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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

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NEWS  |  CAMPUS

UF introduces app for Career Showcase

UF students strapping on their high heels and tugging on their business jackets will have access to a new app during Career Showcase today and Wednesday. The app, called UF Career Services, was created by the Career Resource Center and is free for about 6,000 students who are planning to attend the event. The app also includes a map of about 300 employers’ booths in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center, said Liza Allison, a graduate assistant with the center. During the event, students can learn about employers’ education requirements and what they’re hiring for. “(The app) is live, and it’s out right now,” Allison said. Many students go to Career


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OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Learn, evaluate and reason your opinion

There is a lot of political news going on right now. You could say that about the whole year, but it seems that in the last few days there have been protests and protests of those protests. There have been things signed and things allegedly signed. There has been praise of the protests and criticisms of the protests. There has been praise of the signed things and also criticisms of those same signed things. It’s an information overload.


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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Should we care about what celebrities say?

The abstract concept of celebrities has confounded and fascinated many of us as we’ve grown up. Some of us think about it more than others, regularly scrolling through celebrities’ Instagram accounts and consuming tabloid news with zeal. On the other hand, some of us ignore celebrities as much as society allows us, disenchanted by their self-appointed responsibility as the voice for the masses despite their immense privilege. Either way, these potent feelings often contribute to some sort of opinion towards celebrities in general, and the past few weeks were no exception.


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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

A criticism of complaints and a discussion of whether they are justifiable

To everyone who considers me to be some liberal guy who has way too much pent-up anger about recent issues and complains about them constantly, I apologize. Through reflection, I’ve realized all my pieces so far have been critiques. They’ll probably stay that way. My first guest piece was a critique, and my last regular piece may be as well. I consider critiques to be an opposing opinion that the critiqued could learn something from — and by no means am I exempt from this. So please, if you believe I could be doing anything different which would be beneficial in any manner, then comment on my piece, send me a message of any kind, etc. I will fully accept any criticism and try to learn.



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