Florida showed why it entered play this week ranked No. 1 in the country.
While the UF women’s swimming team emerged victorious against Virginia, the men’s squad sank, staining the Gators with their first blemish of the season.
Sometime in the next week, UF’s radio frequency, 103.7, will move to a country music format, replacing the mainstream-rock format it has aired since the 1980s.
I want to thank The Alligator for the extraordinary opportunity given to me. It is a great privilege to be allowed to write a column.
I wrote last week that Bryan Griffin’s columns were unoriginal. In addition to his radically conservative views, the fact The Alligator fired him for his plagiarism shows he is unfit for any public office. When you go to the polls this November, be sure to vote against him for Alachua County Soil and Water Seat 4.
When I first read Bryan Griffin’s Thursday column, I found it encouraging he would attempt to broaden his horizons and break from his normal pattern of beating Republican talking points. However, when it came to my attention Griffin had plagiarized, I could only feel disappointed. Griffin and I rarely agreed on political issues during our four years together as undergraduates, but I always thought he took his paeans to justice and American values seriously. Sadly, I was mistaken.
A university official defended a professor today who was accused by an animal-activist blogger of “animal murder.”
When his parents asked about what they found on the family computer’s research history, Anthony Dretzka denied everything. When he was 14, Dretzka, now 20, was researching information about what it means to be gay to make sense of the feelings he was having; they were feelings nobody had ever taught him.
Gainesville Police are investigating the recent kidnapping and rape of a local woman after she reported the incident herself Sunday night.
Prosecutors say the murder of Wayne “Frog” Hutchinson went down in an overcrowded house in Hawthorne — an eruption of violence and the bloody work of two screwdriver-wielding criminals.
I have to disagree with Monday’s editorial. First of all, UF was never invincible, even with Tim Tebow. He was a significant contribution to our football success, but Tebow didn’t make or break the team. Chris Leak was the one who led the 2006 Gators to a national title.
The applause of more than 500 students echoed throughout the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom Monday night.
It is no longer a casual concern for a few individuals to get riled up about with megaphones and handmade signs, chanting phrases we’re all tired of hearing.
I was shocked by the assertion UF is “no longer an academic [and] athletic force” and it has returned to “mediocrity” after falling behind the University of Miami as the top-ranked college in Florida.
Alex Green takes his name literally. Green, a retired UF physics professor and founder of Green Liquid and Gas Technologies, showcased his new environmentally conscious invention on Sunday afternoon at the Open House and Biochar Event.
Why does our football team only sing with the band and the fans after a win? I wasn’t as disappointed by the loss on Saturday as I was by how we trudged off the field with our tails between our legs. I hate losing as much as the next orange-and-blue-blooded fan, but it’s still great to be a Florida Gator, and another team can’t take that away. We let them have the game, but we didn’t have to let them have our pride. Our team should sing with the band even after a loss, because “in all kinds of weather we’ll all stick together.”
What good is a rule if there are no mechanisms in place to enforce it? I’m talking about UF’s no-smoking policy. I see people every day, all day, smoking on campus, and they’re not even having to hide because they know there’s nothing anybody can do to them. I think on-campus smokers should be ticketed for the offense. If you were to add $5 to that $4 pack of cigarettes, I bet people would think twice about lighting up on campus.
Our society has been picking straws for years in the superhero department, forced to borrow champions of yore and update them to the modern era.
I am a faithful Alligator reader, and I must say sometimes I both agree and respectfully disagree with opinions from the Editorial Board. However, to say UF has lost its luster as the top school in the state reflects short-sighted thinking and a lack of understanding U.S. News and World Report rankings. To tie this change in rankings to a few football game losses is an extremely immature conclusion.
While budget reform, immigration and health care have dominated this election season, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink brought attention to education issues Monday.
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