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Monday, May 19, 2025

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NEWS

Savoring the present

Our society has become increasingly future-minded and less focused on the present. As college students who are striving towards future accomplishments, it is sometimes difficult for us to stop and fully appreciate the present moment.  


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SPORTS  |  VIDEOSHOW

alligatorSports Video Show, Episode 6

The sixth installment of our weekly video show brings you an in-depth look at the No. 1 Florida baseball team's opening-weekend sweep of South Florida. Beat writer Jesse Simonton takes a look at the Gators' staff of talented pitchers, including former first-round MLB Draft pick Karsten Whitson, and points to a few other breakout performances from the weekend. Stay tuned until the end of the show to check out some of our not-so-finer moments.


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NEWS  |  CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE

In support of Progress Party 1

In the spring of 2009, the Progress Party was founded in an attempt to overthrow a political system composed of an entrenched group of overly entitled elites that rendered the UF Student Government completely inaccessible to the students it promised to represent. I had the honor to serve as the Progress Party’s presidential candidate with some of the most thoughtful and passionate students I met during my time at UF.


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NEWS  |  CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE

In support of Progress Party 2

Diversity is a value that I hold high, and I hope it is shared by the Student Body at large. My three semesters of participation in the Korean Undergraduate Student Association, as well as being the founder and president of Students for Peace in Korea, should speak for itself.


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NEWS  |  FEATURES

This week in Gainesville

February 21, 1977: The Gainesville City Commission approves building plans for a new sports coliseum on UF’s campus, now known as the O’Connell Center, despite residents’ fears that the building will lead to serious parking problems.


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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Quiet de-funding presidential elections

With Big Bird facing extinction, the federal government on the verge of a shutdown and protests rocking the Middle East as well as our own state capitols, a hallmark of our electoral system for the past quarter of a century was quietly slated for the death chamber.



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