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One year ago, Addison Klonowski was a full-time student at Indiana University. She was focused on developing herself outside of the golf course and didn’t face the challenging time constraints of a college student-athlete.
Walk to End Alzheimer’s participants created a field of color as they held up orange, yellow, blue and purple flowers. Looking around at one another, they noticed dozens of people scattered around the field holding the same color flower.
This semester’s UF Student Government elections will be one of the most boring in recent years. After a successful gerrymander, Vision Party is guaranteed to sweep the 37 off campus seats through the tried-and-true strategy of Greek life voter coercion. Whether it be refusing a chicken parm dinner to those who don’t place their “I voted” sticker on their house’s sticker board, voting to get points from their house or receiving alcohol for votes, the practice of “block voting” has ensured over a century of Greek-dominated student government.
UF’s three Student Government parties — Vision, Change and Watch Parties — have set forth their Fall 2024 policies. Now, students must decide if and for whom to vote Oct. 8 and 9. This guide explains how to vote, where to do it and what the parties’ platforms entail.
For the next week, students passing through Turlington or in front of the Reitz Student Union are sure to encounter Vision Party and Change Party canvassers hoping for a “moment of your time” to pitch their platform ahead of October elections.
Santa Fe College students now have guaranteed transfer admissions into UF through a new program established this year.
In the halls of Tallahassee during Summer 2024, bipartisan legislation designed to reduce recidivism, ease reentry into society and reduce the financial burden on families of incarcerated individuals were all struck down at the pen of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Seventeen-year-old Sanabil Wajid won’t be old enough to vote in November, but she’s committed to ensuring her peers can.
Gainesville has no shortage of jobs, but competition for part-time work is stiff in a college town saturated with students.
Most of you probably don’t know how quiet it is here when you’re gone. It’s really, really quiet. So quiet you can hear the construction crew tearing up the road and creating your next traffic jam a half mile away. Or the other construction crew a half mile in the other direction. You hear the more-than-occasional preview tour coming through, and you hope they get inside somewhere before that thunderstorm you see rolling up drenches them.
As a Florida Gator, it's easy to get swamped. There are classes to attend, organizations to join, friends to meet and laundry to do. Add that to a campus bustling with tens of thousands of students, and college can quickly become overwhelming.
Journalism is cutthroat.
I joined the Alligator believing I wanted to be better than it.
I used to say my goal in life was to leave a legacy. If death came knocking at my door, I wanted to be able to say people would remember me fondly for the things I did.
The Florida Gators wasted no time in their offseason to tighten up the team’s core values: work ethic and culture. While efforts stay prioritized on improving the Gators’ physical attributions, head coach Billy Napier is excited about the intrinsic factors.
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With the Matheson Museum walls swathed in Alachua County voting history, the Smithsonian added an additional six panels of U.S. voting history.
On a hot Sunday afternoon, families of East Gainesville gathered for free food, music and a back-to-school backpack giveaway to celebrate the launch of the One Community Family Resource Center.
Since the recent overturning of Florida’s restrictions on transgender care for minors and adults, I can't help but think about the recent wave of bigoted jabs at higher education in our state.
Since she was 7 years old, Vanessa Nottingham considered herself a performer and actor.
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