Column: Writer, editor leaves after three years
By JORDAN MCPHERSON | Dec. 6, 2016I still have the emails from my freshman year — three of them from former alligatorSports editor Phillip Heilman.
I still have the emails from my freshman year — three of them from former alligatorSports editor Phillip Heilman.
Back in October, Florida golfer Gordon Neale received a text.
Florida coach Mike White watched No. 5 Duke seize the lead with a 15-3 run going into halftime.
After suffering from throbbing earaches, Alyssa Eatherly turned to UF’s Student Health Care Center in March in hopes of getting help.
The smell of smoke still lingered Tuesday afternoon as Satchel Raye, 48, and some of his employees, family members and friends helped clean up after a fire gutted Lightnin’ Salvage, an outdoor bar and gift shop at Satchel’s Pizza.
Arianna Huffington’s Tuesday-night appearance at UF was canceled following an online comment referencing a political assassin.
A UF piano professor has been named director of UF’s School of Music.
Inside the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, religious leaders from across Gainesville spoke the prayers of their respective faiths.
Ten tiny shoes sat in a pile outside the room, and the laughter of children burst through the door as Brianna Schiavoni and her class of children struck a dead bug pose on a Sunday afternoon last month.
A Checkers near UF’s campus will be renovated for the first time in more than two decades before the start of the Spring semester.
As they clean before Winter Break, people can donate gently used clothes and items today.
While in his third term serving in Student Government’s Student Senate, Access Party Minority Leader Ford Dwyer resigned from his seat Tuesday night.
When political protests broke out on Turlington Plaza after the U.S. presidential election, Nick Runde said he wanted to unite students.
Five Gainesville Police officers and eight Hispanic-Latino residents turned their chairs to face each other as they discussed relations between the two communities Tuesday night.
After police pulled him over Monday, a Gainesville man was found with a loaded handgun and a potpourri of drugs in a “Dora the Explorer” lunch bag, Gainesville Police said.
Catherine Robinson is a grandmother to more children than she can count.
I’m going to go ahead and get the sappy cliches out of the way: All good things must come to an end. The end is just the start of another beginning. Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.
Hi, everyone, it’s Zach Lee here, taking off the editorial mask to speak to you all directly one last time here in The Independent Florida Alligator. That being said, the following views are my own, not those of the Alligator.
Two years ago, I walked into the office of the Alligator on West University Avenue to take the copy-editing test. The copy desk chief at the time sat me in a small wood-paneled office that held rows of shelves lined with tall black books: about half of the archives of a student paper that’s been around for 110 years. Thankfully, I passed that test.
It was here I fell in love with my craft, my college and my colleagues, and it was here I realized journalism is far from over.