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Asian and Latin American first-generation students speak about their experiences at UF during a discussion panel Thursday night.

NEWS | CAMPUS

First-generation students speak about their UF experience

By Alyssa Varas | Feb. 1, 2019

Attendees were given advice and helpful resources

Florida sophomore Taylor Ault notched two second-place finishes in both the 500 free (4:48.38) and the 1,650 free (16:29.57) in her last meet.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS SWIM AND DIVE

Gators set to compete on Senior Day

By Evan Lepak | Jan. 31, 2019

The Florida Gators swimming and diving teams will be in the O'Connell Center Natatorium this weekend, looking to send 12 seniors out the right way by winning their final home meet of the season.

Junior Grant Holloway started the season with a national No. 2 long-jump ranking at 8.02 meters, a national first place 60 meter hurdle time of 7.49 seconds and a national fourth-place 200 meter dash ranking with a time of 20.69 seconds.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TRACK

UF to compete at Virginia Tech Elite

By Graham Marsh | Jan. 31, 2019

The field eventers will bring their sprinters with them this time around when they head to Blacksburg, Virginia, for the second time in two weeks.

Georgia Bianchi, 41, and her children Eva Bailey, 9, and Christopher Bailey, 4, look at photos Wednesday by Venezuelan photographer Andres Avellaneda on display in the Santa Fe College Fine Arts Hall. The gallery was arranged by various Santa Fe clubs to raise funding for Avellaneda’s U.S. visa application fees.

METRO

Santa Fe College raises money for Venezuelan photographer’s visa

By Christina Moutter | Jan. 31, 2019

Ninety-three photos of Venezuelans marching and crying covered the wall in the Santa Fe Fine Arts Hall Wednesday evening.

UF men’s tennis player Johannes Ingildsen won his match against UCF’s Trey Hilderbrand 6-4, 7-5 on Friday night.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TENNIS

Riffice leads Gators in rout of Knights

By Brendan Farrell | Jan. 31, 2019

The doubles tandem of freshman Sam Riffice and sophomore Oliver Crawford walked into the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Florida, fresh off a couple of wins at the ITA Kickoff event where it dropped just one point.

Gainesville Police officers look on as Gainesville Fire Rescue workers enter a building on Northwest 13th Street late Tuesday night.

METRO | CITY COUNTY COMMISSION

City and county will update emergency radio system

By Karina Elwood | Jan. 31, 2019

The Gainesville and Alachua County commissions decided to update the public safety radio system Thursday night.

Vincent Tate, 51, receives a haircut Tuesday from Edward Young, 64, at the Clean Cut Barber Shop on Northwest Fifth Avenue. Tate moved from Alabama to Gainesville for a fresh start, and he has worked for the Alachua County School Board for 25 years.

NEWS | FEATURES

‘The true natives of Fifth Avenue’: Preserving the culture of Pleasant Street Historic District

By Josephine Fuller | Jan. 31, 2019

A look at Gainesville’s oldest black residential area

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell speaks to the media after an NFL owners meeting, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Chicago.

SPORTS | COLUMNS

Goodell, stop painting the NFL as one, big, happy family

By Alanis Thames | Jan. 31, 2019

Maybe Roger Goodell is delusional.

Florida guard Funda Nakkasoglu dropped a team-high 18 points in UF’s 67-50 loss to Tennessee on Thursday in Knoxville.

SPORTS | WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Florida drops to Tennessee in Knoxville for fourth straight loss

By Dylan Rudolph | Jan. 31, 2019

The Gators walked into the Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tennessee, without one of the most important elements in the game of basketball: height. The team was down its starting 6-foot-1 forward, Kristina Moore, after she injured her arm Sunday against Arkansas, and her absence was evident from the first whistle to the last.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF 2023 applicant pool breaks previous record

By Brittney Miller | Jan. 31, 2019

Admissions will be announced next Friday

UF gymnast Trinity Thomas earned SEC Gymnast of the Week for her performance against Kentucky. She scored a 9.975 on the bars against the Wildcats.

SPORTS | GYMNASTICS

Clash of the Titans: No. 2 Gators face off with No. 1 Oklahoma

By River Wells | Jan. 31, 2019

It’s a paradox as old as time: What happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object? For the centuries the phrase has existed, it has never had an answer.

UF forward Keith Stone tore the ACL in his left knee against Georgia on Jan. 19.

SPORTS | MEN'S BASKETBALL

Florida feeling negative effects of Stone's injury

By Jake Dreilinger | Jan. 31, 2019

There was a moment where it was up to redshirt freshman forward Isaiah Stokes to guard the paint.

UF Black Student Union and Student Government Productions are hosting rapper 21 Savage to perform during a Black History Month celebration on Feb. 27. A Facebook event page was posted on Thursday.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Three things to know about 21 Savage’s performance contract

By Dana Cassidy | Jan. 31, 2019

There will be an invite-only meet and greet

Boxes and bags collect in Carr in the Marston Science Library basement to be delivered to the victims of a strong tornado that hit Havana, Cuba on Sunday.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Cuban UF students collect donations for tornado victims

By Hannah Beatty | Jan. 31, 2019

The strongest tornado in 80 years injured almost 200 people

Isra Chaker, an Islamic activist and advisor for the refugee awareness campaign at Oxfam America, addresses the crowd in the Reitz Grand Ballroom Wednesday night at the Hijab-A-Thon After Hours event hosted by UF’s Islam on Campus. The event was founded to promote the meaning of the hijab and what it means to those who wear it every day. When explaining why she chose to wear her hijab after the events of Sept. 11, Chaker said, “I believed in the hijab. I saw the beauty in it.”

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF students hold “Hijab-A-Thon” on campus

By Mikayla Carroll | Jan. 31, 2019

Students took home 100 hijabs

Jade Ryan, a 25-year-old UF English senior, will appear on an episode of “Jeopardy!,” a trivia television show, at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 5.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Meet the UF student competing on 'Jeopardy!'

By Marlowe Starling | Jan. 31, 2019

The episode will air on Feb. 5

OPINION | DARTS LAURELS

Darts and Laurels: Feb. 1, 2019

Jan. 31, 2019

You wake up and immediately check the weather, suppressing a groan when you see it’s 38 degrees outside for the third day in a row. On the bright side, it gives you a reason to break out your Gator beanie that’s been collecting dust in the back of your closet.

Alyssa Vocelka, a 21-year-old UF accounting senior, leads her Cycle fitness class at the Student Recreation and Fitness Center. Vocelka had Labor Day weekend off and spent it fishing in her hometown of Stuart, Florida. “I caught a giant Snook on the beach,” she said.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Couch potato lifestyle may lead to heart problems, UF researchers say

By Abraham Hunt | Jan. 31, 2019

Having a healthy body weight is not enough to avoid cardiovascular disease, according to a new study conducted by UF researchers.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Scholarships aren't as rare as you think

Jan. 31, 2019

The topic of scholarships is often tied to large-scale economic problems and all of that complicated, serious mess. But this discussion of scholarships will not be attempting to slip Marx and Engels into your ideology like a sugar cube into a cup of tea.

OPINION | COLUMNS

My AirPods are fake, but they stand for something bigger

Jan. 31, 2019

I’ll out myself before anyone thinks they can discredit me: I have fake AirPods.

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