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Blaming women for their assaults, through email

Content warning: This guest column has non-graphic references to sexual assault.

Sororities celebrate Bid Day with masks on but not socially distanced

Pop music and UF students filled Sorority Row Thursday. Although masks appeared to be on nearly every student, social distancing was rare during the outdoor events.

UPD: Man seen armed with knife near UF campus

A man who appeared to be armed with a knife was headed near the UF Levin College of Law Saturday night, according to University Police.

'Simplifying COVID-19' wasn’t so simple; fall semester becomes complex

On Friday and Saturday, from 10:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m., Gainesville police will monitor the city for parties or large gatherings, GPD Spokesperson Graham Glover said.

Students can report COVID-19 policy violations through the GATORSAFE app

UF gave students another way of combating COVID-19: reporting when their peers are not.

On campus? Mask on, or else.

Gators wear masks — or there will be consequences.

Law enforcement leaders discuss use of force and community relations with UF faculty

David Prevatt wants to know why UF students don’t know the officers who police them.

Kofi Adu-Brempong and the call to demilitarize UPD

A UF graduate student was shot in the head by University Police in his own on-campus apartment.

UPD Alert responses

Military grade CIRT

Students, faculty and community members have called for UPD to demilitarize and disband the unit that shot Kofi Adu-Brempong.

'A skeleton in Florida’s closet': The Johns Committee’s history at UF

The year was 1958, and while other students were worrying about class and their lives off campus, UF sophomore Art Copleston was in the University Police’s basement.

‘Please listen to us’: Black students demand change, say they feel unsafe and unwanted at UF

Thousands of phones across Gainesville lit up with a University Police alert: Suspect, black male, it said.

Black students' experience on campus

More than 4,750 people have signed a petition created by the UF Black Student Union demanding that the university implement a zero-tolerance policy for hate speech, require diversity training for administrative faculty and reduce the presence of UPD on campus to improve the experience of Black students at UF. 

UF student jailed after threatening mass shooting at Virginia Tech

A UF student is in jail after threatening a violent massacre at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He was previously under a UF code of conduct investigation for harassment, “endangering behavior” and sexual harassment.

The UF SG “Zoom bombing” investigation is closed

Weeks after hackers took over a Student Government Senate meeting over Zoom, displaying penises and writing racist language, UF’s Police Department announced that no charges will be filed. 

WarningShot

In the same email to a business professor, Kelly threatens a “warning shot.” UPD reached out to the Bowling Green Police Department where Kelly lives to request a wellness check on him after receiving the email. 

UF student threatens to rape students online — but remains enrolled

Editor’s note: This article contains mentions of sexual assault and violence. Reader discretion is advised. 

Student Government was ‘Zoom bombed,’ but that’s not the only incident connected to UF

After drawings of penises began speckling the screen and racial slurs flooded the chat box, UF professor Xiang Bi decided to shut down her virtual Zoom class last week. She reopened a new classroom requiring a password a few minutes later and resumed teaching. 

Following two attacks on women, authorities tell residents to be alert

Authorities are advising Gainesville residents to stay alert after two women were attacked in separate assaults this past week.

Campus blue lights not used for emergency situations often, data shows

Last semester, hundreds of students protested for UF to add emergency blue light phones to Fraternity Drive for weeks.