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Friday, July 25, 2025

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OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Darts &amp Laurels

Well, it's finally here. Our calendars may say it's Wednesday, but right about now it sure feels like a Friday. This being the last issue of the spring semester and the last day of classes - though everyone seems to be too busy headed to the library for "exams" and "term papers" - we've decided to lighten it up a bit. C'mon, you know you're not really going to use both of those reading days, anyway. So grab a lounge chair by the pool, pop open a cold one and start thinking about summer. It's with bittersweet nostalgia that we here at the Darts & Laurels department compose our semester-ending edition of Darts & Laurels.


MULTIMEDIA  |  VIDEO

Two Worlds Together

A local boy who has high-functioning autism is learning to cope with his disorder and the world around him. Slideshow. 10 photos.


MULTIMEDIA  |  VIDEO

Fluid Moves

Wakeskating, a sport combining skateboarding and wakeboarding, is gaining popularity in Florida among water sports enthusiasts.Slideshow. 6 photos.


Florida Alligator
NEWS

Clarification: UF will lay off employees to cope with budget cuts

Janine Sikes, UF spokeswoman, said Wednesday that by saying, "We anticipate layoffs from every spectrum: from maintenance up to tenured faculty," in this story, she was referring to vacant positions that will be eliminated. She said she meant to say "tenure-track faculty" instead of tenured faculty.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Unrealistic cultural expectations of beauty unfair to women

You've seen them at the Plaza of the Americas: Student Government-sponsored billboards, in an effort to boost self-esteem, encouraging women to love their bodies, claiming that "diets don't work" and assuring everyone that confident women who don't worry about looking like supermodels are sexier than those who do.


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