2 - The Independent Florida Alligator

New York City’s City Council adopted a bill Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products to 21. Florida law made it difficult for Gainesville to adopt similar limitations.

METRO

Florida given F rating for state tobacco prevention funding

By AJ Bafer | Feb. 2, 2020

The grade came from the American Lung Association

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF ends losing streak in Nashville

By Brendan Farrell | Feb. 2, 2020

The Gators men’s basketball team’s season has been difficult to describe with the team reaching a high of beating a top-five team to the lows of several double-digit losses. All of this from a team that was ranked sixth in the country in the preseason AP poll.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TENNIS

UF dominates No. 21 FSU, wins fifth-straight match

By Zachary Huber | Feb. 2, 2020

The Gators conquered FSU to extend their winning streak over the Seminoles to three games on Saturday night.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS GOLF

Florida begins spring season in Jacksonville today

By Christian Berry | Feb. 2, 2020

The Florida men’s golf team is hoping to play up to its potential this spring, following a fall season filled with ups and downs.

SPORTS | COLUMNS

Dan Mullen -- football coach or puppeteer?

By Ainslie Lee | Feb. 2, 2020

For us on the outside, the transfer portal seems like this ubiquitous Sorting Hat out of Harry Potter. You throw your name in, and it spits out where you should go.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF stops student and employee trips to China until further notice

By Meghan McGlone | Feb. 2, 2020

UF cancels study abroad trips to China in the wake of coronavirus

Denise Griffiths, a UF English language and literature senior, died Wednesday after succumbing to brain and spinal injuries. She was 21. Griffiths was a spoken word poet and aspiring rapper.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Spoken word and black excellence: Remembering Denise Griffiths

By Hannah Phillips | Feb. 2, 2020

Her optimism and morality lives on in friends and family

UF sophomore Chris Saunders separates his dark from his light clothes in the laundry room of Beaty Towers West on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2007.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Student government renews Stay Fresh Laundry Grant

By Kaelyn Cassidy | Feb. 2, 2020

Students living on campus can apply to receive $30 to spend on laundry

SPORTS | WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Florida beats Kentucky on the road, gets first top-25 win in four years

By Graham Marsh | Feb. 2, 2020

One half was not like the other.

SPORTS | MEN'S BASKETBALL

Gators end losing streak on the road

By Joseph Salvador | Feb. 1, 2020

The Florida men’s basketball team defeated Vanderbilt on Saturday 61-55 in Nashville, Tennessee, for its second road win of the season.

SPORTS | GYMNASTICS

Gators knock off Wildcats to stay unbeaten

By Noah Ram | Feb. 1, 2020

There’s been a common trait for the Florida gymnastics team this season that’s been exhibited in nearly all the squad’s wins. When someone moves into the lineup –– no matter the rotation –– they doesn’t miss a beat.

A sinkhole is surrounded by police tape after it appeared when a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and eastern Cuba, at Public Beach on West Bay, Grand Cayman, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. The quake also hit the Cayman Islands, leaving cracked roads and what appeared to be sewage spilling from cracked mains. There were no immediate reports of deaths, injuries or more severe damage. (Taneos Ramsay/Cayman Compass via AP)

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF students react to effects of Caribbean earthquake

By AJ Bafer | Jan. 31, 2020

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands

President Donald Trump waves from the top of the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF students react to Trump’s wealth test for immigrants

By Samantha Chery | Jan. 31, 2020

Changes will deny green cards for immigrants using public assistance

NEWS | SFC

Santa Fe College renames fine arts hall after retiring president

By Anna Wilder | Jan. 31, 2020

It will also apply to rename a road after Jackson Sasser and his wife, Layne

METRO | CITY COUNTY COMMISSION

Alachua County selects first poet laureate

By Anna Wilder | Jan. 31, 2020

The term lasts for two years

NEWS | CAMPUS

CJC alumna is new UF director of communications

By Christopher S. Cann | Jan. 31, 2020

Brittany Wise will help UF in its quest for top-five status

There are more than 330 blue light phones that are active on campus. Each phone costs $15,000-$20,000.

METRO | CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Campus blue lights not used for emergency situations often, data shows

By Kyle Chambers | Jan. 30, 2020

Calls resulted in 14 police reports in the past two years

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

VP, treasurer and many Senate candidates in Progressive Party resign within hours

By Chasity Maynard | Jan. 30, 2020

Party’s Facebook page was taken down

SPORTS | WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Florida succumbs to LSU, loses 5th-straight game

By Bryan Matamoros | Jan. 30, 2020

Florida’s women’s basketball team had not played on its home court for 14 days before Thursday night’s conference showdown with LSU.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TRACK

Florida track and field to take part in Razorback Invitational

By Declan Walsh | Jan. 30, 2020

After having just three athletes competing last week, the Gators will bring a massive squad of 45 runners, jumpers and throwers to compete in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Friday and Saturday.

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