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Sunday, June 15, 2025

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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

UF should not require health insurance

After my father lost his job in November 2008, my family’s health insurance coverage lapsed. Although he found work — and, consequently, coverage for himself — in April, the rest of the family can’t join until March 2010. So, for the only year my mother and I have ever been without insurance, we have tiptoed through our lives, avoiding what health risks we could.


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OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Winter Warning

With winter setting in and word of the FDA cracking down on barely visible tanning bed warnings, the Editorial Board is urging students to forgo sun-kissed bronze in favor of pasty white — or even Gators-themed fake orange.


SPORTS  |  FOOTBALL

Pierre-Louis turns himself into authorities

Former Florida cornerback Wondy Pierre-Louis turned himself in to Gainesville authorities early Tuesday morning and was arrested on charges of domestic battery by strangulation, unarmed burglary, battery, kidnapping and obstructing justice by tampering.


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SPORTS  |  OTHER SPORTS TRACK

Shot-putter sets record

Because of the offseason layoff, a team’s opening meet of the indoor track and field season typically doesn’t foster record-setting performances. But UF shotputter Mariam Kevkhishvili is far from a typical athlete.


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METRO

1000s gather downtown for MLK Day

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words boomed through the Bo Diddley Community Plaza in downtown Gainesville Monday afternoon as thousands of people gathered to remember the civil rights leader whose dream made history.


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NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Students save professor

Michael Cook, a UF professor in the Rinker School of Building Construction, was taken to Shands at UF Saturday after he had a heart attack at the Southwest Recreation Center.


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METRO

Bridal expo draws 1K

One response echoed throughout the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday afternoon: “Certainly. We can do it any way you want it.”


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NEWS  |  CAMPUS

400 gather in support of Haiti

Candles illuminated the Reitz Union Amphitheater Friday night as hundreds of UF students and faculty gathered to remember those affected by the earthquake in Haiti.



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