SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS GOLF
Arkansas sweeps Suntrust as Gators come up short at home
By Justin Ahlum | Feb. 19, 2017Gordon Neale smashed his club into the mulch.
El Caimán
SPORTS
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SOFTBALL
Gators get watered-down win to close Aquafina Invitational
By Skyler Lebron | Feb. 19, 2017One day removed from suffering its first loss of the 2017 season, the Florida softball team entered its Aquafina Invitational finale looking for a strong performance against Florida International.
SPORTS
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Without Egbunu, UF finding ‘different ways to win’
By Matt Brannon | Feb. 19, 2017I.J. Ready went straight for Florida’s weakness.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Column: Earth is flat, obviously, you idiot
By Matt Brannon | Feb. 19, 2017Kyrie Irving, NBA superstar, said he believes Earth is flat, and now everyone on God’s green disk is losing their minds.
SPORTS
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BASEBALL
Gators rout William and Mary to complete sweep
By Ethan Bauer | Feb. 19, 2017Ryan Hall reacted immediately, sprinting toward the wall the moment the ball left Austin Langworthy’s bat.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
APD: Woman wakes up to strange man in bed
By Meryl Kornfield | Feb. 19, 2017An Alachua man broke into a home through a window Sunday and was found by the homeowner while he was laying in her bed, Alachua Police said.
METRO
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CITY COUNTY COMMISSION
Family, friends honor former UF band director
By Meryl Kornfield | Feb. 19, 2017Gary Langford’s trumpet communicated grief for a fallen friend Saturday.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Smith Meyers, Student Body presidential candidate
By Paige Fry | Feb. 19, 2017Smith Meyers knew he wanted to run for UF’s Student Body president after a childhood friend slipped into depression in Spring 2016.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
After dispute, UF student pepper-sprayed roommates
By Meryl Kornfield | Feb. 19, 2017Editor's note: Fuentes' charges were dismissed on April 5, according to Alachua County Court records.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Above UF’s campus, a hot air balloon advocated for mental-health awareness
By Michael Smith | Feb. 19, 2017As students craned their necks to gaze at the red, blue and yellow hot air balloon flying over Flavet Field on Friday, they were encouraged to think about what lifts them up.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Brothers burglarize at least 39 cars, police say
By Meryl Kornfield | Feb. 19, 2017Two brothers were arrested Friday in connection to 39 car burglaries in Haile Plantation and Blues Creek, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office and Gainesville Police said.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Mario Agosto, Student Body vice presidential candidate
By Paige Fry | Feb. 19, 2017As a first-generation student, Mario Agosto has always felt the pressure to succeed.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Revel Lubin, Student Body treasurer candidate
By Paige Fry | Feb. 19, 2017Revel Lubin has worn a black “I am second” bracelet every day since his junior year of high school, a symbol of his dedication to God.
METRO
P.F. Chang’s among new restaurants at Butler Town Center
By Marsan | Feb. 19, 2017A P.F. Chang’s China Bistro will be among the new restaurants added to Butler Town Center in the fall of 2018.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF’s Engineer’ Week continues
By Taylor Wilson | Feb. 19, 2017The annual UF Engineers’ Week will continue this week to encourage students to learn about UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF physics professor to be nationally recognized
By Harrison O’Keeffe | Feb. 19, 2017A UF scientist has won an award for discovering something Albert Einstein predicted more than 100 years ago.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Companies offer meal-kit delivery for university students
By Maddie Harlow | Feb. 19, 2017Students sick of dining-hall diets may soon find solace in a new meal-delivery service catered specifically to them.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Survey Design 101
Feb. 19, 2017Everyone at UF is familiar with the time of semester (actually right around the corner) when the students taking Introduction to Statistics 2 hit the Facebook group pages and post survey links, urging fellow students to click on the link and fill out the questions so they can properly study t-tests. These survey questions are pretty simple, and the surveys themselves are short: “Year? Gender? How many alcoholic beverages do you consume per week?”
OPINION
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COLUMNS
The ability to hold opinions is a gift and a curse
Feb. 19, 2017We have the ability to form and hold opinions. We sometimes take this so lightly, but this is a truly fascinating and incredible concept. We are able to take information from outside ourselves, interpret it and form thoughts about how we feel about it. We can decide if we think something is right or wrong, if it is OK or not OK.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
From Adele to ZZ Top: Why I listen to the widest scope of music possible
Feb. 19, 2017I remember my first MP3 player so vividly. I already loved the portability of my music. As an elementary-schooler before the days of the first iPod, I would grab my cassette player — and later my portable CD player — for any car ride longer than 10 minutes. When my parents excitedly told me we’d received a free Napster MP3 player as part of a BellSouth promotion — yeah, that’s a sentence you’ll probably never hear again — I was pumped: We just download our music from the internet? And this little thing can hold more than 70 songs?
