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Clay Calvert, former director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at UF, gives a speech about the legality of academic freedom at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tuesday, March 28, 2023.
NEWS  |  CAMPUS

UF staff unions host discussion of academic freedom

At the UF Ethics in the Public Sphere’s “Pizza and Public Ethics” event Tuesday, Paul Ortiz, UF history professor, spoke to over 40 listeners gathered in Smathers Library on the role of unionizing in protecting academic freedom. He was joined by Clay Calvert, former UF professor and director of the UF Law’s First Amendment Center. 


A new sign outside the entrance of Marston Science Library advertising its 24-hour schedule is seen Sunday, March 26, 2023.
NEWS  |  CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE

A late night at Marston Science Library

Marston Library began to offer 24/7 services March 19 through a pilot study funded by Provost Joe Glover. The study, which will fund the expanded hours for the remainder of the Spring and Fall 2023 semesters, will collect data on overnight hour usage to advise future funding decisions. 


Pastor Lynn Fonfara, 75, stands at the podium at the front of the University Lutheran Church in Gainesville Sunday, March 19, 2023. “There's always some personality things that have nothing to do with my being a man or a woman,” she said. “It's just the nature of the congregation sometimes is a little funky...around 1990 I started seeing women as pastors. But that's 20 years after women were first ordained in ELCA.”
NEWS  |  FEATURES

Gainesville religious leaders field sexism, pushback

Less job opportunities, lower salaries or being labeled “heretic” is nothing new for women who lead Gainesville’s religious congregations. Although the city’s female religious leaders face adversity, they continue to fight for diverse initiatives and new perspectives of their beliefs.



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