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Josephine wakes up at 8 in the morning, eager for adventure. She’s 2. Around the same time, her mom closes her laptop, concluding a three-hour dissertation writing session.
Alison Schwartz, an alumna of The Alligator and UF, died April 28 after a three week battle with COVID-19 at a hospital in New York. She was 29.
Editor’s note: This article contains mentions of sexual assault and violence. Reader discretion is advised.
Are you interested in joining one of the largest independent, student-run newspapers in the country? The Alligator is looking for its next team of reporters, editors, photographers and more to move the newspaper forward.
Journalists don’t have a lot of free time. If they date you, they must really like you. I consider myself extra special because I was able to get a journalist to fit me in her abundant agenda filled with interviews, writing, meetings and editing all the time. While I do feel special, there was also a lot I learned by dating Christina Morales for more than two years during her Alligator career.
I remember the first time I entered The Alligator newsroom as a staff writer. I felt small despite the hospitality and limited square footage of the glorified closet.
When long-time Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek introduced her in the first episode of the semi-finals, Kayla Kalhor gave the camera a Gator chomp, representing UF in this season of Jeopardy! College Championship.
It was the spring of 2017. Zada Williams had just left the University of Miami’s basketball program a few months prior when the season concluded. Now, with the intent to transfer, she was in the upstairs conference room at the University of Florida’s basketball complex to meet with Florida coach Cam Newbauer.
Kayla Kalhor found herself stiff while competing on the iconic Jeopardy stage. She stood on a platform to make her and the other contestants appear the same height and noticed the set looked shockingly bigger in person than on TV.
“Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness” is the Netflix series that took the world by storm when it was released on March 20. The so-strange-it-can-only-be-true story is perfect fodder for a generation of meme creators and internet-savvy streamers.
In the bed of a black pickup truck sat stacks of boxes, each one with a drawing of a panda and an alligator in surgical masks. The drawing read, “United we stand” in English and “United to fight together” in Chinese.
Last year, thousands of participants filled the O’Connell Center — dressed in black Dance Marathon shirts and brightly colored fanny packs strapped around their waists — to begin the annual 26-hour and 12-minute fundraising event.
COVID-19 has stopped people from going out, but it couldn’t stop Shmueli Goldman from having his bar mitzvah.
The myth of Jay Electronica has long outweighed his music―maybe because there was so little of it.
They didn’t know his name or where he came from. All they could identify him by were the words on his muzzle: “PJ get the bag.”
Editor’s Note: President Kent Fuchs told The Alligator he received hundreds of emails from students since UF announced classes would move fully online through the end of the Spring semester. At his request, and with the permission of the email’s author, we are printing one of the emails on this page along with his reply.
The SEC's league slogan is catchy, memorable and usually couldn't be more accurate.
Editor's Note: If you think you might have COVID-19, contact the Alachua County Health Department at (352) 334-7900 or the Student Health Care Center at (352) 392-1161.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — France ordered the closing of just about everything the rest of the world loves about it — the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the cafes, restaurants and cinema — and Spain drew up plans Saturday to lock down its 46 million citizens as governments took increasingly desperate measures to put more space between people and contain the coronavirus.
There will be no champions crowned across Division I athletics for months to come.
Solutions by The State News
