A year ago, it was Tyrie Cleveland. The year before that, it was Martez Ivey and CeCe Jefferson. Those were the headliners Jim McElwain managed to snag on signing day in his first two seasons at Florida. With Ivie and Jefferson, it was expected. With Cleveland, it was considered a moderate surprise.
Jim McElwain is hoping to make major moves. His team’s recruiting class currently ranks 19th in the nation, but he’s hoping to vault up the list with some big commitments today. Here, alligatorSports writers Ethan Bauer, Matt Brannon, Ian Cohen and Patrick Pinak break down some of Florida’s top targets for National Signing Day.
A UF researcher is working to make tomatoes great again.
Following allegations of hazing, a UF music fraternity has been disbanded and is now under police investigation.
Five days after President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban, UF students refused to eat Tuesday, a show of solidarity with their Muslim peers.
Robin Hood pranced through UF Health Shands Hospital on Friday in green spandex and velvet vest.
Chants of “Resist Trump” and “No wall, no ban” could be heard outside Rep. Ted Yoho’s Gainesville office Tuesday,
Students hoping to register with a Student Government political party had their last chance Tuesday.
A social activist reminded students on Tuesday to fight against injustice on the last day of UF’s Martin Luther King Day celebrations.
Shane Obi can surf easily knowing there are fewer sharks in the ocean.
While Nate Quinn grew up selling Girl Scout cookies, he dreamed of being a Boy Scout instead.
Online students will soon be able to mingle with their classmates, despite being hundreds of miles away.
For the second consecutive night, Burrito Brothers Taco Co. ran out of food Tuesday, its second busiest day in 40 years.
Student senators asked how they can help promote UF’s art museum, natural history museum and performing arts center Tuesday.
As Gainesville’s population has swelled, the city’s fire rescue is grasping for resources to meet demands.
As celebrities make bold statements about social movements and activism, sometimes we wonder: What good does it all do? There have been calls to use art to spread a message, as a call to action, but what good is a story or a picture in the long run? Though actors,
Proponents of the regime claim that Fidel Castro’s revolution won Cuba freedom, a word choice that is bewildering to hear considering the individual liberties repressed by the totalitarian government. Predictably, a Havana bookstore we visited lacked works containing ideas incompatible with communism. Next to Trotsky and Marx, there was a title that argued there was in fact democracy in Cuba because the island has a “democratic economy,” contrasting it to the economy of the U.S.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I am devoting the month of February to relationships. This month, we’ll talk about friendship, love and what makes for healthy relationships of all kinds. I can think of no better way to begin than with the foundation of every relationship and the most valuable tool you will ever learn to use: communication.
The silence on Monday night was breached by sniffles, gasps and the occasional whisper in a foreign language, as students from countries now banned under a Donald Trump presidency spoke out against his executive order.
For the sake of science, seven UF students plan to march on the nation’s capital.
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