Every UF student’s favorite email is the one stating, “Financial Aid has been disbursed to your account.” Many of the social networking updates I read last weekend relayed the excitement of finally receiving these funds.
If the heat didn’t get you this week, then the rain most definitely did. Isaac gave us a pretty wet welcome back, so we hope all of you have invested in some sort of rain-protection gear. But it’s not Florida that has really been stomped on by storms this week.
In an op-ed published last Sunday in the Tampa Bay Times, Charlie Crist, former Republican governor of Florida, sang President Barack Obama’s praises and endorsed him for re-election this year against Mitt Romney.
Since this is kind of the biggest party of the Republican Party for every election cycle, the convention planners scheduled Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to speak.
As returning Gators know — and freshmen are soon to discover — UF is probably a much more open and safe environment for the LGBT community than the environment they experienced in high school.
To most, Florida looks like a Gator Bowl bid waiting to happen.
As a much-anticipated college football season kicks off at The Swamp this weekend, it may be appropriate to look almost 1,000 miles north to Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa.
I would like to address a gender inequality that has vexed me greatly the past two weeks. Both Tropical Storm Isaac and the general rainy nature of Florida have characterized the beginning of classes by a stoic low-energy conflict with nature.
I really hate getting sucker-punched. I am constantly being enticed by all sorts of titillating bait, only to get gut-checked by an entirely different reality.
There are so many threats against women in America today.
Welcome back! In honor of the fresh and new theme of back-to-school season, I say we bury the idea of the acronym “YOLO” (you only live once), and choose to embody another expression by famed rapper Drake.
Each semester, the Alligator seeks new columnists to fill up its opinions pages. In our application, we usually ask applicants to include a brief explanation of their political and ideological viewpoints.
A long time ago, when I was a weaker man, a “friend” of mine hosted a party and had the gall to charge everyone who went a cover. Not a suggested donation to cover party expenses; straight-up cover.
The Israeli government is in an uproar about United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visiting Iran for a summit hosted by the Non-Aligned Movement, a group of 120 countries that formed during the Cold War. Many countries are those the United States has sought to marginalize.
So now it’s time for the sorry-for-the-abrupt-transition-but-we-don’t-want-to-rush edition of...
Can you remember the last time you heard about Missouri? It’s just one of those lonely, forgotten fly-over states — until last week.
While everyone is in a tizzy about Brent Pease bringing exotic shifts and new formations to the Gators offense, we here at alligatorSports understand the value of keeping things simple.
Florida's quarterback competition is silly. In fact, the ongoing saga has provided the most ridiculous story coming out of the Gators' fall camp.
I was on campus yesterday and picked up a copy of the Alligator, which had a story on the cover titled “NASA sends rover to Mars, awes students.” This is good because students don’t know or care much about space flight.
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