I recall a conversation I had with my dad in which he reflected on his experience in school as a child. He vividly remembers the school administration in the early 1960’s conducting drills in which he and his classmates would practice crouching down under their desks in the event of a nuclear blast.
After a 33-year-old UF alumnus lost his two-year battle with brain cancer earlier this month, his family is working to ensure that his legacy as a “Triple Gator” lives on.
Spend your Thursday evening drinking beer, listening to music and eating pizza in support of art.
Despite UF’s Multicultural and Diversity Affairs’s effort to emphasize transparency surrounding the upcoming renovations to the Institute of Black Culture and “La Casita,” the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures, some students feel like they’ve been left in the dark.
High Dive will host a concert to honor Grammy-nominated musician Chris Cornell, who took his life in May.
Flash back to January and you’d find Nitti Gritti playing an opening set for DJ duo Bonnie X Clyde at Simons Nightclub. The Miami-based electronic dance music producer had only been creating music for about six months at that point but had already begun turning heads with his fresh take on bass music.
Twenty-two million. Over the next two decades, 22 million Americans are expected to lose their health insurance under the proposed U.S. Senate Republican health care bill.
Gainesville’s Martin Luther King Jr. Multipurpose Center will serve as a hurricane shelter in 2018.
For the first time in program history, the Gators get to dogpile on the pitcher's mound in late June. For the first time, they get to wear the shirts and hats with the words printed on them that puts a satisfying end to their season-long journey.
In this edition of the Alligator Awards, we debate which UF male athlete was the best of the 2016-17 season. Sports writers Mari Faiello, Andrew Huang and Morgan McMullen join alligatorSports editors Dylan Dixon and Jake Dreilinger in a roundtable discussion to debate the five nominees. Debates will go in alphabetical order by the writer’s last name.
I was in your shoes nearly two years ago.
A grand total of 14 Gators—past, present and future—earned the chance to compete in the IAAF World Championships this August in London following strong showings at the USATF Outdoor Championships in Sacramento, California. The four-day meet concluded this Sunday.
Zach Watson did everything he could to catch the ball, breaking into a deep sprint towards the warning track as he stared into the glaring sun.
Between stern talks, moments of relief and poking fun at Gov. Rick Scott, the Graduate Assistants United labor union and a UF bargaining team made progress on their monthslong negotiations in recent meetings.
On Monday, Gainesville Police arrested a Gainesville Uber driver accused of groping his passenger earlier this month.
UF has chosen the first female chair of the UF Investment Corporation, or UFICO.
This summer, the Levin College of Law will visit 10 cities to raise $1.5 million for student scholarships.
Last Tuesday, Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in the most expensive congressional race in U.S. history. The special election filled the vacancy left by current Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price in Georgia’s 6th congressional district, located just outside of Atlanta. Newt Gingrich took the 6th district in 1979, and it has been held by Republicans comfortably since. However, since President Donald Trump won the district by a close margin of only two percentage points in 2016, Democrats saw an opportunity to try to flip it.
A Florida Panhandle man admitted to stealing at least $35,000 worth of jewelry and shipping them out of state.
As I drove back to Gainesville after about two months filled with travel and relaxation, I came to a horrific realization.
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