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‘Shaine in Spain’: It’s not about the what, but the who
By Shaine Davison | May 9Over the past few weeks, I’ve spent weekends in Porto and Lisbon, Portugal, and Prague, Czechia.
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OPINION: Florida's debate problem: How FCDI is failing students
By Sasha Morel | May 8The Florida Forensics League state tournament is generally considered the premier speech and debate championship for Sunshine State residents. This year, though, my students told me it felt like a glorified local meet.
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Good journalism always about sticking your neck out
By Zoey Thomas | Apr. 20So why do students fill The Alligator’s newsroom every Sunday for our staff meetings, spilling out into the hallway and onto the floor? It’s a common belief that the stories we share matter.
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OPINION: The lecture is dead
By Timothy Dillehay | Apr. 18But today, most lectures feel like obligations. For professors, they are a box to check between research deadlines and publication quotas. For students, they are something to loathe, groan through and — on those days you just can’t bear the bore — skip.
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OPINION: AI data centers threaten the real Florida
By Alannah Peters | Apr. 13In a state where natural systems are already under pressure, AI data centers are a development Florida should approach with caution or avoid altogether.
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‘Shaine in Spain’: AI in Madrid
By Shaine Davison | Apr. 13In my most recent semester at UF, a lot of my class syllabuses stated the use of AI was permitted when appropriate and when properly disclosed. In Madrid, all of my syllabuses strictly prohibit the use of AI in any form.
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OPINION: Politicians are using AI to make you question reality
By Sasha Morel | Apr. 13AI has suspended us in a state of vertigo as we wonder if the world we know is real or fake, or if the conceptions of reality we hold will collapse underneath our feet. The question has now become whether we ought to embrace this vertigo as our new reality, or if we should fight against the expansion of AI content.
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‘The Match Point’: Bring back the bad line calls
By India Houghton | Apr. 13Electronic line-calling and automated umpire systems are quietly stripping away a part of sports we love: the messy stuff. Who’s the overzealous fan supposed to yell at now?
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OPINION: Adrien Brody should not have won his Oscar
By Timothy Dillehay | Apr. 13The use of AI in Brody’s experience, and the fact a performance benefiting from AI earned the premier award in the acting world, sets a dangerous precedent for the future of acting.
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‘The Match Point’: Why do tennis players make so much noise when they play?
By India Houghton | Apr. 7If you’ve ever watched a match and wondered why on earth players make such strange, dramatic noises when they hit the ball, you’re not alone.
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The facts and truth about organ donation from the dad of donor Aimee Sachs
By Ron Sachs | Apr. 3Aimee kept that commitment even though she always had the right to change it.
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OPINION: What to know about HPV and why you should get protected against it
By Lara Caglayan | Mar. 29The risk isn’t in getting the HPV vaccine — it’s in skipping it.
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OPINION: Why you shouldn't be an organ donor
By Alannah Peters | Mar. 27Another troubling finding questioned whether some patients were dead when organ recovery began.
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‘Evelyn Goes Gator’: American spring break and St. Patrick’s Day through an Irish student’s eyes
By Evelyn O’Carroll | Mar. 22Spring break is not just a holiday. It’s a fixed institution of American student life, complete with its own aesthetic and expectations. Coming from Ireland, that’s what makes it fascinating, simply because we have nothing like it.
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Beyond what I had known
By Del Halter | Apr. 20So I resolved the odd little passion I had for numbers to a fun fact, something to mention in passing: “I used to really love drawing graphs in physics class, isn’t that funny?”
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It was the friends we made along the way
By Corey Fiske | Apr. 20But when I finally did apply, I was rejected. It wasn’t until a few weeks into the semester I received a call from the then-editor-in-chief asking me to join the ranks.
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Want to be a part of The Alligator? Join our Summer 2026 staff!
By Alligator Staff report | Apr. 20Are you interested in growing your career in media and communications? Are you ready to join a network with alumni at organizations like The New York Times, The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal? The Independent Florida Alligator is looking for its next team of reporters, editors, photographers and more for the Summer semester. Applications are due April 27 at 11:59 p.m.
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Ink stains and catharsis
By Pristine Thai | Apr. 20But in the wee hours of that Monday morning, I held a copy of The Sun from the Wawa newspaper stand in one hand, some fries and a Diet Coke balanced in the other, and marveled at my own published words. Something clicked. I wanted to chase that feeling forever.
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A love letter to the friends I made along the way
By Avery Parker | Apr. 20The relationships I built here, and this place itself, gave me a purpose of responsibility.
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Megan and the city
By Megan Howard | Apr. 19I’m not much like Carrie. I dream of owning a closet half as fabulous as hers, and I would love a cushy writing job where I only produce one column a week and can still afford to live in New York.
