Living History: Shining a light on shadowed stories
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 28This project is dedicated to the people of living history who shared their stories. Please accept your roses while you’re still here.
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Let us introduce ourselves
By The Alligator Editorial Board | June 28Whether you’re fresh out of high school and you’re on your way right now to your very first college class or you’ve been working hard these last few years to transfer to UF, if you don’t know us yet — hi, we’re The Alligator. We’re here to give you the news.
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#SaveStudentNewsrooms: We can’t do this without you
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 25, 2021When you support The Alligator –– or any student newsroom –– you’re not just sponsoring the paper. You’re sponsoring the next generation of journalists.
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We Don’t Care Who You Vote For, Just Vote
Feb. 22, 2021We want to see SG elections that are representative of the student population. The first step to reaching that goal is extremely simple: the mobilization of students to vote in SG elections.
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UF is opening conversations about University Avenue safety. We’ll be listening.
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 19, 2021After five UF students were hit by a car, the university released a statement about the crash closing with a promise: “The safety of our campus is paramount, and we want you to know conversations are underway regarding pedestrian and vehicular safety, on and around our campus.” But will conversations be enough?
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Don’t throw away your vote by voting for a third party
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 18, 2020A third party candidate will not win, and if you think or vote as if they will, then you’re either dreaming or don’t care about the people who won’t live to see the next election.
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The right to party? Gov. DeSantis is on the wrong side of history
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 27, 2020We wish that DeSantis would reevaluate why he prioritizes the right to party over the right to public assembly or the right to vote. Fighting for the right of college students to party is a very strange hill to die on.
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Snitches go to heaven, partiers go to hell
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 31, 2020Sing like a canary in a COVID-19 coal mine.
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Opinions are back! Here’s why
By Zachariah Chou | Aug. 27, 2020The Alligator's opinions section is back
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Introducing El Caimán
By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 17, 2020Today marks the beginning of an exciting chapter in The Alligator’s history.
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We’ve kept our promise. But we need your help.
Apr. 25, 2020There’s a statement on the top left corner of The Alligator’s newspaper: We inform. You decide.
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Why removing likes from Instagram isn’t such a bad thing
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 17, 2019We can’t argue against social media’s influence — in fact, we already made an argument stating how important it really is.
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The U.S. needs help, and not with just guns
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 14, 2019Usually, the editorial board likes to take it easy on Fridays and publish a series of “Darts and Laurels” in order to lighten the mood for the weekend and provide our opinions on different things happening in the news.
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Northwestern's apology wasn't great, but Twitter's reaction was even worse
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 12, 2019As upcoming journalists, many of us are aware of the difficulties involved in the craft. Our work is expected to inform the public in an objective way, but when respecting the feelings of the public comes into play, things can get confusing.
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Stress should be used in moderation
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 5, 2019Stress is hard to handle when you first experience it. As college students, we are constantly thrown into situations that test our mental and physical capabilities. But it turns out we might actually enjoy it.
