Aspiring Gainesville artists and poets kicked off Mellow Soul Tuesdays’ first open mic night at Rockeys Dueling Piano Bar this week.
UPDATE: The shooter has been identified as Myron May, a lawyer who was an FSU alumnus, according to the Associated Press who spoke with a local police officer.
Students for a Democratic Society members held a banner on Turlington Plaza calling for UF to demilitarize Wednesday.
UF faculty and students will travel across eight countries as part of a project to empower female farmers.
Thanksgiving is a celebration usually composed of food (turkey, of course), family (and friends — inclusivity is one of Thanksgiving’s beauties) and football (yes, we’re in the South). Gathering around the TV, Thanksgiving revelers let the food digest before the slicing of pie(s).
What started out as a joke became a social buzz in a matter of days.
With a season as dominant as Florida volleyball’s, it is easy to forget that the Gators will be losing one of its most talented backrows in the history of the program.
One game at a time.
Florida’s defense may be ranked 20th in the country, but it’s tough to notice that early on in games.
As our beloved Football season comes to an end, why not go out with a bang? After all, there’s nothing more exciting and dear to our heart than Gators football right? Here’s a few tracks to celebrate our last home game this weekend and the last few weeks of college football season:
Schools have been desegregated and women have the right to vote; yet discrimination still exists. Even though the First Amendment give us the freedom to speak and practice beliefs freely, many of us have still faced some sort of discrimination in school growing up, whether based on gender, race, appearance or religion.
Despite multiple setbacks, Thais Evans is on track to obtaining his college degree.
Last week, the Alligator published an editorial about Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s close ties to the Republican Attorneys General Association — RAGA. The organization is heavily supported by donations from interest groups supporting large corporations and from corporations themselves. RAGA has handsomely repaid the investments made by these corporate groups, fighting against environmental protections, financial regulations and labor rights, all of which threaten corporate profits.
The UF Student Senate was joined by Gainesville city commissioners Tuesday to discuss transportation, Gainesville life and student safety.
As Katharine Hargrave prepared for her classes, she packed her backpack with notebook paper, books and her laptop. Lifting the bag across her back, the bag didn’t seem to weigh her down, but something else did — the clunk of change trailing behind her.
This Thanksgiving, about 40 percent of UF’s 4,000 graduate assistants will earn salaries below the federal poverty line. Many will struggle to feed their families.
Employers and students braved the cold Tuesday on the Reitz Union Breezeway to talk about jobs.
Dr. Stephanie Ryan wants to break the stereotypes associated with LGBT patients.
Clay Olsen’s column, “Democrats mistake government spending for kind-heartedness,” was a conservative attempt to define liberalism as willy-nilly government handouts to the poor. He cites Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” and declares it a failure without mentioning its success before former President Ronald Reagan gutted the program. He mentioned Medicare liabilities without mentioning that President Barack Obama and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan proposed to cut the same amount from the program. The big difference in the cuts is that Obama targets fraud on the supply side of Medicare, whereas Ryan proposed exclusively consumer-side cuts, which would increase the copay of every American.
As mosquito activity wanes in the approaching winter, a UF study released this month suggests the paperclip-sized vampires bite female birds twice as much as males do.
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