As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went head-to-head in the first of three presidential debates Monday, hundreds gathered around Gainesville and UF, glued to television sets as the candidates spoke over each other and vied for the nation’s trust.
Lexi Rodriguez was 17 when she signed the lease to her first apartment in Gainesville.
UF’s career showcase is getting a new home.
UF Health Shands Hospital opened an additional health emergency center in southwest Gainesville on Monday.
By October, a new artist will add to Gainesville’s growing collection of colorful street art.
With Twitter’s latest update, Natasha Jewett’s job became a lot easier.
The internet has done weird things for comedy. Good things, but certainly weird things. Video-sharing websites like YouTube, Newgrounds and Vine have paved the way for all sorts of art: mediums like sketches, animations and music. The internet digitized the formerly newspaper-dominated comic strip with works like “Penny Arcade” and “xkcd.” And beyond this, the eldritch phenomenon that is memes has introduced audiences to meta-humor and explored the darker side of the human psyche. Memes are spooky stuff.
It’s that time of year again — Student Government elections. The last few years, dear reader, have been as tumultuous as ever. The drama surrounding various party name changes, accusations of nepotism, mudslinging and the seemingly valid conspiracy theories seems to never end, and even as we put the finishing touches on this endorsement editorial, the Not My System movement is preparing a livestream for a Q&A.
Whether it was due to a class discussion on the “student as customer” debate or a fellow columnist’s musings on Rate My Professors or simply my own preoccupation with funding graduate school, my mind keeps coming back to the ways in which higher education and the market economy intersect. Over the past few years, higher education has been increasingly characterized as a business transaction in which the student is the customer “purchasing” a degree and entrance into the job market. It seems innocuous enough, treating college students as valued customers, but despite the increased bargaining power this conceptual shift gives us, it undeniably warps the way we approach our education.
Last week, in the middle of my creative writing class, my teacher stepped out to use the bathroom during our 10-minute break. This is usually a good time to crack light jokes with your neighbor or try and make small talk. Instead, every person except me and another guy was on his or her phone. The only reason I wasn’t looking down at mine was because it was plugged into the wall, charging. There was total silence in the room; nobody even glanced up or attempted to connect with another human being. And then our teacher walked back in and we resumed class. Is this just a minute instance of a current phenomenon I plan on stretching out of proportion? Possibly.
University Police arrested three people Monday for attempting to steal bicycles around campus.
A Gainesville woman robbed an Arby’s at gunpoint before fleeing in a taxi Sunday, Gainesville Police said.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Austin Appleby dropped his shoulder pads on the locker room floor in disappointment.
Historically, the No. 6-ranked Florida volleyball team has dominated Alabama.
In just the second week of fall competition, the Gators have dominated in both the Bedford Cup and at the Southern Intercollegiate Championships.
Florida swimming and diving coach Gregg Troy gushed over Maxime Rooney ahead of UF’s fall season. He said he was excited to see what Rooney would do in his first meet.
In the 69th minute, Savannah Jordan broke the game open.
Freshman Andy Zhang has arrived and made an immediate impact.
Students can now access medical records from UF’s Student Health Care Center through a new online system.
UF business student John Jones misrepresents both the email sent by David Parrott and the overall situation in this country to which the email pertains. Nowhere in Parrott’s email does he imply violence is only committed against African-Americans. He mentions several recent tragedies in which black people were killed by the police in order to promote an event on the subject. Just because a specific type of violence is mentioned in a short email does not mean the sender is implying no other types of violence exist.
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