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City chooses interim manager A PERMANENT MANAGER WILL BE DISCUSSED AT NEXT COMMISSION MEETING.

By Kelly Hayes and Taylor Girtman

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THE PLASTIC BAN

Gainesville will be 100 percent waste free by 2040

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The Gainesville City Commission chose a new interim city manager Thursday.

Former City Manager Anthony Lyons gave the commission his letBowie ter of resignation on Dec. 11 after citizens complained during a Dec. 8 commission meeting.

In a unanimous decision, Deborah Bowie, 48, was chosen for the interim manager position and the discussion of finding a permanent city manager was moved to the next commission meeting.

She will begin her role at 5 p.m. today.

Bowie has been chief of staff to Lyons since May. She has also worked in high positions of local governments in Georgia and Alabama. In Albany, Georgia, she worked for the chamber of commerce, and in Birmingham, Alabama, she worked as the mayor’s chief of staff and as the chamber of commerce’s vice president of community development.

“Bowie has a raft of experience, which makes her uniquely qualified for this position at this moment in time,” Commissioner David Arreola said.

The commissioners who initially voted for Bowie praised her leadership and enthusiasm for teamwork.

Bowie said the interim city manager should focus on government operations and empowering people rather than focusing on personal priorities.

“I am honestly honored,” Bowie said.

“I want to latch on to the positives. Our team is always looking for the opportunity to work together.”

The interim position is expected to last six to nine months until the permanent manager is selected, Arreola said.

Lyons will remain an adviser to the in-

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By Karina Elwood Alligator Staff Writer

Plastic bags were the first to go from Loosey’s.

The foam containers used to hold half-eaten leftovers were next. And soon, every other business in Gainesville will be doing the same.

The Gainesville City Commission voted unanimously to pass an ordinance banning Nicole Needles / Alligator Staff single-use plastic bags and foam Mayor Lauren Poe and Gainesville city containers in Gainesville Thurscommissioners listen to the public’s comments day evening.

By Aug. 1, businesses will no Thursday during the Gainesville City Commission longer be able to give customers meeting at City Hall. The meeting was over four foam products like cups, plates hours long, and the panel of legislators passed or to-go boxes or any plastic bag legislation that banned the use of plastic bags in with handles, like the ones at Gainesville.

Walmart and Publix.

The idea for the ban came ordinance, code enforcement will issue the about a year and a half ago when the comfine. mission adopted a zero-waste initiative. City Loosey’s won’t worry about the fine.

Commissioner Adrian Hayes-Santos, who The transition to sustainable products advocated for the ordinance, said the deciin 2017 wasn’t exactly easy for Loosey’s, a sion is one of the first steps for Gainesville Gainesville bar and restaurant that has two to be waste-free by 2040. locations, because they cost about three Gainesville will join communities like times more than traditional products, said Coral Gables, Florida, which was the first Joy Hughes, Loosey’s co-owner. city in the state to implement this ban in Foam containers are the industry stan2016. Coral Gables received pushback when dard, making it the cheapest option, said the Florida Retail Federation filed a lawsuit Robert Cason, a district sales representative against the city, arguing that the ordinance at Cheney Brothers Inc., a Florida food supwas unconstitutional. plier. Foam is cheap and efficient. It doesn’t Hayes-Santos said he’s not worried about leak, and is well insulated, unlike some paa lawsuit. per alternatives.

“If retail associations want to sue the city Cason supplies nearly 60 businesses in to try to pollute our community more, I’d be Gainesville with plastic products. The typihappy to take on that fight,” he said. cal plastic bag costs anywhere from one to If businesses don’t follow suit, each citafour cents each while paper or biodegradtion will cost $250. able plastic alternatives will cost about 25 to Enforcement will be mostly complaint40 cents each. driven, Hayes-Santos said. When someone Cason said that if businesses don’t start complains that a business isn’t following the

UF looks to close-out a win at UGA Coach Mike White and the UF men’s basketball team will try and solve its late-game woes against Georgia on Saturday, pg. 14

21 Savage to perform at UF STUDENT TICKETS WILL COST $10.

By Dana Cassidy and Lakshmi Gomez Alligator Staff Writers

Rapper 21 Savage is coming to UF in celebration of Black History Month.

At 6:30 p.m. Feb. 27, Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, better 21 Savage known as 21 Savage, will perform at the O’Connell Center, said Akil Reynolds, a 21-year-old UF public health senior and the UF Black Student Union president.

21 Savage will be paid $110,000 to perform an hour-long set, according to his contract with UF. UF Student Government Productions and the UF Black Student Union will host the event, Reynolds said. Student tickets will cost $10 and general tickets will cost $20. Presale will begin 10 a.m.

Jan. 30 with UF students able to purchase up to four tickets at a time. Sales to the general public will begin Jan. 31 at the O’Connell Center box office and Ticketmaster.com.

Collaborations between the Black Student Union and Student Government Productions are important because they allow a marginalized group to be at the forefront of a decision process they’re usually excluded from, Reynolds said.

21 Savage was considered as a performer for UF before the release of his album “i am > i was” in December, Reynolds said. After listening to a few of the new singles, Reynolds knew the album was going to be popular with everyone.

UF has a diverse student population with diverse interests, Reynolds said.

By bringing a diverse artist to perform, groups of people can be brought together.

“It’s important for black performers in music to come out because when you look at [Billboard’s Hot 100] a lot of it is coming from black performers,” Reynolds said.

The opening act for the rapper has not been announced yet, said Andrew Kelly, the chairman of Student Government Productions and a 21-year-old UF

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The UF sorority chapter’s house just got a $2.7 million renovation, pg. 8

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All LifeSouth area donor centers and bloodmobiles are participating in a competition between UF and the University of Kentucky. The bloodmobiles will be located at 1221 NW 13th St. and 4039 Newberry Road.

The competition ends today.

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Mom mental health center opens Lawsuit filed following I-75 crash THE CENTER HAS THE FIRST PROGRAM OF ITS KIND IN THE SOUTHEAST.

By Taylor Girtman Alligator Staff Writer

A new health center in Alachua is tackling the way mental health is treated for new and expecting mothers.

Better Beginnings, a center helping women with mental health issues before, during and after pregnancy, opened Jan. 2, said Lauren DePaola, the center’s founder.

Better Beginnings will hold its grand opening 5 p.m. Friday, DePaola said.

The center was created to serve women with perinatal mental health issues, such as postpartum depression, as well as providing them with psychiatric services like counseling, DePaola said.

“Women’s mental health has come a long way but still has a long way to go,” she said.

After struggling with postpartum depression and realizing there were no perinatal mental health resources in Florida, DePaola decided to create a center to help other women.

DePaola is a licensed clinical social worker who had a previous counseling center, Postpartum Wellness & Family Counseling, in Gainesville. She chose to relocate her practice to the quieter city of Alachua to create a more relaxing environment, she said.

Better Beginnings has the first partial hospitalization program, which follows an intensive five-day-a-week outpatient plan, for mothers and their babies in the southeast, DePaola said.

Up to one in five women combat postpartum depression and struggle to find the appropriate resources and medications when dealing with perinatal mental health issues, DePaola said.

Other services include yoga classes, acupuncture and massage, DePaola said. The center also has an on-site nursery, so mothers don’t have to worry about childcare during visits.

Mental health is a field where professionals do not have the additional education they need, DePaola said.

“We have to seek out the additional education,” DePaola said. “It’s not normal in our regular clinical education.”

DePaola received her education at Postpartum Support International where she received her perinatal mental health certification.

Dr. Wendy Davis, the executive director of Postpartum Support International, said centers like Better Beginnings can prevent crises when not enough treatment is available. There are only 82 perinatal mental health specialists certified by Postpartum Support International, like DePaola.

“The fact that centers like this are opening now is really encouraging to people who have been waiting for this kind of specialized care,” Davis said.

Women often go to their general doctors, nurses or midwives who don’t have the proper information on how to recognize, diagnose or treat mental health issues, said Ann Smith, president of Postpartum Support International.

“We’re really happy when programs like this open up,” Smith said. “We know how important they are.” @taylorgirtman tgirtman@alligator.org

MORE THAN $5,000 IN DONATIONS WAS COLLECTED.

By Katherine Wallace-Fernandez Alligator Staff Writer

In the aftermath of a fiery Interstate 75 crash that killed seven people, one mother filed a lawsuit after she lost her child and another woman collected donations for the victims.

Lawsuit Chasity Warren lost her 14-year-old son two weeks ago and still doesn’t know why.

On Jan. 3, an I-75 crash killed five children including her son Jeremiah Warren, Joel Cloud, 14; Cierra “Cece” Bordelan, 9; Cara Descant, 13; and Brieana Descant, 10.

Two semitruck drivers, Steve Holland and Douglas Bolkema, were also killed. Eight more people were injured.

Holland was driving northbound on I-75 and hit Robyn Rattray’s car. Both vehicles went through the guardrail and hit two vehicles going south: the passenger van the children were in and Bolkema’s semitruck.

The van overturned, ejecting some passengers and both semitrucks caught fire.

The cause of the crash is still unknown, said Warren’s attorney Joseph Fried.

On Jan. 10, Warren filed an auto negligence lawsuit in hopes of finding answers.

She sued the drivers who started the crash, Holland and Rattray, and the companies of the semitrucks, Eagle Express Lines and New Prime Inc., Fried said. Warren hasn’t

yet filed a suit against Bolkema.

Eagle Express Lines declined to comment and New Prime Inc. couldn’t be reached.

“Money, justice doesn’t bring kids back and so families who suffer these types of losses generally want answers,” Fried said.

There’s no set amount of money that Warren is suing for yet, Fried said. It will take a few months for his investigation to be completed.

Donation Kristy Bickmeyer was heading to bed when she heard about the I-75 crash on Jan. 3.

“I read that it was a van full of kids going to Disney, and that just made it so much worse,” said Bickmeyer, 41.

On Jan. 4, after reading Facebook posts about people wanting to help the victims, Bickmeyer reached out to UF Shands Health Center and was told what patients needed.

Later that day, she posted on Facebook that she was accepting any donations for the victims, Bickmeyer said. She received more than $5,000.

Bickmeyer paid for gas cards, clothes and a pediatric wheelchair for the injured, she said.

On Jan. 10, Bickmeyer donated the leftover money to the Pentecostals of Gainesville to help with funeral costs.

The church bought five burial plots, said Jimmy Toney, pastor of the Pentecostals of Gainesville. The plots cost $10,150.

All the deceased children were buried.

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The idea came a year and a half ago.

PLASTIC, from pg. 1 planning for the ban soon, the price increase could potentially put them out of business.

Cheney Brothers Inc. stocks about 17,000 items ranging from cleaning chemicals to pizza dough in its Ocala warehouse. Cason said the new ordinance won’t affect how he and Cheney Brothers Inc. do business.

As the Aug. 1 deadline looms, Cason will increase his inventory of alternatives and work with businesses to follow the new rules.

“It’s going to be a big learning curve for the restaurants, for their operators and for their managers,” Cason said. “It’s going to be a greater expense for them. It’s going to hurt.”

Other compostable and biodegradable paper and plastic products are available but will cost anywhere from 20 to 40 percent more.

About 20 percent of Loosey’s business comes from takeout orders. Loosey’s uses a pulp-based compostable container that is 165 percent more expensive than its foam counterpart, Hughes said. For Loosey’s, facing the price increase was worth protecting the environment.

“We’re never going to be able to get as cheap as Styrofoam is,” Hughes said. “But at what cost environmentally?”

Foam and plastics make their way to waterways because of their weight and ability to float, said Matthew Williams, the director of the UF Office of Sustainability. Animals are then exposed to the products.

A foam cup Williams pulled from Crescent Beach with barnacles and oysters clinging to it is a testament to the environmental effect these products have. Williams believes the faded logo printed on the cup is from a 1980s convenience store.

Foam and plastics don’t break down, meaning they affect not only wildlife but also humans. Williams said tiny pieces of plastics, known as microplastics, are already digested by humans and animals.

“It’s kind of an experiment we’re doing on ourselves. We’re only talking about three or four generations of humans that have

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been exposed to plastics,” Williams said.

UF has already taken steps to reduce its waste, even though the ordinance won’t affect it, Williams said. As a state entity, the university follows state policy, meaning UF doesn’t have to adhere to local ordinances like the ban.

gins. He tries to save the restaurant money in any way he can before Leonardo’s moves locations when the lease ends in June 2020.

“I have fears of costs on everything, all day, every day,” Johnson said. “I tend to think [the ban] is a waste of time, but if it’s the right thing to do, it’s the right thing to

“We’re never going to be able to get as cheap as Styrofoam is. ... But at what cost environmentally?”

Joy Hughes Loosey’s co-owner

Gator Dining eliminated foam containers in 2011 and plastic bags in 2013. Businesses that cater to events on campus are also asked not to use foam products, he said.

Leonardo’s By The Slice co-owner Brian Johnson said he wants to use eco-friendly products, but his business runs on thin mar-

do.”

Timothy Townsend, a UF environmental engineering professor, emphasized the global scope of the issue. Because recycling companies spend time and effort sorting out plastics that can’t be recycled, the overall cost to recycle plastics is increasing.

The former city manager made over $220,000.

MANAGER, from pg. 1 terim manager until Feb. 14.

In 2018, Lyons made more than $220,000 as city manager, according to city data.

Bowie said she is not interested in the permanent position.

In December and January, Bowie, Michelle Park and Steve Varvel applied for the interim position.

“I’m looking for a city manager that can stabilize and unify the city,” Commissioner Gail Johnson said about her vote for Bowie during the meeting.

The appointment was met with disagreement from commissioners Helen Warren and Gigi Simmons. Simmons advocated for Park during the meeting, citing Park’s experience

with the city and job performance.

“I’ve been in Gainesville my whole life,” Simmons said. “When you talk about morale, [Park] is respected.”

Evelyn Foxx, the president of the local NAACP branch, spoke to the commission and said Bowie’s appointment will only further divide Gainesville because she does not have a history with the city.

“The community is upset,” Foxx said to the commission. “We have people in the city who have been here for years that could step right in. It’s not helping the employee morale.” @kellyrhayes khayes@alligator.org @taylorgirtman tgirtman@alligator.org

“As an environmental engineer, I think it’s great that the city of Gainesville is going to do that,” Townsend said. “But it’s not going to solve all the big picture issues.”

Consumers don’t often think about how products like foam containers and plastic bags are nearly impossible to recycle, said Gina Hawkins, the executive director of Keep Alachua County Beautiful.

The new ordinance will make both businesses and consumers think about where their pile of plastic bags could end up, she said.

“People learn: bring your box, bring your bag,” Hawkins said. “We need to really be thinking about what we’re consuming and where it goes.” @Karina_Elwood kelwood@alligator.org

He will be paid $110,000 to perform.

21 SAVAGE, from pg. 1 finance senior.

21 Savage was chosen to perform at UF due to his music style best exemplifying African American influence within popular music, Kelly wrote in an email. Outside of music, 21 Savage is promoting financial literacy among lower-income neighborhoods through his 21 Savage Bank Account Campaign.

As a performer, 21 Savage is enjoyable to all audiences due to his authenticity in his lyrics and ability to connect with the audience, Kelly said.

“Together, these characteristics will

create an unforgettable experience for those in attendance,” he said.

Aliyah Malcolm, a 19-year-old UF industrial engineering junior, doesn’t listen to 21 Savage’s music often but still plans to go to have a fun night out with friends.

“Most of my friends are pumped to go, so I’ll go, too,” she said. “I’m interested to see his performance and what he’ll come with.” @danacassidy_ Dcassidy@alligator.org @lakshmigomez_ lgomez@alligator.org

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Editorial It’s the second week of school, and everyone’s first week excitement has quickly diminished. Thoughts of skipping class are quickly creeping into the minds of students and the need for a distraction is becoming apparent. Monday is a holiday, which means our first break of the semester is just around the corner. You decide it’s the perfect chance to escape Gainesville and all the stress of a new semester.

You hop into the car with your best friends because a road trip is the perfect remedy for any toxic feelings you may be developing about school. The windows are down, letting in the cool January air and early 2000s pop is blasting through the speakers. This is it. It’s the perfect time for a nap, because after all, this is a long drive. You feel yourself begin to drift to sleep as the sweet sounds of Nelly Furtado tracks lull you deeper and deeper.

You wake up to eager sounds coming from your friends in the front of the car. You look out the window expecting to see your destination, but all you see is a sign in the distance, quickly coming closer. The words are blurry, but then you see it, those words you’ve been waiting for all week. You are now entering…

Darts and Laurels On Thursday, the New York Times reported that many more migrant families may have been separated at the border. It was reported that possibly thousands of families were separated beginning in 2017, before a formal count was sanctioned by the court. A dart goes to the Trump administration for failing to report they were separating a higher number of families than previously reported before they unveiled their “zero tolerance” policy in 2018. Harsher separation policies began in 2017, but the true number of families separated will most likely never be known after the Health and Human Services Department said it is not planning on beginning a count.

Next we look to a Gillette, a razor company that is taking some sharp criticism. In an ad that was released this week, the company combated toxic masculinity, sexism and bullying in their message to men. A laurel goes to the company for moving in the right direction by creating an ad with a powerful message. Some have said the ad unfairly attacks men, but maybe those are the people that need to hear the message the most.

In an odd change of pace for the White House, President Trump served the National Championship-winning Clemson Tigers a feast of American fast food. A dart goes out to Trump for feeding the Tigers McDonald’s and Wendy’s for their celebration dinner. Due to the government shutdown, Trump said he decided to provide the Tigers with fast food.

We’re sure the food was appreciated, but we were thinking a White House dinner might not be something you could get on nearly every street corner. The spread was huge, in true Trump fashion; however, the true cost was not officially released.

Lastly, looking closer to home, we offer a laurel to Ryan Hinterleiter for becoming cancer-free. The 20-year-old UF business administration junior was diagnosed with cancer in September. The aggressive Stage 3 Burkitt’s lymphoma was combated with four cycles of chemotherapy. Hinterleiter is already back in the swing of things this semester, setting an example for us all to stay strong in the new year.

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In 2019, the best resolution is to stay the same

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s we wave goodbye to the second rejection and hurt. At the end of December, I week of 2019, other parts of our life realized these events forced me into a “survivalso bid us farewell. The excitement al” mode of sorts, in which I lived with dismal of the holiday season finally fades, dreams and a bleak outlook on life. we start to get into the meaty part of The thing is, I see people sink into this classes and New Year’s resolutions drop off slump every day. Life becomes habitual, not the radar. purposeful. It’s easy to get bogged down by If you already failed to follow through on Chasity Maynard school, work and the routine of daily life. opinions@alligator.org your New Year’s resolutions, don’t fret. ResoFighting for your ambitions or just to get a C lutions are pointless and rarely bring about in chemistry becomes so laborious that people any meaningful changes. I appreciate the concept of re- toss aside passions and beeline to the mindless entertainflection because it’s important to look back on the last ment of Netflix or Midtown. year and recognize the moments or choices you want to I love Netflix just as much as the next person, but there learn from. Acknowledging the things you want to change, are so many pursuits I enjoy more. That “new year, same however, doesn’t mean you can instantly fix them. We are you” status and a wholesome life require dedicating youronly human. If I could just make every aspect of my life self to your passions and interests outside of work and perfect in the blink of an eye, I would have perfected ev- school. That commitment means branching out and testerything years ago. ing new pastimes, but it also signifies pursuing hobbies I see people putting this unnecessary and irrational you already know and love. pressure on themselves to accomplish these unattainable I don’t have any resolutions for 2019 because I know goals at the start of each year. Think about it: Everyone by the second week of January they’ll be forgotten or long hates when a professor creates a million assignments that gone. Instead of developing new interests, I choose to foare all due on the same day. So why would you do that to cus on including my favorite recreations in my daily life. yourself by creating New Year’s resolutions? You’re set- This provides an opportunity to expand without totally ting yourself up for failure or at least for a heaping amount reinventing myself. It offers time for trying new things of undue stress. through the course of the whole year, for actually experiPeople preach “new year, new you” and flaunt their encing new things, rather than burning through a bunch New Year’s resolutions at the start of every January. In of changes in a few days. fact, my next door neighbors even wrote the saying on “New year, same you” allows for change and growth, their front door. I propose a different approach to tackling but it doesn’t pressure you into becoming a “new you.”

2019: “New year, same you.”

Instead of attempting (and likely failing) to rebrand the I know, I know. This is the part where you’re like, “OK, instant calendar page flips, maybe just test out being yourthat makes no sense.” But hear me out. Over winter break, self a second year around. After all, practice makes perI finally found time to evaluate 2018 and I learned a really fect. valuable lesson about self-growth. The last couple of years Chasity Maynard is a UF journalism freshman. Her were pretty rough for me. I experienced loss, heartbreak, column appears on Fridays.

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From UF President Kent Fuchs: financial aid and how it impacts UF students

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hen UF announces its admissions decisions on Feb. 8, some students will receive good news, but many will not. We received 42,000 applications for only 6,500 available positions.

Even those who are elated at being admitted may wonder how they and their families will pay the costs of attending college.

I myself faced that challenge. When I was an undergraduate, my parents weren’t able to contribute to my college expenses, so I washed dishes in the dining hall during the academic year and worked as a construction laborer in South Miami in the summers. I also took out today’s equivalent of $40,000 in student loans. Many current UF students work and take out student loans, as did thousands of alumni.

For me, learning to manage money, time, work and my studies was an important part of college. Also, in my experience, loans can be beneficial when they help students graduate and begin their professional careers in a timely manner.

However, even though UF’s tuition is among the lowest in the nation, for some students, the cost of going to college is simply

too high. goal of speeding them to graduation and reducing their costs.

Helping these students is a priority for UF. We currently invest While UF’s investment in financial aid is substantial, and while nearly $16 million in financial aid our tuition is among the lowest in for undergraduates each year, and we are committed to doing even the nation, I believe UF, the state and nation all need to increase our more.

Kent Fuchs In 2006, we launched the Maaid.

For our part, we’re focused on chen Florida Opportunity Scholars opinions@alligator.org growing our endowment for finanProgram. The program provides funding for successful applicants who are cial aid for students in need. Our goal for Florida residents, the first generation in their UF’s Go Greater fundraising campaign is to families to attend college and whose fami- add $100 million to the financial aid endowlies earn $40,000 or less each year. We’ve ment. I thank all our alumni and friends who awarded Machen scholarships to about 300 are helping us get there.

At the state level, I am grateful that our new students each year.

In Fall 2016, we began offering micro lawmakers have more than doubled Florida grants to assist students in unexpected finan- Student Assistance Grant funding for stucial crisis. We’ve since given grants to about dents with financial need in the past two 150 students. years, increasing UF’s annual allocation to The UF Welcome Grant, launched this more than $14 million. This is an important past Fall, directs funds for one-time startup investment by the state in our students.

Florida’s signature financial aid program expenses to first-generation, low-income students and has benefited about 120 freshmen. is the Bright Futures Scholarship, which Grad-A-Gator, being launched this Spring, generously rewards high-performing stuis designed to help some students who are dents who attend Florida public universities. experiencing special financial strain to in- Ninety-three percent of UF’s in-state freshcrease their credit load to 15 hours, with the men received a Bright Futures scholarship

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Pills and why they aren’t for all of us

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love coffee as much as other classmates and get ahead the next student. My perof the curriculum to make sure sonal drink of choice is an the night before wasn’t a nightespresso with soy milk and mare of stress and lack of sleep. honey: plain, simple and reI actively discouraged my classfreshing. But I don’t drink coffee mates from seeking medication every morning. When I choose to focus on studying, some took not to drink coffee, I’ll turn to a Daniel Gamboa my advice and some didn’t. opinions@alligator.org simple caffeine pill.

There are still plenty of things This pill, while well-known, students can do to give themis somewhat controversial simselves a boost without some sort ply because it comes in the form of a pill. of drug. School shouldn’t be a competition Why is it that the student who goes through for who made the best grades or the best four double-shot espressos is lauded as a project in the class. We all came to college fallen hero, working tirelessly against the to become our best selves. Sometimes we agenda they set for themselves, but the stu- may need a medical prescription, but for dent getting the same caffeine from a pill is those of us who have no requirements for considered a hack for trying to get an edge pills, we need to learn accountability in orabove the rest? Whatever the cultural or so- der to to own up to our failures and work to cial ideas you have about caffeine and how better ourselves. to ingest it, it seems hypocritical to tear What we can take away from this is that down someone who may just not want to there is a common fear of failure. I fear go through the process of roasting, grinding every day something I do or don’t do may and brewing their cup every day or pick- leave me with nowhere to go in life. I fear ing up their regular order at the Starbucks I may not reach some level of mastery othcounter. ers seem to so quickly attain. Those fears But while our socially acceptable crutch are more common than we realize. When of caffeine is enjoyed almost universally on we pull the curtains back, some of the most campus, there is a culture of normalization prolific thinkers and workers in the world we need to be careful about propagating. today have gone through many trials to get The levels of stress we as students put on where they are now. ourselves cannot be an excuse to seek shortLeslie Jones was in comedy for more cuts or "enhancements" that help us in the than 30 years before she became the oldshort-term because they can devastate us est Saturday Night Live cast member to join in the long-term. The normal conversations the show at 47. The author who penned about exam week coming up coincide with “Dracula,” Bram Stoker, didn’t publish his more students seeking prescription drugs gothic masterpiece until he was 51. like Adderall to help them focus on work We as a generation feel burdened to and be able to study. It’s a bad habit that rush ourselves to be like those before us, can leave students feeling dependent on but those before us took years before they prescription medications. reached their height. Take a breather. Your I have felt the stress of studying for great work isn’t going to run away from hours for several classes. Juggling the con- you. You just need to grow into it. cepts of political theory and the history of mass communication in media can be a Daniel Gamboa is a UF journalism lot for anyone’s brain. But I had enough sophomore. His column appears on Fridays. foresight to seek help and support from

last academic year.

I thank our lawmakers for creating this program and for expanding their investment in Bright Futures in recent years; this includes allowing students to use the scholarship to attend summer school.

Bright Futures awards are based on academic merit, which I support. However, I would like to see the amount of the awards be based on the financial needs of students and families. A student with financial need would get more than a student with no financial need. Bright Futures should be meritbased and need-aware.

On the federal level, the Pell Grant also recently began providing financial aid for some summer classes. This is a great development, and I hope our federal lawmakers will continue to expand the Pell program.

In a few weeks, the next class of Gators will celebrate as they learn of their admission to UF. They should also know that with the assistance of financial aid, this is a university where they can afford to go to college.

Kent Fuchs is the UF president. His column appears monthly.

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Ditch paper textbooks this semester to save money and the environment Have you ever walked to class searchable documents. That and thought to yourself: “Wow, I means all it takes is a few secwould love for my backpack to be onds to find a specific keyword even heavier.” or paragraph anywhere in the No. No one has. The perbook. This is extremely helppetual hot, humid weather that ful for identifying terms when Gainesville experiences most of you’re studying for a quiz or Elijah Rawls the year is multiplied when your test. opinions@alligator.org backpack is full of books and Despite all of this, UF does binders. No one wants to scramoffer a few helpful tools for stuble into a lecture just to have dents looking to get rid of heavy everyone behind them checking out their hard copies. Many narrative-style books sweaty T-shirt. teachers assign can be found for free on the Sure, you could wear dark colors or may- websites of UF libraries. Much like Amazon, be even buy one of those backpacks with lots of these books are also searchable and wheels. But what if I told you there’s an downloadable, and did I mention free? even simpler option, an option that could So now that we’ve taken a few pounds also potentially save you money every se- of books out of our backpacks, what’s next? mester?

Pretty much everything else.

The secret? Ditch the paper. All of it.

For any Mac users out there, Pages is a Let’s start with the heaviest objects occu- free alternative for Microsoft Word. It has pying most student’s backpacks, textbooks. note-taking templates that will have you Not only do traditional books weigh more, throwing your traditional notebooks in the they also cost a lot more. In my last 3 1/2 trash. Like e-books, electronic notes allow years at UF, I can’t remember ever finding you to search and identify keywords much the best price for a textbook at the campus faster. Personally, I label my notes by chapbookstore. ter and date, so when I’m studying for midThe internet is full of resources for find- terms and finals, I can instantly jump to secing cheap books. In my experience, how- tions I’m looking for. ever, Amazon is the best for two reasons.

Lastly, the hidden benefit of eliminating First, they outright beat the competition in paper from different aspects of your life is regards to prices. If you don’t believe me, environmental conservation. According to look at what you just paid for books and the University of Southern Indiana, about 1 then compare it with what Amazon charges. billion trees of paper in the U.S. is wasted.

Second, between about 70 to 80 percent The world only has a finite amount of land of my previous textbooks had a Kindle e- and resources available, and it’s up to us to book edition. This is absolutely your best op- conserve where we can. Take a look in your tion. Not only are they significantly cheaper backpack and see how you can do your part than the hard copies sold by Amazon, but by getting rid of excess amounts of paper they are available to read on any of your — it may even let you take a load off your electronic devices — immediately lightening shoulders. the load you carry to class every day.

Another enormous benefit of ditching Elijah Rawls is a UF journalism senior. the paper is that all books instantly become His column appears on Fridays.

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Phi Mu sorority completes phase one of house renovations Members move into the new space later this week.

By Ana Escalante Alligator Contributing Writer

The previously pink house on Sorority Row has finished the first half of its face-lift.

The Phi Mu sorority house, at 1152 E. Panhellenic Drive, is done with the first phase of its new renovations.

A three-story addition to the side of the house is the main feature. The project cost an estimated $2.7 million, said Chris Trowell, the vice president of BBI Construction Management Inc. The company teamed up with Walker Architects, both located in Gainesville, to bring Phi Mu’s plans to life, Trowell said. Construction began last May. Phase one consisted of adding 7,500 square feet, a new library and gathering room and 14 more rooms to house 30 sorority members, Trowell said.

“Phi Mu knew they needed to add more room as more demand for girls wanting to live in-house has increased dramatically over the last four to five years,” Trowell said.

The project was funded by alumni and a savings account created by Phi Mu Alpha Nu Housing Corporation, said Ally Tacket, the UF president of the Alpha Nu chapter.

Tackett said member dues did not need to increase in order to accommodate the new additions.

“Our executive council was very adamant against prices going up for the girls,” the 21-year-old UF health science junior said. “We know that attending a large public university is a financial burden, so we made sure the new changes would be accessible to all women in our chapter.”

The renovations came after members of Phi Mu’s National Council, located in Georgia, came for a visit in Spring 2017. They said the house needed to be updated, Tackett said.

“We wanted a place for a larger space for sisters to have more area to live and to just enjoy,” Tackett said.

“The new house is a wonderful place we all love and live in, but it’s our sisterhood that creates the sentiment of a home.”

The construction company will begin the second phase of the project in Summer 2019.

Features include a new foyer and an exterior porch that will move the house closer to East Panhellenic Drive, Trowell said.

Paris Kemeny, Phi Mu’s 2018 UF pledge class president, said she and the rest of her pledge class could not stop talking about how excited they were to move in next Fall once all renovations are completed.

“I’m looking forward to the new library,” the 18-yearold UF finance freshman said. “It’s going to be so nice to have a dedicated, quiet study area with plugs for our computers and no distractions.”

Although the baby pink of the house exterior has now been replaced with a soft gray, “house dad,” Don Gaddo, 80, who helps manage the maintenance of the house, plans to memorialize the old color. A 20-inch by 20-inch framed pink plaque will be added to the back entrance, with the words “Forever — The pink castle on the hill” engraved on it.

“It’s a memory that no one will ever forget,” Gaddo said.

Caroline Keefe / Alligator Staff

UF Phi Mu Alpha Nu chapter finishes phase one of two of its housing renovation project. The full project is set to be complete August 2019.

PHI MU SORORITY HOUSE RENOVATIONS • 7,500 square feet of additional space • A new coat of gray paint on the exterior of the house • A three-story addition to the side of the house • A new library • A new gathering room • 14 new bedrooms

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Renovations include a new gathering room, a library and 14 more bedrooms. Courtesy of BBI Construction Management Inc.

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UF student announced cancerfree months after rare diagnosis HE WAS DIAGNOSED IN SEPTEMBER.

By Angela DiMichele Alligator Staff Writer

Four cycles of chemotherapy, 12 spinal taps and one surgery later, Ryan Hinterleiter is officially cancer-free.

The news came Monday after Hinterleiter, a 20-yearold UF business administration junior, underwent 12 Hinterleiter weeks of treatment for Stage 3 Burkitt’s lymphoma, a form of cancer recognized as the fastest-growing human tumor, that began in September.

What Hinterleiter thought was a stomach cramp in early August ended up being the result of an aggressive cancer that attacks the immune system. After assessing his softball-sized tumor, doctors knew immediately that Hinterleiter could possibly face a death sentence.

Four months ago, doctors told Hinterleiter he would likely get sick often and need emergency medical attention during chemotherapy.

But Hinterleiter said his process was flawless.

“I didn’t think it would be as easy as it was,” Hinterleiter said. “With the first dose of chemo in the first three days, [the tumor] shrunk 70 percent.”

A nurse at UF Health Shands Hospital told Hinterleiter he was one of two patients she’d worked with who didn’t need blood or platelets during chemotherapy.

Despite his body handling the treatment well, Hinterleiter said he had his good and bad days. Mouth sores, nausea and constant lethargy were the worst symptoms.

“You don’t want to move, you don’t want to eat. You just kind of sleep it out,” he said. “It kind of just takes the life out of you.”

His family kept him from sinking into a depression and kept his boredom at bay, he said.

His two sisters, Cori and Logan, and his dad drove to Gainesville from Tampa, Jacksonville and Hobe Sound, Florida, almost every weekend while his mom lived in his living room on an air mattress.

Cori Hinterleiter, 25, said she has seen her once “nagging little brother” mature in the last few months.

“He’s my little brother, but in a literal and hypothetical sense, I look up to him,” she said.

The next step for Hinterleiter comes Friday.

His “PowerPort,” a small, implantable port underneath his skin used to administer chemotherapy, will be surgically removed. Every three months after, he will receive different ultrasounds, scans and electrocardiograms, or EKGs. Hinterleiter is already getting back to his normal schedule. He is taking 14 credit hours of classes and talking to recruits for his fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, this week.

“He, being Ryan, was not going to take it easy,” Cori Hinterleiter said. “I think it helps him heal just being able to be normal.” @angdimi adimichele@alligator.org

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SMALL TOWN FESTIVITIES Mike Johnson, a 44-year-old singer and rhythm guitarist for the band Aunt Jackie, covers “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” by Gainesville’s Tom Petty at the Third Thursday on Main party in Alachua. Every third Thursday of the month, the City of Alachua Community Redevelopment Agency hosts bands, vendors and local shops for a farmers-market-style event.

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Ron Stallworth speaks on police brutality, white supremacy

Stallworth recalled his undercover work investigating the KKK.

By Josephine Fuller Alligator Staff Writer In 1972, he became the Colorado Springs Police Department’s first black officer.

In 1979, he went undercover to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, and he lived to tell the story.

Ron Stallworth spoke to 460 people Wednesday night at the Rion Ballroom in the Reitz Union about police brutality, white supremacy and having his experience become a book and then a movie.

Mark Reid, a UF English professor, facilitated the discussion by asking questions that were submitted by members of the Black Graduate Student Organization.

Reid discussed Richard Spencer’s speech at UF in 2017 and how he presents himself as a kind, intelligent man. He also asked Stallworth about the changing face of white supremacy.

“A white supremacist is a white supremacist,” Stallworth said. “I don’t care what organization they represent, how they dress or what they may be.”

During Stallworth’s time with the KKK, he said former Grand Wizard David Duke tried to change the face of the organization and make it more acceptable to be a member.

Stallworth said he believes President Donald Trump has followed Duke’s plan and is giving such organizations a wink and a nod that it’s OK to behave in such a way.

Stallworth talked about his first

Samuel Thomas / Alligator Staff

Ron Stallworth speaks to an audience of about 460 people Wednesday about his experience infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in 1979. Stallworth is a retired police officer and author of “Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime.” The 2018 film “BlacKkKlansman” is based on his investigation. experience with Duke and how he threatened Duke with five years of prison for the assault of a police officer if he harmed Stallworth.

“I was a n----- with a badge and a gun, and I had a right to pop a cap in his a--,” Stallworth said.

An audience member asked Stallworth how he felt about being the first black officer at Colorado Springs. He said it was a shame it‘s

still significant for a black person, or any person of color, to be the first.

“We should be past that,” he said. “We should be able to just be the person who got the job based on their qualifications.”

His book, “Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime,” was written on a whim in 2013 after

Stallworth said people thought it’d make an interesting story.

When asked why he waited decades after the event to write his book, Stallworth said he didn’t think the story would have had the same impact if released earlier.

Supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, a campaign against systemic violence and racism against black people, has

caused Stallworth to lose friends.

Although he agrees with the movement, he asked the audience to remember not all officers are bad.

“One bad apple can spoil the barrel, but when you deal with people’s lives, careers and futures, you got to get those apples out of there as soon as possible,” Stallworth said.

Stallworth asked the young people in the audience to get involved in social change and stand up for what they believe in.

“You young people are going to change this world that my and the generation before mine messed up,” he said.

Samantha Arango, a 21-yearold UF psychology senior, read Stallworth’s book before the event and appreciated hearing his thoughts and experiences with racism in person.

“Actually hearing it come out of his mouth and his thoughts on race relations now versus back then, it’s really still terrible,” Arango said. “People need to realize it.”

Seeing the movie when it first came to theaters was moving because it brought the issue of racism to a new light, said Vanessa Young, a 24-year-old UF sociology junior. Most people tend to see the issue as irrelevant now, Young said.

“I think it’s a little bit mirroring of some of the contemporary issues we see today,” she said. “Hearing about it from someone who was in the midst of it means a lot to me.” @JoFuller24 jfuller@alligator.org

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Gators attempt to break end-of-game funk against Georgia

By Jake Dreilinger Sports writer

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The Florida men's basketball team's last four games have all come down to the final minutes, with the Gators escaping with just one win. "(We'll) continue to improve," White said.

GYMNASTICS

It has been the same story over and over again for the past two weeks.

The Florida men’s basketball team is leading in the final minutes of the game. Then, it just falls apart. That’s it.

Hardly any field goals made, a bunch of unnecessary fouls and defensive collapses, and when the buzzer rings out, the Gators are on the losingend.

It happened against South Carolina on Chris Silva’s dunk. It happened against then-No. 3 Tennessee when the the Volunteers scored nine points in the last 44 seconds.

It happened on Tuesday against Mississippi State when Quinndary Weatherspoon made an and-one layup with four seconds left.

So what will it be when UF plays against Georgia on Saturday in Athens? “(We’ll) continue to improve, shore up some mistakes down the stretch,” Florida coach Mike White said. “You know, it wasn’t a missed blockout, it was a missed assignment in a 1-3-1, it

was not holding your seal offsensively.

Turnover, pick-six.”

Both teams are eerily similar on paper.

They each hold a 9-7 record, are 1-3 in SEC play and are 4-4 in their last eight contests.

It should be an evenly matched game, but the biggest differences between these two teams are how those games went down.

Florida has played four consecutive contests down to the wire, only escaping one with a win. It was arguably a play or two away from being undefeated in that stretch. It couldn’t hold on to the lead long enough to pull out the victory, nor could it make those lastsecond, game-winning shots.

White had the same message for his team after each of those loses.

“I’m not sure we have much frustration,” White said on Monday. “I’m not sure how important it is, and if there is it’s not communicated. Trying to muster up the competitiveness. I’d rather our guys get really ticked off; I’d rather them get ticked off at me.”

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Florida heads to Baton Rouge Tampa Bay Buccaneers made right to face longtime rival in LSU decision by hiring Bruce Arians

By River Wells Sports Writer

Captain Ahab spends the entirety of the famed 1851 novel Moby Dick attempting to defeat the “white whale.” It’s more of a “white tiger” for the UF gymnastics team.

No. 3 Florida travels to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Friday to face off against the LSU Tigers, a team it hasn’t defeated in the regular season since 2014.

The No. 5 Tigers, the current defending SEC champions, host UF on their home floor after winning at the O’Connell Center last year.

With the Gators coming off a strong performance against Missouri and LSU coming off its first regular season loss since 2016, it will likely be a close battle between the two top-five squads. Here are a couple things to look out for on both sides of the meet.

The Team To Beat The Gators lost sophomore Alyssa Baumann when she injured herself on the uneven bars a day before the team’s meet against Missouri, and LSU was also without one of its own key gymnasts due to injury last Friday.

Tigers senior McKenna Kelley suffered an injury during warmups before their meet against No. 17 Auburn, causing them to hastily throw freshman Bailey Ferrer into the lineup. Despite the jarring setback, the teams were even heading into the last rotation, but Auburn managed to pull ahead to defeat the Tigers 196.700196.275. According to an article by The Advocate, Kelley has been practicing this week and intends to compete on the floor and in the vault event against the Gators.

Gymnasts to watch on Friday will be sophomore Sami Durante, an SEC AllFreshman last year who scored a 9.925 on

Ida Jarlskog and the Gators women's tennis team begin the spring season this weekend at the Freeman Memorial in Las Vegas.

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al manager Jason Licht and the The NFL’s elite teams will owners of the team, the Glazers, be vying for a spot in the Super made the correct decision.

Bowl this weekend.

Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Arians has an impressive Buccaneers are far from one of track record of turning losing teams into contenders, fast. those elite teams.

How fast?

The Bucs last made a playWell, in 2013, after leading off appearance in January 2008.

Evan Lepak Jon Gruden was fired in 2009 the Indianapolis Colts as the Twitter: @EvanMPLepak and a decade of instability has interim head coach to a 9-3 record, complete with a playoff followed. Since Gruden’s deparberth and AP Coach of the Year ture, Tampa Bay has been reduced to one of the bigger laughing stocks in honors, Arians was hired by the Arizona pro football after siphoning through four dif- Cardinals to turn around a team that won 18 ferent head coaches and going a combined combined games in the three seasons prior.

He led Arizona to a 10-win season that 55-105 in that timeframe.

There’s nowhere to go but up for Tampa, year, then to 11 in 2014, followed by 13 and and I believe its fortunes will change for one an NFC Championship appearance in 2015.

There’s no denying the guy’s success in reason and one reason only: Bruce Charles the NFL, and that’s hard to ignore when Arians.

The Buccaneers introduced Arians at One you’re a desperate organization that hasn’t Buc Place last Thursday, much to the cha- sniffed a playoff appearance in over a degrin of those hoping for the next Sean McVay cade.

He has been there before, with three Suto walk through those glass doors. But in all honesty, if the Bucs want to win now, gener-

UF ranked No. 1 in SEC softball coaches poll Tha Gators softball team topped the ranking in the first SEC coaches poll, receiving 10 first place votes. Florida is the four-time defending SEC regularseason champion.

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Florida’s bench has been one of its few bright spots

By Sam Campisano Sports Writer

It has been a frustrating season for the Florida women’s basketball team, but one signal that greener pastures could be on the horizon can be found at the bottom of the stat sheet after every game: bench points.

The team’s bench, composed mostly of younger players, is outscoring opponents 336-218 this season. It has also outscored the opposition’s bench in all five of its wins.

“If your bench isn’t scoring, then you’re doing something wrong,” coach Cam Newbauer said. “You always wanna have something different when [bench players] come in.

Bring something new, whether it be energy, different skillset or something off the bench when you get in the game.”

With the season now past its halfway point, the bench is starting to contribute more. It’s averaging 23.75 points per game in SEC play, a solid four points above the season average.

The two biggest contributors have been forward Zada Williams and guard Ariel Johnson. Williams, a redshirt junior, has emerged as the team’s third-leading scorer with 9.1 points per game despite starting only four of 17 games.

Johnson, a freshman, is averaging 5.3 points per game and is second on the team with 22 threes despite only starting three games.

“You know when it’s your time to come out the game, you have somebody to replace you that can come in and play the same role as you,” Delicia Washington, the team’s second-leading scorer, said. “That’s a good feeling.”

Williams and Johnson aren’t the only two factors in making Florida’s bench a dominant one. Redshirt sophomore guard Danielle Rainey has been a big factor lately, averaging eight points a game in SEC play, including a team-high and career-high 16 in the Gators’ upset win over Missouri on Sunday.

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Florida guard Ariel Johnson is averaging 5.3 points per game and is second on the team with 22 three-pointers.

The significant margin by which Florida’s bench has outscored its opponents bodes well for next season, with leading scorer Funda Nakkasoglu in her final season with the team.

Nakkasoglu is one of just a few players who was with the team last year, and her 16.6 points per game is by far the highest average on the team.

Newbauer eased most of his new players into roles with

the team early in the season while Washington and Nakkasoglu did most of the scoring. Now, with the team’s chances at a postseason berth basically nonexistent, look for Newbauer to continue incorporating more of the younger players as the season continues. @samcampisano scampisano@alligator.org

TRACK AND FIELD

Gators look to maintain dominance in 2019 campaign

By Bryan Matamoros Sports Writer

Coach Mike Holloway and the Florida track and field program will attempt to add more trophies to its display case this upcoming season — just like it has done for the past decade.

The Gators have won at least one conference or national title every year since 2009. The expectations are no different this season.

The men’s team enters the 2019 campaign ranked No. 2, while the women enter the season at No. 6 in the USTFCCCA National Track and Field Rating Index.

With KeAndre Bates graduating from Florida and turning pro, the men’s team will turn to the versatility of Grant Holloway to extend its run of dominance. Holloway, who chose to delay a professional career and return for his junior season, was one of 10 men named to the Bowerman Preseason Watch List this year after a historic 2018 campaign.

Holloway broke the collegiate record in the 60-meter hurdles last season with a time of 7.42 and the school record in the 110-meter hurdles (13.16). His individual records along with the accomplishments of the men’s team — NCAA Indoor Champions and SEC Outdoor

champions — earned him both the SEC Indoor and Outdoor Runner of the Year awards.

Holloway was not the only man with a record-breaking season last year, however.

Redshirt senior AJ McFarland thrice broke his own indoor school record in the weight throw with a distance of 22.20 meters.

Redshirt senior Anders Eriksson set the school record in the hammer throw (74.19 meters) at the SEC Championships.

Florida’s women’s team will have to cope with the loss of Lloydricia Cameron, Avione Allgood and, most notably, Darrielle McQueen.

McQueen left her mark at UF with several spots in the Gators’ all-time top ten lists, coming in at No. 2 and No. 4 in the long jump and triple jump, respectively, for the indoor list. She also finished in the No. 4 and No. 5 spots in the long jump and triple jump, respectively, for the outdoor list.

The addition of junior transfers Natricia Hooper and Kala Penn will make it easier for coach Holloway to offset the absence of McQueen this season. The two jumpers give the Gators two more viable options at the conference and national level.

One cannot talk about the

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Florida track and field coach Mike Holloway boasts the No. 2-best men’s team and the No. 6-best women’s team in the country. women’s team without mentioning seniors Yanis David and Sharrika Barnett, who both set school records in the triple jump and the 400 meters, respectively, last season.

Florida’s runners and high jumpers open their season this weekend at the Clemson Invitational, while the horizontal jumpers and throwers head to Virginia

Tech to compete in the Hokie Invitational. @bmatamoros_ bmatamoros@alligator.org

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LSU won by 0.125th of a point last season against UF GYMNASTICS, from pg 14 the uneven bars against Auburn. Senior Sarah Finnegan was the team’s best all-arounder last Friday, scoring a 39.475 overall and winning her 51st individual award.

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Florida gymnast Alicia Boren earned SEC gymnast of the week for her performance against Missouri on Friday at the O'Connell Center.

If At First You Don’t Succeed…

Try, try again. And again. And again.

Last year, Florida hosted the Tigers in the O’Connell Center and walked out with a loss by only 0.125th of a point, and that’s not an abnormality for these matches. In the last 20 meetings between the two squads, 17 of them have been decided by less than .500, including three of the last four meets after the last time Florida beat LSU. “It definitely is a meet that we’ve been looking forward to all year,” senior Amelia Hundley said in a release.

“They’ve always been a good competitor for us.”

The team will hope for another strong performance from senior Alicia Boren, who took home SEC Gymnast of the Week for her efforts against Mizzou, and some more high scores from freshmen like Trinity Thomas, who netted a 9.950 on the uneven bars and was named co-SEC Freshman of the Week.

Hundley made it clear on Thursday that the team is done preparing for the No. 5 team in the country, and that regardless of the result the meet is bound to be a learning experience.

“I think it’s time,” Hundley said. “I think we’re ready for it. We’re really excited and we’re gonna put our best foot forward.” @riverhwells rwells@alligator.org

COLUMN, from pg 14 per Bowl appearances as an assistant with the Pittsburgh Steelers under his belt, he has been a part of a stable franchise that knows how to get to the peak of the league.

That swagger he possesses was unmistakable at his introductory press conference on Thursday.

“I think we have the core here to win quickly,” Arians said. “I’m not about building, I’m about reloading. With that, I can’t say how excited I am to be a Tampa Bay Buc.” Chills. As a Bucs fan, that should give you chills.

Arians is right — the Bucs have talent, and they’ve shown the ability to be great at times since their last playoff appearance. Unfortunately, Tampa Bay just hasn’t been able to shake the loser mentality. I think that all changes starting next season.

Many people are skeptical about Arians’ age despite the abundant success, and so was I, but the team did its due diligence by having him participate in a physical during the interview process.

“I’m ready,” Arians told Licht. “I may be 66, but I’m 66 and sexy, baby.”

It’s time for the Tampa Bay Bucs to become a sexy team to root for, once again.

Evan Lepak is a sports writer. You can follow him on Twitter @evanmplepak or contact him at elepak@alligator.org.

Georgia was held to 49 points against Kentucky on Tuesday BASKETBALL, from pg 14 He might see that frustration boil over against the Bulldogs.

Georgia is coming off a twoloss span in which it was blown out by at least 15 points against both Auburn and Kentucky. It was held to just 49 points against

the Wildcats, well below its season average of 74.5 points per game.

The Bulldogs are having an identity crisis on offense, similar to what the Gators are going through this season.

Forward Yante Maten was UGA’s leading scorer last season

with 19.3 points per game. He has since graduated, and this season, the Bulldogs haven’t had anyone truly step up and fill Maten’s role.

They have three players averaging double-digits — forwards Rayshaun Hammonds (13.4) and Nicolas Claxton (12.1), and guard Tyree Crump (10.1) — but none

of them are producing on the same level as Maten.

If Florida is going to snap this funk it has been in, its best chance will be against Georgia on Saturday. Some players know that it’s just a matter of time until they end that streak of mediocracy.

“At the end of the day, we’re

not that old of a team,” forward Dontay Bassett said. “So, I mean, a lot of things come with experience and come with just going through things and learning from your game. So, I think the team’s handling it well, taking it well.” @DreilingerJake jdreilinger@alligator.org

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