J acksonville citizens, including several UNF students, participated in the “End the Fed” rally Nov. 22 downtown at the Jacksonville Federal Reserve Building. Approximately 150 people gathered to protest the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department’s bailout of Wall Street and the planned bailout of the automakers. The rally was part of a 39-city protest. Some cities had thousands of supporters listening and chanting to Republican and emocrat elected officials who opposed thebailout. Police officers (right) were called in to videotape the protest.

After hearing Gov. Charlie Crist’s plan to increase Florida college tuition annually by 15 percent for the next eight years, many college students might have a negative reaction.

Most college students struggle financially, and being forced to pay more money is not an encouraging thing.

But Florida in-state students currently live as royalty anyway, paying the cheapest tuition rates in the country.

The plan would cap the tuition increases at the national average, and it would take seven to 10 years to even skim the surface of that level.

This plan, though costly at first, will make the college degree – and the experience – more valuable.

There are 15.9 million students currently enrolled in college, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and some of those are only there because someone else – a parent, grandparent, or fiancé – is forcing them.

The UNF student population has been tested really hard during the last few semesters.

The way the economy developed left many students facing the dilemma of their future at school and how they will make it during the upcoming holiday.

Christmas is now less than a month away and is filling many people with a bitter taste of worry and uncertainty.

Those who lost their homes due to the economy will spend their first Christmas at someone else’s place.

While different world religions celebrate their own holidays in various ways, there is one common ideal that can be found in them all: We should give back to others.

A large number of Americans, despite their religious beliefs, celebrate Christmas as a day of giving presents to the ones you love.

However, this is not what Christmas is intended to celebrate in the Christian religion, which was the norm our society was founded on and has – for the majority – maintained.

Christmas is the day when Christians come together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

They are told all the presents and gifts they receive mean nothing compared to the gift God gave them in Jesus.