SPORTS
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SOFTBALL
Gators softball ready to start season
By Cassie Amundson | Jan. 31, 2017Every morning, senior Delanie Gourley awakens to a text.
El Caimán
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
The absurdity of National Signing Day
By Ethan Bauer | Jan. 31, 2017When I was in high school, I wanted to be a recruiting reporter. I read recruiting stories daily while I was supposed to be paying attention in class, and National Signing Day was one of my favorite days of the year (seriously).
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
Recruiting notebook: Florida still looking for top-tier talent
By Ethan Bauer | Jan. 31, 2017A year ago, it was Tyrie Cleveland. The year before that, it was Martez Ivey and CeCe Jefferson. Those were the headliners Jim McElwain managed to snag on signing day in his first two seasons at Florida. With Ivie and Jefferson, it was expected. With Cleveland, it was considered a moderate surprise.
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
National Signing Day: Florida’s top targets
Jan. 31, 2017Jim McElwain is hoping to make major moves. His team’s recruiting class currently ranks 19th in the nation, but he’s hoping to vault up the list with some big commitments today. Here, alligatorSports writers Ethan Bauer, Matt Brannon, Ian Cohen and Patrick Pinak break down some of Florida’s top targets for National Signing Day.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF researcher breeds new, tasty tomatoes
By Grace Kenny | Jan. 31, 2017A UF researcher is working to make tomatoes great again.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
UF fraternity disbanded after hazing allegations
By Romy Ellenbogen | Jan. 31, 2017Following allegations of hazing, a UF music fraternity has been disbanded and is now under police investigation.
NEWS
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
After travel ban, UF students, Fuchs celebrate Islam
By Molly Vossler | Jan. 31, 2017Five days after President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban, UF students refused to eat Tuesday, a show of solidarity with their Muslim peers.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Robin Hood, friends make routine visits to pediatric unit
By Clare Roca. Contributing Writer | Jan. 31, 2017Robin Hood pranced through UF Health Shands Hospital on Friday in green spandex and velvet vest.
METRO
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POLITICS
Anti-Trump protest erupts outside congressman’s office
By Mary-Lou Watkinson | Jan. 31, 2017Chants of “Resist Trump” and “No wall, no ban” could be heard outside Rep. Ted Yoho’s Gainesville office Tuesday,
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
SG Spring registration ends, low turnout
By Paige Fry | Jan. 31, 2017Students hoping to register with a Student Government political party had their last chance Tuesday.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
CNN political commentator talks MLK at UF
By Jimena Tavel | Jan. 31, 2017A social activist reminded students on Tuesday to fight against injustice on the last day of UF’s Martin Luther King Day celebrations.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Number of shark attacks decrease in 2016
By Isabella Arjomand | Jan. 31, 2017Shane Obi can surf easily knowing there are fewer sharks in the ocean.
METRO
UF student reflects on Boy Scouts dreams, now possible
By Jimena Tavel | Jan. 31, 2017While Nate Quinn grew up selling Girl Scout cookies, he dreamed of being a Boy Scout instead.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Virtual campus to launch for UF Online
By Romy Ellenbogen | Jan. 31, 2017Online students will soon be able to mingle with their classmates, despite being hundreds of miles away.
METRO
Burrito Bros. sells out, has second busiest day
By Max Chesnes | Jan. 31, 2017For the second consecutive night, Burrito Brothers Taco Co. ran out of food Tuesday, its second busiest day in 40 years.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Senators discuss art programs
By Paige Fry | Jan. 31, 2017Student senators asked how they can help promote UF’s art museum, natural history museum and performing arts center Tuesday.
NEWS
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FEATURES
Playing with fire: City firefighting units at capacity
By Romy Ellenbogen | Jan. 31, 2017As Gainesville’s population has swelled, the city’s fire rescue is grasping for resources to meet demands.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Make art, not war: the aesthetics of a Asocial movement
Jan. 31, 2017As celebrities make bold statements about social movements and activism, sometimes we wonder: What good does it all do? There have been calls to use art to spread a message, as a call to action, but what good is a story or a picture in the long run? Though actors,
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Part three: Observations in modern-day Cuba
Jan. 31, 2017Proponents of the regime claim that Fidel Castro’s revolution won Cuba freedom, a word choice that is bewildering to hear considering the individual liberties repressed by the totalitarian government. Predictably, a Havana bookstore we visited lacked works containing ideas incompatible with communism. Next to Trotsky and Marx, there was a title that argued there was in fact democracy in Cuba because the island has a “democratic economy,” contrasting it to the economy of the U.S.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
February relationship series: communication, the instruction manual
Jan. 31, 2017In honor of Valentine’s Day, I am devoting the month of February to relationships. This month, we’ll talk about friendship, love and what makes for healthy relationships of all kinds. I can think of no better way to begin than with the foundation of every relationship and the most valuable tool you will ever learn to use: communication.
