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City commissioners: Publix stifles plastic ban COMMISSIONERS SAY THE FLORIDA-BASED GROCER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PLASTIC BAG BAN SHUTDOWNS ACROSS THE STATE

By Melissa Hernandez Digital News Editor

Gainesville’s plastic ban ended before it ever started.

The Gainesville City Commission voted 4-2 on Thursday to repeal an ordinance passed earlier this year banning the use of plastic bags and polystyrene foam containers. The decision came after the 3rd District Court of Appeals sided with the Florida Retail Federation in a case against Coral Gables regarding a similar plastic ban.

On July 15, Gainesville received a letter from the same lobbying group asking the city to repeal the ordinance and threatening legal action if not done so within 60 days, according to city documents.

The decision in the Coral Gables case came after a three-year legal battle with the Federation.

The appellate court ruled that the city’s plastic ban was deemed unconstitutional and violates section 500.90, which preempts local governments from enacting ordinances banning single-use plastics.

District 4 City Commissioner Adrian Hayes-Santos said he blames Publix.

“For years now, Publix has been the main force at the state legislature,” he said. “They’re hiding behind the Florida Retail Federation in trying to prevent cities from being able to protect the environment.”

Publix provides more than

half of the federation’s funding, according to state campaign finance documents. In the 2018 general election the Florida Retail Federation received a total of $690,552 in contributions. Publix donated $500,000 of the total.

The Alligator reached out to Dwaine Stevens, a regional Publix spokesperson. Stevens ignored interview requests and did not respond to specific questions about policies.

Instead, he provided the following statement that was given to other news organizations and appears verbatim on Publix’s website: “At Publix, our goal is to meet today’s needs without compromising what is essential for tomorrow. Simply stated, this means taking care of people and minimizing impact to our planet while remaining profitable.

Sustainability is ingrained in our culture and represented in our Mission Statement through valuing our associates, serving our customers, enhancing our ties to the communities we serve, conserving natural resources, and ensuring economic stewardship for our stockholders.”

Stevens added that Publix will comply with all ordinances and laws in all areas it operates in.

The supermarket chain’s political involvement goes beyond its close relationship with the Florida Retail Federation.

In 2016, the Lakeland-based company gave Florida lawmakers $1 million to pass legislation that would prevent local governments from banning single-use plastics, according to the Miami Herald.

Hayes-Santos said that as one

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Student organizations fight for funding after summer lawsuit REALLOCATION OF FUNDS FORCES CHANGE FOR UF’S LARGEST STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

By Emma McAvoy Alligator Staff Writer

Nine of UF’s largest student organizations are demanding action after of recent changes to their funding system following the Young Americans for Freedom’s $66,000 lawsuit against UF. The lawsuit requires UF Student Government to develop a new funding system for all student orga-

nizations, which changed budgets of the “Big Nine” –– the largest student body organizations –– and all other organizations funded by SG, said Hispanic Student Association president Isabella Oliver.

“It’s been very difficult trying to navigate the new system,” Oliver said. “There are other events we haven’t been able to fund because they ran out before we even put in the request.”

The UF chapter of Young Americans for Freedom sued UF, claiming its first and 14th amendment rights were violated by not having access to student activity

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Jose Regino, 39, unpacks his car in front of Tolbert Hall Friday afternoon with his 10-year-old son, Jonathon, and his 18-year-old son, Jacob. The Regino said the family wanted to unload the car quickly so that they could find the nearest alligator statue on campus and take photos in front of it to celebrate the beginning of the

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When: Tuesday, 1:40 to 1:55 p.m Where: Turlington Plaza What: UF Homecoming and Gator Growl will announce headliners for this year's Gator Growl in Turlington Plaza. Gator Growl will be held on Oct. 4 at Flavet Field. Tickets can be purchased on http://gatorgrowl.org.

CWC 4th Annual Bowling Fundraiser

When: Wednesday, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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Pride Night at World of Beer When: Wednesday, 9 p.m.

Where: World of Beer, What: WoB will be joined by the Pride Center of Gainesville to celebrate and support the diversity of Gainesville. The event will include a half-priced Pride Night menu including food, draft beer and spirits. After 9 p.m., guests can enjoy comedic stylings from "Keg of Laughs" in the Cellar.

Phillips Center Open House and UFPA On Sale Party When: Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Phillips Center for the Performing Arts What: University of Florida Performing Arts will host its first open house on Saturday, Aug. 24. The event will include food, prizes and a free ticket giveway to performances for the rest of the season. UFPA stall will lead guests through a backstage tour of the Philips Center to areas rarely seen by the public.

First Internaitonal Food Truck Rally When: Sunday, 3 to 8:30 p.m Where: First Magnitude Brewing Company What: First Magnitude Brewery and MA Entertainment partnered

SEPTEMBER Fall Student Government Elections

When: Sept. 24 and 25 Where: Across UF campus What: Fall SG Elections will be held Sept. 24 and 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. at locations across campus.

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Party registration will run Aug. 22 at 9 a.m. through Aug. 28 at 12 p.m. at the SG Office in the Reitz Union. Qualifying and slating will take place in Reitz Union rooms 3305, 3310, 3315 and 3320 as follows: Aug. 29, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Aug. 30, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sept. 3.

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A reader’s guide to what happened in UF SG over the Summer UF SG HANDLES A BUDGET OF $22 MILLION

By Emma McAvoy Alligator Staff Writer

It’s been a tumultuous summer for UF Student Government.

For students busy moving into dorms and ordering used textbooks, here’s a review of SG summer news.

Seats deemed illegitimate Senate President Libby Shaw nullified approved summer replacements, appointed by absent senators, in May. Shaw cited Article III, Section IV of the Student Body constitution, which says all Senate replacements must be approved on May 1, invalidating the replacements that were approved before May 1.

The Replacement and Agenda committee was tasked with choosing replacements. Inspire went from having around 25 seats to around 10.

Later, Shaw declared Minority Inspire Party Leader Ashley Grabowski and Inspire Senator Ben Lima “constructively absent,” resulting in them losing their seats.

Although the term “constructively absent” is not in the SG Rules and Procedures, Shaw used it to explain Grabowski and Li-

ma’s removal. The students are trying to appeal for their seats but haven’t been successful.

Senate passed the Rules and Procedures Amendment on Aug. 6, which included adding constructive absences as a power.

Sixty-six senators, mostly from Inspire, condemned the proposal in a letter to UF President Kent Fuchs and a press release, saying it would violate students’ rights and free speech, said Inspire Senator Zachary Amrose.

Lima said it’s important for students to keep an eye on SG occurrences to hold the Senate accountable.

“The University of Florida is a breeding ground for the future leaders of the state of Florida and the United States,” Lima said.

“So, making sure that these people are the best quality and the most ethical possible is of the utmost importance.”

Shaw did not respond to The Alligator’s request for comment for this article.

Finances established The 2020-2021 fiscal year budget was approved with a 3 percent increase from the 2019-2020 budget.

The Senate Rules and Procedures underwent major revisions, and the 2019-2020 budget ran out of money to fund event requests

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made by influential student organizations, leaving many unable to fund activities.

In the 2020-2021 year, SG will control a budget of more than $22 million funded by student tuition fees. Small student sub-organizations are now scrambling to secure funding.

Funding SG’s funding system was restructured for organizations such as the Black Student Union and Asian American Student Union following the Young Americans for Freedom’s lawsuit against UF. This reallocation caused an uproar when organizations had to give up their sub-organizations and lost funding for welcome assemblies.

In Fall, Impact Senator Nicholas Meyers wants to achieve equity in funding organizations.

In the last Senate meeting on Aug. 6, several people disaffiliated from Impact.

“People have said that there’s a lot of divisiveness and partisanship in the student government,” Meyers said. “That’s something that I have seen change from last Fall into the Summer.” @EmmaMcAvoy1 emcavoy@alligator.org

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Mauricio Perez announces he is disaffiliating from the Impact Party during the final Student Government Senate meeting of the summer in the Reitz Union chamber room Aug. 6.

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Your Syllabus Week off-campus to-do list EXPLORE GAINESVILLE OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF THE UNIVERSITY

By Alyssa Feliciano Alligator Staff Writer

In February, the University of Florida admitted more than 14,000 students to the Class of 2023.

Many will ask what new and old students always wonder when Fall rolls around: What is there to do in Gainesville outside of UF? ‘Rally in The Swamp,’ Tuesday Celebrating its fifth year, Rally in The Swamp is a student pep rally presented by the University Athletic Association and the UF Alumni Association to kick off the new school year.

Gates open at 6:30 p.m. and the first 3,000 students will receive free pizza.

Student-athletes, dancers, cheerleaders and members of the marching band will be there to help welcome back students, alongside football coach Dan Mullen and athletic director Scott Stricklin.

Tessa Violet live at the High Dive, Thursday

Violet, a singer-songwriter from Oregon whose career began on YouTube, will be performing with local Gainesville band The Forum.

Michael Higgins, singer and guitarist for The Forum, will be opening the show and said he always looks forward to playing at the High Dive.

“High Dive has really great sound for a smaller sized venue,” Higgins said, “Whenever we play there we are confident knowing everything is going to come through beautifully in the mix.”

Doors open at 8 p.m. and the show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets can be bought in advance online for $15 and $17 at the door.

Harn Museum of Art ‘pARTy,’ Thursday The event will feature three new exhibits and will have drinks, hors d’oeuvres and a beer garden provided

by First Magnitude Brewing Company.

Tami Wroath, director of marketing and public relations for the Harn, said the party is a celebration of the new 53rd SA+SH Studio Faculty Art Exhibition.

“These works, some on view for the very first time, will offer visitors a glimpse into the creative and pro-

fessional work of these outstanding artists and influential educators,” Wroath said.

The event is free to all museum members, and tickets are available for $20 to non-members.

International Food Truck Rally, Sunday In collaboration with MA Entertainment First Magnitude Brewing Company will host the event featuring more than 20 food trucks, including Cilantro Tacos and Lulu’s Gelato.

In addition to food, the event will have a DJ and live performances by Iris la Dama del Mambo and Bill Fote Trio.

The festival will run from 3 to 8:30 p.m. and is free to the public.

George “Bob” Dekle at the Alachua County Library Headquarters Branch, Sunday Deckle will be presenting his new true crime novel, “Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts.”

Deckle also formerly served as a professor of legal skills and director of the Prosecution Clinic at the University of Florida Levin College of Law until his retirement in 2016. @alyssashantelle afeliciano@alligator.org

UF introduces new

campus connector route THE ROUTE HAS SEVEN STOPS ON NEWELL DRIVE

By Ana Escalante Alligator Staff Writer

UF Transportation and Parking Services has added a new shuttle to the university.

The new route, called the Campus Connector, allows students and residents to commute down Newell Drive starting Tuesday, said UF spokesperson Steve Orlando. It will run Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

With seven stops, the service begins at Rinker Hall and finishes at the UF Health Circle of Hope. Lines are walk-on, meaning riders do not have to present a Gator 1 ID when boarding, Orlando said.

“The route will be running in the foreseeable future, provided high ridership,” Orlando

said.

Sammi Wicks, an 18-yearold UF elementary and special education sophomore, is excited for a more direct route toward Baby Gator, a daycare center where she volunteers to assist staff with children of UF employees.

Wicks said she’ll have a lot more money now since the route is in service.

“I usually just Uber to Baby Gator when I go volunteer,” she said. “Now that this route exists, it’ll be easier for me to get down there to volunteer with the cute kids.”

The Alligator could not reach RTS by deadline to confirm how much the new route costs and who will drive the shuttles. The story will be updated accordingly. @aescalante22 aescalante@alligator.org

UF Latin American Center sends Florida teachers to Mexico THIS JUNE MARKED THE INAUGURAL TRIP OF THIS PROGRAM, WHICH THEY HOPE TO CONTINUE IN THE FUTURE

By Hope Dean Alligator Staff Writer

Despite being a teacher for 25 years, it wasn’t academics that led Chris Gellermann to participate in an educational exchange trip to Campeche, Mexico — it was a dance performance.

Gellermann was one of three teachers to travel to Mexico in an exchange program organized by UF’s Center for Latin American Studies.

Gellermann teaches Spanish in Volusia County, where the non-profit Sister Cities of Volusia sends teachers and students to dif-

ferent parts of the world, or “sister cities,” to broaden their cultural horizons.

Gellermann was interested, but it wasn’t until exchange students from the Instituto Campechano came to perform traditional Mexican dances at his school that he decided to go for it.

“I was so impressed,” Gellermann said.

“They were just so intense and so professional and just amazing, and I’m like, ‘Man, I gotta look into this more.’”

The program was organized by Mary Risner, associate director of UF’s Center for Latin American Studies and former president of Sister Cities of Volusia.

The Center has taken educators on short trips to Latin American countries like Belize, Ecuador and Costa Rica since 2008, but this 10day pilot program was the first and longest of its kind, Risner said.

During the trip from June 8 to 18, two Flor-

ida teachers stayed with local teachers, and visited three institutions to learn more about education and culture in Mexico. “[With] this program we wanted to go a little bit deeper … a real exchange, as opposed to just our teachers going to one school for a couple of hours,” Risner said.

But the program isn’t over yet — this October, the former Mexican hosts will become guests at the teachers’ homes in another exchange.

“I think we all need to learn about different parts of the world so we can all respect each other and appreciate our differences and similarities, and I think it’s particularly important in Florida where we have a lot of students from a lot of different countries,” Risner said.

And with the financial upsides of this program, they’re hoping to turn the pilot into something more.

The Center for Latin American Studies used

part of their two-year $840,000 funding (20182020) from the U.S. Department of Education to fuel this exchange program, but because the teachers were hosted by local Mexican educators, all they had to cover were the flight and other transportation costs.

The three teachers were picked through the recommendation of Alachua County supervisors, but Risner plans for the participants to be picked via an application process in the future.

The next exchange program is currently scheduled for June 2021.

“I just hope we can continue to have funding and support from the school district around Florida to do more of these kind of exchanges and to do them for future teachers in the College of Education, because I just think it’s so important for us to understand other cultures and be accepting and respectful,” she said. @hope_m_dean hdean@alligator.org

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Moms Demand Action rally calls for an end to gun violence ABOUT 150 PEOPLE, MAYOR LAUREN POE ATTENDED

By Lina Ruiz Alligator Staff Writer

On Saturday, for 100 seconds, about 150 people stood silent -- every second representing each person who dies from gun violence every day in the U.S. The crowd shared this moment at Cypress and Grove Brewery during a recess rally, which called for the Senate to take action against gun violence while in recess.

The Gainesville chapter of Moms Demand Action, a non-profit advocacy organization, hosted the event. Many attendees’ flooded the room wearing red shirts with the

organization’s name and logo.

Eight speakers, including Mayor Lauren Poe, spoke about the effort to end the epidemic of mass shootings in the United States.

“We as a city — because we cannot wait for action at the state and federal level — are going to holistically and systemically address gun violence in our city,” Poe said. “We need to make sure the folks in Tallahassee and the folks in Washington hear us as well.”

Catherine Cake, a 49-year-old Gainesville resident and rally organizer, joined Moms Demand Action two months after the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting because she wanted to make a change firsthand.

Cake spoke in favor of background

checks for every gun sale and red flag laws as solutions. A red flag law allows for the temporary removal of firearms from an individual if they seem to be a danger to themselves or others.

“We are so fortunate in Gainesville [to have] a community full of caring, intentional people that focus that intention through advocacy,” Cake said. “Our purpose is to work together to decrease gun violence and increase public safety across our nation.”

Tyra “Tyloudd” Edwards, a 49-yearold speaker and attendee, said AfricanAmerican neighborhoods are more prone to gun violence. She said stricter background checks and red flag laws would be a dream come true for the black community.

“It’s not just schools and churches and

clubs,” she said. “This is about streets and corners and neighborhoods also. That’s why I’m here today.”

Dave Young, 63, and Aileen Young, 65, brought signs to the rally that read, “How hard can it be?” and “Common sense gun legislation.” The Gainesville couple said their grandchildren, who are 6 and 10 years old, had to learn procedures of what to do in a possible school shooting situation.

“I think it’s important to put some pressure on legislators,” Dave said. “There are too many guns in this country. I understand the Second Amendment, but I think we’ve taken it to an extreme.” @lina_ruiz48 lruiz@alligator.org

Animal Services #ClearTheShelters, find pets new homes THE NATIONWIDE ADOPTION EVENT AIMED TO CLEAR ANIMAL SHELTERS OVER THE WEEKEND

By Melissa Hernandez Alligator Staff Writer

Kya, a 2-year-old mutt, waited over 2 months at Alachua County Animal Services along with many other dogs and cats, to find her forever home.

On Saturday she met Tyronne and Licia Watson and left the shelter with a new family and a new name: Melissa.

Animal Services hosted its annual “Summer Lovin’ Adoptathon” at the shelter Saturday in partnership with UF’s Student Chapter of the Association of Shelter Veterinarians.

Joey Fragale, a 23-year-old UF veterinarian student and executive board member of the club, said the event was part of #ClearTheShelters Day, a nationwide adoption drive initiated by NBC and Telemundo stations to promote local shelters.

“The dogs are at capacity,” Fragale said. “So, the event is to help avoid the other option, which is euthanasia.”

As of 8 a.m. Saturday, when the SSevent started, Animal Services had over 100 dogs and cats available for adoption.

By 8 p.m., the group announced on its Facebook page that 74 dogs and 28 cats had been adopted.

Kaitlyn Drozdowicz, a 24-year-old vet student and executive board member, said there’s a pet for everyone at the shelter, it’s just about finding the right one.

“We’re making sure we can help people find pets that suit their needs and are informed about the animal they’re getting,” Drozdowicz said.

The event also included free food and gift baskets from sponsors such as Earth Pets, P.U.P.S. Dog Training, Satchel’s Pizza and others.

Chris Gomez, a 28-year-old kennel tech at the shelter, said potential adopters should keep an open mind.

“Don’t come here with preconceived notions,” Gomez said. “Some dogs act differently here at the shelter than they do at home, but you have to give them a chance.”

Gomez added that long-term pets are usually the most overlooked, as there’s an assumption that the dog may have behavior problems if they’ve been at the shelter for a while.

He said dogs that are heartworm positive are also often overlooked.

Jeff Hunt, 34, who is also a kennel tech, said other people are looking only to adopt younger dogs, many without thinking of the responsibilities that come with them.

“Everyone says a puppy is cute, but they’re a lot of work,” Hunt said. “Older dogs are great, too. They’re usually potty-trained, obedience-trained.”

Animal Services volunteer Sam Johnson, 23, said the turnout was better than he anticipated.

“We weren’t expecting too many people with the weather,” Johnson said. “But people are still showing up, it’s been great.”

Tyronne Watson said he was looking for a companion after his beloved 13-year-old Chihuahua, Chico, passed away from organ failure two days earlier.

He said he knew Melissa was the dog for him from when he first saw her.

“I think we might’ve made a connection,” he said.

“She chose us, we didn’t choose her.” @melissamh_ mhernandez@alligator.org

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Jacob Floyd smiles at his new 2-month-old kitten Saturday morning at the Summer Lovin’ Adopt-A-Thon at Alachua County Animal Services. The event was hosted by the UF chapter of the Student Association of Shelter Veterinarians and waived all adoption fees for pets. Goodie bags with toys and treats were given out along with free hot dogs, popcorn and ice cream.

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It’s a new semester. Be bold.

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ast semester, we sat in the back of the class with our heads down and our mouths sealed shut. When we spoke, we prefaced our remarks or questions with “I just…” or “Sorry, this might be dumb,” conveying to our listeners that what would follow was of little importance.

We wouldn’t blame them for disregarding our words, ideas and opinions, but we knew the right answer, we had something to add to the discussion and we had questions that warranted responses. We minimized our presence, our impact and our power. We made our voices small and let our classmates fill up the space. Our classmates who sat in the front. Our classmates who always had their hands raised. Our classmates who punctuated their statements with periods, not question marks. We chose to keep our depths hidden rather than make ourselves vulnerable.

Living and attending college in Florida, we have seen plenty of the infamous alligators our dangerous state is known for. Or, at least, we have seen parts of them: mostly eyes and snouts and lots of lumps that turned out to be benign logs.

Like us, alligators hide the bulk of their being. They keep their bodies submerged so their prey won’t be alarmed by their size. When we spot one of the primal creatures peeking at us from the murky waters of the La Chua Trail, we have no idea the extent of their hidden mass. It is only when we encounter one sunbathing on the shore that we can appreciate their glorious form. When we are lucky, we see them before they see us, quickly take some photos to document the close encounter and turn around. If we aren’t so lucky, we may not even realize a statue-like beast is present until a baffling, terror-inducing hiss reaches our ears. That’s right, alligators hiss. Not like a snake hisses. Alligator hisses are the deepthroated sounds of a monster awakening.

This semester, we are waking up. We have relied on others to speak, to raise their hands and to make the arguments that we were silently making in our heads. We have become complacent in our passivity, but the world won’t let us “just” be any longer. Our naps in the sun are being interrupted.

People aren’t watching where they tread, and we are about to be stepped on. It is time for us to hiss. It is time to put everyone on notice that we are here, we are powerful and they had better rethink their course of action. Our voices may shake at first, but that rattle will morph into a growl.

We are the new Editorial Board of the Independent Florida Alligator. We are four women with strong voices and opinions. Amanda Rosa, Editor-in-Chief, is a journalism senior at UF. In a world where the importance of truth is matched only by its scarcity, Rosa’s truths are that Latin American history matters, drag culture reigns and Hozier is unforgivably underrated. Kelly Hayes, Digital Managing Editor, is a UF political science and journalism senior. To her doom, she arrogantly believed her figurative “Breastplate of Irony” protected her from the perilous TikTok, and now she is the un-ironic champion of the Alligator’s TikTok account. When Hayes wishes on a star, it’s for a respectful upcoming political season filled with fair opinions from all corners. Tranelle Maner, Engagement Managing Editor and #walkingmeme, is a UF journalism senior. If Mr. Social Media was a contestant on The Bachelorette, he would get a red rose from her every single week. Elizabeth Tubbs, Opinions Editor, is a second-year UF law student. She excels at leaping before she looks, panicking mid-air, flailing wildly and then landing very hard nowhere near her target. She hopes to get a full refund on the strictures of her conservative, southern, purity-culture upbringing. Without a receipt she isn’t very optimistic, so they sit in her closet, taking up space in a large black trash bag.

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Peter Fonda: the passing of an outspoken celebrity

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ficials into posing for the picture. n August 16, 2019, actor Peter Fonda died.

While I think both Peter and Jane Fonda went A member of a prominent acting family, too far at times in expressing their viewpoints, I Fonda is probably best known as a counmust wonder: Is how they responded to an issue tercultural icon who starred in films like really relevant compared to the issue itself? Both Easy Rider, which is about two motorcythe Trump Administration family separation policy clists traveling through the Southern U.S. Howevand the Vietnam War are real issues affecting real er, as my only experience with Fonda is his role in people. One side claimed it was cruel and unnecThomas and the Magic Railroad (likely not Peter Fonda’s proudest moment), I cannot give a prop- Jason Zappulla essary, while the other said it was harsh but was er obituary of the man, nor will I try to. Instead, opinions@alligator.org ultimately needed to protect the United States’ security. To a decent number of people, these are not I would like to focus on his political statements, which brought him a good deal of notoriety in his later years. just political issues, but moral issues, and such issues are It’s June 2018. The media is buzzing with news about the too important to be spending time railing against celebrity Trump Administration’s family separation policy, with liber- opinions.

Still, some people haven’t forgotten when the Fonda sibals and activists condemning the policy as ‘kids in cages’ and child abuse and the Trump Administration and its support- lings jumped into politics. Jane Fonda and the Vietnam War ers (falsely) claiming it was merely enforcing the law. Peter are now closely linked in the public memory, and if younger Fonda responded to the controversy by posting an all-caps generations know Jane Fonda at all, it may be only for her tweet, in which he said of Barron Trump (Donald Trump’s actions during the Vietnam War rather than her film and teleyoungest son) “put him in a cage with pedophiles.” Con- vision roles. While it’s too soon to say what Peter Fonda’s servatives, members of the Trump Administration and even legacy will be, some Republicans on social media were quick Sony Pictures (which was distributing Fonda’s film “Bound- to remind people of Peter’s infamous tweet, and they used it aries” at the time) condemned the tweet, and Fonda subse- as an excuse to show little sympathy for his death.

In the end, I think tying a celebrity solely to their political quently deleted it and apologized.

This wasn’t the Fonda family’s first brush with controver- views is unfair. Peter and Jane Fonda both accomplished far sy. In 1972, during the last years of the Vietnam War, Peter more than just their stints in political advocacy, and their Fonda’s older sister Jane Fonda visited Hanoi, the capital of films and other roles can still be enjoyed even if you don’t what was then North Vietnam. This visit spurred falsehoods, agree with their politics. Ultimately, celebrities are humans such as claims that she had passed letters from American like the rest of us, and humans feel compelled to speak out prisoners-of-war to their North Vietnamese captors, and about issues we feel strongly about. Celebrities shouldn’t be truths, such as a photograph of Jane Fonda at a North Viet- hateful or condemn their fans who merely hold opposing namese anti-aircraft station. A few even considered Jane’s views. In return, fans should care enough about their favored actions in North Vietnam tantamount to treason. Here, how- celebrities to look past differences in political ideology. When ever, Fonda has owned up. While still standing by her visit, dealing with celebrities, just as in dealing with real people, a she has publicly apologized for some of her actions in North little mutual respect can go a long way.

Vietnam, and in regards to her photo at an anti-aircraft gun, Jason Zappulla is a UF history senior.

Jane claims to have been tricked by North Vietnamese of-

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This semester, dare to defy your status quo

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of strangers. After snacking on some cheese and or a college senior like me, the beginning of crackers, I learned of an opportunity to intern for the Fall semester is a time to look forward, the campaign, and I decided I would give it a shot. consider job prospects and tie up loose ends Hundreds of door knocks and phone calls later, I academically. It is also a time to reflect on exhad the privilege of being part of now-Commisperiences, good and bad, from the last three sioner Harvey Ward’s winning campaign for the years. As my journey at UF has shown, a semester Gainesville City Commission. or two in college can alter the course of your life.

Later that semester, I set my sights on campus.

First, a little about me.

Ben Lima I had observed in passing that Student GovernComing to the University of Florida in Summer B 2016, I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do opinions@alligator.org ment was inaccessible to the average student like me. Nothing exemplified this reality more than the for a living. I knew that I was interested in political campaigning, but I wasn’t convinced that it was a viable fact that there was only one political party representing the career for someone like me who didn’t have the luxury of student body: Impact Party. This frustrated me to the point being born into a well-connected or wealthy family. While I where I started pondering if I could change things. I knew could have chosen a more financially lucrative field, I chose that others shared these feelings. We decided to take action.

In Fall 2017, I served as the founding president of Inspire to pursue my passion.

It made sense that I would study politics. After all, I’m the Party. We broke into the single-party system in Student Govtype of guy who actually watches C-SPAN for fun (not just as ernment, and I was elected as a senator.

I share my introduction to politics at UF because it is a a means to fall asleep on a restless night). I vote in municipal elections. I can often be found knocking on strangers’ doors testament to the possibilities that exist when we dare to put ourselves out there. on behalf of a Democrat running for office.

We face some big issues in society, including right here at Early on in my time at UF, I decided that I wouldn’t restrict my studies to the classroom. I would be an active par- UF. For things to change, we can’t wait for others to put in the work. We have to do it ourselves. ticipant in our democracy.

As President Obama once said, “Change will not come if In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, I was disappointed but mobilized. I knew I had to do something, we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other so a friend and I decided that we would volunteer for a cam- time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” paign.

This semester, defy your status quo. Step outside of your At the start of the Spring 2017 semester, I took an Uber ride to northwest Gainesville that prompted my involvement comfort zone. Be the change. in local politics. Somehow, I found myself meandering awkBen Lima is a UF political science senior. wardly through a political house party attended by dozens

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Letters to the Editor

President Fuchs welcomes UF students

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arm greetings to our students and to all members of our extraordinary campus community on this first day of classes of a new academic year!

My wife, Linda, and I spent the past several days living in Jennings Hall and experiencing UF as arriving students do, from joining families in ferrying clothes and furnishings to their rooms to eating in the dining halls.

It’s been inspiring to share in new students’ energy and expectations for the year ahead.

Our goal is for UF to exceed those expectations – and I believe ongoing enhancements to both academic and student life will help make it so.

Regarding academics, we are close to completing one of the most sweeping university wide initiatives in recent years: The creation of 500 new faculty positions across our 16 colleges. With nearly all of these new faculty already on campus or arriving this academic

year, the impact on students is increased opportunities for smaller, more personal classes.

Our student-faculty ratio stands at 18:1, down from 21:1. A special shout-out to all the new faculty and staff!

We are also enhancing academic offerings, such as those related to core requirements.

Several years ago, we began the “What is the Good Life?” course as a required class to ensure students a shared academic experience in the humanities, arts, philosophy and culture.

This Fall, we expand the possibilities for meeting this requirement to nearly two dozen classes being offered through the UF Quest program.

These courses range from “Fairy Tales and Identity” to “The Idea of Happiness” to “Race and Law in the American City,” and an even greater variety of courses are being developed

as possibilities for students progressing through all four undergraduate years.

UF Quest’s goal is to give students the chance to probe major questions, such as the relationship between justice and power, with an eye toward addressing our planet’s most pressing challenges today.

Regarding our campus: We’re completing or closing in on several major new or beautifully revitalized facilities, with even more sweeping changes ahead.

First up will be the new homes of the Institute of Black Culture and Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures (also known as La Casita).

These $10 million facilities, which open their doors later this Fall, will renew and expand storied traditions of supporting African-American and Hispanic culture on our campus.

A bit farther down the road, we look forward to the opening of Norman Hall, home to the College of Education, and the Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence, the new flagship for the College of Engineering. Our new state-of-the-art baseball park

is also rapidly taking shape.

Even more far-reaching, UF recently unveiled its first-ever strategic master plan for the future growth of our campus.

The plan envisions across-the-board changes that will, over time, transform campus and how students live, study and work. For example, it transitions central thoroughfares away from vehicular traffic and toward bike and pedestrian traffic. It envisions new residential complexes and revitalized existing residence halls.

Finally, I want to give a shout-out to our state of Florida, particularly our elected officials, and to friends and donors of the university who are providing resources to make all of this happen.

It’s fabulous to begin the fall with all of our exceptional students, faculty and staff and friends of the university. I wish everyone much accomplishment and joy in the coming year!

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

Letters to the Editor

Henry Fair: Your vote is your voice in Alachua County

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elcome, or welcome back, to Alachua County, Gators!

Whether this Fall marks the beginning of your college career or the beginning of the end of your college journey, you have the chance to make your voice heard in our community.

While there are many ways to impact your community, voting is a foundational part — and one that is often overlooked by college students. Students are busy with just about everything else and they sometimes neglect their own civic duty.

During my three years in Gainesville studying at the University of Florida, I have been busy with many of the same things as other UF students. I’ve been going to football games, eating at Chick-fil-A three times a week, working in Student Government and — sometimes — studying for

classes.

Regardless of what you might be busy with, it is important to take the time to register to vote or update your voter registration so you can be ready for the 2020 election cycle. I believe in order to truly expand on and appreciate your time here in Alachua County and Gainesville, it is important that you engage with the larger community. There should be more to your time at UF than what lies between 13th Street and 34th Street.

When you participate in Alachua County elections, you have the privilege of having a say in how your experience here is shaped. As a student, you are in a unique position. We can choose to register to vote in Alachua County or in our home counties — whichever we consider to be our legal residence.

The Alachua County Supervisor of Elections office is not trying to sway you one way or another. Its goal is for you to get out and vote, whether in Alachua County or elsewhere. Many students choose to vote by mail in their community, while others may choose to register and vote in Alachua County.

Whatever you choose to do, registering to vote or updating your voter registration is easy. If this is your first time registering, you can simply visit RegisterToVoteFlorida.gov and follow the instructions on the website.

Additionally, in the fall, the elections office will be celebrating National Voter Registration Day on Sept. 26. They will set up at multiple locations on campus between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. to register voters and give out information on

upcoming elections.

If you intend to vote in Alachua County and need to update your registration, all you need to do is call the office at 352-3745252 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Update now so that your information is current before Election Day, making it easier for everyone.

Don’t forget to keep up with the office on Facebook or Instagram — just search Vote Alachua and you’ll find it. More information can be found at its website (VoteAlachua.com) as well.

I wish you good luck in all your endeavors this year, and happy voting!

Henry Fair was a summer intern with the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections and served as the University of Florida Student Government’s Supervisor of Elections.

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Instafamous: UF is the most Instagrammed college in Florida An algorithm collected data on most-used hashtags

By April Rubin Alligator Staff Writer

Along with its Top 10 public university status, UF can boast a new top ranking as of Tuesday.

According to a report by All Homes Connection, an AT&T affiliate, UF, Florida’s flagship university, is the most “Instagrammed” college in the state.

They found the most used hashtag relating to qualifying universities, such as #UF, and compiled data to pinpoint the college with the most uses of their hashtag.

While the university’s social media team did not have this as a goal, their efforts to maintain high outreach and audience engagement helped make this possible, said Matt Duffy, a UF social media intern.

“Instagram is a huge platform right now, so of course we’re going to take ad-

vantage of it,” Duffy said.

Duffy, who has been an intern for almost two years, started his experience creating Instagram stories for the @UFlorida account. He has also helped brainstorm ideas for Giphy, a platform that makes animated loop stickers used on Instagram stories.

“It’s an easy school to show off,” he said.

The social media team hopes to continue reaching similar milestones on another platform it has recently joined, TikTok. Its goal is to reach a million hearts, Duffy said. Numbers like this reflect the team’s outreach and engagement with both campaigns and posts.

UF’s team is able to engage with current, former and prospective students through different social media platforms,

said Ryan Morejon, UF’s social media specialist. While the team does not use #UF very much in their posts, he said the audience it connects with likely does.

“We’re the flagship university of the state, so it’s cool that we’re the top as far as the hashtag goes,” Morejon said.

The team strives to share meaningful stories to highlight what is important to students and amplify their voices, he said.

“We definitely believe a lot in sharing the good that others do, more than us creating the content, because we have such a giant community and audience,” Morejon said.

UF social media content aligns with the goals of President Kent Fuchs and Vice President Nancy Paton to achieve Top 5 public school status by using social media as a powerful communication tool, Morejon said.

“Our biggest thing is to humanize the brand,” Morejon said. “With higher education and schools, it’s not like Coca Cola, we’re not selling a product — this is an experience. It’s a meaningful phase in someone’s life, so you want to have people connect with the brand in that way.” @AprilMRubin arubin@alligator.org

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UF (@uflorida) was designated as the most “Instagrammed” school in the state, as per data with #UF.

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GPD: Woman crashed car into tanker truck to kill herself and two sons

By Dana Cassidy Alligator Staff Writer

Gainesville Police arrested a 48-year-old woman accused of trying to kill herself and her two young sons by crashing into a truck carrying 330 gallons of gasoline Friday night.

The Gainesville woman allegedly told a friend beforehand it was ,

“God’s will” and “nothing could be done to change the outcome,” according to an arrest report.

At about 5 p.m., witnesses told police MeMack lissa Mack was driving north in the southbound lane on the 5400 block of Northwest

13th Street., just south of 55th Avenue, when she attempted to hit a 2006 tanker truck head-on, according to the arrest report. The truck swerved away, but Mack made a U-turn and intentionally sped into the back of the truck with her two children “trapped inside.”

The crash shattered the front and back windows of Mack’s van, set off the airbags and lit the engine on fire, according to the arrest report. Wit-

nesses helped everyone escape the crash. Only Mack was injured, with bruising from her seatbelt.

The children were medically cleared by Shands’ Pediatrics but were “very upset” by the incident, according to the arrest report. The two children were taken from Mack’s custody by the Florida Department of Children and Families.

Mack allegedly told Gainesville Police she recalled discussing God

with her friend but doesn’t remember the crash “despite not hitting her head” or “losing consciousness.”

Mack remains in the Alachua County Jail as of Saturday afternoon on three counts of attempted homicide with a $900,000 bond, according to county records. @danacassidy_ Dcassidy@alligator.org

Positions available in new city advisory board THE BOARD AIMS TO IMPROVE UNDERDEVELOPED COMMUNITIES

By Kalli Johnson Alligator Staff Writer

Applications are now open for the Gainesville Community Reinvestment Area (GCRA) Advisory Board.

City commissioners have removed borders between the four Gainesville community redevelopment agency districts in hopes of allocating resources and finances more effectively and promoting new economic development.

The decision came after the Alachua County Commission moved to file a bill with Rep. Chuck Clemons that would remove city commissioners from the majority of the CRA board.

Commissioner David Arreola said the motion would give county commissioners four of the seven seats on the governing panel.

“As commissioners, we were caught

off-guard,” Arreola said. “We have cordial relationships with the county. I remember supporting at least three of the county commissioners for their elections. So, this was betrayal of the highest order in my view.”

Members of the board will advise the commission on topics concerning community redevelopment. They will meet monthly to discuss and adopt new procedures subject to approval by the City Commission.

Commissioner Helen Warren said that while the merger will allow the city to view the districts as a whole, cooperation is still crucial.

“Many of the previous failures came from a failure to communicate,” Warren said.

The City Commission is looking for candidates living or working in the Gainesville reinvestment area and ready to assume their advisory positions for the full term.

Applicants should understand Gainesville’s redevelopment issues, such as pre-

viously failed attempts to improve underdeveloped areas, like East Gainesville.

The board will consist of 15 members, each appointed by the City Commission.

They will serve a term of two years before a successor is appointed to take their place.

Applications are available on the city of Gainesville website, under ‘Boards & Commissions.’

The application deadline is Sept. 16 at 5 p.m.

New member appointments will be Oct. 3. The first meeting will be held Oct. 8.

Arreola said he believes there is still much that needs to be done in Gainesville.

“The CRA’s goal is to directly address blighted areas in the city,” Arreola said.

“So long as we have areas of blight in the city, the CRA has a mission to use its creativity and tax dollars specifically for reinvestment.” @kallidain kallijohnson@alligator.org

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UF alumni chosen as finalists for national environmental fellowship THE YEAR-LONG PROGRAM BEGINS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. IN FEBRUARY

By Ana Escalante Alligator Staff Writer

Dreams of drafting federal policies to save the oceans will come true for UF alumni Kathryn Slattery and Alexandra Skrivanek next February.

Slattery and Skrivanek were chosen in June as two of 69 finalists for the John A. Knauss fellowship hosted by the National Sea Grant College Program.

The year-long educational fellowship places graduate students with different federal legislative and exec-

utive branch offices in Washington, D.C. The fellows are hosted by a government organization whose goal is to conserve Skrivanek oceans through policy change, said Charles Sidman, the Florida Sea Grant Associate Director for Research.

“Typically, candidates that are most successful are those with a science background with an interest in policy or those that come from a policy background to begin with,” Sidman said.

Fellows will attend an information session in Washington, D.C.

this November and meet with legislative and executive offices that will host them until January 2021, Sidman said. The 69 finalists receive a stipend of $60,000 over the course of the program to cover housing and transportation costs, Sidman said.

The program has four broad areas of focus, Sidman said. Fellows can work on promoting healthy ecosystems, sustainable fisheries and aquaculture router, environmental literacy and workforce development and hazard-resilient communities and economies.

This year is one of the few times that all students from Florida who were nominated for the national fellowship were selected as finalists.

The Florida Sea Grant, a state-affiliated program, nominates students

to the national program based on a series of interviews and letters.

The Florida Sea Grant has been affiliated with UF since 1976 and is linked with the UF Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences, Sidman said. Students do not have to be in IFAS to apply to the fellowship.

When Alexandra Skrivanek, a 27-year-old with a Ph.D. in geology, found out the news in June, she said the first person she told was her mother.

“I have the opportunity to take all that knowledge that I learned from my time at UF and apply it to this bigger picture that’s socially relevant,” Skrivanek said Skrivanek found out about the program during her graduate research on the evolution of sea level

and climate change and decided to give the application a try in January.

Skrivanek’s main goal during her time in the program is using her science background to increase awareness and inspire action on climate change and how it affects coastal communities.

“Climate change is a global problem with various implications and very different solutions,” she said. “I’m looking forward to helping conversations on any scale and help communities plan for climate change impact.” @aescalante22 a.escalante@ufl.edu

Local rabbit rescue looking to win $5,000 through online survey contest FUNDS WOULD BE USED TO INCREASE SUPPLIES AND ANIMAL CARE

By Nora O’Neill Alligator Staff Writer

If online votes could multiply as quickly as rabbits, the Gainesville Rabbit Rescue would have no problem securing $5,000.

A nonprofit organization, the shelter provides a variety of services such as sterilization and providing foster homes with necessary equipment and supplies.

But these services all come with a price.

While the group has donors and grants, the cost of taking care of so many small animals can add up, said Conary Bullard, a recent UF political science alumnus and volunteer at the rescue. Now, it is trying out a new money-making method: an online survey.

The “Nurture Their Nature Animal Rescue Giveback” is a contest held by Oxbow Animal Health, a supplier of food and care products for small exotic animals.

The online competition is open to smallanimal organizations around the world. The survey asks individuals to nominate their

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favorite rescue and provide a brief explanation.

Oxbow will be accepting nominations until Aug. 26. It will then move into another round of 10 semifinalists, according to the contest webpage.

The $5,000 prize will be awarded to the rescue with the most votes by Sep. 24.

Gainesville Rabbit Rescue executive director Kathy Finelli said the rescue relies on the generosity of volunteers and donors to run its services.

“We are 100% publicly funded,” Finelli said. “The help of those who adopt rabbits or just love rabbits is really what sustains us.”

Bullard said that by winning this money, the shelter would be able to not only take in new rabbits but also provide better care to the rabbits it already has.

The money would also go toward purchasing food and supplies and expanding the shelter’s marketing and foster care expenses, he said.

Bullard said the rescue takes care of 30 to 50 rabbits at any given time, although it currently has 110 rabbits in their care between the shelter and foster homes.

The rescue accept rabbits from all circum-

stances, such as owners making impulsive pet purchases or accidentally purchasing two rabbits of the opposite gender, Finelli said.

The rescue will only refuse an animal if it is at capacity, she said.

Aside from completing the survey, Bullard said there are other ways to help out.

Basic volunteer applications are available on the rescue’s website, and anyone is welcome to come to the barn, whether to feed rabbits

or clean kennels.

For being such a small operation, he said it’s a large part of the community.

“I think it’s really a testament to the giving nature of the students in Gainesville,” Bullard said.

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City still strives for waste-free 2040 PUBLIX, from pg. 1 of the largest employers and grocery store chains in the state, Publix should be setting an example.

“They need to be a leader in our state in order to help protect our communities and our environment,” he said.

Gainesville has been attempting to reduce single-use plastics for more than 10 years.

The city’s efforts to curb plastic use date as far back as 2008, when local grocery stores began offering reusable/recyclable options, according to Alligator archives. In Aug. 2018, the city began its push

to become waste free by 2040.

District 3 City Commissioner David Arreola described the legal dispute as “disgusting.”

“When the people wanted to use the democratic process, those corporations used their money to suppress the democratic process by lobbying and paying off elected officials,” Arreola said. “It’s important for everyone to look at the businesses they shop at and start asking if they reflect our democratic values.”

Arreola said if Coral Gables decides to take the case to the Supreme Court, Gainesville may be willing to write an amicus brief.

“Given our notice of intent,

that’s the path we’re going to take,” he said. “Of course, if Coral Gables decided to appeal, I’d be thrilled to offer Gainesville as a friend of the court.”

Although the commission chose to rescind the ordinance, Hayes-Santos said the city will be proceeding with other measures to reduce plastics that are in accordance with state law.

On Thursday, the commission approved a plastic straw ban, which is set to take effect Jan. 2020. Plastic straws are exempted from the laws cited in the Coral Gables case.

Another avenue is the regulation of single-use plastic bags and

foam containers on city property, Hayes-Santos said.

He said he thinks Publix would shift gears if people put enough pressure on the business.

“Let the store managers know about your concerns,” he said.

“I think that’s something that if enough people complain to the store managers about this, they may make some changes.”

A Greenpeace report released in June ranked retailers on a plastics scorecard, which determines a “baseline measurement of U.S. retailer’s sustainability performance on single-use plastics.”

Publix was ranked 15 out of 20, although none of the retailers surveyed received a passing score.

The report stated: “Especially given their brand recognition and/

or sheer size, it is troubling that Publix (ranked 15th) ... had so little to offer.”

It added that aside from very little public information on their initiatives, they “appear to be stuck in the 1990s, with a large focus on recycling.”

Hayes-Santos said that if large corporations, such as Publix, “continue hiding in the shadows” behind lawmakers supporting these measures, the issue will only continue to worsen.

“Our state legislature should be putting the citizens and our state first, not the interests of Publix first,” he said. @melissamh_ mhernandez@alligator.org

AASU used GoFundMe to help raise funds FUNDING, from pg. 1 funds to pay for speakers.

This reallocation of funds affect the organizations’ ability to cosponsor their suborganizations, such as welcome assemblies held at the beginning of each semester, forcing a series of adjustments and scrambling for new fund sources.

Organizations such as the Black Student Union and Asian American Student Union have been affected by the reallocation of funds following the lawsuit. These organizations were forced to break apart from their sub-organizations. Many did not have the money to pay for a space to host welcome assemblies.

Representatives from the Black Student Union, Asian American Student Union and Pride Student Union condemned the new funding system Aug. 8 in front of the Senate during public comment.

Eliana Guerrero, the president of Asian American Student Union, told The Alligator the organization couldn’t get its funding request for the welcome assembly submitted early enough because it was partnering with the Asian American Student Association and its Freshman Leadership Program to fund the event.

The Asian American Student Assembly and Freshman Leadership Program’s new member approval forms weren’t approved until July 17, two days after the allocations committee ran out of funding for requests.

Guerrero said both the Asian American Student Union and their sub-organization, the Asian American Student Association, use the Phillips Center as a space for their welcome assembly, which costs $10,000 to rent.

The new 800 codes state that one event can only cost up to $5,000, making co-sponsorship for funding for the space impossible.

Inspire Party Senator Zachariah Chou wrote a bill that would transfer $800,000 from SG reserves to help pay for assemblies and additional events by the organizations that may not be able to occur, Guerrero said.

“We had to make a whole other organization for our welcome assembly,” Guerrero said. “We were going to do a cosponsorship where AASU was going to give $5,000 and AASA was going to give $5,000.”

However, the organization has raised enough money to hold its welcome assembly in the Phillips Center through its GoFundMe page and community donations.

The group officially announced the location on Tuesday, Guerrero said.

The situation could have been rectified if the Allocation Committee was more communicative in the beginning, Guerrero said.

“I just think [the Allocation Committee] should’ve set aside money in the beginning for welcome assemblies, or they shouldn’t have let people have access to the money until all new organizations were approved,” Guerrero said.

Currently, only 59 of 400 organizations received funding with this new system in place, Guererro said. The Black Student Union lost funding for their welcome assembly in the Phillips Center, forcing them to relocate to the University Auditorium.

Many of these organizations now lack a space for general body meetings and cannot fund events and speakers.

Since the restructuring of the funding system, organizations including Pride Student Union and Women’s Student Association no longer have free access to the space in Ustler Hall, UF’s Center for Gender Studies and Women’s Research, said Pride Student Union president Nate Quinn.

Quinn expressed his concern over the organization’s lack of a meeting space and lack of funding for their Pride History Week speaker Schuyler Bailar, the first openly

transgender Division I athlete.

“I personally don’t believe that this system is equitable,” Quinn said. “In the past, Big Nine has been given a lot of money to provide safe spaces to marginalized students.”

Other Big Nine leaders such as Women’s Student Association President Michaela Poitevien believe in order for SG to make progress on the whole, they to move toward equity versus equality.

The executive board members are working together to raise awareness of what is happening.

Poitevien said people in “Big Five” –– Women’s Student Association, Pride Student Union, Hispanic Student Association, Asian American Student Association and Black Student Union –– have all come together as a community to find solutions on how to continue their work to further their accomplishments for minority students.

“I would just like to commend all of the organizations for supporting each other, sharing each other’s GoFundMe’s and bringing awareness to the situation,” Poitevien said. @emmamcavoy1 @emcavoy@alligator.org

Student Government Summer Timeline June 18: Senate meeting ends with two senators being ruled constructively absent by Senate President Libby Shaw June 19: Senate Minority Leader Ashley Grabowski and Senator Ben Lima notified via email that they lost their seats June 25: Alligator reports Grabowski submitted an appeal to the Senate Rules and Ethics Committee July 17: Rules and Ethics Committee upholds decision to resign seats July 31: Young Americans for Freedom comes to a $66,000 settlement with UF from a lawsuit filed in December August 6: Students protest funding changes

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The Women’s Student Association hosts their welcome assembly for new initiates in Fall 2018.

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Extinct island bird fossils give UF researchers a nest of discoveries RESEARCHERS USE EXTINCT BIRD BONES TO UNDERSTAND CARIBBEAN BIODIVERSITY

By Meghan McGlone Alligator Staff Writer

A rare find for researchers led to discoveries that could change humanity’s understanding of extinction and evolution.

Florida Museum of Natural History researchers aided in the discovery of ancient DNA from a 2,500-year-old extinct Caribbean bird, Caracara creightoni, that used to fly over the Bahamas. The study was published online in August.

Four of the study’s seven researchers are affiliated with UF. The group was funded more than $350,000 from the National Science Foundation to do research on the Bahaman caracara and other animals in the Caribbean.

Innovative technology was used by the UF researchers to study the ancient DNA, said Jessica Oswald, a researcher at the museum. The bones were diluted in bleach, frozen and pulverized. Then, enzymes are added to the mix and a special kit is used to strengthen the DNA. Researchers can use this sample to determine if it is related to any other samples.

The study found that humans depleted the birds’ food sources and means of living when they arrived on the islands about 1000 years ago, Oswald said. Ancient DNA allows researchers to better understand the history of evolution and patterns of extinction across many islands and how species may respond to climate change.

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“In general, animals on islands are very sensitive to any kind of disturbance,” Oswald said. “Ultimately, what we are seeing from this study is that we lost this very unique, old island species due to humans showing up on these islands.”

The techniques used to study the extinct bird are similar to techniques used to study the hutia, a Bahamian rodent which is close to extinction, Oswald said. Researchers predict the hutia, one of the few terrestrial animals on the islands, is dispersed among many islands because of human domestication.

“These projects are exciting and we have many more in the works, and hopefully we’ll really be able to understand communities that used to be around in the Carribbean based on all this work,” Oswald said.

The extinct bird DNA was retrieved from a large sinkhole discovered in the Bahamas in 2005. It was excavated soon after by a professional diver, Oswald said. Natural chemicals, such as hydrogen sulfide and sulfuric acid, preserved the bird’s fossils by preventing oxygen to reach the bones.

UF researchers were only able to study the fossils this year because the Florida Museum’s ancient DNA facility was previously inactive, said Robert Guralnick, a biologist at the museum. Such well-preserved fossils are a rare find in tropical areas.

“Ancient DNA tells us about genetics in the past,” Guralnick said. “I think the fact that UF and the museum have DNA facilities is so interesting.”

Guralnick helped revitalize the ancient DNA facility and is using the fossils to understand evolutionary history.

“We are looking at how extinction works in the tree of life,” Guralnick said. “We lost a species that would be present today.” @meggmcglone mmcglone@alligator.org

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President Fuchs and his wife live the dorm life and help students move into Jennings Hall THEY LIVED IN THE RESIDENCE HALL FOR THE WEEKEND

By Ashley Lazarski Alligator Staff Writer

Until today, new Jennings residents will have some notable neighbors.

Thursday morning, President W. Kent Fuchs and his wife, Linda, moved into Jennings Hall for the weekend and helped students move in. They will stay in the residence hall until the new student convocation Monday morning, said UF spokesperson Sara Tanner.

“Fuchs really values being able to welcome students to campus,” Tanner

said. “Move-in day is a big part of the Gator experience, and he finds it important to stay involved with that. The transition can be a difficult one, but he tries to do what he can to make it smoother for everyone.”

Fuchs shared his excitement about the move-in on Thursday via Twitter.

This is not the first year he has temporarily lived in a residence hall among students, although he was not able to last year due to scheduling conflicts. He moved into Jennings in 2016, Tanner said. Besides his participation in move-in day, Fuchs and his wife will continue to participate in events this weekend.

On Friday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Fuchs hosted an open house party for Jennings residents.

Fuchs participated in two events on

Saturday as well, including a brunch with students at the Fresh Food Company and Gator Corner Dining, and a shaving cream fight in Yulee Pit at 2 p.m.

Lukas High, a 20-year-old business junior, said Fuchs’ presence during the moving process is perhaps the most important thing he can do to make students feel at ease. High, who volunteered to help students move into Jennings, said the Fuchs’ were a welcome help and even stopped to take pictures with students.

In a video posted on Twitter, Fuchs sits in High’s wheeled moving box with his wife in another box right next to him.

“He’s a great president, and it’s nice that he wants to interact with everyone,” High said.

Parents such as Elizabeth Pierce, the

mother of a freshman Jennings resident, also noted Fuchs’ friendliness. As Pierce walked to the back parking lot with a friend, they had the opportunity to meet Fuchs and his wife as they walked around introducing themselves, Pierce said.

“It was great to see his presence here, and just to know he’s interested in the kids and what they’re doing from moving day onward,” Pierce said.

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UF President W. Kent Fuchs poses with a student outside Jennings Hall Thursday morning.

UF President W. Kent Fuchs greets students and parents in the parking lot outside of Jennings Hall on Thursday morning.

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Rainy day move-in: UF students arrive for Fall semester Zach Assid, a 19-year-old aerospace engineering sophomore, loads a cart with his belongings and covers it with a blanket to protect it from Friday afternoon rain outside of Tolbert Hall. Assid, who moved in with help from his father Rik, said he was used to the Florida weather because he is from Orlando.

Dave Griffin, 18, and Richard Mazzula, 19, unload a car for move-in day. The two were volunteering for Gator Aide, which helps residents move in to their dorms. Mazzula, a mechanical engineering sophomore, said he preferred to help move during the rainy weather instead of in the hot sun. Griffin, a freshman studying Russian, said he has enjoyed his short time on campus so far. “It’s amazing,” Griffin said. “I like how green everything is.” He also added that the trees around campus help keep it from getting too hot.

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Carleigh Dickinson, a 17-year-old biomedical engineering freshman, and Angel Munoz, an 18-yearold criminology freshman, unpack a new resident’s car during move in. The two volunteered with Gator Aide. Gator Aide volunteers had dollies and carts to make the unloading process easier.

Munoz, who moved into Tolbert because he wanted to be near the ROTC building, said he signed up to volunteer during the afternoon because he had free time. “I wasn’t going to do anything all day,” he said. “So why not help out?”

Nevin Shah, a 19-year-old mechanical engineering sophomore, unfolds his sheets and makes his bed in his new dorm room. Shah unpacked with help from his father, Ski, who graduated from UF with a computer engineering degree in 1995. Shah said he lived in Tolbert last year, but this semester he is moving in with a friend who went to high school with him in Orlando.

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FOOTBALL

UF, UM agree to home-and-home

By Sam Campisano Sports Writer

Saturday’s season opener will not be the last chapter written in the FloridaMiami rivalry.

The two schools have agreed to a home-and-home series starting in 2024, according to Brett McMurphy of Stadium.

The programs will meet in Gainesville first before facing off in Miami Gardens the following year.

As things currently stand, the 2025 matchup will be the first time the Gators play a road game against a Power 5 team that isn’t FSU since their 2013 visit to Miami. Florida will play three in-state opponents that year, with the USF Bulls also on the schedule.

The Gators and Hurricanes met annually from 1938 to 1987 (with the exception of 1943). Since then, the two teams have met sporadically with Miami win-

ning seven of the last eight games (including the 2001 Sugar Bowl). UM leads the all-time series 29-26 and was victorious in the last meeting.

The games in 2024 and 2025 will be the first home-and-home contests between the two teams since their last home-and-home series in 2002 and 2003.

The front-leg will mark Miami’s first visit to Gainesville since 2008, when Tim Tebow and the Gators finished victorious 26-3.

Florida and Miami will kick off college football’s 150th season this Saturday night in Orlando, followed by a 10:30 p.m. kickoff for Arizona-Hawaii, the only other FBS game in Week 0.

The Gators, according to Odds Shark, are currently a seven-point favorite.

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nother season ketball season, which of fall sports at begins in November, is UF is upon us. at a fever pitch. You’ll The Gators want to stay tuned to begin their seaRiver Wells and Evan sons in football, soccer Lepak. They’ll keep you and volleyball in less up to date on the goingsTyler Nettuno on of UF hoops, includthan a week, and here at Twitter: @TylerNettuno alligatorSports, we’ll be ing the development of tnettuno@alligator.org your one-stop shop for five star true freshmen all the Florida athletics Tre Mann and Scottie coverage you can handle.

Lewis. With point guard Andrew UF's football team opens its 2019 Nembhard returning to school, the schedule in Orlando on Saturday Gators are a hot pick to make a deep with its first matchup against Miami tournament run this year. Follow since 2013. Coach Dan Mullen’s along and see if they can make it a team staged one of the most impres- reality. sive turnarounds in the country in Florida soccer, on the other 2018, finishing with a 10-3 record hand, has something to prove. which included a win over Michi- Coach Becky Burleigh has built one gan in the Peach Bowl a year re- of the most successful programs in moved from a 4-7 season. It returns the country, but coming off a losing most key contributors from a year record and their first NCAA Tourago, including starting quarterback nament absence in 15 years, the Feleipe Franks. Naturally, fan ex- Gators are in need of a bounce-back pectations are high. year. Bryan Matamoros and GraFollow Online Sports Editor Sam ham Marsh are on the beat — folCampisano, Kyle Wood, Dylan Ru- low them to see if UF can get back dolph and myself as we cover the on track. team in its attempt to return to the However, unlike Burleigh, FloriSEC Championship Game for the da volleyball coach Mary Wise has first time since 2016 and make it to yet to win a national title. the College Football Playoff for the Her squads have come close in first time ever. the past, notably losing in the chamAnticipation for the Gators’ bas-

SEE COLUMN, PAGE 21

Former Gator Pete Alonso broke the NL rookie home run record with his 40th homer of the season Sunday.

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Tim Tebow led the Gators to a 26-3 victory last time Florida and Miami played in Gainesville.

FOOTBALL

Three storylines to know heading into Florida-Miami clash Dylan Rudolph Sports Writer

Florida and Miami will meet in Orlando five days from now to commence the 2019 college football season. Both teams had a lot of turnover during the offseason. Here are three storylines to know about this Gators team heading into this weekend’s contest:

sythe and Jean Delance into starting roles.

Forsythe appeared in all 13 games in 2018, but started just one at right tackle against Charleston Southern.

Delance played in just four games as a reserve and suffered a leg injury in a recent practice during fall camp. If he remains out for the matchup against Miami, redshirt

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Emergence of the wide receiver corps Spring camp saw the rise of multiple wide receivers in coach Dan Mullen’s offense. With the return of senior wide receiver Van Jefferson filling the top spot on the depth chart, the battle for No. 2 on the other side of the field was fierce.

Senior wide receiver Tyrie Cleveland flourished in practice and is believed to have earned himself a more prominent role in the rotation after hauling in just 18 passes for 212 yards and three touchdowns in 2018.

Junior receiver Trevon Grimes also impressed during the Orange and Blue game. After inconsistent showings during the preceding practices, the 6-foot-5 receiver set a spring game yardage record with 195 and scored two touchdowns.

Though the team remains confident, much of the corps’ success will depend on the consistency of quarterback Feleipe Franks.

Young, inexperienced offensive line The protection up front will be critical for Franks in order to continue his upward trajectory from last year.

UF’s offensive line took a big hit with the losses of Martez Ivey, Tyler Jordan, Fred Johnson and Jawaan Taylor. In response, Mullen will thrust upperclassmen with limited experience like redshirt juniors Stone For-

Lito Sheppard named honorary captain against UM The former Florida defensive back from 1999-01 will join the Gators at the coin toss for Saturday's game. Sheppard was a 2018 inductee into the UF Hall of Fame and played 10 years in the NFL.

Chris King / Alligator Staff

Receiver Trevon Grimes (8) shined in Florida's spring game with four catches for 195 yards.

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COLUMN, from pg. 20 pionship game in 2017. Coming off a loss in the regional semifinals last year to BYU, Wise can only hope that 2019 is finally the Gators’ year.

Whether it is remains to be seen, but either way, look no further than Assistant Sports Editor Mari Faiello and Brendan Farrell for day-to-day coverage as the team looks to go the distance for the first time.

It’s almost tennis time again, and for the fall season, Victor Prieto and Noah Ram are your guys. Veterans of the tennis beat, they know UF’s men’s and women’s teams as well as anyone. The men’s team fell just short in the NCAA semifinals in the spring but returns stars like Sam Riffice and Johannes Ingildsen. The women’s team fell in the second round of the tournament last year, but with returning players like Ida Jarlskog, the future appears bright.

Florida’s golf programs are consistently among the best in the nation, and for coverage of the men’s and women’s fall seasons, Jack Braverman’s your man. The Alligator’s resident golf guru will be bringing you reports of all the birdies and bogeys this fall.

Alumni of UF’s swimming and diving team include Olympians of the likes of Ryan Lochte and Caeleb Dressel, and beat writer Dylan O’Shea will cover this year’s group of Florida swimmers to see if anyone can follow in their footsteps.

And, last but not least, Joseph Salvador’s got you covered for Gators cross country. The women’s team is coming off a successful season that saw it finish No. 16 at the NCAA Tournament, while the men’s team looks to return to it after missing it last season.

And that about covers it!

Follow @alligatorSports on Twitter and all our reporters for coverage of every Gators sport this fall. We’ve got some great content planned this semester, and we’re excited to bring it to you.

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Wake Forest bests Florida 3-2 with two late goals

By Graham Marsh Sports Writer

Twenty six players.

That’s how many Gators saw game time in the final preseason contest for the Florida soccer team. That experience is crucial for a young roster — which features 10 freshmen — playing a top schedule in the nation.

The young players have plenty of chances to quickly grow up in 2019. Saturday’s match in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was no exception.

UF lost 3-2 in a game it led until the very end. The Demon Deacons took the early lead in the 14th minute when junior Abby McNamara intercepted a pass in Florida’s 18-yard box and found the back of the net. After that goal, the rest of the match seemed to be all Florida until the final seven minutes of play, where Wake Forest took advantage of youthful inexperience.

The next goal belonged to Florida in the 29th minute courtesy of junior Alex Stubblebine. Then, after 54 minutes of stalemate, redshirt freshman Samantha Tobar broke the tie with a 30-yard strike.

The Gators thought they snagged the gamewinner, but the Demon Deacons completely rewrote the story of the contest two minutes later.

Wake Forest junior Ryanne Brown tied the game in the 85th minute. Three minutes later, sophomore Hulda Arnarsdottir’s go-ahead header became the actual gamewinner.

Florida coach Becky Burleigh took the match for what it was: an exhibition. While unhappy with the result, she said the experience is still useful for her squad.

“There were a lot of really, really good things that came out of it. Not happy with the way we finished, but that is also a great teaching point for us going forward.

For the Gators, games against excellent competition will be the norm for 2019, with nine more games coming against teams ranked in the preseason United Soccer Coaches Top 25. After the match against No. 18 South Florida on Aug. 25, UF’s next three contests come against top-five opponents, all on the road: No. 5 Southern California, No. 4 UCLA and No. 1 Florida State.

“It’s going to be exciting,” Burleigh said. “We’ve got the No. 1 schedule in the country and we are looking forward to starting it.”

“It was our last preseason game,” Burleigh said in a release.

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Florida soccer coach Becky Burleigh said she wasn't satisfied with her team's effort in Saturday's exhibition match at Wake Forest. It led 2-1 in the 85th minute but lost 3-2. The Gators begin the 2019 season on Friday night at FAU.

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Three Florida DBs have left the program since the spring FOOTBALL, from pg 21 freshman Richard Gouraige is the prime candidate to fill in.

The offensive line took another blow during the summer when tackle Noah Banks announced he was medically retiring from football after suffering another minor epileptic episode. While Banks was not expected to win the starting role, his abrupt departure hurts the depth of an offensive line unit that contains six true freshmen and cannot spare any more setbacks.

Question marks in the secondary Florida ended the 2018 season with 14 interceptions and ranked No. 13 in the nation in passing yards allowed (2350 yards), and, at the beginning of spring camp in 2019, had even higher expectations for its last line of defense. But as Florida enters the final week of preparation for Miami, the secondary has become an unknown.

Up-and-coming hopefuls Chris Steele, Brian Edwards and John Huggins all departed from the team for separate off-the-field circumstances during the spring and summer, leaving big holes in the defensive backfield.

Huggins, the latest exit, was dismissed on Aug. 10.

He was accused of choking a female tutor in October.

Mullen stated later that Huggins did not meet the “Gator standard.”

Redshirt junior C.J. McWilliams became another casualty for the secondary after he ruptured his Achilles tendon, keeping him out for the season.

In their place, sophomore Amari Burney and junior CJ Henderson are primed for breakout seasons in their respective starting roles. Mullen also made it clear during fall camp that the three freshmen in the secondary — Kaiir Elam, Chester Kimbrough and Jaydon Hill, who is recovering from a torn ACL — will also have significant playing time.

To improve on last season, Mullen and the team will lean on a secondary with a lot of talent but not much experience. The matchup against Miami should give a clear picture of what to expect from the unit for the rest of the season.

Chris King / Alligator Staff

Florida's offensive line success in 2018 contributed to quarterback Feleipe Franks' growth. With the departures of four offensive linemen, UF will require young players to step up if it wants that growth to continue.

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