Sports
Column: It’s time for Florida fans to re-evaluate their relationship with Florida’s football program
By Ethan Bauer | Nov. 25, 2017There needs to be a reckoning.
Opinion: Columns
Sports
Column: Three possible explanations for Florida football’s “Emojigate”
By Dylan Dixon | Nov. 21, 2017Ladies and gentleman, we have a mystery on our hands.
Sports
Column: The case for Randy Shannon as Florida's next head coach
By IAN COHEN | Nov. 19, 2017Please, save me your sighs.
Opinion
Take a moment this week to find something to be thankful for
Nov. 19, 2017As I’m sure you're aware, Thursday is Thanksgiving. As I’ve wished friends and classmates a happy holiday, I’ve gotten mixed reactions. Some wish me the same. Some gush about family traditions and Thanksgiving foods. Some talk about seeing their families for the first time in four months. Some talk about partying with high school friends. Some, however, scoff at the well wishes. They say they hate Thanksgiving because it celebrates colonialism and the abuse of Native Americans. They hate it because they can’t stand their families (or their families’ political beliefs). They hate it because they don’t like the food or are the only vegan or vegetarian at the table. Or, they hate it because they find it hard to give thanks in that environment.
Opinion
In response to sexual assault, UF’s Code of Conduct Needs a Change
Nov. 19, 2017“I’m low-key scared he’s going to sexually assault me.”
Sports
Column: Win over UAB shows Gators have the tools to beat Florida State
By Matt Brannon | Nov. 18, 2017Are you tired of retorting, “Oh yeah? Well our academics are better,” when a Florida State fan asserts their football team’s superiority? I would be.
Sports
Picks Column Week 12: New Head Coach Edition
Nov. 17, 2017Chip Kelly? Scott Frost? Dan Mullen?
Opinion
Remembering to be thankful: A life of gratitude
Nov. 16, 2017In 2004, after serving as a college dean for two years, I asked my director of human resources for input on my performance.
Opinion
Literature stands the test of time — in ourselves and in the world
Nov. 16, 2017When I first read Tom Stoppard’s play, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” I was in what I like to dub the first great existential crisis of my life. It was my senior year of high school and the only thing that gave me any sense of purpose in my life was focusing on college applications. Getting into college — my top choice, specifically — was the only goal I had. After that, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to study or what I wanted to do. I was beginning to realize the be-all and end-all of my high school life was not the be-all and end-all of life.
Opinion
True art and artists are not limited to just one medium
Nov. 16, 2017The saying “Jack of all trades, master of none” might apply to most areas of life, but I don’t believe art is one of them. Out of all the types of skills to have, artistic competency has to be one of the most malleable because of its inclusion of more than simply technical ability. Making broad generalizations about anything creatively done is something worth straying away from, but I think there is something to be said about what makes truly great art.
Sports
Column: The NCAA is the wrong type of savage
By Skyler Lebron | Nov. 15, 2017The NCAA has a microscopic amount of chill.
Opinion
We have constructed a culture of “L’s”
Nov. 14, 2017I’m prone to losing. Just this week, I walked right into a table in Midtown, which left me with a fist-sized bruise on my hip and a drink spilled all over me. I also accidentally texted a screenshot of a conversation to the person I was having that conversation with. I started uncontrollably crying at a Bon Iver concert and, like all of you, watched the Gators lose.
Opinion
Reframing the race conversation
Nov. 14, 2017I don’t think the only problem with Richard Spencer is that he is a white supremacist. The problem with Spencer is that he provides a bogus answer to a legitimate and enigmatic question academia has left unexplored: What does it mean to be white in 21st century America?
Opinion
College students deserve a hands-on education to prepare them for careers
Nov. 14, 2017Up until recently, I thought most classes in college weren’t composed of multiple choice tests. I figured college was a place you got your hands dirty and learned how to deal with real-life material, as you would in your professional field. While my major (journalism) and some others actually do this, I feel most of the majors offered at UF are lacking when it comes to providing students with real world experiences. It’s time we start talking about this.
Sports
Column: What sucks more than the College Football Playoff? Nothing.
By Dylan Dixon | Nov. 12, 2017Out of all the unpopular opinions I’ve formed about sports, there isn’t one I stand by more firmly than this: I hate the College Football Playoff.
Opinion
A call to end the all-too-prevalent gaslighting culture in the US
Nov. 12, 2017You may have heard of the term gaslighting. It can happen between supposed friends, between an employee and their superior or in any other relationship. Whether within our own student organizations or on a national scale, it happens every day.
Opinion
In search of an understanding of prejudice
Nov. 12, 2017Last Wednesday, I was at my usual weekly Undergraduate Philosophy Society meeting (shameless plug, check us out on Facebook). That evening, the discussion centered around how we should attempt to understand bullying and how to prevent kids from doing it. Quickly, the group of us recognized the ways in which bullying mirrors — and frequently reflects — different phobias and other bad “-isms” like homophobia, racism, sexism and transphobia.
Opinion
When yes means no: Blackouts and sexual assault
Nov. 12, 2017Jamie (which is not the real name of the victim) woke up on the floor next to a couch she didn’t recognize. The party was a few hours old.
Sports
Column: Florida is terrible. But Saturday’s loss showed why its games are still worth watching
By Ethan Bauer | Nov. 11, 2017COLUMBIA, S.C. — It started, like most good moments for Florida’s football team this season, with a punt.
Sports
Column: Gators coach Randy Shannon let his quarterback risk a major injury, and his explanation isn’t great.
By Matt Brannon | Nov. 11, 2017It looked bad. Malik Zaire crumbled after taking the snap and shifting his weight to left leg.
