Opinion
Sports
UF softball is reloaded and highly dangerous
By Mark Stine | Feb. 3, 2019Four seniors left the Florida softball program at the end of last season, each one of them critical to a Women’s College World Series appearance.
Opinion
Groundhog Day is the only non-problematic holiday of the year
Feb. 3, 2019One of the weirdest days of the year passed Saturday when America stopped and waited upon the actions of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil to play the role of meteorologist. And somehow nobody has questioned this tradition in the nearly 150 years that Groundhog Day has existed. In fact, in Pennsylvania, the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club celebrated Groundhog Day from Sunday, Jan. 27 to yesterday, nearly the same number of nights dedicated to Hanukkah — an entire religious holiday.
Opinion
Talking trash about your professor won’t get you that A
Feb. 3, 2019In the wake of the statistics exam came a slew of angry messages. It was another test that hundreds of students spent hours studying for, starting early in the day and ending late in the night. The material wasn’t meant to be easy, but many felt that it wasn’t meant to be so hard.
Sports
Goodell, stop painting the NFL as one, big, happy family
By Alanis Thames | Jan. 31, 2019Maybe Roger Goodell is delusional.
Opinion
Darts and Laurels: Feb. 1, 2019
Jan. 31, 2019You wake up and immediately check the weather, suppressing a groan when you see it’s 38 degrees outside for the third day in a row. On the bright side, it gives you a reason to break out your Gator beanie that’s been collecting dust in the back of your closet.
Opinion
Scholarships aren't as rare as you think
Jan. 31, 2019The topic of scholarships is often tied to large-scale economic problems and all of that complicated, serious mess. But this discussion of scholarships will not be attempting to slip Marx and Engels into your ideology like a sugar cube into a cup of tea.
Opinion
My AirPods are fake, but they stand for something bigger
Jan. 31, 2019I’ll out myself before anyone thinks they can discredit me: I have fake AirPods.
Opinion
Asking what position I play is wrong
Jan. 31, 2019If you had mistaken me for a college athlete when I was in high school, I would have been flattered. But when I started my freshman year at UF in 2015, I quickly realized the hidden meaning behind the question: “What position do you play?”
Opinion
UF Student Body President Ian Green welcomes students back for Spring semester
Jan. 31, 2019What’s up, Gator Nation?
Sports
Russell Westbrook: normalizing the abnormal
By Kyle Wood | Jan. 29, 2019Russell Westbrook plays basketball like he’s mad at the world. In return, the world is mad at him.
Opinion
College doesn’t have to be the best four years of your life
Jan. 29, 2019It was the summer of 2017. I had just arrived in Gainesville for the first time as a student two weeks earlier. As I laid in the twin bed in my dorm room, I struggled to fall asleep. There was a throbbing pain in my jaw, and I could feel it spreading. I tossed and turned. I rubbed my temples hard, and when I turned to look at the clock, it was 3 a.m.
Opinion
Art and STEM can go together, despite what stereotypes say
By Chasity Maynard | Jan. 29, 2019A few weeks ago, I introduced my roommate to the Swampy UF memes for top ten public teens Facebook group. The stereotypes of different kinds of students, particularly STEM majors, cracked us up.
Opinion
This is not our parents’ movie industry
Jan. 29, 2019For some time now, I have been intrigued and disgruntled by the state of American cinema — specifically, by the movie industry’s obsession with sequels and remakes. Perhaps obsession is a dramatic word; after all, a fraction of the movies available in theaters today are sequels or remakes. Let’s substitute obsession, then, with fixation.
Opinion
Career Showcase isn’t your only ticket to success
Jan. 29, 2019Time to break out the blazers because Career Showcase is approaching. Next Tuesday students will be running back and forth between classes and the O’Connell Center, hoping to make that one life-changing connection. It’s the perfect opportunity to talk to your dream company, and it can feel like your one chance at a big break. But then the nerves start to set in and the doubts in the back of your mind creep in.
Sports
Will “Sweet Victory” be played at the Super Bowl? It definitely should
By Jake Dreilinger | Jan. 28, 2019You all know the words and phrases to this all-time classic.
Opinion
The media is romanticizing the murderer
Jan. 27, 2019For the past few weeks our Twitter timelines have blown up with tweets about “You,” a recently released thriller series on Netflix. The show, which aired on Lifetime last fall, tells the story of Joe Goldberg and his infatuation with Guinevere Beck, a woman he develops an unhealthy relationship with, eventually leading him to stalking and murdering.
