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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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Come fly with Volaticus
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Video: Come fly with Volaticus

Members of Volaticus, an aerial club at the University of Florida, practice with silks and trapezes in the Nadine McGuire Theater and Dance Pavilion on Monday. The club meets every Monday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.


Florida Alligator
Metro

Secretary of education holds conference on school costs

While some may view the combination of slashed budgets and skyrocketing costs as the death knell for the affordable college education in America, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sees it as nothing more than another round of challenges for what he still considers the greatest educational system in the world.


Florida Alligator
Opinion

Free market leads to tragic effects

William Tew’s Monday letter to the editor and his suggestion that socialist governments have more frequently brain-washed their citizens than capitalist governments should be called into question.


Florida Alligator
Opinion

Negligence caused gay suicides

I am furious and cannot keep silent any longer. For those who are not aware, there has been a series of suicides over the last few weeks with a common theme: people who were being harassed for their sexuality. We all (or at least should) remember Matthew Shepard, the gay student at the University of Wyoming who was brutally beaten and left on a split-rail fence in the middle of nowhere to die.


Florida Alligator
Opinion

‘Teen Mom’ signals demise of America

Everybody with cable TV and a proclivity toward captivating car-wreck television has an opinion on the sorta-famous young mothers on MTV’s “Teen Mom,” but this week marks the first time police started a case against someone based solely on what the baby momma did on MTV.


Florida Alligator
News

Correction

In a story in Monday’s paper about homelessness in Gainesville, a quote was attributed to Craig Lowe.  It was actually said by Theresa Lowe, director of the Office of Homelessness.



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