Newly proposed I-4 toll lanes, worth the hassle and expense?

By Keola Prickett / kprickett@valenciavoice.com
February 19, 2013
Filed under Opinion

Earlier this month the governor and state lawmakers signed off on a new deal to add express toll lanes on I-4, costing the Florida Department of Transportation an estimated $1.1 billion. The “new I-4 tolls” has caused much debate and controversy among students and professors at Valencia College.... Read more »

S.T.E.M degrees of seperation, Rick Scott’s assualt on the arts

By John Scolaro / Professor of Humanities
January 28, 2013
Filed under Opinion

Sometime last year, Florida Governor Rick Scott, whose approval rating in virtually every statewide poll is the lowest of any governor since the birth of Florida after Ponce de Leon landed here 500 years ago, proposed that public colleges and universities, throughout Florida, charge lower tuition for... Read more »

‘Twitterpated’ with Twitter, social media changing news

By Shakira Cummings / scummings@valenciavoice.com
January 22, 2013
Filed under Opinion

Twitter has evolved from being known as just another social networking site to an instant source of news. When asked whether Valencia students knew that Twitter could be used to follow the news, the majority of them did not. Later many students found this to be a more attractive use for Twitter, than... Read more »

Experience of a first-time voter, election via Instagram

By Felicia Roopchand / froopchand@valenciavoice.com
November 8, 2012
Filed under Opinion

ORLANDO — My family was never very outspoken on their political affiliations. My parents didn’t vote for the first time until the 2008 election, and they’ve lived in this country for years. For this election, it was finally my turn to cast my ballot for the president of the United States. Like... Read more »

Have political ads become an unethical game of finances?

Natasha Tetley / ntetley@valenciavoice.com
October 25, 2012
Filed under Opinion

Every four years America gathers to either re-elect a president or eject one from office via ‘’work-almost-every-time” majority vote. Much like that other really important American sporting event that happens on a semi-regular basis, the casual onlooker will be focusing primarily on the commercials. Love... Read more »

UCF raises tuition again

By Alexa Rydelek / arydelek@valenciavoice.com
October 8, 2012
Filed under Opinion

State legislatures are at it again. The University of Central Florida has hit students with another increase in tuition. The maximum increase public universities can ask for is 15 percent, and although it seemed like the board of governors was not thrilled about handing over the maximum amount, they... Read more »

Apple, Samsung, back in court

By Danny Morales / dmorales@valenciavoice.com
October 8, 2012
Filed under Opinion

Samsung and Apple are at it again. This time Samsung is suing Apple for violating eight of its patents. The back and forth courtroom battle has been going on since June, and it seems as if there will be no clear winner in the end. A U.S. district court in San Jose, Calif. found that Samsung had... Read more »

Opposing views: ‘No Easy Day’ too much or just right?

By Shannon Scheidell / sscheidell@valenciavoice.com & James Tutten / jtutten@valenciavoice.com
September 17, 2012
Filed under Opinion

Pro "No Easy Day" release: I can see no reason for any book to be banned, whether the author has gone against military protocol to publish it or not. “No Easy Day” goes against everything we’ve understood about “the enemy” and the “weapons of mass destruction” the alleged mastermind... Read more »

I hate online courses

By Neda Hamdan / nhamdan@valenciavoice.com
April 23, 2012
Filed under Opinion

The computer seems fine for Facebook or Twitter, but an exam? Online courses lack visual learning as well as one-on-one contact with professors and engaged learning.If there’s one thing most college students suffer from, it’s procrastination. Online courses encourage procrastination because those... Read more »

Jeff Hates: goodbye everyone!

By Jeff Shedden / jshedden@valenciavoice.com
April 23, 2012
Filed under Opinion

This is the very final installment of “Jeff Hates,” and the last chance to force my opinions on my audience. There was no Pulitzer prize awarded this year for editorial writing, and the first thing that ran through my mind was, “They obviously didn’t read ‘Jeff Hates’ this year.” Something... Read more »