Kelly O’Brien spent two months practicing her American Sign Language for a performance held Saturday.
UF and UF Health now rank within the top 100 places to work for.
UF business students will extinguish fires as they become firefighters for a day on Saturday.
Police: Local man threatens to harm RTS driver
Free birds, Bernie supporters and Portland, Oregon: The only thing possibly more hippie-liberal is Bob Marley delivering a Hendrix-signed guitar to Che Guevara while driving a quinoa-and-kale-fueled smart car littered with “Imagine” and “co-exist” paraphernalia. Clearly the latter only resides in the daydreams of those who take bathroom breaks during work at precisely 4:20 p.m. However, the former actually took place on Friday: A cute, little bird landed on Bernie’s stage and then flew atop his podium during his rally speech. Some view the appearance of this bird as a sign of providence, of Bernie’s pure-hearted candidacy, Mother Nature’s Princess Leia appealing to Bernie to say, “Help me Bernie-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope”: not us at the Alligator.
It’s not enough to have representation — LGBTQ+ characters need to be alive and acknowledged, too. This seems logical, but it’s clearly not practiced in the media, which regularly practices tokenism: including a character of a certain identity but then not going anywhere with it. For example, in the recent Deadpool movie, Deadpool’s bisexual identity was not explicitly acknowledged. While it’s great those who follow the comics know he’s bisexual, most people had no idea, so it’s difficult to say this “counts” in terms of representation. It’s similar to how any movie Thor is in does not count as representation of women, even though Marvel Entertainment writer Jason Aaron made the new comic-book Thor a woman as of fall 2014. Representation in the media still leaves much to be desired.
A French girl studying to become a translator told me, “It’s easier to do some things in a foreign language, and it’s harder to do other things. It’s harder to be intimate, and it’s easier to get men.” In German and English, she didn’t have a pre-constructed barrier against men; she was less inhibited because she didn’t have the habit of inhibition. “I’ve always had to break up in English,” I told her, “but I sure do get pretty when I stop speaking it.” We laughed and clinked our beers.
This month marks the sixth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Since its passage in 2010, more than 20 million people have signed up for affordable health care through healthcare.gov.
On Saturday, the Gators were back to their winning ways.
Before Saturday’s matchup, three Southeastern Conference teams were undefeated in conference play: No. 3 Georgia, No. 7 Florida and No. 8 South Carolina.
It started with Evan White.
The No. 2 Florida Lacrosse team went on an offensive frenzy Saturday to open up Big East conference play.
After losing its regular-season series to LSU at home last season, the Florida softball team knew its three-game set in Baton Rouge would provide a significant challenge.
For the first time this week, Florida’s consistency was not good enough.
Florida had a pair of first places finishes on Friday at the Cardinal and Gold Challenge hosted by the University of Southern California.
Nicole DeWitt blocked it all out.
It was a situation the Florida men’s tennis team had failed to convert on all spring: winning the final singles point of a dual match with the score tied 3-3.
Nelson Maldonado is building a reputation of coming through with big hits in opportune times.
Jim McElwain is getting a raise.
The No. 1 Gators (22-1, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) are off to their best start in school history.
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