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OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 16, 2009After a semester of suburbia-suffering teens pulling pranks on unsuspecting Taco Bell employees to a tree shaped in the likeness of resident demigod Tim "Have you seen his girlfriend?" Tebow, the Department of Darts & Laurels refuses to believe it's time to bid you Freddy Adu.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS TENNIS
Gators to end regular season in matches against Gamecocks
By JOSEPH R. HOLZER | Apr. 16, 2009The No. 16 UF women's tennis team closes a turbulent regular season against No. 20 South Carolina at 10 a.m. On Saturday.
METRO
Book sale will offer 300,000 items starting Saturday
By HUNTER SIZEMORE | Apr. 16, 2009Lawn chairs, crates and cardboard boxes form a short line just outside the main entrance to the Friends of the Library warehouse.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Minus grades to be implemented during upcoming summer
By DEANA CASIMANO | Apr. 16, 2009Students will have a new reason to dread summer classes - the start of minus grades.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Spring game good barometer for meaningless future contests
Apr. 16, 2009Get ready for an ugly Orange and Blue Game.
THE AVENUE
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MUSIC
The A–List: Concerts
By ALISON SCHWARTZ | Apr. 15, 2009Here's something to sing about: Your classes are winding down, the air is getting warmer and, to top it off, all of your favorite musical artists are coming to a town near you this summer. If you can break away from the beach (or your summer job, you overachiever), you won't want to miss these gigs.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
President–elect Johnson should improve public speaking
By Anonymous | Apr. 15, 2009Dear Jordan Johnson, aka student body president-elect:
SPORTS
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GYMNASTICS
Short-handed Gators ready for NCAA Championships
Apr. 15, 2009Nothing to lose. It's cliche.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Friends hold memorial service for drowned student
By TATIANA GONZALEZ | Apr. 15, 2009Thad Hammond Owens had long red hair and an equally bright red mustache and beard, but friends say he was better known for his uplifting and humorous personality.
METRO
Activists rally against IRS at City Hall on tax day
By EMILY FUGGETTA | Apr. 15, 2009Larry Middleton sat outside City Hall for nearly four hours Wednesday, wielding a sign that read, "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
THE AVENUE
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MOVIES AND TV
Q&A with cast members of MTV’s “College Life”
By MARY MANCHESS | Apr. 15, 2009What happens in college often tends to stay in college.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF students, faculty put on opera at Phillips Center
By KATIE EMMETS | Apr. 15, 2009After her lover was shot by a firing squad, and she killed the man who tried to rape her, she jumped off a building.
METRO
Hanrahan maintains balance between work and home
Apr. 15, 2009Leaning forward in a cushioned chair in City Hall, Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan listened intently as a constituent laid out her concerns, the same focus she gave county officials discussing next year's budget an hour later.
METRO
Author says sexism and meat–eating are intertwined
By JACQUELYNE SMITH | Apr. 15, 2009What do a steaming plate of chicken and a sexy woman have in common?
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Dating Distraction
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 15, 2009In times of economic strife, hunger pangs have more to do with love than an inability to afford daily delivery service from Pita Pit.
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
Deep safeties unit heads into season with different expectations than last year
Apr. 15, 2009Eight months ago, safeties coach Chuck Heater sat in his chair on a raised platform at UF's preseason Media Day and tried to explain why the 2008 season would be different, how a secondary that gave up 373 yards passing to Michigan in the 2008 Capital One Bowl could possibly be any better after entering fall two-a-days with three scholarship players at safety.
SPORTS
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SFC
Mee lifts SFC on the mound, in the box
By JESSICA ETTER | Apr. 15, 2009Andy Mee can do it all.
