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Sen. Rubio, former Senator Nelson to speak at Smathers MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND THE EVENT AT SMATHERS LIBRARY

By Tori Whidden Staff Writer

UF Smathers Library and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service is partnering with former Senator Bill Nelson to host a discussion on bipartisanship.

Nelson will gather with Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the Grand Reading Room on the second floor of Smathers Library today at 2:30 p.m., where they will speak for about an hour, said Misty Colson, library ad-

ministration executive assistant.

More than 200 people are expected to attend. Due to limited space and high interest, it will also be streamed online, Colson said.

Smathers Library has never hosted an event like this before.

Nelson deposited a collection of papers and other historical materials to the George A. Smathers Libraries after stepping down as senator that established the Bill Nelson Initiative on Ethics and Leadership at UF, said Judith Russell, Dean of University Libraries.

This initiative will include an ongoing series of speakers and seminars, classes for UF undergraduate and graduate students and a fellowship

program for UF graduate students interested in more in-depth examination on ethics and leadership, Russell said.

This first event was planned largely around the schedule of Senator Rubio and the U.S. Senate.

Because the Senate is in congressional recess from Monday to Friday for Independence Day, it was a convenient time for Rubio to come to UF, Russell said.

“Nelson wanted this first one to be clearly bipartisan and to be reflective of the way that he and Senator Rubio have worked together for many years for the good of the country but particularly for the good of the citizens of Florida,” Russell said.

Adreanne Martinez, 20-year-old UF

history and political science senior, attends many of the Bob Graham Center events on campus because it ties into her field of interest, she said. She is excited to hear from both political figures.

“I am very excited for this event because Rubio and Nelson will discuss their thoughts on bipartisan cooperation in the U.S. Senate,” she said. “I think this is important because our country has become increasingly hyper-partisan over the past few years, especially in legislative politics.” @tori_whidden twhidden@alligator.org

Josh Peck to speak at UF UF Health transforming medical assistance for LGBTQ+ patients ACCENT SPEAKERS BUREAU IS HOSTING ACTOR AND SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER JOSH PECK ON JULY 10TH

By Meleah Lyden Staff Writer

Lock your doors, UF. It’s not crazy Steve, but the infamous theater thug, that’s comin’ to town.

Woah, take it easy man. He was just the actor.

That’s right, actor, producer and social media influencer Josh Peck, best known from the Nickelodeon TV show “Drake and Josh,” is coming to UF as a guest speaker for the Accent Speakers Bureau.

Peck is speaking on July 10 at the University Auditorium, said Henry Fair, Accent chairman.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the event, which is open and free to the public, starts at 7:30.

The Alligator submitted a public record request for Peck’s contract. The amount he is being paid is unknown at this time.

GATORS SHARPEN THEIR GAME Fourteen Gators are playing collegiate summer baseball, pg 10.

Peck will be speaking about his career, overcoming the stigma of being a child actor and how he’s transitioned into different avenues like social media, Fair said.

Peck was chosen because he resonates with students, Fair said.

The event is expected to reach capacity at about 850 students.

Students can pick up tickets July 8 through July 10 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Reitz Union Student Government suite with their Gator 1 ID, he said.

Leftover tickets will be at the University Auditorium box office and will be available when doors open.

Lexi Cook, a 17-year-old UF political science freshman, wants to hear Peck speak after watching Drake and Josh.

“I’m just excited to see him because I’m a fan of Drake and Josh — everyone is,” Cook said. “I’ll be there for it.” @MeleahLyden mlyden@alligator.org

“WE ARE OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD OR FLAT-OUT DENIED CARE DUE TO OUR IDENTITIES”

By Tori Whidden

transgender patients in order to access care in Gainesville.

“Luckily, she had sought out the education she needed to help trans patients who were otherwise being denied care,” Quinn said.

Although Quinn found a doctor

who he trusted, other LGBTQ+ patients cannot say the same, said Merry-Jennifer Markham, associate director for medical affairs at the UF Health Cancer Center.

Inclusion at Shands Last year, UF Health Shands

Staff Writer

Nathan Quinn came out as transgender at 17. However, he found his identity became a barrier to finding an adequate medical professional.

Although Quinn, now a 21-year-old UF psychology senior and president of the UF Pride Student Union, came out before college, he said he didn’t feel comfortable seeing any ordinary doctor in Gainesville.

“We are often misunderstood or flat-out denied care due to our identities,” Quinn said.

After a long search, Quinn found a medical physician in the UF Health network who took

Man charged with Alachua shooting

Thaddeus Mark Surrency, 43, was identified in a photo lineup before being arrested, pg 4

Sam Thomas / Alligator Staff

Nathan Quinn is a 21-year-old UF psychology senior and president of the Pride Student Union. “I didn’t go to any doctor before finding someone I would be comfortable seeing,” Quinn said. “I luckily was able to find a doctor in Gainesville before moving here for college.”

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The Pride Community Center of North Central Florida honored the riot’s 50th anniversary on Saturday, pg 6

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Local Events / News in Brief Fanfares and Fireworks On Wednesday, visit Flavet Field, 605 Woodlawn Drive, from 6 to 10 p.m. for an Independence Day celebration.

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There will be live music from Bears & Lions, Wax Wings, Billy Buchanan & his Rock ‘n Soul Revue and Gainesville Community Band. For safety reasons, no dogs, sparklers, drones or alcohol are allowed at the event. Coolers are allowed but may be subject to search by the UPD. 20th Annual Fourth of July Celebration in Alachua On Thursday, you can attend “The Largest Small Town Fireworks Display in America” at the Hal Brady Recreation Complex, 14300 NW 146th

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There will be dozens of activities for the kids including bounce houses, rock wall climbing, bungee jumps, water slides, a spray park and a skateboard park located on site. There will also be several vendors, bingo contests, dancing groups and live music. The celebration concludes with a finale of fireworks at 9:30 p.m.

Micanopy July 4th Celebration The annual red, white and blue parade rolls down Cholokka Boulevard. starting at 11 a.m. A familyfriendly festival takes place at The Ballpark, 352 NW 7th Terrace, with music, food and a bounce house for kids before the fireworks display at dusk.

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UF Health Shands received $50,000 SHANDS, from pg. 1 formed an employee committee composed of people who personally understand the difficulties in the medical field for members of the LGBTQ+ community, said Ed Jimenez, CEO of UF Health Shands.

This particular committee is different from what is seen elsewhere because of its direct connections with the LGBTQ+ community, he said.

Before its formation, individuals in the hospital would voice ideas and suggestions, but it’s now organized as an employee committee fully focused on patient care, patient education and how to integrate families, Jimenez said.

“We live in a community in Gainesville that is very open and progressive,” he said. “For us, it’s really second nature to be inclusive and to be thoughtful and open to new ideas.”

Jimenez said he hopes patients will feel more comfortable as the word gets out about physicians being more inclusive.

“We’re trying to create another resource, but we have to be aware that sometimes when you’re trying to be helpful, you can sort of inadvertently be abrasive or be demeaning or not be inclusive,” he said.

Jimenez said UF Health Shands wants to spread the word about inclusion and seek advice from the employee committee to gain insight on

the best way to inform the LGBTQ+ community.

UF Health also added new optional questions to the registration process this past April, said Ashok Srihari, an endocrinologist at UF Health Shands.

Srihari said these questions are under Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity on the registration, and it’s a whole field in the electronic medical record.

Questions include the patient’s gender, gender identity and pronouns in order to improve medical care, Srihari said.

“This is the first step with patients in this community, and we do not want to push them away by misgendering them,” Srihari said.

Researching Risks When physicians take care of patients, Markham said they have to be sensitive to everything about the patient because certain characteristics may lead to increased medical risks.

“We know that African-American men have higher rates of aggressive prostate cancer, and that’s an example of how somebody’s racial and gender makeup actually impacts their risk for cancer,” Markham said.

“The same holds true with the LGBTQ+ population in that there are certain things oncologists need to be aware of.”

Researchers from UF Health Cancer Center, the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer

Center and Research Institute at the University of South Florida received a $150,000 grant on Aug. 1, 2017, from the Florida Academic Cancer Center Alliance. The grant allotted $50,000 to each institution for a training course.

All three cancer centers have an interest in reducing health care disparities in the LGBTQ+ population, Markham said.

The entire grant was used on the pilot program “Curriculum for Oncologists on LGBT Populations to Optimize Relevance and Skills,” which was designed to train oncologists how to properly approach treatment for patients who are LGBTQ+.

“This program was designed in terms of [LGBTQ+ patients’] interactions with the health care community and how physicians need to be sensitive to their needs while understanding of some of the things that may be important to them,” Markham said.

There’s data to show people who identify as LGBTQ+ may be more reluctant to go to a physician with a problem, Markham said.

“They may not feel like they’re as welcomed,” she said. “Especially if the problem is a very personal one, like somebody who is a transgender woman who may have prostate cancer – that is a very sensitive issue for that particular patient.”

Markham said all of the oncologists involved in the study had patients who had a delay in their diagnosis of cancer because of difficulty

navigating the health care system due to being LGBTQ+.

“We all really just felt strongly that eliminating health disparities is really important, and one important way to do that in this community was actually educating the physicians,” Markham said.

Since the grant was funded, it took an entire year to do the background research. The researchers met with focus groups, which included members of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as physicians, oncologist and advocates.

Markham said, through the feedback, they developed an online training module which was then tested by 15 to 20 oncologists at each institution.

“The feedback was actually very overwhelming,” she said. “People really seemed very interested in this kind of training and felt that it would be useful for their practice.”

The pilot is over, and the course is currently in the refinement stage of the educational module in order to make it a sustainable course, Markham said.

The research team is in the process of applying for a larger grant in order to make this happen.

Part of the training included ways to identify a medical practice as being welcoming.

“Simple things like the signage in the waiting room or asking patients when they come in what pronoun they prefer to be called is part of the training,” Markham said.

Markham said she hopes these efforts will translate to patients feeling more comfortable and, in turn,

reduce delays in getting care.

She said the course is important for colleges to be able to take this kind of cultural competency training but probably more important for anybody in the health care setting.

“Eventually, the goal is to make this course available through some mechanism, nationwide, for oncologists in any setting to take it,” Markham said.

From Quinn’s experience, these measures are necessary, and he said UF Health Shands should require trans-specific medical education to all doctors.

“Trans individuals face the most discrimination and ignorance from medical professionals and many doctors blame a lack of training and need help from their patients on trans health care,” Quinn said.

Quinn heard about the inclusive policies UF is planning to implement and said he hopes for a better future for the LGBTQ+ community.

“Some doctors are improving but many still deny care and remain ignorant,” Quinn said.

Markham and other researchers hope to turn this issue around in the coming years with the physicians and the communication process.

“I think it’s going to take education on both sides,” Markham said, “but we had to start somewhere. I think starting with the physicians was crucial just to raise awareness amongst that group about some of the barriers that our patients face.” @tori_whidden twhidden@alligator.org

Gainesville Regional Airport expansion project to take off THE PROJECT WILL COST ABOUT $16 MILLION

By Tien Le Staff Writer

The Gainesville Regional Airport will rise to new heights with an expansion project on the horizon.

The 15,200-square-foot expansion will include the addition of two gates, between 16 and 28 restroom stalls and a larger food concession area.

The airport is about 70 percent through with the first phase of the expansion, which involves the underground utility work. This phase started in Fall 2018. Erin Porter, manager of marketing and public relations at Gainesville Regional Airport, said the second phase, the terminal expansion, is expected to begin in Fall 2019 and will take about 1.5 years.

The terminal will have a pet relief area available after passengers have gone through security. The terminal will also have a lactation lounge for mothers, a chapel/reflection room and a play area for children.

Porter wrote in an email the expansion is taking place because the community and airport are growing. The growth will only increase the need for additional flights and routes.

The project is expected to cost $15,957,488, Porter said.

It will be funded by federal and state grants.

These funds come from the Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program, Florida Department of Transportation grants, passenger facility charges and revenue from the Gainesville Alachua County Regional Airport Authority.

Passenger facility charges are fees that are included in the price of airplane tickets that go toward the maintenance of airports. PFCs are capped at $4.50 per ticket by the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Gainesville Alachua County Regional Airport Authority is currently competing for a Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement grant of over $7 million.

If the grant is not approved, the airport authority can reduce or defer parts of the expansion project.

City Commissioner David Arreola said it’s exciting to have growth at the airport since it has been a topic of discussion among the city commission for some time.

“We’ve always been trending in that direction,” Arreola said, “and it’s nice to see, you know, this kind of investment being made to grow the number of services. It’s going to be great for Gainesville.”

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The Gainesville Regional Airport has plans to continue a 15,200-square-foot terminal expansion in order to accommodate the growing Gainesville population. The second phase of expansion is expected to begin in the fall. The expansion will include two additional gates, a pet relief area, a lactation lounge, a chapel/reflection room and a play area for children.

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· CRIME ROUNDUP · Man charged with Alachua shooting Man charged with DUI, threats THERE IS A $1 MILLION BOND

By Rachael Schirmer Staff Writer

A Gainesville man was charged in connection to a June 25 Alachua shooting due to the combined efforts of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies, the High Springs Police Department, Gainesville Police Department and Alachua Police Department.

Thaddeus Mark Surrency, 43, was arrested by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office on Friday after the man who was shot identified Surrency in a photo lineup.

The man who was shot told police he and two passengers were approached by a white Ford station wagon, later found to be registered to Surrency’s wife, at the Waffle House located at 15979 NW U.S. Highway 441 in Alachua. The driver of the Ford parked two spots away. According to the report, several people walked back and forth between the vehicles before both drove to Northwest 147th Lane.

The man told police he recognized Surrency when he arrived at the second location. He said Surrency pulled out a gun, demanded all of his money and fired three shots toward the

man, which struck near his heart and broke his elbow.

In an attempt to escape, the shooter accelerated his car down the driveway and into a wooded area where he crashed. He got out of his car and took the $600 out of his back pocket, according to the report.

While on patrol of the area, law enforcement identified a station wagon in the backyard of a residence in High Springs. A woman staying at the home told police Surrency had been there earlier in the day and instructed her to retrieve a red rag from under the seat of the vehicle and “hide it for him,” according to the report.

During investigation, police found a pink and silver .38-caliber revolver wrapped in a red rag in the car.

Surrency was located in a home in Gainesville Friday afternoon. At approximately 2:30 p.m., he came out of the apartment and was arrested without incident. He was charged with aggravated battery and robbery with a firearm, both felonies. Surrency remains in jail in lieu of a $1 million bond.

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POLICE SAY HE TOLD ARRESTING OFFICERS, “YOU’RE GOING TO DIE”

By Rachael Schirmer Staff Writer

A man revving his engine at the entrance of Oxford Manor Apartments, located at 2777 SW Archer Road, Friday was met by Gainesville Police after officers received reports of an intoxicated person trying to drive a car.

Larry Edward Wedding Jr., 42, jumped out of the vehicle as officers approached and yelled, “I wasn’t driving,” according to a police report. He told police he had five beers but was unable to tell them when he had started or stopped drinking.

The arresting officer noted Wedding’s mood changed wildly throughout the investigation as he yelled racist and homophobic slurs and threats toward the officers on the scene, according to the report.

Police attempted to conduct several

field sobriety tests, but Wedding was reportedly unable to follow instructions.

When offered a breath test, Wedding reportedly told police, “F--- you, I’m not taking no test.”

Wedding was arrested and continued making threats toward the officers. According to the report, Wedding told police he had been a boxer for 20 years and “to take these handcuffs off and you’ll see what’s up.” He also told police, “I’m going to drag you from the back of my truck. I hope you die.”

According to the clerk of court records, Wedding was arrested for aggravated assault in April 2018 after intentionally ramming his vehicle into another man’s vehicle in an attempt to hurt him. He has been charged with two DUIs prior to this incident.

Wedding was charged with a DUI and refusing to submit to a DUI test, both misdemeanors. He remains in jail in lieu of a $100,000 bond. @rschirmerr rschirmer@alligator.org

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Two SG Senators appeal seats after being forced to resign SENATORS GRABOWSKI AND LIMA WERE FORCED TO RESIGN THEIR SEATS DUE TO NON-ATTENDANCE

By Charlie Daffron Staff Writer

The last regular UF Student Government Senate meeting of Summer A semester took an unexpected turn when two senators, Ben Lima (Inspire, District D) and Senate Minority Leader Ashley Grabowski (Inspire, Graduate), lost their seats.

The former senators lost their seats after being declared constructively absent by Senate President Libby Shaw. This put them over the maximum absence limit.

Grabowski and Lima have argued the loss of their seats is not valid because constructively absent is not a term defined in the SG Rules and Procedures. Additionally,

they were not removed by the sergeant-atarms, who Shaw said was absent from the meeting.

Shaw wrote in an email that the Student Senate cannot physically remove members, which was why the constructive absence created.

“It is always outlined and explained at orientation for all incoming senators, and has a strong historical precedent embedded in the Student Senate,” Shaw said.

Shaw said she thinks Grabowski and Lima are trying to combine the procedure removal with constructive absence procedure, even though the two issues are separate.

Shaw will petition the Student Body Supreme Court for a ruling on the constitutionality of her use of the constructive absence, she said.

Since losing their seats, Grabowski and Lima have been trying to appeal the decision.

Grabowski said they have been collecting

statements of support from students and alumni. They currently have over 150.

Grabowski said she reached out to UF faculty members, the UF Board of Trustees, the Dean of Students, President Fuchs and the General Counsel’s office.

She and Lima will be meeting with Kim Pace, the Assistant VP of Student Affairs next Tuesday.

Grabowski said she submitted an appeal to the Senate Rules and Ethics Committee on June 25 but hasn’t received a response.

“If nothing internally at UF works, we’re open to pursuing other avenues outside of the university,” Grabowski said. “We will make sure this gets handled one way or another.”

Grabowski said there will be people speaking on their behalf during public debate at Tuesday’s Senate meeting, including someone reading some of the statements of support they’ve collected.

The Alligator reviewed the Senate Rules and Procedures and the 300 codes.

This is what was found: 323.33: During the summer terms, if a senator has two unexcused or three total absences from Senate, it shall constitute resignation by non-attendance.

323.41: A senator can submit an appeal of the resignation within seven days of the notice to the Rules and Ethics Committee Chairman.

Rules and Procedures Rule 1, section 4b (ii): The sergeant-at-arms is tasked with removing disruptive senators. Senators will be issued two warnings by the Senate president prior to removal. Issuing senators warnings for being disruptive is up to the Senate President.

The term constructive absence could not be found in either document. @charlie_daffron cdaffron@alligator.org

Sheriff’s office loses accreditation after Parkland shooting THE AGENCY WAS CRITICIZED FOR ITS HANDLING OF FATAL SHOOTINGS Associated Press

Florida’s largest sheriff’s office has lost its law enforcement accreditation after criticism over its handling of fatal shootings at a high school and airport.

The Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation voted 13-0 last week not to renew the Broward Sheriff’s Office’s accreditation. Commission members include law enforcement and other local officials from across Florida.

They cited the agency’s handling of last year’s Parkland shooting and a 2017 shooting at Fort LauderdaleHollywood International Airport as

reasons for the decision.

Sheriff Gregory Tony said in a prepared statement that it’s disheartening for the agency’s 5,400 employees to lose their accreditation for the previous administration’s mistakes. BSO’s former sheriff, Scott Israel, was suspended by the governor earlier this year.

“Since recently taking command, I have worked on improving BSO and repairing the effects of bad leadership and negligence by focusing on training and community relations,” Tony said. “I will continue working hard to ensure that all Broward residents feel safe and that our agency’s reputation and honor are restored.”

CFA Executive Director Lori Mizell says 166 agencies have the voluntary certification. An agency

can keep operating without accreditation. Mizell says having accreditation means an agency meets more than 250 professional standards.

Meanwhile, Israel is running for his old job. He filed paperwork Monday stating his intention to run in the August 2020 Democratic primary. Israel is fighting the suspension before the Florida Senate and had previously committed to running for the seat regardless of whether he was reinstated.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has accused Israel of incompetence and neglect of duty for failing to properly train his deputies for an active shooter situation.

Israel’s lawyer says DeSantis’ decision to suspend the sheriff was politically motivated.

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In this Jan. 11, photo, suspended Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel listens to comments by his attorney at a news conference after new Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Israel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, over his handling of February’s massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

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A night to remember: the legacy of Stonewall STONEWALL’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY WAS CELEBRATED

BY THE PRIDE COMMUNITY

By Brittany Wallace Avenue Staff Writer

The Pride Community Center of North Central Florida (PCCNCF) held Building on Our History — Stonewall 50 Celebration Saturday night to honor the anniversary of the uprising seen as the catalyst for the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.

Consisting of violent demonstrations, the Stonewall rebellion centered around protesting police raids on gay bars. The rebellion started on June 28, 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn, located in Greenwich Village, New York City.

A video of Walia Moffett, a 21-year-old UF women’s studies junior, reciting the poem “Stonewall” by Roz Kaveney played as an introduction to the scheduled speakers for Saturday’s event.

Moffett said she found the poem inside a book at the PCCNCF’s library about a month before the anniversary event.

“I was really touched by this poem, and other board members said this is a really powerful

poem,” Moffett said.

After the video, speakers came to the middle of the room to talk about the work the LGBTQ+ community has put in to obtain the rights they have today and the work they still need to do.

The co-president of the PCCNCF, Terry Fleming, 57, brought up concerns of LGBTQ+ people’s rights at the state and federal level. He said there is still a long way to go in order to obtain equal civil rights for the LGBTQ+ community.

“The folks at Stonewall didn’t look like me,” Fleming said, “and they were not rioting for marriage.

It was not the purpose of the gay rights movement. It was a wonderful outcome, but that was not where we started, and that was not the intention.”

He encouraged attendees to get involved in the PCCNCF or local government.

“You have got to do something,” he said. “You have got to talk to your legislators. You have got to run for office.”

The PCCNCF’s work for the LGBTQ+ community includes organizing Alcoholics Anonymous groups, Gainesville’s annual Pride parade and festival and healthbased programs like Gainesville Area AIDS Project, which helps

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James Brown, 34, raises his glass Saturday night in a toast to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and the progress the LGBTQ+ community has made during the Building on Our History — Stonewall 50 Celebration organized by the Pride Community Center of North Central Florida. Over 50 people attended the event which offered food, refreshments and music. give food and support to people with AIDS. Clare Holman, a retired computer programmer and now a volunteer for the PCCNCF, was at a party blocks away from the initial rebellion 50 years ago.

“We were hanging out, hearing all these sirens and all this ruck-

ACSO honors ICE detainers after Gov. DeSantis bans sanctuary policies THE BILL WENT INTO EFFECT IN ALACHUA COUNTY ON MONDAY

By Rosmery Izaguirre Staff Writer

The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office began to honor ICE detainers on Monday as a result of a bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on June 14 banning sanctuary policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration law.

Since September 2015, the sheriff’s office has not honored ICE detainers, or written requests for local law enforcement to hold a person in custody for an additional 48 hours after their release to provide ICE agents with extra time to decide whether to take the person into federal custody. The sheriff’s office required the agency to provide either a judicial order or a criminal warrant, according to a 2017 Weekly Declined Detainer Outcome Report from ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations.

In 2018, ICE issued 177,147 detainers, a 24 percent increase from the previous year, according to the 2018 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Report.

Arthur Forgey, ACSO spokesperson, said the office chose not to honor detainers issued by ICE in order to avoid being sued for false imprisonment for holding a person

in custody beyond their release date.

“We weren’t really protecting anyone,” Forgey said.

The effect of the new policy on the relationship and trust between law enforcement officials and the community, a common concern for policies like this, remains to be seen, Forgey said.

Richard MacMaster is coordinator for the Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice, an organization that works to educate the community on the local and national immigration crisis. He said the newly passed bill is a major shift in policy.

“SB 168 is a very negative effect right across the board,” MacMaster said. “It affects not just undocumented people. It affects documented people in that these are their relatives, their spouses, their next-door neighbors. If you’re threatening one segment of the community, you’re threatening all of them.”

MacMaster said IAIJ is largely an action group and has advocated in the past about immigrant issues in the city, such as the Gainesville Police policies on dealing with non-citizens last year. The organization’s campaigns include detention and deportation, supporting refugees and immigration reform, according to the organization’s website.

The bill passed by the Florida

Legislature is not the only challenge the immigrant community faces. President Donald Trump said in a tweet on June 22 that the mass deportations he ordered to happen in major cities that weekend would be delayed for two weeks.

In 2018, ICE removed 256,085 immigrants, a 13-percent increase from the previous year, according to the 2018 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Report.

Gainesville has had periodic scares of ICE raids and there is a fear of them in the community, MacMaster said.

“We have been, over time, publicizing what are your rights,” MacMaster said. “Even if you are undocumented, you have quite a lot of rights.” @rgizaguirre rizaguirre@alligator.org

• In 2018 ICE issued 177,147 detainers • In 2017 ICE issued 142,356 detainers • In 2016 ICE issued 86,026 detainers

us coming from a block or two away,” Holman said. “We knew something was happening, but we didn’t know what it was.”

As a transgender woman, volunteering for an organization which serves the LGBTQ+ community is how Holman shows appreciation for the activists who

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paved the way for her rights, she said.

“Stonewall Inn was a turning point,” she said. “It’s a sign post.

It’s the beginning of not hiding and fighting for your right.” @BtNwallace bwallace@alligator.org

‘No smoking’ laws extend to vaping THE BAN BEGAN MONDAY AND VIOLATORS WILL BE FINED

By Ashley Lazarski Staff Writer

Smoking bans across Florida extended to vaping on Monday.

In workplaces and City of Gainesville facilities where smoking is banned, vaping will now be prohibited as well because of Florida Senate Bill 7012, Chip Skinner, the city of Gainesville’s spokesperson, said.

While vaping is relatively new compared to cigarettes, a ban has been in discussion since vapes and e-cigarettes entered the market, Skinner said. There has been some debate on both the city and state level about whether these laws should include this new technology.

Lawmakers decided vaping is just another form of smoking, and it made sense to limit secondhand vapors in the same way they have attempted to eliminate secondhand smoke, Skinner said.

“People just need to be aware that anywhere where smoking was prohibited in the past, it would be a good idea to not vape there either so that

they don’t risk getting a ticket,” Skinner said.

Violators of this law will be issued a civil fine, Jorge Campos, spokesperson for the Gainesville Police Department, said.

The amount of the ticket depends on whether violators have broken this law before, and if so, it will also depend on the number of times they have broken it, Campos said.

Campos said the new law will not be something which they actively enforce and will instead depend on complaint calls from business owners about people who have broken this law and would not stop when asked to, Campos said.

However, most owners choose to have the person removed from their property and issue a trespass warning instead. When the police respond to these complaints, this is usually the route they take, Campos said.

“It’s almost exactly the same as smoking,” Campos said, “and though the law before exclusively identified and defined what smoking indoors was, this evolution of the vape meant that they needed to amend the law to prohibit this activity as well.” @AshleyLazarski Alazarski@alligator.org

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ummer B marks the halfway point of summer session, but for most of the fresh faces on campus, this is just the beginning. With beginnings come the transition period of figuring out what the hell is going on in this humid, and at times bizarre, place we call Gainesville.

Your high school shenanigans may or may not have prepared you for this whirlwind six weeks of learning. The Editorial Board has a combined 14 years of experience on UF’s campus so take it from us…

The transportation aspect of campus life is a difficult monster to handle. Parking is limited. Your bus will whiz right by if you stand on the wrong side of the street. Those yellow envelopes left on your vehicle are not love letters.

Urban legend has it you’re not a real UF student until your car has been towed from parking in a tow away zone. Yes, if you park in the wrong zone you will get a ticket. Yes, if you park in a tow away zone, you will most likely get towed or booted. To avoid tickets or fees and save yourself from an unhealthy high blood pressure, take the bus. Saving the environment is pretty cool, too.

Downloading the Transloc Rider app is a decent place to start, but do not trust the estimated time of arrival. The app’s ETA is like a bad ex. It will lie to your face and say it’s all your fault.

Pay attention to the bus’ location and watch it like your favorite Netflix show. Otherwise, you will find yourself standing at the bus stop waiting for a bus already a mile down the road (similar to your ex who stood you up).

Once you master transportation, naturally the next tier on the hierarchy of needs is food. Home-cooked meals are hard to come by in this town. Regardless of what year you are, nothing will ever compare to a dish served with a side of mother’s love.

The bright golden arches seem like the ideal eatery to drown your “I don’t know how to cook anything, and I miss my parents” sorrows. A good cry and hot fries never hurt anyone, but remember to eat food with nutrients whenever you get the chance.

Invite your floormates for a dinner party. Making a familyfavorite dish can be cathartic and a way to open up to people.

If tight on cash, the Field & Fork Pantry provides students with grocery items for free and is located between Marston Library and the Reitz Union. Getting a healthy meal may seem obvious but is often overlooked. Even experienced college students struggle with the home cooked meal crunch.

One of Gainesville’s nicknames is Rainesville. So much of an unofficial-official title, Snapchat even provides a Rainesville filter while in the city limits. But it is no joke. Bring an umbrella everywhere, even if the forecast says there is no rain. It is a good habit to have because around 2 p.m. most days, it rains until the late afternoon. The first time getting caught in the middle of a thundershower, you’ll think it’s a fluke. The next three times it happens, you’ll learn your lesson.

But regardless of the weather, the transition period can be trying on one’s mental health. The UF Counseling and Wellness Center is where students can go get help when dealing with any mental health concerns. It offers group and individual counseling.

Even if you don’t need the services, bring it up to a roommate if you notice changes in their behavior or harmful habits. The CWC also has drug and alcohol counseling, a resource to highlight addiction’s warning signs.

Summer B is the warm up lap. It’s arguably a fantasy.

There is class only a few times a week. Less people are on campus (yes, the amount of people you see on campus these coming weeks is far less compared to what’s to come in fall.)

New experiences and the potential of fresh friendships are ripe for the taking.

Cherish Summer B because even though you may not know how to cook or who anyone is, this is the adult version of summer camp. So jump into the Swamp.

The Alligator Editorial Board includes the Opinions Editor Jackie De Frietas, Editor-in-Chief Mark Stine and managing editors Hannah Beatty and Lindsey Breneman.

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Jackie De Freitas OPINIONS EDITOR

UF expansion plans bring both good ideas and concerns

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dents of the other dorms will have to travel F is planning for a lot of changes in the coming years. Earlier this month, stufarther to get on-campus healthcare.

Lastly, we have the pedestrianizing of dents found out about the $2.2 billion expansion and projects planned by adUnion Road and the stretch of Newell Drive around Turlington. At first, I thought this was ministrators. These include an expanda great idea. Cars and students around this ed honors program residential space, a new student healthcare facility and turning Union Road stretch of road seem to have a mutually harmand parts of Newell Drive into pedestrian walk- Jason Zapulla ful relationship. Students crowd sidewalks, ways. Although these changes sound appealing, opinions@alligator.org and drivers often have to wait several minI have some thoughts on them. utes while students cross at traffic-light-free The expanded honors college is long overdue. Anec- crosswalks. dotal reports I’ve heard have said while the early class But the buses along this stretch play a key role in registration offered by the honors program is a big bene- transporting students to and from class. Where will the fit, there is otherwise little distinction between the hon- buses go once Newell is pedestrianized? If they’re reors program and the traditional college track. Under this routed, will this new route be convenient to students? plan, a new UF Honors College Complex would include These are questions that should be answered before 1,400 beds, a 27,000-foot social and learning space, and moving forward.

While I still have concerns about some of these proja 50,000-foot common area with a library, honors program offices, and study and meeting rooms. This space ects, I have to admit the choices administrators made would provide more services to honors students, mak- came from necessity in most cases. These projects won’t ing their experience distinct from the regular UF track. even start until 2023, long after I and many of my readA new and expanded Student Health Care Center is ers graduate. There’s plenty of time to cheer on UF’s also planned for the southwest part of UF’s campus near plans as the administrators hope to bring our school the baseball facilities, which would replace the current into top five status, but there’s also time to ask quesinfirmary on Fletcher Drive. A larger healthcare facility tions and wonder what impact these changes will have. for an increased student population seems like a great idea. On the other hand, the current infirmary location Jason Zappulla is a UF history senior. His column is near the center of campus. The new location would appears on Tuesdays. be closer to dorms like Springs and Lakeside, but resi-

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The various levels of catfishing

social media and check for anything that could verify their identity. Worse comes to worst, ask them to send you a photo through Snapchat.

Asking them to use a specific filter or timehe beginning of any first date includes stamp can make sure they can’t fake the image. a few things: introductions, awkward Video chatting is also a way to assure yourself small talk and both parties staring they are the right person. Always verify a perat each other to check if their date son’s identity before meeting them in person. looks just as good as they did in their Meeting in a public space, like a coffee shop profile. With one out of every ten American or restaurant can be a backup safety measure adults looking for love online, it’s often difficult to stand out from the crowd. Filters and Amanda Martinez when meeting for the first time.

Another more common form is subtle catFacetune can help, but what is the difference opinions@alligator.org fishing, which includes heavy editing, Photobetween putting your best self out there and shop and strategic angling in photos to make the person appretending to be someone you’re not?

Catfishing is used to describe a person who poses as pear differently than they regularly do. Subtleties range from someone else online, typically in a romantic setting. It can adding a few inches on your height measurement to using a come in several forms, some harmless and some dangerous. gender filter on Snapchat to catch a sexual predator. While it The term “catfish” was first coined by Nev Schulman in the may help in getting more matches, it can cause your date to 2010 documentary “Catfish,” after he was led to believe he be disappointed and your self-esteem to get hurt.

Smoothing out bad skin and enhancing your figure is a was dating a dancer who turned out to be a former fisherway for people to feel better about how they appear online. man’s wife.

And as someone who edits every photo they post, I’m no But the dating trend didn’t end with Nev. Popular films like “Sierra Burgess is a Loser” and “Nobody’s Fool” show stranger to feeling insecure about appearances. Putting your different instances where catfishing had a positive and nega- true self out into the world can be scary, and rejection can tive effect. Love is not an impossible outcome from catfishing be devastating. But what’s more devastating is the moment your date leaves because they’re not satisfied with what you but discomfort is more likely to occur.

There are multiple forms of catfishing. The cookie-cutter look like in person.

To avoid being the victim of dating awkwardness, be precatfish is someone who claims another person’s selfies as theirs and has little to no relationship to the person they’re pared. Posting photos of yourself is about showing yourself using for their online persona. These situations can be the in the best light, but keep in mind that possible dates can most dangerous with strangers getting to know your person- only see the version of yourself that you put online. Edited al information over time and using it to their advantage. Pos- or not, displaying your strengths and weaknesses can help sible dangers of catfishing are the possibility of identity theft, people see the real you. You might not match with the perfraud and spying. Typical signs of this catfish include a lack son you thought was your soulmate, but that’s their loss.

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of photos and lack of activity on their social media accounts.

To avoid being catfished, be sure to ask for the person’s

Amanda Martinez is a senior telecommunication major.

Her column appears on Tuesdays.

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1. MUSIC: What was the last name of the three brothers who made up the pop music group The Bee Gees?

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4. ANIMAL KINGDOM: How many walking legs does a lobster have?

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3. Once (2016-18).

4. Rick Barry (1965), Tim James (‘99), John Salmons (2002), Shane Larkin (‘13) and Lonnie Walker (‘18).

5. Thirteen consecutive seasons.

6. He played in the 2002 World Cup. 7. It was 1913, when Donerail had odds of 91-1.

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BASEBALL

UF improves with summer baseball

By Evan Lepak Sports Writer

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Florida catcher Brady Smith is spending his summer with the Chatham Anglers of the Cape Cod League.

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The college baseball season came to a close last Wednesday when the Vanderbilt Commodores defeated the Michigan Wolverines to win the program’s second national championship.

The Gators' season, meanwhile, ended against Dallas Baptist in regional play on June 2.

For some college baseball players, however, the grind doesn’t stop after their school’s season concludes.

Collegiate summer baseball gives hundreds of players the chance to improve in areas that they underperformed in during the spring.

This year, 14 Gators are participating in collegiate summer leagues across the country, including catcher Brady Smith, two-way

player Kirby McMullen and reliever David Luethje.

Collegiate summer baseball isn’t a small operation.

There are over 40 leagues scattered throughout the United States and Canada.

Prospects from the NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA use the summer to take advantage of extra reps and to learn from coaching staffs with years of baseball experience.

Seasons usually last from early June to mid August and have 40 to 70 games, including a postseason.

The leagues are sometimes referred to as “wooden bat leagues" because they forego the metal bats used by the NCAA to prepare players for the next level.

* * * Florida catcher Brady Smith isn’t concerned about burning out this summer after a long spring season in Gainesville. The junior from Niceville, Florida, is far more concerned with enjoying what summer make an instant impact in ball has to offer.

“I’m here to Gainesville. Blackshear Jr. is joined by another forward in 6-foot-9 recruit Omar Payne, who was ranked No. 43 in the 247Sports rankings, as well as five-star recruits Tre Mann and Scottie Lewis.

With sophomores Andrew Nembhard, Noah Locke and Keyontae Johnson returning this season, Blackshear Jr. will slot right into a UF squad that retains three of its starting five from last year.

Blackshear Jr. chose Florida over Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas, along with a possible return to Virginia Tech. He entered this year’s NBA Draft, but he withdrew his name just hours before the deadline.

Florida has the seventhranked 2019 class in the NCAA and the second-best class in the SEC, according to 247Sports.

Blackshear brings extra element to UF team

By River Wells Sports Writer

The Gators men’s basketball team already had a top-10 class to look forward to this fall. On Friday, it made yet another huge addition.

UF announced that Kerry Blackshear Jr., a 6-foot-10 power forward from Orlando, had transferred to Florida from Virginia Tech. The Gators have had great success with Hokies in the past, as the team’s highest scoring graduate transfers in Jalen Hudson and Dorian Finney-Smith both started their collegiate careers at VT. Blackshear Jr. is a graduate transfer himself, and he’ll be able to play for the Gators immediately.

Blackshear Jr.’s arrival should make an immediate impact on the roster. He earned a Second Team AllACC nod for his efforts with the Hokies last season, averaging 14.9 points and 7.5 rebounds in his 2018-2019 cam-

paign. He helped cap off VT’s season with five double-doubles in his last 10 games and put up 18 points, 16 rebounds and five assists in the Hokies’ loss to Duke in the Sweet 16.

Blackshear was a crucial element of Virginia Tech’s success last year, and coach Mike White will look to bring his abilities to an already talented UF basketball team.

“He’s just become so integral to literally everything we do on both ends,” former Virginia Tech coach Buzz Williams said in a release after VT’s victory over Notre Dame last season. “When I took (Blackshear Jr.) out in the second half, he was just exhausted because he is so important to what we were doing.”

Blackshear Jr.’s arrival bolsters an already impressive UF roster. Returning forwards Dontay Bassett and Isaiah Stokes averaged a mere 2.7 points each last year, so the new big man should

Former UF volleyball player Rhamat Alhassan was chosen on Thursday to play with Team USA in the 2019 Pan-American Games this August.

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develop more as a player and to work on my craft,” Smith said. “Hopefully open some people’s eyes and build relationships with the coaches and players I’m playing with here.”

This summer, Smith is in Chatham, Massachusetts, playing for the Chatham Anglers.

The Anglers, one of 10 teams in the Cape Cod League, are led by manager Tom Holliday.

Holliday is the former head coach at Oklahoma State and the father of veteran MLB player Matt Holliday.

Coach Mickey Tettleton is also on Chatham’s staff and has been working with Smith since his arrival. He brings with him 13 years of MLB experience at the catcher’s position.

“He has really helped me since the first day I got here,” Smith said, referring to Tettleton.

“He’s helped me with catching and all aspects of the game, really.”

So far, Smith has seen success, batting .364 through nine games in Massachusetts.

“I’m just focusing

on being confident at the plate,” Smith said.

“There’s no scouting reports in summer ball like there is at Florida, so you just have to have the right approach and, again, be confident.”

Outside of hitting, Smith looks to continue molding himself into a balanced player on the field as well as in the clubhouse.

“I’ve only been a (catcher) for a little over three years now, so I’ve really just been focusing on getting better at that position,” Smith explained. “Just continuing to understand the role, and learning how to control the game better.”

This is Smith’s second year of CSB. After his freshman season at UF, he played in 23 games for the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod League, batting .333 with one home run and 10 RBIs. “Getting that experience after my freshman year was pretty awesome,” Smith said. “And this season, I was fortunate enough to get to come back to the Cape Cod League…

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Power forward Kerry Blackshear Jr. (24) averaged 14.9 points per game and 7.5 rebounds per game last year with Virginia Tech.

UF athletics program ranked third in nation Florida's athletics program was ranked third in the Learfield IMG College Sports Directors' Cup Standings. Florida is one of three schools to win a national title every year since the 2008-2009 athletic season.

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ALLIGATOR AWARDS

Alligator Awards: University of Florida Coach of the Year For our second installment of this summer’s Alligator Awards, four of our writers go head-to-head and debate which Florida coach deserves to be named alligatorSports Coach of the Year. Track and field coach Mike Holloway, football coach Dan Mullen, softball coach Tim Walton and men’s tennis coach Bryan Shelton are all contenders.

Bryan Matamoros: Coaching one team and having it perform consistently at a high level throughout the season is difficult. So coaching two teams — at the same time — must be impossible, right?

Not for men’s and women’s track and field coach Mike Holloway, who had both teams ranked in the top 10 nationally for the indoor and outdoor portions of the 201819 campaign.

The men’s team took home the NCAA Indoor Championship for the second-straight year and fifth time since 2010.

Holloway joined UTEP’s Ted Banks and USC’s Dean Cromwell as the only men’s coaches in Division I history to win five NCAA Indoor titles.

UF was also the runner-up at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, falling 10 points short of first-place Texas Tech. That was Florida’s 23rd second-place finish in the last 34 NCAA Championships.

Its indoor and outdoor performances earned it the No. 1 and No. 2 spots, respectively, in the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association rankings.

The women’s team remained consistent throughout the year, too.

It’s sixth-place showing at the NCAA Indoor Championships made UF the only program with top-10 finishes by both its men and women.

The Gator women also finished sixth in the NCAA Outdoor Championships. They are one of two teams to come in the top six each of the last three years, the other being USC. Holloway’s ability to manage two track and field teams — and have them both competing on the national stage — earns him Coach of the Year. @bryan_2712 bmatamoros@alligator.org

Joseph Salvador: Dan Mullen came to Gainesville expecting to return UF to its former glory in the college football world. He accomplished that goal in just one season, and for that reason he is my pick for Coach of the Year.

Mullen took over a football program that had a 4-7 record in the nation’s most difficult conference and ended his first season 10-3. The campaign was capped off with a dominant 41-15 win over No. 7 Michigan in the Peach Bowl.

It’s not like UF had the best recruiting class of 2018, either.

It was ranked No. 14 in the nation and just fifth in the SEC. I think that Mullen’s coaching was the most significant thing that the Gators had going for them last season, and it will be what carries this team for years to come. @JSalvador_14 jsalvador@alligator.org

Jack Braverman: Despite being marred with inconsistencies for nearly the entire season, the Gators softball team still managed to make a deep playoff run, capturing a second-consecutive SEC Tournament title, cruising through NCAA Regional play unscathed and arriving in Oklahoma City as a potent threat to bring home a national championship.

Finding success in what may be seen as an off-year is a testament to the superb leadership of head coach Tim Walton, my pick for Coach of the Year.

The 14-year veteran’s knack for grinding out wins was on full display earlier this summer, when the Gators rode the arm of senior ace Kelly Barnhill and the slugging of senior Amanda Lorenz all the way to the Women’s College World Series.

Dan Mullen, my close runner-up, may very well be the biggest celebrity of the bunch, and deservedly so. Football is its own entity in the realm of Florida sports, and Mullen’s commitment to developing excellence has not gone unnoticed.

But while Dan Mullen manufactured a top-15 recruiting class last year and took a team with blossoming NFL potentials to a New Year’s Six Bowl victory, Tim Walton led

an SEC-worst offense and one star pitcher to college softball’s biggest stage.

I think the choice for Walton is clear. @jack_braverman jbraverman@alligator.org Dylan O’Shea: Bryan Shelton is undoubtedly the alligatorSports Coach of the Year.

Shelton brought the usually underperforming men’s tennis program to rare heights in 2019. At season’s end, Shelton had coached his squad to a 25-4 record. No other UF men’s tennis team had reached that mark since the 1999-2000 season.

This year, Shelton coached his team to a third-place tie in the SEC Tournament and a regular season conference championship. More importantly, he led the squad to just its third NCAA Final Four in program history.

Shelton did this with only three upperclassmen on the entire roster.

During the team’s best season in almost two decades, Shelton courted a roster of inexperienced underclassmen, headlined by freshman and team captain Sam Riffice. Under Shelton’s coaching, Riffice upset the No. 2 player in the country in JJ Wolf and went further in the NCAA singles tournament than any freshman in the country.

The other coaches on this list fed off of historically successful programs, upperclassman presence and top-notch recruiting.

Shelton did not come away with a bowl win like Mullen, an NCAA Indoor Championship like Holloway or a conference tournament championship like Walton. He did something even more special: He took a young team and changed the culture. He is the Coach of the Year, and I believe he’ll be a nominee for this award for many seasons to come. doshea@alligator.org @dylanoshea24

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UF track and field coach Mike Holloway led the men’s team to the indoor national championship and the women’s team to a top-10 ranking.

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over a decade. ’m going to try my The split season best not to contraproposal is, in all dict myself. likelihood, just anA few weeks other negotiating ago, I wrote a tool in Sternberg’s column arguing that arsenal as he atMajor League Basetempts to get a new Sam Campisano ball does not have a twitter: scampisano stadium in Tampa future in the state of scampisano@alligator.org Bay. After all, the Florida.

Rays have a contracI still don’t believe tual obligation with the Tampa Bay Rays and MiSt. Petersburg to play all home ami Marlins have enough fans to warrant their existence. The games there through 2027. fans they do have, however, de- Mayor Rick Kriseman almost serve to be treated better than instantly shot down the idea as Rays’ owner Stuart Sternberg soon as it was announced, calling it “silly” in a press conferhas treated them.

I’m sure you’ve seen it by ence and assuring fans that St. now: A couple of weeks ago, the Pete had no intention of allowRays announced plans to split ing it to happen.

Which makes Sternberg’s their home games between Tamcomments at a press conference pa Bay and Montreal, with two a few days later all the more new ballparks built as a result. perplexing.

A few highlights: You, the reader, don’t need “We want to do this because me to tell you how ridiculous the proposal is, but I’ll do it we are champions of Tampa anyway. It would be a logistical Bay.” “(People from Montreal) will nightmare for players, broadcasters and others affiliated with come here in droves to watch the team who would literally our baseball team, to set up have to move to another country businesses, visit our beaches, in the middle of a season. There shop in our shops, eat in our is no common ground between restaurants, share in our comfans in either city, and both de- munity, perhaps retire here.”

“I don’t see it. I don’t see it mographics would still feel like happening in St. Petersburg, they deserved their own team.

Sternberg, who has been trying and I would be hard-pressed to to rip off taxpayers in Florida see it in Tampa as well, given for years with various stadium what I know… We are simproposals, would never get any ply not well-suited for a Major public money toward a new sta- League Baseball team that needs dium to be used for only half a to draw tens of thousands of people for each of its 81 games season.

The entire proposal is a slap to its ballpark.”

You don’t deserve this, Rays in the face to Rays fans, who fans.

Stuart Sternberg made have lined Sternberg’s pockets a mockery of the entire Tamover the years despite the fact pa Bay area.

No businessman that he continually trades fanfavorite players; despite the fact should treat his customers like that the team plays in a bad sta- this, and if that’s the way he’s dium in a worse location; and going to act, then he has no despite the fact that the team business owning a Major League hasn’t won a playoff series in Baseball team.

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14 Gators playing CSB BASEBALL, from pg. 10 I’m just building a lot of connections and learning from a lot of people.”

Besides Smith, seven other Gators are in the Cape Cod League this summer, including starting pitcher Jack Leftwich and relief pitcher Nolan Crisp.

“I sure hope to get a chance to face them,” Smith said. “I’d love to face one of my fellow Gators and maybe show them up.” *

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A typical day during the collegiate summer baseball season is a bit different for Kirby McMullen compared to most players.

That’s just the way it goes for someone who spends time both at the plate and on the mound.

“I’ve always learned growing up that you can’t overdo it as a two-way player,” McMullen said. “You gotta be smart and you gotta pay closer attention to your reps on the field so your arm isn’t worn out when it’s time to pitch.”

McMullen participates in batting practice, and he’ll sometimes head down to the bullpen for a session to stay sharp on the mound.

In what is McMullen’s third summer participating in collegiate summer baseball, he’s in Charlottesville, Virginia, playing for the Charlottesville Tom Sox of the Valley Baseball League.

“I came here last year and had a really good time,” McMullen said. “So I had it kind of set up to come back after talking with the staff here in Charlottesville.”

McMullen has been getting an extended amount of at-bats in the batter’s box. He’s hitting .367 with two home runs and seven RBIs through 13 games.

“Coming up after the college baseball season, I just wanted to get in as many atbats as I could,” McMullen said. “I wanted to get some innings on the mound as well, hoping to be as successful as I could be…

I’m just wanting to go up there and throw strikes, get some groundball outs and

throw some good quality innings.”

In limited action on the mound, McMullen is 1-0 with a 1.58 ERA. With the lack of school during the summer, CSB presents a chance for players to focus on themselves and their game more than anything.

“I know a lot of us try to work out as much as possible during our time here to get bigger and stronger since we have the time,” McMullen said. “It’s a really relaxed schedule for us overall, so we get a chance to get some extra time in the weight room.”

A less strenuous schedule and a chance to wind down from the usual grind of the college season is something McMullen enjoys about summer ball.

“At school, we have tutoring, classes, actual set times when we need to go to the weight room, actual set times for when we eat and everything,” McMullen said.

“Here, it’s pretty relaxed. We pretty much do everything on our own time and get in the flow of playing baseball.”

Two other Gators accompanied McMullen to Virginia. Catcher Cal Greenfield and Gators’ signee Brock Edge are both on the Charlottesville roster.

Edge, a transfer from Santa Fe College in Gainesville, is hitting .273 with eight RBIs through eight games.

“Me and Brock have been in the outfield many times so far this season,” McMullen said. “He’s an all-around good player.

Great in the outfield as well as at the plate.

Hopefully he can add some power to our offense at UF next season. … He’s definitely going to be a good addition to our team.” *

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Coming off of his first season at UF, pitcher David Luethje is now getting a chance to experience collegiate summer baseball for the first time.

Luethje is in Wisconsin, playing in arguably the most well-known CSB league — the Northwoods League — for the Kenosha Kingfish.

“I learned a bit about summer ball and the Northwoods League from other players on the team,” Luethje said. “They just told me it’s a good experience, and I was excited to get up here.”

The Vero Beach, Florida, native has here,” Luethje said. “So if I’m feeling good turned some of that excitement into after that I’ll probably head home, but if I have a couple extra things I want to work positive results on the mound.

In 16.1 innings of work, Luethje has on then I’ll probably stay and pitch a few given up no earned runs, allowing seven more innings.”

In order for him to feel comfortable hits while striking out 14.

“I came up here, and I had some things leaving, Luethje has a few things in mind I wanted to work on,” Luethje said. “You he wants to shore up before coming back have free time to work on things, so I’ve to Florida.

“I’ve been trying to tighten up my been doing that, and when I get in the games I relax, do my thing, and it has been front side, I’ve also been working on my back-leg drive to help increase my fastball working out for me so far.”

According to Luethje, UF coach Kevin velocity,” Luethje said. “I’ve been focusing O’Sullivan encourages members of the on my off-speed pitches, too, practicing team to participate in summer ball, if throwing them for strikes, and when it’s 0-2, working on using them as a put-away possible.

“They want us to play (summer ball), pitch.” so we can keep getting reps in,” Luethje said referring to the Florida coaching staff. @evanmplepak “They designated me to go to Kenosha, and elepak@alligator.org I was all for it, because I knew it was an opportunity to play in a lot of games in a short amount of time.”

The slog of a season in the Northwoods League is one unlike many others. With over 20 teams participating, the schedule can be unforgiving.

“We play 72 games in 75 days,” Luethje said. ”So you don’t get many off days… We get back from some of these bus rides around one or two in the morning. So yeah, there’s a lot of traveling, but the baseball aspect has been fun.”

While Luethje is in Kenosha, he — like most CSB players — stays with a host family, and they help provide things like food and transportation, on top of a place to sleep.

“It’s me, and then I have my host mom and dad, and they have a son as well,” Luethje said. “Everyone on the team has a host family and most of them live on their own like what I’m doing.”

Luethje probably won’t stay in Wisconsin through the Chirs King / Alligator Staff end of the season.

“I’m supposed to get at Summer baseball provides another opportunity for least 30 innings while I’m UF pitcher David Luethje to improve his game.

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