Metro
YMCA to remain open, yet still faces financial hardship
By Molly Vossler | Jan. 30, 2017After months of uncertainty, the North Central Florida YMCA announced Monday its doors will remain open.
COVID-19
Opinion
Go ahead and make others’ happiness your happiness — you won’t lose
Jan. 30, 2017Professor Bishop was rather proud of my last column, and I must say it was cathartic to put myself out there and admit to my clockwork, mechanical nature. Having people know me as an automaton doesn’t feel so different from being known as a human; friends accepted it fairly quickly, although I’m getting tired of people asking to use me as their personal calculator. I’ll say this now: No, I cannot tutor you in Elementary Ordinary Differential Equations. Yes, I can calculate the answers to any questions you may have in mathematics, anthropology and philosophy in the blink of an eye. No, it would not be ethical to do the latter. However, my operating system is open-source, if you’d like to take a look at it.
Opinion
Rage, rage against the dying of the light — A message to activists
Jan. 30, 2017It has been a hard week, that much is evident. On an international, national and local scale, there’s been so much fear, hate and uncertainty. Some of you, dear readers, want to fight back, but it feels like you are yelling into a vast, empty canyon, your voices resonating loud and clear but eventually disappearing into the air, drowned out by the wind. Some of you are tired. Perhaps you fought once, perhaps you kicked and roared and screamed, perhaps your voices, too, were lost to the wind. And some of you carry on, unaware, unconcerned, because this fight isn’t yours, this battle is one you kind of wanted to win in the first place — though you won’t admit that now as the discontent grows.
Opinion
Part two: Observations in modern-day Cuba
Jan. 30, 2017Three major changes happened just prior to my visit to Cuba. First, direct commercial flights began flying between the U.S. and Cuba. I paid a little more than $200 for a round trip with JetBlue, purchasing my tickets only a couple weeks in advance. Of course, you must still fit into one of the 12 exceptions for travel if you are an American, but travel agencies and cruise lines (which have only recently begun docking in Cuban ports) have found ways around this, constructing educational and “people-to-people” itineraries. Regardless, the airline has you sign an affidavit indicating your official purpose of travel, a requirement which became clear to me that many Americans fabricate or exaggerate. No one ever checked my press credentials.
Sports
UF women’s golf to open Spring season
By Morgan McMullen | Jan. 29, 2017After a three-month layoff from their last team tournament, the Gators women’s golf team is finally hitting the links again this afternoon in Lecanto, Florida.
Sports
UF track wins five times at Razorback Invitational
By Daniel Smithson | Jan. 29, 2017The Florida track and field team notched several victories at the Razorback Invitational over the weekend.
University
UF under federal investigation for alleged mishandling of sexual violence report
By Paige Fry | Jan. 29, 2017UF is the latest of 225 colleges and universities under federal investigation for possibly mishandling a sexual violence complaint.
Sports
‘New year… new team’: Gators men’s tennis shines
By Mark Stine | Jan. 29, 2017The Ring Tennis Complex is becoming a stronghold for the Florida men’s team, as it registered victories over two schools in the ITA Kick-Off Tournament this weekend.
Sports
Top-ranked women’s tennis dominates in ITA Kick-Off
By Spencer Thompson | Jan. 29, 2017Entering the season, expectations were high for the Florida women’s tennis team. It held the No. 1 ranking, it was the SEC coaches’ pick to win the conference and its head coach boasted that this was his most talented team in 16 years. But despite the pressure, the Gators are living up to the hype.
University
Gators fans: Don’t root for the Patriots
By Matt Brannon | Jan. 29, 2017The Swamp is dry. The Gators are hibernating. But that doesn’t mean Florida football fans can relax.
Sports
Williams' career game leads UF to second SEC win
By Dylan Dixon | Jan. 29, 2017As Ronni Williams strolled off the court at Memorial Gymnasium for the final time on Sunday afternoon, she was drenched in sweat and breathing heavily.
Metro
‘This ban affects us all’: Protesters march against order
Jan. 29, 2017Kimia Ghaffari held her hand to her throat Sunday, taking in the protest the Irani immigrant spent two days planning.
Metro
101 Cantina draws final crowd before closing
By Meryl Kornfield | Jan. 29, 2017As thick crowds of college students exhausted the last call for alcohol and slowly scattered from Midtown’s bar scene early Saturday morning, 101 Cantina closed its doors for good.
University
After protests, students find relief with dogs and doughnuts
By Scottie Andrew | Jan. 29, 2017After 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.
University
After swastika protests, 200 remember Holocaust at UF rally
By Paige Fry | Jan. 29, 2017Members 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.
Opinion
Unite against hateful speech
Jan. 29, 2017Many 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.
University
After 2-year suspension, Zeta Beta Tau back at UF
By Jimena Tavel | Jan. 29, 2017After a two-year ban from campus, the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity is back at UF.
University
For 15th year, wall of hate razed at UF
By Jamie Honowitz | Jan. 29, 2017Students 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.
Metro
City celebrates abortion rights
By Molly Vossler | Jan. 29, 2017In a theatrical performance, 14 men and a nun discussed what should happen to a woman’s body on Saturday.
Metro
New Torah celebrated at Jewish center Sunday
By Molly Vossler | Jan. 29, 2017About 100 students and community members joined a musical procession Sunday to celebrate the completion of a hand-written Torah.
