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Arnold Schweiner began welding at 19 years old.
Faculty and students at UF have wondered what will happen to the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs since Gov. Ron DeSantis banned state DEI funding to Florida universities in May 2023. Nine months later, they have their answer.
The UF Student Senate made national headlines for passing the first public university Green New Deal by unanimous vote Feb. 21.
For the past few months, Razieh Farzad’s email inbox has been full.
In the Florida Gators women’s basketball team’s “Unlaced” documentary series, senior guard Aliyah Matharu has a mindset that she feels sets her apart from the rest of the pack: she sees herself as a dog, and anyone standing in her way is dog food.
When the Florida football team walked off of the field Nov. 25 after its final game against Florida State, a feeling in the air loomed over The Swamp: Billy Napier may be running out of time.
The Florida Gators men’s tennis team (6-4, 2-0 SEC) capped off opening weekend of conference play with a 4-1 win over ranked opponent, the No. 25 LSU Tigers (11-2,1-1 SEC). The match was hit with a lightning delay that suspended play for over an hour.
The UF Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, at the Hippodrome State Theatre and Oak Hammock, will present its 13th annual Gainesville Jewish Film Festival throughout March. It will feature 12 film screenings about the Jewish experience and culture around the world.
On a rainy Saturday morning, Girl Scout Troop 2370 stood anxiously under the red awning of Winn-Dixie on Main Street. Though the day was gray and gloomy, 8-year-old Kate Sarnoski couldn’t help but smile a toothy grin while greeting grocery shoppers with a question difficult to resist:
Muchas dificultades vienen con los procesos legales para inmigrantes, más aún si su primer idioma no es inglés. Esto afecta aún más a los migrantes Latinos e Hispanos, quienes conforman una taza de 12% de la población total en Gainesville de acuerdo con el U.S. Census Bureau 2023.
When Robert Pearce bought his home in Gainesville’s Stephen Foster neighborhood, he didn’t know he was moving next door to a hazardous waste site. The 71-year-old resident began investigating what he’d heard about nearby contamination after moving into his home in 2008.
Florida freshman Anya Pilgrim helped keep the Gators afloat against Kentucky as they struggled to land cleanly in their vault routines. Their struggling dismounts cost them minor setbacks on the scoreboard.
Florida senior Sara Dahlstrom scored her biggest win of the season with a win against Texas A&M’s No. 29 sophomore Mia Kupres.
Very few players garner as much attention as Gators two-way player Jac Caglianone.
Many difficulties come with immigration legal processes, even more so when an immigrant's first language is not English. This especially rings true for Latino and Hispanic migrants, who comprise around 12% of the total population in Gainesville, according to the U.S. Census Bureau 2023.
The bedrock of America’s criminal justice system is the right to be tried by a jury of one’s peers.
The No. 11 Florida lacrosse team (3-2) took down the Arizona State Sun Devils (3-3) 22-6 in Tempe, Arizona, Sunday afternoon. The victory marked the Gators’ third-straight win.
The entire crowd at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center was on its feet. In the final game of the regular season, the Florida Gators women’s basketball team fought tooth and nail with the Auburn Tigers all afternoon long. Florida now trailed by just two points with 10 seconds on the clock.
Over the course of the past few weeks, it became obvious to anyone paying attention that the national crisis in chronic homelessness was manifesting itself in a couple of new tent camps, including one downtown on SE Fourth Place — literally on the street itself.
Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are on the chopping block at UF and every other state institution of higher learning. Just recently, the administration shut down the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, amongst other DEI positions. In response to The Alligator breaking this story, Gov. Ron DeSantis quote reposted its coverage to further classify DEI as “toxic.”