Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
We inform. You decide.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Galleries

It was the week before Thanksgiving, but several hundred UF students gave thanks Wednesday morning during the first-ever Grateful Gator Day.
Students thanked about 30,000 UF donors on the Plaza of the Americas by writing about 1,000 handwritten orange cards, video-taping their Gator Chomps and posing for photos with a giant, polka-dotted "THANKS." The event served to make students aware of how much money people donate to the university, said Kevin Marfiak, a 23-year-old UF biology senior and Cicerone who helped plan the event.
SLIDESHOW

Giving Thanks

It was the week before Thanksgiving, but several hundred UF students gave thanks Wednesday morning during the first-ever Grateful Gator Day. Students thanked about 30,000 UF donors on the Plaza of the Americas by writing about 1,000 handwritten orange cards, video-taping their Gator Chomps and posing for photos with a giant, polka-dotted "THANKS." The event served to make students aware of how much money people donate to the university, said Kevin Marfiak, a 23-year-old UF biology senior and Cicerone who helped plan the event.


Thousands of indie enthusiasts and punk rock fans swarmed the scene in downtown Gainesville this weekend. About 400 bands performed on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the annual music festival known as The Fest. No Idea Records drew guests from around the world to 21 venues for the 14th year. Fans came from countries as far as Russia and Australia.
SLIDESHOW

Fest takes Gainesville

Thousands of indie enthusiasts and punk rock fans swarmed the scene in downtown Gainesville this weekend. About 400 bands performed on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the annual music festival known as The Fest. No Idea Records drew guests from around the world to 21 venues for the 14th year. Fans came from countries as far as Russia and Australia.



Powered by SNworks Solutions by The State News
All Content © 2025 The Independent Florida Alligator and Campus Communications, Inc.