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Old Friendships and What They Mean For Home

Jan. 7, 2019

It’s a new year, and some of us returning Gators are returning with some serious baggage from the holiday season. When we leave behind our plebeian friends for the golden fields of Gainesville and our top 8 public university, a new life begins. Most students experience a departure from the old as they struggle through college to discover the new, and this departure often sentences old friendships to death by distance.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Creating a New Home At UF

Jan. 7, 2019

For about three weeks a year in December, UF becomes vacant, a school without its students. It loses its heart: the students, professors and staff who create an entire world that revolves around the university. When these people return, UF once again becomes the thriving well-oiled machine it was meant to be.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Bringing Humanity Back into Politics

Jan. 7, 2019

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made her way into the hearts of liberal millennials across the nation. Her quirky demeanor, unrivaled confidence and leftist progressive platform are just some of the reasons why she has quickly gone from political newcomer to Democratic icon in a matter of months.

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Class of 2019, I am honored to throw my cap with you

Dec. 4, 2018

Our generation is full of change-makers

OPINION | COLUMNS

The Politics of a Poncho Party

Dec. 4, 2018

UF doesn't have moral superiority over FSU and their poncho photo

OPINION | COLUMNS

Hold on to your voice, your dreams and each other

Dec. 4, 2018

Find and embrace your voice, whatever that is

OPINION | COLUMNS

Our inner child mourns departed media icons

Dec. 4, 2018

It's okay to mourn the loss of childhood heroes

OPINION | EDITORIALS

The nation mourns a president’s vision

Dec. 2, 2018

After George H.W. Bush passed, look at his legacy

OPINION | COLUMNS

Find your quiet

Dec. 2, 2018

Change is incremental

OPINION | DARTS LAURELS

Darts and Laurels: Nov. 30, 2018

Nov. 29, 2018

A sense of nostalgia washes over you as you flip through your course syllabus. Seeing each old entry for past classes is like a punch to the gut. You flashback to artificial laughs at your professor’s corny puns. They weren’t quite comedy gold but more of a bland maize color. Your mind is called back to the material you wished you would be tested on again but never will be. You shed a single tear. The salty drop of sadness blots and distorts the ink, warping the rules you had been so intimidated by at the beginning of the semester.

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