COVID-19
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Charging cables now on loan at Marston
By Rosanne Ramraj | Sep. 8, 2016Students can now borrow charging cables for their phones and computers at Marston Science Library.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Clinton hosts conference call, talks of improving college campuses
By Catherine Dickson | Sep. 8, 2016Hillary Clinton urged listeners during a conference call Thursday to actively seek out their peers and help them register to vote.
METRO
Plans revealed for The Standard, UF student wins free rent
By Catherine Dickson | Sep. 8, 2016Across the street from UF’s campus, a new apartment complex will tout a rooftop pool and near-doorstep dining.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Column: Forget the winning streak — UF can’t afford to overlook Kentucky
By Patrick Pinak | Sep. 8, 2016The last time Kentucky beat Florida in football was 1986.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
During memorial, UF student remembered for curiosity, care for life
By Caitlin Ostroff | Sep. 8, 2016Josh Hildebrandt once pulled over on the side of the road to check on a swallowtail butterfly.
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
Florida’s winning streak on line vs. Kentucky
By IAN COHEN | Sep. 8, 2016Jim McElwain looked confused, as if he was prepared for every possible question except for the one that was just asked.
METRO
Gainesville man becomes pho king at local eating contest
By Jasmine Osmond | Sep. 8, 2016After 15 minutes of slurping, sipping and supping to victory, one man ate an infant’s weight in soup Thursday.
SPORTS
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VOLLEYBALL
UF volleyball looking to diversify attack this weekend
By Alejandro López | Sep. 8, 2016To date, Carli Snyder, Alex Holston and Rhamat Alhassan have been the pulse of Florida volleyball’s attack.
METRO
Students, residents to ride bicycles to St. Augustine
By Cindy Barski | Sep. 8, 2016As UF student Samuel Lapeyre races to St. Augustine on Saturday, his time delivering food for Jimmy John’s Sandwiches may come in handy.
SPORTS
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SOCCER
Gators open SEC play with double-overtime victory
By Lauren Staff | Sep. 8, 2016Going into Thursday’s match, Kentucky’s Wendell & Vickie Bell Soccer Complex was No. 5 Florida’s achilles heel.
NEWS
Research Roundup: September 9, 2016
By Molly Vossler | Sep. 8, 2016An August study led by a UF professor has discovered a noninvasive and less expensive method to track the progression of Parkinson’s disease.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS GOLF
Florida to kick off season at Carpet Capital Collegiate
By Jake Dreilinger | Sep. 8, 2016After a strong finish to a successful Spring campaign, the UF men’s golf team is looking to start the Fall in the same fashion.
METRO
New pizzeria ' V Pizza' offers Sicilian slices
By Carolyn Batt | Sep. 8, 2016Since its opening last week, V Pizza in downtown Gainesville has offered slices of Sicily to hungry locals.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Asian Pacific Islander Affairs hosts event with new director
By Karissa Diomampo | Sep. 8, 2016The Asian Pacific Islander Affairs office is welcoming its third director today.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF receives grant to expand Florida Museum’s digital database
By Paige Fry | Sep. 8, 2016A multimillion-dollar grant is helping UF expand a one-of-a-kind digital library of specimens.
OPINION
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DARTS LAURELS
Darts & Laurels: September 9, 2016
Sep. 8, 2016Life is strange. The future is unpredictable. You find that scary. You seek answers everywhere, but the more you discover, the less you know. The confusion slowly dissipates, and fear starts to take its place. All hope seems lost. In the darkness, you see a flicker of light. With curiosity ablaze you chase after the glimmer, and as you grow nearer and nearer you stumble upon the Friday edition of the Independent Florida Alligator. In it, you find something that makes everything okay. That something is…
NEWS
Twitter: Where “Ghostbusters” trolls, Milo Yiannopoulos and free speech collide
Sep. 8, 2016By the time you read this, it will have been more than a month since Twitter took action in what could be a fatal turning point in this social-media giant’s life. On July 19, in the middle of the hot, sweaty media mess that was the Republican National Convention, Twitter took action against the outspoken conservative journalist Milo Yiannopoulos. What resulted was yet another bloody clash of views on free speech along party lines.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Kaepernick and radical social justice
Sep. 8, 2016When San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick protested the national anthem before an NFL preseason game Aug. 26, I felt the ensuing outrage was overblown. I agreed with President Obama’s response — it is Kaepernick’s constitutional right to protest what he sees as a problem of racism and police brutality in America. By the same token, it is also the right of those who disagree with him to criticize him for his method of protest. As far as I was concerned, the discussion ended there.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Slow down and love life around you
Sep. 8, 2016I didn’t have many friends growing up. The few friends I did have were only made because we were stuck together for X number of hours every day from elementary school until high-school graduation. Most of them didn’t stick around too long after the classrooms no longer held us together. I realized shortly after graduation I would be going into college entirely alone in a completely new city, and I was terrified. But now Gainesville feels more like home than my hometown ever did. I feel like I belong here, and I’ve found my niche. I’m able to surround myself with people whom I genuinely care about and who genuinely care about me. What scares me, though, is that this is a town where a solid chunk of its population is constantly in transit, so it’s almost impossible to tell how long these people will be in my life.
