COVID-19
Injuries force players to step up
By Dylan Rudolph | Sep. 10, 2019Florida opens conference play against Kentucky in just three days, and a lot has happened since the Gators kicked off the season two and a half weeks ago. Injuries have already piled up for both teams, and young or inexperienced players will need to fill in.
UF to add external email banner to protect students and faculty
By Alyssa Feliciano | Sep. 10, 2019This week, UF will be taking additional measures to protect students and faculty from being phished.
The most memorable assignment: A Q&A with professor Herbert Lowe 18 years after reporting 9/11
By Ana Escalante | Sep. 10, 2019On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Herbert Lowe was covering the primary election as the southeast Queens reporter for Newsweek.
How to combat mental health stigmas
By Matthew Diaz | Sep. 10, 2019When you picture an asylum, what comes to mind? For many people, it’ll be a prison-like building with white walls and barred windows. Maybe even a “Shutter Island”-esque ocean lockup filled with unknown or unspeakable horrors. I think it’s telling that just googling ‘psychiatric asylum’ brings up images meant to invoke fear: walls with writing scratched into them and patients confined to straitjackets. But is this really the way we should be depicting mental illness, something that 1 in 5 adults will struggle with yearly?
When "self-care" culture becomes unhealthy
By Hannah Whitaker | Sep. 10, 2019Self-care culture. In 2019, you’re bound to see these three words everywhere.
It’s great to be No. 7, but there’s more to be done
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 10, 2019By now, you’ve heard the big news. Gov. Ron DeSantis even made a trip to UF to make the announcement.
Santa Fe College chooses two finalists in presidential search
By Hope Dean | Sep. 10, 2019Nine months after Santa Fe College started searching for a new president, the school announced two finalists — Paul Broadie II and Edward Bonahue.
UF student reported she was raped in Jennings Hall, UPD says
By Dana Cassidy | Sep. 10, 2019A UF student told UF Campus Security Authority she was sexually battered less than a month ago in Jennings Hall.
Former Gators football player Neiron Ball dies at 27
By Tyler Nettuno | Sep. 10, 2019Former Florida and Oakland Raiders linebacker Neiron Ball died of complications after a lengthy battle with a brain illness early Monday morning.
Gainesville woman didn’t want to go to jail. So she stole a patrol car, authorities say.
By Dana Cassidy | Sep. 10, 2019She started a car chase Monday evening
Gators fall short in season-opener despite strong effort
By Jack Braverman | Sep. 9, 2019Severe weather pummeling the Carolinas has seemingly affected everyone but the Gators women’s golf team.
Dinged up Gators look ahead to Kentucky
By Kyle Wood | Sep. 9, 2019Florida’s football team will likely be without two of its biggest playmakers on both sides of the ball when it takes the field Saturday in Lexington, Kentucky.
Gov. Ron DeSantis announces UF’s rise to No. 7 public university in U.S.
By Hope Dean | Sep. 9, 2019Gov. Ron DeSantis entered a small room packed with faculty and media this morning in UF’s Emerson Alumni Hall to give a ‘major announcement’: UF is now the seventh best public university in the U.S.
UF resident assistant charged with battery released as 'high-achieving' student leader
By Dana Cassidy | Sep. 8, 2019A UF resident assistant recently arrested when a student told police he tried to sexually batter her was released from jail after a judge agreed he is a “high-achieving” student leader.
Getting to know some UF stars
By Mari Faiello | Sep. 8, 2019No. 7 Florida is only four games into the 2019 season, and there is still plenty to learn about the veteran-heavy group chasing the program’s first national title.
Gov. Ron DeSantis to speak at UF Monday
By Emma McAvoy | Sep. 8, 2019Gov. Ron DeSantis will make a ‘major announcement’ at UF Monday.
UF Preview prices broke state law. How are they fixing it?
By Hope Dean | Sep. 8, 2019It cost Amy Pearl, a single mother of two college students, about $600 for her and her freshman daughter to attend UF’s orientation this Summer.
UCF spoils Florida’s home opener, 2-0
By Bryan Matamoros | Sep. 8, 2019Florida’s soccer team began the 2019-20 campaign with five straight games on the road over a 16-day span. In that period, the Gators suffered three consecutive defeats to ranked opponents and lost junior forward Deanne Rose to a hamstring injury against then-No.5 Southern California on Aug. 29.
Stop FBS-FCS games
By Kyle Wood | Sep. 8, 2019After I got home from covering Florida football’s 45-0 throttling Tennessee-Martin, something much more entertaining popped up on my Twitter timeline.