Free Food Trumps Free Speech

Katherine Brown, a 20-year-old UF journalism sophomore, asks Janaye McGrew, a 22-year-old UF advertising senior, to sign over her First Amendment rights for free food on the Plaza of the Americas on Thursday.

University of Florida students, Sophia McDonald and Michelle Wagner, pet Tenders the cat at Tolbert Hall.

Reagan Bresnahan

Campus Cats

By Reagan Bresnahan | 1:09pm

University of Florida students, Sophia McDonald and Michelle Wagner, pet Tenders the cat at Tolbert Hall.

Mily Moran

How to Politics

By Mily Moran | Aug. 6

Eagle Scout, Kaayana Sharma, helps Baby Gators pick add books to the new lending library, Thursday, July 30, 2026, at the UF Early Childhood Collaboratory at Diamond Village, in Gainesville, Fla.

Grace Sands

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By Grace Sands | Aug. 6

Eagle Scout, Kaayana Sharma, helps Baby Gators pick add books to the new lending library, Thursday, July 30, 2026, at the UF Early Childhood Collaboratory at Diamond Village, in Gainesville, Fla.

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