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Thursday, June 12, 2025

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NEWS  |  FEATURES

After Meth: Drugs left Weeks lonely, helpless

The eyes of Donna Gail Weeks tell a story that could rip the toughest leather binding. The whites, chiseled with scraggy red lines, contain two empty black holes that seem to yearn for a world beyond the forbidding confines of prison walls, where she will spend the next 6 1/2 years.


SPORTS

Heisman Watch: Week 5

Eventually, a couple of players will have to start separating themselves from the rest of the pack to win the Heisman Trophy, but until then, our alligatorSports Heisman Watch will continue to have shake ups.


NEWS

Comfy Chat

Brett Boncore, a UF sophomore, holds a sign advertising "Couch Talk." The couch, which Boncore and friends Michelle Hubbard and Daniel Hemme set up on the Plaza of the Americas, is intended to give students a place to just come and talk about their lives, he said.


NEWS

Stringing It Along

Wolfe Cronin, a UF mechanical engineering junior, lies on a bench next to the "potato" on Turlington Plaza while playing his guitar to pass the time in between classes Monday afternoon.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Senate should not vote on resolution

The Resolution Affirming Support for the State of Israel that Senate will be voting on tonight is a travesty. Every word of it represents the extremist pro-Israel position, from the first Whereas clauses that subtly try to deny any right of Palestinians to the land and which gloss over the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that took place during the founding of Israel, to quotes from president Ahmadinejad of dubious authenticity and support for sanctions against Iran (not unlike the ones that killed 500,000 Iraqi children in the 1990s), to trying to cover up the slaughter of over 1,300 innocent civilians by Israel in Gaza this December and January.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

SG should adopt resolution denouncing Goldstone report

Of many issues to be presented at the Student Senate meeting tonight, one is a resolution calling for the Student Senate to denounce the Goldstone report. The Goldstone report is a UN document ratified by 25 of the 47 nations involved in the UN. It was written after a fact-finding mission by Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda.


Florida Alligator
METRO

Mild exercise could strengthen immunity against colds, flu

As cold and flu season approaches, those who want to prevent from getting sick will pay extra attention to eating well, washing their hands, sleeping for no less than eight hours per night and taking their vitamins. All of these things usually come to mind when one thinks about preparing one's immune system for this time of year, but exercising does not.


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