Opinion
GAU deserves a voice, too
By Rachel Hartnett | Apr. 10, 2023At this moment, GAU is fighting for the first amendment rights of students and workers and for UF’s core values.
Opinion
Opinion
Is Florida where higher education goes to die?
By Oliver Grundmann | Apr. 10, 2023In recent years, the Florida legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis have made the state exceptional through a political agenda that is detrimental to the people of Florida — bills that have already been enacted.
Opinion
Paging Dr. Sasse…
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 10, 2023Ever since Ben Sasse, a former Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska, took office, there’s been a president-sized hole left in much of the UF community.
Opinion
There is something happening here in Florida: attacking academic freedom
By John A. Nackashi | Mar. 29, 2023Gov. Ron DeSantis and the GOP state legislature have advanced Florida House Bill 999 to restrict higher education academic freedom.
Opinion
What Women’s History month looks like at UF
By Ebonee Brown | Mar. 28, 2023March marks a month to commemorate the transformative achievements of women to the world and even our very own university. Women’s History Month celebrates the observance and celebration of interventions made by women in our culture.
Opinion
Women’s History Month: What is UF standing for?
By Juliann Carpenter | Mar. 20, 2023Despite how great we are, we are looked down upon when we exhibit natural human characteristics considered "unladylike." We’re criticized for not acting soft, pretty, gentle or caring. We're stripped from our feminine identity when we favor something or act in a way that’s stereotypically masculine.
Opinion
Celebrate remarkable women with The Alligator
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 20, 2023This month, we take pride in celebrating the numerous women who shaped UF and Gainesville, beginning with their journeys in 1947, when UF became a co-ed university by order of the Florida Legislature.
Sports
Where does Brenton Cox Jr. stand?
By Connor O'Bryan | Mar. 13, 2023The pass rusher projected as a high day two prospect with the potential to move up in the draft; he’s a former five-star recruit with elite potential. However, recent concerns have caused Icarus to crash back to Earth.
Opinion
Move forward, together with Change
By Natalie McNamara | Feb. 27, 2023Change Party has been in the Senate and around campus working toward a better UF for six semesters, and our impact has multiplied since securing one-third of Senate membership in the Fall election.
Opinion
Gator Party: With You, For You
By Mara Vaknin and Sazzad Mabud | Feb. 27, 2023Gator Party’s trajectory over the past three years reflects an action-oriented agenda guided by student needs and experiences.
Opinion
New York Times wages unfair culture war on transgender community
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 20, 2023As journalists about to enter the professional workforce, we’re hopeful that the brave decision to stand up to powerful, well-established newsroom editors will effect change within the NYT.
Opinion
When did diversity become a bad word?
By Albert Ritzhaupt | Feb. 20, 2023Albert Ritzhaupt said his major concern about the use of the word diversity as a so-called “bad word” is that we seem to have forgotten what the word really means.
Opinion
World mourns as earthquakes strike Turkey, Syria
Feb. 14, 2023In Florida and at UF, there are many with Turkish roots. They feel appalled, ruined and devastated — certainly not fine when asked how they are.
Opinion
Antisemitism will never win
By Hadassah Sternfeld | Feb. 6, 2023I am out of words and out of energy. I am physically and emotionally drained. This past week has been incredibly difficult and something I had hoped I wouldn’t ever have to experience.
Opinion
Jewish students deserve your allyship, too
By Alan Halaly | Feb. 6, 2023Alan Halaly, the editor-in-chief of The Alligator, weighs in on recent displays of antisemitism at UF.
Opinion
We won’t back down
By Andrew Taramykin | Feb. 6, 2023UF ignored its community Oct. 10 when we demonstrated what may be one of the most remarkable protests in this campus’s history at Emerson Hall at the anti-democratic selection of then-U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse as the sole finalist to replace retiring President Kent Fuchs.
Sports
Golden, the Gators enter late push to make NCAA Tournament
By Jackson Reyes | Feb. 6, 2023Florida head coach Todd Golden and his squad’s chances of snatching a bid to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament hang in the balance. The Florida Gators (13-10, 6-4 SEC) have eight games left in their season.
Opinion
The future of ideological diversity at UF
By Anna Peterson | Jan. 25, 2023DeSantis falsely suggests that institutionalized racism and sexism are historical relics about which contemporary people need not concern themselves. Most Floridians, however, cannot help but know that these forms of discrimination are powerful forces that affect every aspect of our daily lives as students, teachers, and citizens.
Opinion
DeSantis meddles in university politics — again
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 23, 2023Two DeSantis administration memos have placed concerns front and center as member schools of the state university system seek a path forward.
Opinion
The threat of DeSantis’ transphobic memo
By Tyler Audino | Jan. 23, 2023Universities and their associated health care organizations are saving lives. And when access to gender-affirming care is restricted, the health and lives of transgender people are put at risk.
