THE AVENUE
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LIFESTYLE
New investment app Acorns is now free for students
By Katherine Dagand | Oct. 21, 2015From acorns mighty oaks do grow.
El Caimán
THE AVENUE
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MUSIC
The Jam to host electronic music festival Over Easy Fest
By Taylor Maloney | Oct. 21, 2015This weekend, The Jam will be transformed into an interactive music festival.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Students eat food from Asian cultures
By Meryl Kornfield | Oct. 20, 2015Gators filled their growling stomachs with buttered chicken and spring rolls in the Florida Gymnasium on Tuesday night.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF IFAS developed app, helps conserve water
By Monica Andrade | Oct. 20, 2015Homeowners can save water with a tap on their smartphone.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Five businesses to pitch their ideas
By Gabrielle Newman | Oct. 20, 2015Rob Damitz started his business, aqUV, in graduate school.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Former US senator speaks on disability act
By Katelyn Newberg | Oct. 20, 2015For former Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act was a family matter.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Deputies and marshals arrest fugitive, rescue kidnapped woman
By Giuseppe Sabella | Oct. 20, 2015Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies helped Louisiana authorities arrest a Gainesville man Tuesday after he reportedly kidnapped a local woman Monday.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Get it started: UF holds startup fair
By Lamia Chowdhury | Oct. 20, 2015Students will hand their resumes to startup businesses today in the hopes of landing a summer internship.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF colleges host paper-airplane competition to raise money
By Martin Vassolo | Oct. 20, 2015Gate 16 of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium functioned as an airplane runway on Tuesday as students and faculty folded and launched paper planes off the stadium ledge.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Alachua County deputies secure a mine found in Levy County
By Giuseppe Sabella | Oct. 20, 2015Alachua County Sheriff deputies secured a live military mine Saturday evening after a Bronson man found it in the ground in Levy County.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF Office of Sustainability to host sustainable travel fair at Reitz Union
By Courtney Grigsby | Oct. 20, 2015Students who bike, skate and run to campus will be able to share how they’ve helped the environment today on the Reitz Union Lawn.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
U Matter, We Care talks to SG about mental health
By Caitlin Ostroff | Oct. 20, 2015After a suicide took place last week, UF’s U Matter, We Care visited student senators at Tuesday night’s Student Senate meeting.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Editorial: Suicide and the stigmatization of struggle
Oct. 20, 2015Last Wednesday, a freshman residing in North Hall decided to take his own life. As of writing, this is the only information that has been released publicly.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
You may be preparing for the wrong job market
Oct. 20, 2015Every college student is told to walk the line between chasing a passion they truly love and being realistic in the likelihood of success in those aspirations. The paradox is that many of the most popular fields to pursue are where people are predicted to not find success. Forbes ranked degrees in the arts and humanities as the worst to receive. On the other hand, jobs in statistics and computers, fields that definitely have acquired tastes, show the best projections in the coming decades in terms of employment and overall job satisfaction.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
“Homeland” is a poor representation of the Middle East
Oct. 20, 2015It recently emerged that Arab graffiti artists who had been hired to decorate the set of the Showtime program "Homeland" successfully snuck in subversive messages. These included phrases such as "Homeland is racist" and "#BlackLivesMatter." For those of you who pay attention to the world around them, this should come as no surprise.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Rainbow Rowell and the rise of fanfiction
Oct. 20, 2015Rainbow Rowell, a young adult novelist, has managed to do something original enough to make a stir in the literary world.
SPORTS
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
UF women’s basketball sophomore poised for breakout year
By Ethan Bauer | Oct. 20, 2015The saying goes that confidence is key, and for UF sophomore guard Dyandria Anderson, that saying holds true.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS SWIM AND DIVE
UF swimming and diving learning from last week’s meets
By Lauren Staff | Oct. 20, 2015The Florida men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams finished up their second consecutive road dual-meet on Saturday in Austin, Texas, where the teams took on the defending national champions Texas and Big-10 opponent, Indiana.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS GOLF
Florida men’s golf ties for fifth place after poor start
By Matt Brannon | Oct. 20, 2015After a dismal opening round Sunday put the Gators in 12th place at the Tavistock Collegiate, coach JC Deacon could have chalked the tournament up as a loss.
SPORTS
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
UF men’s basketball counting on sophomore forward to improve this year
By ALEX MAMINAKIS | Oct. 20, 2015Devin Robinson knew that he had room to grow following his freshman season.
