OPINION
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COLUMNS
We’re all just looking for the damn light switch
Apr. 18, 2017With graduation nearing, you might be feeling a bit stressed.
COVID-19
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
We have the right to speak and the duty to listen
Apr. 18, 2017As the limbo of Summer semester comes round, I’m going to follow my predecessor in removing the opinions editor mask and speaking directly as myself. The opinions and experiences expressed here will be my own, and not those of the Alligator editorial board. I want to take the chance, as the end of the semester approaches and friends graduate, travel abroad, tackle internships and sit on their couches all summer, to reflect on the past semester.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Signposts on the path to utopia
Apr. 18, 2017I love science fiction. My favorite works come from the ‘60s and ‘70s, when novels like “Childhood’s End” and “Stranger in a Strange Land” crystallized the genre, pioneered by writers like Isaac Asimov, of utopian speculative fiction. Don’t get me wrong, “Alien” and “Blade Runner” hold a special place in my heart, but there was an optimism in “Star Trek” that seems to have been fading since writers like William Gibson and Philip K. Dick popularized stories of a grim, dystopian future.
SPORTS
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Florida basketball lands graduate transfer from Rice
By Matt Brannon | Apr. 18, 2017The Gators basketball team picked up a 6-foot-5 sharp-shooting transfer from Rice on Tuesday.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Meyers to take office amid legal proceedings
By Paige Fry | Apr. 18, 2017Fewer than two months after Smith Meyers’ arrest for allegedly pushing down two motorcycles while drunk on Spring Break, he is set to take office as UF’s Student Body president on Wednesday.
NEWS
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FEATURES
An ink-stained history
By Ariana Figueroa | Apr. 18, 2017A portion of this article has been removed due to conflicting information between sources.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS TENNIS
Florida motivated after loss to Vanderbilt, eager to redeem themselves
By Spencer Thompson | Apr. 17, 2017It looked all too familiar for the Gators women’s tennis team. Having lost the doubles point, Florida struggled to fight back in singles, ended a winning streak and recorded an unexpected loss.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS LACROSSE
The House that Mandee Built: O'Leary has led UF lacrosse to national prominence
By Jake Dreilinger | Apr. 17, 2017The Florida lacrosse team wasn’t supposed to make it this far.
SPORTS
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GYMNASTICS
Top three moments from UF gymnastics' 2017 season
By Lauren Staff | Apr. 17, 2017Though the Gators fell short of a national title on Saturday, there were still many memorable moments throughout their run to the NCAA Championships.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Event honoring UF’s black history aims to spread word
By Paige Fry | Apr. 17, 2017After a man intimidated two members of UF’s African American studies program, students and faculty attended a teach-in on Monday to heal and educate others about black history.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF extends counter offer in GAU health care negotiation
By Romy Ellenbogen | Apr. 17, 2017After more than a month without a counter offer, UF offered Graduate Assistants United a new proposal for their health care plan Monday.
METRO
Copper Monkey sold on eBay
By EMILY COCHRANE< | Apr. 17, 2017Averie Johnson considers everyone at the Copper Monkey family.
METRO
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CITY COUNTY COMMISSION
Construction of downtown Gainesville fire station begins
By Molly Vossler | Apr. 17, 2017After nearly 10 years of planning, the construction of Gainesville Fire Rescue’s new Station 1 has finally begun.
METRO
Ranger: Horse-gator clash not uncommon
By Molly Vossler | Apr. 17, 2017By now, nearly 2 million people have seen the YouTube video of a wild horse and an alligator squaring off in the middle of Paynes Prairie State Preserve Park.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
After $16.6 million renovation, 24/7 study center opens
By David Hoffman | Apr. 17, 2017With finals week looming and the struggle to find study spaces on campus intensifying, students were introduced to UF’s new 24/7 study space Monday.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF researcher shows video therapy benefits OCD patients
By Meg Schloss | Apr. 17, 2017UF researchers have found that patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who otherwise wouldn’t have access to in-person treatment can benefit from video therapy.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Watermelon disease irks farmers
By David Hoffman | Apr. 17, 2017Last March, Gail Hodge hoped for a good harvest. But within a month, 40 percent of her family farm’s watermelon crops had gone bad.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
My contradictory life: Balancing nutrition, health with death-defying stunts
Apr. 17, 2017Due to the increasing pervasiveness and equal awareness of obesity as a health problem, especially in the U.S., it has become a truism today to inform the public about caring for themselves and their bodies. I’m quite aware of this beneficial trend in fitness, and I’m a firm believer in the idea that “your body’s a temple, and you should worship it.” However, in a quasi-paradoxical fashion, I also believe you should go out into the great unknown and destroy yourself if you must.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Condemning hate isn’t enough
Apr. 17, 2017We’re not going to wait until the end of this editorial to cut to the chase, so here it is: UF needs to do more than just condemn hate after the fact.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
A thank you letter from one nostalgic graduate
Apr. 17, 2017Nearly two years ago, I received a text from the newly appointed Alligator opinions editor while on a Greyhound bus full of potential sorority girls barreling down Museum Road toward Pi Beta Phi. It read, “Hey. Do you want to have a column in the Alligator?” Immediately, I thought to myself, “Hell no.” Yet for some unbeknownst reason, I texted back, “Sure, when do I start?”
