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Sports
Men’s swimming and diving team heads to Minnesota, women go to Vanderbilt
By Lauren Staff | Oct. 7, 2015After both the UF men and women’s swimming and diving teams captured their sixth-straight All Florida Invitational titles on Sept. 20 in Gainesville, the teams will be tested with a pair of tough road meets against Minnesota and Vanderbilt.
The Avenue
Battle of the Bands event to offer $5000 grand prize
By Elena Castello | Oct. 7, 2015The 2015 Northwestern Mutual Battle of the Bands will bring people together with beer, food, music and a $5,000 grand prize package.
The Avenue
UF student to sell reptiles
By Martin Vassolo | Oct. 7, 2015UF animal sciences senior Joe Richichi shares a two-bedroom apartment with about 50 cold-blooded companions.
Sports
Senior defender fulfilling a role on offense for the Gators
By Kyle Brutman | Oct. 7, 2015The Southeastern Conference is more of a grind than a test, and the No. 12 Florida soccer team has shown it has been able to fill voids that needed to be addressed with the departure of several key players from last season.
News
Susan Webster sworn in as next Student Senate President
By Caitlin Ostroff | Oct. 6, 2015Cheers were heard and hugs were given throughout the Senate chambers as a new Senate President and Pro-Tempore was sworn in.
News
UF engineering students build bionic limbs
By Caitlin Ostroff | Oct. 6, 2015A 7-year-old boy in Naples is getting a special Christmas present — an arm.
News
Jim Obergefell to speak on LGBTQ+ progress
By Alexandra Fernandez | Oct. 6, 2015Jim Obergefell will tell UF students how he helped make history.
Metro
Student attendance was absent at streetlight celebration
By Brooke Baitinger | Oct. 6, 2015Tuffy-Brown Dog didn’t get to socialize with any students Tuesday evening.
News
UF fair aims to end disability stigma
By Ebony Joseph | Oct. 6, 2015When UF psychology sophomore Sarai Almanza started college, she didn’t know she had a learning disorder.
News
Research Roundup: 10/07/2015
Oct. 6, 2015UF astronomer helps capture most comprehensive images of Milky Way
News
UF students start and end Islamic fast together
By Monica Andrade | Oct. 6, 2015At 3:30 a.m., UF international studies freshman Katarina Negron stuck her fork into a stack of five buttermilk pancakes.
Metro
Report recommends loan transparency
By Martin Vassolo | Oct. 6, 2015UF exploratory freshman Megan Lewis expects to be paying off student loans well into her late 30s.
News
Voting poses barriers for IA, PaCE students
By Caitlin Ostroff | Oct. 6, 2015While last week’s Student Government elections had a high voter turnout with more than 10,000 students voting, not all voices were heard.
Opinion
Editorial: SG, we do our jobs — now you do yours
Oct. 6, 2015Late last night, outgoing Student Government Senate President Davis Bean gave his goodbye speech. Bean had the opportunity to speak at length about UF: what the university has taught him, what he’s gained from his time working for it and the wonderful Student Body he’s ostensibly worked to provide for would have all been suitable, substantive and daresay inspirational subjects. Instead, Bean delivered a speech that would have made Donald Trump blush. Flushed with self-congratulatory musings and utter contempt for anyone who dared disagree with him, Bean took his farewell speech, something normally seen as an opportunity for grace and class, and instead chose to run through his personal hit list, with the Alligator among his targets.
Opinion
Our gun culture is terroristic and growing
Oct. 6, 2015Last week, in response to the latest in a long series of mass shootings, various media outlets posted infographics that juxtaposed the number of Americans killed by guns with the number killed by terrorist acts.
Opinion
John Boehner’s resignation presents trouble
Oct. 6, 2015About two weeks ago, John Boehner held a press conference after Pope Francis addressed Congress. A practically cheerful Boehner replaced the weeping one from the previous day as he announced his plan to leave Congress at the end of October. While many expected the speaker to be ousted by the Tea Party bloc of his party, no one could have foreseen Boehner leaving on such an abrupt note.
Opinion
Social media is pretty awesome, helps curate human existence
Oct. 6, 2015On Monday, I participated in a research study. This was not your average, answer-these-three-questions-please-to-save-my-grade type of survey you see plastered all over Facebook.
News
Students de-stress at UF ‘fruvement’ event
By Deshlee Ford | Oct. 6, 2015Two UF students dressed in banana and grape costumes gave passersby colorful balloons.
News
UF students to march for gender equality, HeForShe campaign
By Martin Vassolo | Oct. 6, 2015UF biology freshman Kendall Cantrell won’t go back to Midtown. The last time she was there, the 18-year-old was groped by multiple men at Grog House Bar and Grill.
