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NEWS | CAMPUS

Gator Growl hints at talent

By Ansley Pentz | Aug. 25, 2015

She’s a world-renowned American actress and country singer.

METRO

RTS adds new bus routes closer to campus, discontinues others

By Kyle Bennett | Aug. 25, 2015

Students this semester will have a different variety of bus options.

METRO

New Scooters 4 Less store opens

By Briana Erickson | Aug. 25, 2015

A new company has scooted onto 13th Street, ready to serve students during the new school year.

Comprehensive Statute Reform Ad Hoc Committee Chairman Ty Robare (left) answers a question during the UF Student Senate meeting on Aug. 25, 2015, regarding the reforms to the 500 codes in the Student Body Statutes.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Student Body President vetoes two sets of code revisions

By Caitlin Ostroff | Aug. 25, 2015

All was calm in the senate chambers until UF Student Body President Joselin Padron-Rasines decided to use her executive power to veto two sets of code revisions.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Freshmen complete F Book traditions during first week

By Caitlin Ostroff | Aug. 25, 2015

Four UF freshmen smiled as they Gator chomped in front of Bull Gator — their first UF tradition.

Nick Bowden, 20, operates the new espresso machine at Karma Cream on Aug. 25, 2015. “It was time to get a replacement, and this one is so much better,” Bowden said.

METRO

Karma Cream adds new espresso machine

By Jordanne Laurito | Aug. 25, 2015

Karma Cream is cranking up the caffeine this Fall.

METRO | CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Local man arrested for $2,650 theft, used money for drugs

By Giuseppe Sabella | Aug. 25, 2015

Gainesville Police arrested a local man Monday after he reportedly burglarized a neighbor’s home and sold their belongings for drug money.

NEWS | CAMPUS

GatorNights brings comedian to Reitz

By Alexandra Fernandez | Aug. 25, 2015

The first GatorNights of the semester kicks off Friday with a performance by one of television’s up-and-coming comedians.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF services partner for new bike-rental program for students

By Paola Asencio | Aug. 25, 2015

Ashish Aggarwal didn’t like waiting for the bus, and now he won’t have to.

Sussette Rodriguez, a 20-year-old UF journalism junior, leaves the UF bookstore on Aug. 25, 2015.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF Bookstore offers price match and tax break to students

By Caitlin Ostroff | Aug. 25, 2015

Students can expect to save some money on textbooks this Fall.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Editorial: Get a good night’s sleep and put your phones down

Aug. 25, 2015

A professor once told me that young men and women are biologically inclined to stay awake late into the night because we’re young, fertile and it’s our biological imperative to attempt to reproduce. It only makes sense that we would stay awake into the wee hours for reasons we can’t fully comprehend.

Everton's Tom Cleverley, right, fights for the ball against Manchester City's David Silva during the English Premier League soccer match between Everton and Manchester City at Goodison Park Stadium, Liverpool, England, Sunday Aug. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

SPORTS | COLUMNS

In need of a football fix? Check out these futbol leagues

By Luis Torres | Aug. 25, 2015

While most people in the U.S. are patiently awaiting the start of both college football and the NFL season, there’s another type of "football" currently being played around the world.

OPINION | COLUMNS

How to fall off the face of the Earth and like it

Aug. 25, 2015

I can recall my social media ‘firsts’ as easily as I could my major life events: first cryptically spelled Facebook status, first grotesquely filtered Instagram, first angsty song lyric quoted on Twitter. It becomes almost nostalgic, recalling a time when social media was new and each post brought me one step closer to perfecting my skillfully crafted online persona. Yet my most profound ‘first’ was when I gave it all up.

METRO | POLITICS

Rush Week: A Problematic Distraction

Aug. 25, 2015

The recent "controversy" over the recruitment video for the University of Alabama chapter of the Alpha Phi sorority was baffling. One critic, op-ed writer A.L. Bailey, rightfully derided the video as "so racially and aesthetically homogenous and forced, so hyper-feminine, so reductive and objectifying, so...unempowering." Snapchat provided live coverage of sorority rush week this past weekend, and anyone could readily observe that the problematic behavior criticized in the video is not only expected but is the norm.

OPINION | COLUMNS