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BREAKING: UF fired all staff in positions related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, effective immediately.
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BREAKING: UF Pres. Kent Fuchs is asking the UF Conflict of Interest Office to reverse its decision to bar professors from testifying against the state. Fuchs is also requesting that the professors be allowed to receive compensation. Story to come.
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BREAKING: UF is now the No. 6 top public university in the country, according to U.S News and World Report’s 2021 ranking.
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UF fired 13 full-time diversity, equity and inclusion positions and ended 15 administrative appointments Friday. It also eliminated the office of the Chief Diversity Officer and ended DEI contracts with outside vendors, according to a Friday memo.
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BREAKING: UF is now ranked No. 5 in U.S. News & World Report's list of the country's top public universities.
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The Black Student Union and Black Student Leaders at UF released a joint statement May 20 denouncing DeSantis signing the bill. The organizations expressed heavy concerns over the bill’s power to silence minority voices.
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BREAKING:
@GovRonDeSantis
announced he will completely defund diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at Florida universities during a press conference Tuesday morning.
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Emma González, David Hogg and Delaney Tarr visited UF Monday to have students pledge to vote and hand out free merchandise and donuts.
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Several members of the UF Board of Trustees donated more than $1.3 million to Never Back Down, a super PAC funding Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2024 presidential bid.
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Thank you for making us
@Jeopardy
famous. Does Alex Trebek want an Alligator t-shirt?
Photo credit to
@saorlando
.
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Do you remember when The Alligator was featured on Jeopardy!? Guess what. We got a special gift in the mail from Alex Trebek! Check it out.
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BREAKING: The UF Board of Trustees unanimously voted in favor of Sen. Ben Sasse as UF's 13th president.
He will go to the Board of Governors next for approval before becoming president-elect.
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We, the student body officer-elects of UF, are writing with concern and disappointment regarding the recent decision to close the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer and to eliminate various diversity, equity and inclusion positions and appointments.
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EDITORIAL: “Ever since
@BenSasse
, a former Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska, took office, there’s been a president-sized hole left in much of the UF community.
Whatever the president’s agenda, we can’t report on it clearly if he won’t talk to us.”
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Former
#Gators
women’s basketball coach Cam Newbauer is accused of making racist remarks, throwing basketballs at players, and verbally abusing the team.
“He broke my child…And she didn’t want me to say anything because she thought it would get worse.”
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BREAKING: The
@UFFacultySenate
votes 72-16 to approve a vote of no confidence, expressing discontent with the presidential search process and Sen. Ben Sasse as a finalist.
Read more here:
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We are beyond excited to introduce our latest initiative, “El Caimán,” a new section in The Alligator that will feature our most relevant content in Spanish.
@_ElCaiman_
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BREAKING: UF maintains No. 5 spot in U.S. News & World Report’s public university ranking.
The ranking helps solidify UF’s standing as a top-five university for the second year in a row.
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UF will reopen in the Fall, according to an announcement by UF President Kent Fuchs.
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Florida governor candidate
@AndrewGillum
came to UF's campus today to rally up students and encourage them to vote. Story to come. Photos by
@okchrisputer
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BREAKING: A Florida lawmaker wants to make The Swamp Restaurant a historic landmark. Find out what would happen if it passed.
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B.B. Staples, the mother of former women’s basketball player Corey Staples wrote to
@ScottStricklin
about Newbauer multiple times in 2019.
“I don’t know what it is going to take for you to truly consider this something as real and dangerous."
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Mary (Grandma Bunny) and GrandDad Frank Chiozza have a message for you.
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The announcement was made by Fuchs through a university-wide email. The UF president also announced a task force to evaluate the school’s conflict of interest policies.
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SO IT’S ONE OF THE LARGEST STUDENT-RUN NEWSPAPERS IN THE COUNTRY. IT PRINTS ONCE A WEEK, AND YOU CAN PICK UP A COPY FOR YOURSELF EVERY MONDAY. THE STUDENTS WHO RUN IT ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT LOCAL NEWS AND SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER.
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BREAKING: After a meteoric five-year rankings ascension, UF’s two-year stint in the Top 5 is over. The university fell from No. 5 to No. 6 among national public universities, according to U.S News & World Report Best College rankings.
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On Friday morning, about 45 people gathered outside Emerson Alumni Hall chanting “Get DeSantis out of our campus” and “The B-O-T has got to go” to protest UF’s recent firing of diversity, equity and inclusion positions.
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Fuchs broke his streak of pranks.
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PHOTOS: Protesters stormed the President’s Ballroom in Emerson Alumni Hall as UF presidential finalist
@SenSasse
concluded his student forum about 15 minutes before its scheduled end time.
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Despite UF’s best efforts to curb the theft of “
#1
public university” banners, 43 of 45 banners have been stolen since Friday.
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hey we’re trying our best 😪
"Unathletic" alligator with "terrible arthritis" located after escaping Wisconsin zoo
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The UF Student Senate unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday condemning the presidential search committee and Student Body President nominating Sen. Ben Sasse as the university’s sole presidential finalist.
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DEVELOPING: UF classes will not be moved to an online format for the first three weeks of Fall semester, UF spokesperson Hessy Fernandez wrote in an email.
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Next time you’re thinking about hitting “reply all,” don’t ❤️.
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NEW on The Alligator's homepage: A map of dorms with COVID-19 cases. The Alligator is confirming cases and adding them to its tracker on a daily basis. We believe this information should be accessible to the UF and Gainesville communities.
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We are proud to announce that The Independent Alligator has been honored with the prestigious Corbin Gwaltney Award for Best All-Around Student Newspaper at the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2022 National Mark of Excellence Awards! 🎉🏆
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Women’s rights activist and youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai will speak to UF virtually on Nov. 18.
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BREAKING: Spring Break has moved from March 6-13 to Jan. 4-8. Classes will run from Jan. 11 to April 21, with no break aside from MLK Day.
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EDITORIAL: “DEAR BEN SASSE, You may have seen our coverage, but we haven’t met yet. Not to say we haven’t tried — phone calls, emails, you name it.
Now that you’re wrapping up your presidential selection, there’s no better time to chat.”
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Official: UF campus will be closed today at 4 p.m. and all day Friday.
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Attention all
#Gators
!
@GatorsFB
@CoachDanMullen
asks the
#GatorNation
to help support independent student journalism and the Alligator in beating the
@redandblack
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The Independent Florida Alligator will today, and for always, support the First Amendment rights of its journalists to tell stories that are important and relevant to its audience.
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UF stands on top among public universities in the U.S., according to a ranking released by The Wall Street Journal Sept 6.
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EXCLUSIVE: Looking back at Ben Sasse’s presidency, some at
@MidlandU
felt the bottom line was profit — not faculty well-being.
Midland faculty recall periods of buyouts and a shake-up of leadership as Sasse cleared out long-time professors.
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Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈
Today’s issue includes stories about the LGBTQ+ community, including stories from
@TheFloridaAve
and
@alligatorSports
. Check them all out in the thread below throughout the day. ⤵️
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UPDATE: Following a revelation over the weekend that three UF professors were barred from testifying against the state, five more professors said the university also limited their abilities to testify in cases against the state.
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Being editor-in-chief of a student newspaper is no easy task. Take it from someone who's dating one.
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Former UF Chief Diversity Officer Marsha McGriff will join the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in July under a similar title to the one she was fired for in Florida.
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UPDATE: Student Body President Michael Murphy and Caroline Wren, the national financial consultant of Trump Victory, respond with statements about the exchange between them to bring Trump Jr. to UF
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We’re making our first paper of the semester today. But in other news, we met with
@PresidentFuchs
and told him about how The Alligator became independent.
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BREAKING: UF will implement mandatory COVID-19 testing every other week in the Spring for students taking in-person classes, living on campus or in sororities and fraternities.
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UF is climbing up. Next goal? Top five.
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UF students haven’t been on the college championship since 1994.
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BREAKING: He was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.
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“The University of Florida just isn’t a place where you get a degree,” Kristen Hall said. “It’s a place where you become family, and where he felt like he was family.”
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Students will no longer need to visit the stadium during the week of the game to secure their tickets. |
@charlie_daffron
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For those aware of UF’s well-documented history of systemic homophobia, Sasse’s comments are a call back to a time when being LGBTQ on campus put a target on some community members’ backs.
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UF’s first gender-neutral housing could be coming in Fall 2021.
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“He was someone who really had a zeal for finding the humanity in all the chaos and the fast pace of this world."
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This week's
#FeatureFriday
focuses on Elizabeth Stout who is one of 48 Class of 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas graduates now going to UF. But, she almost didn't attend. (1/4)
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NEW: In an email,
@PresidentFuchs
said the university won’t allow protesters inside campus buildings at Sasse’s Nov. 1 visit.
“We have not enforced this policy in recent years because in the rare cases that protesters entered buildings, they were respectful,” Fuchs wrote.
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“We met at my house on the 4th of July,” Wren wrote in the Sept. 10 email. “I wanted to follow up with you regarding a speaking engagement at the University of Florida for Donald Trump Jr.”
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We're putting together our last paper of the semester. We couldn't be more proud of the work these men and women have put into our publication over the summer.
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“I'm afraid one day my mom will receive a call that her son was killed or beaten for nothing he did wrong, but because of how society sees him,“ said Scottie Lewis, a 20-year-old member of the UF men's basketball team.
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The average GPA of the admitted students is 4.45, the average SAT score is a 1388 and the average ACT score is a 31.
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BREAKING: The Alligator launched new website! Our team is excited to keep sharing news with the UF and Gainesville communities on a fresh .
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A new generation of voters made it clear — the country needed change. Joe Biden is the president-elect of the U.S.
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Vegan startup hopes to provide natural healing with soup
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Hub Brown was named the new dean of UF's College of Journalism and Communications. Coming from Syracuse University, he is the first Black person to hold this role.
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BREAKING:
@changepartyuf
won 27 seats in the UF Student Senate to Gator Party’s 22 during the
@ufstudentgov
Fall 2022 election.
Staff report to come.
Photos via
@RaeRiiskPhoto
,
@SophiaAbolfathi
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DEVELOPING: UF administration denied “Critical Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Education” as a concentration proposed by professors.
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To advocate for Dreamers,
@PresidentFuchs
has reached out to leaders in Washington who can promote the reinstatement of DACA or a pathway to citizenship. Story by
@jessica_giles_
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All RTS routes will be free today so that transportation isn't a hinderance to getting to the polls.
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Following UF’s announcement of Ben Sasse as the lone finalist in the presidential search, some alumni say they are heavily considering pulling donations to their alma mater.
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Big news: We're excited to announce that we were one of nine schools selected by Poynter for its 2018-19 College Media Project. We're looking forward to learning and working with Poynter and the other student papers selected.
Poynter announces the nine schools selected for the 2018-19 College Media Project
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BREAKING: The
@UFFacultySenate
votes 72-16 to provide a vote of no confidence condemning the presidential search committee that chose Sen. Ben Sasse.
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President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden arrived at the Gainesville Regional Airport at around 1 p.m. Saturday to address damages in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia.
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An Alligator reporter who attended today's UF Board of Trustees meeting tweeted that Fall classes will be administered online. The Alligator later learned that the Board has not finalized a plan, but instead discussed tentative scenarios at the meeting. (1/3)
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BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis announced in a press conference this morning that four UF students have tested positive for COVID-19.
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RECAP: Just as presidential finalist
@SenSasse
left his second forum of the day for students, protesters flooded the ballroom where his Q&A was scheduled.
Hear what protesters had to say and what Sasse himself had to say about the protesters.
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OPINION: From what we have seen from our time back on campus and around Gainesville, we have little reason for optimism that UF will turn out any differently from its peers.
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