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‘I don’t feel like a Gator:’ A year after Spencer, students reﬂect By Jessica Curbelo and Gillian Sweeney Alligator Staff Writers

People ran away in horror when a man with a swastika print T-shirt approached the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. One year ago, instead of ﬂeeing, Omar Syed put his hand on the man’s shoulder to escort him out of white supremacist Richard Spencer’s speech. “I told him, ‘You’re not welcome here,’ and he just smiled,” Syed, a 25-year-old UF psychology senior, said. Syed was one of the thousands of protestors who spent more than nine hours shouting and waving signs Oct. 19, 2017, at the UF venue, at 3201 Hull Road, protesting white supremacist Richard Spencer’s speech. For many like Syed, this marked the date they lost faith in the university. “There is a person that my univer-

sity hosted who wants to take away my life,” Syed said. From the outside, Syed witnessed people pushing and spitting at the Spencer supporter and eventually saw someone throw a punch at his face. “He was punched rightfully,” he said. Inside the entertainment center, Timothy Tia, a 22-year-old UF economics graduate, was one of the hundreds who grabbed a ticket to hear Spencer’s speech. Protestors chanted “Black lives matter” and “Let’s go Gators.” Their words echoed in the center and drowned Spencer’s speech, Tia said. “There was an electricity in the room among protestors,” Tia said. Spencer and his supporters may not have gotten the reaction they had initially hoped for, UF President Kent Fuchs said, and because of that, groups like Spencer’s have largely stopped

coming to campus. The speech cost the university more than it cost Spencer, Fuchs said. He paid $10,564 to rent the space, but UF spent almost $600,000 on increased security. The event caused people to talk about their values and the need to counter hate with words of support, Fuchs said. “In some sense, the freedom of speech really isn’t free,” Fuchs said. “It comes at a price not necessarily to those expressing it but to those who have to listen to it and endure it.” Since the speech, the university reviewed its policy that allows speakers to rent space on campus even if they, like Spencer, are not afﬁliated with a student group. Ultimately, UF decided not to change the policy because the facilities of the university are valuable to the larger Gainesville community,

SEE SPENCER, PAGE 4

Q&A: Democrat Lt. Gov. candidate Chris King By Jessica Curbelo Alligator Staff Writer

Chris King felt disappointment and peace when he lost the Florida Democratic nomination to Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum in August, he said. Days after Gillum won, King was surprised and honored when Gillum invited him to Tallahassee to ask him to run as his lieutenant governor, he said. King talked to The Alligator about health care, education and equity.

Q: How did you meet Andrew Gillum? A: I met Andrew when we were both running for governor. We competed against each other over and over and over again for 18 months. I spent about as much time with Andrew as I did with my wife during that period of time. Q: Having gone to law school at a Florida university, what are your thoughts on the current state of education? A: Overall, our thoughts are that it

has been underfunded or unfunded at key areas of the educational spectrum. When we say education, we’re thinking about everything from early childhood education to university education. Mayor Gillum and I believe very strongly that the best states and the best economies invest signiﬁcantly in preparing the workforce for the future. That starts as early as early childhood education. So, we have a plan to invest nearly a billion dollars of new resources in early

SEE KING, PAGE 4

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Khadir Trowell, 21, dances as “Rose Chamellion” Thursday night at the ﬁrst-ever UF Gaytor Drag Race in the Rion Ballroom of the Reitz Union. Trowell earned the titles of best dancer and best outﬁt and won the competition overall. The prize for the winner was a timeslot to perform at the University Club on Friday night, Gainesville Pride on Saturday and The Copa Nightclub in Ocala, Florida. Go to page 8 for more photos.

About 160 UF Online students might have been in Michael’s path SO FAR, ABOUT 130 AFFECTED STUDENTS WERE CONTACTED. By Gillian Sweeney Alligator Staff Writer

Tonia Perkins’ neighborhood was unrecognizable. Perkins, a 37-year-old UF Online business administration junior,

tried to look for the house she has lived in for 30 years in Callaway, Florida, from the shattered window of her parents’ car. Her house was in the path of Hurricane Michael. “There were people walking up and down the street,” Perkins said. “I had to ask them what road is this.” About 160 UF Online students, like Perkins, might live where Hur-

Report cards: Grading every Gators position

The bye week brings us all closer to UGA week. In lieu of a game, the alligatorSports staff breaks down every position on offense and defense, pg. 14

ricane Michael hit, said Evangeline Cummings, the director of UF Online. Advisors contacted about 130 affected students as of Thursday. Hours after searching for her home, Perkins ﬁnally found it with her garage destroyed, sunroom shattered and with extensive water damage. At least the house was standing. Even with her circumstances, Perkins said she did not want to

withdraw from the two courses in which she is enrolled. “I don’t want to redo it,” Perkins said. “I don’t want to start over.” Advisers are contacting students to tell them that instructors are aware of their hardships, Cummings said. “We don’t want them to worry about contacting us, but we want to check in,” Cummings said. Cummings said they are telling

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affected students about available resources such as U Matter, We Care and Aid-A-Gator, an emergency hurricane funding program. “We are here to help them recover,” Cummings said. “We want them to know that the University of Florida stands with them.” @gilliangsweeney gsweeney@alligator.org

UF alumna to stay in Israel

After being detained for more than two weeks, the Isreali Supreme court decided she can stay, pg. 3

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More free T-shirts? Nearly 200 students attend tie-dye event

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Muskan Shah, an 18-year-old UF health sciences freshman, is all smiles Wednesday afternoon while she tie-dyes a shirt on the Plaza of the Americas; 190 people tie-dyed shirts for free during the event.

Emily Tartaglia, a 19-year-old UF criminology junior, could not pass up the chance to tie-dye a free T-shirt Wednesday afternoon. The UF Student Honor Code Administration provided free tie-dying for students on the Plaza of the Americas to promote Conﬂict Resolution Week.

UF alumna will not be deported from Israel after court decision By Angela DiMichele Alligator Staff Writer

UF alumna Lara Alqasem was granted permission to enter Israel after being detained for more than two weeks in an Israeli airport. After ﬁghting deportation, the Israeli Supreme Court overturned previous decisions that banned her from entering the country, the Associated Press reported. Alqasem, 22, appealed to judges so she could enter Israel to start a master’s program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Both of her appeals to local and regional courts were initially

denied. The decision was overturned because her desire to study in Israel was more important in the court’s eyes than her alleged previous involvement boycotting Israeli companies, AP reported. In her appeal, Alqasem said she does not participate in boycotts now or in the future. Israel previously passed a law that banned anyone who “knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel” from entry. The state wanted to use Alqasem’s past involvement as evidence against her, but the Supreme Court decided this evidence was not enough to use the anti-boycott law.

Alqasem’s lawyers said she has been released from the airport. She said she was “relieved at the court’s decision,” in a statement. William Christou, a 22-year-old UF international studies senior, said he followed Alqasem’s case from the beginning. He said he felt less anxious once he realized the state had a weaker case and saw a picture of her leaving the airport, bags in hand. “It was really amazing to see Lara free from foreign detention and free to pursue her education,” Christou said. @angdimi adimichele@alligator.org

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Oct. 2 - Lara Alqasem is detained at the Ben Gurion Airport in Israel for alleged involvement in a group that boycotts Israel.

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Islam on Campus hosts 15th annual Fast-A-Thon By Samia Lagmis Alligator Contributing Writer

Angie Suarez only expected a free meal when she went to FastA-Thon for the ﬁrst time last year. The 20-year-old UF public health junior was pleasantly surprised to learn about Islam and what fasting means to Muslims, she said. She came back to the O’Connell Center with a group of friends and an appetite Thursday

night. “It was about so much more than food,” Suarez said. More than 450 students ate a traditional Mediterranean dinner during Islam on Campus’ 15th annual charity fundraiser. The group raised more than $4,000 for Islamic Circle of North America Relief’s Transitional Women’s Homes in Florida and the Edhi Foundation, a social welfare organization in Pakistan,

said Sana Nimer, the group’s president. Islam on Campus will donate to the charities on behalf of each student who signed up to fast from sunrise to sunset. “We choose to fast because it unites us with those who are less fortunate,” Nimer said. Students ate hummus as an appetizer; Kefta, a traditional beef dish, with rice; a Mediterranean salad as an entree; and cake for

dessert. The majority of students who attended were not Muslim, said Mariam Abouzied, an executive board member. “I believe that Fast-A-Thon will show that anyone can make a difference,” she said. “College students in Florida can be impacting lives across the world.” The dinner also featured guest speakers UF President Kent Fuchs and Imam Abdurrahman Sykes, a

Muslim community leader from Orlando. Sykes began fasting as a Christian 46 years ago, he told students. He converted to Islam after researching fasting in different religions and in Muslim communities. “Fasting involves more than just being hungry and thirsty,” Sykes said.

He is running with Gillum KING, from pg. 1 childhood education, in K-12 public education and in technical and vocational education. Q: What do you think can be done to facilitate racial equity in Florida universities and colleges? A: You’re talking to the ticket that I think represents the future of Florida, even in its racial makeup. We look like Florida, and I think that positions us to know how to advance the types of policies at every level of government. Q: Why do you think people, and more speciﬁcally college students, should vote for Gillum? A: We’re the only environmentalists running. We’re the only folks who are talking about science and environmental policy-making. So for all those reasons, I think college students are like, ‘These are two young, entrepreneurial progressives and forward-thinking type people who want to shoot for the stars,’ or as we often say in our race, ‘swing for the fences.’ I think students are very idealistic. Q: What would you say are the top three issues that you and Mayor Gillum are hoping to work on? A: Number one is health care. We’re 20 days from the election, and we’re running against a candidate who’s been running for 261, and he doesn’t have a plan for health care in Florida. This should be very important to college students who

are coming out of college and are looking for affordable health care. Number two is public education. Mayor Gillum, who was educated during high school in Gainesville, is a passionate believer in the connection between investing in public education and growing the workforce of the future, the economy of the future. So this is the ticket that is talking about public education everywhere we go, from early childhood to university education. You hear crickets from the other side. Third is the environment. We are living in a state right now that’s almost a science ﬁction novel in the sense we have all these different forms of algae ringing our coast. Our seas are rising. Our climate is warming, and storms are strengthening. We need the next governor of Florida to be very assertive and entrepreneurial and environmental and building the clean energy economy of the future. So I would say those are the big three: health care, public education and the environment. I think we are in a class above Ron DeSantis, and I’m hoping younger voters — both high school-aged 18-yearolds and college students — vote this election. Editor’s note: This Q&A was edited for length and clarity. @jesscurbelo jcurbelo@alligator.org

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Lt. Governor candidate Chris King visits Gainesville Wednesday afternoon to speak with The Alligator about his campaign with Andrew Gillum. King discussed health care, public education and the environment during the Q&A. King was selected as Andrew Gillum’s running mate after he lost the Democratic nomination for Florida governor.

UF spent about $600,000 on security SPENCER, from pg. 1 Fuchs said. Tia said he thinks university administration should have fought to bar Spencer from speaking by bringing him to court, even if it is likely Spencer would have won. If the university had the funds to spend on the security, it could afford to take on a legal battle, Tia said. “They decided to let it happen,” Tia said. “They thought that was the path of least resistance.” --Syed spent the duration of the day standing outside, shoulder-toshoulder, with thousands of protestors and law enforcement ofﬁcers. Sometimes, he felt outnumbered

by law enforcement by as much as two-to-one. And for much of the time, he said he felt uncomfortable with the heavy police presence, with many ofﬁcers dressed in riot gear while Syed only held a poster. “It felt that the university was trying to contain us,” Syed said. “We cried for help, but for them, it wasn’t about who was being targeted.” About a thousand ofﬁcers traveled into Gainesville from all over the state, said University Police spokesperson Capt. Jeff Holcomb. The majority of law enforcement was concentrated on campus and around the Phillips Center, Holcomb said. “This is one of those things where you’d rather not have to

deal with something like that, but in our profession, we don’t get to pick and choose what we get to deal with,” Holcomb said. Officers arrested two men, one for possession of a firearm on school property and the other for resisting an officer, according to a press release. Fire rescue teams treated five injuries. Two brothers and a friend drove from Texas to Gainesville to listen to Spencer speak. They were arrested later that day. Colton Fears wore a Nazi-era pin. William Fears told journalists that whites should take control of their destiny. An hour after the event, the Fears brothers and Tyler Tenbrink stopped their car at the corner of Southwest 34th Street and South-

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SPENCER EVENT BY THE NUMBERS Spencer spoke from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Oct. 19, 2017.

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Classes were not canceled.

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Spencer payed $10,564 to rent space in the Phillips Center.

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UF spent almost $600,000 when he came to campus.

west Archer Road to argue with protesters. The brothers encouraged Tenbrink to shoot when he stepped out of the car, police said. He shot once. No one was injured. Colton Fears pleaded guilty to three counts of accessory to attempted murder. He will be sentenced Nov. 21. Tenbrink sits in the Alachua County Jail waiting for his trial date to be set. He was charged with attempted ﬁrst-degree murder and possessing a weapon as a felon. --A year later, Syed still demands

action from the university administration. He wants UF to cater to its marginalized students. For “The Good Life” class to be replaced with a course on fascism and hate speech. For students to have the power to veto speakers like Spencer. He no longer feels welcomed by his own university. “I don’t feel like a Gator,” Seyd said. “I don’t.” @jesscurbelo jcurbelo@alligator.org @gilliangsweeney gsweeney@alligator.org

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Luxury hotel to open mid-November at Celebration Pointe By Angela DiMichele Alligator Staff Writer

Bats, alligators, horses, Tom Petty and Bo Diddley decorate the bedrooms of one of Gainesville’s newest hotels. Hotel Indigo, a six-story hotel at 5020 SW 30th Lane in Celebration Pointe, is set to open mid-November, said operations manager John Goodner. Hotel Indigo’s art, architecture and more than 200 local Gainesville workers make the hotel stand out, Goodner said. The InterContinental Hotels Group, the hospitality company that owns Hotel Indigo, crafted the 140 rooms with Gainesville’s “neighborhood story” in mind. Henry Hinojosa, the project superintendent, said each room has a brightly painted mural wall with music or nature scenes. One of the murals displays a horse trampling an alligator after a video of a stallion attacking a sunbathing alligator at Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park received 2 million views. “Celebration Pointe is a very upscale, high-end retail development, and we wanted to tie that back into the hotel,” Goodner said. Some rooms will cost around $130 during weekdays, Goodner said. He expects prices to increase

during busier times, such as football season. The hotel features a bar, restaurant, pool, gym, computer room and four conference rooms, Hinojosa said. Visitors walking into the hotel are greeted by circular sofas, wooden tables and a 6-foot white alligator attached to the lobby ﬂoor. About 80 percent of the subcontractors who worked on the project live in Gainesville and Ocala, Goodner said. Car-sized boulders of limestone underneath the dirt uncovered during the excavation project were used around and in the hotel. Larger pieces of the stone were used as landscaping features, and smaller brick-sized pieces were used on walls, Goodner said. Hinojosa said he did not know about Gainesville’s large bat population until he saw the creatures in murals, framed photos and decorations around the hotel. “This hotel to me is unique because of its design,” Hinojosa said. “The interior design, the murals and the music — it’s all a part of the Gainesville atmosphere.” @angdimi adimichele@alligator.org

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Hotel Indigo will open by mid-November at 5020 SW 30th Lane in Celebration Pointe. The small boutique hotel has 140 rooms with music, nature and animal mural walls in each one.

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itting on the grassy banks of Lake Wauberg, you wonder silently to yourself about the weather. The gusts of late October wind are warm but only mildly. They tell you all you need to know: Summer is ending. Florida is slow to chill but that now seems inevitable. Through the darkened lenses of your sunglasses you can see the sun already retreating at 4 p.m. You remove your shades. For the past week, cold fronts have stalked the summer heat like a tiger in the bush, waiting for a lull to go in for the kill — leaving the throne empty and ready for autumn. The signs of seasonal change are all around you. Pumpkin spice is back in fashion. Your roommate has a two-pound loaf of pumpkin bread sitting in the refrigerator at home, which she bought at a pumpkin patch that sprung up near your house last week. Your very in-fashion friend has been wearing burnt orange, vermilion and persimmon since September. You cannot differentiate between the shades of orange but smile and nod politely as she monologues excitedly about bittersweet shimmer and atomic tangerine. Deep down, you mourn summer’s passing. You missed wearing flip flops to class and lying out by the pool. Spooktober memes just won’t fill that hole in your heart. The fond summer memories evaporate as you walk mouth-first into a Florida summer staple: a buzzing cloud of tasteless gnats. Instead of expletives, you sputter and cry out:

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The end is upon us. Not just the end of summer, but the end of cannabis prohibition in Canada. Wednesday was the first day of legal sales there. Canadians waited for hours in line to get their first taste of state-sanctioned cannabis smoke. A countdown party in Toronto was comparable in scale to that of a New Year’s countdown party. Canadians symbolically lowered a large bud of cannabis (which was really a gargantuan wad of what looked like green crumpled paper) at midnight the evening prior to legal sales. It looked more like a sickly jalapeño, but we applaud the Torontonians for their gumption and initiative. We accordingly bestow a laurel to the sculptor of the misshapen pepper. The largest producers and growers of the drug in Canada are now valued in the billions, according to The New York Times. The world cannot know what lies in wait for Canada — what economic, cultural, spiritual and gastronomical impact legalization of cannabis will undoubtedly have. We cannot help but wonder about what type of pancakes the first bottles of cannabis-infused maple syrup will be used on. We ponder about how much more relaxed and polite Canadians will become, if such an improvement is even possible. A laurel is awarded to Canadian Parliament for having the good sense to legalize the recreational use of the drug. A second laurel is proffered to the brave souls who waited in line in a freezing Canadian October to make their historic purchases. A dart to the U.S. for lagging morally and continuing to wage a war on drugs. In more serious news, the alliance between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia is starting to show cracks after new and more gruesome evidence of Jamal Khashoggi’s killing was revealed. Khashoggi was a prominent Saudi dissident journalist who lived in Virginia and contributed for The Washington Post. He walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. Two hours later, he was dead, dismembered and beheaded, according to The New York Times. Audio recordings described by the Turkish government purportedly show that 15 Saudi agents, some with ties to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, were waiting to murder him when he arrived. It is hard to overstate how odious, vile, ruthless and cruel this killing was. There are no laurels involved here. Only darts for the Saudi government and the agents who committed murder under the guise of nationalism or pretense of duty. If we do not levy heavy sanctions against Saudi Arabia, it will send a message that the U.S. does not protect its own dissident journalists. Maybe the end will be upon us after all. Meryl Kornfield EDITOR

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Student Government’s mental health debacle

The author is in the process of medically withust over a year ago, The Alligator reported drawing from classes. on a fateful meeting in which Student GovThe CWC is doing what it can. I know it is hirernment officials voted against a proposal ing folks, but if it has a proposal in for this year’s to provide permanent funding for new local fee committee meetings, it means it needs counselors at the Counseling and Wellness more help. Center, igniting a conflagration of student outcry. Here’s how it will go. Likely within the next I didn’t take the decision well and wrote a letmonth, the CWC and other campus entities will ter to the editor lambasting the decision entitled Zachariah submit fee proposals. Last year, the CWC wanted “SG kills mental health funding: A travesty of Chou to raise the health fee by 71 cents per credit hour. priorities.” I expressed my agitated feelings and opinions@alligator.org Multiply that per credit amount by the numit seemed that many others felt the same way, ber of credit hours you are taking, and you will responding to my call to come down and share figure out how much more per semester you’ll pay. Seventytheir stories at the next Student Senate meeting. I burned a lot of bridges. The Student Body President at one cents per credit hour multiplied by the 13 credit hours the time came down to Senate and pointed out “inaccura- I’m taking would mean an additional 9.23 dollars per semescies” in my letter, but after I debated with him, we all real- ter I will pay if the increase goes into effect. Note that there are a lot of big “ifs” upcoming: I have ized that his reading comprehension wasn’t that great and he not confirmed if the CWC has submitted a proposal, and the was grasping at technicalities. One of the members on the local fee committee criticized amount of the increase would have a big impact on its palatme for not reading up on the “publicly available minutes,” ability with the Student Body. Additionally, even if the local but as it turned out, the minutes for the meeting were never fee committee does approve any increases, it is simply the first step before going to the university president and then published. Awkward. The SG officials on the committee opted to redirect fund- the Board of Trustees and Board of Governors. Should all ing from elsewhere to the CWC by working with UF’s Chief the hurdles be cleared, then it would go into effect next Fall. There’s also the issue of affordability. A mainstay buzzFinancial Officer, but they failed. (And y’all really think they were involved with expanding Bright Futures? They couldn’t word of the majority party, affordability was the reason why the students on the committee last year denied all the prolobby a squirrel to climb a tree.) When the dust settled, our university administration ul- posals. I’m not sure if I buy it, though. I look up how much timately provided the funding. SG played the rat race for SG folks’ homes are worth just for fun and, disheartened, I credit, banking on the fact that, at the end of the day, we got chuckle. I can’t really say SG does a great job of representing lower-income folks. I like to think that they are the people the funding without having to raise fees. But here we are again, a year later. Students are still tell- who especially benefit from services offered by entities such ing their stories about how they face difficulties getting the as the CWC (seeing how it’s free counseling.) I hope people share their stories, someone actually dehelp they need at the CWC. My friends have given up on getting help from the CWC and now scour the outside com- cides to collect some data and we talk about this decision as munity for counselors. Unable to get regular sessions with a community. Here is a link to the petition: goo.gl/3oY4Vz. counselors, they have ended up in group therapy. Some of you may have seen a petition circling around Zachariah Chou is a UF political science junior and Muron Facebook, advocating for increased funding for the CWC. phree Area Senator. His column appears on Fridays.

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Letters to the Editor I read Wednesday's letter to the editor regarding greyhound racing in disbelief. The writer says greyhounds are not abused. That may be true for his hounds, but it is clearly not true at other Florida racetracks. I have a friend who rescues racing greyhounds that have been abused. As one example, Cami’s paws were so badly damaged that several operations have not been able to remedy

them. She now wears soft padded shoes and still has pain when she walks. Initially, she shook and trembled when strangers arrived; she would quickly hide behind her rescuers. Please vote YES on Amendment 13 to ban dog racing and end the mistreatment of these beautiful animals. Alice Gridley is a Gainesville resident.

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Has the age of 'basic' impacted personal style?

(and, not to mention, recently saw a post the fashion industry eson one of those sentially thrives on consemi-annoying-butsumers who subscribe can’t-look-away to the flow of trends). meme accounts. The Also, in our culture, photo was of a group of where having a strong girls getting ready in or unique personal front of a big bathroom Darcy Schild mirror, and they were opinions@alligator.org brand seems to rank high on the importance all wearing practically identical iterations of the same scale in determining aspects of thing: a denim skirt and a white our career or future, there’s prestank top. The caption said as if to sure for people in my generation be sarcastic, “Yeah, girls don’t all to establish and express a distinct sense of style while still maintainwear the same thing.” Most of the time, I scroll, pause ing a brand that is likable. Even though social media is, on a meme, view it for a moment and go about my day. But the im- on one hand, a haven for diverage and message attached to this sity in how people express thempost left me puzzled, and even a selves, I think for college stubit defensive — which led me to dents, personal style is often tied ponder personal style in terms of to our environment and the social how today’s college students ex- norms attached to our campus. press themselves through cloth- There seems to be an unspoken rule that wearing anything but ing in the digital age. How do the aspirational posts athleisure to class means you eiwe see on Instagram — as well as ther have an interview or a group our personalized algorithms that presentation, and veering too far somehow know what styles we from other style trends (for both enjoy (or want in our wardrobe) men and women) can bring about — shape our ideas of personal social sanctions, or punishments style? Also, is the idea of personal (like being stigmatized), for going style still considered “personal” against the grain. It’s not groundbreaking that when so many of our style choices are (consciously or subcon- some groups of people within sciously) inspired by the images the same cohort dress similarly we see on our social media feeds? to one another, but perhaps now For one thing, there’s more that social media is an outlet for than meets the eye to that meme I students to document their own described above. Users who com- style philosophies and get inmented on the post seemed quick spired by others’ fashion choices, to describe the way the girls were my generation is acutely aware of dressed as “basic” — an adjective the trends that flood its Instagram that has taken on its own border- feeds and which styles stand out line-derogatory definition among from the pack. This makes for asmy generation — but the idea of sumptive labels or generalizations following trends or fads is noth- like the meme alluded to: “Yeah, girls all wear the same thing.” ing new. In order to discover and celIn fact, I would argue that humans are inherently basic when it ebrate our own personal style and comes to being followers in social those of the people around us, we situations or feeling comfortable would do well to step back from in familiar environments where the comments and embrace whatever speaks to us — whether it’s we have a sense of belonging. I think our style choices can basic or not. be tied to this human desire to fit Darcy Schild is a UF journalism in with a community. Expressing ourselves in a way that’s familiar senior. Her column normally apand likable at the moment can pears on Wednesdays. bring about a sense of belonging

The future of race and diversity at UF is bright

want to tell you about George Starke Jr., the first African American student to enroll at UF. Born in Orlando the son of a librarian and a doctor, Starke attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, then served four years in the U.S. Air Force before applying to three law schools: Northwestern, Washington University and UF. His LSAT scores were excellent and all three schools admitted him. He always wanted to attend UF, and that’s what he chose. His first few weeks of class in Gainesville were far from ordinary. As he wrote in The Orlando Sentinel last September, a video available on YouTube shows him seated in University Auditorium on the first day of class as reporters and photographers take notes and snap pictures of him. Until Thanksgiving break, he was unknowingly escorted around UF by Florida Highway Patrol troopers in plainclothes posing as students, ready to intervene in case he was threatened. Last month marked 60 years since Starke took that brave first step onto our campus and opened the doors that had been closed to black students since the university’s foundation. What has changed since that day in Fall 1958? Starke became one black student out of only a handful at UF in the early years of integration. We are much more diverse today, though our population of black students remains far too low. In his era, the UF band played

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“Dixie” at football games, and students waved the Confederate flag. Today, we are a campus that celebrates and welcomes all people and cultures. Indeed, when white supremacist Richard Spencer became an unwanted visitor to campus a year ago, he and his racist hatred were vilified by everyone at UF. What has not changed over the past six decades? Starke recalls being generally welcomed by students, and he experienced no violence. But as the only black student on campus, he was isolated. The other students who integrated UF also felt isolated and lonely. Unfortunately, some current African American students at UF continue to experience those same feelings of isolation. We have also not been free of racist incidents, though we denounce all forms of racism and seek to hold accountable those responsible. In June, UF welcomed its first chief diversity officer, Antonio Farias. In a cabinet-level position, he is responsible for establishing a new standard of excellence in equity, diversity and inclusion. Last month, construction began

on a $10 million project to create two new buildings for UF’s historic Institute of Black Culture and Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures. It is my hope that when these beautiful new student-driven institutes open next Fall, they will serve not only as embracing centers for African American and Hispanic/ LatinX students but also as beacons of anti-racism and love for all people on our campus. Starke, whose admission to UF was made possible by the pioneering civil rights efforts of Virgil Hawkins, did not complete his studies at UF. He withdrew in early 1960 and instead pursued a successful career in business in the Northeast. Now retired, he enjoys a strong relationship with UF and the Levin College of Law. On Nov. 7, the UF Law Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations will commemorate 60 years of desegregation at UF. The event, set for 3 - 4:30 p.m. in Room 180 in Holland Hall, will feature reﬂections from students and alumni and, ﬁttingly, a tribute to George Starke Jr. — the courageous trailblazer who helped set UF on the right course so many years ago. As a gentle and beautiful reminder to UF’s core values, music professor Laura Ellis is scheduled to play “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at 12:35 p.m. today on the Century Tower carillon as she did so powerfully on Oct. 19, 2017. Kent Fuchs is the UF president. His column appears monthly.

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The proper way to put a TV show to rest

the show ended on an incredibly low note. he worst part about getting attached In recent months, two actors from Showto a TV show is that you never want time’s “Shameless” — Emmy Rossum and it to end. We love the idea that our Cameron Monaghan — have announced favorite shows will go on forever. In their departure from the show. In their antheory, this is great. In reality, it’s nouncements, both made it clear that they impossible to execute. No matter how much hoped the show continued without them the creators and fans want more content, because there were so many more stories to there are only so many stories to tell. Katherine be told. It’s a nice sentiment, but it’s just not Sure, if the actors are on board, this Campione true. The characters that these two portray could mean a show still lasts quite a few opinions@alligator.org are essentially a large part of the glue that seasons. Take “Orange Is the New Black,” for example. Jenji Kohan and the cast just announced holds the show together. Without them, there is no that season seven, to be released in summer 2019, will reason for it to continue. However, instead of ending be the last season of the show. With the exception the show after nine seasons on a high note, the netof getting rid of a few fan favorites, the show man- work will make the grave mistake of continuing until aged to keep its cast largely intact — at least enough ratings show it failing without its main characters. I’m sure anyone can think of another show that that the story could continue cohesively. Another great example of this is “Game of Thrones.” Sure, the has gone down the same route. As terrible as it is, show lost some great characters, but we never saw a it makes sense. Networks know that devoted viewprominent character (say, Jon Snow) leave the show ers will tune in for at least one terrible season, if not more, in hopes that the show will return to its former prematurely. Not all shows (and fans) can be so lucky. For the glory. Those views are often more important than the number of shows that willingly end on a high note, integrity of the content. They would rather pour their there are just as many that hang on to every last effort into a show they know will generate buzz than thread they can until the show falls apart. As a fan, try their hand at a new show that has to ﬁnd a new it’s sad to watch. A few years ago, Nina Dobrev left audience. Just because it’s logical does not make it less of a “The Vampire Diaries” at the end of season six, just as the show was reaching the height of its popularity. So, cop-out. As fans, we should demand more from the despite the fact that she played arguably the most piv- creators of our favorite shows. As much as we want otal character on the show, the CW renewed the show to see our favorite shows continue for as long as posfor two more seasons without her. Needless to say, it sible, wouldn’t we rather see them end on a great note wasn’t pretty. Of course, the rest of the cast continued — with the entire cast, an interesting story and 100 to give fantastic performances and the quality of the percent of our investment? I know I would. show never wavered, but there were not any compelKatherine Campione is a UF journalism senior. Her ling stories to be told without Dobrev’s presence, and column appears on Fridays.

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Three facts about the orange and blue car across from the Reitz Union

Jeana Fraser / Alligator Contributer

The Ford Focus Hatchback Zipcar nicknamed “The Swamp” sits across the street of the Reitz Union bookstore.

By Jeana Fraser Alligator Contributing Writer

Juan Leguizamon plans on pulling up to Jacksonville in a rented orange and blue car to watch the Florida-Georgia football game next week. Leguizamon, a 21-year-old UF computer science senior, would not normally use Zipcar, a car-sharing service, but is making an exception for the game, he said. “I personally love seeing Gator spirit wherever I go and seeing a Gator car on the road would definitely put a smile on my face,” he said. Zipcar wrapped a Ford Focus Hatchback in a Gator-themed design and nicknamed it “The Swamp” to build excitement for the FloridaGeorgia game, said spokesperson Katelyn Chesley. Here are three things to know about the

orange-and-blue car across the street from the Reitz Union bookstore. How long will The Swamp be on campus? The car named after Ben Hill Griffin stadium is available to rent for the entire Fall semester, Chesley said. Who can rent the car? Students and faculty can reserve the car on the Zipcar app or website for a designated time slot, Chesley said. The car can be rented for up to 14 days for $8.50 an hour or $65 per day. Does the University of Georgia have a decorated Zipcar? UGA does not have a bulldog-themed car on its campus. UF is one of 12 colleges participating in the company’s school spirit campaign, Chesley said. “The car is really all about school spirit and celebrating UF and football season,” Chesley said.

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Breathe in, breathe out Melissa Montero, an 18-year-old UF biomedical engineering freshman, follows a guided meditation at Marston Science Library Wednesday morning. This guided meditation event is comprised of six sessions, each focusing on a different type of meditation. Two more sessions will be held at the library on the first and third Wednesdays of November..

Drag queens, kings take the stage

Shelbie Eakins / Alligator Staff

Blake Konkel, an 18-year-old UF art history sophomore, commanded the stage as his drag persona Allison James while dancing to Demi Lovato’s “Confident” during the UF Gaytor Drag Race. More than 100 people came to the event hosted by UF’s LGBTQ Affairs and the Center for Latin American Studies.

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Performers Grey and Inertia embrace as they are crowned king and queen. It was a first-time performance for Svetlanna “Grey” Feddersen, an 18-year-old UF marketing freshman.

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Shot for shot: UF vs. FSU

Lexie Miller / Alligator Staff

UF Student Health Care Center hosted “Chomp the Flu” Wednesday afternoon on the Reitz Union North Lawn. The vaccination event offered students with qualifying health insurance free ﬂu and Meningitis B shots. The center competed with its Florida State University counterpart to vaccinate the most students.

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Anabel Javier, a 20-year-old health education and behavior junior, receives a ﬂu shot from Jessica Prentiss, a registered nurse with the SHCC.

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Free pharmacy at Grace Marketplace celebrates one year THE PHARMACY FILLED OUT ABOUT 5,000 PRESCRIPTIONS IN ONE YEAR. By Alyssa Ramos Alligator Staff Writer

After providing health care in Haiti and Nicaragua, friends Tim Rogers and Harvey Rohlwing wanted to bring care to their own community. The pair, a pharmacist and the president of Grace Healthcare Services Corp., started a free nonproﬁt pharmacy at Grace Marketplace to-

gether, which ﬁlled more than 5,000 prescriptions last year. “I like to call it the pharmacy without a cash register,” Rogers said. Open from 1-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, the pharmacy operates solely on donations and volunteers. Rogers volunteers at the Grace Healthcare Services Corp, which is funded through private donations and provides free prescription medicine and health care services to those without health insurance in Alachua County. “I realized medicine is a real issue, and so many people with prescriptions can’t afford it,

so what good does it do?” Rogers said. Rogers sees about 25 patients per day, including those who live outside of Grace Marketplace. Rogers and Rohlwing, a retired physician, spent years volunteering abroad on medical missions before they decided to open the pharmacy in 2017. “We’re doing this in developing countries, so why can’t we do this sort of thing at home?” Rohlwing said. Kimberly Atkinson, a 25-year-old third-year doctoral candidate, has seen the harsh reality of homelessness while volunteering. “I truly feel like I’m helping somebody,”

Atkinson said. Grace Healthcare Services commonly provides blood thinners, antibiotics, psychiatric medication and more. However, Rogers said the pharmacy is in need of inhalers and seizure medications, which can be $15 to $20 each. Rogers and Rohlwing hope to move to a larger building at Grace Marketplace. “You can’t save the world, but you can make a little piece of it better for someone else,” Rogers said. @LysKRamos aramos@alligator.org

Community leaders weigh in on GRU bill at panel event THE REFERENDUM WOULD CREATE AN OVERSIGHT BOARD FOR GRU. By Alyssa Ramos Alligator Staff Writer

With 20 days until Election Day, voters are still seeking clarity about the Gainesville Regional Utilities Referendum. The referendum would let voters decide if an independent ﬁve-member board with candidates appointed by the City Commission would oversee GRU instead of the commission

directly. A moderated panel of the bill’s key players answered the public’s questions at Inﬁnite Energy, a natural gas and electricity company, Wednesday night. The four panelists — Mary Alford, the chair of the GRU Utility Advisory Board; Darin Cook, the CEO of Inﬁnite Energy; Sen. Keith Perry; and Harvey Ward, a Gainesville city commissioner — spoke on the bill’s pros and cons to an audience of about 75 people. All panelists said there would be no guarantee that the bill would lower rates.

“So many had this issue on so many people’s lists, but we had the opportunity to list out both pros and cons,” said Julie Waldman, the president of the Leadership Gainesville Alumni Association, who hosted the forum about the bill. Ward said the bill would not work because an independent board would take power away from the city to make decisions about how it uses its utilities, he said. “Oversight is at its best by the city of Gainesville,” Ward said. “The idea of rolling the dice and ﬁlling in the blanks later is irresponsible.”

An independent authority board would not be held accountable, Alford said. “Because they’re not elected, because the City Commission can’t actually remove them from power, then there would be no repercussion for that,” she said. Proponents of the bill defended its practicality. Cook volunteered to be on the independent board. “I think the independent utilities board, full of experts, would do a better job in the long term,” Cook said. Cook, who strongly opposed the

biomass decision, said voters would be stuck with decisions made by past city commissions. Melvin Flournoy, a retired educator, said he attended the forum because he had unanswered questions about the bill. After the event, he said he still opposed it, but he had more information to back up his stance. “I came to really understand the bill, so we can persuade other people,” Flournoy said. @LysKRamos aramos@alligator.org

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the Canadian National Team, and freshman defender Georgia EatonCollins is also back after playing in her home in England. Their late return certainly didn’t help, but it could be argued that the Gators’ opponents have been going through the same thing without the losses to show for it. Injuries have also plagued Florida’s team. It has been without Rachelle Smith, Parker Roberts and Kit Loferski for the season which, piled on top of the absences of Eaton-Collins and Rose, begins to add up. The team can’t af-

Ah, the bye-week blues. Nothing but golf courses and hours on the consoles playing Black Ops or Fortnite. Not here at alligatorSports, though. Our writers will be slaving away watching 12 uninterrupted hours of college football. Do you think we do it for our amusement? Heck no! We do it for you, the fans, because you deserve it. This week, we have Gus Malzahn coaching for his job/a $38 million buyout, a UCF team searching for relevance and a suddenly high-and-mighty Tennessee squad looking to keep it within the four-touchdown margin against Alabama at home. Before we meet our competitors, online editor Mark Stine and editor Morgan McMullen will debate the highly anticipated slobberknocker between Old Dominion and Western Kentucky. Old Dominion (+5) will win because… It beat Virginia Tech! Who cares if the Big Blue lost to Liberty by 42, or Marshall by 22. They beat the Hokies in front of a 20,532-person home environment. Old Dominion has quarterback Blake LaRussa, who amassed 495 yards and four touchdowns through the air against Virginia Tech. The junior has been in a groove since, passing for at least 250 yards and two touchdowns over the next three contests. LaRussa’s best targets, seniors Jonathan Duhart and Travis Fulgham, average over 15 yards per reception each and hauled in 10 combined touchdowns this year. Running back Kesean Strong is also a reliable check down, averaging nine yards per catch and just over two receptions per contest. Western Kentucky is looking for its first home win, while Old Dominion is trying to find its first road victim. I’ll take the Big Blue. They’ve surprised odds makers once this year, and they’ll do it again. -Mark S. Western Kentucky (-5) will win because… You ever meet the WKU Hilltopper? I have. It’s intimidating, yet caring. It’s fearsome, yet loving. It also doesn’t have a gender, so don’t attach your labels to them, please. Superior mascot aside, WKU has superior players. Sophomore quarterback Steven Duncan led a fourth-quarter comeback against Ball State with not one, but two late scoring drives. Duncan hasn’t even played that much this season, lending credence to the

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Quarterback: BFeleipe Franks has completed 56.6 percent of his passes this season, slightly above his 54.6 mark from 2017. However, his ball security has improved immensely. Through seven games in 2017, he threw four picks on 125 passes. Through seven weeks this season, he has thrown five while attempting 57 more passes. Even without his five-touchdown performance against Charleston Southern, he still has more TDs than he had last year. If Franks can keep up this performance through the FSU game, his grade should rise to an A. Running Back: B Losing Malik Davis (broken foot) and Adarius Lemons (transfer) didn’t do the Gators’ backfield any favors. However, the duo of Jordan Scarlett and Lamical Perine — along with freshman Dameon Pierce coming in as the changeof-pace back — have carried the load admirably. The rushing attack still has more work to do with the team squarely in the middle of the SEC pecking order in yards per attempt and total yards. Receiver: B+ Ole Miss transfer Van Jefferson has been a huge lift for the Gators receiving corps. He leads the team with 265 receiving yards and four touchdowns. Josh Hammond and Freddie Swain have also emerged as reliable targets for Feleipe Franks. The unit as a whole has

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Quarterback Feleipe Franks has completed 56.6 percent of his passes this season, an improvement from his 54.6 mark a year ago. lacked explosiveness despite doing well enough through the ﬁrst part of the season. And none of Florida’s receivers have recorded a 100-yard game this season. Tight End: B Florida has gotten much better production from its tight ends as the season has progressed, especially since the Gators started incorporating Moral Stephens more into the offense. He’s caught three touchdown passes this year with

102 receiving yards. And even though R.J. Raymond had a couple drops in the ﬁrst two games of the season, he had a critical 1-yard touchdown catch against Tennessee and has taken on an important role as a blocker. Offensive Line: C Left tackle Martez Ivey and right tackle Jawaan Taylor continue to show a lack of sub-

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What ever happened to the Florida Gators soccer team? Becky Burleigh’s Florida Gators have been sitting comfortably for quite a long time. They’ve only missed the NCAA tournament two times since their ﬁrst season in 1995, and they have yet to post a losing record in the regular season (they went .500 in 2002). When she was asked if she was thinking about the SEC tournament after UF’s win against Georgia on Thursday, however, Burleigh gave what is very likely a rare answer. “Hell no!” Burleigh said, vigorously shaking her head. “I’m thinking about Missouri. The SEC

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to break the four-game tournament is a figment streak, their past sins of our imagination at are far from erased. this point. We still have With almost a comgames to play to get plete lack of offense there.” and a growing sense There was a time of urgency, there’s a when a losing record simple question to be was a figment of FlorRiver Wells asked. ida’s imagination, but twitter: @riverhwells What happened? here it is, sitting at To start, the wom5-8-3. On top of that, en’s national teams the Gators have been shut out in 10 games this season, all over the globe are gearing up once in a streak of six and later in for the 2019 World Cup. Deanne a streak of four. Though they did Rose, UF’s leading scorer from manage to find the back of the net last year, has only just returned in their 1-0 win against Georgia from an extended stretch with

UF senior Jalen Hudson was selected as a preseason SecondTeam All-SEC on Thursday. The Gators were predicted to ﬁnish ﬁfth in the conference.

Mullen lands on award watch list Coach Dan Mullen was named to the Paul "Bear" Bryant Coach of the Year Watch List on Thursday. Mullen has led the Gators to a 6-1 record so far in his ﬁrst season as the team's head coach.

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Gators snap scoreless streak, defeat Georgia 1-0 By Sam Campisano Sports Writer

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Midfielder Tess Sapone notched the lone goal in Florida’s 1-0 win over Georgia on Thursday night. The goal snapped a four-game scoreless streak.

What happens when a stoppable force meets a movable object? The Florida soccer team provided the answer Thursday night, defeating Georgia 1-0 at Donald R. Dizney Stadium in Gainesville. It figured to be a low-scoring affair from the onset. Florida was marred in a four-match scoreless streak heading into the game and hadn’t scored in 10 of its last 13 games. Georgia (4-8-4, 1-5-2 SEC) had fared even worse of late with a sixmatch scoreless streak of its own. The Gators (5-8-3, 3-3-2 SEC) broke through early courtesy of Tess Sapone’s first goal of the season. In the 14th minute, Sapone fielded a clever through ball from Mayra Pelayo then beat her defender with her first touch. From there, she just had to beat Georgia keeper Emory Wegener, and she did just that with her left foot from eight yards out. Wegener deflected the shot, but she didn’t get enough of it to stop the ball

from trickling into the net. “Mayra played a fantastic ball across,” Sapone said. “First touch to break the line from me and then pass it into the net.” There were chances aplenty for Florida throughout the match. The Gators led the shot count 12-5 and probably should’ve scored more than just the one goal. In the 22nd minute, Briana Solis’ free kick from outside the box brought the fans to their feet – until they realized Georgia was taking a goal kick. Solis’ wonder-goal was actually an optical illusion, the ball sailing high of the net and deflecting off the brick wall behind the goal before settling against the netting. Defender Sara Wilson made a bid of her own in the 37th minute. Dribbling to her left, Wilson’s screamer from just outside the box rattled the crossbar for three or four seconds. The unsung hero was Florida goalkeeper Kaylan Marckese. Despite only facing five shots in the game, she made two crucial saves in the first half. In the 10th minute, Marckese saved Katie Ralys’ close-range bullet using her face. In the 15th

minute, she made another good save off a shot from Jessie Denney. From there, it was mostly smooth sailing. The X-factor might’ve been forward Deanne Rose. Rose, All-SEC last year as a freshman, didn’t start and was appearing in just her fifth game this year. Injuries and national-team commitments have kept her out of the lineup, but she made her presence felt against Georgia. Though she didn’t factor into UF’s goal, she was all over the pitch, dribbling around defenders and registering three shots. “She stepped off a plane and played,” Burleigh said. “That’s not easy to do. Credit to her for being willing to do that.” With just two regular season games left, the Gators have an RPI of just 52 and are in danger of missing the NCAA tournament for only the third time in program history. For now, Burleigh is trying to take it one game at a time. “I’m thinking about Missouri,” she said. “The SEC tournament is a figment of our imagination at this point.” @samcampisano scampisano@alligator.org

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Florida to compete in ITA UF faces off with Texas and Indiana this Regional Championship, USA F28 Futures events this week weekend in Austin By Evan Lepak Sports Writer

Florida’s swimming and diving teams will be back in action this weekend, matching up against two of the better swimming and diving programs in the country in Texas and Indiana. The meet is scheduled for today and Saturday and will take place in Austin, Texas, at the University of Texas Swimming Center. The No. 8 Gators men’s team sits at 2-0 after a couple of blowout victories to start the season. Things figure to be different this weekend, however, with Texas (0-0) being ranked No. 1, while Indiana (3-0) comes in ranked third. Last season, the Gators split the meetings with Texas, winning the regular season matchup but losing in the NCAA Championships. The Hoosiers defeated Florida twice last season, once in the regular season and also in the NCAA Championships. Junior Maxime Rooney continues to shine for the men, picking up SEC Men’s Swimmer of the Week honors after winning two individual events against LSU. Rooney holds times that are in the top 15 nationally: the 100-yard butterfly (7th), 200-yard butterfly (11th) and the 100yard freestyle (15th). Fellow junior Grant Sanders is third nationally in the 200-yard individual medley, and his time in the 200-yard breast is the ninth-fastest in the country.

Freshman Trey Freeman was named SEC Men’s Freshman of the Week for the second-straight week on Tuesday after another impressive showing against LSU. Freeman won the 1000-yard freestyle with the fastest time in the SEC at 9:02.58. The No. 19 Florida women’s team will be tested this weekend. It’ll put its undefeated record on the line against No. 4 Texas (0-0) and No. 6 Indiana (2-0-1). Both teams out-played UF in last season’s matchups, but early success this year should give the Gators some confidence heading into the weekend. Freshman Vanessa Pearl continues to receive accolades after her successful start to the season. The McKinney, Texas, native was named SEC Women’s Swimmer of the Week for the second time in as many weeks. She collected three individual wins against LSU last weekend, and her time of 4:13.32 in the 400-yard individual medley is the fourthfastest time in the country. Mabel Zavaros is another freshman in Florida’s lineup who has impressed this season. She holds the eighth-fastest NCAA time in the 400-yard individual medley, and the 10th-fastest times in the both the 200-yard back and 200-yard butterfly. The meet is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. on today and 10 a.m. on Saturday. @evanmplepak elepak@alligator.org

By Kyle Wood Sports Writer

For the second time this season the Florida men’s tennis team is in two places at once. Freshman Sam Riffice and sophomore Oliver Crawford have been competing in the USA F28 Futures in Harlingen, Texas, while the rest of the team begins play this weekend at the ITA Regional Championships in Athens, Georgia. The U.S.A. F28 Futures began Tuesday with Riffice competing in the main singles draw against Jack Findel-Hawkins (Great Britain). He fell in two sets (4-6, 2-6) and was eliminated in the first round. Crawford matched up against Jonathan Chang (U.S.A.) in the first round of the singles main draw and moved on with a two set win (6-1, 6-2). He defeated Ronnie Schneider (U.S.A.) in the second round (6-3, 6-3) and advanced to the quarterfinals against Maxime Creasy (France) which will be held today at 11 a.m. Riffice and Crawford teamed up in the doubles main draw on Thursday against Trent Bryde (U.S.A) and Patrick Kypson (U.S.A.) with the Gators coming out on top in two sets (6-3, 6-2). In the quarterfinals Riffice and Crawford fell to Maxime Cressy and Nicolas Meister (U.S.A.) (2-6, 1-6) and were eliminated. The rest of the Gators team will kick off the ITA Regional Championships this weekend. Freshman Greysen Cacciatore will play in the qualifying singles draw while freshman Lukas Greif, sophomores Duarte Vale, Andy Andrade and Brian Berdusco, junior Johannes Ingildsen and senior McClain Kessler will compete in the main draw for

singles. Cacciatore will play Stephen Madonia (Miami) Friday at 11 a.m. Berdusco will play against Alex Knauff (Florida State) Saturday at 8:30 a.m. At 10:30, Vale will play Felipe Escobar (Florida Gulf Coast), and Kessler will play Antoine Sanchez (Stetson). Greif faces off with Alan Rubio (Central Florida) at 11:30, and Andrade battles Blake Croyder (Georgia) at 12:30. Ingildsen plays last for UF against the qualifying singles finalist. UF also has three duos in the main-doubles draw, which will take place after singles. The teams are Andrade and Greif, Berdusco and Ingildsen, and Kessler and Vale. All three doubles teams have first-round byes, and their opponents will be based on the firstround results. Ingildsen and Berdusco will play the winner of Felipe Ramirez and Feliksas Sakalauskas (Florida Gulf Coast) and Bryn Nahrung and Richard Thongoana (Florida State) at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday. The winner of Alan Rubio and Manoel Alencar (Central Florida) and Andrei Duarte and Roberts Grinvalds (Georgia State) will play Andrade and Greif at 5:30. Also at 5:30, Kessler and Vale will see the winner of Diego Padilha and Bailey Showers (Georgia State) or Luis Fernandez Labarta and Thomas Guy (Florida Atlantic). The Gators’ last doubles victory at the ITA Regional Championships was in 2016 when Alfredo Perez and Ingildsen claimed the title. As for singles, UF’s title drought stretches back to 2012. Bryan Shelton’s squad will look to put an end to both of those streaks this weekend. @Kkylewood kwood@alligator.org

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PICKS, from pg. 14 WKU coaching staff’s brilliance in sitting their star QB until he was absolutely needed. Duncan is completing a staggering 65.7 percent of his passes. Old Dominion isn’t going to have a ton of ﬁlm on him, making its job on defense that much harder. Duncan alone should give the Hilltoppers the boost they need to take down a team with one single win on the season. Quit resting on your laurels, Old Dominion, and do something against Liberty. Lord knows history repeats itself, so I guess the Monarchs couldn’t do much against Liberty. Book the same result against WKU. -Morgan Now onto the picks… Once again in ﬁrst place at 3125 is alligatorSports football writer Alanis “I Hate Country Music” Thames, who went to Nashville, the country music capital, with a pure hatred for “southern music.” It’s

okay, Alanis. We all have our terrible hot takes sometimes. But we’re 99 percent sure you were out there learning how to line dance at some point during the night, rocking out to that music you claim to hate. In a ﬁve-way tie for second at 2828 is the Gainesville Sun’s Graham “Transcription Machine” Hall, who wound up transcribing coach Dan Mullen’s 30ish-minute-long postgame press conference after the Vanderbilt game. Wanna get out of that next time? Drive up like the rest of us. We’re sure there’s some spare room in the trunk of the alligatorSports car. With Hall is alligatorSports online editor Mark “Triangles Are People Too” Stine, who made some interesting assumptions with the HeiderSimmel experiment. Some folks say they’re just shapes running around. Not Mark Stine. “They’re jealous lovers!” he’ll shout to the amusement of nobody. Go look up the HeiderSimmel experiment on YouTube and prove him wrong! Also at 28-28 is alligatorSports

assistant editor Jake “Go for Two” Dreilinger, who doesn’t believe in kicking in Madden. Under no circumstances will Jake kick the extra point, and even on ﬁrst-and-goal from the opponent’s two he won’t run the ball, which cost him when he threw an interception. First, you’re a Jets fan, now the questionable Madden strategies, Jake. We’re really beginning to question who you are as a football fan at the alligatorSports desk. Alongside those three is GatorCountry’s Nick “I’m going to get hammered” de la Torre, who reminded all of us in the press box roughly 30 times about how trashed he would be getting on Broadway Street after the game. Hey Nick, we all know you want to relive your college experiences from 20 years ago, but relax. You’re starting to sound like a college freshman about to attend his ﬁrst frat party. Finally, in a tie for second is the AP’s Mark “Bye Week, My Week” Long, who despite always blasting Graham Hall about not showing up

to Florida head coach Dan Mullen’s Monday pressers, failed to make an appearance at the Gators only media availability of the week. There’s precedence with Hall, but that doesn’t mean the standards are any less for you, Mark. Alone in seventh at 27-29 is the Orlando Sentinel’s Edgar “They’re Mad at You, But I’m Not” Thompson, who proceeded to paint the alligatorSports crew in a bad light in Nashville when he convinced total strangers that we hated them. To be fair, we did. But they didn’t need to know that! What happened to solidarity? Next time, just hop in the car and start yelling at them like the rest of us. Fittingly in last at 26-30 is alligatorSports editor Morgan “Makes Your Ears Bleed” McMullen, who put on a wonderful rendition of “A Thousand Miles” that involved an AC/DC mashup. We understand, Morgan, it technically worked. But working doesn’t mean it’s good. It quite possibly is one of the worst songs in existence.

Sports Meme by River Wells

Florida is second in the conference in sacks

COLUMN, from pg. 14 ford to lose anyone else, and although Melanie Monteagudo’s absence against Georgia due to a late red card in the team’s previous game didn’t hurt the Gators this time, they’ll need to stay disciplined and avoid any further slipups as their SEC Tournament hopes grow slimmer and slimmer. These aren’t the Florida Gators that soccer fans are used to seeing, and this isn’t a culture that the Gators’ seasoned veterans have grown accustomed to, either. With two games left in the season, Florida will need to win out and get its currently abysmal offense ﬁring if it wants to have any chance of making the postseason.

FOOTBALL, from pg. 14 stantial improvement from the beginning of the season. Guard Brett Heggie has been on and off the ﬁeld after an early season injury forced him to miss some time. Overall, it has been hit or miss with the O-line. One play, the guards will pull and make excellent blocks down ﬁeld. The next, they’ll allow defenders to harass Franks in the pocket. Defensive Line: AJachai Polite, CeCe Jefferson and Jabari Zuniga have led a renaissance in Florida’s passrushing. The team is second in the conference in sacks (21), and the trio has contributed to the team’s seven interceptions with its consistent pressure. The only thing keeping this unit from grading out higher is its run defense. The Gators still give up over four yards per run and 163.1 yards per game on the ground.

River Wells is a sports writer at The Alligator. Follow him on Twitter @ riverhwells and contact him at rwells@ alligator.org.

Linebacker: BThe return of David Reese has made all the difference in the world to this group. The effort on his first defensive series against Tennessee showed the type of leadership the unit was sorely missing. Rayshad Jackson filled in admirably in Reese’s absence and stepped up with Vosean Joseph’s ejection against Vanderbilt. Speaking of Joseph, the junior has stepped up as secondin-command on the Gators’ defense and earned himself an SEC Defensive Player of the Week for his efforts against LSU. Cornerback: BMarco Wilson going down on the first series against Kentucky probably didn’t do the cornerback unit any favors, and it largely affected how the corners played. Wilson’s injury exposed Florida’s lack of depth in the position, now left with just sophomores C.J. Henderson and Brian

Edwards, and freshman Trey Dean. Freshman C.J. McWilliams stepped up to help fill the void, but his inexperience showed against Mississippi State on its first three offensive drives. Henderson and Dean have played well in their starting roles, combining for eight pass breakups, and Henderson continues to be the backbone of that unit with an interception and two forced fumbles. Safety: AFlorida’s safeties have surprisingly been one of the team’s strongest units this season. Especially at the end of football games. Donovan Stiner’s sack of Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald on a safety blitz to end the game stands out as one of the Gators’ biggest plays of the year. Both Brad Stewart and Stiner’s fourthquarter interceptions of LSU quarterback Joe Burrow — Burrow’s first two of the season — also helped seal UF’s biggest wins of the season.

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