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Dear UF IFAS, withdraw your support of Plum Creek

Dear UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences,

Sand Snakes

FYE: Game of Thrones Returns with New Players

In case you’ve not been online in the last month, “Game of Thrones” airs next week. Season 5 brings us many changes – here’s what to expect. (SEASON FOUR SPOILERS AHEAD. If you’re not caught up, you should maybe do that.)

Last-second dunk gives UF win over Vanderbilt

For the first time in what seemed like forever, the Gators won a game decided by five or fewer points, defeating Vanderbilt 50-47 on Wednesday in the O’Connell Center.

Luck not on Gators’ side with regular season starting to wind down

Luck is seen by some as a cop-out.

UF study determines tortoises prefer human connection

Moe’s or Chipotle? Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts? Nap or Netflix?

For your entertainment: 10 gameday anthems

As our beloved Football season comes to an end, why not go out with a bang? After all, there’s nothing more exciting and dear to our heart than Gators football right? Here’s a few tracks to celebrate our last home game this weekend and the last few weeks of college football season:

Gators not the only reptiles in town anymore

Gators can get their hands on some scaly creatures at the Paramount Plaza Hotel and Conference Center on Saturday. 

Darts & Laurels 7/17/14

We hate to start Darts & Laurels off on a bad note, but animal cruelty is something this editorial board passionately stands against. Two Clay County girls are being investigated by Florida law enforcement officers after they posted a video of themselves burning a Gopher tortoise and torturing it to death. The Gopher tortoise, which is an endangered species in Florida, was lit on fire several times as the girls filmed it and said things like: “Burn baby, burn baby,” and “Now you’re scared of us, huh?” The girls also repeatedly threw it against the concrete and stomped on it, crushing its shell.

University of Miami sells forest land, soul to Wal-Mart

It’s easy to forget, what with daily strange Gawker headlines and a certain highly anticipated magical theme park opening, that Florida wildlife is in danger. From rising sea levels threatening the southern coast to black bears ransacking neighborhood trash as a result of overdevelopment to Big Oil drilling in the Everglades, Florida’s natural resources are under attack. 

Candy Muldune

Candy Muldune, a touring burlesque performer, brought out a snake during her routine at the Cirque Exotique burlesque show at The JAM on Saturday.

O'Leno State Park Chili cook-off celebrates water conservation

Rain showers didn’t stop a chili cook-off celebrating the beginning of Water Conservation Month at a O’Leno State Park this weekend.

Fuller’s home run leads UF to win against CCSU

With No. 1 Florida holding onto a 1-0 lead against Central Connecticut State in the bottom of the fourth and two outs, Taylore Fuller stepped up to the plate.

Florida’s child-welfare problem revealed

On Sunday, the Miami Herald released a chilling investigative report about the failure of Florida’s Department of Children and Families in recent years to protect the children of drug users. The project is the result of a yearlong investigation by two Miami Herald reporters, Audra D.S. Burch and Carol Marbin Miller.

UF students, Gainesville residents sample creepy-crawlies, wild game at Beast Feast

Gators craving opossum, elk and armadillo meat got their fix Saturday night at this year’s Beast Feast.

Florida python invasion slithers into virtual world

Python invasion has spread from the Everglades to the virtual world.

Guest column: Releasing pets into the wild harms local ecosystems

Let’s say you brought your favorite pet to college. Three exams and two papers later, you’re realizing you don’t have the time or space to care for Steve the Snake. Well, doesn’t every animal want to be free? Letting him go into the wild is the best option, right?

Bill Nye rules, lines drool: Tickets gone

Bill Nye tickets are bye-bye.

Multimedia show at UF gives artists lay of the land

Students, faculty and museum-goers could hear the buzzing of insects and swaying of trees as they stepped into Naomi Fisher’s reception for “Lay of the Land” at the University Gallery on Friday.

New Harry Potter film has similarities on football field

On Thursday, the film and literature worlds were rocked by an out-of-the-blue announcement — the Harry Potter universe will come back to film with an adaptation of author J.K. Rowling’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”