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Thursday, July 24, 2025

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Sport management sophomore Joe DaSilva, 19, helps Rolanda Charles, 18, get registered to vote on Monday afternoon.
NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Mass voter registration event today

The Bob Graham Center for Public Service, with the help of other civic-minded students, is attempting to change that today, National Voter Registration Day. The center will host its Swing the State: Voter Registration Roundup event from noon to 5 p.m. at the Pugh Hall Ocora.


Florida Alligator
METRO

Gainesville residents leave all kinds of things on the bus

Chandlee, a 22-year-old mechanical engineering fifth-year, was coming home from 101 Cantina late one Friday night. Her friends got back on the bus and searched for the key, but they couldn’t find it. The night ended with a call to an emergency locksmith at 3 a.m. to open Chandlee’s apartment.


Florida Alligator
NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Speakers debate drugs

The University Auditorium was filled with attendees for Accent Speakers’ Bureau “The Great Weed Debate: Heads vs. Feds” event. The debate featured veteran Drug Enforcement Administration agent Bob Stutman and High Times editor Steve Hager.


Florida Alligator
NEWS

Corrections

An article in Monday’s edition of the Alligator incorrectly stated that Luke the elephant weighs 12 tons. He weighs six tons.


Florida Alligator
NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Search for missing UF student continues

Christian Aguilar, an 18-year-old biomedical engineering freshman from Miami, was last seen at about 6 p.m. Thursday after he was dropped off in a parking lot on the 4900 block of Northwest 13th Street, according to a GPD news release. Aguilar’s friends and family have not seen or heard from him since his disappearance.


Florida Alligator
NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Campaign played race card at speech

The use of minorities to polish political images in a college setting highlights a larger problem: the exploitation of specific groups to push entire campaign agendas.


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NEWS  |  CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Student Government campaign rules obstruct free speech

During the Summer while most of us were away, members of the majority Swamp Party — then the Unite Party — in your Student Senate made an absurd rule stating that if anyone encourages you to vote for them in a Student Government election more than a week before the vote takes place, they could be disqualified from the ballot.


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