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(05/11/17 12:00am)
Here are several topics we are constantly warned to steer clear of when meeting new people. As a general rule of thumb, it is never a smart idea to bring up the subjects of religion, money and — of course — politics. History has shown us time and time again that these are some of the most controversial matters in the world. This past year especially, politics became the crux of major issues on a national scale as well as a personal one.
(04/23/17 8:45pm)
Jason Deischer’s 4-year-old daughter smiled as she sprinted toward him outside their Hawthorne home Saturday — just 500 yards from the site of a shooting that left a young woman dead late Friday night.
(04/17/17 10:15am)
Update Sept. 21, 2019: In April 2019, Kelly filed two libel lawsuits, one against Campus Communications, Inc. and the other against UF. On Aug. 8, Kelly and UF agreed to a settlement which provided Kelly would dismiss his suit and release UF from his claims in exchange for UF’s removal from its websites its April 14, 2017 official statement, statements.ufl.edu, which said:
(03/14/17 10:35pm)
If there’s anything we have learned from the past few days, it’s that when there’s a hot-button issue on campus, boy oh boy do people get contentious about it. But what’s funny is what we consider a hot-button issue. Nazi on campus? Racial slurs and vandalism of UF buildings? A one-party monopolization of Student Government elections? The occasional defensive comments on a column or editorial, one or two letters to the editor, but nothing close to what we’ve been seeing.
(03/01/17 11:29pm)
The Democratic Party is in decay. It’s impossible to deny. But the decline didn’t start last November. It’s been a steady deterioration since the resounding victories of 2008, which swept former President Barack Obama into office and took control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Since then, it has slowly ceded power, losing the House in 2010 and Senate in 2014. The exclamation point was Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election.
(02/21/17 12:30am)
Despite about 54 percent of UF degree-seeking students being female in Fall 2015, according to the most recent UF data, students will vote today and Wednesday for an all-male Student Government executive ticket.
(02/01/17 12:00am)
As Gainesville’s population has swelled, the city’s fire rescue is grasping for resources to meet demands.
(01/30/17 12:00am)
Many UF students, faculty and staff may wonder why the university has not banned the individual wearing the swastika from our campus. The answer is rooted in the First Amendment and the role of state officials. As interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, the First Amendment protects hateful, disturbing and offensive speech from government censorship — at least as long as the speaker is peacefully expressing his views in a public space without threatening anyone’s physical security.
(01/24/17 12:00am)
When Alex Becsey signed his lease, he was concerned that no one showed him the blueprints to his future unit.
(01/13/17 1:00am)
When 4-year-old Phoebe Dooley saw Cinderella at her front door, it was as if the tumor on her brainstem had disappeared — if only for a moment.
(01/03/17 11:11pm)
Gainesville residents have a new place to go jump around.
(11/17/16 10:44pm)
Ever since the advent of national news outlets in America, the country’s mass media has almost universally been more liberal. Those who are more Republican have accepted this as fact, using this as a go-to line whenever debating someone of the opposite party. This election season, however, has revealed the true severity of the media’s political leaning, and Republicans have finally, after decades of tolerating this as an unwavering feature of the culture, begun to say “no more.”
(11/09/16 3:28am)
After a year-and-a-half-long battle, Donald Trump will become the next president of the United States.
(10/25/16 11:55pm)
Student senators showed their support for UF’s African American Studies program Tuesday night.
(10/25/16 11:49pm)
For the second time in two weeks, graduate assistants will fight for a $320 raise.
(10/23/16 11:06pm)
What great nation has lasted an eternity? Some empires come to mind when we try to answer this question. The Roman Empire lasted roughly 507 years. While Judaism is roughly 2,500 years old, the Jewish nation has come and gone many times over the course of that history. This year, our democracy in America rejoiced in its 240th birthday.
(10/19/16 11:51pm)
Graduate Assistants United and UF officials are continuing a yearlong battle over wage increases.
(10/14/16 1:09am)
University of Florida volleyball player Carli Snyder was preparing for bed on a quiet night in her hometown of Macomb, Michigan, when her phone flashed and buzzed beside her.
(10/13/16 10:31pm)
On Tuesday morning, Gov. Paul LePage (R-Maine), said in an interview, “we need a Donald Trump to show some authoritarian power in our country.” Not only is it unsettling for the governor of an American state to be endorsing an authoritarian form of government, but it also reveals an underlying shift in the American public — a tilt toward authoritarianism.
(10/10/16 9:41pm)
According to Godwin’s law, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazism or Hitler approaches one.” For those of you with no background in statistics, this means the longer an online discussion is, the more likely it is that someone will compare Nazism or Hitler to his or her opponent’s side of the argument. Given that this election is immersed in online communication, it’s unsurprising our candidates are already being compared to the early 1900s political movement.
