NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF students travel to Haiti to bring money, supplies
By Catherine Dickson | Oct. 13, 2016Two UF students are leaving for Haiti today to help those in need.
El Caimán
METRO
A city within the Swamp
By Jasmine Osmond | Oct. 13, 2016In the winter of 1980, Amber Waters went to her first concert to see The Eagles and Jimmy Buffett play at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Homecoming Hype: UF’s new ‘hype man’
By Elle Beecher | Oct. 13, 2016Before every UF football game this Fall, Terry Peppers slips on a pair of orange-and-blue argyle pants.
METRO
Pipe Dreams: Floridians fight against Sabal Trail pipeline
By Emma Green | Oct. 13, 2016To protest a 515-mile natural-gas pipeline set to cut through Florida, a St. Petersburg woman will dance across the state, shimmying through Alachua County on her way southbound.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Darts & Laurels: October 14, 2016
Oct. 13, 2016You’re sitting in lecture, listening to your professor drone on about some topic you won’t even be tested on. You feel your eyelids getting heavier and heavier. Your head drops down. Reflexively, your body jerks back and your eyelids shoot open. “Everything OK?” your friend next to you whispers. “Barts and Royals,” you deliriously mumble back. “Huh? Whatever, dude,” she says before glancing down at her notes. You lull slowly back to sleep, and as you’re drooling on your desk, you have a dream about…
METRO
New therapy offers hope in treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy
By Robyn Wilbar | Oct. 13, 2016Against the light-green walls of a room on the fourth floor of UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital, a 9-year-old boy clenched his fist as a nurse hooked an IV into his arm Tuesday.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Shands nurse attempted oral sex on male patient, police say
By Caitlin Ostroff | Oct. 13, 2016A UF Health Shands Hospital nurse sexually battered a patient earlier this year, University Police said.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Why we should resist the authoritarian temptation
Oct. 13, 2016On Tuesday morning, Gov. Paul LePage (R-Maine), said in an interview, “we need a Donald Trump to show some authoritarian power in our country.” Not only is it unsettling for the governor of an American state to be endorsing an authoritarian form of government, but it also reveals an underlying shift in the American public — a tilt toward authoritarianism.
SPORTS
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SOCCER
Soccer team looking for growth vs. No. 2 South Carolina
By Lauren Staff | Oct. 12, 2016With only four regular-season games remaining, No. 17 Florida (10-3, Southeastern Conference 5-2) will face its biggest test of the season Sunday: taking on No. 2 South Carolina on the road.
SPORTS
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VOLLEYBALL
Surging Gators keeping one eye on NCAAs
By Ray Boone | Oct. 12, 2016No. 9 Florida has been one of the most dominant teams in the Southeastern Conference this season.
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
Florida hoping to make statement
By Patrick Pinak | Oct. 12, 2016Jalen Tabor remembers the homecoming embarrassment two years ago.
METRO
Federal judge extends voter registration for six more days
By Melissa Gomez | Oct. 12, 2016Florida’s voter registration deadline has been extended to Tuesday.
THE AVENUE
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ART AND THEATER
Hippodrome State Theatre debuts new show
By Janiece Sebris | Oct. 12, 2016The Hippodrome State Theatre will debut an adaptation of the novel-turned-cult-classic-film “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” as its latest show.
METRO
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POLITICS
‘Trump Train’ comes to Ocala
By Martin Vassolo | Oct. 12, 2016With no protesters in sight, thousands of eager voters snaked their way through a parking lot before packing into a raucous Ocala stadium Wednesday to hear Donald Trump speak.
METRO
Man dies, jet fuel leaks after semi-truck rollover
By Caitlin Ostroff | Oct. 12, 2016A Tampa, Florida, man died Wednesday after his semi-truck rolled over multiple times, leaking nearly 8,000 gallons of jet fuel during the accident, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF College of the Arts hosting arts and humanities event today
By RJ Sonbeek | Oct. 12, 2016Ros Fiol, 19, will be drawing portraits of students for two minutes each on the Plaza of Americas today.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Reconsidering our laws against marijuana
Oct. 12, 2016Do you remember, dear reader, sitting in a Drug Abuse Resistance Education class in elementary school, taking that solemn and sacred vow to never touch drugs? We do. Statistically, most of you have broken that oath. It’s no secret that a sizable portion of the college demographic has experimented with cannabis in one of its many forms.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Florida man arrested after sucking woman’s toes
By Caitlin Ostroff | Oct. 12, 2016A Gainesville man was arrested Tuesday after putting a woman’s right foot in his mouth, Gainesville Police said.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
UPD: Student stole $1,600 in textbooks at UF Bookstore
By Caitlin Ostroff | Oct. 12, 2016On Monday, a UF student was arrested after a man stole about $1,600 in merchandise from the UF Bookstore, University Police said.
METRO
Protesters boycott Gainesville Wendy’s
By Paige Fry | Oct. 12, 2016An employee at the Wendy’s on Archer Road called police after protesters entered the restaurant in an attempt to deliver a letter.
