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Left: Gator Party’s executive candidates Trevor Pope, Lauredan Official and Jessica Jesurajan.
Right: Inspire Party’s executive candidates Matthew Diaz, Emily Hyden and Matthew Barocas.

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Gator, Inspire announce executive tickets

By Chasity Maynard | Jan. 24, 2020

They announced within hours of each other

Former U.S. Senator Bill Nelson and author Jon Meacham discuss political division in the United States throughout history on Thursday morning.

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‘Compromise is the oxygen of democracy’: Former senator, author discuss American politics

By Grethel Aguila | Jan. 23, 2020

The discussion focused on political division in the U.S.

A volunteer stocking shelves with canned food at the Field and Fork Pantry on UF's campus in 2016.

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Field and Fork pantry to offer cooking classes

By Lillian Colon | Jan. 23, 2020

The classes will be offered once a month

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CJC starts memorial fund in honor of UF alumni Edward Aschoff

By Allessandra Inzinna | Jan. 23, 2020

The former ESPN reporter passed on Christmas Eve

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UF public health college holds open forums in the wake of sexual harassment cases

By Hope Dean | Jan. 22, 2020

About 100 people showed up to both forums

Gainesville Fire Rescue responds Wednesday to smoke coming out of the Kappa Alpha fraternity house.

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Fire Rescue responds to smoke on Fraternity Row

By Hannah Phillips and Stephany Matat | Jan. 22, 2020

The incident occurred at the Kappa Alpha fraternity house

A police vehicle sits outside the Santa Fe Police Station on Monday, Nov. 18, 2014.

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Santa Fe College nationally recognized for campus safety program

By Valentina Botero | Jan. 22, 2020

The Santa Fe Police Department is a finalist for the Department of the Year award being announced in February

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Tory Lanez to perform at UF in February

By Chasity Maynard | Jan. 21, 2020

The event will celebrate Black History Month

Zoya Mukherjee, an 18-year-old biology freshman, and Justin Ho, an 18-year-old computer science freshman, hang out near a barricaded manhole in the Plaza of the Americas Tuesday afternoon. Mukherjee said that it smells odd and Justin said that people do not like to sit near it.

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UF campus manholes past due for repairs

By Hannah Phillips | Jan. 21, 2020

The manholes were built in the ‘60s and have since fallen into disrepair

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UF students react to Tim Tebow’s marriage to Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

By AJ Bafer | Jan. 21, 2020

The couple married in South Africa

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Inspire Party leader steps down a month before election

By Chasity Maynard | Jan. 17, 2020

Emergency party election to be held Monday

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UF investigation uncovers two female staff accused of sexually harassing male professor

By Hope Dean | Jan. 17, 2020

Two deans didn’t report Mark Hart’s situation for years

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UF requires health insurance, but do students want that?

By Anna Wilder | Jan. 16, 2020

Student health insurance is $2,500 annually

UF President Kent Fuchs and Wageningen University and Research Executive Board President Louise Fresco planted a 9-foot live oak tree Thursday for Florida Arbor Day. This is part of an initiative to plant 100 “UniversiTREEs” across the world.

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UF plants tree with world’s top agricultural university at Florida Arbor Day ceremony

By AJ Bafer | Jan. 16, 2020

The act was a collaboration with Wageningen University and Research

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Students, professors unfamiliar with sexual assault prevention program

By Hannah Phillips | Jan. 16, 2020

Green Dot Gators trains bystanders how to intervene

Jamie Douglas, an 18-year-old UF telecommunication sophomore, chants in solidarity with Iranian and Iraqi people at an anti-war demonstration on Turlington Plaza Wednesday afternoon.

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UF community protests war with Iran on Turlington Plaza

By Meghan McGlone | Jan. 16, 2020

About 100 students huddled in a crowd, clapping and chanting “No war with Iran” while surrounding Naz Hussein. An Iraqi flag covered her back, slightly fluttering in the wind.

Worth $375000, director of the Kika Silva Pla Planetarium James Albury often says that the Chronos Projector is worth more than his house. This projector is the first of its kind to set the exact time and location of constellations.

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Kika Silva Pla Planetarium: a home for all astronomy lovers

By Katie Delk | Jan. 15, 2020

Director James Albury offers guided shows year-round

Kimberly Guilfoyle, a senior adviser to Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign and Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, speaks Thursday evening in University Auditorium. Guilfoyle spoke about her upbringing, her relationship with the Trump family and her political philosophy.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle announced as National Chair of Trump reelection committee

By Alyssa Feliciano | Jan. 15, 2020

Guilfoyle spoke at UF in October with Donald Trump, Jr.

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UF responds to faculty tied to foreign research meddling

By Chasity Maynard | Jan. 14, 2020

Four faculty members left the university

Florida House Speaker Jose Oliva, R-Miami Lakes, center, addresses the House at the start of session on Tuesday Jan. 14, 2020, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)

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Florida Legislature sets sights on education, health care

By Caina Calvan | Jan. 14, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers signaled that they would likely tackle education spending and health care costs but might seek to avoid a battle over forcing employers to verify the immigration status of workers, as the 2020 legislative session began Tuesday.