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Local law enforcement, ﬁre rescue travel to Panhandle ABOUT 40 EMERGENCY PERSONNEL WENT TO THE PANHANDLE. By Jessica Curbelo Alligator Staff Writer

Alachua County emergency personnel left behind their beds at home for trailers stuffed with cots in the Florida Panhandle. Teams from Alachua County Fire Rescue, Gainesville Police and Alachua County

Sheriff’s Office drove hours to get to areas wrecked by Hurricane Michael last week. The Category 4 hurricane spared Alachua County but devastated the Florida Panhandle when it made landfall Oct. 10. About 40 officers, firefighters and paramedics traveled to help local agencies with search efforts and damaged communication networks. Fire rescue sent two teams for rescue and radio communications to Panama City and Mexico Beach early Thursday once the

storm cleared, Deputy Chief Harold Theus said. “If it happened here, we would have an enormous amount of support,” he said. The 10-person rescue team drove to Panama City with paramedics and ambulances. The team evacuated patients and slept in a hospital before leaving to join the rest of the crew in Mexico Beach on Saturday, Theus said. Fire rescue sent its radio communications team directly to Mexico Beach, he

said. The four-person team volunteered to set up communication equipment between rescue teams. Gainesville Police officers joined fire rescue Friday in Panama City. About eight officers volunteered to give local law enforcement a chance to rest, Sgt. David Schramek said. “It doesn’t matter what agency you’re from, you work together for one goal,” Schramek said. “You try to restore as much

SEE PANHANDLE, PAGE 4

Gainesville mobilizes for Hurricane Michael relief

Tacos, gift cards and water were given. By Alyssa Ramos Alligator Staff Writer

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Tom Kelleher, chair of the department of advertising at the UF College of Journalism and Communications, is dunked by a student at the UF Campaign for Charities dunk tank fundraiser outside of Weimer Hall on Tuesday afternoon. Ninety-three charities are participating in the campaign, including the American Red Cross, Community Health Charities and United Way of North Central Florida.

Bess Darrow couldn’t recognize a Florida Panhandle horse farm she’s been to more than 20 times. Darrow, a Williston veterinarian of Tune Ups Veterinary Equine Services, assisted her client of 15 years whose property was wiped out. When she visited Sunday, she saw the barn was gone, trees were knocked down and a horse trailer had ﬂipped onto its roof. “I was intimately involved,” Darrow said. “I was so scared to see the destruction, or my friends sad or destitute.” Darrow and others from Gainesville have come together to provide relief for residents in devastated areas of the state that were affected by Michael, which hit Florida last week. While Darrow has been checking on her clients’ horses and making sure they had water, she has also raised more than $10,000 through a GoFundMe page. The money will go toward hay, water and feed. Darrow said she was shocked at how willing people were to help in the aftermath of

the storm. “So many people stepped up to the plate,” Darrow said. “I’m so in awe of these people because of their cheerful attitude. They’re so thankful for one gas can.” Local churches, such as Anthem Church, Shift Church and City Church, collected donations and sent a 24-foot trailer with water, fuel, gas, canned food, diapers, formula and hundreds of $25 Visa gift cards, said Jon Birkmire, director of family ministries for Anthem Church. “Helping others is a good core of what we want to do — for us, it’s a no-brainer,” Birkmire said. Abby Zachritz, the director of communications at Shift Church, said volunteers went to the area Tuesday to remove fallen trees and clear roads. “We have to make changeable steps, because if we just sit and pray we can’t make a physical change, but God gave us hands to go help.” Nareth Meth, the owner of Cilantro Tacos,

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Gainesville Kmart location set to close by end of year SEARS HOLDINGS IS CLOSING AT LEAST 142 STORES ACROSS THE U.S. By Angela DiMichele Alligator Staff Writer

The Kmart aisles were mostly empty Monday night except for brothers Miles and Reese Forziano.

Bye-week business

They took advantage of the open space by tossing a football across the department store. Shawn Forziano, 49, waited for her two sons to stop playing and focus on ﬁnding space-themed pajamas for homecoming week at Gainesville High School. Miles, 17, Reese, 15, and their mother came to the 900 NW 76th Blvd. Kmart for a quick stop. Soon, the Forzianos will have to

The Gators are using the extra week of practice to get younger guys reps, watch other college football games and maybe play some video games, pg. 14

travel into “Archer Road mayhem,” Shawn Forziano said. Sears Holdings announced Monday that Gainesville’s Kmart, one of three Florida stores, will close by the end of the year. Sears Holdings, the company that owns Kmart and Sears department stores, will close 142 locations across the country after ﬁling for bankruptcy, according to a Sears Holdings press release.

Tree ya later

UF students clear debris in Tallahassee, pg. 5

The company is closing unproﬁtable stores to save money, Howard Riefs, the corporate communications director, wrote in an email. The Sears at the Oaks Mall closed in mid-July. In August, Sears Holdings announced 46 other stores will close by November while the next 142 will close by the end of the year. Clearance sales will begin soon, the release said.

The Forzianos are regular Kmart shoppers because they live a few minutes away in a suburb on Newberry Road, Shawn Forziano said. “It’s sad and scary,” she said. “You’re going to have to buy everything on the internet.” @angdimi adimichele@alligator.org

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Campaign for Anti-Racism Awareness Week racism starts with education and Charities 2018 Fighting awareness.

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Gators Give! Through Oct. 19 Since 1989, UF employees have given more than $23,000,000 to area charities through the UF Campaign for Charities. The 2018 campaign is underway. UF employees can contribute to the UFCC through Oct. 19. UF employees can choose to support 93 charitable agencies. These agencies provide services ranging from shelter for the homeless - to environmental protection - to support for disease research - to protection for abused children. You can support the campaign through payroll deduction, check, cash or credit card. Your gift can be designated to specific agencies or undesignated - given as a general donation to support all agencies in this year’s UFCC.

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The second annual Anti-Racism Awareness Week aims to teach students about the history of race and racism in society. The conversation will allow us to better identify and challenge racism, making society more equitable and inclusive. Multicultural and Diversity Affairs is hosting the week’s events in partnership with UF Student Government Agency - Students Taking Action Against Racism and multiple student organizations. Additionally, an exhibit, BLACK EDUCATORS: FLORIDA’S SECRET SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES (1920-1960), will run October 22, 2018 - December 15, 2018 in the George A. Smathers Libraries, the Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center, and the A. Quinn Jones Museum and Cultural Center. The exhibition is sponsored by UF Levin College of Law’s Center for Race and Race Relations.

The Racialization of Immigrants in the U.S.: A Brief History 6 p.m. | Reitz Union G310 T U E S DAY, O C T. 2 3 Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation 7 p.m. | MCDA 2201 W E D N E S DAY, O C T. 2 4 “Documenting Hate” Documentary Screening and Discussion 6 p.m. | Reitz Union 3320 T H U R S DAY, O C T. 2 5 Cultural Exchange Fair 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. | Reitz Union entrance tabling area

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Live, all-day reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein — Wednesday, Oct. 31, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. at Plaza of the Americas near Library West This Halloween, the University of Florida joins Frankenreads, an international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. The campus events include celebration, reading and discussion on the continuing relevance of this seminal literary work that, since its appearance, has influenced millions of people across the globe. UF administrators, faculty, students, community leaders and others will take turns reading throughout the day. The event is sponsored by the Science Fiction Working Group and the George A. Smathers Libraries. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) screening — Tuesday, Oct. 30, 6 p.m. at the Harn Museum of Art Auditorium Introduction by guest speaker Dr. Lester Friedman, film scholar, bioethicist and author of Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives. Co-sponsored by the Harn Museum of Art, the Health Science Center Libraries, the UF Honors Program and the Creative Campus/ Catalyst Fund.

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Creature Feature: The Universal and Hammer Frankenstein Films, Presentation by Dr. Lester Friedman — Wednesday, Oct. 31, noon – 1 p.m. at Smathers Library, Room 100 Dr. Friedman is the author of Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives. He has taught cinema studies at Syracuse, Northwestern, American Universities, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Spertus Institute. He taught health humanities and bioethics at Upstate Medical Center (Syracuse) and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Co-sponsored by the UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment), Creative Campus/Catalyst Fund and the Health Science Centers Libraries. Frankenstein: Scientific Inspiration and Outcomes Exhibit — On display through Nov. 25 at Marston Science Library, 3rd floor. Curated by Dr. Sara Russell Gonzalez. For more information on events contact: tharpold@ufl.edu.

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Eight GPD oicers went. PANHANDLE, from pg. 1 normalcy as possible.” Despite limited phone service, the department heard back from officers asking for supplies, Schramek said. On Sunday, police asked for clothes, diapers, tarps and other supplies and drove the donations to the Panhandle the next day. The department will send another team to replace the officers in Panama City this weekend, Schramek said. In Gulf County, 17 deputies partnered with Columbia County and Marion County sheriff’s offices to direct traffic and search for survivors,

Alachua County Sheriff Office spokesperson Art Forgey said. Four deputies set up satellite dishes to restore communication lines, he said. Another deputy went to Holmes County to use computerized mapping to find survivors. The deputies will be in the Panhandle for at least two weeks. “They’re truly heroes, doing this unselfishly,” Forgey said. “I’m glad to be a part of (Alachua County Sheriff’s Office) and be able to send people there to help the community rebuild.” @jesscurbelo jcurbelo@alligator.org

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said he provided free food for ﬁrst responders in Chattahoochee, Florida. He and his wife gave away about 1,000 tacos to emergency medical technicians, police ofﬁcers and Gainesville Regional Utilities linemen Saturday. “I was happy to do it, and I’d do it again,” Meth said. Nihir Patel, a 21-year-old UF computer science senior, said he will follow in the footsteps of his friend who raised money for Hurricane Irma by taking headshots from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday on Turlington Plaza for donation to hurricane relief. Birkmire said he remembered how other communities united to help South Florida following Irma. “It’s our time to pay it forward,” Birkmire said. @LysKRamos aramos@alligator.org

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LOCAL Blue Gill Quality Food Check out one of the best Happy Hours around: $3 wells, 1/2 off select wines by the glass, $5 select specialty cocktails, $1 off all beers; 3-6 pm Mon-Fri. Located just south of Archer Road on 13th Street in the Shands Parking Garage. Private room available. Great for rehearsal dinners, student life organizations, and other group events. Always taking reservations, call us at 8725181. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram @chefcarlwatts for upcoming events and daily specials.

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SOUTHERN The Yearling Restaurant Since 1952 Gators have been coming to The Yearling Restaurant. If your parents, grandparents, or greatgrandparents went to UF they most likely ate here. We serve gator, frog legs, duck, quail + venison + a wide variety of seafood + steaks. Top it off with our famous sour orange pie. Now that is a meal any FL Gator can enjoy. So come on out to the creek + take a step back in time. Only here can you see the legendary bluesman Willie “The Real Deal” Green, playing nightly.

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UF students volunteer to help Gainesville barber shop co-owner clear fallen trees in Tallahassee arrested during child sex sting Their work was valued at about $4,500. By Dana Cassidy Alligator Staff Writer

Calvin Carlson wasn’t surprised when he got the call. After Hurricane Michael, his parents told him a 85-foot loblolly pine tree had fallen in his backyard. The 21-year-old said his Tallahassee backyard was overtaken by the tree, which was about the same height as half of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Carlson, a UF forest resources and conservation junior, and ﬁve UF students drove to his house from Gainesville to remove the debris. Although the loblolly pine was the biggest tree the group tackled, it was only one of seven the group removed in the capital Saturday, Carlson said. In the span of over eight hours, UF School of Forest Resources and Conser-

vation students cleaned up trees that had fallen on driveways, backyards and roofs in the area, Carlson said. “It made me feel really good,” Carlson said. “It was nice to be able to get out and clean up my hometown.” The students volunteered to do work that would have cost about $4,500, said Ryan Krammes, a 28-year-old UF forest resources and conservation junior. Krammes said one of his favorite memories from the day was watching the rootball, the main mass of shrubs and roots, and base of a tree, ﬂy up from the ground after cutting the base of a tree in a neighbor’s yard. “Watching everybody work and everybody working together — it was really fun,” Krammes said. @danacassidy_ dcassidy@alligator.org

HE WAS WEARING A SHIRT THAT READ, “I WOULD CUDDLE YOU SO MUCH HARDER.” By Amanda Rosa Alligator Staff Writer

A Gainesville barbershop co-owner was one of seven men arrested during a child sex sting operation in Volusia County. James Wayne Bowen, 34, the co-owner of Bob’s Barber Shop, at 1205 NW 23rd Ave., is accused of trying to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex at a RaceTrac gas station in Deltona, according to a Volusia County Sheriff’s Ofﬁce news release. He was arrested early Sunday morning, according to footage released by the sheriff’s ofﬁce. The seven men were arrested in several parking lots in Volusia County from Wednesday to Sunday, the release said. Bowen is accused of sending sexual texts to a detective, who he believed was a 14-year-old girl. Bowen, at the time of his arrest, was wearing a shirt that read, “I would cuddle you so much harder.”

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Bowen told deputies he came to the gas station because he knew about the sting and thought it would be cool to see it in action, the release said. A Bob’s Barber Shop representative could not immediately be reached for comment. Bowen was charged with using a computer to lure a child, traveling to lure a child, attempted lewd and lascivious battery and using a two-way communications device to commit a felony. He is being held in the Volusia County Jail in lieu of a $40,000 bond. @AmandaNicRosa arosa@alligator.org

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Ryan Kirk, 31, of New Smyrna Beach George G. Wallace, 43, of South Daytona Jorge A. Cruz, 49, of DeBary Jonathan Harden, 25, of Sanford Ronald J. Foley, 28, of Daytona Beach James Wayne Bowen, 34, of Gainesville Jonathan William Hayes, 22, of Eustis

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Trump’s tweets deserve lawsuits

Is President Donald Trump a liar or just an exaggerator? That was the question for U.S. District Judge S. James Otero, who on Monday dismissed Stormy Daniels’ (aka Stephanie Clifford’s) defamation suit against the president. Otero ruled that Trump’s tweet — which read: “A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!” — was just “rhetorical hyperbole,” according to The Washington Post. Daniels sued Trump for lying, specifically for saying Daniels organized a “con job.” Trump’s tweet claimed the individual, who Daniels said threatened her after she sold a story of her affair with Trump to a magazine, did not exist and that Daniels was purposefully misinforming journalists about the incident. Otero’s ruling against Daniels is emblematic of the crumbling American standard of truth in political discourse. When it was once a glaring scandal for public servants to be caught fudging the truth, people now expect lies from U.S. politicians. This is unsurprising. The president does not seem to take a day off from making false statements. Most of the statements are demonstrably false, such as the size of crowds at the president’s inauguration. Trump even claimed that former President Barack Obama tapped his phones, as if Obama didn’t have better things to do than listen in on Trump’s incoherent rants to foreign leaders. In fact, during the 2016 campaign, 70 percent of Trump’s statements reviewed by PolitiFact were false, according to Time. So which of the statements are outright lies and which are “rhetorical hyperbole”? At what point can the president, once a paragon of integrity and honesty, be held responsible for knowingly making a false statement and injuring another person’s reputation? If we extend the logic from Otero’s ruling, the president is fairly insulated from defamation suits because in the course of his job, he frequently makes brash political statements. Otero narrowed his ruling specifically to public figures suing each other for defamation, as Daniels presented herself as a political adversary to Trump in the public eye. Otero reasoned that if the president were prevented from engaging with political adversaries in this way, it would “severely hamper” his ability to govern. Otero’s ruling does not account for a future suit against Trump wherein the claimants to allege defamation against him may not be public figures. They may come forward with damning information on Trump and be sucked into the ensuing political firestorm, becoming public figures only after the fact, unlike Daniels who was a celebrity in the adult film industry prior to the tweet. When Trump disparages their character, they should be able to bring a claim against him. The office of the president should not insulate the officeholder from defamation suits because all of his hyperbolic, deceptive statements are made pursuant to legitimate political goals. The president has the ability and the duty to maintain truth’s sacred place in discourse. While politics usually involves some degree of dishonesty, outright lies aimed to deceive and misinform are unusual. Trump’s tweet was not just unreasonable or over-the-top. It was not a mere exaggeration. It was an outright lie he published on one of the world’s most viewed Twitter accounts. Voters depend on the president as their source of news — 72 percent of Republicans trust the president more than the media, according to The Washington Post. As long as Trump has the ability to commit character assassination with impunity, so long as he does so in a manner that is especially and flagrantly untrue, fewer will come forward with evidence of his wrongdoing. The compelling interest considered by Otero should not have been Trump’s necessity to fight off political adversaries with hyperbole; it should have been our country’s desperate need for truthful speech from the White House and the ability of accusers to come forward without incurring irreparable damage to their reputation. Meryl Kornfield EDITOR

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The tragic tale of a Tapingo order gone wrong

get from the Reitz Union to Turlington with a apingo is a valuable service offered on burger that would send my fellow French offithe UF campus. It helps busy students cers into a frenzy of envy. Upon arriving at the secure their meals without having to Wendy’s, the plot thickened. wait in the long lines accrued by some At the same time I strode over to the Tapingo of the fine eateries scattered across section of the Wendy’s, expecting to find a bag campus. At least, that is what Tapingo could with my name plastered on it, a scrawny man be, but too many students deal with horrific with a Red Sox hat entered the monstrous line delays and order mistakes. While the app pro- Kyle Cunningham next to me. I chuckled at him before peering opinions@alligator.org vides an avenue to rate the service and give down onto the sea of greasy bags that did not infeedback to the restaurants, it is not much clude my own. It was roughly 6:55 p.m. By 7:05 more than a consolation prize when the poor service has p.m., I was understandably a bit peeved. Mr. Red Sox Hat already cost students some heinous combination of their had just ordered, I assumed he went for a kids hamburger time, money, energy and will to live. or a two-piece chicken tender meal. Still, my Tapingo meal The promise of Tapingo is evident in online ordering ser- was nowhere in sight. To make matters worse, I saw my vices provided by fast food corporations from Dunkin Donuts ticket sitting in the dispenser. I fought hard to suppress the to Taco Bell. But unlike these services, Tapingo is problem- urge to vault over the counter and construct my Baconator atic because it must provide an ordering service for a wide myself. After another 10 minutes and irritated inquiries into range of different restaurants on campus. The Chipotle app the delay of my order, the woman behind the counter called can offer a tailored online ordering experience because the out “Kevin!” Mr. Boston himself went up to the counter and biggest difference in customer orders it receives is whether retrieved his meal, proceeding to mock me by saying “It’s a the oversized burrito it makes is in a tortilla or a bowl. Tap- Baconator” with a depraved smile on his face. Another ten ingo services 17 menus as opposed to one, which increases minutes later at 7:25 p.m., I was finally given my food, with the margin of error a significant amount. the exception of the baked potato, which they replaced with Delays and mishaps exist and are worth noting for two fries. The officer meeting was over and I was left fuming at prominent reasons: Tapingo is often used by students in be- the inequality of it all, that Kevin could have ordered ten tween classes or clubs with little to no time for that delay. minutes after I had and still left before me. Tapingo mistakes also tend to be massive. An example will Sure, Tapingo should not be expected to be perfect, but serve to demonstrate what I mean. most students at UF have important places to be. It should Last week, I decided to make the terrible dietary deci- never be the case that an entire line and then some takes prision of eating dinner at Wendy’s. The classic Baconator ac- ority over one Tapingo customer. While it came back to haunt companied by a perhaps more risqué baked potato — what them with my scathing review and now this article, I doubt one could describe as a classic. I had a 15-minute window either of my attacks will result in much change. Though with between an advising appointment and an officer meeting for some shifting of focus, I think these issues could be ironed the French Club, so as my right arm was extended, shaking out. When that day arrives, I will go once more to Wendy’s my advisor’s hand, my left was racing through the familiar and order a Baconator with Tapingo. motions of securing my Tapingo order on my phone. It was 6:45 p.m. when I ordered and I was notified my food would Kyle Cunningham is a UF English and history freshman. be ready by 6:53 p.m., which provided me enough time to His column appears on Fridays.

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Letter to the Editor

As an owner of two racetrack greyhound athletes, I disagree with an earlier letter to the editor describing race tracks as torture chambers for greyhounds. The fact is, the hounds are treated as athletes. They are well-fed, well-taken care of medically and work a short time, often getting to sleep for the rest of the day. One can tell when an animal has been abused or mistreated while going through the adoption process. We have an adopted lab who was mistreated, and it is evident at times. They are skittish, not sociable and afraid of strangers. Our two hounds are couch potatoes after a three-minute race in the backyard. We are also part of a group of greyhound owners in town that allow locals to interact with newly retired greyhound athletes. People can come up and pet the new hounds, much to the enjoyment of the hound; their willingness to interact with humans is not an indication of a mistreated dog. Proponents for Amendment 13 relay a story to demonstrate mistreatment of the hounds. A malfunctioning gas heater killed 15 hounds in Florida. In fact, there are many more stories when humans are killed by carbon monoxide from a bad gas heater or operating a generator in a garage during a storm. Tragic accidents happen in this world every minute. Are we going to ban generators or gas heaters from consumers? No. We train on the proper use of the device and require carbon monoxide alarms. Our greyhounds were trained by inmates at Hardee Correctional Institution in a vocational training program. A win for the hounds, the inmates and the future dog parent. Please vote no on Amendment 13 to save the jobs of 3,000 humans and 8,000 hound athletes. Dee and Giada Yellen thank you in advance for saving jobs for their fellow active athletes and future fellow couch potatoes. Victor Yellen is a Gainesville resident.

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How you, too, can handle your quarter-life crisis

to feel like I’m too old for them. have been apartment hunting in Gainesville for I’ve come to realize that’s a ridiculous idea. No the past four hours, trying to decide between an one is ever too “old” or too “young” to make misapartment that will ultimately lead to me giving takes. They are a part of life and some of the best my spleen as a down payment or something on lessons we’ll ever get to learn. Having life figured out the cheaper side that could double as a backdrop at 20 is impossible, but it’s not going to stop people for the Stanford prison experiment. from trying. When we try, we’re bound to get things Through my masses of Google searches, it hit Michaela wrong sometimes. Age doesn’t matter. me: I’m 20 years old and this adult thing is really Mulligan Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his big break until hard. I’ve spent the entire month of September halfopinions@alligator.org he was 43. Vera Wang was 40 when she entered the excited, half-dreading becoming 20 years old. I am fashion industry. Kylie Jenner is set to become a bilno longer a teen, but I’m still far from being a fullfledged adult. I’m stuck in this strange in-between where I’m lionaire at 21. Everyone has their own paths to take and their caught up in being expected to know so much yet so little about own successes to find. Age doesn’t define those journeys. Comparing myself to others and how far they’ve come althe world. I believe that a lot of people have a similar feeling toward ready in their life is one of my worst habits. It’s easy to see becoming an adult: confusion. It’s a time in our lives when you everyone’s successes in a world that promotes their best mohave to start planning for your future that goes beyond the next ments — as it should. Social media is a place to show your year or even four years. I’m talking about a lifetime. It’s a time achievements and not your failures. It’s easy to assume that in our lives when decisions matter and they could lead us down there were no struggles behind those accomplishments. The completely different paths. It’s impossible to figure out what truth is, a person has to be really good at failing to become even better at achieving. the right decision is. There are always going to be people that are more successful I am decidedly not a good adult. I got so distracted the other night by the opening credits of a movie that I burnt my micro- than you. I’ve come to understand that I don’t have everything wave popcorn to the point where it looked like tar. I had to under control — not even close. But that’s okay. I’m starting open my apartment windows for an hour to let out the smoke. to become more comfortable in this strange arena of adultI am not someone who should be in charge of major life deci- hood and childhood. It’s comforting to know that there are still sions, but I am. That’s the scary thing about being 20 years old. things I need to learn. I have goals and places I want to be in I have to be responsible enough to not only survive but also life, and it’s important to take a step back and remember those to thrive. We are at one of the only points in our lives when goals aren’t going anywhere. They’ll be waiting until you’re mistakes are expected, but a quick recovery time is also ex- ready to grab them by the horns. pected. Learning from mistakes is a vital part of growing up. Michaela Mulligan is a UF journalism sophomore. Her It’s one of the only ways we can ever grow in life. Mistakes can column appears on Wednesdays. be a hard pill to swallow, at least for me, because it’s starting

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Happy Birthday Petty By Lindsey Breneman Avenue Writer

Saturday will mark the 58th birthday of Gainesville’s brightest star. This week, the city will celebrate Tom Petty a year after his passing. The first spot to visit on this week’s Petty celebration is Swamp Head Brewery, at 3650 SW 42 Ave, where they are serving a Tom Petty inspired brew. Among the Wildflowers, the light and crisp American Kölsch crafted to be as universally enjoyable as the 1994 Petty hit, “Wildflowers,” it was named after, was released to honor the artist on Tuesday. This weekend, fans are invited to two different music festival birthday celebrations just a couple blocks apart at the Heartwood Soundstage, 619 S Main St, and Depot Park, 200 SE Depot Ave. Tom Petty Weekend at Heartwood Soundstage begins Thursday with a meet and greet. From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Tom Leadon, a former bandmate of Petty’s, is hosting storytime. He will recount with tales from the years he spent with his friend and fellow artist. Leadon will also take the stage with his band, The Bayjacks, both Friday and Saturday night. At 5 p.m. bands will begin to take the stage. The Relics, a Gainesville band, will take the stage first. Bob McPeek, 67, is the guitarist, as well as one of

the partners of Heartwood Soundstage. Heartwood Soundstage ﬁrst put on the Petty Birthday Bash last year after the rockstar’s unexpected passing at the beginning of October 2017. McPeek said it was something that was very well received and generated a lot of enthusiasm, so the venue decided to do it again. “This year’s going to be even bigger and crazier” McPeek said. “We have spared no expense in bringing in some really really ﬁne entertainment.” According to McPeek, music will begin at 4 p.m. or 5 p.m. both Friday and Saturday and go on until 1 a.m. the following morning. One band he mentioned was a talented Minnesota-based Petty tribute band, Free Fallin’. Free Fallin’ will take the stage both nights. McPeek also mentioned another original member of Mudcrunch named Danny Roberts, who is performing with his band, Mudpies. In addition, over a dozen local bands, including Flipturn and The Hails, will grace Heartwood Soundstage this weekend. There will also be local vendors and food. Heartwood Soundstage is also offering six bus tours of Gainesville which will showcase historic points in Petty’s life like his family’s farm. McPeek said these tours are now almost completely sold out. “We’ll have a lot of people

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The city is celebrating Petty’s legacy by renaming Northeast Park to Tom Petty Park at a ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. from in town and a lot of people coming from out of town,” said McPeek. He said that his venue will be the hub of Tom Petty Nation this weekend, a national fanclub with over 30,000 members. Tickets for the entire event are available at heartwoodsoundstage.com for $25. “It’s bigger than any one event - Tom Petty’s memory. So I think the events together will make it

an even stronger, amazing experience for people who come here,” McPeek said about the other birthday celebration. “And they’re very close so people can migrate from one to the other.” Down the road at Depot Park, music will also begin at 5 p.m. Friday. Heavy Petty, Gainesville’s own Petty tribute band, will be onstage at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets to this event are free, but attendees are welcome

to upgrade their packages to beneﬁt UF Shands Arts in Medicine and receive exclusive perks like an invitation to the pre-party at First Magnitude Brewing Co. The city is also celebrating its golden star by renaming Northeast Park to Tom Petty Park at a ceremony at the location at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Bruce Petty, Tom Petty’s brother, and Adria Petty, his daughter, will be attending the dedication ceremony.

MUSIC

Pride Playlist By Emma Witmer and Lindsey Breneman Avenue Editor and Avenue Writer

With Pride festivals cropping up in cities all over the country, now is the perfect time to celebrate members of the LGBTQ+ community who are making an impact. Representation in the music industry has made major strides in recent years, with openly queer artists unapologetically top-

ping the charts with their art. This weekend marks Gainesville’s annual Pride festival, and we’ve curated a playlist featuring music by and for the LGBTQ+ community to set the tone for the celebration. From anthems like Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” to songs with striking videography like Hayley Kiyoko’s “Girls Like Girls,” this playlist is here to set the rhythm.

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THEATRE

The School of Theatre and Dance presents musical ‘Hairspray’ By Vanessa Blankenship Avenue Staff Writer

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Tracy Turnblad is played by Sophia Young, right, and Edna Turnblad is played by Matthew Crews..

The musical takes place in Baltimore during the early 1960s, where protagonist Tracy Turnblad dreams of landing a dance role on “The Corny Collins Show”. Her aspirations for fame transform into a mission to overcome the prejudices against the African American community and integrate dancers of all races into the show. The award-winning musical is ﬁlled with music and dance and tackles pre-civil rights issues. Tony Mata, who directed around 40 musicals at UF, crafted his own conceptual version of the show and considers “Hairspray” to be one of his favorite productions that he has directed so far. With a cast of 33 members, a 15-piece orchestra and multiple designers working on costumes, lighting and set, Mata has been planning the musical’s debut at

Constans Theatre since last spring. “It’s a very big show, a very big show, and we want to do it well,” Mata said. LaVon Fisher-Wilson, a UF School of Theatre and Dance alumna and former Broadway performer, will be playing the role of Motormouth Maybelle. “We’re very excited about that — to have LaVon Fisher-Wilson playing that role and working with our students,” Mata said. Sophia Young, a 19-year-old UF musical theatre sophomore, will be playing Tracy Turnblad. Stephen Peters, 21 and fellow musical theatre major, will play Tracy’s love interest, Link Larkin. The role of Edna Turnblad will be performed by Matthew Crews and Loren Stone will play Corny Collins. “I think one of the most exciting things for me as the director working in academic theater,” Mata said, “is to see our students grow from the minute we

cast them and start rehearsals to what they do on opening night. “They are like my babies,” he added. The choreography is by Andrew Cao, who spent the past 10 years performing on Broadway for hit productions like “West Side Story” and “Aladdin.” This is his ﬁrst semester teaching at the UF School of Theatre and Dance. Cao said “I tried really hard to make sure that even though the movement and some of the ideas that we were doing in the show were inspired by the original Jerry Mitchell choreography that happened, I wanted to make sure that we had our own choreography that was unique to just us, and they wouldn’t ﬁnd anything like this anywhere else that they would go.” Evening performances start at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday performances start at 2 p.m. Tickets are $14 for students, $16 for faculty and $20 for public attendees.

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UF STRIVE’s Healthy Relationships Fair talks unhealthy relationships By Taylor McLamb Avenue Contributor

UF STRIVE, a peer education group that raises awareness on interpersonal violence issues, successfully held their third Annual Healthy Relationships Fair on Friday in the Plaza of the Americas. While toting their slogan, “Love Shouldn’t Hurt,” STRIVE aimed to educate students about healthy relationships and relationship abuse. STRIVE hosted the fair alongside 12 equally minded organizations that worked together to examine the unfortunate and overlooked

commonality of unhealthy relationships. Cameron Hunter, a 19-yearold UF advertising sophomore and marketing director of UF Women’s Student Association (WSA), said that due to their involvement with STRIVE in the past, they were more than happy to be one of the 12 organizations hosting the event. “I found it really exciting to have the opportunity to table for one of my favorite organizations on campus at an event that means so much to me,” Hunter said. The fair included fun activities for students to participate in, such

as a game where students are given a “passport” and a chance to win a unique tie-dye shirt with the event’s prickly, succulent logo if they get their passport stamped by 10 tables hosted by an organization. “Our organization was asking people questions about healthy relationships, and if they answered correctly they could get a stamp and an item of WSA merch,” said Hunter. An example of one of WSA’s questions was, “What’s something you can do to make sure you’re taking care of yourself in a relationship, that does not include your partner?”

“I think questions like these are really important for people our age to think about because unhealthy relationships are, unfortunately, very common with women our age,” said Hunter. Rachel Feldman, a 21-year-old UF international studies and economics major and president of the Gators Against Human Trafﬁcking, said she felt it was important for her organization to be a part of the event. “Human trafﬁcking doesn’t usually happen by kidnapping or something sudden. It often emerges from a relationship with someone you

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think you can trust,” said Feldman. “We wanted to highlight the red flags of relationships that can really be human trafficking in disguise.” Feldman said her organization offered an activity that helped identify the red flags of how someone posing as a trustworthy partner might actually be attempting to traffic you. “I hope that students learn about what healthy relationships look like, that love shouldn’t cause pain, red flags for unhealthy relationships and about resources if they need help leaving a harmful relationship,” said Feldman.

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Who is Tamayo? A look inside High Dive’s opener for Zach Deputy By Lindsey Breneman Avenue Writer

Four friends met at open mic nights across Gainesville last fall. A year later, an eclectic group of six artists comprise the up-and-coming local band, Tamayo. The band will open for Zach Deputy at 9:30 p.m on Oct. 18 at High Dive. Tickets for the show can be purchased at Ticketfly. com, HighDiveGville.com, Hear Again Records, High Tides and the High Dive box office for $15 in advance and $17 on the day of the show. Guests under 21 will be charged an additional $3 convenience fee. Zach Deputy is a Georgia-based solo artist who is known for illusive live shows where the audience watches him build his songs piece by piece using a looping recorder, until the music sounds as if it was generated by a full band. Tamayo members said they are ecstatic to have the opportunity to open for such a talented and inspiring musician. Michael Tamayo is a Colombian American and the son of a guitarist and a percussionist. Tamayo said for him, music and God have always been one and the same. Tamayo was nine years old in 2004 when he heard Green Day’s “American Idiot.” He said it immediately took over his life. He plunged into the rabbit hole of rock music. Two years later, John Mayer released “Continuum,” an album that’s soft sensuality intrigued Tamayo enough to enter jazz band in high school. Then, throughout college, he played in a varied number of musical groups. After three years in Gainesville, however, Tamayo was focused on law school. He was miserable. On April 1, 2017, Tamayo was at a Lettuce concert, a band he credits as one of his greatest influences, and everything changed.

“That’s the date I realized I wanted to be a musician for the rest of my life,” Tamayo said. “It was an awakening, a moment of clarity.” He began to collect a community of other artists at open mics after that. In December, four friends played together for the first time. “We kinda just realized we work well together; we make cool music,” said Hannah Toombs, 24, who sings along with Tamayo and plays the ukulele. “So we were just like, why not start a band?” Toombs and Tamayo were complemented by percussionist Trevor Zwaan, 24, and electric guitarist Ian Hallisey, 22. Their first show was an Ecofair Vegan Festival in January 2018. Over the next couple of months, the group gained Dylan Fink, 22, on the drums and Esaham Malik, 21, on the saxophone and keys. When they began working together, the band members shared Spotify playlists of their individual inspirations. They also have extremely diverse academic interests that allow each member to explore topics from different angles. “Each member has different stylistic influences or different things they like to play, and the more members that come into the band, the more styles are injected into the group,” Tamayo said. “It may be my last name, but it’s not me. It’s a band, you know? It’s a community.” Fink is a funk fiend who laughs while talking about “nerding out” over polyrhythms with Zwaan. He is a senior finishing up his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering this year. Malik has a passion for jazz. His bandmates compare him to jazz musician Sonny Rollins, a compliment he casually shrugs off. He studies international studies, focusing on Chinese and organic crop production. Toombs is working on getting a Ph.D. in

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Tamayo’s Hannah Toombs sings her heart out on the High Dive stage. Toombs sings and plays ukulele for the band.

anthropology and said she worships Stevie Nicks as her queen. Her training is in classical violin, the structure of which has always bothered her. Toombs said she loves to experiment with sounds in the informal band setting with her male counterparts. “Something that’s interesting to me is

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Tamayo is named after founding member Michael Tamayo. Tamayo is the guitarist and percussionist for the band who has been inﬂuenced by artists like Green Day and John Mayer.

the way small unassuming instruments like ukulele or violin can also command a room the same way electric guitar and drums can,” said Toombs. “We have Esham on saxophone so it’s kinda like we have these different things you wouldn’t expect in an electric band. I like being able to bring that with me when I perform.” Zwaan jokingly refers to himself as the band’s “ethical director” and longs to emulate Jack Johnson. He said since he has the least musical experience, with only five years or so in the bag, and he has learned a lot from the other members. A former philosophy and psychology major who recently finished a two-year stint in a neuroscience research lab, Zwaan is taking a hiatus from his academic path to focus on music. Hallisey is the most soft-spoken of the group. He chooses his words carefully, so when he does speak, it always sounds unassumingly poetic. Hallisey is a linguistics major in his fifth year. He dreams of tunes similar to classical Slavic compositions passed down through generations of his family. “How do we bring all our influences and our genres and our personalities and our styles and our histories into a cohesive story, which all of us not only connect with but believe in?” is the question Tamayo said they’re attempting to answer with their first album. “Hopefully, it’s a story that we can really bring other people on board with. That’s what ‘The Visit’ is” “The Visit” is the first song the group wrote together and will be the first song on their upcoming album. “That’s what music is for us. It’s a way to explore the universe and the people around you,” Tamayo said. “To me, music is about helping people. Music saved me and I know music can save others.”

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FOOTBALL

Gators using bye week to rest and recover By Jake Dreilinger Sports Writer

A tired Rayshad Jackson stood surrounded by a sea of reporters Tuesday night following Florida football’s night at the Indoor Practice Facility. It’s the Gators’ bye week. A game against the No. 8 Georgia Bulldogs looms on Oct. 27. Florida will have two weeks to get ready for one of its toughest matchups of the season. The first question Jackson fielded was if the Gators had started preparing for the game. “No,” he said. “We’re just prepping for the young guys to get their reps in, so in the future they can be their absolute best when they’re on the field.” He went on to explain that by giving the younger players more reps in practice, the starters can use this this week to unwind and refresh from a grueling seven-game stretch to open the season. Jackson said the somewhat laid-back approach to practice this week allows the veteran players more time to rest. “The early mornings, we usually come in around 8:15,” he said. “Now this whole week we’re not coming in at 8:15, so we get enough sleep.” Defensive end Elijah Conliffe echoed Jackson’s statement. He said he is using the bye week to work on his techniques and start watching some film on Georgia.

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Linebacker Rayshad Jackson (44) said the Gators are using their bye week to get younger players more experience for in-game situations. "Now this whole week, we're not coming in at 8:15, so we get enough sleep," he said.

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Florida faces opponent with The College Football Playoff format works familiar problem on Thursday By River Wells Sports Writer

dogs (4-7-4, 1-4-2 SEC) when they attempt to defend their home turf on Thursday.

UF’s ghost has returned to haunt it just in time for Halloween. The Gators (4-8-3, 2-3-2 SEC) haven’t exactly spooked opposing defenses. They’ve gone four games without a goal, channeling the spirit of their stretch earlier in the year where they failed to score for six straight games. It appeared Florida had exorcised its demons after finding the back of the net 10 times in two games during the beginning of SEC play. But it seems the Gators’ penchant for goose eggs has reared its ugly head at the worst time as the team attempts to avoid missing the NCAA Tournament for the third time in 23 years. They’ll face off against an eerily similar opponent in the Georgia Bull-

Double Vision While the prospect of a six-match scoreless streak may seem like an unfeasible rut for any soccer team to go through, the Florida Gators aren’t alone. The Bulldogs have tied Florida’s record from earlier in the year. Florida has struggled mightily this year, but Georgia’s had it worse. The Bulldogs rank second-to-last in goals, assists and points in the SEC, only beating out Florida in shots (178 to UF’s 171). There are a few bright spots for the Bulldogs that may present a challenge to the Gators, however. Georgia ranks first in saves among the SEC, clocking in 80 so far, with UGA goalkeeper Emory Wegener contrib-

UF tennis freshman Sam Riffice lost in the opening round of singles play at the USA F28 Futures tournament in Harlingen, Texas. He fell 4-6, 2-6 against Notre Dame's Axel Nefve.

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Texas. A long rectangular table with a The announcement of the four marker of each participant’s name fills teams selected to the College Football Playoff later this season will undoubtthe space. Each member sits in front of edly elicit the outrage that it always a flat-screen TV with a Dell computer given to them to make their choices. does. As “committee members” we spent Many will voice their disenchanted five hours going through several opinions as to why their team deserved one of those four spots, and others will Alanis Thames rounds of selection until we had suc@alanisthames lament the convoluted premise of it all. cessfully picked our top-25 programs from the 2013 season. It mirrored the The pleas from college football analysts and fans alike to expand the CFP format exact procedure that the committee follows down has been at the forefront of the playoff discussion to the recusal from an argument if the team that a committee member represents is being discussed. since its inception in 2014. But to the chagrin of most college football fans, That was an extremely condensed version of the long process the committee goes through to the system works. Everything from the grandiose setting in which actually make those selections. But if there’s one thing I took away from the the 13-person committee makes its final picks, to the hours of passionate debates over who gets mock selection exercise, it’s that the college footthose four coveted spots. ball playoff format won’t be expanding any time It’s all very meticulous, and it works. soon. And it shouldn’t. According to CFP executive director Bill HanI say this because I recently spent two days sitting in the shoes of one of those CFP committee cock, the committee approaches each round with members engaging in the process of choosing the the same level of importance, ranking teams 2225 just as carefully as teams 1-4. nation’s top-25 teams. The committee works out of a spacious meetThe members relish in the drama and heated ing room at the Gaylord Texan Hotel in Dallas,

UF swimmers earn weekly honors Junior Maxime Rooney and freshman Trey Freeman were named SEC Swimmer of the Week and Freshman of the Week, respectively. Rooney posted the fourth-best time in the SEC in the 100-yard freestyle at 44.57 seconds. Freeman swam the fourth-fastest 1,000-yard freestyle time in the nation.

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

College tennis presents problems, opportunities for international players By Brendan Farrell Sports Writer

The NCAA is known for producing elite, homegrown American athletes. They grow up in America, play for American colleges, get drafted by American teams and become national icons for other Americans. Some may even get the opportunity to represent the United States at the international level. College tennis, however, is the polar opposite. The sport as a whole has seen a decline in the United States over the last 20 years in both the men’s game and the women’s. Sloane Stephens’ win at the 2017 U.S. Open was the first Grand Slam for an American woman not named Serena or Venus Williams since 2002 (Jennifer Capriati, Australian Open). Grand Slams have featured 16 different non-Williams winners from across 12 different countries — 10 of which are in Europe — in that time span. 2018 alone has seen all four of its Grand Slam champions come from different countries: Denmark, Romania, Germany and Japan. It’s only fitting that, as college coaches have struggled to find championship-caliber American talent, the college game has followed suit. Thirty-five of the 64 players in the field for the 2018 NCAA Division I Women’s

Singles Championships last May were from 19 different countries other than the United States. “I think it’s possible (to have just Americans),” UF tennis coach Roland Thornqvist said. “There just aren’t that many American players year in, year out that are at the level required... to ﬁll Florida’s roster, Duke’s roster, Georgia’s roster, Stanford’s roster every year. “If we want to be competitive, we have to pay attention to our talent level. That is certainly a guiding force in how we recruit.” Two members of the Gators’ 2017 national-championship roster were foreigners: national singles runner-up and Australian native Belinda Woolcock and the Russian four-time All-American Anna Danilina. The inﬂuence of international tennis players has arguably never been stronger at UF than with this year’s squad, however. Half of the six-woman squad is from outside of the country. Thornqvist himself was an international college player, coming over from Sweden to play for the University of North Carolina. Thornqvist admitted that his own personal experience helps him connect with players and recruit. “I think that I understand what (international players) are going through when they

get here,” he said. The players themselves often come over to the United States not just to play tennis, but also to pursue an education at the same time, which can often be a struggle to balance. Jarlskog Sophomore transfer Ida Jarlskog cited her problems balancing time at school and time on the court as one of the reasons why she transferred from Georgia Tech. “It was so rough. I did chemistry my ﬁrst year (at Georgia Tech),” she said. “I was exhausted all the time. I had time for tennis, but I didn’t have time for sleep. I slept like four hours a night.” Jarlskog is currently majoring in applied physics and kinesiology in her ﬁrst year at Florida, and she hopes to go pre-med if her tennis career doesn’t pan out. For some international players, the problems aren’t on the court. It can be challenging to play tennis at a high level and to deal with the pressures that come with it in a new country. Tsveta Dimitrova, another sophomore transfer, found herself on a team at Houston made up entirely of international players at a school that she didn’t even get a chance to visit before signing with the Cougars.

“When I ﬁrst came (to the United States), I was struggling a lot with the language and even with math, because I couldn’t understand the questions,” she said. “I knew math, but I didn’t know what they Dimitrova were asking, so I couldn’t solve the problem.” Dimitrova also said she felt constantly pressured by her coach at Houston to perform on and off the court. Dimitrova admitted that it helped her grow as a player, but it hurt her relationship with her coach. She ended up leaving the job at Houston for the head coaching spot at the University of Arkansas. Left without the woman who recruited her to Houston, feeling stuck in the “1” position against AAC-level competition and seeking a harder challenge, Dimitrova decided to transfer. “I didn’t know anybody on the team, I just knew that the University of Florida is (a) huge athletic program, not only in tennis, but every other sport,” she said. “I was looking for (a) big program that is going to challenge me, you know? It’s all about improvement.” @Bfarrell727 bfarrell@alligator.org

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KeVaughn Allen named to preseason Jerry West Award Watch List By Tyler Nettuno Sports Writer

Senior guard KeVaughn Allen was named to the Jerry West Award Watch List on Tuesday, according to an announcement from The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

The Little Rock, Arkansas, native is one of 20 players named to the watch list, which is given annually to the top shooting guard in college basketball. Previous winners include NBA draft picks Malik Monk, Buddy Hield and D’Angelo Russell. Allen, who is No. 10 on Florida’s all-time three-point ﬁeld goals

list with 188, has over 1,000 career points. He’s one of 53 Gators to share that distinction. Last season, he had three 20-point games, including a 28-point performance against Arkansas. The 20-man list will be cut in half by mid-February, with ﬁve ﬁnalists being chosen in March. The winner will be announced April

12 at the ESPN College Basketball Awards Show in Los Angeles. Allen had an impressive sophomore campaign, but saw his points per game dip by three last year as a junior, despite playing more minutes. Known for being a man of few words, his teammates say he has taken steps toward being a vocal leader for the Gators

this fall. “He’s a very closed-off person,” senior center Kevarrius Hayes told the media Thursday. “He’s deﬁnitely talking a lot more, that’s something we’re all proud of.” @TylerNettuno tnettuno@alligator.org

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Monteagudo will miss Georgia game after receiving red card SOCCER, from pg 14 uting 79 of them. The team also ranks ahead of UF in goals allowed, which may cause a Gators team — with only 17 goals to its name all season — quite a bit of trouble. To Score or Not to Score? That is the question. The Gators will face two of the SEC’s worst teams in their next three games, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be worried. Rest hasn’t come easy for Florida. On top of its scoreless streak of four games, two of them have gone to double overtime. Although the tiring marathons are sometimes sweetened by victory, UF hasn’t had anything to show for the long treks. If the

two teams bring Thursday’s match to double overtime once more, the extended playing time could wear down on Florida in a ﬁnal stretch where it desperately needs to be fresh. There’s also the matter of Melanie Monteagudo. She’s a staple in the team’s starting lineup who was given a red card in the closing moments of the second overtime period in UF’s tie with Alabama. As a result, she’ll sit out against Georgia, leaving the team at less than full strength for the upcoming tilt. Florida will come into the matchup with the upper hand from previous meetings, as it currently leads the series 29-2-1 and got the best of the Bulldogs 3-0 when the two last met. Alligator File Photo

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Midﬁelder Melanie Monteagudo (right) won't be in the lineup for the Gators this Thursday against Georgia. The senior was shown a red card in the closing moments against Alabama.

Franks said team going back to basics FOOTBALL, from pg 14 “I think it’s... getting more stouter inside,” Conliffe said. “Working on, you know, keeping our gaps, tearing our blocks, stuff like that.” Even quarterback Feleipe Franks is using the week to get back into form. He said the team went back to the basics of its offense so some of the younger guys can better learn it and try to earn more playing time. He also said by going back to the fundamentals, it gives him the chance to recover from the soreness the ﬁrst seven games of the season can bring. “I’m not feeling awesome, but that’s why we play,” Franks said. “That’s why we get the

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bye week for a bunch of guys to get their body back right.” As for this Saturday, the Gators will not play, obviously. Some of the guys on the team will not let that opportunity go to waste. Cornerback C.J. Henderson might use this Saturday to watch a former high school teammate, Trajan Bandy, play at Miami against Boston College. Conliffe has other plans. “I’ll probably watch (Alabama-Tennessee),” he said. “If not, I’ll be playing ‘Call of Duty.’ One or the other.” @DreilingerJake jdreilinger@alligator.org

moments of discussion that the process brings from the start to finish. And so did I. It amazed me how long it took us to decide whether Alabama or Ohio State deserved that No. 4 spot in the CFP. We compared every statistic, every game, every scenario, and after hours of shuffling back and forth, we finally made the decision to give Alabama that slot. And that was just one single spot. Imagine how long of a process this would be with an eight or even sixteam playoff. It makes a laborious system even more laborious. And let’s face it, that’s what bowl games are for.

Someone’s always going to have an issue with it no matter the system, and the committee has chosen the most efﬁcient way to ﬁlter the best teams in the nation. Yeah, some teams that made a convincing case during the season for a top-four spot end up not making the cut. And yeah, it makes the decision extremely hard. But life is about making tough choices and living with the consequences, and aren’t we all better off down the road because of it? Alanis Thames is a football writer for The Alligator. Follow her on Twitter @alanisthames and contact her at athames@alligator.org.

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