By Lydia Fiser

I don’t have much to say about this other than watch it. Staceyann Chin is truthful and raw and reminds me why free speech is so essential. I know that about three minutes into this, almost every man will shun away, click out of the blog post, close his laptop, and run. Don’t. Keep watching. [...]

By Lydia Fiser

Come out to Weimer 3032 (the journalism building on UF’s campus) at 7 p.m. Thursday. The Fine Print paired up with Society of Professional Journalists and the College of Journalism and Communications to bring together a group of journalists who all covered the earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath. Here are the panelists: Rich Hirsch [...]

By Travis Pillow

The question of whether or not the University of Florida should join the Worker Rights Consortium, which helps ensure that licensed athletic apparel is not made in sweatshops, will be on the ballot during Student Government elections, Feb. 23-24. As if the Reitz Union Fee isn’t reason enough to show up and vote, this non-binding [...]

By Jessica Newman

My colleague, Travis Pillow, recently posted a response to a letter written to the Alligator by Josh Niederreiter, which referred to the Unite Party already having its executive slate filled before it started taking interviews for the position. Travis’ response: “He’s referring, of course, to a system of succession that predates the Unite Party, in which [...]

By Travis Pillow

An interesting letter from a long-time Student Government gadfly appeared in this morning’s Alligator: Alligator, I’ve got a wager for you. I find it hilarious the Unite Party says it will be “conducting interviews” to determine its executive candidates. It’s common knowledge they have already chosen Marcus Dixon to run for vice president and Virlany [...]

By Fine Print Staff

Fox News doesn’t acknowledge environmental harm is a bad thing. CNN can only cover celebrities and politics-as-a-spectator-sport. NBC is owned by GE, the world’s largest producer of coal-burning power plants. Nobody in “serious television” is in a position to give an issue like mountaintop removal the attention it deserves. Enter Colbert, who starts with the premise that his show is entertainment, and then brings in someone like Margaret Palmer, lead author of a recent study published in the journal Science that calls for an end to the harmful practice. The result makes for excellent television.

By Lydia Fiser

The U.S. added another human rights abuse to its record chronicled in the New York Times today. In an article titled, Homeless Haitians Told Not to Flee to U.S., the Times explains how different branches of the U.S. military are working together to prevent any displaced Haitians from finding their way to the U.S. for help [...]

By Jessica Newman

This video performance from a Canadian newspaper staff is more quirky than pointed. The quartet works for The Globe and Mail, a weekly national newspaper printed in Toronto.  Like print media everywhere, they’re struggling to keep their heads above water in the face of the endless possibilities of the Internet.  In the video, they touch [...]

By Travis Pillow

By now the fallout from Obama’s Afghanistan speech is starting to settle. But I haven’t. I still don’t know what our president is thinking, sending tens of thousands more Americans to kill untold Afghanis. I’m not sure what for, and neither is Karl Rove. But he likes what he sees – which is yet another [...]

By Lydia Fiser

The Student/Farmworker Alliance,  Gainesville Students for a Democratic Society and Human Rights Awareness on Campus are working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to demand a one cent increase per pound of tomatoes picked by farmworkers in South Florida. Tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 23, join others who are concerned about the living and working conditions of [...]