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Get out the polka-dot bikinis and bottles of grain alcohol - The Department of Darts & Laurels officially declares Spring Break 2009 open for business.

Opinion

For those of you who don't know me, or for those of you who I have offended, I apologize if you took the meaning of my column to be anything but satire. As an effective satire only mirrors reality, I stand by what I have written for a few reasons.

Opinion

Capitol Hill spending isn’t the answer

Mar. 5, 2009

It is no secret to anyone (except maybe Florida State economics students) that the economy is in its worst state in years.

Opinion

Support Daily Emerald staff

By BRYAN THOMAS | Mar. 5, 2009

On Wednesday morning, the entire editorial staff of the Daily Emerald - the student-produced newspaper at the University of Oregon - went on strike in protest of the attempts of its board of directors to install a publisher with unprecedented control over the newsroom.

Opinion

Middle ground is needed in dueling gym column debate

By KELLY KORMAN | Mar. 4, 2009

I am not about to resort to the name-calling that Spanky from the Little Rascals, or a certain journalism-and-German junior at UF for that matter, would employ as his first response to a female threatening his self-proclaimed territory.

Opinion

Partisanship proves grand ol’ loyalty

By JONATHAN LOTT | Mar. 4, 2009

Bipartisanship is a dream; a glorious fantasy thought up by politicians who wanted to turn the public against their opponents. In all practicality, it doesn't exist.

Opinion

Students should slow down during spring break

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 4, 2009

Perhaps the understatement of the year would be to say that we live in a time of economic uncertainty.

Sports

R.I.P. 2008-09 UF basketball season

Mar. 4, 2009

Wednesday night in Starkville, Miss., a small city that just 24,000 people call home, the UF men's basketball team's season died quietly in its sleep.

Opinion

Body image issues transcend "Barbie"

By NAUDIA JAWAD | Mar. 3, 2009

Before Carrie Bradshaw, there was Barbara Millicent Roberts. She turns 50 years old this week, and she's never looked better.

Opinion

Online news sources add to cultural illiteracy

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 3, 2009

No news isn't necessarily good news.

Sports

Brooks may be greatest UF women's basketball player ever

Mar. 3, 2009

It's hard to see it behind her meek smile.

Opinion

Conservative movement reduced to spiteful, whiny children

By ERIC CHIANESE | Mar. 3, 2009

I was once informed that the only way to gain a clear understanding of a political group or a movement is to hear what one of their die-hard partisans has to say on the subject.

Opinion

Gym’s weight room not just for men

By Emily Congdon | Mar. 3, 2009

Joshua Nederveld is a chauvinistic, pea-for-a-brain, wannabe meathead. As a woman who regularly uses the bench (with her measly 70 pounds), I am outraged by his delusional "unwritten laws" of the weight room.

Opinion

CIA should be held accountable for cover–up

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 2, 2009

The word out of Washington reveals new information surrounding the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes that feature two al-Qaida suspects.

Opinion

Gangs shouldn’t stop trips to Cancun

Mar. 2, 2009

The sap is rising on campuses nationwide, as evidenced by "brahsome" plans of impending debauchery and the giggly expectation of blackouts yet to be wistfully forgotten.

Sports

Nine reasons your Spring Break will be better than a UF athlete's

Mar. 2, 2009

March is finally here, and that means three wonderful things have arrived: Spring Break, March Madness and Spring Training.