Last weekend, in Charlottesville, Virginia, members and supporters of the Ku Klux Klan protested the Charlottesville City Council’s decision to remove a statue honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The rally was met with even more protesters denouncing the antiquated beliefs of the KKK.
I was an ambassador with Multicultural and Diversity Affairs for four semesters, where I worked exclusively at the Institute of Black Culture for three of those semesters. I chose to stop working for MCDA once it became apparent that many of the department’s actions didn’t align with the values that they promote. What is happening now with the renovation of the institutes is a prime example of how MCDA actively acts against the best interests of the students they claim to advocate for. Combining the IBC and the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures, or La Casita, is not only working to erase the histories of the black and Latinx communities at UF, but also to further disregard the needs and concerns of students of color within a predominantly white institution.
I write a column every week, and many of these weeks, I have a hard time picking a topic. Sometimes topics just come to me, but often, they don’t. To remedy this, sometimes I search Google for topics. Sometimes I take the advice of a fellow columnist and Google search, “What are Americans angry about today?” I did that this week, and I was greeted by a slew of articles about why Americans are so angry. There was nothing too specific that day, but essentially, a bunch of news outlets wrote pieces about why Americans are so angry about many different things.
Every morning, Jason Ferrell wakes up and believes today could be the day he changes aquatic farming forever.
Nearly a year since UF’s star wide receiver Antonio Callaway was cleared in his Title IX sexual assault investigation, UF is still dealing with the fallout.
Despite graduating from UF last Summer, Richard Lainez is spending his summer fighting on behalf of the students who call the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures home.
Filed under the name of two recent graduates, a lawsuit is demanding the state of Florida pay UF more than $155 million for unfulfilled donation matches.
A deputy of nearly 20 years with the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office was fired Thursday after an investigation into allegations of criminal conduct and child abuse.
Instead of arresting a shoplifter at a Publix in southwest Gainesville on Sunday, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputy paid the balance of the stolen items — and let the man go.
With the conclusion of last week’s College World Series, athletics at UF for the 2016-17 NCAA season have officially come to an end.
July Fourth.
A year ago, two-time NCAA champion and former Gator great Al Horford made headlines when he signed a four-year, $113 million contract with the Boston Celtics. The deal played a huge role in shaking up the NBA’s landscape, as Horford helped the Celtics emerge as a championship contender in the Eastern Conference.
Hours after the Fourth of July’s end, three separate drive-by shootings took place in Gainesville.
Five days after warning her father about her safety, Eukelia Tershell Davis was found dead with three gunshot wounds on her boyfriend’s bedroom floor.
Out of the 26 articles needed to be agreed upon by both the Graduate Assistants United labor union and UF for their three-year contract, only one remains.
A UF diver was arrested Tuesday after police said she slapped her ex-boyfriend multiple times in the parking lot next to James G. Pressly Stadium.
June has been another month of epic releases from all across the music scene, giving every type of listener a new track to jam along to. Whether you’ve been listening to SZA’s “The Weekend” or St. Vincent’s “New York,” new music has been very easy to find this month. Here are some noteworthy albums that have been released in June that you should add to your playlist.
When a cat showed up at Flow Space yoga studio, the owners named it Melty.
Police arrested a convicted felon Friday after he admitted to accidentally shooting a man while drunk in his house two weeks ago.
Democrats have been criticized from within their own ranks for focusing on the issue of Russian interference in the 2016 election when an economic message could be more effective against Republicans, who are in the middle of pushing an extremely unpopular health care bill through Congress. In his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier last month, former FBI Director James Comey insisted that all Americans should be concerned about the prospect of a foreign power influencing the outcome of a Democratic election. He told the committee, “It’s not about Republicans or Democrats. They’re coming after America, which I hope we all love equally. They want to undermine our credibility in the face of the world.”
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