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Opinion

Fuchs: A historic (and fun) academic year

By Kent Fuchs | Aug. 31, 2020

Welcome, students!

A group of people wait in line at Midtown to enter “Fat Daddy’s,” a bar in Gainesville on August 28, 2020. This was the bar’s first night reopening for the fall semester.

News

Midtown reopens with reduced seating and smaller crowds

By Ariana Aspuru and Lianna Hubbard | Aug. 31, 2020

Midtown’s socially-distanced bars drove students away by 10 p.m.

Metro

What school will look like for ACPS students

By Sophie Feinberg | Aug. 31, 2020

Less than half of the usual number of students will return to in-person learning

Metro

COVID-19 will continue to impact how students with disabilities learn, leaving setbacks and challenges

By Sophie Feinberg | Aug. 31, 2020

Services are available for children with disabilities through all three learning options offered for the school year

Opinion

Snitches go to heaven, partiers go to hell

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 31, 2020

Sing like a canary in a COVID-19 coal mine.

News

UF Board of Trustees held in-person retreat

By Corbin Bolies | Aug. 30, 2020

As the Fall semester starts, the Board of Trustees gathered—in person—for their annual retreat.

Redshirt junior Ventrell Miller wearing a mask outside of the O'Connell Center. On June 17, the NCAA approved a plan for schools to begin summer workouts in July for the upcoming fall football season.

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COVID-19 and Sports: A six-month timeline

By Ryan Haley | Aug. 30, 2020

March 12 – NCAA cancels the remaining athletic events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments as well as all other championships. Notable sports cut short included gymnastics, golf, baseball, softball, tennis, and track and field.

In the last week, there were 209 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in Gainesville.

Sports

Does this really have to be said?

By Christian Ortega | Aug. 30, 2020

This was going to be a breezy editorial leaning on the camaraderie of Gators across Alachua County doing their part to suppress the spread for the sake of sports. Instead, it’s a desperate call to action from a sports writer that wants to survive this fall semester.

Quarterback Kyle Trask drops back in front of a packed crowd against Tennessee last season. This year, most SEC schools will cap their stadium capacities at about 20 to 25 percent.

Sports

Silent Saturdays: A town without football

By Payton Titus | Aug. 30, 2020

“When the football team’s doing well, the entire town just kind of explodes,” Chandler Small, a Gainesville resident, said on The Ringer’s Cam Chronicles podcast in July.