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Motorcycle crimes lead to arrests
By Giuseppe Sabella | Oct. 5, 2015University Police arrested two men over two days for reported involvement in motorcycle-related crimes.
Gators need to back up Ole Miss win to avoid becoming a one-hit wonder
By JORDAN MCPHERSON | Oct. 5, 2015Early on in life, Jim McElwain owned a 1972 Ford Pinto.
Students plan to Kill the Cup
By Gabrielle Calise | Oct. 5, 2015Students packing their backpacks for Library West might want to include a coffee mug.
Engineering students show creativity
By Esther Khoudari | Oct. 5, 2015UF engineering students will show off their creative side.
UF volleyball remaining calm, collected despite adversity
By Patrick Pinak | Oct. 5, 2015Mary Wise has had a track record of dominating the Southeastern Conference.
Agriculture program provides local produce
By Sara Marino | Oct. 5, 2015Every week, Lindsey Barter would wait for food.
Director gives students a chance
By Danitza Yukopila | Oct. 5, 2015Donald Pemberton is working to ensure all students get a chance at success.
Editorial: Clinging to the past is dangerous, self-defeating
Oct. 5, 2015When our generation signed up for Facebook many moons ago, it was hard to conceive of a social life past our K-12 upbringings. Surely every kid who came to our bar and bat mitzvahs would still be our dawgs, right? Those dudes you took selfies with in the Apple Store for your MySpace profile picture? Best friends for life. That girl you met at the food court that one time after you and your boys stocked up on Panda Express? If only you had gone to the same school and seen more of each other, there really could have been something special there!
Christianity and gay marriage: Embrace the change
Oct. 5, 2015Ever since the June 26 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage in all 50 states, the radical Christian community has exploded in outrage. Christian public figures like Franklin Graham and Joel Osteen contend the foundations of Christianity itself are under attack.
Mid-terms bring about stressful times
Oct. 5, 2015"Stressed" is a key word in the college student vocabulary. You hear it in class, from your friends, walking through campus and essentially anywhere you’re within earshot of 18- to 25-year-olds. It’s typically around this point in the semester that every area of our lives is moving at maximum speed, and with the first round of midterms rapidly approaching, it seems as though stress is all anyone talks about — myself included.
Latest shooting the latest in a long American tradition
Oct. 5, 2015It is a dance we Americans have familiarized ourselves with and have become pretty good at since the Columbine High School massacre: One or more distraught gunmen and several or more victims. A school or theater in sanguinary peril. A storm of grief that floods the community and ends up briefly affecting the whole nation. Trivial debates on whether to mention the killer’s name or pretend he is (because, yes, it is always a he) Lord Voldemort. The urge to have the memory of the victims take precedence over the memory of the perpetrators. The manning of the battle stations as pro-gun proletarians exchange fire with those burghers who demand more regulation. A speech from the governor, and if the stars are aligned properly, a head-nodding indie-pop hit about the massacre. In the end, no change in policy occurs, and the timer is reset to mark the seconds from the last blasting till the next one.
Florida women’s basketball holds first practice of season
By Ethan Bauer | Oct. 5, 2015When most people hear the words "brick house," they are usually preceded by the words "she’s a" in reference to the 1977 Commodores classic "Brick House", but for the UF women’s basketball team, the words have taken on a whole new meaning.
Gators soccer to keep using two goalkeeper rotation
By Ryan Summers | Oct. 5, 2015The Florida soccer team is focused on playing all in and playing hard every minute of the match.
Previewing Florida football's next opponent: Missouri
By JORDAN MCPHERSON | Oct. 5, 2015The Jim McElwain era of Florida football is off to a 5-0 start, but after playing four of their first five games at home, the No. 11 Gators (5-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) will now play three games away from The Swamp over the next four weeks, starting with Missouri (4-1, 1-1 SEC). Here’s what you need to know about the Missouri Tigers:
Blog: Sometimes black holes bump into each other, and they want us to know about it
By Champe Barton | Oct. 5, 2015A dance—a cosmological one, that is.
Blog: 101 Books and a Bookshelf
By Kylie Widseth | Oct. 5, 2015Some people bring TV’s to college, some bring their pets, but I brought 101 books. I get that number may seem a bit arbitrary, but the books are only part of the larger story here: my bookshelf.
Blog: Book review of “How to Love”
By Kylie Widseth | Oct. 5, 2015“How to Love” by Katie Cotugno was such a remarkable book. I’ve seen and heard of this book for a while now, and I finally decided to read it.
Advice Blog: How to dress in college
By Abigail Zavaski | Oct. 5, 2015Coming to college comes with a whole new pool of nerves.
How to adult
By Abigail Zavaski | Oct. 5, 2015“Adulting,” or more appropriate terms, paying bills and attending college is frightening. As soon as we graduate high school, we are then expected to just know how to “adult.” Unfortunately, that is not always the case.