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Officers also explained the steps taken in the traffic stop and subsequent K-9 deployment in a recordedBradley,video.aBlack Gainesville resident, faces four counts for weapon possession and resist ing law Florida’senforcement.Eighth Judicial Circuit signaled its intent to prosecute Bradley on these counts Wednesday. These charges include possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, carrying a concealed firearm, battering an officer and a separate one for resisting arrest.
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“I can’t open my f-----g eye,” Bradley cried.
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The graphic footage shows the incident be tween officers and Bradley as the police dog finds him, attacks him and is pulled away. Of ficers are seen going through with the arrest as
Despite Officer Andrew Milman’s original sworn complaint claiming he pulled Bradley can’t see’: Police release graphic K-9 mauling footage
The agency’s report said the traffic stop, response to resistance, search and use of the
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The two investigations — V2 Global’s and GPD’s — have no impact on this prosecution process, Lloyd “Ultimately,said.it’s the prosecutor’s job to de termine whether we’re moving forward based on the law,” Lloyd said.
The U.S. News list follows a year where UF found itself at the center of numerous national and state headlines for alleged political influence on academic freedom and COVID-19 policies. The ranking may cause a breath of relief for some administrators at Tigert Hall, as some have been concerned about whether the
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“UF’s position in the rankings is reflective of our continual, rapid strengthening in teach ing, learning and research per formance — smaller class sizes, consistently high graduation and
These charges come after the process of the prosecutor reviewing evidence and interview ing the GPD officers who were involved in the
Bradley was pulled over by GPD after turn ing out of Sweetwater Square apartments with out yielding to traffic, Cpl. Joseph Castor said in the conference video.
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“It would be a reflection of all the hard work of everyone, from alumni to faculty to staff,” Fuchs said. “It makes the degrees we get more valuable because other universities notice those rank ings.”Inthe overall rankings among national universities, which in cludes private institutions, UF’s standing did slightly waver — falling from No. 28 to No. 29.
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The K-9 that attacked the man will rejoin the force after training
Though the police dog was “off the road for a while,” Scott said it’ll return to duty in a couple of weeks after receiving more training.
“You can stand,” one officer said. “Your legsGPDwork.”showed never-before-seen body-cam era footage at a Thursday press conference about its K-9 encounter with 31-year-old Terrell Bradley, who was stopped for an alleged traffic violation July 10 and then fled from the officer after allegedly striking him with his elbow.
An internal investigation of the situation is ongoing. Scott said in the video shown during the press conference that GPD hired an outside consultant, V2 Global, to also review the situa tion and GPD’s K-9 policy.
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Maintaining the No. 5 spot interrupts five straight years of UF’s climb up the public univer sity rankings since entering the top 10. UF still remains the first and only Florida university to reach top-five status.
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Terrell Bradley could barely see — his right eye protruding from his socket — as Gainesville Police Department officers shouted for him to put his hands behind his back. The police K-9 who mauled him finally let go.
Bradley lost his eye after he was mauled by the K-9 in an incident that sparked wide spread community outrage. GPD Chief Lonnie Scott said two officers were suspended Thurs day with pay pending an investigation because of the incident. He declined to name them but said the review will be completed within two weeks.The officers were suspended for comments made after Bradley’s arrest and after an internal investigation revealed they took pictures during the arrest, TV20 reported.
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Bradley shouts and groans. They continued to struggle, pulling him up.
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No need to reprint the ban ners: UF is still a top-five public university.Theuniversity has main tained its status as No. 5 national public university for the second year in a row, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2023 Best Colleges rankings released Monday.UFtied for the fifth spot with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — a university UF shared the position with last year. University of California at Santa Barbara previously held the No. 5 ranking with UF and UNC, falling off from the top-five group in the 2023 rankings.
arrest, said Darry Lloyd, a state attorney’s office spokesperson.Agenciestypically file charges, he said, then prosecutors assess the charges based on the state constitution and statute. The next stage of the arrest is the formal information or filing of charges by the prosecutor, Lloyd explained. These charges then get presented to Bradley’s lawyer, Curtis Lee, and will finally go into liti gation in court, he said.
university would hold on to its top-fiveBeforestanding.theresults were cer tain, President Fuchs told The Alligator another spot in the top five would be pretty magical.
police K-9 to apprehend Bradley was in com pliance with GPD policy and law enforcement industry standards for the use of K-9s.
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While students have recently made their return to Gainesville, the risk of monkeypox is not direct ly tied to an increase in population, Shapiro said.
Data from the CDC conveys that men who have sex with men make up the majority of monkeypox cas es. Monkeypox vaccination and ed ucation efforts have been focused on that group, said Paul Myers, administrator of the Florida Depart ment of Health in Alachua County.
Mason was released from jail Friday afternoon, but will be electronically monitored for two years and on probation for at least three years, court records show.
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“It does bring people in that may have traveled, but the real risk for monkeypox comes with the number of sexual partners that you have had recently,” Shapiro said. “It's not transmitted through handshakes or casual contact. The majority of the population is not at risk.”
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Alexandria Daves, a UF chemi cal engineering senior, said she fears contracting monkeypox and wears a mask to minimize her risk of catching any illnesses. The 21-year-old said she feels a little nervous about being on campus with the potential of monkeypox spreading.Butthe nerves don’t trump her desire to attend classes in person.
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UFPD received a call Dec. 2, 2021, from a woman who thought she was being recorded in her Murphree Hall shower. She saw a blue iPhone pointed at her while undressing in the bathroom, she said. The caller, how ever, was unable to identify the suspect.
County has shared in formation about monkeypox from the Florida Health Department; however, response procedure isn’t at the county level because the area isn’t under a state of emergency, Alachua County spokesperson Mark Sexton said.
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The past two years of the CO VID-19 pandemic included quaran tine periods, mask mandates and safety protocols. Many feel burnt out from dealing with the outcome of a pandemic and are wary of monkeypox.Monkeypox is transmitted pre dominantly from intimate skin-toskin contact with an infected per son, but it can also be transmitted through close contact with respira tory droplets, said Jerne Shapiro, UF Department of Epidemiology faculty member.
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“I go back and forth because when I hear about [monkeypox] on the news, I’m like ‘I need to make sure I’m washing my hands and keeping away from people,’” Daves said. “I started disinfecting my phone and my iPad and laptop when I get home.”
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“Our best advice to all students dealing with the current road closure situation is to remain patient and plan for additional time in your commutes or trips across campus,” she wrote.
One of the largest construction-related hur dles for students and faculty to overcome is adjusted bus routes and times. RTS detoured 12 of its 42 routes around areas affected by construction. With major closures on Museum Road, traffic has increased on the two remain ing east-west campus roads, Stadium and Mowry, Renton wrote.
“We encourage students to explore alter nate methods of getting around campus,” Renton wrote, mentioning options such as bicycling, walking, riding e-scooters or using publicDespitetransit.the promised improvement of infra structure, Sophia Salvador said her commute
On Dec. 22, 2021, Dodge was picking a friend up from the Midtown area on her elec tric scooter. Both Museum and Stadium Roads’ entrances were closed, as well as entrances on 13th Street, so Dodge took her scooter onto the busy West University Avenue.
She said she was brake-checked by a car and fell on her scooter. The resulting gash was so severe she had to go to the emergency room to be examined, she said.
The lines are leaking, unsafe and more than 50 years old, Renton said. They are being re placed for safety reasons.
“It’s not that bad of a walk, but it can be stressful if I am running late, which happens sometimes if the buses get full, and I have to wait for the next one,” she said.
Other major construction projects expected to finish within next year include the construc tion site for Honors Village, Southwest Rec reation North West building area and Florida Department of Transportation work on West University Avenue, according to UF’s Campus Closures website.
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One of the busiest campus intersections — Gale Lemerand Drive and Museum Road — re opened the week of Aug. 15, Renton said, after it was closed to fix unforeseen underground pipePipeconditions.conditions
One of the largest stretches of road under construction is Museum Road, with sections east and west of Gale Lemerand Drive currently closed. The stretch of road from Newell Drive to the Center Drive intersection on Museum Road is projected to reopen Oct. 2, UF Business Affairs Associate Vice President Brandi Renton wrote in an email.
an end may be in sight for some campus road construction in less than a month.
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Being stuck in the emergency room was not how 20-year-old UF psychology junior Avery Dodge imagined spending an average Wednes day night last year.
have also delayed the con struction of Malachowsky Hall, the new data science building located across Museum Road from the Reitz Union. Malachowksy’s original projected completion date of March 2023 was extended for 30 days to April 2023, Renton said.The budget for the new data science build
The UF Transportation and Parking Systems will continue to work to improve its transporta tion network, Renton said, but it’s also on stu dents to be creative with their choice of transit.
to campus is still a headache. The 20-year-old UF environmental engineering junior lives in the apartment complex West 20, and after two semesters of taking RTS bus routes 20 and 21, she still encounters issues of detours and road blocks.Before construction, the bus would stop at Hume Hall, but now it goes to a farther stop, which creates a longer walk to class, she said.
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Road closures are still a major concern for the UF community, as construction is still in process under UF’s Campus Landscape Master Plan and other projects slated to continue for at least another year. Reasons for road closures range from underground piping replacements to new campus structures, which have resulted in altered routes and transportation methods
Biology professor Bernard Hauser said he feels comfortable getting through the construc tion by riding his bike. While it’s hard on all of the UF community to deal with construction, he thinks the end result will be worth the head ache.“When you have a chance to build a new building, you’re always going to take that chance,” Hauser said.
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The new opening will hopefully alleviate transportation challenges for the UF commu nity, she said. The current closure on Museum Road and Newell Drive is due to construction related to replacing chilled water, steam line and electrical duct banks, Renton added.
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If Dodge could drive through campus, which she considers a safer route with fewer cars, she said she may have avoided the injury.
ing is more than $150 million. It will house faculty and researchers from the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy and Engineering, accord ing to UF’s website for planning, construction andThedesign.Museum Road section west of Gale Le merand Drive has a longer span of time until completion: May 2. Until then, Renton recom mends students plan ahead to avoid construc tion-related issues in areas like Museum Road.
Members and guests of the UF Graduate Assistant Union gathered at the brewery for a “payday party” — the first the organization has ever held. It was advertised as a gathering to celebrate getting paid that week, but GAU Co-President Rachel Hart nett said it was also part of recruit ing efforts to bring more people into theirGAU’sunion.bargaining unit, the group that receives the benefits of nego tiations, totals around 4,400 people, HartnettHowever,said. Hartnett said not all of them are dues-paying members. One of the issues GAU encounters, including at the payday party, is convincing graduate assistants to use some of their money toward the union.Union members pay dues each year that are scaled according to how much they make: 1% of their stipend, according to the GAU web site. Dues cover employment liability insurance and legal fees, as well as social events like the party. Hartnett used the free legal counseling when
He added the 2021 reduction of the fac ulty-student ratio to 17-to-1 was a major initiative to boost its standing. In 2012, the ratio was 21-to-1, Hosseini said at the State of the University address in August.
While UF didn’t move up in the rank ings like recent years, Glover said it was important for the university to begin to so lidify itself into the top five this year.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill live in a Fox News exclusive event, fueling al legations that the law was a purely partisan move.AUF spokesperson told The New York Times that month “the university denied requests of these full-time employees to un dertake outside paid work that is adverse to the university’s interests as a state of Florida institution.”
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The payday party provided free food paid by GAU membership dues.
She isn’t a member currently, but she’s planning on becoming one this semester.Mourad makes $33,456 a year, she said, making more than $10,000 above the minimum stipend. Those in higher-paying programs like hers should help others get higher wages too, she “Maybeadded.that will embarrass them to do something about their grad students,” she said. “They should be embarrassed.”Oneofthegoals of the event was to bridge the gap between graduate assistants making the minimum and those making more. Even though many of them don’t make much money anyways, it’s easy to fall into a sense of superiority if you make more, Clark said.
People who weren’t on the mem ber list had to pay for food, but were still welcome to sit and eat in GAU’s reserved area of the brewery.
“It's a new technology that's going to enable all sorts of amazing technological developments that are going to change the way we live and do business,” Glover said. “We felt it was very important to get a leg up on this technology for the students and for the Gloverfaculty.”also pointed to the HiPerGator 3.0 supercomputer, which Top500 — a top global list — ranked as the No. 22 su percomputer in the world. The machine is available to all students rather than only the engineering or computer science de partments, Glover said.
It was meant to be a night of cel ebration for the graduate assistants’ increased paychecks arriving that day. Instead, Hartnett said it was bit tersweet.GAUand
retention rates, and the increased value of each student’s degree after graduation,” Mori Hosseini, chair of the UF Board of Trustees, said in a UF press release.
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Glover acknowledged that among the wide variety of U.S. News metrics, UF’s measure of reputation — determined by surveys of other university presidents, pro vosts and admission directors — lagged be hind other top-five public universities.
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students so we don’t get paid that muchJustanyways.”acrossthe table from Wolf, 26-year-old PCMB graduate assistant Nadia Mourad said she doesn’t un derstand that perspective.
UF Provost Joe Glover highlighted the university’s efforts in technology advance ment with the creation of the Artificial In telligence Academic Initiative Center and the Malachowsky Hall for Data Science and Information Technology.
Attendees from the union re ceived two tickets for themselves and their plus one. The ticket was valid for a free entree from the food truck Tommyknockers, which serves Southern-fusion food.
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she was almost required to work inperson during Spring 2021 as an im munocompromised person, she said.
“I think that if you’re sharing things together, especially a meal, it encourages a sense of community,” Clark said. “That’s why I feel like it’s hopefully something that’s going to be good for the group.”
Most of Hartnett’s night was spent trying to recruit graduate as sistants to the union, one of whom was Talia Jacobsen, a new graduate assistant from Chicago.
Still, 22-year-old Jacobsen said she wasn’t convinced to join.
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“People who are like that are real ly annoying,” Mourad said. “You’re sitting out while everyone else is fighting for you. That’s not fair.”
Wolf doesn’t quite see the value in being a union member. Their pro gram pays them well, she said, so she feels no need to actively partici pate in negotiations.
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The trio later filed a lawsuit, claiming the university violated their First Amend ment rights. The saga played out publicly over national media as DeSantis positioned himself as a potential presidential hopeful focused on conservative values in sectors likeAsideeducation.fromDeSantis’ polarizing “Paren tal Rights in Education” Act — dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — the governor signed the “Stop WOKE” Act, which limits teach ing some social concepts of systemic rac ism and discrimination in K-12 schools and universities.Theranking also comes at a time of leadership transition for the university, as it searches for a new president and UF Hon ors Program director.
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Jacobsen is a part of the Plant, Molecular and Cellular Biology Grad uate Program. Her group of about seven fellow PMCB graduate assis tants said they make higher stipends than the minimum: around $30,000.
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“I get all the benefits without pay ing anything,” she said. “We’re grad
“I think the fact that UF is ranked so highly is a testament to the fact that we're succeeding,” Glover said. “Sometimes what happens in the [political] environment is a little bit distracting, and I'm sure that will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future. But we just tried to stay focused on our job and the things we need to do.”
In July, UF joined a group of 15 national public research universities to reach $1 bil lion in annual research spending. UF also received two No.1 rankings in 2022: from the U.S. News for its online bachelor’s de grees and from Heartland Forward for its “value of academic research in the private sector.”Amid last year’s celebration, “Top Five” banners could be found all over campus — and then across dorm-room walls after many were stolen. Rather than risk further theft of banners hung on campus, Presi dent Fuchs said he asked the university to be ready to give the students the option of purchasing them at the bookstore.
UF recently negotiated a $1,420 increase to the minimum stipend — the money graduate as sistants receive each year for their work — raising it to $22,753 annu ally. However, the package they se cured Aug. 18 ended up $15,580 less than GAU’s original offer.
“It’s not the finish line,” Hartnett said. “But it’s a goalpost along the way.”Negotiations are scheduled to continue between GAU and UF Sept. 26 — this time for paid parental leave. GAU will start by asking for eight weeks of paid leave, the same amount granted to faculty in 2021, Hartnett said.
“I think the fact that we've done it two years in a row is a good indicator that we have some handle on this,” Glover said. “We've achieved a certain level of excel lence so the state is getting a certain return on its Althoughinvestment.”he’dlike to see UF rise in the rankings over the next few years, Glover said the competition gets more and more stiff among the top five.
lic university rankings since 2017, accord ing to the UF press release. Last year, its emergence at No. 5 was heavily publicized by the university as the culmination of a yearslong effort to make UF one of the most prestigious academic institutions in theUFcountry.quickly found itself in the middle of the national debate over public education policies last year, which caused the univer sity community to speculate that it could fall in the U.S. News rankings as a result.
The university announced in March the creation of the Artificial Intelligence Aca demic Initiative Center, which is aimed to promote data science and the integration of
UF’s advances in STEM and research — less prone to fiery headlines — likely helped the university stay on course.
On the upper floor of Cypress & Grove Brewery, about 50 gradu ate assistants chatted over food and drink Friday night. However, ongo ing disputes about union member ship lie beneath the surface.
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“I’m not sure,” she said. “I’m go ing to look into it a little bit more.”
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It’s also easy to be resentful if you don’t, she added.
party to get to know people in their program. Some of them were not union members, such as 25-year-old EmilyWolfWolf.first got put off from joining GAU during PMCB orientation when a GAU representative came to speak to her. They were a bit aggressive and off-putting, she said.
Hartnett, Cait Clark and previous GAU Co-President Meridith Miska, planned the event to foster together ness among the union.
Any former Super Gator will point out a photo of themselves immortalized on a ban ner at the North end zone of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Super Gators were known to show up to games as early as 3 a.m. holding signs to get to the front of the stands and be on camera — and they often succeeded, John son said.
Gainesville residents debate exclusionary zoning as key issue before mayoral race
Sporting orange athletic shorts and bean ies, blue knee-length capes, orange-and-blue striped face paint and no shirts, the Super Gators pushed through a crowd of booing University of Tennessee fans in 2004, dodg ing ice cubes and trash.
At a University of Miami game, Barnes said a Miami fan burned him with a ciga rette butt. Johnson also recalled another fan breaking a beer bottle and preparing to fight.
“If it’s passed under this com mission, I would work to revoke it if I become mayor,” Bielarski said.
“Harvey Ward is someone who I feel would listen to the commu nity and be able to draft or present a better way of addressing exclu sionary zoning that would address the potential pitfalls of the current draft, which might invite gentrifica tion rather than actually helping the marginalized communities,” ReinaMuñoz said.
all matched in their shorts-and-cape outfits.
“When you’re dressed up in garb, you’re a target for that kind of thing,” Barnes said.
Both Bielarski and Ward have expressed their opposition against eliminating single-family zoning in their campaigns. Ward, District 2 city commissioner, voted against the zoning changes during the City Commission vote.
Despite both candidates’ op position to eliminating exclusion ary zoning, Gainesville residents remain divided on how to best ap proach the affordable housing crisis while also making room for lifelong Gainesville residents and seasonal university students.
Allowing multi-family housing and decreasing minimum lot sizes will create “much-needed diversity” throughout Gainesville, Sanchez said. His organization, Gainesville is for People, is an advocacy group for more diverse housing types throughout the city, which they be lieve will reduce housing costs and car dependency.
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Fields supported mayoral candi dates Edward Bielarski and Harvey Ward, who were against the elimi nation of exclusionary zoning, prior to the primary election results and will continue to support their cam paign. However, when asked which candidate’s stance on exclusionary zoning he supports more, Fields said he’s not so sure.
The ordinance would remove restrictions that limited occupation to one family and limited bedrooms. In order for the ordinance to be passed, a second vote will be held at an undetermined date.
This can become problematic with Gainesville’s limitation of single-family homes to one family, a Department of Sustainable Devel opment employee, said at the Aug. 4 commission meeting. A family is defined by the city as “one or more natural persons who are living to gether and interrelated. Plus, no more than two additional unrelated natural persons occupying either the whole or part of the dwelling unit.”
out of the original nine mayoral candidates, Sanchez said he’ll sup port Harvey Ward in the runoff.
“They took it to that extreme that most people weren’t doing,” Lane said. “They re ally wanted to go out there 110% on Satur days and do what they wanted to do.”
In regards to Bielarski, he said the candidate’s campaign on exclu sionary zoning focuses too intensely on “protecting single-family” hous ing.“All I’ve heard from Ed is ‘I’m going to protect single-family hous ing,’ which is, frankly, ridiculous because it’s not going anywhere,” Sanchez said. “Nobody’s knock ing down single-family houses…I think overall, Harvey has demon strated a more complete under standing of housing issues that face Gainesville.”Therunoff election for mayor is during the Nov. 8 general election.
“But we did find a way for it to be so cially acceptable to be loud and obnoxious,” Wallace added.
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Paul Johnson, a 39-year-old former Super Gator, said the group met in September 2001 when they lived on the same floor of Weav er Hall. The original Super Gators — Steve Gilbert, Dan Murphy, Jen Gustafson, Mike Wallace, Dave Smith and Brian Barnes — each wore a different face paint design, but
said.High utility and rent rates have pushed residents out of East Gainesville, he said. The area has seen an increase in multi-family complexes funded by the federal government to provide more afford ableThehousing.prominence of lower-in come housing on the east side of Gainesville has led to a lack of com mercial businesses, such as grocery stores, medical facilities, insurance agencies and entertainment busi nesses, Fields said.
Carrie Parker-Warren, an 81-year-old East Gainesville resi dent, said she shares Fields’ con cerns.
ment looked upon them favorably because they remained sober on game days.
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Despite backlash, the Super Gators con tinued cheering the team to victory.
Both Johnson and Wallace have filled the role as the iconic Albert mascot — Johnson from 2003 to 2007, and Wallace from 2007 to 2008 — which landed them on an ESPN game day commercial.
Gainesville city commissioners voted Aug. 4, to eliminate city-wide single-family zoning in a 4-3 vote. The initial vote was to get rid of ex clusionary zoning while amending occupancy and bedroom limits, al lowing two-story multifamily units to be built in residential areas.
Reina-Muñoz supported July Thomas during the primary elec tion, he said, despite Thomas’ rejec tion of the elimination of exclusion ary zoning. He believed Thomas understood how single-family zon ing negatively impacts the ability of
At the explosive Utah game Sept. 3, the group reunited for the first time in more than 20 years. For many of them, it was the first time they saw each other since their younger years in the Swamp.
Despite the loss, they kept their heads high with pride for their school.
At its peak, the Super Gators were made up of 50 UF students who were UF football superfans. They cheered on the Gators at ev ery home game from 2001 to 2007.
By eliminating occupancy limits, multiple unrelated people can live in a home that is traditionally built for families related by law or blood.
Parker-Warren said she’ll remain hesitant until Bielarski and Ward present concrete plans.
“It’s complete anonymity and an audi ence that loves you no matter what you do,” Johnson added.
“It was a bunch of people that were just over-the-top into it,” said George Lane, a 40-year-old former Super Gator. “This is the group of people I would always mar vel. They just took it to the next, next, next level.”During their sophomore year, the Super Gators invited friends from their hometown of Pensacola to live together in apartments situated behind what used to be a Kash N’ Karry store in Gainesville. When the group threw parties in their apartments, more peo ple kept joining, Johnson said.
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During the 2006 home game against the University of South Carolina, Johnson said he prayed as the opposition took a field kick in the final seconds of the game, which would have ruined the Gators’ chances of making it to the national championship. When the Gators blocked the kick, the sta dium exploded in cheers, Johnson said.
“That was the greatest thing I’ve ever done,” Wallace said.
As Gainesville residents antici pate the runoff mayoral race in No vember, the aftermath of the city’s elimination of exclusionary zoning is heavy on their minds.
marginalized communities to live together.Apart from Thomas and Com missioner David Arreola, he said Ward is the only candidate who he feels has spoken directly to him.
“I support Harvey Ward rather strongly,” Sanchez said. “His career has been supportive of other hous ing solutions like using community land trusts to buy up land and build affordable housing. He’s shown a commitment to exploring other so lutions that aren’t just tied to sort of a bigger rezoning of Gainesville.”
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The Department of Economic Opportunity and Alachua County Commision sent letters to the city urging commissioners to reevaluate the vote. The state department’s let ter, which was sent Sept. 8, detailed their concern that changing zoning ordinances would solely benefit university students and not city resi dents.Some residents, like those in East Gainesville, have similar con cerns as the county and state.
Reina-Muñoz said he under stands long-term residents’ fears of college students moving into their neighborhoods, but believes the ordinance could help solve Gaines ville’s housing crisis.
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“If I’m elected mayor, I will work to return it back to its original state after the first of the year,” Ward said.To improve the accessibility and availability of affordable housing in Gainesville, Ward voted in a City Commission vote to allocate $8 mil lion of the American Rescue Plan to work with non-profit partners.
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Camilo Reina-Muñoz, a 28-yearold Gainesville resident, supports removing single-family zoning through a nuanced lens.
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Bielarski, former Gainesville Re gional Utilities general manager, said he believes the affordable housing crisis in Gainesville won’t be solved
For Johnson, the Super Gators were born out of a desire to be on TV.
The Super Gators attended not only every home game, but also every away game from 2002 to 2007. Although they were beloved in the Swamp, they often faced backlash from opposing fans, Johnson said.
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Parker-Warren, Azalea Trails resident and retired secondary ad ministrator at the University of Florida’s P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, said she believes developers have mistreated East Gainesville as they continue to build large complexes despite residential complaints.“Thatwas the American dream — to buy a house in a neighbor hood where you had other families living behind you and not all this stuff they want to continue to bring to our side of town,” Parker-Warren said.Jason Sanchez, a resident in the Duckpond neighborhood and cofounder of Gainesville is for People, is an avid supporter of the vote to end exclusionary zoning in almost every neighborhood in Gainesville.
by the elimination of single-family zoning. Instead, he would focus on finding better job opportunities for people, bringing better-paying busi nesses to town and ending learning disparities within schools.
“We were really loud,” Johnson said. “Obnoxious, actually.”
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“We have two people that are saying they want exclusionary zon ing in this county,” Parker-Warren said. “It’s up to the people to look into their eyes and see who’s being honest and who’s not being hon est…Somebody who talked to the people before they make stupid de cisions about our neighborhoods.”
“East Gainesville has been the dumping ground for affordable, low-income, government-subsi dized housing, instead of the Ameri can dream of land owners,” Fields
When they became large enough to form a block, Johnson said the athletic depart
Wayne Fields, 67-year-old resident of Azalea Trails in East Gainesville, opposes eliminating single-family zoning. Historically Black neighborhoods on the east side of the city, he said, have seen an increase of multi-family housing despite exclusionary zoning ordi nances prohibiting their develop ment in residential areas.
Fields and his neighbors in East Gainesville want to hear what the candidates’ course of action would be if elected, he said.
He explained how many LG BTQ+ individuals’ immediate families ostracize them after coming out, pushing them to create their own chosen families in Gainesville. However, due to the lack of legal structures to declare queer citizens as a “family,” the individuals may struggle to live together because of single-family zoning.
“We thought it was funny,” he said.
Lane said that he wasn’t as committed to seeking football-fan fame.
The officers put Bradley on a stretcher, and the entire right side of his face is drenched in blood. Bradley was transferred to UF Health Shands Hospital for treatment and then to a specialty hospital in Tampa.
THE LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CITY CAME MONTHS BEFORE A K-9 MAULED A BLACK MAN
Ratliff claimed he was removed from the K-9 unit without
“The dog’s not coming after you,” Meurer said. “Come out to me!”
man activated his lights and siren, Castor said.
The K-9 mauling of Bradley sparked community protests and calls for police accountability. Scott released a July 22 statement an nouncing the investigation that could have taken up to 90 days.
“We need to get EMS now,” one officer said. “His eye is out.”
K-9 officers are expected to remain home with their dogs in the beginning of the relationship, according to the lawsuit.
“All employment actions taken by Defendant against Plain tiff were taken for legitimate, non-discriminatory, and non-retal iatory reasons,” the response read.
Ratliff also alleges he was disciplined for the minor infraction of submitting his monthly report in an incorrect folder. The city didn’t discipline a white officer who didn’t submit a report at all, according to the lawsuit.
During a July 27 police advisory council meeting with community members angered by the incident, Scott said he couldn’t comment on the incident because the investiga tion was ongoing but said “appropri ate action” would be taken if video footage of the police encounter with Bradley revealed misconduct.
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two officers are in frame putting Bradley in handcuffs.
Officers direct Bradley to stand and help him up. They lead him away from the bushes and to the parking lot to wait for the ambu lance, telling him to sit.
ed by an officer.
Growls from the dog and shouts from Bradley are heard almost im mediately.
The case will proceed to a jury trial in the Gainesville divi sion of the Northern District of Florida in April 2023, and Judge Allen Winsor will oversee the case. Ratliff will be represented by Orlando attorney Alfred Truesdell.
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Bodycam footage from K-9 offi cer Josh Meurer shows the dog on a 15-foot leash searching for Bradley. It runs around between bushes and air conditioning units, finding him in under a minute, the footage shows.
“He’s got me, bro,” Bradley said. “I’m done.”
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Ratliff detailed incidents where white officers in the unit re ferred to him as “Radio,” in reference to a mentally disabled Black film character from a 2003 film of the same name. The nickname came from Ratliff’s attentiveness to the police radio during training exercises, documents show.
“In discrimination cases, the allegations can be strengthened by showing additional incidents of discrimination, and I think that’s what this does,” he said. “It shows that there was a men tality or a culture that tolerated racial discrimination within the police department.”
“Breathe, relax,” one officer said. “EMS is Castorcoming.”saidofficers helped keep Bradley upright and conscious. One officer tells Bradley to rest his head on his leg. Bradley lays back on the officer’s leg and drinks water provid
Ratliff was placed under surveillance that month after a city official said he received an anonymous tip indicating Ratliff wasn’t honest about his injury, the lawsuit alleges. His work ers’ compensation benefits were suspended in October 2019.
“He got my finger,” Bradley shouted between screams. “He ripped my Officersfinger.”instruct Bradley to put his hands behind his back. Bradley’s bloodied hand can be seen in the video.
In 2021, the GPD K-9 unit, con sisting of five dogs, was deployed 129 times, according to the video shown. Twelve of those times re sulted in a bite.
Lonnie Scott, the GPD chief, said in a press conference Thursday that racial discrimination isn’t something he tolerates on the force. The city’s equity and inclusion department once looked into Ratliff’s concerns, he said.
Bradley then runs, and officers begin to chase him further into the complex.Asecond clip of bodycam footage shows other officers searching Brad ley’s car. They find a loaded hand gun with an extended magazine between the driver’s seat and center console.
In its response to the allegations contained in Ratliff’s law suit, the city of Gainesville, through its attorneys Marc Suger man and Michele Martin, denied Ratliff was treated unfairly. Howard Waldman is lead attorney representing the city.
Another time Ratliff said he overheard a white officer talking at a party about “those n—s on the east side,” in reference to the Black population of East Gainesville.
“People can sue for a host of things. That doesn’t necessar ily make it valid,” Scott said. “That’s not necessarily something that we want to get into. We leave that to the lawyers.”
The footage shows Bradley plead ing with officers to remove the dog. The K-9 officer asks a colleague to step in. Bradley can be seen clutch ing his eye as the police dog contin ues gripping onto his hand with his teeth. Another officer holds onto Bradley, while they pull on the dog’s leash and use a Breaker Bar K-9 re lease tool to get the dog to release its bite.
His law enforcement privileges were suspended in Decem ber 2019 and not reinstated until July 2020 as an investigation was carried out. The investigation concluded there was no evi dence Ratliff lied on his workers’ compensation claim, accord ing to the lawsuit.
The group of officers then called Emergency Medical Services, and
“Ensuring Bradley got immedi ate medical attention was the high est priority of the officers on scene,” Castor said in the recorded video.
Milman said he saw a bag of marijuana on the center console and smelled the substance from the ve hicle. The officer saw Bradley reach under his seat repeatedly and asked him to keep his hands in sight, Cas tor said in the conference video.
Former Gainesville Police Department K-9 officer alleges racism within the unit
Bradley faces charges
Edward Ratliff, a Black 13-year veteran of the force, alleged white officers casually used racial slurs within the K-9 unit through multiple uses of the n-word. This includes an incident where, in light of a K-9’s euthanization, a white officer said the dog “bit a lot of n—s.”
The lawsuit is noteworthy in light of a police K-9’s July mauling of Terrell Bradley, a 31-year-old Black man, which led to community outrage and protest. GPD released body camera footage Thursday from the incident where Bradley lost an eye.
“We’re well below 25%,” Scott said. “Don’t take my word for it — go to the people in the industry, find out what the standard is. But I think that’s a low bite ratio to have.”
justification in 2015 and was reassigned to it in 2017. In late 2017, Ratliff received a reprimand for leaving his K-9 at home when he went out to dinner on a weekend. He was told if he were to do it again, he may be removed from the unit, according to the lawsuit.
These hand movements cannot be seen in the footage because of the placement of the bodycam on the officer’s chest, Scott said during the conference.
The press conference video point ed out the manual says the “K-9 is authorized to track for any felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against anyK-9individual.”forceshould be used only when necessary, according to the manual, and K-9 officers will “utilize all reasonable means to affect appre hension, without incurring a bite.”
“I can’t see,” he said, panicked.
Bradley initially faced charges in the direct aftermath of the incident, and a judge approved his conditional release from the Alachua County Jail July 19.
The facts of the Bradley incident could enhance his client’s case, Truesdell said.
for specific felony crimes,” according to GPD’s K-9 manual criteria.
“The City, however, did not intrude on the personal lives of non-minority officers or impose on them such draconian restric tions under threat of removal from the Unit,” the lawsuit reads.
Court documents allege when Ratliff expressed offense to the nickname by saying, “You are basically calling me a retard ed Black guy,” another officer responded with, “Yes, we know. That’s why it’s funny.”
As officers help him sit on the sidewalk, the bodycam points down on Bradley, showing his eye out of his bloodied socket.
Officers called the K-9 unit after learning of his criminal background and because he may have been armed. This unit “can only be de ployed for criminal apprehensions
related to his injury” in September 2019.
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The K-9 unit arrived 38 minutes after Bradley ran away from police. Bradley was hidden in bushes along one building in the complex while officers surrounded him.
“Your dog ripped my eye out, bro,” he said.
Audio kicks in when the officer asks Bradley to step out of his car. There’s a moment where the officer is seen trying to put Bradley’s hands behind his back, and he tells officers they’re “making him nervous,” and that he didn’t do anything. Bradley struck the officer with his elbow, Castor said in the recorded confer ence video.
One officer asked Bradley to roll onto his side. But Bradley said he couldn't.
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Officers and Bradley wait for the ambulance.
The conduct that caused him to suspend the two officers didn’t com pletely have to do with Bradley’s arrest, Scott said. The results of the internal investigation will be made public within the next two weeks, he said.
A racial discrimination lawsuit filed against the city by an ex-Gainesville Police Department officer in the force’s K-9 unit recently made its way to federal court.
The lawsuit claims Ratliff was also mistreated by the depart ment in the aftermath of an injury he sustained while working in May 2019, according to the lawsuit. He was removed from the unit in August 2019, and the lawsuit alleges Ratliff “was falsely accused of lying about a physical therapy appointment
After checking Bradley’s driver’s license, officers confirmed he was a convicted felon and couldn’t legally own a gun. He also didn’t have a concealed weapons permit, and of ficers said they confirmed the gun was stolen.
A mural in honor of Terrell Bradley on the 34th street wall Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022.
He turned into the Eden Park at Ironwood apartment complex and drove slowly, stopping near Building 2. Bodycam footage begins as an of ficer speaks to Bradley who was sit ting in his car, window rolled down.
Located at 418 NW 8th Ave., Chun Ching Market is farther away from UF campus than most grocery stores UF students shop at. Owner Thu Win, 45, calls the market a “hidden gem” for many Gainesville residents.ChunChing Market has a nearly 30-year history in Gainesville, being managed by four previous owners before Win and her husband Ye Oo.
“It’s just a convenience for Asian people because they got specific food I can get here,” Zhou said. “It’s the primary reason that I choose to shop here.”
shopping, so she can cook dishes from her hometown in China.
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“That’s actually one of the best things that I’ve experienced,” Ca rugda said. “Clients who have been here in and out [were] looking for stuff, and they were able to find it here.”Before the grocery store was built in 2004, the Gainesville Fili pino community had to travel to Jacksonville or Orlando to get gro ceries for home cooking, Carugda said.
For Gainesville residents who want to make tteokbokki, pancit, biryani or huǒgu , ingredients can be hard to find. Asian markets pro vide what several common U.S. grocery chains can’t: authentic fla vor and, for many, comfort food.
“Recently, there has been a lot of interest in Asian culture from peo ple that aren’t a part of that com munity,” Walsh said. “Having these markets allows people to have ac cess to these different types of cui sines and the different cultures that are here in Gainesville.”
Caleb Ross // Alligator Contributing Photographer Enson Market, an international grocery store, sits in University Towne Center in Gainesville Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022.
Tahanan Filipino Bistro & Shop
Tyler Walsh, a 20-year-old UF business junior, visited Chun Ch ing Market for the first time Friday. Walsh said he was interested in try ing different Korean recipes, such as tteokbokki, a spicy rice cake dish.
Business was slow during the first few weeks but scaled up once students started moving back into Gainesville for the Fall semester, said Ben He, a 23-year-old depart ment manager.
Halal meat is meat from live stock that has been blessed under Islam and killed ethically. It doesn’t include pork.
Gainesville Asian markets give customers a ‘taste of home’
Bang Dimattac Carugda, 44, was a nurse at UF Health Shands Hos pital since 2006. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, she and her husband took a leap of faith and bought SM Ori ental Food Mart, the local Filipino groceryCarugdastore. renamed the store Tahanan, which means “home” in Filipino. She wanted Gainesville’s Filipino community to get a taste of home, she said, through the gro ceries and ingredients in her store, located at 4000 W. Newberry Road.
“The size of this market is much bigger than the others, which will give us the opportunity to get fresh er stuff,” he said.
Some may be looking to break out of their comfort zone withA sian snacks. Others may want to reminisce on a childhood favorite with a home-cooked meal. With these four favorites to choose from — Tahanan Filipino Bistro & Shop, Chun Ching Market, Enson Market and India Bazaar — fresh ingredi ents and groceries aren’t far from reach in Gainesville.
“It felt like a taste of home,” Saha said.
Shopper Yuting Zhou, a 32-yearold Gainesville resident, said she was happy Enson Market had items people typically can’t buy in Ameri can grocery chains, like frozen dumplings.Zhoucomes to the market fre quently to do her regular grocery
As customers enter through the door, smells of spices and fresh pro duce greet them while upbeat Bol lywood music fills their ears.
“They have a really big variety,
Kay Lee, 49, has been shopping at Chun Ching Market for about three years. Lee, who is originally from South Korea, said she appre ciates the Korean ingredients and spices that can be found at the market — particularly the red chili pepper flakes, a staple in Korean cuisine.“They have everything here,” LeeTosaid.staff the grocers and cashiers, Win said she looked to the commu nity and customers who visited the store.“We have a great team here, and we are all very close,” Win said.
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The couple bought the market from its previous owners in 2018.
The store has an assortment of goods from China, Japan, South Ko rea and Vietnam. Colorful displays of snacks line the shelves and fro zen dumplings, tofu and rice cakes can be found in the freezer aisles. Necessities such as fresh meat, spic es and produce are also available.
The massive store shelves all their products by category, includ ing a vast array of household ba sics. Shoppers browsing the aisles can pick up mirin, gochujang paste, dumpling rice paper and other ne cessities while soft jingles play in theSomebackground.ofthemost popular prod ucts among students who visit the store are the large assortment of snacks from different parts of Asia, He said. These include shrimp crackers, panda-shaped biscuits and unique flavors of potato chips like seaweed, crayfish and wasabi.
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enjoy freshly cooked adobo, pancit and Lumpiang Shanghai, among otherCarugda’sstaples. biggest mission for Tahanan is making it a place where the Filipino community can get many of the ingredients they need to prepare their favorite dishes, she said.“We wanted them to actually get the same items that they usu ally get,” she said. “I would say not 100% but at least 50-60% of what they like from the Philippines will be bought from us.”
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Enson Market — an Asian super market chain with several locations dotted across the U.S. — opened at 3035 SW 34th St. over the summer.
Tahanan carries Filipino home necessities, such as packets of pan cit noodles, traditional fried noo dles; pandan leaf extract, a com mon condiment; and bagoóng, a fermented fish condiment. Another section of the store is reserved for snacks like lychee jelly, dried man go and tamarind candy, as well as various flavors of bottled tea.
and they’re near a bubble tea and a restaurant right there,” Chafla said. “So, they’re located near other things where it’s easy to stop when I am here.”
The India Bazaar team founded the grocery store in 2001 and have slowly expanded the store’s size over the course of several years. They never spent any money on advertising. Customers were drawn to them because they stayed true to their roots, they said.
The team at India Bazaar also operates two restaurants within the same plaza — Indian Cuisine and Indian Street Food — making the plaza a hub for Gainesville resi dents to get a real taste of Indian food and Sauravculture.Saha, 34, and Aishiki Banerjee, 34, said they moved to Gainesville from India last week. They said they were very satisfied that India Bazaar contained most of the common groceries they would buy in “It’sIndia.kind of like an SOS service for us,” Banerjee said. “Getting home-cooked food is very difficult out here, and if we get the grocery stuff we can manage it ourselves.”
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The store is also a comforting re minder of India, they said.
India Bazaar is an Indian grocery store located at 3550 SW 34th St., along a strip mall plaza. The store is divided into two sections: “Food Market,” the main grocery store, and “Halal Meat and Fish Market,” which sells all certified halal meat — the only type of meat Muslims can consume.
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The Food Market has items like daal, masala, roti and other condi ments commonly used in Indian and south Asian cuisine. It also has some common Indian hair care products, such as coconut hair oil and tubes of henna.
On Fridays and Saturdays, Ca rugda and her husband have a bis tro where they cook and serve Fili pino cuisine to go. Customers can
Betty Chafla, a 29-year-old Gainesville resident, said she shops at India Bazaar when she wants to pick up frozen meals or snacks. Chafla said the store’s location is one of the strongest reasons to visit.
When we start entering class with a little less of a goaloriented approach, we free ourselves from unnecessary comparison. There will always be someone who’s better than you at something — so accept it and continue to excel, regardless.
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We teach undergraduate classes. We produce research and perform service. We write and work on the grants which bring external money to the university.
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Of course, there is nothing wrong with being committed to attaining academic excellence. Goals like these played an instrumental role in my admission to UF, and it plays an even bigger one in my current experience here. But it is remarkably easy for this focus to send first-year students down a harmful spiral.
I entered my first discussion period for The Long Civil Rights Movement two months ago, eager to apply my keen interest in social justice and aptitude for writing to a class that synthesized those two things perfectly. It was when assignments started becoming increasingly difficult, though, that I wrongfully began to dislike this course.
But there’s some relief on the horizon: After a long and grueling bargaining period, UF and GAU have negotiated a
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First-year UF students successfully made it through this
Without the labor of graduate students, there would be no university.
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Halima Attah is the Opinion Editor at The Alligator.
The truth is, the point of pursuing a higher education isn’t to be the best at anything, really. There is a lot of good that can come out of simply valuing the academic experiences that can be gained from spending time in school, whether positive or not.
No one teaches while hungry. I can’t do research when I’m selling my plasma. I can’t focus on grant-writing when I’m worried about getting evicted.
UF’s graduate stipend raise is still far from sufficient
Graduate students look forward to the wage increase this year. But we know it’s not enough.
As I started to compare my grades with those of my classmates, I realized for the first time in my life, I was no longer accepting of the aforementioned statement that used to define my academic career. I was no longer ok with not being the best.
As I worked through probability equations in a concerningly cold classroom, I caught my focus frequently drifting toward how I could perform better on a future exam, as opposed to how my peers could outperform me. There will always be a student better at analyzing mathematical expressions than me, so what’s the point in obsessing over them?
But it’s especially important to consider the demographic that imposter syndrome likely affects the most on campus: freshmen.Members of the class of 2026 were forced to navigate through one of the most difficult college admissions seasons in recent years. With overall application rates surging for a slew of reasons, acceptance rates for schools throughout the nation dropped significantly. Accepting 22.8% of applicants during the 2022 admissions cycle as opposed to 32.8% the previous year, UF was not exempt from this trend.
Dealing with imposter syndrome has been especially challenging because it’s revealed an ugly truth about students like myself: We are overly focused on academic achievement.
Why didn’t I earn that point? Why are other students performing better than me? Do I not belong here?
Once I graduated high school, I was certain this mentality would follow me into my college career. I had successfully avoided getting stuck in deep pits of self-doubt during the college admission process; I never thought that my extracurriculars and academic accomplishments didn’t make me a good fit for UF.
his July, I found myself being re vived after having a bad reaction to donating plasma. Lying down with ice packs all over my body, waiting for my vision to come back and for color to return to my skin, I could only think about one thing: “Will I still get paid for Thethis?”first year of my Ph.D. program in psychology had taken a toll on my finances. I had moved from a job that paid me just enough to get by, determined to make UF’s much lower stipend work. Unfortunately, determination wasn’t enough to make that stipend stretch to cover the cost of living. After burning through my savings to cover moving costs and medical treatments, credit card debt started piling up.Like many graduate students, I had to start using the food pantry. In May, I discontinued my use of a prescription drug I could no longer afford. This month, I’m late on rent for the first time in my adult life.My experience is neither uncommon norAextreme.recentreport by Graduate Assistants United (GAU), the union representing graduate students at UF, found that nearly 30% of graduate students have been unable to buy enough food at the current stipend rate. Additionally, 72% can’t
stipend increase for graduate students. The minimum stipend for employees on 9-month stipends has been raised to $17,000. The minimum for 12-month employees will be $22,753. To put these new minimums in perspective, I make several
thousand dollars above the present 9-monthUnfortunately,minimum.this raise is not nearly enough to account for inflation. Graduate students today will still be effectively making less than their counterparts were in 2017. For many, seeking outside employment is impossible, as international students are legally prohibited from taking on other jobs.
The pay graduate students receive is in no way commensurate with the value they produce for the college.
For a significant portion of my life, I’d accepted this sentiment with confidence. I mean, there are billions of people who live on this planet — it would be illogical to think I could single-handedly best each of them in a given subject area.
When faced with the tiniest academic challenge, those suffering from imposter syndrome are quickly led to believe they do not deserve to be in whatever environment they exist in. When I began comparing my academic performance to that of my classmates a couple months ago, I allowed myself to fall victim to this notion.
Paradoxically, we aren’t paid enough to do this work well.
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My faith in the above statement remained unwavering during some of the most defining moments of my academic career: The first time I took the infamous college entrance exam that shall not be named, I rarely found myself worrying about how well other students might have scored in comparison to me.
Earning the title of a top-five public university last year, UF has become a space for some of the nation’s most gifted individuals — something that often prompts students to go the extra mile when doubting their own skills. Questions of academic ability often become questions of belonging, with a single less-than-superior grade housing the potential to make students worry about whether they deserve to have a spot here.
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Within a matter of weeks, this frustration with my own performance transformed itself into a larger issue: a full-blown demonstration of imposter syndrome. Loosely defined as a sense of self-doubt that leads individuals (especially those that are high achieving) to feel like pretenders — this perceived fraudulence was only heightened by the environment I was in.
year’s competitive admissions season, and now they’re trying to prove themselves to be the people in their applications. So, why do some of us still feel like we don’t belong?
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“Wethat.gave [Kentucky] a picksix. We gave them a short field after another interception,” Napi er said. “Two touchdowns in the game. Ultimately, it's gonna be hard to win when you do that.”
I had the opportunity to speak with former Florida quarterback Kyle Trask ahead of the start of his second season in the NFL. Trask had a prolific career with the Gators, including a 2020 season that featured 4,283 yards and 43 touchdowns through the air. The 2020 Heisman finalist led Florida to more than 500 yards per
Stoops has coached 75 games in the SEC. Napier just coached his first. Levis made his 15th start for the Wildcats, while Richard son made his third for Florida.
Trask : It was awesome. I mean, you know that energy in that stadium is electric. And that's known across the nation — how cool it is to play in that stadium. I thought it was just awesome to see all the fans come out and come through for such a big game and Napier's first game. I just thought it was a great environment and
Florida will have its chance to rebound Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium when it hosts the South Florida Bulls.
them all blossom into the players they are now, making plays left and right. It’s just really cool to see.
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For all the hype Richardson re ceived, he had made just two starts and completed 55 passes in his Florida career prior to Saturday’s bout with the Kentucky Wildcats. He’s a young and overall inexpe rienced player, something Gators faithfuls were painfully reminded of during UF’s 26-16 loss to the Wildcats.Richardson struggled mightily against Kentucky. He completed just 40% of his passes and threw two costly interceptions that led to 14 UK points. Florida’s defense made a valiant effort to stifle Ken tucky and give the Gators’ offense a chance, but Richardson and com pany never seized the opportunity to get back in the game.
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Richardson showed his youth with an inability to rebound from the early misfires.
Florida’s best unit on the night, the defense, is the most veteran group on the team. Fifth-year se nior safety Trey Dean III led the team with nine tackles. Sixth-year senior linebacker Ventrell Miller made several big tackles before missing time late with an injury.
urday.The Wildcats played sound de fense and forced Richardson into mistakes. Levis didn’t play like a superstar — completing just 54% of his passes for 202 yards, one touchdown and one intercep tion — but he made few errors and kept his composure against a physical Florida defense.
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Napier, who also calls the of fense for the Gators, said the team’s execution, or lack thereof, was the main driver in Saturday’s loss — something he said was ultimately on himself and the coaching staff.
have in college football. That showed itself in the Swamp Sat
"You obviously overlapped with Anthony Richardson in 2020. I was doing some research, and last year you said you like to call him the Lebron James of football. What makes him so dangerous as a player, and from your perspective, where do you think his ceiling is?"
Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson set the internet ablaze after his week-one performance against Utah. The sophomore sig nal caller sent NFL scouts and Heis man leaderboards into a frenzy.
Trask : It would have to be the 2019 Auburn game. It was definitely a very memorable game for me. The first pass of the game went for a touchdown. That was the loudest I heard it at the time. And then, probably the biggest moment for me at that game was when Perine broke off that run, and just the roar of that crowd
“I missed a couple of wide open throws so my confidence got shot,” Richardson said. “Mentally, I shot myself down a little bit.”
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Florida’s offense outgained Kentucky on the night, with the
Junior defensive tackle Gervon Dexter made seven tackles in ad dition to his pick.
“I think he’s really gonna grow and improve and learn the les sons and grow his character rela tive to how he responds,” Napier said. “With these things comes opportunity if you have the right attitude and approach.”
"Looking back over all of the games you started, specifically in the Swamp, is there one that stands out to you as either your favorite or a favorite moment?"
Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson threw two costly interceptions against the Kentucky Wildcats Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022.
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The Gainesville native strug gled to find his rhythm early in the game, and the early mistakes snowballed into a regrettable per formance. On the opening drive of
Gators piling up 279 yards to the Wildcats’ 272. Florida didn’t com mit many penalties — just three on the night — and the special teams made no consequential mistakes while Kentucky con ceded a safety and missed a field goal.The game came down to offen sive mistakes and Napier recog nized
the game, Richardson found red shirt junior receiver Justin Shorter for a 16-yard gain. Three incomple tions later, the Gators punted the ballThataway.was the story of the game for the Florida offense. The Gators had chunk plays of 40, 28 and 24 yards, but they never consistently strung plays together for scoring drives. UF’s lone touchdown came after an interception by defensive end Gervon Dexter Sr. that gave the Gators a short field to work with.
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game, nearly 40 points per contest and the SEC Championship game.
It wasn’t just Richardson who showed growing pains on the big gest stage, but head coach Billy Na pier as well. Saturday was Napier’s second game leading the Gators and his first against a Southeastern Conference foe.
really helped him get that first big win of the year.
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“I feel like [the loss] is on me, I played terrible,” Richardson said. “I take full responsibility.”
"You were back in the Swamp for the Utah game week one. What was that experience like, being back there, that energy, that crowd?"
Kentucky looked a lot like the same team that won 10 games last season and was among the better teams in the SEC East. Florida looked nothing like the team that upset a top-10 Utah team and rose to No. 12 in the AP poll.
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Napier sees the rawness of Richardson and his young team, hoping Saturday’s loss is a learn ing moment moving forward.
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Trask : I think his ceiling is as high as he wants it to be. From what I've seen playing with him for that year is he's a very humble, hardworking kid. So, I know he has nothing but great things ahead of him, and it's really cool to, not only him, but just to see all the young guys that were freshmen and sophomores, whenever they first came there and I was a senior, to see
“A lot of good on defense,” Napier said. “I thought they did a fantastic job, and there was no quit.”Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops has led the Wildcats since 2012 and is the winningest coach in program history. His quarter back, senior Will Levis, is in his second full season as the starting signalStoops’scaller.program is as estab lished as any in the SEC. Levis is as seasoned a starter as you could
"Looking at the 2020 season, was there a moment either before the season or even during the season when you realized it was going to be special either for you or for the team as a whole?"
Trask : It definitely doesn't hurt to play around so many NFL guys in college and so many great players we played on defense that are now starting in the NFL. It gives you something similar to look forward to coming into the NFL, what to expect and obviously the NFL is a lot faster and more mental and experienced than college. But I think it did help me in the long run, especially playing in big environments. There's a lot of good traits that I've picked up just playing in all those big time
SEC matchup in college.
was incredible. There's a lot of memorable moments when I think of that game.
"You mentioned picking up traits in college. You were drafted to a team in Tampa with quarterback talent both on the roster and on staff. How did being around players like Tom Brady, Blaine Gabbert and Ryan Griffin as well as coaches like Bruce Arians and Byron leftwich help with your adjustment to the league?"
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And then when you got the obvious playmakers like we did, and we were just clicking all of camp. We could just tell we had something special. Then to
"What made that offense as strong as it was?"
It's definitely a good trait to take into the NFL because there's extremely talented guys
"Your football career story has been well documented (backup in high school, waiting three years to start at UF, etc.). Something that defines it to me is patience. How did you have that patience? What was that like mentally? And how did those experiences help you prepare for the NFL?"
Trask : Yeah, I mean, I think that 2019 year we were clicking really good, and we had a solid year and won the Orange Bowl and went out on a high note and had a lot of confidence going into next year. We have a ton of seniors returning. So, I think the confidence was always super high in the offseason.
Trevon) Grimes for I guess about three years at that point. So we had tons of talent. We had a great chemistry, we'd been together for three or four years. It was just putting everything together, it was almost unstoppable.
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Trask : I think it was just from top down everyone doing a great job. [As far as] the scheme, Mullen always put us in great positions to succeed on offense. And then we, of course, had the talent to go out there and do it. And more than that, it was just a really close group of guys. Like I said, a lot of people return[ed] from the 2019 year. A lot of us had been there at least for three or four years together. Like I know I had been there when (wide receiver Kadarius) Toney came as a freshman, when (tight end Kyle) Pitts came as a freshman, I had been around (wide receiver
Trask : Oh yeah, I couldn't be more grateful to be in the quarterback room that I'm in because there's so much experience in there. I think one of the main things I learned and can sometimes get overlooked by a lot of people is just being a pro and showing up to work every day. You can't ever take any plays off, any practices off. Not that that was necessarily a problem for me, but it’s just really cool to be around such an experienced group of guys who have answers for any questions I ask.
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everywhere you go, and the reps are at a minimum compared to college. There's not many to go around, so you really just have to make the most of the reps that you get.
Trask : It's definitely just a mindset. And you know, you got to have a self confidence about yourself that you belong, and that's kind of what I did. I always worked extremely hard and tried to get better every day. And I just knew I belonged, I knew like once I got my shot I was gonna make the most of it.
"You mentioned how talented everyone is, obviously playing at a school like UF and in the SEC. Did that help with the talent jump, and how was your transition coming into the league? Being surrounded by NFL talent in college and playing against it."
go out and put up points that we did versus Ole Miss, I think it was kind of solidified that we knew we had something special to build off of going into the rest of the year.