News
UF, Santa Fe students give back
By RaSheba Jones | Jan. 18, 2016UF and Santa Fe College students picked up trash around Gainesville on Monday.
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News
Reitz to house new startup businesses in Fall
By Gabrielle Calise | Jan. 18, 2016Up to four new student startups will move into the Reitz Union next Fall.
Metro
Runners coat in powder to raise money for epilepsy foundation
By Lauren Johnson | Jan. 18, 2016In the name of fun and charity, Athena Conde threw colored powder at runners Saturday.
Metro
Gainesville Arts Market hosts first event of the year
By Lauren Fernandez | Jan. 18, 2016To Heather Montgomery, jewelry can be made from just about anything.
News
UF receives grant to digitize 30 history books
By Chelsea Hansen | Jan. 18, 2016UF has received a $79,000 grant to digitize out-of-print books.
News
Column: Give women's sports a chance
By Ethan Bauer | Jan. 18, 2016Would you be stunned if Roger Goodell unexpectedly resigned from his post atop the National Football League?
Sports
Men's tennis opens season with dominant victories
By Dylan Dixon | Jan. 18, 2016Florida men’s tennis coach Bryan Shelton and his team can finally move on from the disappointing loss they suffered to Pepperdine in the first round of last season’s NCAA tournament.
News
UF's Dorian Finney-Smith leading by example
By ALEX MAMINAKIS | Jan. 18, 2016Dorian Finney-Smith is a self-proclaimed "laid-back dude."
Sports
Gators find success, miss finals in Spring season opener
By Jake Dreilinger | Jan. 18, 2016The No. 3 Florida women’s tennis team traveled to Las Vegas over the weekend to participate in the 14th annual Freeman Memorial Women’s Tennis Championships at the Fertitta Tennis Complex.
Metro
Husband chronicles wife’s illness
By Meryl Kornfield | Jan. 18, 2016Chuck Ardezzone started documenting his wife’s fight with cystic fibrosis in 2006.
News
Break out the condoms: designing with latex
By Katelyn Newberg | Jan. 18, 2016UF students will use colorful condoms to create accessories as part of an event to educate students about sexual health.
Metro
Research shows hookah may not be the safe alternative to cigarettes after all
By Morgan Miller | Jan. 18, 2016Hookah may create 25 times more tar than a cigarette, according to a recent report published by the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences.
Metro
Hundreds march for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
By Hunter Williamson | Jan. 18, 2016Jamal Ransom said he’ll never forget leading a march for the 30th anniversary of Martin Luther King Day.
News
Santa Fe Police Department teaches how to react in active shooter scenario
By Hunter Williamson | Jan. 18, 2016While it might be unpleasant to imagine being in the middle of an active shooter situation, knowing how to react is important if the scenario ever presents itself.
Metro
911 Report: Car Chase, Assaulting a Police Officer
By Martin Vassolo | Jan. 18, 2016Police arrest Gainesville man after high-speed car chase
Metro
Thomas Center hosts Latino art celebration
By Elizabeth Pantaleon | Jan. 18, 2016Rebecca Micha knows music, and this weekend she enjoyed a fusion of Latino art and jazz.
Opinion
Editorial: A dreamer’s work is never done
Jan. 18, 2016As the lack of a paper attested to, Monday marked the 30th celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday. Although we cannot speak with authority for the rest of the country, here in Gainesville, the dream of Dr. King remains apparent and palpable. On Tuesday, UF will be visited by Virginia Tech professor and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, whose speech will serve as the cornerstone event to the university’s celebrations of Dr. King’s life.
Opinion
Column: One last look at Zadroga and the up-hill battle
Jan. 18, 2016For those of you who read my column regularly — hi, Mom and Dad! — you know the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act is a piece of legislation I kept close track of last semester. Well, on Dec. 18, the Zadroga Act was finally reauthorized via its inclusion in the omnibus bill, the spending agenda Congress crafts for the following year.
Opinion
Column: Junior year, the academic limbo
Jan. 18, 2016As far as religious doctrines go, I don’t remember much from my eight-year stint in Catholic school. The lessons occasionally flash bright in my mind, triggered by some sort of stimulus, like an evangelical billboard on the highway or a literary allusion. Yet, one concept has always stuck with me: limbo. Something about that transitional state, not quite hell but not quite heaven, struck me as the worst possible fate.
Opinion
Column: Gainesville can do more recycling
Jan. 18, 2016Before Yoda — the force-sensitive and elderly cousin of Kermit the Frog — effervesced into the great beyond in 1980, he left us with this peerless wisdom: “Do or do not. There is no try.”
