On April Fools’ Day, UF President promises to ‘drain the swamp’
By Molly Vossler | Apr. 2, 2017UF President Kent Fuchs announced Saturday that a new executive order would ban all alligators from UF’s campus and effectively “drain the swamp.”
UF President Kent Fuchs announced Saturday that a new executive order would ban all alligators from UF’s campus and effectively “drain the swamp.”
Three panelists spent two hours explaining U.S. health care’s cur- rent state and its possible future at UF’s Levin College of Law on Friday.
Loud, synchronized banging filled a junkyard Saturday morning.
In case you haven’t heard, Congress recently voted to allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to sell your browsing history to corporations. Not that they weren’t doing that already to a degree — anyone who has seen a targeted ad on Facebook will know this — but with the repeal of the 2016 Federal Communications Commission broadband privacy regulations, ISPs won’t need our permission to gather and sell sensitive private information. This includes things we kind of figured they were selling, like browsing history and app downloads, but also things we didn’t really want to think about them selling, like location, financial and medical data.
When a liberal speaker comes to UF, there’s conservative outcry. “How come we never get any conservative speakers?” they say. They claim to be suffocated by safe spaces, when their safety was never actually threatened. Yet when there’s opposition to a conservative speaker, those on the other side of the political spectrum are called snowflakes and crybabies.
I recently read a collection of short essays by Oliver Sacks titled “Gratitude.” These essays, particularly “My Periodic Table,” got me thinking about my own experiences, and this got me writing about my life.
Kennedy Baker took a deep breath, saluted the judges and grabbed onto the bars.
Brady Singer struck his way out of trouble in the first inning of Saturday’s game, and from there, the junior never let up.
It was almost as if Mike Rivera knew what was coming his way.
Despite being bought by the UF Foundation last summer, the 43-year-old pizza joint Leonardo’s By The Slice will remain open for at least another year.
The UF chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity was placed on administrative suspension by its national fraternity Wednesday after UF began investigating accusations of hazing, drug use and the distribution of drugs.
Even after Florida’s 4-1 win over Florida State on Tuesday — its ninth win in the past 10 games against the rival — Kevin O’Sullivan couldn’t help but reference UF’s most recent loss.
“How do you make a hankie dance?” Kelly Grassel asked her teammates on Thursday.
After two straight finishes outside of the top three, Florida bounced back and stole a win at the Schenkel tournament on March 19. Now, coach J.C. Deacon says the team is closer than ever to its top form.
The UF men’s tennis team took care of business on Thursday night when it took the courts at the Alabama Tennis Stadium.
On the way home from last weekend’s road matches, Roland Thornqvist had a lot on his mind. While the Gators women’s tennis team had just won two straight road games, the coach was thinking about another sport: basketball.
Florida senior Shayla Sanders couldn’t see the finish line.
When the final buzzer rang in Madison Square Garden in the Elite Eight on Sunday afternoon, three things became clear: The Gators were completely outplayed by South Carolina, their season was over and, last but not least, senior point guard Kasey Hill’s career as a Florida Gators basketball player was over as well.
Dunnellon Middle School faced heightened security Wednesday after a 12-year-old threatened a school shooting, officials said.
Next time you take a bite of raw cookie dough, you won’t be flirting with salmonella.