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UF will be closed from Wednesday, Sept. 28 to Friday, Sept. 30 ahead of Hurricane Ian’s landfall. UF has advised only essential personnel should report to work in that timeframe.
Each time the Century Tower bell marks the next period, students enter classrooms wondering if they should don or ditch a mask.
Change Party and Gator Party members crowded on the basement floor of the Reitz Union Wednesday as they eagerly waited for results.
The head to head special runoff election between seasoned politician Cynthia Chestnut and newcomer Matt Howland, fizzled out Tuesday night when Howland surrendered.
Cynthia Chestnut, la política de Gainesville desde hace mucho tiempo, y el recién llegado a la Comisión de la Ciudad Matt Howland se enfrentarán en una segunda vuelta en las elecciones de enero.
Longtime Gainesville politician Cynthia Chestnut and City Commission newcomer Matt Howland will go head to head in a runoff election in January.
Many students’ first foray outside their family home takes them straight to their freshman year college dorm. UF has 26 residence halls for students to choose from. The Alligator interviewed current and former residents of each hall to discover the good and bad in each. Room layouts are an artist’s interpretation based on courtesy photos of the residence halls.
After months of speculation and projections, the NFL Draft finally gets underway Thursday night. The Alligator Sports staff writers, through a meeting of minds, divided the teams and took turns to create a mock draft of our own. Here’s what we expect each NFL team to do on opening night.
Gainesville residents voted Tuesday to re-elect one city commissioner who saw them through a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but voted out the other incumbent in favor of a local activist.
The Gator Party won its second executive ticket and maintained a majority in Senate on Wednesday. There were 6,650 total ballots cast, Supervisor of Elections Haley Price announced on a live stream Wednesday evening.
The first day of voting for the UF Student Government Spring Election included some technical difficulties, short lines and about an 80% decrease in voter turnout from last Spring’s election.
As the nation awaits the results of the 2020 presidential election, clouds tinged with anticipation hovered over progressive groups’ first post-Election Day events.
A string of early voting events called the Gainesville community to action
Assuming that the college football season begins as scheduled (which feels like a big assumption right now), we’re down to three months until the beginning of SEC play on Sept. 12. We decided to celebrate by surveying our staff on how it would rank all of the teams in the SEC heading into next season.
With the NFL Draft on Thursday night, we divided the 32 teams among our writers and tasked them with picking the first round. Here is the 2020 alligatorSports Mock Draft:
Just like the students, school district administrators wait with bated breath as their grades are announced.
On March 8, “Captain Marvel,” the last solo film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s third phase of movies, premiered. Marvel’s phase three is set to end once “Avengers: Endgame” releases on April 26. “Captain Marvel”introduced us to a hero that may take center stage in phase four of the MCU, the charismatic Kree soldier Carol Danvers.
There are so many things I could say about “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”
Students stepped into Mary Watt’s office in Fall 2016 and said the African American studies program deserved to become a department.
This fall’s election has 50 candidates run on Impact Party's ticket and 43 candidates ran under Inspire Party's ticket, according to a list of candidates provided by Supervisor of Elections Henry Fair. This election more contested seats than Fall 2017 elections when 42 seats had multiple candidates.