METRO
Gamesville Tabletop offers board game haven to locals
By IAN COHEN | Jan. 15, 2015Callie Williams has passion for two things: her 18-year-old son, Grey, and Dungeons & Dragons.
El Caimán
METRO
Lower gas prices benefit delivery drivers, local restaurants
By Nicolette Amico | Jan. 15, 2015Cheaper gas is having a positive impact on some local restaurants and businesses.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF welcomes new IFAS dean to lead agriculture program
By Cyanne Dunn | Jan. 15, 2015Starting in April, Saqib Mukhtar will be working with drones to monitor crop disease and pests as the new associate dean and agriculture program leader of UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Two men arrested at Grace Marketplace for threatening others with a pole, butcher knife
By EMILY COCHRANE< | Jan. 15, 2015Gainesville Police arrested a man at Grace Marketplace Wednesday after officers said he yanked a pole out of the ground and swung it at a woman.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Measles revived by junk science
Jan. 15, 2015Generally, when people think of Disneyland Park, they picture a fantastic time with friends and family. Sure, they may get sick riding around on the Alice In Wonderland teacups, but few expect to get literally sick, especially with the measles. However, that’s exactly what happened to at least 26 people who recently visited the California theme park.
METRO
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BUSINESS
Corporate social responsibility and charity are not the same thing
Jan. 15, 2015Charity is an incredible thing. It’s a way for us to show we care for one another, and it provides resources and aid to those in need both domestically and internationally. It has changed the lives of thousands every year, from building homes for Hurricane Katrina victims in 2005 to providing medical care to Ebola virus patients in West Africa in 2014.
OPINION
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DARTS LAURELS
Craft beer, free speech and astronomical discoveries in this week's Darts & Laurel
Jan. 15, 2015Turns out we were lucky that it was just really, really cold last week. This time around, we got a hefty dose of bleak and rainy on top of the frigid air we’ve unfortunately had to get used to. But if Florida really is as weird as everybody else in the country seems to think — see Jon Stewart’s fierce description of us from Tuesday’s “The Daily Show” — it should be unbearably hot and humid soon. To celebrate getting one day closer to that time, here’s your damp-yet-bitterly-cold edition of...
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Gators, let me be your dirty Dear Abby
Jan. 15, 2015I’ve been writing this column for a year now, and I think it’s high time I introduce myself. My name’s Robyn, but I’m also affectionately referred to as “that one girl who writes those sex articles.”
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS TENNIS
UF’s Gordon Watson to play in singles lineup against Troy
By CAYLEE UNDERWOOD | Jan. 15, 2015After opening the year with a 9-3 win against William & Mary, No. 13 Florida looks to continue building today when it hosts Troy at 3.
SPORTS
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GYMNASTICS
Florida using multiple gymnasts to replace injured Sloan
By GRAHAM HACK | Jan. 15, 2015For the UF gymnastics team, life without Bridget Sloan begins tonight.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Most complete and most famous T. Rex Skeleton arrives at UF museum
By Ariana Figueroa | Jan. 14, 2015Truck driver Dale Neubauer rolled his semi-trailer around the back of the Florida Museum of Natural History early Wednesday, lugging the bones of a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex named Sue.
METRO
Rape defense classes enrollment average again after spike
By Cyanne Dunn | Jan. 14, 2015After class enrollment doubled following multiple attempted rapes reported on campus last Fall, registration for the UF Rape Aggression Defense program has normalized.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Apartment shooting leaves one man dead, one at large
By Kathryn Varn | Jan. 14, 2015Deputies are searching for a man who ran away after reportedly breaking into a southwest Gainesville apartment Wednesday evening with another man whom the apartment resident shot dead.
NEWS
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
Fuchs delivers second-week report
By Alyssa Fisher | Jan. 14, 2015Kent Fuchs admitted he took his first selfie at Innovation Academy’s convocation Jan. 5.
NEWS
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SFC
SFC Student Senate adds 3 senators, new harassment course
By Hunter Williamson | Jan. 14, 2015Continuing the forward-looking sentiment of Spring Convocation, Santa Fe’s Student Senate on Wednesday announced programs to combat social issues within the college.
THE AVENUE
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MUSIC
Glorious heap of rock: Q&A with Kyle Thomas, aka King Tuff
By Chloe Finch | Jan. 14, 2015You may or may not have heard about King Tuff, but you knew someone like him once. He was the guy perpetually in and out of rock bands in high school, the guy in the faded Black Sabbath T-shirt reading a Richard Brautigan novel and the white guy who worshipped Jimi Hendrix. He was the guy you suspected might actually make it.
METRO
Upcoming downtown supply store to fill hole in art community
By Carla Vianna | Jan. 14, 2015Architecture and fine arts students can stop scrambling to find sketchbooks, drawing paper and paintbrushes.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Police: man harasses women for oral sex in library bathroom
By Melissa Mihm | Jan. 14, 2015Gainesville Police arrested a local man Tuesday after he reportedly asked two women for oral sex in a library bathroom and tried to trap one inside.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Political correctness limits free speech
Jan. 14, 2015The recent events in Paris have shocked nations worldwide. Last week, 12 Charlie Hebdo cartoonists were killed because they used their right of free expression.
