Opinion
OPINION: Why FLEX isn’t flexible at all
By Sasha Morel | Feb. 18FLEX has worsened the lives of both students and Gainesville residents. Here’s how.
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Sports
‘Evelyn Goes Gator’: Sport as a social language
By Evelyn O’Carroll | Feb. 15Back home in Ireland, sport is tied first to geographic location. Even if you never played, you usually belong to something: a club, a parish or a county. The Gaelic Athletic Association organizes Ireland’s main indigenous sports, Gaelic football and hurling, through local clubs. Because it relies on volunteers and local pride, sport ends up woven into ordinary social life.
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‘Shaine in Spain’: The week I stopped calling home
By Shaine Davison | Feb. 15As I stood jetlagged in Plaza Mayor the morning I landed, I couldn’t help but think about all my friends who were together in Gainesville. Meanwhile, I was alone and halfway across the world in a country where I barely spoke the language.
Opinion
OPINION: Grok and the growing misuse of free speech
By Alannah Peters | Feb. 12Recent controversy surrounding Grok — the artificial intelligence chatbot created by Elon Musk’s company xAI and integrated into the social media platform X — demonstrates how free speech can be stretched beyond recognition.
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‘Evelyn Goes Gator’: Permission to enter
By Evelyn O’Carroll | Feb. 11Last weekend I travelled to London for a wedding, and somewhere between the airport lines and the slow shuffle toward passport control, I got hit with a memory I didn’t expect: the visa process that brought me to UF in the first place.
Opinion
‘The Match Point’: Facing the toughest opponent in college tennis
By India Houghton | Feb. 11Two weeks ago, during our match at North Carolina State on Jan. 27, I got my official welcome to the heckling world of SEC tennis.
Opinion
OPINION: The real cancer risk isn’t in your sunscreen — it’s in skipping it
By Grant DuVall | Feb. 11So, I’ll clear things up for you. Does sunscreen cause cancer? No.
Opinion
OPINION: Conservatives can’t be both pro-life and for the death penalty
By Timothy Dillehay | Feb. 9The pro-life ideology is misleading. A deceiving misnomer. It claims human life has value and no state or person should take life away. This logic, however, only pertains to fetuses. Once you are out of the womb, your life is expendable.
Opinion
OPINION: How pro-life and pro-death can coexist among conservatives
By Alannah Peters | Feb. 8One of the most common accusations directed at conservatives is that you cannot be both pro-life and supportive of the death penalty. If life is sacred, as anti-death penalty voters argue, it must be protected in all circumstances — from the womb to the prison cell.
Opinion
Gainesville farmers markets have lost the plot
By Sasha Morel | Feb. 2Farmers markets are supposed to be the city’s antidote to industrial food: shorter supply chains, more money staying in the region and a direct relationship between the person who grows the food and the person who eats it.
Opinion
‘Shaine in Spain’: One week in and still finding my footing
By Shaine Davison | Feb. 2On my first day of class, I even woke up two hours early to make sure I made it on time.
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‘Evelyn Goes Gator’: Culture shock comes quickly in Gainesville
By Evelyn O’Carroll | Jan. 31Navigating crowds, nightlife and student social life.
Opinion
Santa Ono was our last shot at a good president
By Timothy Dillehay | Jan. 31After UF “broke up” with former President Ben Sasse, a de facto checklist was collectively made.
Sports
This Gator volleyball player's hardest season will make her comeback stronger
By India Houghton | Jan. 29or Hoyle, progress wasn’t measured in points or reps. Instead, she ran a quieter, far less measurable race — one guided by presence and trust in where her path was leading.
Opinion
Political burnout is suffocating Gen Z
By Alannah Peters | Jan. 26Political engagement among young people has fractured into two exhausting extremes, both of which push students toward disengagement.
Opinion
The Hamilton School’s blind spots, from the perspective of one of its students
By Sasha Morel | Jan. 24Here are what I would call the “blind spots” of the Hamilton School.
Opinion
UF students are missing the elections that matter most
By Alannah Peters | Jan. 22If students want to see tangible changes during their time at UF, they need to start paying closer attention to state and local races that directly affect campus life.
Opinion
Introducing Shaine in Spain: Spring in Madrid through the eyes of a UF exchange student
By Shaine Davison | Jan. 17I’ve previously been an editor and reporter for The Alligator, but this semester I will take on a different role: a columnist.
Opinion
Introducing ‘Evelyn Goes Gator’: What does Gainesville look like to an Irish exchange student?
By Evelyn O’Carroll | Jan. 17I’m a junior exchange student from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. I arrived in Gainesville a few days ago, and I’ll be writing in this recurring column about what the move actually feels like, from culture shock and logistics to the small stuff people don’t warn you about.
