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This bionic arm was created by UF engineering students using a 3-D printer at the mechanical and aerospace engineering lab. Santiago Marin, one of about 20 students on the team, said it cost about $350 and took eight weeks to build.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF engineering students build bionic limbs

By Caitlin Ostroff | Oct. 6, 2015

A 7-year-old boy in Naples is getting a special Christmas present — an arm.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Jim Obergefell to speak on LGBTQ+ progress

By Alexandra Fernandez | Oct. 6, 2015

Jim Obergefell will tell UF students how he helped make history.

METRO

Student attendance was absent at streetlight celebration

By Brooke Baitinger | Oct. 6, 2015

Tuffy-Brown Dog didn’t get to socialize with any students Tuesday evening.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF fair aims to end disability stigma

By Ebony Joseph | Oct. 6, 2015

When UF psychology sophomore Sarai Almanza started college, she didn’t know she had a learning disorder.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Research Roundup: 10/07/2015

Oct. 6, 2015

UF astronomer helps capture most comprehensive images of Milky Way

Mickey Vellukunnel, a 26-year-old UF computer science graduate student, breaks his fast with pita bread and hummus. He said the space was a good way for people of different religions to come together and “get a taste of the practice,” an Islamic tradition to cleanse one’s body and spirit.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF students start and end Islamic fast together

By Monica Andrade | Oct. 6, 2015

At 3:30 a.m., UF international studies freshman Katarina Negron stuck her fork into a stack of five buttermilk pancakes.

METRO

Report recommends loan transparency

By Martin Vassolo | Oct. 6, 2015

UF exploratory freshman Megan Lewis expects to be paying off student loans well into her late 30s.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Editorial: SG, we do our jobs — now you do yours

Oct. 6, 2015

Late last night, outgoing Student Government Senate President Davis Bean gave his goodbye speech. Bean had the opportunity to speak at length about UF: what the university has taught him, what he’s gained from his time working for it and the wonderful Student Body he’s ostensibly worked to provide for would have all been suitable, substantive and daresay inspirational subjects. Instead, Bean delivered a speech that would have made Donald Trump blush. Flushed with self-congratulatory musings and utter contempt for anyone who dared disagree with him, Bean took his farewell speech, something normally seen as an opportunity for grace and class, and instead chose to run through his personal hit list, with the Alligator among his targets.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Voting poses barriers for IA, PaCE students

By Caitlin Ostroff | Oct. 6, 2015

While last week’s Student Government elections had a high voter turnout with more than 10,000 students voting, not all voices were heard.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Our gun culture is terroristic and growing

Oct. 6, 2015

Last week, in response to the latest in a long series of mass shootings, various media outlets posted infographics that juxtaposed the number of Americans killed by guns with the number killed by terrorist acts.

OPINION | COLUMNS

John Boehner’s resignation presents trouble

Oct. 6, 2015

About two weeks ago, John Boehner held a press conference after Pope Francis addressed Congress. A practically cheerful Boehner replaced the weeping one from the previous day as he announced his plan to leave Congress at the end of October. While many expected the speaker to be ousted by the Tea Party bloc of his party, no one could have foreseen Boehner leaving on such an abrupt note.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Social media is pretty awesome, helps curate human existence

Oct. 6, 2015

On Monday, I participated in a research study. This was not your average, answer-these-three-questions-please-to-save-my-grade type of survey you see plastered all over Facebook.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Students de-stress at UF ‘fruvement’ event

By Deshlee Ford | Oct. 6, 2015

Two UF students dressed in banana and grape costumes gave passersby colorful balloons.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF students to march for gender equality, HeForShe campaign

By Martin Vassolo | Oct. 6, 2015

UF biology freshman Kendall Cantrell won’t go back to Midtown. The last time she was there, the 18-year-old was groped by multiple men at Grog House Bar and Grill.

METRO | CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Man arrested for fake robbery

By Giuseppe Sabella | Oct. 6, 2015

Gainesville Police arrested a local man Tuesday morning after he reportedly called for support against two imaginary robbers.

METRO

County addresses mental health

By Hunter Williamson | Oct. 6, 2015

In the wake of National Mental Health Awareness Week and a new fiscal budget year, experts in the field and county officials are looking to further address mental-health issues.

METRO