Last 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.
Every 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.
It 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.
Rainbow Rowell, a young adult novelist, has managed to do something original enough to make a stir in the literary world.
The saying goes that confidence is key, and for UF sophomore guard Dyandria Anderson, that saying holds true.
The 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.
After 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.
Devin Robinson knew that he had room to grow following his freshman season.
Florida might’ve lost against LSU on Saturday, but one thing became clear after the defeat.
Florida baseball tasted success last season.
You can’t hit through it.
Burgers and fries? There’s an app for that.
Under the chiming of Century Tower, students gathered to scribble letters of love and encouragement Monday.
Despite there being just three regular season games remaining on the schedule, a lot can change for the No. 13 Florida soccer team from now until the end of the season.
University Police Officer Chad Holway helped Alex Waler, a 21-year-old UF biology junior, put on a black helmet as she got on his parked motorcycle on Turlington Plaza on Monday.
A former motel in Cedar Key, Florida, now serves as a UF biological station.
Prospective students across the country will soon be able to see the Potato, the French Fries and other UF landmarks from their homes.
Even after seven weeks of the college football season has come and gone, the fight to be a top-four team and clinch a spot in the College Football Playoff is still too close to call. But at the halfway mark of the season, each member of the alligatorSports football group — sports editor Graham Hall, assistant sports editor Luis Torres, staff writer Graham Hack and managing/online editor Jordan McPherson — has his own thought of who will be playing for the national title come January. If the season were to end today, here is who each writer would have in their Final Four:
Balloons and lanterns will glow outside the stadium on Thursday night for those with cancer.
Following the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. firmly and confidently planted itself in the Middle East beginning with Afghanistan in late 2001. At the time, there were few who would have publicly disagreed with this course of action, but then again, how could they? The nation had just been attacked on a scale that had never been seen before and has yet to be matched. We were hurt, and, perhaps more than anything else, we were scared. Not to go after the men who had hurt us so deeply would have been a decision rooted in fear and cowardice.
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