addition to the American Girl line.
At my internship this summer, one of my editors told me that when she graduated from college in the 1970s, people never asked her what she wanted to do with her life.
I certainly understand the Alligator's advocating free speech and publishing the guest column "Pastor plans protest at parade."
I felt compelled to write to the Alligator after reading the letter to the editor titled, "Scalpers show business sense."
Will the real No. 4 team please stand up?
The members of the UF Pride Student Union have read the Rev. Terry Jones' column yesterday, but few of us were terribly shocked.
Two days ago, during the clusterfuck of Student Government elections, I had two dissimilar but equally disturbing events occur that I thought explained how voting results were so systematically banal, year after year.
I feel something must be said about Pastor Terry Jones' guest column.
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