In 40-degree weather, about 20 protesters in Gainesville huddled together under overcast skies to protest a pipeline set to run through Alachua County.
For four hours Sunday, Charlie Rash sat alone waiting for someone to sign up with his Student Government party.
“Thank you for all the memories,” Ornella Saragusti wrote in chalk on the wall of her home away from home Saturday.
In the past week, we’ve tried to give this new administration the bene t of the doubt. We’ve talked about choices, keeping in mind that statistically, half our readership voted for our new president. Though we’ve expressed hesitation at some of his more bombastic orders, we have tried to hope that in the end, moderation would win out. But we cannot do that anymore.
After 40 years spent feeding burritos to Gainesville’s hungry students and residents, Burrito Bros. Taco Co. will serve its last meal Saturday.
Cuba is an island trapped in time. Old American and Russian cars zip through crumbling avenues and around 1920s-era buildings. Some are painted bright colors, others are faded or outright falling into ruin. The Caribbean sun beats down intensely, made more gentle by a forgiving ocean breeze. Perpetual sounds of crowded streets, howling merchants, roaring automobiles and music fill the air. You will catch whiffs of diesel exhaust, hot food or perhaps just the sea.
About 100 students and community members joined a musical procession Sunday to celebrate the completion of a hand-written Torah.
After tempers flared at a four-hour protest against the use of a swastika on campus, UF students relieved their stress with dogs and doughnuts Friday.
In a theatrical performance, 14 men and a nun discussed what should happen to a woman’s body on Saturday.
Students gathered on UF’s North Lawn on Friday to demolish a wall of hate, for some a metaphor for their country’s current political backdrop.
Many UF students, faculty and staff may wonder why the university has not banned the individual wearing the swastika from our campus. The answer is rooted in the First Amendment and the role of state officials. As interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, the First Amendment protects hateful, disturbing and offensive speech from government censorship — at least as long as the speaker is peacefully expressing his views in a public space without threatening anyone’s physical security.
Members of the UF community gathered around a man preaching about love on Friday — a day after students and faculty members protested against a man wearing a swastika armband.
In big block letters over the whiteboard, the poster read, “Good teachers don’t teach you what to think. They teach you how to think.” Even at 16, I knew my 10th-grade AP World History teacher embodied the message she had hung up in her classroom. She taught well, with respect for us and pride for her work, with the kindness and empathy to reach way back into the early days of history and teach us angsty adolescents a thing or two.
For the first time in over a year, Florida’s swimming and diving teams had a home meet at the O’Connell Center.
Devin Robinson missed an open shot, picked up his second foul and took a seat on the bench.
In the last routine of the meet, junior All-American Kennedy Baker stepped up to the mat.
Once the thick crowds of college students exhaust last calls for alcohol and slowly scatter from Midtown’s bar scene early Saturday morning, 101 Cantina will close its doors for good.
The men who assaulted swastika-wearer Michael Dewitz on Thursday kicked and punched him before one of them burned Dewitz’s swastika-emblazoned jacket in a grill, police said.
In last week’s victory against No. 6 Auburn, the Gators men’s swimming and diving team — which won 10 out of 16 events — improved its dual-meet win streak to three.
Fireworks.
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