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(12/04/18 11:51pm)
From the moment I first stepped onto UF’s campus, I had my sights set on The Alligator. I visited Gainesville for preview and made the trip out to the Gainesville Sun building. I carried a tote bag full of mangos from a tree in my backyard and a cheesy, excited smile. I planned to bribe my way on to the paper with fruit, charm and brute-force initiative. As I sat awkwardly in the newsroom waiting for five minutes with the editor-in-chief, the scent of day-old tropical fruit wafted powerfully around the room. I took a look around at the walls of the newsroom, amazed by The Alligator alumni and the history baked into the old yellowing pages tacked up in every corner. All I wanted to do was work here. It took me longer than expected, but I finally made it.
(12/04/18 7:47pm)
I did not want to be in Library West at 1:30 a.m.
(12/04/18 7:43pm)
Anyone who writes knows the feeling of reflecting on stories you’ve written in the past. For me, reading through old articles I once thought were actually the Great American Novel (and discovering how much I’ve grown since then) is the equivalent of finding a tagged Facebook picture of myself from 2009, except a little less cringeworthy (but only marginally).
(12/02/18 11:52pm)
A kinder and gentler nation. This was the aspiration George H.W. Bush had in mind for the United States throughout his presidency. Since he left office, the U.S. has tried, and failed in some respects, to pursue his lofty goal. But we trust that to try, and to keep trying, is enough to honor the wish he could not see completed. Bush died on Friday at 94 years old after a series of hospitalizations. He followed his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, who died in April at 92. He will be buried on the grounds of his presidential library at Texas A&M University after he lays in state at the Capitol Rotunda until Wednesday morning. Americans will have a chance to pay their respects to the 41st president, his leadership during the 1990s, his legacy and his vision.
(12/02/18 6:23pm)
They say a picture paints a thousand words. In my time growing up in this country, I have been taught about a few powerful photographs that stand out in history. In the Great Depression, the photo was the “Migrant Mother,” during the Vietnam War, it was the “Napalm Girl,” and in the 1980s, it was the “Afghan Girl.”
(11/29/18 7:38pm)
I’ll just go ahead and say it. The Student Body president’s latest column Wednesday seemed pretty impressive (albeit bland).
(11/27/18 11:55pm)
Austin Decker sat in The Swamp Restaurant’s bar Tuesday night surrounded by dozens of his friends. But he was thinking about the one friend who couldn’t make it.
(11/26/18 11:29pm)
The students at Palm Springs Community Middle School often hear the word “no.”
(11/26/18 2:37am)
“I don’t want to say the wrong thing, but…”
(11/25/18 10:38pm)
Third-grader Miguel Cardona was sitting in class when the shy, puppy-eyed Jose Nieves walked in without knowing a word of English.
(11/16/18 10:19am)
Fans of that Florida school down south finally got their wish. College Gameday will be live from Orlando to give Knights fans their moment in the spotlight.
(11/15/18 8:43pm)
Cliff Preston wasn’t always a baby person. Being the youngest of seven, he didn’t have to cuddle any baby brothers growing up.
(11/15/18 8:40pm)
Music is a powerful thing, more powerful than many of us realize. Think back to a difficult time in your life, a crisis or funk that resulted from difficulties at work or the deterioration of a relationship with a friend or a lover. Now, think of the music that you fed your sad soul in the midst of your depression. Were you doing yourself any favors by filling your ears with uplifting melodies and inspiring lyrics, or were you assisting your nose-diving emotions with music even more depressed than you? Odds are, the latter will strike a chord with more of you than the former, and that is because it is a human need to seek community, which is reflected by the artists and genres of music we enjoy. Songs become the soundtracks to our lives, providing an emotional ally in the form of a vague image of an artist or a melody. The issue is that this relationship is inherently one-sided and has devastating potential.
(11/15/18 8:37pm)
One of the hardest things about writing these columns is keeping things under 725 words. As you might have guessed, our Student Government committed so many sins when it came to promoting elections, it’s worth a second column, so here we go.
(11/13/18 11:53pm)
“Rampant fraud.” That’s how Gov. Rick Scott and his lawyers characterized the recounts currently happening in Broward and Palm Beach counties for the U.S. Senate race. That’s what the lawsuit they filed in Palm Beach County to get voting machines impounded said. But why is the governor suing Florida counties that are doing their best to give Floridians a fair recount? One thing is for certain: Florida must not finish its elections on these rough and uncertain terms. In the words of Broward Circuit Chief Judge Jack Tuter, who refused to bow to Scott’s lawsuit, both parties need to “ramp down the rhetoric,” though we’ve seen most of the dramatization come from Republicans.
(11/13/18 7:48pm)
Every now and then, Merriam-Webster introduces new words to its official dictionary collection. Among the dictionary’s latest additions from September were “TL;DR,” “bougie,” “bingeable,” “zoodles” and “mocktail,” which are certainly reflective of tech, style, entertainment and food-related trends that are important and of-the-moment in our culture.
(11/11/18 10:07pm)
From the Vietnam War protests to the first Women’s March on Washington, D.C., Christy Grabove has been marching for more than 50 years.
(11/09/18 12:03am)
The stomp of teenage feet sounded like stampeding elephants to Linda Awbrey.
(11/08/18 12:36pm)
There’s a new witch in town, and Sabrina is flying onto everyone's Netflix watchlist.
(11/07/18 8:44am)
A 9-year-old Holly Carlton followed her older sister, Kayla, to their quiet backyard in the Eastern Loudoun subdivision in Sterling, Virginia, with a volleyball in hand. The two went to a portion of their backyard that was fenced off for a makeshift volleyball court.
