My faded black Jimi Hendrix T-shirt was drenched in sweat as I walked across UF’s campus on a blistering August day.
With graduation nearing, you might be feeling a bit stressed.
As the limbo of Summer semester comes round, I’m going to follow my predecessor in removing the opinions editor mask and speaking directly as myself. The opinions and experiences expressed here will be my own, and not those of the Alligator editorial board. I want to take the chance, as the end of the semester approaches and friends graduate, travel abroad, tackle internships and sit on their couches all summer, to reflect on the past semester.
I love science fiction. My favorite works come from the ‘60s and ‘70s, when novels like “Childhood’s End” and “Stranger in a Strange Land” crystallized the genre, pioneered by writers like Isaac Asimov, of utopian speculative fiction. Don’t get me wrong, “Alien” and “Blade Runner” hold a special place in my heart, but there was an optimism in “Star Trek” that seems to have been fading since writers like William Gibson and Philip K. Dick popularized stories of a grim, dystopian future.
The Gators basketball team picked up a 6-foot-5 sharp-shooting transfer from Rice on Tuesday.
Fewer than two months after Smith Meyers’ arrest for allegedly pushing down two motorcycles while drunk on Spring Break, he is set to take office as UF’s Student Body president on Wednesday.
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It looked all too familiar for the Gators women’s tennis team. Having lost the doubles point, Florida struggled to fight back in singles, ended a winning streak and recorded an unexpected loss.
The Florida lacrosse team wasn’t supposed to make it this far.
Though the Gators fell short of a national title on Saturday, there were still many memorable moments throughout their run to the NCAA Championships.
After a man intimidated two members of UF’s African American studies program, students and faculty attended a teach-in on Monday to heal and educate others about black history.
After more than a month without a counter offer, UF offered Graduate Assistants United a new proposal for their health care plan Monday.
Averie Johnson considers everyone at the Copper Monkey family.
After nearly 10 years of planning, the construction of Gainesville Fire Rescue’s new Station 1 has finally begun.
By now, nearly 2 million people have seen the YouTube video of a wild horse and an alligator squaring off in the middle of Paynes Prairie State Preserve Park.
With finals week looming and the struggle to find study spaces on campus intensifying, students were introduced to UF’s new 24/7 study space Monday.
UF researchers have found that patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who otherwise wouldn’t have access to in-person treatment can benefit from video therapy.
Last March, Gail Hodge hoped for a good harvest. But within a month, 40 percent of her family farm’s watermelon crops had gone bad.
Due to the increasing pervasiveness and equal awareness of obesity as a health problem, especially in the U.S., it has become a truism today to inform the public about caring for themselves and their bodies. I’m quite aware of this beneficial trend in fitness, and I’m a firm believer in the idea that “your body’s a temple, and you should worship it.” However, in a quasi-paradoxical fashion, I also believe you should go out into the great unknown and destroy yourself if you must.
We’re not going to wait until the end of this editorial to cut to the chase, so here it is: UF needs to do more than just condemn hate after the fact.
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