A student who will lead soldiers into battle after graduating was unanimously approved Tuesday by UF Student Senate as the next Student Government Veteran’s Affairs executive cabinet director.
Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe and UF President Kent Fuchs signed an agreement Tuesday promising to turn Gainesville into a “new American city.”
High above UF’s Alfred A. McKethan Stadium at Perry Field, a pair of lovebirds have made their nest.
An anonymous artist in a gorilla mask drew a crowd of about 600 people to a UF auditorium on Tuesday.
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More than 1,400 rejected applicants called UF’s Admission Office Monday looking for answers.
Students at a Gainesville high school listened attentively Tuesday as an award-winning author spoke about how she wants to inspire them to be heard.
While the month of February is packed with love and romance, a UF student organization wants to address safe sex.
A new website is offering to help college students find their perfect jobs.
On Tuesday afternoon, about 50 paper butterflies with messages of love appeared in trees on Turlington Plaza.
It feels like modern society idolizes logical thinking over emotional thinking. Bring feelings into an argument and you get labeled overemotional and hysterical. Gush about how much you love something and you’re given a side-eye for being too enthusiastic. Vent about how much you hate something and you’re told you’re being too passionate. It’s not clear when this preference for subdued emotions became the norm. It’s not even that society prefers totally logical thinking to the emotional way — we’re expected to have emotions, of course, but we need to keep them in check.
Any conversation about intimacy would be remiss to ignore the subject of sex, and I think it is vital to examine a longstanding social trend known as “purity culture.” Society has deemed sex as the single act in human experience which is detractive. The term “virginity” has no parallel in our language. You don’t avoid learning to swim because you can never again be a “non-swimmer.” Let’s take a look at why.
Much has been said, and much will be said, about the recent presidential election. It appears that many are still wrestling with the potential consequences of the outcome, and I doubt this wrestling will cease anytime soon. Unfortunately, this was my first presidential election. I have no other experience of how an election normally goes. Yet, this one did not seem to conform to anyone’s — except President Donald Trump’s — idea of how an election ought to go.
I hate concerts. There, I said it. I hate concerts. I hate being packed like a sardine in a big crowd of sweaty people. I hate nodding my head idly to the lackluster performances of small-time opening acts. I hate it when opening acts play long sets. I hate ticketing websites’ “convenience fees.” I hate overpriced T-shirts. I hate that touring acts always sell warped vinyl. I hate buying something at the merchandise table at the beginning of the night only to realize I have to hold it for the rest of the show. I hate people loudly singing in my ear when I am trying to enjoy the show. I hate how sweaty my legs, armpits and forehead get while I am standing in the audience. I hate the way the bottoms of my feet ache after standing for three hours. I hate bouncers. I hate other people’s body odor. I hate poor mixing. I hate poor lighting. I hate the way sold-out shows are so crowded and some venues are so poorly designed that in a fire, several people would certainly be trampled on their way out of the venue.
Feminist activist artists called the Guerrilla Girls combat and expose inequality in politics, art and pop culture through their artwork — all while wearing gorilla masks. Tonight, the Guerrilla Girls will bring their performance to the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art where a member of the group, who goes by the name Frida Kahlo, will give a lecture.
At last year’s SEC swimming and diving championship meet, Caeleb Dressel was the star.
On Monday, Florida soccer coach Becky Burleigh announced that six athletes will be joining the Gators for the 2017 season.
As the ball floated high in the air, Ingrid Neel’s eyes focused in.
As loss after loss continued to pile on to the Gators’ conference record earlier this month, Amanda Butler finally hit her breaking point. She couldn’t take it anymore.
Happy Valentine’s Day, sports fans.
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