EDITOR:
The Alligator’s Opinion page offered readers the opportunity to freely express their points of view — the Good, the Bad, and the often anti-Alligator Ugly.
friday
march 13, 1981
vol 74 no 100
Vanilla and chocolate don’t mix
dave hogerty
ice cream couple
Jane Grant and Chauka Fleming enjoy the sun and ice cream as they relax outside the ice cream shop on The Renaissance Fair on University Avenue.
When taken, I thought it just another slice-of-life moment seen on any college campus in America. Maybe I was naive, moving to Gainesville after growing up in a smallfrom a small town near Cape Canaveral, but I was surprised to read more than one (anonymous) letters written to The Alligator in response to the picture. I was reminded that North Florida is part of the Deep South, and there were a number of students at the University of Florida, who didn’t appreciate the mixing of Vanilla and Chocolate ice cream. One writer made it clear the letters had nothing to do about ice cream when he called Jane Grant (the woman in the picture) a “nigger-loving whore.”
LETTERS
Abortion (Right or Wrong?)
UFLAGS have no Reitz.
Suicidal Tendencies
Convenience is in the eye of the beholder.
Guns ‘R’ Us
Bad Neighbors
Vanilla and Chocolate don’t mix.
Fighting Dogs
Racing Turtles
Bombing Iran
The Trouble With Laura
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