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Aubrey Bocalan

OPINION | EDITORIALS

UF is opening conversations about University Avenue safety. We’ll be listening.

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 19

After five UF students were hit by a car, the university released a statement about the crash closing with a promise: “The safety of our campus is paramount, and we want you to know conversations are underway regarding pedestrian and vehicular safety, on and around our campus.” But will conversations be enough?

Aubrey Bocalan

CAMPUS | UF ADMINISTRATION

With the highest number of reported employee COVID-19 cases in the country, UF is failing its faculty

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 7

The simplest explanation for all of this, or at least the most symbolic, is that UF has utterly failed to keep its employees safe from its own students.

Aubrey Bocalan

CAMPUS | UF ADMINISTRATION

The University of Florida needs mandatory COVID-19 testing

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 16

Every school ranked higher than UF has had some sort of mandatory testing at one point or another, with the notable exception of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, which was nationally humiliated for its failure to control the virus.

Aubrey Bocalan

METRO | POLITICS

Biden’s victory shows us that normalcy triumphs chaos. Amendment 2’s victory shows us that the youth vote matters

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 7

It is easy for a young person to feel frustrated with a system that only occasionally listens to their voice. However, the passage of Amendment 2, serves as a silver lining: a reminder that the youth vote mattered.

Aubrey Bocalan

METRO | POLITICS

Election recommendations from The Alligator Editorial Board

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 18

The Alligator devotes itself to serving the UF and greater Gainesville communities. For that reason, we are releasing endorsements for candidates and amendments that will appear on the local ballot as well as our recommendation for the top of the ticket in an immensely consequential presidential election.

Aubrey Bocalan

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Don’t throw away your vote by voting for a third party

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 18

A third party candidate will not win, and if you think or vote as if they will, then you’re either dreaming or don’t care about the people who won’t live to see the next election.

Aubrey Bocalan

OPINION | EDITORIALS

The right to party? Gov. DeSantis is on the wrong side of history

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 27

We wish that DeSantis would reevaluate why he prioritizes the right to party over the right to public assembly or the right to vote. Fighting for the right of college students to party is a very strange hill to die on.

Shannon Ahern

CAMPUS

On UF’s climbing ranking: There is nothing at the mountain top

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 14

We thought it. We know you thought it too—but sadly, it wasn't meant to be.

Aubrey Bocalan

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Snitches go to heaven, partiers go to hell

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 31

Sing like a canary in a COVID-19 coal mine.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Introducing El Caimán

By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 17

Today marks the beginning of an exciting chapter in The Alligator’s history.