SPORTS
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FEATURES
Where they are now: Former UF gymnast transitioning to life off the mat
By IAN COHEN | Apr. 18, 2017Bridget Sloan called it her slump period.
El Caimán
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Seniors, this is goodbye
By Jimena Tavel | Apr. 18, 2017The anxiety lives in the back of Nick Johnson’s mind.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
After 14 years, woman to head Accent
By Katelyn Newberg | Apr. 18, 2017Correction: This article has been updated to fix a typo in the spelling of Alpha Epsilon Pi. It is not Alpha Epsilon Phi, as it was previously written.
SPORTS
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Her Decision: Florida's Brooke Copeland gives up basketball to make difference in the world
By Ethan Bauer | Apr. 18, 2017Do you hear it? The ticking? She hears it. She’s been hearing it for as long as she can remember, and now it’s grown from a little pinch to a searing pain she can’t hide if she tries. She hears it when she thinks about her future — a future that, until recently, saw her heading to the WNBA. Well, no more. No more basketball for junior Brooke Copeland. Not when people are suffering, dammit, and not while she can do something about it in her limited time on earth.
METRO
Butler Plaza breakfast cafe offers 11 flavors of waffles
By Max Chesnes | Apr. 18, 2017Gainesville residents have a new option for Sunday brunch.
METRO
Doctor helps those at Grace Marketplace, Dignity Village
By Molly Vossler | Apr. 18, 2017Every Monday, an 82-year-old UF alumnus and retired epidemiologist sets up a wound care clinic to serve the homeless who live in Grace Marketplace or the neighboring Dignity Village, a sprawling city of tents in east Gainesville.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Webster reflects on presidency
By Paige Fry | Apr. 18, 2017In the year that Susan Webster served as UF’s Student Body president, she said she made it her goal to work on all 42 points of Impact Party’s platform.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF students speak out on IBC, La Casita construction
By Romy Ellenbogen | Apr. 18, 2017Contact Romy Ellenbogen at rellenbogen@alligator.org and follow her on Twitter at @romyellenbogen
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CAMPUS
Under new executive director, APIA office working to rebuild
By Romy Ellenbogen | Apr. 18, 2017When Will Atkins was chosen as the new executive director of Multicultural and Diversity Affairs, he acknowledged work needed to be done.
METRO
Strict regulations leave no space for adult stores in Gainesville
By Aaron Albright | Apr. 18, 2017Intent on preventing crime and ensuring public safety, a Gainesville ordinance has made it nearly impossible for adult entertainment businesses to open in the city.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
With new app, UF students propose virtual traffic stops
By Mollee Jakubisin | Apr. 18, 2017A group of UF students want to make routine traffic stops safer with a smartphone app.
METRO
Hull Road partly closed during construction
By Bailey LeFever | Apr. 18, 2017Part of Hull Road will be blocked off for at least three weeks because of the construction of a new hotel.
METRO
Local brewery celebrates grand opening with new beer
By David Hoffman | Apr. 18, 2017In Chris Hart’s brewery, the televisions are only turned on when someone asks to watch something.
METRO
Chocolate Night to offer 36 flavors of chocolate ice cream
By Lizzie Vasquez | Apr. 18, 2017For one day only, Gainesville residents will get a chance to savor three-dozen different flavors of chocolate ice cream.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Before I go: a message from your editor-in-chief
Apr. 18, 2017My faded black Jimi Hendrix T-shirt was drenched in sweat as I walked across UF’s campus on a blistering August day.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
We’re all just looking for the damn light switch
Apr. 18, 2017With graduation nearing, you might be feeling a bit stressed.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
We have the right to speak and the duty to listen
Apr. 18, 2017As the limbo of Summer semester comes round, I’m going to follow my predecessor in removing the opinions editor mask and speaking directly as myself. The opinions and experiences expressed here will be my own, and not those of the Alligator editorial board. I want to take the chance, as the end of the semester approaches and friends graduate, travel abroad, tackle internships and sit on their couches all summer, to reflect on the past semester.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Signposts on the path to utopia
Apr. 18, 2017I love science fiction. My favorite works come from the ‘60s and ‘70s, when novels like “Childhood’s End” and “Stranger in a Strange Land” crystallized the genre, pioneered by writers like Isaac Asimov, of utopian speculative fiction. Don’t get me wrong, “Alien” and “Blade Runner” hold a special place in my heart, but there was an optimism in “Star Trek” that seems to have been fading since writers like William Gibson and Philip K. Dick popularized stories of a grim, dystopian future.
SPORTS
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Florida basketball lands graduate transfer from Rice
By Matt Brannon | Apr. 18, 2017The Gators basketball team picked up a 6-foot-5 sharp-shooting transfer from Rice on Tuesday.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Meyers to take office amid legal proceedings
By Paige Fry | Apr. 18, 2017Fewer than two months after Smith Meyers’ arrest for allegedly pushing down two motorcycles while drunk on Spring Break, he is set to take office as UF’s Student Body president on Wednesday.
