As fun and exciting as this week has been, like all weeks, it must come to an end. As many of our columnists wrote about, this week was a time for new beginnings: New classes, new friends and new experiences are but a few of the joys that lie in the semester ahead. With that said, it’s time for this semester’s inaugural edition of…
Last week, I logged onto Facebook after a summer of neglect. I was greeted with a familiar but troubling sight: Someone had posted an article about a scorned boyfriend throwing acid in his girlfriend’s face. While that was the first I had heard of that particular story, I have seen similar stories posted on Facebook many times before. The Texas mother who drowned her children in a pool; the Massachusetts teacher who was murdered by a student; the Tennessee couple who were raped and beaten; all were equally tragic stories that had found their way into my life because of a shared Facebook post.
College can be a pretty weird place. Jam any number of young adults with raging libidos into a high-stress environment, and all kinds of crazy stuff will go down. But hand those same high-strung and impassioned people a whopping sense of entitlement and unshakable certainty in their own morals? Things will get surreal.
Welcome back for the Fall semester, Gators! I hope that everyone had a good first week back and is re-acclimating to the humidity, the homework and The Gator Nation.
Sarah Wolff and her family lived without power for two weeks, playing board games and reading books to pass time as the storm raged.
UF’s Institute of Hispanic-Latino Culture has been completely student-run for about three months.
Fining student athletes for breaking "rules" is unfathomable, and should be illegal.
Alex Holston’s dad has been counting down the days to the Gators’ first two season games this weekend.
In a game that featured no significant scoring threat in the first half, the Florida soccer team took down the Miami Hurricanes Thursday night, winning 4-2 in Coral Gables.
Treon Harris and Will Grier will both play in the season opener against New Mexico State on Sept. 5.
It’s too early to say if Tropical Storm Erika will impact Florida, but it’s not too early to start preparing for a hurricane.
Santa Fe College Student Senate kicked off its first meeting of the Fall semester Wednesday afternoon with new senators and an update to the leadership team.
A third political party will come into play in the Fall UF Student Government election cycle.
When UF junior Adreenah Wynn came to college, she registered with the Disability Resource Center to be prepared if she got sick.
Throughout the week, students have been invited to catch a behind-the-scenes look into the lives of well-known faculty and students, and today, UF President Kent Fuchs will take hold of the account.
The Hispanic-Latinx Student Assembly was centered around empowerment, culture and inclusivity.
Outside a hospital window, Superman waved to a group of smiling children.
Alachua County management is now considered excellent nationwide.
Gainesville residents are some of the first in the nation to try Wendy’s new and improved chicken.
When we began brainstorming today’s editorial, there was every intention of writing a pleasant little column on the inability of Florida lawmakers to rectify the blatant gerrymandering that plagues Florida. But, as with so many American mornings, tragedy made it all but impossible to write anything that even remotely resembled a "pleasant" demeanor.
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