Column: With Egbunu out, Florida’s season is done
By IAN COHEN | Feb. 20, 2017This will be an unpopular column.
This will be an unpopular column.
Three weeks before his team’s season opener, Kevin O’Sullivan sat on the bench inside the first base dugout at McKethan Stadium and spoke to reporters.
No. 13 Florida doesn’t feel like a team that’s won eight games in a row.
Despite about 54 percent of UF degree-seeking students being female in Fall 2015, according to the most recent UF data, students will vote today and Wednesday for an all-male Student Government executive ticket.
Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect that the criminal charges against Joey N. Friedman were dismissed and the case closed.
On a holiday when American presidents are celebrated, protesters in Gainesville carried handmade signs and stood in opposition to President Donald Trump.
A Florida man pulled out a gun and aimed it at an officer Sunday, Gainesville Police said. The officer fired at him twice but missed.
Yoselyn Paulino doesn’t need an abortion, but she still wants to learn about available resources in Gainesville.
In a span of two days last week, the Alachua County Sheriff’s office lost a former Lieutenant and a 911 dispatcher, one to illness and the other to suicide.
On the heels of two high-profile resignations in UF’s Multicultural and Diversity Affairs, the announcement of another came Monday.
Impact Party
The final interview process for the new director of UF’s Multicultural and Diversity Affairs began Monday and will continue throughout the week.
We’ve done the hard part for you. With Student Government elections taking place today and Wednesday, here’s how we think you should vote on the amendments listed on the ballot and why.
It has been a hectic two years in Student Government. Minority parties surface every few semesters, almost like clockwork, running on promises of being a voice for students outside of the majority party. Access Party was no exception. Despite being among the few minority parties to win the executive ticket, the fall of Access has come and gone, leaving only one executive ticket on today’s and Wednesday’s ballot: Impact Party.
Growing up, I was taught to fear student debt — even when I didn’t truly understand what it was. This lesson didn’t really come from my parents, who worked full time to pay their way through school, but from the horror stories of twenty-something-year-olds haunted by six-figure debt that so often appeared in the news. As I’ve continued my education, these stories have appeared to increase in both frequency and urgency. I often manage to convince myself that this is probably due to my own hyperawareness, but it does seem as though the coverage surrounding the student-debt epidemic is at an all-time high.
As Belinda Woolcock stared down her opponent, she slowly raised her arm to serve. With the deciding point against No. 5 Stanford on the line, a packed crowd at the Ring Tennis Complex held its breath.
As Alyssa Rice ripped down an offensive board over a swarm of bodies and kicked it out to Makayla Epps on the perimeter, a look of despair spread across the faces of Florida’s bench.
With enough medals to fill a trophy case, Caeleb Dressel has grown accustomed to winning throughout his young swimming career.
Gordon Neale smashed his club into the mulch.
One day removed from suffering its first loss of the 2017 season, the Florida softball team entered its Aquafina Invitational finale looking for a strong performance against Florida International.