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Local church sues DeSantis UF Latin American Studies hires first native director THE CITY OF GAINESVILLE MAY JOIN THE 10 PLAINTIFFS SUING OVER RECENT IMMIGRATION LAW

By Lindsey Breneman Managing Editor

Gainesville’s Westminster Presbyterian Church United is suing Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody over the constitutionality of SB 168.

There are currently 10 plaintiffs and the ,

City of Gainesville may join the suit.

DeSantis signed SB 168 into law on June 14, and it became effective July 1. The law bans sanctuary policies and requires local governments to use “best efforts” to support federal immigration law enforcement.

The lawsuit alleges the “best efforts” clause may lead law enforcement to use race as a proxy for immigration status. It also states it is unclear whether local government officials can adopt policies to ensure immigration enforcement does not undermine cooperation

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UF researcher awarded $2.5 million federal grant THE GRANT WILL GO TO THE BRAIN TUMOR IMMUNOTHERAPY PROGRAM

By Lily Huerkamp Contributing Writer

A UF assistant professor in the department of neurosurgery has been awarded a grant of $2.5 million from the National Institutes of Health.

The money awarded to Catherine Flores, the principal investigator in UF’s Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program, is said to go toward developing an immunotherapy treatment against malignant brain tumors critical in children.

Cancer immunotherapy is a type of treatment designed to boost the body’s natural defenses and help the immune system fight off invasive cancer cells as if it were fighting a common cold, Flores said.

Flores said she applied for the grant through the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a branch of the NIH, and received it May 30. According to the NIH, the research project grant provides support for health-related research.

In Flores’ research, she discovered the stem cells of bone marrow help the immune system produce new immune

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cells when patients are recovering from chemotherapy or radiation.

Duane Mitchell, a UF professor and director of the Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program, said the stem cells influence how efficiently the immune system can locate the brain tumors.

“This grant will support her continued research on the role of stem cells from the bone marrow while influencing and enhancing antitumor immunity,” he said.

Flores discovered stem cells play a role in guiding those immune cells, known as killer lymphocytes or killer T cells, to find invading tumor cells, Mitchell said.

“Her research has profound implications for how we develop immunotherapy treatments in the future,” Mitchell said.

Flores and her team are part of a program where researchers, clinicians and physicians work together to do research and pre-clinical testing. The program tests and evaluates the safety and effectiveness of therapy treatments discovered in their labs, he said.

“The grant she has received from the NIH will really support the continued laboratory investigation on how to most effectively utilize [killer T cells] and better understand their role in antitumor immunity,” Mitchell said.

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Carlos de la Torre is the new director for the Center for Latin American Studies at UF. He is from Ecuador and is the program’s first Latin American-born director.

“I AM THRILLED TO GO BACK TO MY ALMA MATER.” - DE LA TORRE

By Tori Whidden Staff Writer

UF will appoint the first Latin America-born person to be the director for the Center for Latin American Studies this Fall.

On Aug. 2, Carlos de la Torre will start his position at UF, leaving behind his career at the University of Kentucky as a professor in the department of sociology and the director of international studies, said Lenny Ureña Valerio, assistant director for administration in the UF Center for Latin American Studies.

De la Torre, who was born in Quito, Ecuador, said his intellectual journey

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started at UF when he graduated in 1983 with a bachelor’s in sociology and a certificate in Latin American studies.

He came back to UF briefly in 2006 as a lecturing fellow at the Center for Latin American Studies where he used resources from Smathers Library in the Latin American and Caribbean Collection, Ureña Valerio said.

But for de la Torre, his third stint with UF will be the charm.

“Given that he is from the [Latin America] region, we hope that that will boost our collaboration with Latin American students here at the university,” Ureña Valerio said. “And also, it will be very good for international students coming into our program.”

As director of international studies at Kentucky, de la Torre increased

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50 YEARS LATER

After grasping ‘impossible dream,’ moon pioneers head home

By Dave Reddick Editor-in-Chief, 1969

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, we decided to re-publish an original story from July 22, 1969, reporting on the intergalactic pioneers’ journey home.

We hope you enjoy this blast from the past as much as we enjoyed resurfacing it.

Man’s impossible dream — conquest of the moon — is nearing its final scene as America’s moon pioneers coast back to Earth.

Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins were scheduled to begin their long journey home early this morning. And if all goes well, they should be back on mother Earth Thursday.

The splashdown will cap a thus-far faultless mission to put men on the Earth’s closest celestial neighbor, the moon.

The lunar landing was achieved just as the rest of the mission has — nearly perfect and with little comment from the crew.

“The Eagle has landed,” was the only notification command pilot Armstrong gave Mission Control in Houston, Tex., when the Lunar Module (LM), code named Eagle, touched down at 4:19 p.m.

“We’re glad to hear that,” mission control said. “We’ve got a lot of blue faces down here, but now we’re breathing again.”

Armstrong later said he was sorry for talking so little as the spider-like LM inched its way toward the flat surface of the moon in the Sea of Tranquility. He said the original landing site was too rough, and he had decided to override the on-board computer and land the LM manually.

“Man, don’t apologize,” mission control said.

For the next six hours the two LM astronauts, Armstrong and Aldrin, readied their frail craft for emergency takeoff, ate, rested and donned their special moon suits, while the third Apollo 11 crewman, Collins, circled above in lunar orbit.

While they were preparing for the peak of the mission —

exploration of the moon — Aldrin reminded the support crews and the millions watching television on Earth that they were seeing history in the making.

“This is the LM pilot,” Aldrin said, “I’d like to ask everyone who is listening to pause for a few moments and to contemplate the events of the last few hours, and to give thanks in his or her own way.”

And then, as the moment all the world was waiting for neared, Armstrong opened the hatch and made final preparation for his stroll on the moon.

At 10:45 p.m. Sunday, he backed out of the hatch, and began his five minute descent to the lunar surface. Just before taking the first step made by man on another planet, Armstrong opened a work panel on which a small television camera was mounted.

UF showcases former NASA staffer’s memorabilia UF WILL CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF APOLLO 11 AND THOSE WHO MADE THE EVENT POSSIBLE

By Meleah Lyden Staff Writer

In his career at NASA, Charlie Welly was known as a behind-thescenes man — always helping out but never being the face of the organization. But here in Gainesville, his impact will be celebrated 50 years later.

Welly’s daughter — 68-year-old Gainesville resident Miriam Welly Elliot — is exhibiting space memorabilia to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon. The exhibit will be at the Florida Museum of Natural History this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Elliot said.

The exhibit will showcase autographed photos of the original seven astronauts, a photo autographed by the Apollo 11 astronauts, a model of the Apollo lunar lander, Welly’s Exceptional Service Medal from NASA, a small flag carried around the moon by the Apollo 17 astronauts and items from his time working on other projects like the Mercury, Gemini and Skylab missions and more.

Welly collected all these items from his time working at NASA. He started in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1947 — which was a precursor

to NASA — and then retired from NASA in 1976, Elliot said. During his time working on Apollo 11, Welly was chief of the spacecraft surveillance branch. For this, he would supervise those inspecting the spacecraft to ensure everything was done accurately.

“I was watching interviews on TV last night with Neil Armstrong where he was acknowledging the hundreds of thousands of people that work to get them to the moon,” Elliot said. “My dad was one of them. He’s a hero.”

Welly’s memorabilia is not the only event here at UF to celebrate this anniversary. UF’s Department of Astronomy is also having a free event at the Campus Teaching Observatory, said UF Teaching Observatories director Francisco Reyes.

The observatory will be open this Friday from 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

At 9, director of the NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium Jaydeep Mukherjee will be speaking about the moon. The observing session will start at 9:30 p.m. Some objects that may be visible are: Jupiter, Saturn, the binary star Mizar, the Ring Nebula and some globular clusters.

The moon may also be visible at the end of the session.

However, this is all dependent on weather as most activities take place outside, Reyes said.

“If it is overcast, we can go ahead with the talk and we can show the Apollo 11 movie,” Reyes said, “but the viewing with the telescopes may not be possible.”

The main point of the Apollo 11 anniversary is celebrating the wellknown individuals associated with the event, as well as the everyday people who worked tirelessly to make this amazing achievement happen — people like Charlie Welly. “[Welly] represents the people behind the scenes that make this possible,” Elliot said. “I’m just very proud of his contributions.” @MeleahLyden mlyden@alligator.org Timeline courtesy of Miriam Welly Elliot Charlie Welly (1917 - 2012) • 1947: Joins NACA (National Advisory Committee on Aviation) • Worked in Cleveland Airport as an Aircraft Mechanic • 1958: NACA named changed to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) • January 1960: Moves to Titusville, FL to work at Cape Canaveral on Mercury Program as a Spacecraft Inspector • 1963: Named changed to Kennedy Space Center • 1965 - 1968: Works on Gemini • 1968 - 1972: Works on Apollo • 1973: Works on Skylab • 1975: Works on ApolloSoyuz • 1976: Retires

The camera was aimed at the moon’s surface near the base of one of the four landing legs. As Armstrong made the epic step, millions of TV viewers the world over saw it live.

The step signaled attainment of man’s greatest scientific achievement to date.

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” Armstrong said as his left foot touched the moon’s dusty surface.

Aldrin soon joined him, and the two busied themselves setting up several experiments, gathering rocks and taking pictures.

They were interrupted once when President Nixon spoke to them via telephone from Washington, D.C. “For one priceless moment in the whole history,” Nixon said, “all the people on this earth are one — one in their pride in what you have done and one in your prayers that you will return safely to Earth.”

Armstrong, obviously feeling strong emotions, thanked Nixon and the American people.

“It’s a great honor and privilege for us to be here, representing not only the United States but men of peaceable nations — men with interest and curiosity of man’s vision for the future,” Armstrong said.

The men then resumed their activities, gathering samples of the lunar soil and taking various measurements.

Then, about two hours after they first opened the hatch, the two climbed up the ladder, with Aldrin in the lead, and began removing their bulky back packs and outer suits.

After dumping much of their equipment out, they began a long rest period to separating the upper portion of the LM from the landing section and blasting back into lunar orbit for rendezvous with Collins in the command module “Columbia.”

After chasing Columbia for more than two orbits of the moon, Eagle finally docked and Armstrong and Aldrin crawled back into Columbia.

The upper part of Eagle was discarded into space Monday night.

Columbia’s main engine was scheduled to blast the three out of lunar orbit early this morning.

Where and how to celebrate the Apollo 11 anniversary THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST LUNAR LANDING IS FRIDAY

By Brittany Wallace Staff Writer

The Apollo 11 moon landing was a major step forward in human history. It was the day people all over the world sat fixated on their TV, leaning in anticipation, to see something they once thought impossible.

On July 19, it will have been 50 years since that astronomical day, and there are a few activities in Gainesville that people can do to celebrate the human feat.

UF Astronomy Department: Celebrate Apollo 11 The UF Astronomy Department is letting the Gainesville community into the teaching observatory this Friday for the Celebrate Apollo 11 event.

The event starts at 9 p.m. and ends at 11:30 p.m. There are telescopes that will allow you to observe the moon, planets, nebulae and more. Dr. Jaydeep Mukherjee will give a short talk at the beginning of the event and bring items that will be given to children. The

event is free and will be held at the UF Campus Teaching Observatory.

The Cade Museum: Movie screening of Apollo 11 On Friday, the Cade Museum will show the documentary style movie “Apollo 11” that came out in 2019. This film comes with newly discovered footage and audio of the moon landing.

The doors will open at 6 p.m. where attendees can indulge in movie theater refreshments.

The movie will begin at 6:30 p.m. and ends at 8 p.m. Tickets for the movie are $1.50, resembling the prices around 1969.

Hippodrome: “Armstrong” The Hippodrome State Theatre will be showing the documentary film “Armstrong” multiple times until July 26. The film gives a deeper look into Neil Armstrong’s family life, time in the Korean war and his space missions. Today, the showing will start at 8:30 p.m. and end at 10:30 p.m. The tickets for the show are $7 for students and seniors and $9 for adults. @BtNwallace bwallace@alligator.org

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UF launches new student ticket app de la Torre attended UF THE FLORIDA GATORS APP IS DESIGNED TO MAKE FOOTBALL GAMES A CASHLESS EXPERIENCE

Magic.

Slagle said the app has been in planning and development for about a year and will launch Aug. 1 as a free download from mobile stores. It will be launching in conjunction with the stadium’s new Wi-Fi, allowing fans to use it without any slowdowns.

In the future, Slagle said there’s a possibility of using the app for other things like basketball registration if it works well for football.

Luke Rouleau, an 18-year-old UF computer engineering sophomore, said he thinks the new app is a good idea but recognizes the potential difficulties, such as getting good seats when every student has the instant convenience of being able to get tickets on their phone.

“If it works well, then that would be great,” Rouleau said. “It’s always tough to launch an app for the first time and have lots of traffic.” @charlie_daffron cdaffron@alligator.org

do things like purchase food and drinks from the concession stand directly on their phones, he said.

Slagle said to think of the new app as “a game day Swiss Army knife.”

“Eventually fans should just be able to bring their phone to the venue and not even have to bring their wallet if they don’t want to,” Slagle said.

The app will use Ticketmaster to manage general fan tickets and a service called Experience to manage student tickets.

Slagle said Experience will allow students with season passes to get seats with their friends when they claim their student ticket the week of the game, something Ticketmaster wouldn’t be able to do.

The app was developed with the help of a company called VenueNext. Slagle said UF is VenueNext’s first college client, but the company has already developed similar apps for the likes of the New York Yankees and the Orlando

By Charlie Daffron Staff Writer

Gone are the days of students meticulously planning the perfect time to meet up with their friends to walk over to the student ticket windows at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium and get their seats for that week’s football game.

On Aug. 1, UF will launch the Florida Gators app, which will allow students and fans to claim tickets on their phones, said James Slagle, the assistant athletics director of revenue generation for the UF Athletic Association.

This will be the first time students won’t need to visit the stadium on the week of the game to secure their tickets.

The app also allows fans to

CHURCH SUES, from pg. 1 with their own law enforcement officers. For example, a police chief telling officers not to detain immigrants at a hurricane shelter may not be using their “best efforts.”

The law prompted the Alachua County Sheriff ’s Office to begin holding undocumented immigrants for an additional 48 hours after their release to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers extra time to decide whether to take the person into custody.

“Attorney General Moody is ready to defend the constitutionality of the sanctuary cities ban,” Lauren Schenone, director of public affairs at the Office of the Florida Attorney General, wrote in an email. “As this

is ongoing litigation, it would not be appropriate to comment further.”

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DIRECTOR, from pg. 1 the student enrollment from 21 students in 2008 to over 319 students in 2011, Ureña Valerio said.

Aside from his career at Kentucky, de la Torre directed the political studies and Ph.D. program at FLACSO Ecuador and the Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies program at Northeastern University, Ureña Valerio said.

He was successful as director in these programs, Ureña Valerio said.

At FLACSO Ecuador, de la Torre contributed in designing the first Ph.D. program in political studies in the country, and he gained experience coordinating study abroad programs in-

tion to do so passed unanimously at the last commission meeting on June 20, said Commissioner Harvey Ward.

Larry Hannan, spokesperson for Southern Poverty Law Center, said the law takes power away from local governments.

“If communities have other major problems, you know, this law basically says you have to focus on immigration enforcement,” Hannan said. “When there might be an opioid problem, or if the murder rate goes up, they still have to put resources into this.”

Ward spoke about the lawsuit Friday evening at the Gainesville Lights for Liberty: Vigil to End Human Detention Camps protest. He said the commission would move forward in joining the case, if he had anything to do with it.

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“I’m going to need some support from you on this. I’m going to need you, now or when you get home, to email the city commission,” Ward said to the crowd of about 100, pausing to spell the email address twice.

“And tell us that you want us to join the lawsuit against [SB] 168.”

Ward said he intends to ask the city attorney’s office for a status report on the lawsuit during commissioner comment at the meeting today.

He wants the commission to have an opportunity to digest the report.

“I do hope that we will take action on it,” Ward said. “My guess is that it won’t be this meeting when we take action, but that we can put some procedural steps down to move forward.”

The Rev. Larry Green, the pastor of Westminster and executive direc-

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cluding the Drew University semester abroad program in Chile, Ureña Valerio said.

She said during the campus interview, he highlighted areas that need further developing in UF’s program, placing an emphasis on diversity, as he plans to make this program more diverse than it was in the 2018-2019 academic year.

“UF is one of the top schools of the nation, and it will be a great challenge to be part of an intellectual community of first rated scholars at the center for Latin American Studies,” de la Torre said. “I am thrilled to go back to my alma mater.” @tori_whidden twhidden@alligator.org

tor of the Alachua County Human Rights Coalition, was one of the Friday protest organizers. He told the crowd Jesus was a radical and they should follow his example. He talked about the lawsuit and urged the protestors to get their churches and organizations to join as well.

“If you are part of a church where your pastor does not want to preach politics, tell him to study Jesus,” Green said.

Green said the Human Rights Coalition should also be a plaintiff by next week. He plans to meet with the county commissioners in August to ask them to sign on and to make a public request at a commission meeting. @lindseybreneman lbreneman@alligator.org

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Bell man charged for severed penis Four UF faculty honored HIS BOND IS SET AT $1.25 MILLION

By Rachael Schirmer Staff Writer

A Bell man has been charged with severing another man’s penis on Sunday.

Alex Cesar Bonilla, 49, broke into the man’s home in Bell around 11 a.m. with a black 9 mm handgun, according to a Gilchrist Sheriff’s Office police report. He reportedly held the man

at gunpoint to tie him up in a bedroom and told him he would kill him if he resisted.

After restraining the man, Bonilla used a pair of scissors to forcefully cut off his penis, according to the report. Two other people were in the house at the time, including a 4-year-old girl.

Bonilla caught the victim having sex with his wife in May, according to the report.

Bonilla left the house and returned to his house across the street with the severed penis, the man told deputies. Gilchrist

Sheriff’s deputies tracked Bonilla down at his place of work and arrested him.

Bonilla was charged with burglary, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, cruelty toward a child and displaying a firearm during a felony, a total of six felonies.

He remains in Gilchrist County jail in lieu of a $1.25 million bond. It is not known if he has an attorney. @rschirmerr rschirmer@alligator.org

Hawthorne to control feral cats by partnering with Alachua County CITIZENS COMPLAINED ABOUT DAMAGE TO PERSONAL PROPERTY AT A COMMISSION MEETING

By Rosmery Izaguirre Staff Writer

Hawthorne residents have seen a rise in some furry new neighbors, but residents aren’t happy about it.

The City Commission agreed to partner with Alachua County Animal Services and Operation Catnip of Gainesville on Tuesday after citizens voiced their complaints about property damage done by stray cats.

An educational workshop will be set up for the community to learn about the Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program, Hawethorne Mayor Matt Surrency said. The workshop will be aimed to inform people how the program works and why it is done.

“We’re going to work with the community and the people that are involved to try and do a big round-up at one time,” Surrency said. “We’re working on it at this time to figure out the best time to work with all of our partners.”

The TNR program provides spay, neuter and vaccinations for free-roaming community cats that do not have owners, said Audrey Garrison, executive director of Operation Catnip. The cats are ear-tipped, which is when one centimeter of the tip of their ear

is cut off to show that they were spayed or neutered.

Community cats usually stay around because they are being fed and have a food source to come back to, Garrison said. Generally, the cats are brought to the clinic by people who feed the cats where they live or work.

Garrison said the TNR program is a humane way of controlling overpopulation of feral cats instead of euthanizing the cats.

“You can control the population with spay and neuter,” Garrison said. “As a nation, for years, our solution to free-roaming cats was to kill them and that did nothing.”

Surrency said after the educational workshop, the city will be getting traps provided by Operation Catnip and set them all up at the same time. The cats will be taken to Operation Catnip clinics to be spayed or neutered and eventually be returned to where they were captured.

Garrison said Operation Catnip hosts specific clinic days to bring in the cats but that the organization would possibly set up additional days depending on the number of people interested.

“We’re happy to work with the city of Hawthorne, or anybody else that is willing to be proactive in helping to control the population of cats,” Garrison said. @rgizaguirre rizaguirre@alligator.org

with presidential award AWARD GRANTED TO LEADING SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS EXEMPLIFYING LEADERSHIP IN THEIR FIELDS OF STUDY

By Kyndal Rock Contributing Writer

President Donald Trump announced the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — with four out of the eight Florida recipients being UF faculty members.

The UF faculty members who received the prestigious award are: • David Clark, a research associate professor in the Department of Aging and Geriatric Research • Domenic Forte, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering • Aysegul Gunduz, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering • Maitane Olabarrieta, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering In total, the White House news release listed over 300 award recipients by state, research institution and nominating federal agency.

According to the press release, the award is “the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers and who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.”

A day after the list was released on July 2, David Clark heard the news and wasted no time in contacting his family to share.

Clark said the U.S. Department of

Veterans Affairs nominated him for his work on mobility function in people with neurological impairments, such as the elderly and stroke or spinal injury patients. His research also focuses on the effect of the aging process on the nervous system.

“It is definitely validation that the work that we’re doing in my lab is viewed as being important and that we’re on the right track and looking at topics that are of high relevance,” Clark said.

Nine participating agencies nominate researchers who have worked with them. According to the National Science Foundation, one of the participating agencies, each recipient receives a citation, a plaque and funding from the nominating agency for up to five years to advance their research.

The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded Clark a grant worth $125,000. The grant will go towards the expenses of running his research program including lab equipment and supporting students, Clark said.

“I don’t do any of this alone,” he said. “I certainly need a lot of help from other people to contribute to the research.”

Domenic Forte, nominated by the Department of Defense for his work on counterfeit electronics detection and avoidance, received a grant for $1 million spread across five years.

Forte plans to use the money to explore new areas including human biometric presentation attacks and countermeasures, PUF (hardware biometric) signatures for printed circuit boards and methods to speed up anomaly detection of electronic signatures.

Forte said the award is not just a grant but an award for life, highlighting a person’s hard work and dedication to their research.

“It’s something that will always be on my resume, and it’s something that makes me stand out,” Forte said.

“It’s something that I’ll [always] be very proud of.”

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our face reflects off the shiny wooden counter wet with spilled drink. “Is that really what I look like?” you think to yourself. Somehow you’ve found yourself in a deserted bar. There’s some sort of “deal” going on that isn’t really a deal at all. The drink prices are barely any different, and the deal is canceled if you only want one drink because there’s a card minimum. What is this, the 90’s? If you don’t leave now, you’ll spend more money you don’t have on subpar food and drink you don’t need. You leave a tip and sign your receipt. As you do the math, you see something doesn’t add up. The price is too low. The bartender forgot to charge you for half of your order, then you see it on the bottom of the receipt…

Darts and Laurels

A dart goes to Trump’s racist tweets. On Sunday, President Trump took to Twitter and in a series of tweets told progressive Democrat congresswomen of color (a.k.a “The Squad” of Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts) to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” These tweets have us banging our heads against our desks because 1) not agreeing with one’s government is not grounds for someone to abandon it. That’s not how democracy works 2) three out of the four congresswomen where born in the United States and all of them are citizens.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced a motion to rebuke the comments. The House voted on Tuesday to condemn the president for his racist tweets. If it sounds like a big deal, it’s not. “The House vote, while historic, has no real-world implications for the President,” CNN’s Chris Cillizza said.

A laurel goes to Netflix for deciding to remove the controversial suicide scene from “13 Reasons Why.” Originally released more than 2 years ago, the first season featured a graphic scene of the main character Hannah’s suicide. People across the world were outraged the show would depict such a triggering image when it is catered toward teenagers and young adults. There were fears of “copycat” suicides happening because of the show, and as experts predicted, they sadly did happen.

Continuing on that thread, on Wednesday, the Florida Board of Education mandated public schools must teach students at least five hours of mental health instruction beginning in 6th grade. The required courses will help students understand mental illness signs and symptoms, teach them how to help fellow classmates and provide resources if they are battling with depression or other issues. Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran said state officials worked closely with first lady Casey DeSantis to implement the rule, according to New Service of Florida. We are giving a laurel to this mandate as it will hopefully give students the resources they need to seek help.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens died Monday of complication of a stroke. He was 99. Before retiring in 2010, he sat on the bench for 35 years, the second-longest run in history. He wrote the court’s majority opinion for Atkins v.

Virginia, which declared the execution of the mentally disabled as unconstitutional. He was described as a conservative antitrust lawyer who was shocked to find himself turned into a liberalleaning judge after years on the bench. A laurel goes to him in his memory.

The Ebola epidemic is back in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This outbreak started a year ago in August with now at least 2,500 cases reported and more than 1,660 people dead according to UNICEF. We are giving a dart to the situation as the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a “global health emergency.” This designation of emergency has only been used four times before, one of those times being the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. According to The New York Times, officials are worried about the persistence of the virus even though there’s a successful vaccine.

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How to catch a liar (part 2)

Also, in the emails I received were records of the House of Representatives member, Jennifer Sullivan, pushing to get Wikan a higher hourly pay rate (from $8.25 to $10 dollars per hour). tudent Government Senator Audrey WiMust be nice. kan claimed to have served within the Rep. Sullivan seemed to have gotten creative Florida legislature as the “district secwith the position title too, originally looking to retary” under Representative Jennifer Sullivan. hire Audrey as an “assistant legislative aide,” When her nomination to the SG budget comthough a handwritten revision scratches the title mittee (a committee that controls over $21 milout on one document and replaces it with “OPS lion) was challenged, she relied on her experiClerk.” Elsewhere, Sullivan says, “[Wikan] will Zachariah ence as district secretary to substitute for her not be a District Legislative Assistant.”

Chou having any experience with SG finance at all.

Anyhow, Wikan was terminated from her opinions@alligator.org After her confirmation hearing, I sent off a position of not being the district secretary on public records request to the Florida House of June 29, 2018, which makes for a solid two months of emRepresentatives. I also emailed the representative’s office ployment. How this really was supposed to substitute for asking for clarification. They called me back to say Wikan having experience with SG finance is still beyond me, but was a fine employee, but the person I talked to could not whatever. confirm her claims.

Oh, and that high school adviser of Wikan I emailed?

I also emailed her high school Future Business Leaders She couldn’t remember if Wikan actually held the position of America adviser to check if she has actually served as of treasurer (though she did have some nice things to say her school’s chapter treasurer as she claimed during her about her as an overall leader in the FBLA chapter). I’ll give confirmation (though not on her resume).

Wikan the benefit of the doubt on that one, but I’ll take What I found out may shock you (but let’s be honest, the time to remind you of a line sung by Little Red Riding nothing probably shocks anybody given how dishonest Hood in “I Know Things Now” from the critically acclaimed people in SG are). musical and film “Into the Woods”: “Nice is different than The position of “district secretary” appears to be one of good.” the highest positions in a representative’s district. If you So yeah, Wikan’s pants were totally on fire. My fellow look up a Florida House of Representative member, the two minority party senators and I brought our concerns to the positions directly under their names are that of the legisla- Senate since maybe you probably shouldn’t have a demtive assistant and that of the district secretary. So it’s most onstrated liar on a committee that controls $21 million. likely not exactly the position anyone would hire a high Spoiler alert: the majority party defended the lie and Wikan school student to fill. doubled down on it producing a “recommendation letter” Yet in high school, Audrey Wikan applied for the posi- from Sullivan. tion of “district secretary” on April 23, 2018. I would say it’s A dramatic, yet actually factual, retelling of the senate safe to say she did not get the position because on Wikan’s meeting awaits you, dear reader, next week. Brace your application, it plainly states she left her last job with the hearts, water your crops, hold your children, hide your sig“intention of interning with the current district secretary,” nificant other, lock your doors and file your taxes; the truth which is probably not something you would say if you were will come out. applying to be the district secretary.

Zachariah Chou is a UF political science junior. His The records I received from the house mostly classify column appears on Thursdays.

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store markup that adds an additional cost when you purchase through a campus bookstore. Even though campus bookstores tend to buy books with a discount, they typically sell them to students at a 25 to 28 percent markup. Those costs may be covering the maintenance of the store, but 25 percent of every textbook purchased by students seems extreme.

While selling textbooks no longer useful to you is an option, breaking even on a textbook is almost never uition. School Supplies. Gas. Parking depossible, so you end up selling your barely used cals. If you’re a student, you’ve probably book for way less than what you paid for it. Rehad to pay for some, if not all, of these exselling your textbook to the campus bookstore is penses before the first day at school. And the equivalent to trying to resell your old Nintenjust when you think your bank account dogs game to GameStop and getting offered $2. is done playing limbo, your professor says those Lucky deserved more. You deserve more. dreaded four words: “The textbook is mandatory.”

The worst feeling is when you buy a shiny At UF, the average estimated cost for books new textbook for class, thinking it would be used.

Amanda and supplies is $1,210. While that number But instead, it gathers dust, and the cashier at the Martinez doesn’t lay out how much money solely goes tobookstore turns you away when you try to return opinions@alligator.org ward books, the average cost of textbooks for a it. It’s understandable, a book out of its plastic freshman undergrad at a 4-year public university in America could be seen as unsuitable for reselling. But most of all, from 2003 to 2004 was $898.00, according to the Govern- it’s heartbreaking and wallet-draining. The seemingly least ment Accountability Office. expensive way to purchase a textbook is to speak to your So, why are textbooks so pricey? They weren’t always professor and make sure the textbook will be used in your that way. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports prices of class. If it’s mandatory, search the ISBN on sites like Amazon college brand-new print textbooks have increased 88 percent and Chegg for the cheapest option. from 2006 to 2016. Textbooks come in various forms and You might not be able to judge a book by its cover, but can be bought digitally, used or rented. Purchasing an online you can certainly gawk at the price. version of a book can sometimes be less expensive than a physical copy, but then you’re stuck with an extremely overAmanda Martinez is a senior telecommunication mapriced, hard-to-navigate PDF. jor. Her column usually appears on Tuesdays.

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Student Spotlight: A “sticker” situation Brittany Wallace // Alligator Staff Brittany Wallace // Alligator

Shane Stockings is a 22-year-old UF business graduate student who loves to travel.

The golf sticker is from the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia; the biggest golf tournament in the U.S. Stockings and his father applied to go for 10 years before they won a seat.

Ariana Gonzalez is a 20-year-old UF physics student with a deep fascination in space.

Gonzalez once learned about Water Bears, a microscopic organism that can survive the vacuum of space, so she got stickers of them for her laptop.

By Brittany Wallace Avenue Staff Writer

HOW STUDENTS EXPRESS THEMSELVES WITH LAPTOP STICKERS

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Stephany Fuentes is a 20-year-old biology junior and a proud feminist. She has stickers like “Women’s World” and “Trust Women” because she wants to spark conversation and educate people on feminism. Fuentes promotes Bumble because she believes they empower women by allowing them to choose their match.

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Shelby Luckey is a 20-year-old UF psychology junior, and she loves expressing herself by decorating her laptop. Luckey has stickers like “End the Stigma” and “Mental Health Matters” because, she understands the importance of mental health.

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Mariee Sioux to perform in Gainesville THE FOLK SINGER RELEASED HER THIRD ALBUM “GRIEF IN EXILE” LAST MONTH, WHICH WAS INSPIRED BY HER HEALING PROCESS

By Nick Hudson Avenue Staff Writer

Mariee Sioux is bringing her unique style of ancestral folk music to Gainesville.

Pulp Arts is set to host Sioux at the Heartwood Soundstage on Saturday, where she will perform tracks off her new album “Grief in Exile.”

Sioux, 34, began writing songs and playing music at 19 after teaching herself to play guitar.

Much of Sioux’s music is inspired by her desire to be connected with her diverse ancestry. Sioux has roots in Native Southern California, Mexico, Poland and Hungary.

“Since I was young, I’ve always craved more connection to the knowledge of my people that has been lost very rapidly through the lines of my heritage,” Sioux said. “I think a lot of that music came from

a place of longing and a hunger for more of my culture that I couldn’t really tap into through my own family.”

Sioux’s newest album “Grief in Exile” has a strong thematic focus on healing. She wrote many of the songs while recovering from a toxic relationship and other issues in her life.

“I tend to go to writing songs when I need to heal in some way,” she said. “I think the songs have always been a healing place for me and a place to reconnect with myself.”

Sioux said many of her fans have also described profound healing experiences when listening to her music.

“A lot of people have described the music as feeling like medicine for them,” she said. “Maybe it comes from going to that musical place when I need to heal from something.”

Pulp Arts, a creative arts hub based in Gainesville, said it decided to book Sioux through the recommendation of its sound engineer H.L. Nelly. Nelly met and befriended Sioux while working in Oakland,

California.

Nelly said she felt a strong connection to Sioux’s music, especially the song “Baby Waves,” which helps Nelly remember her late daughter.

“For me, her music is incredibly human,” Nelly said. “She just touches on something that connects everyone — these really deep, basic human experiences — and no matter who you are, I think she’s speaking to you.”

Fort White resident Nicolette Matt, 39, a digital marketer, said she is excited to see Sioux at the Heartwood on Saturday.

She found Sioux’s music while listening to the free folk station on Pandora, and she said she was surprised to see her coming to Gainesville.

Matt associates the music with her time in the Pacific Northwest. “[Sioux’s music] has that feeling of damp woods,” she said. “It’s nice to remember the time there. It has such a haunting, deeply feminine power to it and stands apart from lots of other music.”

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The California natives most recent song “Black Snakes” was inspired by the Standing Rock/Water Protectors movement.

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Local artists passionately share their talents at Craft and Vendor Festival CRAFTS AND VENDOR FESTS TAKE PLACE EVERY SECOND SATURDAY Harley Smith Avenue Staff Writer

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Musician Cami Maree plays on stage at One Love Cafe and interacts with a young fan.

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About 40 local vendors displayed their handmade paintings, ceramics, jewelry and other crafts on the grassy front of One Love Cafe on Saturday.

As singer Cami Maree played acoustic guitar and sang feel-good songs like “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty, attendees made their way in and out the artists’ shaded tents while others lounged.

The Crafts and Vendor Festival takes place every second Saturday of the month. However, starting next month it will be relocated to Green Market Nursery off Newberry Road from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The organizer of the festival could not be reached for comment on the reasoning for the location change.

Some vendors Saturday speculated the reason for the move may be because of slow foot traffic outside of One Love Cafe.

On this particular sunny Florida morning, one artist, 59-year-old Carolyn Von Zabern, sat like a queen on her throne amongst her clay creations.

“It brings me so much joy to make pottery and paint,” she said. “It brings out a whole new creative element.”

Von Zabern handmakes mugs, dishes, pet portraits and jewelry, all of which were lying out on tables around her.

In addition to being an artist and vendor, Von Zabern is a doctor at the Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

“I have a full-time job and this [artistry] is like my oth-

er full-time job,” Von Zabern said.

As a medical professional, Von Zabern believes art has a place in medicine.

In 2017, Harvard Medical School published an article about the intersection between art and medicine. This article reported a major benefit of art is it allows for communication without words. A patient’s artwork can give their caretakers insight.

“It catches you in a vulnerable state, and you are able to share that,” Von Zabern said. “That’s actually the thing that helps you and [medical professionals] understand what’s going on.”

Von Zabern said she attended a seminar where she and a group were guided in mediation before making pottery. “[After the meditation,] they said you can sculpt whatever you want,” she said. “We worked for about half an hour, and we showed our pieces. It was just amazing creativity.”

While creating, Von Zabern said many of the artists at the seminar entered a flow state.

“Everybody said, ‘I didn’t even worry about anything that was going on in my life. I was just working on that piece,’” she said.

While the vendors at the fest are certainly passionate about their crafts, their work also serves as a connection point for the community.

“I think it bridges all kinds of differences in people and brings them together, and that’s what’s fun about coming out to things like this,” Von Zabern added. @harleyj_smith harleyjune8@gmail.com

Heartwood Soundstage to FOOD host biannual Story Summit High Dive hosts food truck rally THE EVENT WILL SHOWCASE GAINESVILLE’S MOST SKILLED STORYTELLERS

By Priya Dames Avenue Staff Writer

Heartwood Soundstage will host the fourth Story Summit event Friday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The event is located at 619 S. Main St. and will feature six storytellers from the three largest storytelling organizations in Gainesville: Self Narrate, Guts & Glory GNV and The Conch.

Storytelling began as an obscure art in Gainesville with very small participation, said Brand Telg, co-founder of Self Narrate.

Self Narrate is a nonprofit that organizes workshops, events and other communitybuilding opportunities to encourage people to share their personal stories.

Over the past five years, the storytelling community has greatly expanded, offering at least three storytelling events a month. Story Summit is the best night of the year to hear from Gainesville’s most talented storytellers.

“There are many storytelling events in Gainesville, often at least three per month, but if you only come to one storytelling event in Gainesville each year, it should be

Story Summit,” Telg said.

According to Bill Bryson, founder of The Conch, the event features six storytellers who will tell true stories about their life.

Bryson started The Conch after being inspired by storytelling podcast, “The Moth.”

The Conch holds open mics at Satchel’s Pizza monthly.

The event shows the collaborative culture that Gainesville’s creative community works hard to cultivate.

“To be totally honest, people asked each of us if we were in competition with each other, and that’s very much not the case,” Tegg said. We are all friends in this storytelling community, so unifying our efforts on a big event like Story Summit also demonstrates that our community is cohesive and whole.”

Speakers from Guts and Glory GNV, founded by UF alumni Taylor Williams, will also be speaking at the event.

Doors will open at 6 p.m. Early ticket price is $15. Ticket price at the door is $20.

Bryson and Telg hope that participants personally connect with the performers.

“Storytelling is a powerful tool for developing self-efficacy, building relationships and gaining perspective,” Telg said.

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benefitting Mobile Outreach Clinic

By Lily Girton Avenue Staff Writer

High Dive will host a food truck rally to support a local clinic this weekend.

On Saturday, High Dive is hosting its free food truck rally featuring discounted high-end foods, live music and an opportunity to help UF’s Mobile Outreach Clinic.

The rally begins at 5 p.m. with a variety of vendors serving food ranging from Indian food to gelato, including vegan and vegetarian options.

According to High Dive’s facility and events manager Pat Lavery, High Dive has raised about $25,000 for charity through food truck rallies over the past five years.

One method of fundraising at the rally is a food truck competition, where attendees are able to vote for their favorite food truck with a donation. The winning food truck receives a $100 gift card to a local business and the money is donated to UF’s Mobile Outreach Clinic.

Lavery said High Dive chose to donate the money it raises to the Outreach Clinic because it is a well-organized charity with

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deep ties in the community.

The clinic provides primary care to unemployed or underinsured patients. It also have many specialty clinics.

According to Linda Guan, the clinic’s fundraising chair and lead coordinator, the money raised Saturday will benefit the clinic by improving the quality of care to make more resources available.

The Mobile Outreach Clinic helps a lot of people. However, it is funded mostly by grants and donations. In November, the clinic will be hosting its first-ever fundraising gala to support its clinical operations.

Some of the vendors at the rally include The Charcoal Grill, Miller’s Funnel Cakes, Monsta Lobsta and Woodson’s Wrap Shack.

There will also be free live music inside of High Dive from performers Clout 9, Ben White and Hannah Joyce.

There are no tickets and attending the event is completely free. Consider stopping by to try new foods, listen to live music and benefit a meaningful cause. @lilygirton lgirton@alligator.org

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FOOTBALL

Position-by-Position: Evaluating UF’s wide receivers

By Bryan Matamoros Sports Writer

Chris King / Alligator Staff

Gators reciever Van Jefferson average 14.4 yards per catch in the 2018-19 season, the most in his career. He has 1502 recieving yards and 10 touchdowns over his collegiate career.

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never been an issue.

His focus has always F men’s basketball coach been on the defensive side of the ball, Mike White was thought to be and his teams have showcased such a questionable hire by many through their performance on that when former athletic director side of the court.

Jeremy Foley handed him the Despite the criticism White has job in May 2015. received for his offensive style, he’s I was also skeptical. a magician when it comes to baseHow was a guy with no NCAA line out-of-bounds plays. I’ve always Tournament appearances, hailing Evan Lepak been impressed with his ability to cretwitter: evanmlepak from Conference USA’s Louisiana ate easy scoring opportunities for his elepak@alligator.org Tech, going to carry on the legacy players when the team desperately Billy Donovan shaped during his two needed a basket. decades at Florida?

Heading into his fifth year at UF, the expectaWell, fast forward a little over four years and tions for White’s team in 2019-20 are significant, that skepticism I had has long disappeared. and with good reason.

Three NCAA Tournament appearances, five A top 10 recruiting class, a returning trio of NCAA Tournament wins and an Elite 8 appearelite sophomores that are expected to make an ance back in 2017 has convinced me he possesses even bigger jump this season and the top graduthe tools needed to keep the Gator men’s basketate transfer on the market have caught the attenball program at a top-tier level moving forward. tion of college basketball’s national media. Many Not everything has been perfect for White. He’s consider Florida a top 10 team and a Final Four still a young coach and has made mistakes that contender. have caused some of Gator Nation to continually I can’t say I disagree. scowl at his coaching ability.

With graduate transfer Kerry Blackshear Jr., Like his first season that only resulted in an Florida has an athlete down low with the offensive NIT appearance or this past year when the team skills that Gainesville hasn’t seen since Donovan didn’t quite live up to the expectations set before was still on the sidelines of the O’Connell Center. the season, sneaking into the NCAA Tournament To me, he’s the piece that’s been absent during then bowing out to Michigan in the second round.

White’s time with the Gators, and in my opinion, But what he did in his second season as head White has been handcuffed offensively at times coach was something not many expected. Highbecause of that. lighted by a lack of a major inside presence after With a roster now completely shaped by his John Egbunu’s season-ending knee injury, White own doing, this is the year that White has to help adjusted and used the team’s tenacity on defense his talented group of players live up to its potential and perimeter success on offense to guide the and make a deep run into the NCAA Tournament.

Gators to just one win shy of a Final Four nod.

If he does, expect to see the Gators roaming the While there have been question marks at times hardwood in Mercedes-Benz Stadium come April. on offense during White’s tenure, his defense has Running back Lamical Perine (pictured) and Quarterback Feleipe Franks were named to the award watchlists for their respective positions.

In his first season at the helm, Dan Mullen revitalized a Florida offense that seemed to lack an identity under former head coach Jim McElwain.

Quarterback Feleipe Franks thrived in Mullen’s run-dominant spread offense and UF’s wide receivers reaped the benefits.

Redshirt senior Van Jefferson will be returning for his second season at Florida after transferring from Ole Miss in 2018. He started all 13 games last year and led all Florida receivers in receptions (35), receiving yards (503) and touchdowns (6).

Jefferson’s career-high six touchdowns were more than he scored in three seasons at Ole Miss combined (4).

Senior Josh Hammond, who started alongside Jefferson last season, will be back for another season as well. Hammond recorded 28 catches, 369 receiving yards and four receiving touchdowns during the 2018-19 campaign.

Under McElwain, Hammond posted a combined 32 receptions, 423 recieving yards and zero receiving touchdowns in two years.

Senior Tyrie Cleveland is another receiver set to return for the upcoming season. He posted 18 receptions for 212 yards and three touchdowns as Mullen’s primary slot receiver before injuring his shoulder against Florida State in the regular season finale.

Cleveland also made his presence felt on special teams, where he recorded five tackles as a gunner during punts.

Junior Trevon Grimes showed flashes last season and has the potential to break out in 2019 due to his catch radius and rapport with Franks, who was also his roommate.

The 6-foot-5 receiver caught three balls for 50 yards and one touchdown in his debut against Charleston Southern and had five receptions for 118 yards and a score in the regular season finale against FSU. Grimes, however, was inconsistent in other games throughout the year. He recorded only one catch five times and failed to score another touchdown. Despite his up-anddown season, the Ohio State transfer still managed 26 catches for 364 yards, both good enough for third among Florida receivers.

Mullen also had junior Kadarius Toney -- a versatile athlete who saw time as a wide receiver, running back and kick returner -- at his disposal. Toney recorded 25 catches for 260 yards and one touchdown, along with 240 yards on the ground.

UF’s receiving corps has the depth and talent to produce at a high level with its group from last year still intact, which should bode well for Florida’s national championship aspirations.

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UF basketball coach Mike White is 89-53 in his four seasons with the Gators. His overall head coaching record is 190-93.

David Little inducted to Florida Sports Hall of Fame The former UF linebacker played for the Gators from 1977 to 1980 and earned a consensus All-American and first-team All-SEC nod. Little will be enshired on Nov. 12 in Orlando.

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Trinity Thomas to compete in GK U.S. Classic

Chris King / Alligator Staff

Trinity Thomas was named the NACGC Southeast Gymnast of the Year in 2019. She is the fifth UF gymnast to recieve the award and only the second freshman to do so.

By River Wells Sports Writer

UF gymnast Trinity Thomas is getting an early start to her year.

The rising sophomore is slated to compete in the 2019 GK U.S Classic on Saturday, an Elite gymnastics event that serves as a qualifier for the USA Gymnastics National Championships. Thom-

as’ entry into the event is somewhat unusual: She’ll be only the fifth gymnast to compete in the GK U.S. Classic since 2010 that has also participated in the NCAA Championships during the same calendar year.

“It’s just really special to have the opportunity to do both,” Thomas said. “I’m excited to be able to pursue both of my goals.”

Thomas will be competing on the bars and the beam. The SEC Freshman of the Year received First Team and Second Team All-American honors for both events, respectively, during the 2019 season.

The U.S. Classic will be a return to Elite competition for Thomas, who put the majority of her focus on collegiate competition in 2019.

“The first step right here can be at classics, getting reintroduced to Elite again after being out for a little bit in college,” Thomas said.

The event will feature notable Elite U.S. gymnasts such as four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, who was the Senior Champion at last year’s meet.

“It’s really special to be able to compete with them, because they’re the best of the best,” Thomas said. “And to be a part of that is super

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“I can’t say (Richards) has a weakness on any given event,” Rowland said. “She’s a very strong competitor.”

The GK U.S. Classic will be broadcasted on the Olympic Channel live at 7 p.m on Saturday.

“We’ve tried our best to give (Thomas) some down time,” Rowland said. “But she really is motivated. She’s eager.”

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The event serves as a pathway to both the USA Gymnastics National Championships and the Olympics. Despite the lofty goals at the end of the stretch, however, Thomas is starting small.

“Ultimately, the first step is to make the U.S National Team again,” UF coach Jenny Rowland said. “(Thomas has) got a few

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