I have lived in France and Ivory Coast, two countries targeted by IS and al-Qaida in 2016. I grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, the most dangerous city in the world. Yet I have never felt as unsafe as I did last week when I listened to a class debate in which students gave incredibly offensive speeches.
The UF men’s tennis team travelled to Virginia looking for its third straight win over a top-10 opponent and first victory over Virginia under coach Bryan Shelton.
After only 10 minutes had passed in the match, Florida fans at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center became silent.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Florida Gators softball team started the year with an undefeated record at the USF-Wilson Demarini Tournament in Tampa.
Mike Holloway’s answer was simple.
Sunday wasn’t supposed to be easy for freshman guard Delicia Washington.
Some students and fans have welcomed coach Jim McElwain as God’s gift to football since he won his first Gators game in 2015.
Mike White was smiling.
Alexis Brocious’ petition started as a joke, but then more than 300 people signed it.
UF admitted 13,214 students to start in Summer and Fall, UF spokesperson Steve Orlando wrote in an email. The university received more than 34,000 applications this year. In 2016, 42.5 percent were admitted from about 32,000 applicants, and 44 percent were admitted for the class of 2019.
The Student Government Judiciary Committee failed a proposal Sunday to remove language in SG codes stating remote online voting is unconstitutional.
A UF student was killed and two others were injured Saturday night after a drunk driver hit them at a bus stop, police said.
University Police increased patrols near UF’s Anderson Hall after racist messages were found scrawled on a classroom’s whiteboard Friday.
As Rachel Tanchak reached out to grab some Cinnamon Toast Crunch for breakfast Saturday in UF’s Gator Corner Dining Center, a cockroach crawled under the cereal bin.
UF professor Patricia Hilliard-Nunn told a group of about 130 Saturday that a discussion on race needs to cover institutional racism in the U.S.
UF students Hali McKinley Lester and Sandra Vizer saw headlines about the refugee crises in Syria and Iraq, and they knew they wanted to help.
When a live grenade landed near his squadron, Cpl. Duane Dewey thought on his feet, shoving the grenade into his pocket to spare his fellow Marines.
Nowadays it’s increasingly common for celebrities and entertainers to take a public stance on politics. With the ability to air their thoughts and opinions on social media with a few clicks, everyone is mostly aware of what celebrities have to say. It’s an interesting phenomenon.
Our whole lives, we work to be independent. College is our first shot at independence, and quite frankly, most of us blow it at least a little bit at the beginning. Try as we might to stop relying on other people, we can never hope to be truly free from some sort of dependence on others, and that’s OK.
Asian Americans in film are hard to come by — and portrayals that don’t rely on stereotypes are even more sparse. I had always been aware of this to some extent, but this past week, as I was working on a project for my web apps class, it became even more clear. The assignment was to create a database, and so I sought to create a database of movies with diverse casting — movies that didn’t have a completely white main cast. I saw this as a relatively low standard to meet, but I was surprised how hard it was to come by films that met my standard. It was a struggle to find films with an inclusive cast across different genres, but when I started specifically looking for more Asian American casts, I had to dig further into years past. One of the only films in the past year I could easily find with an Asian American lead was “Lion,” which stars Dev Patel.
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