Nine days after working out for NFL scouts at Florida’s Pro Day, former Florida linebacker Daniel McMillian was booked in Alachua County Jail on Thursday night.
In the final moments of Tuesday night’s game between the Indiana Pacers and Toronto Raptors, Pacers guard Lance Stephenson scored an uncontested layup with 3.3 seconds left in the game. The blue-and-gold-clad crowd in Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis erupted with excited applause.
Kyle Trask is in his high school coach’s office, and he’s angry.
When Feleipe Franks stepped foot on UF’s campus last Spring as an early enrollee, the level of hype and expectation surrounding his arrival was through the roof.
The Florida Gators football team hasn’t produced a 1,000-yard receiver since 2002.
Coach Roland Thornqvist described this weekend’s matches against Ole Miss and Mississippi State as “another weekend in the SEC.” However, there’s more to it than that.
Weather has been a factor for the UF men’s tennis team recently.
In front of an audience, Gator lunged.
This article has been updated to reflect that Jacob Soboroff declined payment.
Gainesville Police arrested a local man Thursday after they say he pushed and choked employees at Rowdy Reptile.
At least two people were injured Thursday afternoon after a driver crashed into two other cars.
Growing up in Tampa, Vincent Adejumo was used to seeing drugs.
For the first time in his life, Paul Burns woke up at 4:30 a.m.
On any given day, Angela McCall spends up to 14 hours in the UF Health Science Center working in the lab.
That was the message at a presentation Thursday night after Paul Losch, a UF head librarian, discussed letters that tied fake news, the Gainesville Sun and the Cuban War of Independence together.
There’s supposed to be a witty introduction here. It’s supposed to be a short paragraph and elicit a bit of a smile or chuckle from you, dear readers, depending on how expressive you’re feeling today. But it’s that last stretch of the semester, so chances are the best we’re going to get out of you is a slight nod, maybe a twitch of the mouth in the upward direction. We’re just going to leave it at this and invite you to read the week’s…
By now, the U.S. Senate may already have dispensed with tradition and confirmed Judge Neil Gorsuch by simple majority. They would have done this by invoking what is dramatically termed the “nuclear option” — a process by which Senate rules are changed to allow a confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominees with 51 (instead of 60) votes.
One of the preeminent intellectuals of the last century, Noam Chomsky’s quote is aimed directly at our generation: “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” Nicole Dan’s recent publication posits that paying for Ben Shapiro’s appearance at UF by Accent represents not only their ignorance, but (at worst) sanctioned approval of his message. This is not only incorrect, but close-minded. Higher education is tasked with challenging assumptions, facilitating experiences and, god forbid, making us uncomfortable. To stick our head in the sand and ignore the perspectives of opposition parties not only insulates us from diverse perspectives and facilitates groupthink, but “other-izes” the very individuals we need to engage with the most. She argues that “there’s no room for dialogue when someone believes that a group doesn’t have the right to exist.” These moments necessitate discussion the most. As exemplified by the riots at University of California, Berkeley at the appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos, our fear of hearing things that disturb us not only closes paths to dialogue, but alienates others. With Shapiro’s appearance having passed, consider these words: Apathy is the greatest insult. Protest, post on social media, but above all, don’t close your eyes. To do so is nothing less than intellectual dystrophy and further entrenches that which you purport to hate in our mainstream culture.
Dear Mr. Weldon,
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