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By Karina Elwood Alligator Staff Writer

The first thing Alina Mitchell handed firefighters was a box of photos.

Mitchell, 62, continued to hand them personal items as she stood trapped in her kitchen, surrounded by suspended tree branches and pieces of her collapsed roof.

As her home became more unstable, firefighters finally told her, “Ma’am we need to get you out, not the boxes.”

On Friday morning during a severe thunderstorm, a large oak tree crashed through Mitchell’s Alachua home, damaging it so severely that her landlord plans to demolish her house.

Thousands of Alachua County residents

Schools to narrow achievement gap

were affected by the 4-hour thunderstorm.

About 34,000 Gainesville Regional Utilities customers lost power and multiple businesses were closed, along with some traffic lights not working.

Just before 11 a.m., Mitchell heard a large crack from outside her window. It was a familiar sound to her. The trees in the wooded area near her home are old and often fall, she said.

She wasn’t expecting what happened next.

The large oak tree crashed through the middle of her house, caving in the roof and missing

her by just a few feet.

“I thought I was having a nightmare,” Mitchell said. “I thought, ‘What the h---? How am I alive here?’ I really didn’t think I could be alive with the roof falling in on me.”

She started calling out to her son, Mitch, who was on the other side of the house. The tree hadn’t landed on him. He left the house and called firefighters.

The next day, she stood in what was once her kitchen, with the sun beating down on her

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PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM CREATED A PLAN TO HELP STUDENTS OF COLOR

By Ana Escalante Alligator Contributing Writer

Parents of students in the Alachua County Public School system say the plan the district created to close the gap between white and black students’ performance isn’t going to work.

In August, the school district implemented an equity plan to close the county’s achievement gap by 2028. The achievement gap is the disparity of academic performance between white students and students of color. Alachua County has the largest achievement gap between white and black students in the state, according to the equity plan.

The school district developed the equity plan after analyzing data that showed the achievement gap. To close the gap, it created a plan with five goals. The goals are to improve student test scores, allow more students to take advanced courses, increase graduation rates, reduce disciplinary action and hire a more diverse staff.

“The equity plan is based upon making sure every student reaches their full potential or has equal opportunity to do so,” said Valerie Freeman, the school district’s educational equity and outreach director.

Parents say some of the goals are unrealistic, may leave some students with disabilities behind and restrict furthering students’ education.

Freeman said that the school board has been trying to increase parent involvement when it comes to addressing concerns over the equity plan. She said the school board switched meeting times to create conversations among officials and parents in the community, but there hasn’t been much response.

“There has been a lot of miscommunication and misinformation. We really want parents to speak to us about what they want to change,” Freeman said. “Sometimes, it’s hard for them to come out, so we have been trying our best to get some sort of dialogue started.”

Local education activist Chanae Jackson wasn’t surprised when she read stories about black students in Alachua County Public Schools underperforming compared to white students, she said.

Jackson only saw a list of suggestions and no real solutions when she said she saw the public school system’s plan

THIS WAS THE FIRST PERFORMANCE AT BEN HILL GRIFFIN STADIUM IN 25 YEARS

By Tranelle Maner Alligator Staff Writer

Garth Brooks took off his black Stetson cowboy hat in awe after the crowd joined him in belting out his favorite song from his early 20s.

Before he started the song, Brooks warned the crowd that he was going to play a lot of old cowboy songs and told them to prepare.

SEE GARTH, PAGE 8

SEE EDUCATION, PAGE 4 Gators lose fourth-straight SEC road series

Pitcher Tommy Mace and the UF baseball team lost two of three games to LSU last weekend, pg. 14

Once the crowd finished singing all of the words to “Fishin’ in the Dark” by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Brooks, he couldn’t hold back his excitement.

“Are you kidding me?” Brooks screamed to the crowd of about 75,000 in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Saturday night.

The country star took the stage to a sold-out crowd Saturday during the third stop of his national Stadium Tour.

This was the first performance at the stadium in 25 years.

Lack of parking spots, heavy traffic and crowded seating issues all arose throughout the night.

Brooks performed a mix of what he described as old hits and “cowboy stuff” to the crowd.

Photo by Chris King / Alligator Staff

How Garth Brooks affected students

Students had complaints of parking and noise this past weekend, pg. 8

Middle Eastern fashion

UF students showed off colorful garments this weekend, pg. 3

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Local Events / News in Brief WHAT'S HAPPENING? TODAY Hippodrome Jazz Series When: 7-9:30 p.m.

Where: Hippodrome State Theatre, at 25 SE Second Place What: The Hippodrome State Theatre will partner with the UF School of Music to bring the Hippodrome Jazz Series. Today will feature UF Jazz faculty with Scott Wilson and Clyde Connor.

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TUESDAY Impact Day benefiting Working Food When: 7 a.m.-11 p.m.

Where: Lucky’s Market Gainesville, 1459 NW 23rd Ave. What: Shop at Lucky’s Market and 10 percent of the day’s sales will go to the Working Food Youth Gardens Program. Working Food aims to cultivate and sustain a local food community in north central Florida.

WEDNESDAY SGP Presents: RL Grime ft. Lost Kings When: 6:30-10 p.m.

Where: Flavet Field What: This will be Student Government Production’s last free concert of the year. The Lost Kings, an American DJ duo, will open for RL Grime. They gained recognition after their remix of “Latch” by Disclosure played on the radio. RL Grime, previously known as Clockwork, produces trap, grime and bass music. After some musical collaborations, RL Grime released his debut album, “Void,” in 2014.

Plant Nite at First Magnitude Brewing Co. When: 7-9 p.m.

Where: First Magnitude Brewing Company, at 1220 SE Veitch St. What: This week’s featured project is succulents with wood and glass assortments. People can learn how to decorate a terrarium and decorate with succulents.

Tickets are $45 a person and can be purchased on yaymaker.com.

With the code Yay10, people can get $10 off tickets. All planting supplies including a solid container, soil, plants, rocks, decorative elements and a smock will be provided.

Understanding Racial Inequities

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in Alachua County Report When: 4-6 p.m.

Where: Thelma A. Boltin, at 516 NE Second Ave. What: The “Friendship Seven” group that commissioned a report on racial inequities will help the community understand what steps are being taken and how the community can help address the issues revealed in the report.

Local Impacts of Mass Incarceration: A community round table When: 6:30-8 p.m.

Where: Reitz Union, Room 2355 What: Community members will address how they see the workings of mass incarceration at the local level and share their ideas for imagining a different future.

The event is free and open to the public. Event parking is in the Reitz Union parking garage or adjacent lots on Museum Road.

THURSDAY Swamp Records Showcase 2019 When: 6 p.m.- midnight Where: Heartwood Soundstage, at 619 S. Main St. What: The showcase will be a way to showcase local artists to people. Some of the bands include Jet Black Alley Cat, Hardcastle, flipturn, The Forum, Driveaway, Glass House Point, Runner’s High and Laney. There will also be food trucks and vendors. Tickets are $10.50 and can be purchased at heartwoodsoundstage.com.

GCM Food Fest When: 5-9 p.m.

Where: Celebration Pointe, at the Northwest corner of Interstate 75 and Archer Road.

What: More than 40 Gainesville restaurants will serve food from one location. Admission to the festival is free, but meal and drink tickets will be sold for $2 each, and can be redeemed for a meal or drink. VIP tickets are $75 each and can be purchased on eventbrite.com. Perks include food offers from MidiCi, Backstreet Blues Chop House and Oyster Bar, parking, four drink tickets and five general admission meal or drink tickets, a dessert bar and more. Some participating restaurants include Maple Street Biscuit Company, Piesanos, Gator’s Dockside, Los Pollos, Pomodoro, Mi Apá Latin Café, Gator BTW, FogBoxx, Potato Hub, Charlie’s Snow Shack, Crafty Bastards,

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Day of Wellness When: 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Where: McCarty Hall C What: This will be a space for studying and relaxing on the week before final exams. There will be a study room, meditation room, art room and group study.

Snacks and refreshments will be served throughout. A free dinner will be served at 6 p.m., and there will be an art activity at 2 p.m.

FRIDAY Beyond Dead Fish: How red tide affects all Floridians When: 2:30-4 p.m.

Where: Pugh Hall What: Last year’s red tide caused widespread fish kills, economic impacts and environmental damage. The Thompson Earth Systems Institute at the UF will host a free public panel to address the economic, public health and environmental impacts of harmful algal blooms. No registration is required and people are encouraged to arrive at 2:30 p.m. for refreshments. There is free visitor parking in the Reitz Union parking garage.

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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib speaks at second Middle Eastern Fashion Show MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE ATTENDED

By Nushrat Nur Alligator Contributing Writer

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib watched the flow of bright reds and deep blues as UF students strutted in garments from various Middle Eastern cultures on campus this weekend.

UF Students for Justice in Palestine hosted the second annual Middle Eastern Fashion Show at the Health Professions, Nursing & Pharmacy Auditorium Sunday afternoon. More than 100 people came out to the event, which con-

sisted of a fashion show, Middle Eastern cuisine and the congresswoman speaker.

About 20 models were introduced, along with the outfits they wore and each piece’s cultural significance. Traditional garments, ranging from cotton to colorful silk and chiffon dresses came from places like Bangladesh, as well as Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

Six current and future executive board members of the organization spoke about the importance of incorporating cultural events into the activism and organizing often associated with SJP’s work.

“The fashion show was meant

to show the culture and humanity of the Palestinian people,” said Saja Hussein, a 19-year-old UF political science freshman and SJP treasurer-elect. “I think it’s also important to know the people you’re fighting for.”

The models, who are all UF students, walked onstage from behind billowy white curtains as high tempo Arabic music played from a speaker offstage. Men’s and women’s fashion were shown as they walked across the stage.

After the fashion show, Tlaib, a Michigan representative, spoke on her experiences growing up as a Palestinian. The representative was not paid, Hussein said.

She said her recent election as a congresswoman was bigger than herself.

Tlaib recalled drawing inspiration from Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress. She said she applied the do-it-yourself, unapologetic way that Chisholm carried herself in the government despite the sociopolitical circumstances.

“It’s unbelievable the things they want to do with us,” Tlaib said, “But we have the truth with us.”

Bull’s Dabke, a dance team from the University of South Florida specializing in a Middle Eastern dance, then gave a short performance.

At the end, the executive board invited everyone for kanafeh, a traditional Palestinian dessert, and homemade tea prepared by the mother of an executive board member.

Grace Cope, a 21-year-old UF visual arts and entomology and nematology senior who is Jewish, enjoyed the event’s cultural focus in the conversation of Palestinian activism.

“I think in activist spaces, things get hot a lot of the time, and there’s so much passion,” Cope said. “I think it’s important to balance it out with the softness of culture and connecting with people because people really make movements.”

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Bulls Dabke performs a traditional Levantine dance at Students for Justice in Palestine’s second annual Middle Eastern Fashion Show on Sunday. The group traveled from the University of South Florida to take part in the event. More than 100 people attended the fashion show, watched the dance performance and ate traditional Palestinian food.

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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib cheers on a model Sunday at Students for Justice in Palestine’s second annual Middle Eastern Fashion Show.

Tlaib is the U.S. Representative for Michigan’s 13th congressional district and is the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress.

Tlaib spoke to the attendants after the show and discussed her Palestinian heritage. “Every time I walk into the halls of Congress, I know that I’m bringing all of you with me,” she said.

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Graduation rate for black students up by 11 percent EDUCATION, from pg. 1 to fix the problem.

“I’m sick of the school board patting themselves on the back for doing absolutely nothing,” said Jackson, a mother of three in the school district.

After the school year ends, the school district will be able to gather data to measure the progress of student achievement, amount of students in advanced courses and graduation rates, said Jennie Wise, the executive director of curriculum for Alachua County.

Goal one of the equity plan measures student achievement by a student’s score on the Florida Standards Assessment, a test taken at the end of the year to evaluate if students are ready for the next grade. The scores come out in July.

To move to the next grade level, a student must score a 3 or higher out of 5 on the FSA. The equity plan showed that 45 percent more white students have passing scores in reading and math than black students, according to 2018 results.

School district officials want to close the gap between black and white students by 3 percent each year.

The main concern parents have with using test scores as the indicator of success is that scores don’t take a child’s individual learning style into account.

Patricia High, who has one child in the third grade, said her son’s ADHD diagnosis isn’t considered when taking the FSA. High said she has reached out to the Florida Department of Education, the Alachua County School Board and the Bureau of Exceptional Student Education for extra help, but she has not received a response.

“He’s just going to be another child left behind by the system,”

High said.

The second goal focused on increasing the participation of black students in advanced courses.

Wise said the scheduling process for advanced course registration relies on grades, teacher recommendations and pre-Advanced Placement test score reports, which will all be collected and analyzed this summer to show how much improvement has been made.

Universal screening for gifted classes looks at test scores and classroom achievement and has been expanded to seven schools, Wise said.

Although the school year is not over, Wise said increased graduation rates from last year are an estimate of what the school district can expect concerning the district’s third goal.

Compared to 2017, the graduation rate for black students increased by 11 percent. According to a report sent by Jackie Johnson, the district spokesperson, the graduation gap between white and black students closed by 8.7 percent in one year.

Schools like Hawthorne Middle and High School have seen dramatic increases in graduation rates among black students. Compared to the last school year, graduation rates rose from 64.7 percent in 2017 to 100 percent in 2018, according to the graduation report.

Wise said that due to the school’s small senior class with only 31 students, the data may not be the most representative.

School staff meets regularly to go through each student’s report, which includes classes passed or failed, grades and test scores, to address their needs, Wise said.

Schools also have graduation counselors that take students step by step through the process to make sure they meet all requirements, such as passing and taking

certain classes.

“It’s a lot of people putting eyes on every single student by student and making sure that all of the gaps and missing pieces are put into place,” Wise said.

Jackson has a senior of her own attending F.W. Buchholz High School, located in East Gainesville.

Jackson said she believes numbers are inflated and that the school board is gaming the system by not actually preparing students to enter the workforce.

Jackson said her son has told her that teachers said all he had to do was show up to class to earn his diploma.

“Instead of preparing black students and ensuring that they will be successful in the post-secondary setting, the school board is just letting these students graduate,” she said.

The fourth goal of reducing disciplinary action has had the biggest effect on students, Wise said.

The school district aims to reduce out-of-school suspensions for black students by 15 percent.

In Fall 2018, there was a 34.6 percent decrease of suspensions. The Alligator could not ask about the drop because Donna Kidwell, the manager of this goal, couldn’t be reached for comment after a reporter reached out about three times through email and seven times through phone calls.

Schools are also reducing the number of days for suspension, according to the district’s equity plan. By eliminating or decreasing the number of times students are written up for non-violent offenses, like tardiness and mobile phone usage, the school district is able to lower these numbers and provide alternative intervention, like counseling, for students.

The last goal in the equity plan is to hire 10 percent more teachers of color each year until they

are more representative of the county’s population.

Kevin Purvis, the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, said the district’s black employees include 11 percent of teachers, 23 percent of assistant principals and 28 percent of principals.

Thirty-four percent of students in the school district are black, according to the equity plan.

Since last year, there has been a decline in black applicants for teaching positions, Purvis said. Differing factors include lack of incentives, an uncompetitive salary and the district’s location.

The school district has been trying to combat this through different tactics like establishing ties with historically black colleges and universities as well as attending more job fairs to recruit applicants, Purvis said.

“Our approach was to get out and really target and recruit black and all qualified teachers that we can get,” Purvis said.

Jennifer Wade, a mother of three, said there is a lack of accountability from the school board when teachers handle situations.

On Dec. 11, a teacher at the Duval Early Learning Academy slammed Wade’s son into a table and hit him in the cafeteria, according to a Gainesville Police incident report.

Having the school board simply apologize and have her resign wasn’t enough, she said. After the incident, Wade said she spoke to Purvis about her frustrations with having ill-equipped teachers.

“I understand it starts from home, and I do what I can, but honestly, they need some new type of teachers and curriculum,” Wade said. “I haven’t seen any progress.”

A majority of the plan’s success

A breakdown of the plan Goal one: Improve test scores The Florida Standards Assessment scores, which measures the achievement of black students, will be released in July.

Goal two: Increase achivement of black students in adcaned classes This won’t be determined until schedules are finalized this summer.

Goal three: Increase graduation rates Eleven percent more black students graduated in 2018.

Goal four: Reduce disciplinary action Data shows that the number of suspensions has gone down by 34.6 percent as of Fall 2018.

Goal five: Hire more diverse staff Data shows that there have been fewer applications for teaching positions.

is rooted in the implementation of a culturally responsive teaching method, Valerie Freeman said.

Tactics include teaching educators and staff on how to meet specific students’ needs when it comes to community and school culture.

“You can’t be colorblind in the classroom anymore. It matters,” Freeman said. “It’s important that we make these acknowledgments.

If you see it, you acknowledge it, you get to understand it. That’s what a child needs.”

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· CRIME ROUNDUP · Woman accused of battery, said blood from period sex

By Lina Ruiz Alligator Staff Writer

A woman covered in blood opened the front door when Gainesville Police officers knocked to check on a domestic disturbance Friday, police said.

She told police it came from her girlfriend’s period during sex, police said.

Desiree Days, 23, of Gainesville, had blood on her shirt, arm and leg when she answered the door at about 3:20 a.m., according to a Gainesville Police arrest report. Officers said the blood did not appear to be hers.

Days Officers asked Days to call her girlfriend so they could check on her, but she refused. Police went inside and found a woman wrapped in a towel, the report said. An officer saw blood flowing down her hair line and multiple lumps and bruises on her face and head.

The girlfriend told the officer her injuries came from “rough sex” with Days, the report said.

Neighbors called 911 after hearing loud noises from the apartment, the report said. Two witness said they saw Days push, punch and drag the woman. One of them saw Days slam the woman’s head against an outside courtyard wall.

When an officer checked the wall, the officer found blood splattered and smeared, the report said.

While in handcuffs, Days shook herself free and tried to run away, the report said. Days appears to have a swollen eye in her mugshot.

Days was charged with battery and resisting an officer without violence, the report said. She was released from the Alachua County Jail Saturday on her own recognizance.

When Days’ phone number listed on the arrest report was called, an unknown man answered and gave no information on Days or the crime. He or Days couldn’t be reached on further calls. @Lina_Ruiz48 lruiz@alligator.org

Man accused of choking, throwing mirror at wife HE HAS $75,000 BOND

By Katherine Wallace-Fernandez Alligator Staff Writer

A man put his wife in a chokehold because she wouldn’t have sex with him Thursday, deputies said.

At about 11 a.m., a woman told a deputy that her husband, Jacob McMahon, 23, of Gainesville, tried to hold her down and have sex with her, according to an Alachua County Sheriff’s McMahon Office arrest report. After she refused, he told her he was going to get what he wanted.

She said she began crying and tried to get up, but McMahon threw a mirror at her, the report said. When she tried pushing him away, McMahon hit and shoved her.

She broke the bedroom window to get away, but he put her in a chokehold, the report said. McMahon also hit himself with a shoe and said he would send her to jail.

A witness told deputies that when she went inside, she saw McMahon standing over his wife while she was curled up in the corner of the room, the report said.

His wife had a bruise and a red mark near her left eye, a nosebleed and blood on her lips and hands, the report said.

McMahon told the deputy she was high, and when he refused to have sex with her she “went crazy” and struck him repeatedly in the head, the report said.

He was charged with domestic battery by strangulation and false imprisonment, the report said.

McMahon remains in the Alachua County Jail in lieu of a $75,000 bond. @katwf98 kwallace-fernandez@alligator.org

Man allegedly steals from apartment three times HE HAS $170,000 BOND

By Katherine Wallace-Fernandez Alligator Staff Writer

A man didn’t stop stealing from his friend’s mother’s home in early April, deputies said. Then, he was arrested.

On April 2, a woman came home and found her living room TV on the floor next to the door and not on its stand, according to an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

When she searched her home, she discovered her apartment keys, a fireplace remote, a pendant, a

necklace, a ROKU TV remote and an acoustic guitar were stolen from her apartment in the Cricket Club II complex, at 505 SW 72 St., the reMathis port said.

She believed Aubrey Mathis, 26, of Newberry, stole the items, the report said. Her son used to be friends with Mathis, and he often stayed over.

Two days later, Mathis returned to the apartment and stole the living room TV and “juice” for electronic cigarettes, the report said.

Mathis was seen in video sur-

veillance from Oaks Pawn South, at 2530 SW 34th St., selling the TV and one of the son’s guitars, the report said.

On April 6, the woman woke up and saw Mathis in her kitchen, the report said. She asked him what he was doing, and he ran away. Mathis was arrested on April 8.

He was charged with unarmed burglary of an occupied dwelling, two counts of unarmed burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, two counts of dealing in stolen property and two counts of fraud, the report said. @katwf98 kwallace-fernandez@alligator.org

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Editorial

We mourn along with Sri Lanka

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aster, a day of celebration for Christians all over the world, turned into a day of mourning after three churches in three Sri Lankan cities were torn apart by bombs, wreaking havoc on families and friends in worship. The bombings have killed at least 207 people and injured 450 people. Officials believe the attacks, which also included bombings at high-end hotels in Sri Lanka, were carried out by suicide bombers in a coordinated act of terrorism.

We cannot imagine the hurt and pain of the people directly affected by these acts. We can only offer our sincerest condolences and the promise that we stand against all forms of hate. This past weekend was supposed to be a time for celebration, but now it will go down in history as a day of sorrow. It is yet another day in recent history where a date will become a day of remembrance for a devastating act of violence.

About a month ago, two mosques were attacked in New Zealand, killing 50 people. In October of 2018, a gunman opened fire in a Pittsburg Synagogue killing 11 people. In 2017, a gunman killed 27 people at a Texas church. These were people practicing their respective faiths and looking for a place of solace and comfort. Instead, they were killed.

These are egregious examples of intolerance and hate that will haunt those affected and their families for the rest of their lives.

The world is full of hundreds of practicing religions, languages and nationalities. Clearly, we’re all different, but we can all be accepting of those differences. Acts of hate have no place in our society, yet we are continually devastated by unbelievable violence. Acceptance and love are not instantly adopted feelings and qualities. Sometimes they take an entire lifetime to teach. However, tragedies like these are reminders to be tolerant in our everyday lives and to accept and even appreciate those who are different from ourselves.

On Friday, The Alligator published UF President Fuchs’ column. In it, he wrote about the importance of tolerance and acceptance regarding religion, and we would like to reiterate his sentiment. Throughout American history, really all history, understanding the differences of others has not been easily achieved. Cultural movements spanning decades with the sole intent of equality are still ongoing. We are continually battling injustices in our society, and that is not going to end anytime soon. However, our greatest step toward stopping acts of violence like the ones from yesterday is practicing kindness in our everyday lives and promoting that kindness.

We are not naive enough to think a few kind words will bring about world peace. However, they are the best tools we have in our everyday lives to battle hate. In the end, they are also what bring about the most comfort in times of tragedy. Along with practicing tolerance, we have to be willing to teach others about our beliefs and struggles. Understanding can only come from teachings or experiences because, without it, people often misinterpret information our messages.

Sri Lanka mourns and so do we. However, let it be a reminder to look at your neighbors, classmates, friends and most importantly, strangers and find a connection — something that will bring you together. We have to be open-minded in our conversations and interactions to heal and grow in these times of tragedy.

Paige Fry EDITOR

Christina Morales MANAGING EDITOR

Amanda Rosa MANAGING EDITOR

Michaela Mulligan OPINIONS EDITOR

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Eating disorders affect everyone, not just women

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hen people think of eating disorgling with them. ders, they often imagine a stickDue to the stigma surrounding receiving thin woman comparing herself to help for an eating disorder, there are likely models or Barbie dolls. We often more men and boys with eating disorders than fail to realize people of all body the statistics show. The media portrays antypes struggle with eating disorders, includorexia and bulimia as diseases afflicting only ing men. Parents worry about their daughters females, causing males with eating disorders Hannah starving themselves but don’t think to check may be to possibly be discouraged from getting on their sons’ eating habits, despite the fact help due to the fear of being labeled as “femiWhitaker opinions@alligator.org that one out of three people afflicted with an nine,” or “gay.” Not only are boys often diseating disorder is a man. couraged from receiving help, but it can also Eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge- be difficult for them to actually get the help they need. eating disorder affect people of all shapes and sizes deThe ways to diagnose an eating disorder are also spite how the media portrays these diseases. In films, aimed toward females, with one symptom of anorexia we are shown paper thin women struggling with eating being “irregular menstrual cycles.” Most eating disorder disorders, and while this can be accurate, not everyone treatments are done in group settings, like group therapy, who struggles with these diseases looks like this. The which teen boys often do not want to partake in, accordnext time your friend undergoes a major weight loss, ing to the National Center of Biotechnology Information. stop and make sure the way they achieved their goal Terminology regarding eating disorders and the treatwas safe for their body. Rapid weight loss brought on by ments offered too often exclude boys and men in need starvation or vomiting is extremely dangerous for your of help. body, regardless of a person’s size. Long-term effects of It is important to understand that eating disorders eating disorders can include but are not limited to osteo- don’t just look like the stereotypical skinny woman. They penia (the loss of bone calcium), osteoporosis (the loss look like your roommate, your brother or your mom. Eatof bone density), infertility and heart failure. Those who ing disorders can display themselves through extreme die from eating disorder complications typically die of binge eating or through eating regular meals but leaving heart disease. to purge. Check up on your friends, family and partners Most eating disorder clinics focus on women as their to ensure they are maintaining healthy eating habits. As clientele, too often ignoring men who also need help. humans, regardless of gender, we are constantly comparThe language on most surveys, pamphlets and websites ing ourselves to others, and in our teenage years, this is often geared toward women, resulting in boys with problem is exacerbated. We have to remember to check eating disorders feeling misunderstood or left out of the on all of our loved ones, not just those the media has told discussion. Eating Disorder Hope, a website for eating us to check on. disorder resources, even described anorexia as “ravaging a woman’s body,” failing to acknowledge that eating Hannah Whitaker is a UF English sophomore. Her disorders are just as dangerous to the men who are strug- column appears on Mondays.

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Notre Dame fire brings both destruction and recognition to a national icon

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ne week ago today, the world was rocked by the news that a symbol, a monument to creativity and a cathedral were all burning: Notre Dame Cathedral was on fire.

If you’re wondering what the fuss is about regarding this medieval church, allow me to explain. Notre Dame Cathedral, formally known as Notre-Dame de Paris, “Our Lady of Paris” in French. The cathedral is a Gothic style church on the Île de la Cité in Paris, France. Gothic refers to a style of architecture characterized by grand height, flying buttresses for support, pointed arches and a generally ornate and luxurious appearance. In fact, this appearance is part of what makes Notre Dame so significant.

Though far from the only example, Notre Dame is probably the most well-known example of Gothic architecture in the world.

Gothic architecture had its heyday from the mid-12th century until the 16th century, contributing to a flourishing of art even before the Renaissance. Gothic architecture still resonates today. Take a walk around

to both France’s past and its great UF’s Historic District and look at hope for the future. Notre Dame’s the University Auditorium to see 13 million visitors a year is just it. With its arched windows and one testament to its continuing exterior buttresses, it is an exrelevance. ample of Gothic architecture on a While Notre Dame’s fire is much smaller scale. a big loss, it’s not the first time In addition, Notre Dame is a symbol of both Paris and the Jason Zappulla the historic cathedral suffered whole nation of France. While opinions@alligator.org damage. Notre Dame was desecrated during the French Revoother symbols like the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower reflect France’s lution, and before Victor Hugo published more recent history, Notre Dame is the his novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” most famous symbol of France’s medieval the church had fallen into disrepair. Hugo’s era. While the medieval era has often been novel, however, reignited public interest derisively referred to as the “Dark Ages,” in Notre Dame, leading the French governit was also when the nation of France as ment to order a major restoration of the cawe know it today began to take shape. The thedral. Just like Victor Hugo led to the first same king who developed Notre Dame, major restoration of Notre Dame, this fire Louis VII, also pushed for the centralization brought the Gothic structure into the pubof France, which continued under Louis’s lic consciousness, inspiring renewed interson King Philip II. As France moved from est in the cathedral and helping to raise the the feudal era to the Renaissance and even- funds for a new restoration. tually became the most powerful state on In fact, Notre Dame was already underthe European continent, Notre Dame stood going a renovation at the time of the fire. on the banks of the Seine as a monument However, this effort had only raised $6.8

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million of the $169 million that was needed. In the wake of the fire, major companies like Disney have pledged millions of dollars for the restoration, and billionaires like François-Henri Pinault, a fashion mogul and husband of actress Salma Hayek, and Bernard Arnault, the richest man in France and CEO of the luxury goods company behind brands like Louis Vuitton, have also donated to the reconstruction. Altogether, almost $800 million dollars was raised for Notre Dame’s restoration in just a few days.

Perhaps there’s a silver lining to all this.

People are now talking about Notre Dame.

It’s all over the news, and everyone from regular folk to celebrities is showing their support, whether through words or through donations. While it’s unfortunate it takes a devastating fire to get people talking about a historic church and a French symbol, we might as well appreciate it while we can.

ow lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so

for the LSAT and I have definitely never fallen in love while standing on the sticky floor of a frat house.

Even though none of my hard.” original plans worked out, I I have seen this quote from am much happier with the “Winnie the Pooh” used ad Abigail Miller path I did take. UF has served nauseam by my peers as they opinions@alligator.org as a breeding ground for my lament over closing this chapintellectual development and ter of their lives with graduapersonal growth. For that, I tion just under two weeks away. To be will always be thankful. honest, though, I don’t get it.

The skills I learned in my classes I remember hearing this same quote have helped me excel professionally when I graduated from high school. It and landed me my dream job in Washdidn’t resonate with me then, either. ington D.C. I found my passion for poliBy the time senior year rolled tics and social justice, and The Alligator around, I had gotten everything I could provided me with a space to share my get out of high school. I had made great voice. I met enough people to realize friends, I passed my IB exams and I what I should, and should not, look for got accepted into my dream college. in friends, boyfriends and roommates. I I did everything I thought created the shocked myself by training for and run“typical” high school experience such ning a full marathon. I got to a point as going to some parties and sneaking where I stopped caring about what out a few times (Sorry, mom and dad.) other people thought of me and focused

By June 3, 2015, I didn’t find it hard to on what made me happy. I also learned say goodbye. I was ready to start a new some skills that probably won’t be apchapter of my life. plicable after May 4, like how to funnel Four years later, I find myself in the a beer (Thanks, Caline.) same position. Don’t get me wrong: I UF gave me some of the best years loved my time at UF, but I can confi- of my life and is the backdrop for many dently say I have outgrown Gainesville of my favorite memories. But, when I and I am ready to leave. I mean, isn’t walk across the stage of the O’Connell that the point of college? Aren’t we sup- Center in 10 days, I am not going to posed to grow into better versions of view it as a hard goodbye, but as an ourselves? Isn’t our time here supposed easy hello. to help springboard us into the next I will leave UF fully prepared to part of our lives? move 900 miles away to start my caWhen I came to college, I had pre- reer without fear of failure. The lessons conceived notions of what my college I learned in and out of the classroom experience would be like. I couldn’t gave me the confidence to succeed outwait to join a sorority, I was dead set on side of the 352. I’m proud of the person going to law school and I was certain I I turned into on this campus and I’m would meet some dreamy frat boy who ready to see what my next home has in would fall in love with me over a game store for me. of beer pong.

In reality, I dropped out of my sororAbigail Miller is a journalism and ity my junior year, I nixed the whole political science senior. Her column aplaw school plan when I started to study pears on Mondays.

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ow that this day is here, the What does it mean to reflect? day of my last Alligator colWell, that is not an easy question. umn, it may be appropriate I am tempted to lob abstract definifor me to reflect on what I tions at you. Some questions, or at have been trying to do here least the important ones, cannot be for the past couple years. answered quickly or easily. Instead, I think all of us columnists can they must be lived. They must first attest that however long we have Scott Stinson be felt and experienced before they been writing for The Alligator, it opinions@alligator.org can be addressed. In a way, all of doesn’t seem that long. We whip my columns could be interpreted as out columns week after week in a frenzy, with attempts to live out that one question of what our heads down and focused. When we finally it really means to live a reflective life. pick up our heads and breathe, we notice how I like the thought that one can live out late it is and how much time has gone by. Is questions and living is a way of understandthe day really over? Is it really that late? ing. Normally we think the big questions, like It is funny to attempt to reflect on all of whether God exists or whether life has meanthe things I’ve written for this paper because ing, should be reserved for philosophy classes each column was born in a different context and huge libraries. In other words, we sepaand under a different circumstance. I feel like rate everyday life from big questions. These a father of 50 children trying to say something questions aren’t for plumbers or bankers or unique about each one, even though I’ve for- engineering majors, we think. They have to gotten some of their names. I’ve tried to write be rigorously studied and discussed, and they about various topics like technology, culture, only apply to a certain type of person in a very college, politics, movies and even religion. limited context.

Truthfully, I have tried to keep a few key However, if my experience counts for anythemes prominent in each of my columns, no thing, I think this is wrong. I think the big matter the topic at hand. Along the way, I’ve questions cut down the center of every peralso learned a few things. son’s life and heart. In our everyday lives, esThe first lesson that comes to mind is that pecially in the most boring parts of the day, serious topics are incredibly nuanced and de- deep questions are asked and answered and mand reflection. We tend to settle for cliché asked again. Better still, deep questions are opinions about dynamic and important topics, lived by all of us every single day. Life itself but the truth tends to be more interesting than is a question we all try to answer. It is a book that. Of course, just because an opinion is we all study and a painting we all try to underinteresting doesn’t necessarily make it some- stand. This is perhaps the greatest lesson I’ve thing people will always like to read. There learned while writing for The Alligator. are plenty of misguided people who have, nevJ. R. R. Tolkien once said about “The Lord ertheless, mastered the art of the "hot take." of the Rings” that his “tale grew in the tellHowever, the more I have written for this ing.” I’d like to think something similar has paper, the more I’m convinced of the impor- happened to us over these past few years and tance of reflection. Malcolm Muggeridge, an that you and I have grown together while English author, once said, “Only dead fish thinking through things. It has been a wonderswim with the stream.” The opposite is also ful experience thinking alongside you, and it true. Only living fish will swim against the is something that will always remain a warm current. To settle for what pop culture, or memory. I hope you have been as enriched as even our professors, teach us about people’s I have been. Thank you for reading. motives and then to take those things at face value is to miss out on the richness of reflecScott Stinson is a UF English senior. His tion. column normally appears on Wednesdays.

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‘I’m homeless now. I don’t have a home anymore’ HOME, from pg. 1 through the gaping hole in her roof, wondering what to do next.

“I’m homeless now,” Mitchell said. “I don’t have a home anymore.”

Until Mitch and Mitchell find a new place, they are staying with Mitchell’s daughter, Sita, who is a 25-year-old UF advertising senior.

Sita said she’s been through a rough few months, helping care for her mother who was diagnosed with clear cell carcinoma, a rare form of cancer, in August and her older brother Mitch’s OCD and schizophrenia.

When she got the call that her childhood home had been destroyed, she said she first panicked.

“This is where I grew up. This is where I left my stuff. That’s my room,” Sita said. “This is my house.

I always thought it was going to be here forever.”

Chris Day / Alligator Staff After reeling from the loss of her Sita Mitchell, 25, stands in the bedroom where her mother was sitting when the large old home, she went into survival tree crashed through the roof of her childhood home during a severe thunderstorm mode and tried to find ways to help.

Before the storm hit, the family on Friday morning. “In my entire life living here, I’ve never seen a storm come and go was already going through financial so fast,” Mitchell said. struggles. About a month ago, Sita decided to create a GoFundMe page to raise funds for her mother’s cancer treatment and care. She said she never published it because she didn’t want to ask for money.

With the storm potentially costing her family thousands of dollars to get back to their normal life, Sita decided to publish the page, asking contributors to help raise funds for a new home for her mother and brother.

The family’s goal is to raise $10,000, and the page had already received $2,293 in contributions in the first day of its publishing.

Sita said she only has a month to find her family a new home because she is planning to move to Chicago for an internship after graduation.

“Neighbors I’ve never met are coming and giving me money,” Mitchell said. “I’m beside myself.”

Standing in the remains of the kitchen, Mitchell and her daughter laughed looking back at the idea of her sending all her boxes out of the house with the firefighters first.

However, for Alina, saving all the baby photos of her kids was worth it.

“I was like, ‘You’ve got to get my photo box first,’” Mitchell said. “It was just like what you see in a movie.” @Karina_Elwood kelwood@alligator.org

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The tree crashed through the middle of the house, damaging it beyond repair.

Some were disappointed in the organization GARTH, from pg. 1 In the middle of his show, he and his wife, fellow country artist Trisha Yearwood, performed a rendition of Tom Petty’s hit “I Won’t Back Down.”

He said he was surprised by the crowd’s energy and participation when they sang along to every song.

“It don’t matter what I throw at ya, you’re gonna sing it like that, huh?” Brooks said.

Chris Young, the winner of the country music competition show “Nashville Star,” opened for Brooks.

Brooks acknowledged the significance of his performance in the stadium.

“They say they haven’t had a concert here in over 20 years, well I’m gonna tell everyone this is the place to come play right here,” Brooks said Teresa Long Bell, 50, drove over an hour from Lecanto, Florida, to Gainesville to see Brooks. Bell said she enjoyed the few songs

she heard from Young but was upset that parking issues caused her and her husband to be late to the show.

“Getting to our parking lot was absolutely atrocious,” Bell said. “Traffic was horrible as there were no policemen helping divert traffic further out.”

Emma Etzold, an 18-year-old UF health science freshman, said she is a huge Brooks fan and shares her love for the country star with her mom.

“My mom actually found out about it,” Etzold said. “She texted me — she sent me a screenshot — and was like ‘Do it!’”

Throughout the night, 18 individuals, none being UF students, were kicked out of the concert, according to a tweet from the University Police. Eleven were removed for disorderly conduct, four for intoxication, one for smoking, one for marijuana and one for battery.

People with field and stadium seats dealt with the difficulty of all trying to go through the same entrance.

Gainesville resident Kathleen Jernigan, 34, was disappointed in the lack of organization, especially after going to the soundcheck the night before to see Brooks perform.

Jernigan, who had seats on the field in front of Brooks, said that she was three or four rows from the front at the soundcheck on Friday night.

“I could pay $10 and get better than I’m getting now paying for these seats,” she said.

Earlier that Friday, Brooks was unable to fly to Gainesville in time for an afternoon press conference due to a severe storm. The event was moved to Saturday afternoon.

At the conference, Brooks said he loves that the secluded Gainesville area builds an “us against the world” mentality in local residents.

“The kind of people that are coming here tonight. These are the kind of people I was raised around,” he said. @manertt tmaner@alligator.org

Brooks UF concert disrupts students

By Taylor Girtman Alligator Staff Writer

Garth Brooks concertgoers were given parking priority while UF students struggled to find spots Saturday.

On Thursday, UF Transportation and Parking Services sent an email to UF students, staff and faculty about reserved concert parking, said UF spokesperson Steve Orlando. It closed 16 on-campus reserved parking areas on Friday and Saturday. The concert noise and parking shortage caused problems for students before finals week.

The Commuter Lot, Welcome Center Garage and other parking areas were reserved for $25 to $50, according to the notice. Alternative parking lots were not given.

Jenna Waterous, a 20-year-old UF marketing junior, usually parks at Garage 4 on Newell Drive to study on the weekends at Marston Science Library.

Waterous saw parking complaints on Facebook while driving to campus but still came to study for her business statistics exam. She didn’t see any UF parking notices in advance.

She saw concertgoers parked in apartments complexes, along sidewalks and in the grass.

“They were just letting the fans park wherever,” Waterous said. “I’m confused about what people on campus were supposed to do.”

An O’Connell Center employee directed her to park at the Commuter Lot, Waterous said, but other employees at the Commuter Lot said she could not park there either.

Waterous said there were many empty spaces in both garages.

“I hope they get towed because they definitely didn’t have decals,” she said. “They were all wearing boots and hats and camo, and I was like, ‘I don’t need this on my campus.’”

Reserved parking lots were selected to minimize the event’s effect on students, said Scott Fox, UF Transportation and Parking Services senior director, in an email. The University Athletic Association managed parking sales.

“We heard from a handful of students expressing specific needs, so we made special parking accommodations for them on Saturday,” Fox said in an email. “That number was quite small.”

Shannon Moriarty spent two evenings listening to Garth Brooks’ music boom from the stadium in her Midtown apartment during his Friday soundcheck and Saturday concert.

“I had a long day, a long week, and I just wanted to go home and relax,” said the 20-year-old UF art history junior. “But all I could hear was Garth Brooks — he was everywhere.”

Moriarty created a meme that showed how loud the concert was. The meme included characters from the television show SpongeBob SquarePants. Squidward was labeled as “Me in my apartment behind mid,” and SpongeBob was smiling as Garth Brooks.

She hopes future concerts are planned with more noise and traffic notice for students.

“We live here. We don’t just come here for Garth Brooks,” Moriarty said.

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Century structures: The names behind long-standing local buildings

By April Rubin Alligator Staff Writer

Decades ago, a half-built hotel was completed and used for government research.

A successful hardware store is now home to a local music venue.

For The Alligator’s “Who is Gainesville’s Project?,” a project about Gainesville’s identity and relationship with UF, we looked into Gainesville’s architecture to understand years of tradition and change in the city.

Beyond the growth of city development and population, Gainesville is home to several buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, both on and off the UF campus.

These buildings, including the Seagle Building, Baird Hardware Company and Tigert Hall, are establishments that have stood through Gainesville and UF’s growth and change.

Seagle Building West University Avenue is home to a building that sat half-built a century ago.

The Seagle Building, at 408 W. University Ave., houses both retail shops and residential apartments. It’s been owned by different groups and individuals, but never by its namesake.

The building was originally set to be named the Hotel Kelley. It was built during the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s, a period of substantial growth in Florida real estate, said Kaitlyn Hof-Mahoney, the curator of collections of the Matheson History Museum in Gainesville.

However, the Great Depression brought construction to a halt until 1936, Hof-Mahoney said.

“One of the really interesting things is how the Seagle building stood half built as a monument to failure for almost a decade,” she said.

Georgia Seagle, an entrepreneur, bought the building in the mid-1930s, Hof-Mahoney said.

She gave it to UF on the condition that it be named after her late brother, John F.

Seagle, Hof-Mahoney said.

During her time in Gainesville, she rented out a house to students, now called Georgia Seagle Hall, Hof-Mahoney said.

The Seagle Building served a lot of functions since 1936 including residential, commercial and research functions. Starting in the early 1940s, UF’s electrical communications lab conducted research from the top floors for the U.S. Department of Defense, Hof-Mahoney said.

The building also housed the Florida Museum of Natural History before it relocated to its current location, Hof-Mahoney said.

When David Holbrook purchased the penthouse of the Seagle Building, he learned about the role it served in World War II. “When I first bought the penthouse in the late ‘90s, older folks in Gainesville would approach me and say, ‘Hey I used to spot aircrafts from the balconies of the Seagle Building,’” he said. “I thought this story very incredulous at first, but it turned out to be true.”

The War Department developed proximity fuses that were used against the Kamikaze attacks during World War II, Holbrook said.

The city of Gainesville condemned the building in the 1980s and the university returned the building to the city, said Holbrook, the current owner of the Seagle Building. A Kentucky developer purchased the building for $1,000 in 1981 and refurbished it.

The first six floors were later purchased by a woman from Vero Beach, Florida, and subsequently by Holbrook’s family.

“Keeping the water where it’s supposed to be and making sure the pipes and roof are tight — that’s pretty much my job,” Holbrook said.

A portrait of the building’s namesake hangs in the penthouse of the Seagle Building, which is in the Department of Interior’s National Register of Historic Places.

“He is a very kind looking man,” he said. “John F. Seagle was a Gainesville resident with a very generous sister.”

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Tigert Hall was built to serve as an administration building. It was renamed to honor UF’s third president in 1960 and still serves administrative purposes today.

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The Seagle Building was built in the 1920s, but construction was resumed in 1936 after delays caused by the Great Depression. It never served as a hotel, despite being built for this purpose.

Baird Hardware Company Warehouse Heartwood Soundstage is home to music and Gainesville concerts, but more than half a century ago, it was a home to tools and machinery.

Baird Hardware, 619 S. Main St., opened in 1890 on courthouse square, Hof-Mahoney said. It was moved to a larger building in 1924. Eberle Baird, one of the two brothers who started the hardware company and a member of a prominent local family, died in 1930 and Cicero Addison Pound Sr. took over the hardware company.

Pound Sr. brought the company to its most successful point, she said. In 1950, the company employed more than 100 people, and it was completing retail sales, as well as wholesale distribution for a large portion of North Central Florida, bringing in about $4 million per year.

Pound Sr. started working at the store when he was a teenager, sweeping floors for $1 per week, said Al Alsobrook, a former vice president of UF Government and Community Relations. Alsobrook’s wife is the granddaughter of Pound Sr. Cicero Pound Jr., Alsobrook’s father-inlaw, took over after Pound Sr. died. Pound Jr. was one of the first aircraft carrier pilots in the 1930s, Alsobrook said. He also laid out the grid for the search for Amelia Earhart.

The Baird Hardware downtown store closed in 1967 after corporate stores like Walmart and Lowe’s Home Improvement came to Gainesville and took business, he said.

“The appeal of a local hardware store went away when all the big boxes came in,” Alsobrook said.

The Baird legacy remains in Gainesville in multiple ways. Some of the brick at Bo Diddley Plaza is from the hardware store’s original downtown location, Alsobrook said. The Baird Hardware Company is now

on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Tigert Hall The administrative building located on 13th Street was renamed its current namesake in 1960, after a president of UF who served from 1928 to 1947.

John J. Tigert was invested in improving UF’s academics, athletics and standards, said Peggy McBride, the University Archivist.

During his presidency, pre-law courses were implemented in the College of Arts and Sciences; the School of Architecture was separated from the College of Engineering; he founded the Bureau of Economics and Business Research, which still exists today; and the university did research that benefited the state’s agriculture.

Tigert built UF’s first football stadium through a private loan that was backed by 50 businessmen in Gainesville, McBride said. He is in the college football Hall of Fame for helping to create the SEC and establishing scholarships for college football players.

“He was well liked within the community because he was honest and straightforward, but kind,” McBride said.

Prior to serving as UF’s president, Tigert was the Commissioner of Education under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, McBride said. After his UF term, Tigert served on the Indian Higher Education Commission, setting up India’s higher education system. The reforms that he helped institute are still used today.

“He really wanted this institution to become a preeminent institution within the country,” McBride said. @AprilMRubin arubin@alligator.org

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Easter Sunday bomb blasts kill more than 200 in Sri Lanka Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in eight bomb blasts that rocked churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday — the deadliest violence the South Asian island country has seen since a bloody civil war ended a decade ago.

Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardena described the bombings as a terrorist attack by religious extremists, and police said 13 suspects were arrested, though there was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Wijewardena said most of the blasts were believed to have been suicide attacks.

The explosions at three churches and three hotels — most of them in or around Colombo, the capital — collapsed ceilings and blew out windows, killing worshippers and hotel guests in one scene after another of smoke, soot, blood, broken glass,

screams and wailing alarms. Victims were carried out of blood-spattered pews.

“People were being dragged out,” said Bhanuka Harischandra, of Colombo, a 24-year-old founder of a tech marketing company who was going to the city’s Shangri-La Hotel for a meeting when it was bombed.

“People didn’t know what was going on. It was panic mode.”

He added: “There was blood everywhere.”

Most of those killed were Sri Lankans. But the three hotels and one of the churches, St. Anthony’s Shrine, are frequented by foreign tourists, and Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry said the bodies of at least 27 foreigners from a variety of countries were recovered. The U.S. said “several” American were among the dead, while Britain, China and Portugal said they, too, lost citizens.

The Sri Lankan government imposed a nationwide curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. and blocked Face-

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A view of St. Sebastian’s Church damaged in the blast in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 21, 2019. More than 200 were killed and hundreds more hospitalized with injuries from eight blasts that rocked churches and hotels in and just outside of Sri Lanka’s capital on Easter Sunday, officials said, the worst violence to hit the South Asian country since its civil war ended a decade ago. book and other social media, saying it needed to curtail the spread of false information and ease tension in the country of about 21 million

people.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he feared the massacre could trigger instability in Sri

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By Hannah Beatty Alligator Staff Writer

The lack of sign language interpreters in Gainesville meant a UF Pride Awareness Month event could not happen.

The Queer Deaf Experience, an event scheduled for Wednesday to discuss dating and discrimination in the queer deaf community, was canceled Tuesday when no American Sign Language interpreters could attend, said Andrew McAuley, the executive director of UF Pride Student Union’s Pride Awareness Month.

“It was important to raise awareness for the LGBTQ+ community and raise awareness

for the lack of resources that deaf people have in America,” the 20-year-old UF microbiology and chemistry junior said.

McAuley said he placed a request for event interpreters April 12.

The UF Disability Resource Center, which handles interpreter requests, must be notified at least five business days in advance, McAuley said.

McAuley said he didn’t request earlier because he was instead focused on finding interpreters for the Pride Awareness Month drag show April 13. Interpreters could not attend that event either.

Certified interpreters could not be provided because of short notice and the limited number of interpreters in the area, said Gerry Altamirano, the director of the Disability Resource Center.

“We’re not here to micromanage students’ programming,” Altamirano said. “We’re here to serve as access consultants.”

The Disability Resource Center contracts interpreters from the Center for Independent Living of North Central Florida, Altamirano said. He estimated there are about six to eight interpreters in the center.

If interpreters can’t be found through the Center, Altamirano said the center has also worked with a St. Augustine-based interpreter.

No representative from the Center for Independent Living could be reached for comment for the next two weeks due to leadership on vacation, said Colette Gromoll, the organization’s business manager.

UF SG provides at least $10,000 for interpreters for SG funded organizations, Altamirano said.

One interpreter can cost $140 an hour during 8-5 work hours and $160 on weekends and at night. Travel is also reimbursed.

Altamirano said the drag show and the Queer Deaf Experience events were the first times interpreters weren’t available since the Disability Resource Center started handling the requests for the 2018-19 school year. There have been 14 other requests this year, he said.

Altamirano said he will coordinate with the SG office to better educate organizations on accessibility.

“This speaks to the call for future ASL interpreters and students who may want to pursue that career to create access on campus and in our larger Gainesville community,” Altamirano said. @hannahbeatty_ hbeatty@alligator.org

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1. In 2017, Houston’s George Springer became the third person to hit five home runs in a World Series.

Name either of the first two to do it.

2. Which of the following four players hit the most home runs while in a Cincinnati Reds uniform: Adam Dunn, George Foster, Ken Griffey Jr. or Tony Perez?

3. Who was the last rookie running back before Jordan Howard in 2017 to represent the Chicago Bears in a Pro Bowl?

4. Which men’s basketball team was the last before Villanova in 2018 to win all six of its NCAA Tournament games by double digits?

5. In 2019, Washington’s Braden Holtby became the second-fastest goaltender to reach 250 victories (409 games). Who was faster?

6. Through 2019, how many consecutive years has a Hendrick Motorsports driver won the pole for the Daytona 500?

7. How many times have Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal combined to finish in the top three in the year-end ATP tennis rankings?

Answers 1. Reggie Jackson (1977) and Chase Utley (2009).

2. Perez, with 287 homers, tops Dunn (270), Foster (244) and Griffey Jr. (210).

3. Gale Sayers, in 1965.

4. North Carolina, in 2009.

5. Ken Dryden did it in 381 games.

6. Five consecutive years.

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BASEBALL

Pitchers struggle, Florida drops fourth-straight SEC road series

By Kyle Wood Sports Writer

Aaron Ritter / Alligator Staff

Pitcher Tommy Mace struck out nine batters in seven innings against LSU in a 16-9 win on Thursday. It was the Gators' first SEC road win. Mace leads the team in wins (seven), innings pitched (63.2) and strikeouts (57).

SOFTBALL

UF's offensive woes manifest against 'Bama

By Mark Stine Sports Writer

The UF softball team was trying to avoid the sweep as it trailed 3-0 in the sixth inning on Saturday. Sophia Reynoso and Alex Voss stood on second and third with one out, presenting Florida’s best scoring opportunity of the day against Alabama.

Hannah Adams stepped into the batter’s box and smacked a line-shot. Crimson Tide shortstop Claire Jenkins caught the ball and tossed it over to third baseman Maddie Morgan, who received it just as Voss slid back into the bag.

The play was extremely close. Third base umpire John Baca called Voss out, and the double play ended the inning.

UF coach Tim Walton disagreed with the call, and he let Baca know.

The hat was thrown. Dirt was kicked.

An explicative or two was said. And Wal-

ton was ejected.

UF’s best scoring chance evaporated due to an umpire’s decision, but the team went 0 for 19 with runners in scoring position for the series, stranded 24 runners in total and scored only two runs. The Gators were swept at home for the first time since 2011, and the frustrations of the weekend compounded for Walton.

The double-play call was just what brought those frustrations to life.

“I think the key of the game is that we got no hits with runners in scoring position today, not one single one,” Walton said after Friday’s doubleheader with Alabama. “I don’t know very many games we’ve ever won when we don’t get a hit with a runner in scoring position.”

Florida’s failure to capitalize on scoring opportunities isn’t new. It’s an issue it has dealt with all season.

The team was on an eight-game win

Former Gator Al Horford registered a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds in the Boston Celtics' seriesclinching Game 4 win over the Indiana Pacers.

SEE SOFTBALL, PAGE 16

The Florida baseball team finally won an SEC road game on Thursday night.

The Gators hung 16 runs on No. 14 LSU in the series opener behind 20 hits. A late comeback brought the Tigers to a 16-9 defeat, but UF made a statement in arguably its biggest win of the season.

Unfortunately for Florida, that performance was not sustainable. The Gators rolled over in their next two games, as they often have on the road, to drop a fourth-straight conference road series, dating back to 2018.

UF (26-16, 7-11 SEC) was outscored by 21 runs in the last two games. The series loss dropped Florida’s road record to 3-9.

Tommy Mace was UF’s best pitcher, earning his seventh win of the season after throwing seven innings and striking out nine batters while allowing four runs on 10 hits.

Florida held a 10-run lead when the bullpen took over.

Hunter Ruth and Kirby McMullen surpassed Mace’s earned run total in the two combined innings they threw, yielding five runs to LSU to make the score a bit more respectable.

In total, the bullpen allowed 15 earned runs on 22 hits in 13.1 innings. Florida’s other two starters did not fare well against the Tigers, either.

Christian Scott took the mound on Friday night and allowed five runs on six hits in 3.2 innings. He also walked three batters and struck only one out.

Jack Leftwich returned to the bump for the first time

SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 16

LACROSSE

Kavanagh, second-half surge keeps Gators undefeated in conference play

By Bryan Matamoros Sports Writer

The Florida lacrosse team is streaking at the right time.

It started the 2019 season with six losses in nine games but has won seven straight ahead of the American Athletic Conference Tournament, which starts in the first week of May. No. 18 UF remained undefeated in conference play after beating Connecticut 16-5 on Saturday at the George J. Sherman Family Sports Complex in Storrs, Connecticut.

Florida (10-6, 4-0 AAC) took down the Huskies (2-14, 0-4 AAC) thanks to a few things: Shannon Kavanagh’s versatility Sophomore midfielder Shannon Kavanagh displayed her offensive and defensive abilities against UConn.

She recorded a career-high eight points, with five goals and three assists against the Huskies. The AAC Preseason Midfielder of the

Gators crash out of SEC Tournament The No. 1-seed Florida men's tennis team is searching for answers after its elimination at the hands of No. 4-seed Tennessee. Read the story on pg. 16.

Year has notched a hat trick in 11 out of 16 games this season.

She scored UF’s first goal of the game at the 28:11 mark of the first half after Connecticut opened the scoring.

Kavanagh found the back of the net for a second time less than three minutes later to put the Gators up 2-1.

The sophomore added two consecutive goals at the tail end of a 4-0 run, giving Florida an 8-2 lead with 6:07 remaining in the first half.

Her final goal came near the midway point of the second half off a pass from junior midfielder Brianna Harris.

She also collected three ground balls, caused two turnovers and controlled 13 draws.

Kavanagh leads UF with 73 draw controls and has recorded at least one in 29 straight games, tying sophomore defender Sabrina Cristodero for most in program history.

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WOMEN’S GOLF

Florida stunned on playoff hole in quarterfinals

By Victor Prieto Sports Writer

Marta Perez was in a difficult situation.

Her approach shot on the decisive playoff hole against Ole Miss landed short of the green and in the bunker.

Her opponent, Macy Somoskey, pitched it out of the sand trap and landed within two feet of the hole. Perez’s answer was a botched attempt to land on the green. Perez double bogeyed while Somoskey sunk her putt to eliminate the Florida women’s golf team 3-2 in the quarterfinals of the SEC Women’s Golf Championship.

“This one stings for sure,” coach Emily Glaser said in a release. “In my opinion, based on stroke play and even how we played today, it’s hard to argue we aren’t one of the best teams here. But everyone who knows golf knows match play is a different animal, and we weren’t able to get it done today.”

The Gators entered the first round of match play at the Greystone Golf & Country Club as the top seed after they finished 1 under in the first three days of stroke play.

They matched up against the No. 8 Rebels, with the winner advancing to the semifinal round on Sunday.

Elin Esborn was the first to fall for Florida, losing to Kennedy Swann on the 16th hole 3 and 2 after trailing for 15 of the 16 holes.

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Sierra Brooks won her match over Ole Miss’ Ellen Hutchinson-Key 5 and 3 at the SEC Women’s Golf Championship on Saturday. She never trailed in the match.

Clara Manzalini quickly answered back for the Gators, though, putting their first point on the board with her victory over Conner Beth Ball. The freshman from Italy needed just 15 holes to put the match away, defeating Ball 4 and 3 after winning three of

the final six holes.

Sierra Brooks also added a tally to the victory column for Florida, defeating Ellen Hutchinson-Key 5 and 3 after dominating from start to finish. Brooks didn’t trail Hutchinson-Key once, finishing the match

in 15 holes by also winning three of her last six holes.

Addison Baggarly had the opportunity to claim the victory for Florida, but trailed early to Julia Johnson. She entered the back nine down two holes and played her way back into it by trailing by just one entering the final hole. She dropped the hole and the match, giving the Rebels their second point.

Perez and Somoskey had a back-andforth affair. Their scores were even 11 times throughout the 19 holes — two more times than all the other matches combined.

Somoskey entered the playoff hole after leading for just one hole the entire match, compared to Perez’s six. She held a slight lead after carding a birdie on 14, but Perez bogeyed on the 17th to reopen the door for Ole Miss and Somoskey. Perez’s sand shot hurt the Gators’ chance of a first place finish, as her up-and-down effort following the blunder wasn’t enough to defeat Somoskey.

The Gators dropped the match to the eventual SEC women’s champions, as Ole Miss went on to defeat Georgia in the semifinal round and beat No. 2 South Carolina in the final to claim the SEC Tournament title.

“As hard as it is to see the good in today’s outcome, we have to think big picture and allow this to motivate us for the rest of the season,” Glaser said. @victorprieto_11 vprieto@alligator.org

MEN’S GOLF

Strong final round leads Gators to third-place finish

By Bryan Matamoros Sports Writer

The Florida men’s golf team entered the final round of the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate in fourth place at 20 over.

None of the 15 teams finished with a score under par after the first day of the event, but that was not the case in the second.

Seven teams were below even par, including the Gators, who tied Rutgers for the best second-day score (7 under).

However, UF’s strong performance on Saturday did not make up for its poor showing in the opening round. Florida ended the tournament in third place with a score of 13 over, eight strokes behind first-place Ohio State.

Florida had four starters place in the top 25, which led to its secondbest finish of the 2018-19 campaign.

“I’m very proud of all the guys,” coach J.C. Deacon said in a release.

“For us to come up with one of our best rounds of the year when we needed it most — that’s so awe-

some.”

Sophomore Chris Nido and senior Gordon Neale led the Gators with a 3-under scores in the final round.

Nido posted four birdies on his last four holes, while Neale had only one bogey on the last day.

“For Chris (Nido) and Gordon (Neale) to step up like they did is so huge,” Deacon said. “Both shooting 68 and Chris making four birdies to finish his round takes some serious guts.”

Redshirt junior Blake Dyer made his second start of the spring season

and finished in a tie for 17th with a score of 4 over.

He failed to make a birdie on Friday but posted two on Saturday, which helped Dyer earn his best finish of the year.

Sophomore John Axelsen finished in the top 25, too.

Axelsen parred his first 12 holes in the final round before posting a birdie on the back nine. It was enough to tie for 21st at 5 over.

UF recorded three times as many birdies in the final round (18) than in the first (6). Freshman Aden Ye and

Nido led the team with five and six birdies, respectively, on the second day of the tournament.

The Robert Kepler Intercollegiate was Florida’s last event of the regular season before it competes in the 2019 SEC Championships.

“What a great way to head into our conference championships,” Deacon said. “We are all excited to keep the momentum of this huge round going.” @bmatamoros_ bmatamoros@alligator.org

TRACK AND FIELD

UF begins difficult stretch with solid outing at LSU

By Graham Marsh Sports Writer

The LSU Alumni Gold Meet featured two of the three best 4x100-meter relay teams in the country: No. 1 LSU (38.41) and No. 3 Florida (38.69). The Gators relay consists of juniors Grant Holloway and Raymond Ekevwo, sophomore Hakim Sani Brown and senior Ryan Clark.

It was the most anticipated race of the meet. It seems that both relay teams prefer to be away from home, as UF corrected its handoff woes from Florida Relays nearly three weeks ago, while the Tigers had a slightly off day on Saturday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

LSU escaped the weekend still holding the

nation’s best time. UF shrunk that gap, but did not completely close it, as Florida shaved off fourteen milliseconds of time to clock in at 38.55 seconds. The Tigers finished their lap in 38.82 seconds.

LSU might still be the best 4x100 team on paper, but the momentum shifted this weekend. That shift is crucial this time of year, as there is essentially no break from now until NCAAs. The 4x100 is the only relay that requires large amounts of practice time to get handoffs totally down. The Gators hitting their handoff stride while LSU struggled is ideal for Florida ahead of what should be a tight finish at NCAAs between the two schools and No. 2 Houston.

Holloway is the best overall track athlete in the country by a decent margin. On Saturday, he went straight from the relay to the long jump and won the event on only his second jump. His score of eight meters puts him easily in NCAAs, so he decided to forgo all of his jump attempts after and no one at the meet topped that jump.

The men’s team currently sits at No. 3 overall, while the women sit at No. 7. The men are a deeper team all around, and the women mostly rely on their jumpers and a slew of distance runners.

Senior Yanis David came in second in the long jump for the women at 6.40 meters, electing to not use her final three jumps, since she is already No. 4 in the country in that event.

Her teammate, Kala Penn, sits a spot behind her nationally. The only short-middle distance runner expected to take home anything significant in June on the women’s side is senior Sharrika Barnett, whose 400-meter time of 50.96 is the fastest in the nation by almost a full second.

Saturday only showed so much about where both the UF men’s and women’s teams stand, since most of the top performers besides the 4x100 men’s team either did not compete in their best events at all or hung it up early, like Holloway and David. gmarsh@alligator.org @GrahamMarshUF

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MEN'S TENNIS

Florida has some questions to answer after tourney loss

By Noah Ram Sports Writer

There was still a feeling of shock around the Florida men’s tennis team, even an hour after its 4-3 loss to Tennessee.

Freshman Sam Riffice entered the press room visibly shaken, and it seemed like he hadn’t come to grips with the loss.

This was a team that was on a 15-match winning streak and hadn’t lost since Feb. 17 to then-No. 10 Stanford. It was undefeated outdoors this season and at home over the last 13 months. It was undefeated against SEC opponents, a perfect 13-0.

The loss left two main questions the Gators need to answer after their defeat to the Volunteers on Saturday at home in the SEC Tournament Semifinals.

How did the singles collapse happen?

This is a question Riffice and sophomore Andy Andrade will think about for the next couple of days.

Saturday’s match started in a similar way to some of Florida’s matches against other top teams: by losing the doubles point.

It brought Florida (21-3) to 16-8 in doubles on the season, and it has yet to beat a team ranked in the top 13. It was also the Gators’ second time losing in doubles to Tennessee (20-7). The Volunteers won the point on March 17 before Florida ultimately ended up winning the match 5-2.

It seemed like singles would go in a similar way on Saturday. UF won the first three matches to go ahead 3-1 and needed one more win to clinch. Tennessee made it 3-2 with a two-set win on Court 3, but it still seemed like the Gators would get the win.

Riffice and Andrade were both ahead. Andrade was up 5-3 in the third set but lost four straight games to lose 7-5. Riffice was tied 5-5 and was serving, but Tennessee’s Adam Walton broke serve and won the match 7-5.

This was the first time since the Stanford match that Florida lost three singles contests.

It seemed that when the pressure ramped up, Florida couldn’t handle it and made unforced errors. Andrade’s shot in the match didn’t even make it over the net and Riffice double-faulted when ahead 4-3 to tie the match at 4.

What changes will the team make?

Coach Bryan Shelton was quick to say some changes will be made, despite it only being one loss.

“We might stretch some practices out a little longer at times,” Shelton said following

the defeat. “We have kind of decreased the amount of time we have spent on the court, so we may up that in the next week.”

Shelton also said the team has to be ready for the heat that will hit Gainesville once the NCAAs start.

“We have to continue to get used to playing in the heat,” he said. “When those northern teams come down here, we want to be ready for them to deal with the humidity in the swamp.”

With two weeks until the NCAA Tournament begins, Shelton is not changing the focus.

“Overall the message will still be the same,” he said. “We’ve got to get better, we have to be willing to go deeper.” @noah_ram1 nram@alligator.org

Walton: "We can't hit. We can't do anything."

SOFTBALL, from pg 14 streak heading into its series with Alabama. However, the eight wins followed three straight losses, which culminated in a home defeat to Florida State on April 3.

After that loss, FloridaGators.com writer Chris Harry asked the coach if he thought hitting would be an issue back in February, when the season began.

Walton said he saw it as an issue during fall softball in October and November.

The Gators’ “power lineup” was a big focus heading into the 2019 campaign.

Mid-lineup options Jordan Roberts, Jordan Matthews, Danielle Romanello and Jaimie Hoover all showed promise in 2018.

Roberts and Hoover combined for 10

home runs as sophomores and looked poised to produce in a starting capacity as juniors. Matthews started 60 games as a freshman and hit the series-clinching home run in the 2018 NCAA Super Regionals. Romanello had two clutch hits against Alabama last season to lift UF to a series victory.

These players are each in the top four on the team in strikeouts this season, with Roberts leading at 41.

Against the Crimson Tide, Roberts and Matthews went a combined 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position and 0 for 12 overall. Hoover was 1 for 7 for the weekend. Romanello, who has 27 strikeouts to just 16 hits for the year, didn’t see an at-bat.

“For two or three of those players in particular that probably stranded over

half of those runners, that’s been the MO for them all season long,” Walton said.

“Unfortunately, I wish I could say that was uncharacteristic of us. It’s not.”

Walton hoped freshman Cheyenne Lindsey would contribute heavily to the offense this season and provide some diversity next to the power hitters. However, the five-star recruit is easing back from an ACL injury and has played in a limited capacity. Lindsey is batting just .184 with seven hits and 10 strikeouts.

“We can’t hit. We can’t do anything.

We can’t bunt,” Walton said on April 3.

“If you can’t run, you can’t hit and run, you can’t steal and you can’t hit home runs, that’s a pretty short season.” @mstinejr mstine@alligator.org

Gators have won seven straight games LACROSSE, from pg 14

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Midfielder Shannon Kavanagh recorded a career-high eight points and 13 draw controls in Florida's 16-5 win over UConn on Saturday.

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Florida coach Tim Walton was ejected on Saturday after arguing a force play at third base.

LSU outscored UF 33-19 BASEBALL, from pg 14

Second-half dominance Florida played a strong second half for the second-consecutive game.

The Gators scored seven goals and limited East Carolina to only two in the last 30 minutes of their 20-10 victory on April 13.

UF found the back of the net six times and held UConn to only one goal in the second half on Saturday.

Five different players scored for Florida in the last 30 minutes: Harris (1), Kavanagh (1), freshman attacker Hannah Mardiney (2), senior midfielder Caroline Benitez (1) and freshman midfielder Maggie Corbo (1).

Mardiney had been held without a goal for three straight games before scoring against the Huskies, and Corbo recorded her first collegiate goal.

UConn’s lone goal came at the 25:20 mark when midfielder Sydney Watson fired a shot past goalkeeper Haley Hicklen.

Connecticut failed to win a draw control in the last 30 minutes, while Florida controlled eight. This gave the Gators more opportunities to score and earn four conference victories for the sixth-straight year. @bmatamoros_ bmatamoros@alligator.org

since March 31 to start on Saturday. His return didn’t last long. LSU shelled Leftwich for six runs in one inning pitched.

Tyler Dyson later came in for relief, his first appearance out of the bullpen all season.

The junior, who began the season as the Friday starter, gave up 4 runs in 4.2 innings.

The Tigers outhit the Gators 43-35 and outscored them 3319 in the series.

UF third baseman Cory Acton was solely responsible for the runs UF scored on Friday and Saturday. The freshman came into the weekend with no career home runs and left with three, hitting one in each game.

Left fielder Austin Langworthy also hit well, finishing the series 6 for 12 with a home run.

Designated hitter Nelson

Maldonado returned to the lineup for the series finale, replacing Jordan Butler, who pitched in relief on Sunday.

Maldonado went 1 for 3, while Butler hit 3 for 9 in the first two games.

In Florida’s one-run output on Saturday, LSU pitcher Cole Henry fanned 12 batters.

Tigers’ center fielder Antoine Duplantis had the best weekend of any hitter, going 9 for 16 with seven RBIs. The only positive to take from this series for Florida is that it proved it could win on the road in conference play -albeit, just once. It took one of UF’s best offensive performances just to outlast LSU once, and the Tigers soundly defeated the Gators in the next two games to take the series. @Kkylewood kwood@alligator.org