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NEWS | CAMPUS

UF requires health insurance, but do students want that?

By Anna Wilder | Jan. 16, 2020

Student health insurance is $2,500 annually

UF President Kent Fuchs and Wageningen University and Research Executive Board President Louise Fresco planted a 9-foot live oak tree Thursday for Florida Arbor Day. This is part of an initiative to plant 100 “UniversiTREEs” across the world.

NEWS | CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

UF plants tree with world’s top agricultural university at Florida Arbor Day ceremony

By AJ Bafer | Jan. 16, 2020

The act was a collaboration with Wageningen University and Research

NEWS | CAMPUS

Students, professors unfamiliar with sexual assault prevention program

By Hannah Phillips | Jan. 16, 2020

Green Dot Gators trains bystanders how to intervene

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TRACK

Gators to compete in Gamecock Open in South Carolina

By Kyle Wood | Jan. 16, 2020

Florida is back in South Carolina this weekend for the second week in a row.

SPORTS | SOFTBALL

UF ranked 5th in Preseason Coaches' Poll

By Payton Titus | Jan. 16, 2020

The Southeastern Conference announced the 2020 Preseason Coaches’ Poll, which surveys all 13 head coaches in the league, on Wednesday. Of those 13 teams, the defending SEC Tournament-champion Gators were ranked fifth.

SPORTS | MEN'S BASKETBALL

Guards will be key vs. Auburn

By Joseph Salvador | Jan. 16, 2020

The Florida men’s basketball team suffered one of its most mortifying losses of the season after what seemed like a Missouri shootaround on Saturday night.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TENNIS

Texas beats UF in top-ranked match

By Noah Ram | Jan. 16, 2020

Wednesday’s match was a huge opportunity for the Gators men’s tennis team.

OPINION | COLUMNS

President Fuchs on Florida Arbor Day

Jan. 16, 2020

This week, I planted a live oak on the lawn of the Reitz Union near the Field and Fork Pantry. The planting ceremony was with Louise Fresco, the president of Wageningen University, in celebration of the collaboration between our universities and in honor of Wageningen’s centennial anniversary. Wageningen, based in the Netherlands, is the world’s No. 1-ranked university focusing on agriculture.

SPORTS | GYMNASTICS

Florida travels to face Missouri

By Noah Ram | Jan. 16, 2020

Over the course of the next two weeks, the Florida gymnastics team will face two Tigers.

SPORTS | COLUMNS

It is time to say “Ok, Boomer” to the NCAA

By Payton Titus | Jan. 16, 2020

After the LSU Tigers defeated Clemson in the College Football Playoff National Championship game, video circulated of what appeared to be a tipsy Odell Beckham Jr. distributing fistfulls of cash to wide receivers Jontre Kirklin and Justin Jefferson, the latter having declared for the NFL draft earlier this week.

SPORTS | WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Florida upended by 24th-ranked Tennessee

By Bryan Matamoros | Jan. 16, 2020

Ranked opponents have been kryptonite for Florida’s women’s basketball team this season, with the Gators losing each of its four games against top-25 foes by an average margin of 25.3 points.

Jamie Douglas, an 18-year-old UF telecommunication sophomore, chants in solidarity with Iranian and Iraqi people at an anti-war demonstration on Turlington Plaza Wednesday afternoon.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF community protests war with Iran on Turlington Plaza

By Meghan McGlone | Jan. 16, 2020

About 100 students huddled in a crowd, clapping and chanting “No war with Iran” while surrounding Naz Hussein. An Iraqi flag covered her back, slightly fluttering in the wind.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter to the Editor: Be heard through elections

Jan. 16, 2020

Returning from winter break, I am sure that many other students can sympathize with my struggle to avoid arguments over politics at family gatherings. My experiences have led me to this: Imagine if only people who voted were allowed to start arguments over the holiday dinner table?

OPINION | COLUMNS

Trump’s Soleimani killing puts Americans at risk

Jan. 16, 2020

On Friday, it was revealed Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed in a drone strike ordered by President Trump. Because of this, the U.S. is lurching toward a dangerous situation in Iran.