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UF running back Kelvin Taylor (21) and defensive end Alex McCalister (14) celebrate with teammates after clinching the SEC East with its 9-7 win against Vanderbilt on Nov. 7, 2015, at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
In the main lobby of Cypress Hall, President Fuchs attends the building’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 30, 2015. UF’s 12th president has been in office for almost one year. His inauguration is on Dec. 4.
Fuchs holds what he calls the best gift he’s received, a graduation medal from his alma mater sent to him by the Hispanic Alumni Association. Fuchs moved to Miami from Alaska in the ninth grade. The school didn’t have the medals when he graduated in 1973.
UF coach Jim McElwain Gator Chomps after Florida's 27-3 win against Georgia on Oct. 31, 2015, at EverBank Field in Jacksonville.
UF President W. Kent Fuchs stares in awe at the Reitz Union renovations as he sees them for the first time on Oct. 29, 2015. He stood in the main atrium in front of an area that will contain two glass elevators. “I more than like it,” he said. “It’s incredible. I’m blown away.”
Fuchs stops to take a selfie with a student door in Cypress Hall. Wesley is Fuchs' first name, but he prefers to be called by his middle name, Kent.
After snipping a ribbon to officially open Cypress Hall’s residential dorms, built to accommodate students with disabilities, Fuchs and his wife Linda Fuchs ride an elevator with 21-year-old UF history junior Jordan Levitz to tour his room in the building on Oct. 30, 2015.
Fuchs holds what he calls the best gift he’s received, a graduation medal from his alma mater sent to him by the Hispanic Alumni Association. Fuchs moved to Miami from Alaska in the ninth grade. The school didn’t have the medals when he graduated in 1973.
UF coach Jim McElwain Gator Chomps after Florida's 27-3 win against Georgia on Oct. 31, 2015, at EverBank Field in Jacksonville.
Fuchs flips through mail as he waits for his next appointment, a meeting with UF student body President Joslin Padron-Rasines. His daily calendar is filled with meetings and university obligations, including weekends. He said he has only been able to participate in his favorite hobby, sailing, once this semester. But when Rasines talked about future student events, Fuchs whipped out his calendar and made room to try to attend each one.
In the main lobby of Cypress Hall, President Fuchs attends the building’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 30, 2015. UF’s 12th president has been in office for almost one year. His inauguration is on Dec. 4.
Jake McVeagh, a 22-year-old chemical engineering fifth-year, flips a red solo cup upside down after emptying the water it held. McVeagh was in a relay line against another fraternity. “My hype level is pretty good right now,” he said.
UF wide receiver Antonio Callaway runs into the end zone for a touchdown during Florida's 27-3 win against Georgia on Oct. 31, 2015, at EverBank Field in Jacksonville.
On Hume Field, 14 sororities and 14 fraternities gathered to compete in the Homecoming Olympic Games on Nov. 4, 2015. Gators March for Babies hosted the event to raise funds for March of Dimes and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Shands Hospital. They raised about $2,000.
Samantha Nuzzi (left), a 20-year-old UF biochemistry junior, and Hannah Casey, a 20-year-old UF criminology and law junior, race down an inflatable obstacle course set up by the Inter-Residence Hall Association staff on the Reitz Union lawn on Nov. 4, 2015. The activities were free for students and included Frisbee golf and cotton candy.
Ross Hughes (left), a 19-year-old UF political science sophomore, shows up to Hume Field wearing an American flag as a part of his team’s theme. Hughes, a member of Theta Chi, paired with the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. He said he was the best dressed on the team.
McKinley Stephens, a 20-year-old UF finance junior, attends the Homecoming Olympic Games with the Delta Zeta mascot, a turtle, shaved into his head. Fraternities and sororities paired up into teams before competition started on Nov. 4, 2015. “I gotta represent for the lovely ladies,” said Stephens about his shaved head.
Kevin Paule (left), a 25-year-old UF third-year law student, chomps into his burrito at Chipotle on Nov. 3, 2015, while out to lunch with Craig DeThomasis, a UF trial practice professor. DeThomasis said he wasn’t worried about E. coli in the Chipotle chains on the West coast. “Life’s a risk,” he said.
Tony Aron, a 57-year-old Elvis For Rent, sways his hips on Nov. 3, 2015, in a $2,400 replica of Elvis Presley's 1973 Aloha suit on the corner of West University Avenue and Northwest 13th Street. Aron said he usually dresses up as Elvis to raise money for charity organizations like the American Cancer Society.
In a long-exposure photograph, Ricardo Morales (left), owner of Mystic Smoke Shop and Hookah Lounge, and Joe Yachabach, a 19-year-old Santa Fe music producing freshman, exit The Cave, a room located in the shop, on Nov. 2, 2015. Morales said he started construction of the paper machie walls in the summer time and finished it about a month ago. “When you’re here, you lose sense of time,” he said.
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