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Barbara Padilla to perform at Santa Fe Sunday

By Cassandra Perez | Sep. 25, 2019

The singer placed second on “America’s Got Talent”

NEWS | CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

UF faces lawsuit after breaking state orientation laws

By Ana Escalante | Sep. 24, 2019

UF violated state law with its Preview prices. Now, the school is facing a class action lawsuit by people angered by the high costs of orientation.

Olivia Dunbar, a 20-year-old computer engineering junior at UF, votes Tuesday in the fall student government election at the Marston Library.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

UF SG sees an increase in voter turnout on first day of elections

By Emma McAvoy and Chasity Maynard | Sep. 24, 2019

Mouses clicked. Stickers were given. Glazed eyes watched computer screens thanking them for voting in the UF Student Government elections.

Kelly Cavaliere currently studying abroad for 6 months in Germany at the Universität Mannheim.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE

The difference in college culture between American and European students

By Kelly Cavaliere | Sep. 24, 2019

In America, there is a very strong relationship between students and their university. We work hard to get into college, so that we can pat ourselves on the back when we make it.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF names three finalists in search for vice president for student affairs

By Hope Dean | Sep. 24, 2019

Five months and 110 candidate applications later, UF’s search committee for a new student affairs vice president has come down to three finalists.

Inspire President Zachary Amrose (right) speaks at the debate Monday night. To his left sits Ashley Grabowski, former Inspire Senator and current Inspire Party campaign manager.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Gator Party sits out while Inspire and independent SG candidates debate

By Emma McAvoy | Sep. 24, 2019

With a key party absent from the boxing ring, Inspire Party and independent UF Student Government candidates strapped on their gloves Monday night.

Dr. Ampatzidis (third from left) in a drone field at the UF/IFAS Southwest Florida Research and Education Center in Immokalee.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF researcher develops precision agriculture software, “Agroview”

By Priya Dames | Sep. 24, 2019

When you think of farming, drones may not be the first thing to come to mind.

Rani LaRue, an 18-year-old exploratory major, dances with a group of people Friday night at Garba, an event thrown by the Indian Students Association at the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF students celebrate Garba with song and dance

By Priya Dames | Sep. 24, 2019

Skirts swung and drums pulsed as students danced in concentric circles around a candle in the center of the ballroom.

Wildlin Pierrevil portraying Seaweed in the Fall production of “Hairspray." Photo by Suzanna Mars

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF School of Theatre and Dance responds to students’ claims of racism

By Tranelle Maner | Sep. 22, 2019

After a year of “feeling marginalized, alienated and unheard,” a black UF student said he had enough with racism at the School of Theatre and Dance.

Students sit at voting stations at the Marston Science Library computer lab polling location and cast their votes for last Fall's Student Government elections on Sept. 25. Marston is one of several locations students can vote at on Wednesday.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

For the love of democracy, just vote

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 22, 2019

If a stranger told you what to do, you wouldn’t stand for it. Most people would never let a complete stranger control their future and their livelihood, but the unfortunate reality is that thousands of students let this happen when they don’t vote in UF Student Government elections.

Student Government Budget and Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Emily Dunson gives the committee’s report. Dunson addressed the reason for budget increases in her report. (June 7,2018)

NEWS | CAMPUS

Who is Gator Party’s president?

By Emma McAvoy | Sep. 22, 2019

Is Emily Dunson Gator Party’s president, or is it Danielle Grosse?

NEWS | CAMPUS

Meet the five students running as Independents for Student Government elections

By Emma McAvoy | Sep. 22, 2019

Michael Granto, a 17-year-old student at Santa Fe High, shouts Friday during the climate protest. Granto is in dual enrollment at Santa Fe College and is a member of Santa Fe Sustainability Club. Granto said he felt the need to attend the protest because “obviously the world is on fire”.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Gainesville protesters participate in global climate strike

By Chasity Maynard | Sep. 22, 2019

Children with marker-stained hands, teenagers in black leather jackets and retirees with specks of gray hair crowded shoulder to shoulder in front of Gainesville City Hall Friday.

Warrington Goes Green participants at the first meeting last Tuesday evening.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Heavener welcomes new eco-friendly business club

By Marlowe Starling | Sep. 22, 2019

Students in a conference room mixed coconut oil, baking soda and peppermint. This wasn’t an elementary school science experiment –– college students were making toothpaste.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Letter To the Editor: Gator Party’s platform is unimpressive; their candidates are unambitious

By Zachariah Chou | Sep. 22, 2019

As we head to the polls tomorrow and Wednesday, I have to make it known to you: all is not as it seems with Gator Party.

NEWS | CAMPUS

LSAT goes digital: from paper to tablet exams

By Meghan McGlone | Sep. 21, 2019

The most important test for students applying to law school faced a major change Saturday: a switch from traditional pencil and paper to a modern, digital tablet.

NEWS | SFC

Dead man found on Santa Fe Northwest Campus, police say

By Dana Cassidy | Sep. 20, 2019

A dead man was found just after midnight Friday on Sante Fe’s Northwest Campus, according to campus police.

Former UF football player John Huggins allegedly choked a female tutor in October.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Dismissed UF football player John Huggins accused of rape

By Sam Campisano | Sep. 19, 2019

A family is alleging former UF football player John Huggins raped an underage teenager earlier this year when he was still with the program.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

On Blue Lights: Student Government should not prioritize money over lives

By Zachariah Chou | Sep. 19, 2019

I heard on the grapevine that a certain someone said that installing additional blue lights on campus would be a tremendous waste of student fees, to the vast disapproval of the Student Body.

Bruce Capin strokes Kuwa, one of the three cougars living in the sanctuary at his home, Monday evening after bringing her some grass to eat. Capin said he has had the sanctuary for 20 years and that he takes in cougars that were mistreated or neglected so that they can live out the rest of their lives.

NEWS | FEATURES

Cougars of Alachua: Meet the couple behind Yahtok’ya Animal Sanctuary

By Alyssa Feliciano | Sep. 19, 2019

In a fenced enclosement adjacent to a mobile home, an 80 pound cougar slowly inched closer to Bruce Capin.