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All right, we at the Independent Florida Alligator leave our posts for a week and the United States decides to up and blow its top with national news and national controversies bubbling over like some witch’s brew.
A length of yellow chain cordons off the giant silver brewing tanks from the rest of the warehouse, where visitors sit at picnic tables and kids play cornhole.
For the second-straight UF Student Senate meeting, Student Body President Joselin Padron-Rasines recommended Sarah Winter to be the next supervisor of elections. And for the second-straight meeting, the recommendation failed.
As a public relations major, I receive a lot of questions when I talk about my time as president of the UF chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), an engineering society that designs and builds a small, Formula-style race car and competes in an international competition.
As I write my byline one final time, I can’t help but get misty-eyed. I cannot believe my time at The Alligator is coming to a close.
The last days of school are here. Classes end Wednesday, which is the Alligator’s last day in print for the semester. It’s the cusp of Spring and Summer; only finals stand in our way.
When I was an electrical engineering student, most of my classmates looked like me and thought like me. Companies have learned in recent decades that having a workforce that consists mostly of white male engineers narrows their perspective and limits their capacity to innovate. We have learned that organizations are more likely to be successful over the long term if their members contribute racial, cultural, gender, geographic and disciplinary breadth. Similarly, top universities increasingly have students and faculty who bring a rich tapestry of knowledge and understanding due to their different races, religions and numerous other areas of experience and perspective.
Saturday marks the eighth annual Record Store Day, and local record stores are preparing for an influx of shipments and a swarm of awaiting customers.
With independent music becoming more and more prominent, veterans of the business have been taking notice. In May of 2014, legendary rapper Nas launched Mass Appeal Records as a label for up-and-coming emcees to make a name for themselves. The label has signed Bishop Nehru, Fashawn, Run the Jewels and Boldy James. Mass Appeal Records will also release new material from Nas himself and deceased rapper Pimp C.
Gainesville cyclists will host a bicycle scavenger hunt Sunday afternoon, and all proceeds will go toward affordable housing.
Thanks to educational powerhouses, a growing innovation focus and other resources, like low cost of living, a quaint North Florida town better known for football than entrepreneurial savvy is carving itself a reputation in the startup community.
Lucy Morgan is the Bob Graham Center Florida Citizen of the Year, but she still doesn’t know how.
According to many news sources, Sen. Rand Paul will be announcing his candidacy for president Tuesday and will then engage in a five-state, five-day announcement tour. Paul, who is the son of former Congressman Dr. Ron Paul, is an ophthalmologist-turned-politician who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 and has not been one to shy away from controversy. While many Republicans go with the flow of the Grand Old Party and often do not hesitate to inflate the deficit or ignore major problems, Paul has been one of the few shining stars of the party. He addresses the concerns of middle-class Americans, and his commitment to libertarian conservatism and advancing liberty makes him stand out from the crowd.
The City Commission took a step forward Thursday in the Gainesville Regional Utilities governance issue.
On Saturday, the Civic Media Center will be welcoming an old friend: the worker-run collective Rad Press Cafe.
Last year Floridians passed Amendment One, an initiative to direct existing state funds to acquisition, management, and expansion of access to conservation lands.
While a bill aiming to change Gainesville Regional Utilities authority advances through the Florida House, the Gainesville City Commission is working to resolve the governance issue locally.
A bill aiming to change the Gainesville Regional Utilities governing structure passed through its second Florida House subcommittee Tuesday.
It was a packed house.
Solutions by The State News
