Multimedia
Video: Harvest of Hope
By Alex Orlando | Mar. 17, 2010The Harvest of Hope music festival raises money for migrant farmworkers.
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Multimedia
Video: A Face of Poverty
Mar. 17, 2010For more than two decades, Marcee Lee Winthrop has lived in poverty. Now, she and her daughter are trying to get themselves out of it.
Metro
Same-sex couples get say in Census
By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Mar. 17, 2010For the first time in history, gay and lesbian couples will be counted on the U.S. Census form.
Opinion
A Letter to the City Commission
By John Davies | Mar. 17, 2010The City Commission works for us, the taxpayers, just like the police are supposed to.
Opinion
Alligator coverage on Adu-Brempong case is shameful
By Rob Robins | Mar. 17, 2010The Alligator’s coverage of the shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong has been shameful. The story was first reported not as a front-page headline, as warranted, but buried deep within the paper. What pressing development grabbed the front page headline that day?
Opinion
Alligator missed important point in Adu-Brempong case
By Nick Mildebrath | Mar. 17, 2010Much of the Alligator coverage in the past two weeks has dealt with the actions of the University Police during the tragic shooting of graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong. But another, equally great tragedy is the scant coverage of the extremely poor response to a man suffering from poor mental health.
News
Operation Beautiful fights negative body image
By LYN KRAMER | Mar. 17, 2010About 30 students learned about the definition of beauty and the power of anonymous notes at the Operation Beautiful Forum on Wednesday night in Anderson Hall.
News
Ben Folds fills Phillips Center
By GABRIELLE FALCONEIRI | Mar. 17, 2010Leaving behind green beer and St. Patrick’s Day festivities, 1,577 people headed to the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday night to watch a sold-out Ben Folds performance.
News
Student group holds mock First Amendment protest
By JAMEL F. LANGLEY | Mar. 17, 2010Dressed in military fatigues and boots, UF Society of Professional Journalists President April Dudash led a mock protest of the First Amendment to the Constitution Wednesday afternoon on Turlington Plaza.
Metro
Voter turnout disappoints
Mar. 17, 2010Although Tuesday’s city election saw an encouraging increase in voter turnout from the last mayoral race, election officials see room for improvement.
News
Candidates talk finance
By MINCH MINCHIN | Mar. 17, 2010Richard Selwach will sell you a handgun, but he won’t take a handout. Craig Lowe bought enough stamps to mail 23,672 first-class letters. Ozzy Angulo preferred to campaign by city bus.
News
Officers involved in grad student shooting placed on administrative duty
Mar. 17, 2010The five University Police officers involved in the March 2 shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong were placed on administrative duty under UPD policy.
News
UF clinic offers free screenings to check hearing problems
By KELLY MORGAN | Mar. 17, 2010About 20 people attended UF’s Speech and Hearing Clinic, located at 1405 NW 13th St., to receive a free hearing screening Wednesday.
News
Shakespeare hits park
By ANDREW PANTAZI | Mar. 17, 2010There will be eavesdropping, matchmaking and lying on the Plaza of the Americas today, Saturday and Sunday.
Metro
Mobile museum outlines Fla. farmworkers’ poverty
By ERIN O’DEA | Mar. 17, 2010A plain white delivery truck with pictures of fruit was parked near Library West on Wednesday, but the inside of the truck was less plain — chain and news clippings with the word “slavery” in every headline covered the walls.
News
Timmy 2.0
By Harrison Diamond | Mar. 17, 2010Former UF quarterback Tim Tebow shows off his improved mechanics and new throwing motion for NFL coaches and scouts at UF’s Pro Scout Day in The Swamp on Wednesday. Tebow and other UF pro prospects, including Joe Haden and Brandon Spikes, worked out for teams.
Opinion
St. Hacktrick’s Day
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 17, 2010In a society that goes out of its way to celebrate the mediocre — Applebee’s restaurants, allowing the Detroit Lions to be televised on Thanksgiving Day, ‘80s music — we really outdo ourselves on March 17.
Opinion
Columnist ties basketball to politics
Mar. 17, 2010Today roughly marks the one-year anniversary of the unquestioned pinnacle of Barack Obama’s presidency – the bracket he filled out for last year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Mired in the muck of a massively unsatisfying and restive term as the leader of the free world, President Obama now must re-calibrate his approach and perhaps use the basketball acumen of his inner circle to a decided political advantage.
Opinion
Hawhyii: Birther bill may do more harm than good
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 17, 2010More than a year after Barack Obama was elected president, his home state is finally trying to grow a pair.
Sports
No. 6 Gators even season series with No. 5 Seminoles
Mar. 16, 2010FSU lived dangerously, and Preston Tucker made the Seminoles regret it.
