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I recently went where the majority of college students may not find themselves on a Saturday night: a movie theater — and not on a date or with a group of people.
Amy Goodman, a well-known broadcast journalist, made an audience of 250 people crack up when she made a joke about a parallel between the leader of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and President Donald Trump in an orange jumpsuit.
In Shaun O’Connor’s line of work, he’s used to hearing “no.” This time he heard “yes.”
The idea of Columbus Day has been bugging me for the few weeks since it was celebrated on Oct. 8. For years, Columbus Day has been a major point of contention – and for good reason. After witnessing the outcries against this national holiday, I thought of a way to alter the holiday without eliminating it entirely. I will grant that the original purpose of Columbus Day was probably to acknowledge his expedition. That is noble and should be commemorated without glorifying the man himself. Instead of singling out one specific character with hordes of human rights violations, we could implement a holiday that instills in all of us a sense of exploration, adventure and risk by honoring past expeditionists.
With 20 days until Election Day, voters are still seeking clarity about the Gainesville Regional Utilities Referendum.
For two nights, UF sophomore Peter Nguyen slept in his bed in a small, four-bedroom apartment while seven other people slept on any available surface.
You are the envy of the entire lecture hall. Among hundreds of frantic faces bubbling silently with No. 2 pencil, you are the first to make a loud and disruptive rustling of paper as you flip to page 2 of the midterm exam. You breeze through it now, but a few hours ago you were practically shaking with fear. You had not been to class all semester. Three nights before, you sat yourself down in the library with a cup of coffee and started to read. You flipped through a phone book-sized chunk of your textbook, highlighting, making concept charts and doing the practice problems. You ignored Snapchat. You shunned text messages. You slipped emails, dodged phone calls and ducked under Canvas notifications for the next two days. It seems you snatched victory from the jaws of unpreparedness and laziness. Who needs lectures anyway?
It seems like every time I go to the movies, the prices go up. I am spending $10-15 on a ticket, $7 on popcorn (because what is a moviegoing experience without popcorn?) and maybe $4 on a soda. As a college student, it is rough to justify spending more than $20 to see a two-hour film that I could just stream in a couple months. The rise of streaming platforms has definitely made the prospect of paying that much for just one film seem outrageous, and the emergence of MoviePass did not help either.
Jason Haeseler remembers waiting in the hospital, hoping his daughter would be all right after surgery to fix her congenital heart defect.
The lecture hall is freezing. Your professor’s voice is just as frigid. Worse, it’s monotone and emotionless. As she drones on about calculus and the upcoming exam, your mind wanders into a daydream.
One of the more amusing parts of this election season was writing my columns as if nothing was going on (since it would be more, or less, improper to use my column as a platform for self-promotion). But now, elections are over, so I can talk about them.
Who are you voting for?
There are telltale signs of the upcoming Student Government elections. Political parties prowl Turlington Plaza for undecided voters. Fliers are distributed. You may have even read about a certain SG sugar daddy or an increase in toilet paper quality.
Picture this: The date is Nov. 6, 2028. You step into a voting booth in the Reitz Union or some other polling place and look at the long ballot of names in front of you. You may recognize some names at the top, such as for your senator or U.S. House representative, but the rest for positions like county judge and sheriff are completely new to you. You already know who you’ll vote for at the top of the ballot, and the lower positions you fill in based on surface-level factors like name or political party affiliation and assume they’re not important. However, I’m here to tell you that voting for state- and local-level positions is as important, if not more important, as voting for federal position.
Rachel Kalfin was just trying to go to her fashion design class.
Out of 63 college applicants across the country, The Independent Florida Alligator was one of nine chosen by Poynter for its College Media Project.
UF students now have more options for food, water and toilet paper.
Willard Keeran: Aquarius
The Gainesville police union felt like it received a slap in the face after trying to negotiate with the city Friday night, a union spokesperson said.
Contact Amanda Rosa at arosa@alligator.org and follow her on Twitter at @AmandaNicRosa
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