SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
Three-man race: Reintroducing the Gators’ top QB contenders
Aug. 20, 2017The Veteran: Luke Del Rio
El Caimán
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Use your privilege to ignite change and promote good
Aug. 20, 2017It’s 2017, and we have Nazis running around without care and without shame. Please, dear reader, take a moment to absorb the utter absurdity of the sentence you just read.
NEWS
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
Why Richard Spencer should not speak on campus
Aug. 20, 2017UF President Kent Fuchs’s Aug. 16 statement cancelling the visit by white supremacist Richard Spencer was on the mark. Events in Charlottesville, Virginia, together with warnings of a “battlefield” in Gainesville provide ample reason to halt the event. Fuchs was also right to emphasize that personally, he finds Spencer’s rhetoric “repugnant and counter to everything this nation stands for.” But though safety issues and not Spencer’s ideas comprised the reason for the cancellation, Spencer is considering a lawsuit, arguing that UF is using safety as a pretext to limit free speech. In a similar case this year, Auburn University allowed Spencer to speak rather than face a court battle.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
College is hard — good friends make it easier
Aug. 20, 2017I don’t mean to get sappy or sentimental right off the bat, but today marks the first day of my last year of college, so maybe I can’t help it. Although it may sound cliche, I realize with each new semester how much, however slight, I’ve changed from the last, and I try to recognize what I want to do differently each time around. Indeed, senior year seems to lend that idea even more gravity.
SPORTS
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BASEBALL
Two teams, two trips to the College World Series for Gators baseball and softball
By Dylan Dixon | Aug. 20, 2017Gators baseball team wins first national championship
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Our promise to our readers
Aug. 20, 2017Well, here we are. It’s the start of another Fall semester. Freshmen are moving in, our graduate friends are gone, and the world is changing. The Alligator isn’t immune to that.
METRO
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K-12 EDUCATION
Gainesville prepares for out-of-this-world solar eclipse
By Jessica Giles | Aug. 20, 2017The first day of school may be eclipsed by a phenomenon 38 years in the making.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF libraries receive additional $310,000 to digitize newspapers
By Christina Morales | Aug. 20, 2017A new $310,000 grant will allow UF to digitize thousands of pages of old newspapers from Florida and Puerto Rico.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
GPD: Suspects arrested in Verizon robbery
By Meryl Kornfield | Aug. 20, 2017Fewer than twenty minutes after an armed robbery in a Verizon Wireless store, Gainesville Police arrested four suspects Friday morning.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Commercial aims to show UF, Florida’s contributions
By Romy Ellenbogen | Aug. 20, 2017To the rest of the nation, Florida can seem like a state filled with crazy crimes and the ubiquitous “Florida Man.” One commercial aims to change that.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Orientation for black students forms bonds
By Romy Ellenbogen | Aug. 20, 2017On Friday night, Ashley Marceus felt visible.
METRO
Depot Park and First Magnitude host birthday bashes
By Jessica Giles | Aug. 20, 2017Two young Gainesville landmarks celebrated anniversaries Saturday, with brews and train rides.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
MCSO: Couple charged with nine more armed robberies
By David Hoffman | Aug. 20, 2017A couple faces nine additional armed robbery charges out of Marion County after bringing a 10-year-old girl with them.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Column: Think you know who the Gators’ starting QB should be? Think again.
By Ethan Bauer | Aug. 20, 2017Anyone who listens to Jim McElwain answer one question knows he is not a straightforward man. He rambles. He swerves. He changes topics like a figure skater changing direction. For example, here’s what he said when asked about how challenging the team’s quarterback competition must be given that two weeks from the team’s season opener, it’s still a three-man race:
SPORTS
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SOCCER
Gators soccer kicks off home schedule with a bang
By Morgan McMullen | Aug. 20, 2017On a scorching Sunday afternoon, the No. 7 UF soccer team came out nearly as hot as the weather did in a 5-0 shutout against Troy at James G. Pressly Stadium.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
The IBC and La Casita demolished for reconstruction
By Romy Ellenbogen | Aug. 20, 2017Amid controversy over reconstruction, the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures and the Institute of Black Culture were demolished Saturday.
SPORTS
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VOLLEYBALL
Gators volleyball team shines, and stumbles, in exhibition win against Coastal Carolina
By Justin Ahlum | Aug. 19, 2017Shainah Joseph took a leap and sent a spike down the baseline for the first point of the game. From there, the Gators would go on to beat Coastal Carolina in a friendly exhibition against the school from the Big South conference.
SPORTS
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SOCCER
Game-winning goal gives Gators season-opening victory over Florida Atlantic
By Mark Stine | Aug. 18, 2017Knowing a golden goal ends the match, midfielder Gabby Seiler stepped up and scored on a penalty kick for Florida’s first goal of the season, securing the team’s first win Friday night in Boca Raton.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Snoop Dogg and Daya to perform at Gator Growl
By Jimena Tavel | Aug. 18, 2017Rapper Snoop Dogg and pop singer Daya will stop by UF this fall.
METRO
The Standard apartment complex opens near campus
By Jessica Giles | Aug. 17, 2017The Standard at Gainesville will begin moving in its 1,200 residents over the course of the next two days, likely causing congestion and traffic delays in the Midtown and downtown areas.
