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Sunday, June 08, 2025

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OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Why it’s important to remember you’re going to die

As college students, we think we’re immortal. Not in the “guzzles-a-four-pack-of-Red-Bull-and-jumps-of-a-roof” type of way, though. Of course, those people are out there. We think we’re immortal because of how far we plan ahead. We pick our majors with a rough idea of what we want to do with our lives. We have an idea of where we want to live and what industry we want to work in, for the most part. By the time we reach our last academic year, we more or less have an outline of the exact job we’re going to get and how we’re going to get it. We think we’re immortal because we are assuming nothing happens to us before we get there.


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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Trump could learn a thing or two from sports

Being a new columnist, I haven’t yet had the opportunity to tell all you readers about me — and I don’t plan on it. There is some pleasure to the cognitive dissecting of another person’s psyche through their writing, and to those of you who read daily, I hope you’re able to discern who I am as a person by my writing. However, I’m going to completely contradict my beliefs by telling you of two things I love: sports and politics.


UF President Kent Fuchs addresses a group of students at the Martin King with Malcolm X: Exploring Social Justice through Multiple Lenses opening ceremony on Thursday. The group marched from the Institute of Black Culture to the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom as a part of a candlelight vigil before the ceremony.
NEWS  |  CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

UF officials, Fuchs condemn noose left in Weimer Hall

Victoria Camargo walked into class Thursday morning to find a 6-foot-long rope tied into a noose. It was about 9 a.m., and the noose lay on her professor’s lectern inside the Gannett Auditorium at Weimer Hall. The UF advertising sophomore thought it may have been a prop to be used in class. But her professor never acknowledged it. After the two-hour class, police were called and hauled the rope away.



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