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Friday, April 24, 2026

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No. 3 Georgia opens its season with a conference matchup at Vanderbilt. The Bulldogs were the preseason favorite to win the SEC East and are a popular College Football Playoff pick.
Sports

Bye Week Blues: Games to watch

A bye week is long and tedious for college football fans. While Florida’s Week 0 battle with Miami on Aug. 24 was entertaining, it left a hole for the UF faithful this week while the rest of the country gets to watch their team play.


Andrea Lopez, an 18-year-old biomedical engineering freshman at the University of Florida, tie-dyes a shirt Thursday evening during an event for the SWEek of Welcome on the Reitz North Lawn. Lopez said she heard about SWE during E-Swamp and decided she wanted to be a member. 
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Welcome Week Tie Dye

The University of Florida Society of Women Engineers (SWE) hosted a variety of events during the second week of fall semester encouraging students to attend other events and provide an opportunity for them to connect with people from other majors. SWE’s goal is to help empower women across campus to become engineers and leaders in STEM fields. “I just want to be a part of it,” said electro engineering freshman Kathleen Yang about the organization. 


Opinion

Running from our problems: beginner exercises to help you destress

From a marketing perspective, I think that exercise has been criminally mismanaged. If there were a drug that could do for human health everything that exercise can, it would likely be the most valuable pharmaceutical ever developed. The problem comes from the idea that exercise must be really taxing and time-consuming to be effective. While I’m not suggesting that you’ll be an Olympian by doing 30 minutes of exercise every other day, I think most people would be surprised by just how beneficial a few movements can be, not just physically but mentally. 


Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Gator Party is Impact Party with a New Name

If you read the Alligator or checked the Swampy UF memes for top ten public teens Facebook page on Wednesday, you probably heard that a “new” Student Government party was announced: Gator Party. But there’s really nothing new here. Gator Party is Impact Party—just with a different name.



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