The Avenue
Fashion Diaries: GFW's 2nd runway
By ALLISON BANKO | Apr. 9, 2010Flashes and flickers illuminated the sparse audience in order to instill the popping mood for what was soon to emerge.
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The Avenue
Fashion Diaries: Gainesville Fashion Week's 1st runway
By ALLISON BANKO | Apr. 9, 2010As the flight attendant on the charcoal runway instructed-seat belts were securely fastened, seats were adjusted to their upright positions and the packed crowd at The Vault Thursday night was all set and ready for take off. Destination? Gainesville Fashion Week 2010's first runway event.
Sports
Something to Prove
Apr. 8, 2010It’s no secret that the Florida football team is facing a major overhaul after losing a host of leaders and starters on both sides of the ball, and as the end of spring practice approaches, the Gators still have a lot of unanswered questions.
Sports
UF takes merry-go-round lineup to UT
By ANTHONY CHIANG | Apr. 8, 2010Inconsistency has prevented the Gators from putting out a consistent lineup.
Sports
UF heads to Utah for regionals
By TOM GREEN< | Apr. 8, 2010If Florida hopes to advance to the NCAA Championships for the 28th time in the event’s 29-year history, the Gators will have to get past a couple of familiar foes Saturday.
Sports
Freshman duo leads Gators softball team into Arkansas series
By GREG LUCA< | Apr. 8, 2010Coming into the season the junior battery of Stephanie Brombacher and Tiffany DeFelice was expected to carry the bulk of the load for the Gators.
Sports
UF lacrosse team looks to continue success with substitution offense
By TONI-ANN MILLER | Apr. 8, 2010Injuries have forced Florida to constantly adjust its offense, but a new tactic and growing team chemistry have led the Gators in the right direction recently.
Sports
UF tennis teams face tough foes in important conference battles
By ANDREW OLSON < | Apr. 8, 2010The Southeastern Conference East standings in both men’s and women’s tennis will be shaped by this weekend’s matches.
Sports
Gators women's golf team hosts lone home tournament of season
By KELSIE HOECHERL | Apr. 8, 2010The No. 10 Florida women’s golf team will host the Gator Women’s Golf Invitational at Mark Bostick Golf Course for the 38th year.
News
Students shed shoes to show sympathy
By ERICA COOK | Apr. 8, 2010A group of about 30 students walked barefoot on campus as part of an international event called One Day Without Shoes.
Opinion
Chivalry is alive and kicking
By ROSETTE CHARLES | Apr. 8, 2010A gentleman is as gentle as the woman he wishes to impress or pursue. When we see chivalry as a long-forgotten, dusty corpse, it means that somewhere inside we have murdered it. The problem with our generation is not that we don’t know how to court, but that women have forgotten how to be women and men have become utterly confused as a result.
Metro
Walk to benefit MS patients
By KELLY MORGAN | Apr. 8, 2010Sharon McDow will be walking for a cure Saturday morning.
News
Students prepare for 16th annual dance marathon
By ALLYSON FOX | Apr. 8, 2010About 725 students will stand up to help the Children’s Miracle Network this weekend at the 16th annual Dance Marathon at UF.
Metro
Drag queens, kings promote pride month
By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Apr. 8, 2010About 300 students attended the Fierce and Fabulous Drag Show, a show for Pride Awareness Month that included several drag kings and queens.
News
Economy affects study abroad programs
By Britt Perkins | Apr. 8, 2010Tatiana Salazar reports to class five times a week to conjugate verbs and use punctuation in French.
Opinion
Protesters should consider officers’ perspective in shooting
By DANIIL SHABASHVILI | Apr. 8, 2010I feel the public is ignoring one side of the graduate student shooting incident, probably because it is easier to identify with the student and not with the police officers. People say things like “I feel like this could happen to me,” or “This should have been handled by mental health professionals,” without really thinking about the situation.
Opinion
Reader tired of people defending student in shooting incident
By CHASE ADLER | Apr. 8, 2010I’m tired of everyone standing up for Kofi. You only have a problem because he is a student like you. You have no reason to defend him. In case you didn’t know, he had been sending e-mails to staff accusing them of wanting to kill him. He was also under the impression he was going to be kidnapped and taken to Africa and slain. He was either on drugs or completely insane. The police officers who broke into his apartment were in the right. They did exactly what they were trained to do. There is no such thing as police brutality. The police are trained to do whatever it takes to subdue a problem. People just blow it out of proportion. Stop defending Kofi, and stop trying to fight the police officers.
Opinion
Columnists should be more serious
By David Gallo | Apr. 8, 2010I am writing to lodge a complaint against Tommy Maple and Ryan Spencer. A column is an opportunity to make people think about ideas and issues in a way that other sections of the newspaper can’t. I believe the two of you often squander this opportunity in an effort to sound humorous and smart. As an avid reader of The New Yorker, where high-brow, and often convoluted language ultimately serves as a flourish to a more important point, I encourage Maple and Spencer to have a little more respect for their readers. I often finish one of their columns and find that thought-provoking substance occupies a marginal space, and the remainder is a weekly exercise in the stringing together of forced metaphors. Now, I know that these columns are supposed to be humorous, and I think they both have a talent for humor. I only ask that if you’re going to write a column with a subject matter of importance, that the subject matter get a little more airtime next to the humor.
Opinion
Darts and Laurels
By Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 8, 2010Get excited, people – the end of the semester is on the horizon. But beware because there’s something else lurking on the surface of the calm waters. And that something has taken the form of an exams-project-and-paper iceberg that will take that optimistic steamboat of yours down if you’re not careful.
News
Accent brings author, motivational speaker to campus
By ELIZABETH BEHRMAN | Apr. 8, 2010Author Jeff Johnson will be speaking Friday night in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom in an event co-sponsored by Accent and the Black Student Union.
