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UF travels to College Station

By Joseph Salvador | Oct. 17, 2019

Florida will compete in the Arturo Barrios Invitational in College Station, Texas, on Saturday at 9 a.m., hosted by the Texas A&M Aggies. It will be UF’s final meet before the SEC Championship.

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Florida set to face Missouri

By Dylan O'Shea | Oct. 17, 2019

UF’s swimming and diving teams are on the road, again, against Missouri in their first SEC matchup of the year. It’s Florida’s fifth-straight road meet before returning home.

Sports

Picks Column: Week 8

Oct. 17, 2019

LSU quarterback Joe Burrow threw as many touchdowns as he did incompletions on Saturday: three.

Kyle Trask leads a UF offense that averages 100 more yards through the air than it did last year.
Sports

Gators and Gamecocks meet at a crucial point

By Kyle Wood | Oct. 17, 2019

The Gators’ meetings with the Gamecocks this season and last have both come at precarious times in Florida’s grueling schedule. For the second year in a row, the Gators will head into the game following a loss, which is quite the coincidence considering UF has lost just four games in the past season and a half.

Metro

Darts and Laurels: Oct. 18

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 17, 2019

The air feels more crisp than usual. You look up to see a dark clouded sky framed by large pine trees and leaves rustling in the cool wind. You’re suddenly thankful you wore your hoodie and jeans. It seems like autumn is finally here. With midterms over, you have time to enjoy one of the finer things in life — pumpkin patches.

Opinion

Letter to The Editor: The impact of climate change on birds

By Camya Robinson | Oct. 17, 2019

As a Florida resident, the impacts of climate change on my immediate environment are not lost on me. As an avid bird watcher, the impacts of climate change on the local bird communities are also not lost on me. One of the potential effects of climate change is an increased intensity of natural disasters. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew devastated Florida’s coastline, and I experienced firsthand the changing sand and vegetation composition. Shorebirds, such as terns, were heavily affected because their breeding grounds are on these beaches.

University

News that should prompt real change

By Kent Fuchs | Oct. 17, 2019

Many university presidents want only to hear and share good news. However, the only way our university can grow stronger and become greater is if we understand and are open to what needs to be improved. 

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2019, file photo, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., speaks during a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become the powerful chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, died Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, of complications from longstanding health issues. He was 68. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Metro

Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings has died

By BRIAN WITTE | Oct. 17, 2019

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, died Thursday of complications from longstanding health problems. He was 68.

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