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Gators defense showing physicality, improvement Mullen wants to see By Jake Dreilinger Sports Writer

Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald never saw Donovan Stiner coming. No one saw him coming, to be fair, but just about every Gators fan has seen the play by now. Blitzing with a safety on 4th and 10 on Florida’s own 45-yard line was risky. If Fitzgerald had caught sight of the UF safety running right toward him up the middle, a simple dodge to the side and a throw to the presumably open receiver downﬁeld could have been disastrous. He didn’t, though. Fitzgerald saw Stiner but not until the MSU quarterback was already being knocked to the ground. “If I’ve learned one thing through the years, it’s to shut my mouth in that situation,” Gators coach Dan Mullen said of the decision to call a safety blitz. “I’m just gonna shut my mouth. Todd (Grantham), I’m here if you need me.” Stiner’s sack was the epitome of Florida’s defensive effort in its 13-6 win over Mississippi State in Starkville.

SEE FOOTBALL, PAGE 14

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Safety Donovan Stiner (13) sacked MSU quarterback Nick Fitzgerald (7) on the Bulldogs’ ﬁnal offensive play in Florida’s 13-6 victory at Davis Wade Statidum in Starkville, Mississippi, Saturday.

UF reacts to Kavanaugh-Ford Fiery homecoming for the UF equipment truck SOME STUDENTS CRIED. OTHERS WERE SCARED. By Dana Cassidy Alligator Staff Writer

The U.S. and UF stopped when Christine Blasey Ford took a stand. UF students and faculty sat in silence Thursday morning as they watched history unfold during the hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in the 1980s when they were in high school. Kavanaugh testiﬁed after Ford and denied the accusations. Regardless of opinion, many in the university community had a stance on the events in the historic hearing. Rosana Resende’s initial reaction was to believe Ford as she watched the hearing

Gators put together complete game

on her tablet as her students took an exam. Ford’s experience is one that females are all too familiar with, said Resende, a UF lecturer and coordinator for the Center for Latin American Studies. “I believe the women who accused Bill Cosby,” she said. “I believe the women who accused Donald Trump. My default is to believe, and my default is not to deny.” Students and faculty have discussed the hearings, Resende said. It’s a serious conversation the public needs to focus on. “What I like to tell my students all the time is really the power is up to you to create the conversations on campus,” she said. “You guys have the ability to demand that those conversations are had.” The hearing scared Maya Levkovitz, an 18-year-old UF linguistics freshman. “It sends the message to women everywhere that what happens to them isn’t

Florida’s defense shined, and Feleipe Franks showed steady improvement in UF’s 13-6 win, pg. 14

SEE KAVANAUGH, PAGE 3

By Kyle Wood Alligator Staff Writer

Julie A. Hill spotted her rival team’s equipment truck in the median of a treelined highway. The Alabama fan was on the way to drop a friend off at the airport at about 7:15 a.m. Sunday when she saw a Florida Gators truck pulled over on Interstate 20, east of the Cottondale, Alabama, exit. “The ﬁrst thing we thought because we’re ’Bama fans was that it was funny because it was a broken down Florida truck,” Hill said. “But we did want to be sure everyone was okay.” The back of a UF equipment truck

Hold the ramen

A UF student published a cookbook with 101 recipes, so you too can impress your roommates, pg. 10

Former UF faculty sues university

He says his former boss sexually harassed him, pg. 4

caught fire after a flat tire sent up sparks, said Steve McClain, a UF senior associate athletics director. The fire scorched a hole in the truck and damaged football equipment as it traveled about nine hours back to Gainesville from the Mississippi State University game in Starkville, Mississippi. There was minimal damage to the equipment inside the truck, McClain said. The equipment was transferred to another truck for the remainder of the drive back to Florida. The amount of the damages to the truck and equipment wasn’t immediately known because it will be evaluated today when it is expected to return to Gainesville.

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Figuring out the truth in the testimonies.

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A UF equipment truck caught fire after a flat tire sent up sparks Sunday morning while heading back to Gainesville after the Mississippi State University game. that no one was injured by the fire and the equipment staff will be “ready to go equipment-wise” for the next home game against Louisiana State University, which is set to kick off at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Hill, a professor at the University of Alabama School of Law, said no one was on the scene

FIRE, from pg. 1

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Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee Sept. 27 in Washington.

KAVANAUGH, from pg. 1 worthy of being considered in one of the most important appointments this country has,” Levkovitz said. “It scares me that they’re not even willing to consider that, up until it became politically advantageous, the right wasn’t willing to consider the possibility that it was worth investigating what happened to Dr. Ford, and it terriﬁes me that that’s not the priority of this country anymore.” Kavanaugh and Ford’s testimonies aren’t black and white for Alyssa Morford. The 18-year-old UF political science freshman said the hardest part of the hearing is ﬁguring out who is telling the truth.

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“He does have what he needs to have to be a Supreme Court justice in sense of career standing, and it kind of sucks that he has to go through this, especially if the allegations are false against him,” Morford said. Morford said she believes it’s vital for people to do research on political topics rather than taking a side. “There’s deﬁnitely an overall negative reaction to the hearing as a whole, no matter which direction you’re looking at it from,” Morford said. Jadaya Hargraves was sitting in the UF Financial Affairs ofﬁce when she began to cry. Hargraves, an 18-year-old UF political science freshman, broke down when she

saw Ford’s testimony. “I have a lot of people in my life who have gone through situations like that,” Hargraves said. “Seeing how it impacts their social relationships and their self worth and the ways that they view themselves, it really is an important thing that should be discussed.” Offensive remarks and jokes about Ford’s testimony were posted online, Hargraves said. “The way that it’s being talked about in the media, I just feel is completely inappropriate and dismissive of people who have gone through those kinds of situations,” Hargraves said. Kavanaugh should be held to a high standard because he’s being considered for

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November candidates talk Library West to begin 24/7 again conservation, future plans at forum THE NEW HOURS START TUESDAY.

By Gillian Sweeney Alligator Staff Writer

Students can still go out for drinks even when the Midtown bars are closed. Starting Tuesday morning past 1 a.m., Library West, along with its Starbucks Coffee, will open up for students 24/7, Student Body President Ian Green wrote in an email. Library officials chose the reopening date because it allowed them time to make the necessary changes in operations and hire new staff, Green said. The $160,000 for the first year of additional hours will come from Student Government reserve funds, Green said. The transfer was made on Sept. 18. The UF Office of the Provost will then fund the library for an additional three years after the 2018-2019 fiscal year. The around-the-clock hours will give Ariel Hadley, an 18-year-old UF environmental science freshman, more time to study. “I always felt kind of rushed to beat the clock and finish my work before the library closes,” Hadley said. Hadley never had access to

the library when it was 24/7 before, in Spring 2018, even though she often finds herself studying into the early hours of the morning, she said. The extended hours will give her more flexibility to complete assignments. “I personally have a hard time falling asleep because my mind is always going at that time,” she said. The return of 24/7 hours will be helpful during exam weeks, said Carolina Casariego, a 22-year-old UF statistics senior. While the library wasn’t open, she’d spend the overnight hours studying in her room. “It’s nice to have Library West as a 24/7 library,” Casariego said. “It fits more people and motivates you to stay longer and study.” The late hours aren’t useful for everyone, like Ryan Robinson, an 18-year old UF political science freshman who said he goes to bed early. Even though Robinson said he probably won’t put the hours to much use, he said he sees the value in extending them. “College kids, they never go to sleep anyway, so you might as well keep it open 24/7,” Robinson said.

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By Jessica Curbelo Alligator Staff Writer

Jason Haeseler remembers waiting in the hospital, hoping his daughter would be all right after surgery to ﬁx her congenital heart defect. He and his wife could afford to help their child, but there were families in the waiting room alongside him who couldn’t. Less than a decade later, Haeseler stood in front of a room of about 70 people and said his No. 1 priority if elected to the Florida House of Representatives is to expand Medicaid. The Alachua County League of Women Voters hosted the General Election Candidate forum Sunday at LifeSouth Community Blood Center on Newberry Road. County Commission District 2 candidates Libertarian Gregory Caudill, Independent Scott Costello, and Democrat Marihelen Wheeler, started off the forum. Candidates were asked if they supported the half-cent sales tax, which would raise money for public schools, or the Children’s Trust, a board that oversees funding for children’s programs. While Costello and Wheeler support both, Caudill said he doesn’t support the Children’s Trust because of the wording. He said there are no clear goals and he doesn’t agree with how the board is set up. “We’re taking money away from taxpayers and moving it to people who don’t answer to taxpayers,” he said.

For the House of Representatives portion, only Democrat Jason Haeseler attended. His opponent, incumbent Republican Chuck Clemons, declined the invitation to participate, a moderator for the forum said. Aside from expanding Medicaid, Haeseler spoke to attendees about the importance of protecting the environment and public schools. “Public education is the cornerstone of democracy,” he said. Although he believes scholarships to private schools had good intentions, Haeseler said he doesn’t support the scholarships that take money away from public schools. Following Haeseler, Independent Charles Goston spoke as a candidate for the Florida Senate District 8. His opponents had prior obligations and couldn’t attend, a moderator said. Along with supporting efforts to protect Florida’s natural resources, Goston also supports regulating automatic weapons, he said. Goston also plans to give state workers a raise, ﬁght against Stand Your Ground laws and expand Medicaid. A couple of years ago, Goston lost his daughter to cancer. His family could afford treatment but not everyone can, he said. “People shouldn’t die from lack of coverage,” Goston said. “We’re not all going to die from natural causes, but we should strive for that.” @jesscurbelo jcurbelo@alligator.org

County Commission District 2 candidates

Gregory Caudill Protecting groundwater quality and supply - Encourage volunteer work and community service. Half-cent tax and Children’s Trust - Supports the halfcent tax, not the Children’s Trust Energy conservation - Encourage existing voter efforts in energy conservation, including solar power Transportation - Start working on transportation infrastructure Criminal justice - Look at how people without means are treated and make sure bail isn’t too expensive. Scott Costello Protecting groundwater quality and supply - Work with municipalities and boards to see where local springs can improve Half-cent tax and Children’s Trust -Supports both initiatives Energy conservation - Try to find opportunities to convert waste into energy and make solar power affordable. Transportation - Fixing roads is No. 1 priority Criminal justice- Create more opportunities for jobs and technical training Marihelen Wheeler Protecting groundwater quality and supply - Educate children on the water resources Alachua County has and how to protect them. Half-cent tax and Children’s Trust - Supports both initiatives Energy conservation - Make sure new housing, particularly affordable housing, is sustainable Transportation - Provide transportation for the elderly population and after-school kids Criminal justice - Expand vocational training, starting as early as middle school

Grant allows Gainesville Fire Rescue to expand staﬃng By Aaron Ritter Alligator Contributing Writer

Gainesville Fire Rescue firefighters won’t have to put in overtime anymore. GFR received a $1.9 million grant from the federal government to aid the department’s growth, said Lt. Tracey Higdon, the president of the Gainesville Professional Firefighters union. Awarded to fire departments that require financial assistance to increase personnel, the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Re-

sponse grant will help GFR add 17 new firefighters to its team as early as February, Higdon said. GFR has been hard-pressed to respond to the growing number of calls in its jurisdiction, especially in the rapidly expanding southwest part of town, Higdon said. The addition of new staff will eliminate the need for overtime and make an additional unit in the southwest possible. “We feel like we should give that coverage and not rely on bringing in other agencies to help us,” Higdon said. “This will help us be more self -sufficient.”

The grant will also help to bolster existing units. The National Fire Protection Agency recommends engine units contain four people. Due to staffing restraints, GFR staffs some of its engines with three people, Higdon said. “It’s not just about how many firetrucks you can put on a scene,” Higdon said. “If you have one person on 10 different firetrucks you only get 10 different people on a scene. If you have four people on 10 different fire trucks, you get 40 people on a scene.” David Arreola, a city commissioner for the district containing the

southwest area west of 34th Street and south of Archer Road, said he’s aware of the growing demand for emergency personnel. The grant, however, will help change that. “There has been a lag in terms of proper equipment, proper stafﬁng and an engine from the city,” Arreola said. “This has been the perfect opportunity.” Although the grant will only directly fund new staff, it will stimulate opportunities to purchase needed equipment, like a new quint engine, which is a truck with a ladder, for the southwest region of Gainesville, Arreola said

The grant will not only equip GFR with the resources it needs to succeed now, but it will give the city the ﬁnancial freedom it needs to get set for the future, Arreola said. “Now, we’re not kicking the can down the road anymore, we’re getting it done,” Arreola said. The increase in personnel will do nothing but beneﬁt the community, said Lt. Joe Walker, a 32-year-old county resident. This is especially true when it comes to increased coverage and better service. “It’s going to make the entire city safer as a whole,” Walker said.

Former UF faculty ﬁles lawsuit against UF for sexual harassment HE’S CLAIMING DAMAGES IN EXCESS OF $15,000 UF CONCLUDED THERE WAS NO SEXUAL HARASSMENT. By McKenna Beery Alligator Staff Writer

A former UF chief of the forensic psychiatry division ﬁled a lawsuit against the UF Board of Trustees alleging retaliation after reporting sexual harassment from one of his bosses. Joel Silberberg and his attorney Marie Mattox ﬁled the lawsuit on Aug. 24. The lawsuit claims Silberberg was sexually harassed by

Marika Brigham, the chief financial officer and an administrator for UF’s Department of Psychiatry. Court records say Silberberg was retaliated against after reporting it. Brigham “took an immediate dislike” to Silberberg and didn’t offer him privileges other faculty had, according to srecords. When he tried to discuss this with Brigham, she engaged in “physical touching that was both hostile and unwelcome,” which included pinching Silberberg’s butt once, according to the complaint. Silberberg notified Regina Bussing, the chair of the psychiatry department, on Jan. 20, 2017 about two incidents of sexual harassment involving Brigham. Silberberg filed a formal

complaint of sexual harassment on Aug. 28, 2017, according to court records. UF investigated and concluded there was no sexual harassment, according to the complaint. Brigham could not be reached for comment. After Silberberg ﬁled the report, Bussing retaliated against Silberberg by ostracizing, marginalizing and denying him opportunities, according to the complaint. Silberberg was sent a notice of non-reappointment on June 28, 2017. After this, he was excluded from “all clinical, teaching and administrative duties” and ordered to work remotely, according to the complaint. Mattox said Silberberg hasn’t been able to

ﬁnd comparable alternative employment and is hoping a jury will award him suitable compensation. “He was devastated by his termination,” she said. He has suffered wage losses, emotional distress and harm to his reputation, according to the complaint. Silberberg is claiming more than $15,000 of damages. Steve Orlando, a UF spokesperson, said UF denies Silberberg’s claims in the lawsuit and will vigorously defend against them. UF did not offer further comment because the litigation is pending.

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· CRIME ROUNDUP · All Stories By Amanda Rosa | Alligator Staff Writer

Sorry! Man apologizes to oﬃcer after almost running him over

Davis

Larry Lee Davis Jr. was a little late to have good manners. The 38-year-old Gainesville resident apologized to a police ofﬁcer after he almost ran him over with a car early Saturday morning, according to an arrest report. An ofﬁcer stopped Davis on Southwest First Street near Southwest First Avenue for not wearing a seatbelt. Da-

vis told the officer his license was suspended, and police noticed pieces of marijuana on his leg, the report said. While the officer was leaning in the car window, Davis accelerated and knocked the officer over, who had to move away to avoid getting hit, according to the report. Police chased after Davis in a patrol car with the sirens on, but he contin-

ued to drive and refused to pull over for a mile, the report said. Davis got out of his car and ran away, but police caught up to him on the 1400 block of Southeast Fourth Street, police said. Police searched Davis’ car and found four baggies of cocaine on the ﬂoor. After he was arrested, Davis apologized for almost running the ofﬁcer

over, the report said. Davis is charged with aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, possessing cocaine, resisting an officer without violence, fleeing from an officer and driving without a valid license. He is held in the Alachua County Jail in lieu of a $35,000 bond. @AmandaNicRosa arosa@alligator.org

ACSO: Two men arrested after GPD: Man pulls out blade and uses slur at Grace Marketplace Big Daddy Guns burglary Two of the three men suspected of breaking into a gun store and stealing 13 guns early Thursday morning were arrested, deputies said. Devito Alonzo Deshay Early, 19, of St. Augus- Davis tine, and Jaharold Davonta Davis, 21, of Gainesville, were arrested Friday for burglarizing Big Daddy Guns, at 602 NW 75th St., according to Alachua County Sheriff’s Ofﬁce arrest reports. The investigation is ongoing, deputies said. The third man’s full name is unavailable in the arrest reports. Security camera footage caught three men, including Early and Davis, covering their faces and breaking into the store around 3 a.m. Thursday, the report said.

The men cut two locks and smashed the glass front door to get inside, deputies said. They smashed two display cases and stole 13 handguns. Deputies went to DaEarly vis’ home on the 6900 block of Southwest Sixth Place, where they found three more guns and burglary tools. Early is charged with grand theft of ﬁrearms and burglary. Davis is charged with grand theft of ﬁrearms, burglary and possessing weapons as a felon. Early and Davis are being held in the Alachua County Jail in lieu of $280,000 and $530,000, respectively. @AmandaNicRosa arosa@alligator.org

A man caused a stir at Grace Marketplace after he pulled a pocket knife on someone Friday afternoon, Gainesville Police said. Robert Howard Davis III, 74, of Gainesville, was accused of threatening a man with a blade during an argument, according to an arrest report. Davis The man told police Davis pulled pocket knife from his right front pocket and opened the blade. He pointed the knife at him and said, “I am going to cut you, n----.” The man grabbed a broom to protect himself and told police Davis had pulled a knife on him in the past, the

report said. The man feared for his life. Davis told police he pulled out the knife because he thought the man was threatening him and admitted he was going to kill him, the report said. Multiple people told police they saw Davis threaten the man with the knife, police said. After Davis was read his Miranda rights, he told police he had the knife to kill snakes, but pulled it out Friday afternoon because he felt threatened. Davis is charged with aggravated assault and is being held in the Alachua County Jail in lieu of a $20,000 bond. @AmandaNicRosa arosa@alligator.org

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The art of the five-minute vote

our voting power is like a sledgehammer. It’s a powerful tool for building, demolishing and shaping things, like the government. But when thrown around carelessly and without a second thought, it can cause permanent damage. Elections are in November, so we’re giving you advance notice on how to conduct your own makedo investigations in lieu of the detailed research you should be doing on the candidates. We’re still a month out, so you have plenty of time. We urge you to take the ﬁve or 10 minutes you need to Google the candidate you’re going to vote for. Take a critical look at their policies. Don’t let your gut lead you astray. Even if you only cram in a few Google searches, always vote with your head. Think of it like you do when you rush to complete a last-minute assignment. It might go something like this: You are assigned the task and procrastinate heavily. You ﬁnd yourself up at 3 a.m. Monday morning chugging coffee, rigorously Googling before a 9 a.m. due date. You use Sparknotes, Chegg or your crutch of choice to get a basic sense of the assignment. With your back against the wall, you manage to eke it out on time. You get a B+. You feel a profound sense of pride and wipe the sweat from your brow. Repeat until graduation. Can you take this same model and apply it to voting? Can you cast your ballot like you submit assignments at 11:58 p.m., seconds from failure? Yes. It’s not ideal, and you should be giving yourself more time to look at the issues, but it works. It can be done. As long as you show up to the polls with a few minutes worth of research, you can make a meaningful difference. Sites like Ballotpedia.org are the Sparknotes of voting. Use them. They can give you a decent picture of the candidates and their positions on issues like the environment or education funding. A quick look at the Ballotpedia page for either Andrew Gillum or Ron DeSantis, who are candidates in the 2018 Florida gubernatorial race, will give you their brief biography, their political history and a synopsis of their platforms. As long as you are literate and have a spare 10 minutes, you can be an informed voter. The candidates are relying on you to not do your homework. In the last Student Government elections, we cannot know how many students voted with nothing but someone else’s recommendation to go off of. We also cannot know whether the elections would have turned out differently had students researched the parties and their platforms. But we do know that a lot of students simply picked the party they heard was best and bubbled straight down along party lines. The same goes for presidential elections. We have a bright orange president to show for it. If all you have to base your choice on is a trustworthy friend’s recommendation, try this next time you need to drive: Get your best friend to sit in the passenger seat, blindfold yourself and ask them for directions. It doesn’t seem like a good idea because it isn’t. You don’t need to be a Formula One driver to know that you can’t drive without seeing. You can’t pass without studying. You can’t vote without researching. We’d like to remind you that you don’t need 20/20 vision. You don’t need to interview the candidates. You just need enough to get by, even if its rushed and done on a cracked iPhone in line at the polling place. The worst thing you can do is forfeit your right to vote because you don’t feel informed. The only thing worse than a wrong vote is not to vote at all. Meryl Kornfield EDITOR

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Don’t let your idle time be wasted time

waiting, whether for a bus, graduation or a job, One of the most challenging aspects of colis good, or at least better than we tend to think. lege life is time management. It may well be the When we are waiting for something, our toughest subject to learn. Responsibilities and thoughts are fixed on that which we wait for, but opportunities and academics bombard us from hardly ever on whether we are ready to receive all sides, ravaging our time as if it were a flimsy it. We say we’re unhappy because we’ve been bomb shelter. And this fact, that college life is forced to wait longer than we expected for the stressful, is so well-known that stating it is flirting with cliché. Scott Stinson thing we want most. But as Blaise Pascal once Yet, I still think it is worth stating: College opinions@alligator.org said, “Since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be is stressful. And it is stressful because being a so.” In other words, if you’re miserable in the student is hardly enough. We are told from the beginning that a committed student is not the ideal student. waiting room, you’ll be miserable when your name is fiDo not focus exclusively on your studies, we are told, but nally called. It’s not the waiting that’s the problem. Waiting, then, is a necessity. If we allow them to, interget involved, get internships, do research, lead a club, go to sporting events, etc. Employers want interesting, involved ludes prepare us to receive the main event with gratitude. and busy people, not students who took naps on the Plaza. We develop character, we mature, while we wait. This is I mostly agree with these sentiments. College is more not difficult to conceive. Boxers wait months before they than studying. But the trade-off to being involved is hav- fight so they can train and prepare. Teenagers must wait to ing smaller margins in our schedule: less time for study- drive. We all must wait four years to graduate. Employees ing, pleasure reading, hiking, friends and countless more. wait to be hired. Parents wait to have children. In a few words, there is no such thing as useless time. If student life is a garden, our time is the soil in which our college experience grows. The more seeds you plant, the Waiting at the bus stop or for class to start are important times, and we must treat them as such. less nutrients there are to go around. What does this look like? It looks like the end of the Naturally, how we focus our time is essential to how we experience college, which is to say that our time is sacred. mindless scroll, for starters, or the mindless binge. Making I’m not sure, though, if many of us see our schedules in this the most of our time is a cultural cliché, but there is someway. Indeed, sizeable chunks of our day we see as intrinsi- thing to living an active, engaged life rather than a passive one dedicated to passing large chunks of time away. cally useless, hence the phrase “killing time.” Sure, it’s a challenge to use our time wisely, but a good Ten minutes at the bus stop, 20 minutes before class, an hour before our friend comes over — our default tendency start, I think, is to reframe our perspective of our schedule, is to preoccupy ourselves until these interludes pass and the so that no time is intrinsically useless. What would you do main event begins. And this preoccupation almost always if you thought those minutes at the bus stop were importakes the form of a head slightly bent, staring at a phone, tant? Or those few hours before class? Change only happens when a person wants it to. So let’s texting or scrolling or checking email. It is a fallacious assumption that interludes — periods of keep asking ourselves these questions. It’s a good start. waiting for another part of our day to begin — are useless. Scott Stinson is a UF English senior. His column appears For life consists in waiting. That fact does not need much establishing. What does need establishing, however, is that on Mondays.

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don’t know Brett Kavanaugh. I’ve met several men who ﬁt the description Kavanaugh’s college roommate and accusers have given, but I don’t know Kavanaugh, and I won’t pretend to know what the content of his character is. But I do know Christine Blasey Ford. Because I am Ford. And you are, too. One in ﬁve women are assaulted in college, one in 13 men. So, if we do a little math, about 3,500 undergraduate women and 1,200 undergraduate men at UF are survivors of

sexual violence. The majority of these assaults will never be reported. The vast majority of campus sexual assault victims, a decent portion of the student population, will carry this with them the way Ford carried it with her. For the rest of their lives, they will feel anxious and struggle to cope with the trauma. Maybe, like Ford, three decades from now they will be able to open up to a therapist. Maybe, like Ford, they are white

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and afﬂuent. Maybe they’ll have access to counseling and support after the assault. But maybe not. And whether or not they report, they exist. They walk among us like ghosts. Unless we drastically change our campus culture in the immediate future, they will never report. On Wednesday, the Inspire Party lost an election running on a platform that took steps to address campus rape culture by introducing an online platform to encourage reporting. Inspire even had a plan to

give UF assault survivors what Ford wasn’t given, anonymity and protection. Hundreds of Fords are walking around every day. They’re studying at Library West. They’re walking through the Reitz Union. They’re sitting next to you in class. We must protect them. The RAINN 24/7 Sexual Assault Hotline is 800-656-HOPE (4673). Savannah Gribbins is a ﬁrst-year student at UF Levin College of Law.

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Spotty RTS service doesn’t Drinking and sexual assault go hand in hand do a busy Gainesville justice

for everyone. here’s a lot to love about the For such a comRegional Tranprehensive system, sit System here these gaps in service in Gainesville: are glaring. While There are 40 daytime some reduction in bus routes, nine of service is underJason which cover only UF’s standable, and some campus, and five Later Zappulla services would likely Gator night routes. All opinions@alligator.org be too underused to of them are free (or be worthwhile (such at least covered by fees) with as Later Gator services Monday a Gator 1 Card. In many ways, through Wednesday), RTS has it’s a convenient system for get- been too extreme in its service ting to campus, Midtown or any reductions. During the day and other place in Gainesville you at night, the weekends can be might want to go. As long as you busy times both for students go there during the daytime on a and other Gainesville residents, weekday. but the service schedule of RTS Just looking at RTS’ Trans- would make you think this uniLoc Rider app on my phone, the versity of more than 50,000 difference between weekday students and a city of 130,000 and weekend service is stag- grind to a halt on weekends. In gering. As mentioned before, fact, Gainesville can be quite RTS has 40 daytime routes, active on weekends, with parand on most days, almost all ties and events all over the of those routes will be running area. The bus service should and taking people from point reflect that. A to point B. Now, looking at So how can RTS improve my phone on a Saturday after- its service and minimize such noon, just 17 are running. For gaps? There are things that those of you who are math- would be good first steps. The ematically inclined, that means most obvious would be to make only a little more than a third all five Later Gator routes run of RTS’ daytime bus routes run on Friday evenings. Fridays are on weekends. Check back a as much a night to party and go day later, and RTS is down to out on the town as Saturdays 15 bus routes. The situation is are, so the fact that Later Gator even worse when you count isn’t running its full service on Later Gator routes. RTS has Friday night is baffling. RTS can five Later Gator routes, orga- also operate at least one or two nized A through F. While Later Later Gator routes on Sundays, Gator routes are an asset in so students who unwisely chose many ways, they can be limited to party late into the night can at times. While the routes are easily and safely get home and inclusive and go to most of the recover for classes the next day. places students want to go, two And as for a daytime service on of the routes only run on Satur- weekends, a full fleet of buses days, and none run on Sunday. running on Saturdays and SunStudents who party (and some- days would be unreasonable, times drink, unfortunately) Fri- but it would be reasonable to day nights face limited options continue running a few of the to get back home, and students most popular weekday-only who go out on Sundays face routes through the weekend. even fewer options. While some For the Gainesville area, adding may play it safe in the face of days to a handful of RTS routes this conundrum and take an would make a huge difference. Uber or use a designated driver, others may not do so and inJason Zappulla is a UF hisstead drive themselves, leading tory junior. His column appears to more drunk drivers on the on Mondays. road and a higher accident risk

once. My roommate, who did not he nation has been glued to partake in the alcoholic activities, the news all week as Chrisfinally left her sorority. Greek life is tine Blasey Ford and Sua major cause of most on campus preme Court nominee Brett alcohol-related issues, but again, Kavanaugh testify about that is a whole different story. sexual assault allegations that have How can we address this issue recently come to light. I’m not here and change the attitudes surroundto get political, so don’t worry. I do Hannah ing drinking culture on campuses? that enough already. I’m actually Whitaker opinions@alligator.org Begin by banning fraternities and here because I have had a comsororities that do not adhere to the pletely different takeaway. I noticed one common theme in grade, which is, by the way, one of codes and bylaws regarding drinkeach allegation of Kavanaugh: Alco- the first signs of alcoholism. Twit- ing. Not suspending. Banning. It hol was involved each time. He was ter accounts, such as Young Alco- has been shown time and time always drunk when he was alleged holics, which both condone and again that suspension has no effect to have done these horrendous encourage underage drinking, have on the actions of these groups. Disacts, which in no way makes them amassed thousands of followers. It banding the organizations that do excusable. Three of the accolades seems as though students do not not comply at least prevents them on his yearbook page referenced al- realize that there isn’t an age limit from congregating in such large cohol: “Keg City Club (Treasurer),” for alcoholism. Alcoholism is often numbers. Enforce the rules con“100 Kegs or Bust” and “Beach acquired during college, and it isn’t cerning hazing more strictly. Stop normalizing underage drinking. Week Ralph Club.” He could not something to be taken lightly. Greek life is especially notori- Indulge in activities that do not inhave been more than 18 years old at the time of that yearbook’s pub- ous for its alcohol problem. In fact, volve getting drunk. My friends and I prefer to spend lication, which our weekends shows how ear“It seems as though students do not realize that there isn't an going to local ly drinking can age limit for alcoholism. Alcoholism is often acquired during concerts, which start. The fact college, and it isn't something to be taken lightly.” do not require that KavanaHannah Whitaker drinking in orugh’s drunken der to have a youth is wreakdecent time. UF ing havoc on these organizations cultivate an also has plenty of on campus activihis professional career prospects environment of drinking, allowing ties to get involved with. should be a wake-up call for high members of all ages to participate Don’t drink away your youth. school and college-aged youths toand ostracize those who do not. Only poor judgment occurs when day. In 2017, fraternities at both Louiunder the influence. Judgment terThese current events have comsiana State University and Florida rible enough that it causes someone pelled me to finally address someState University were suspended to destroy the life of a young woman thing that has bothered me since I after the alcohol-caused death of with a bright future. Hopefully, the started high school over five years two students. Already this year, UF tragedy of what happened to Ford ago: There is a severe drinking suspended Delta Chi Fraternity for some thirty years ago can influence problem among high school and the near-fatal hazing incident of a the culture of today’s youth. With college students nationwide. Alcopledge. After rushing last year, my time, the stigma around drinking hol is a household staple in dormiroommate would tell me stories of culture can be changed, but it starts tories across campus. Greek life not the rampant drinking that occurred with us. only accepts but promotes drinking. in her sorority. Date functions were Game days are just excuses for sturuined because too many girls got Hannah Whitaker is a UF Engdents to get wasted on free booze. sick with alcohol poisoning. The lish sophomore. Her column apClubbing is a 24/7 occurrence. Stusorority was given warnings and pears on Mondays. dents “drink to cope” after a bad even put on probation more than

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City Commission to consider pursuing 100 percent renewable energy resolution

Currently, about 30 percent of Gainesville’s energy is renewable. By Jessica Curbelo Alligator Staff Writer

Shelbie Eakins / Alligator Staff

99 bottles of beer on the wall Ashley Rosser, a 21-year-old UF advertising senior, serves beer from Swamp Head Brewery at the second-annual Oktoberfest held at Audi Gainesville Saturday. Rosser was one of several members of Delta Nu Zeta who volunteered at the event with the Ronald McDonald House. All proceeds from the event were donated to Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Gainesville is only one resolution away from joining 84 other cities — and two states — in committing to 100 percent renewable energy. The discussion began in last Thursday’s City Commission General Policy Committee meeting and will continue Thursday, City Commissioner Adrian Hayes-Santos said. Once the city passes a resolution declaring its commitment, it will begin creating a plan to switch to renewable energy. “It’s important to take it to a local level because we’re not seeing it at a state or federal level,” Hayes-Santos said. Currently, about 30 percent of the energy Gainesville uses is renewable. The number can rise to 48 percent depending on factors such as the time of day and even the season, Hayes-Santos said. Roberta Gastmeyer, the Ready for 100 campaign coordinator, believes Gainesville still has a long way to go. The Ready for 100 campaign encourages cities to commit to 100 percent renewable energy, Gastmeyer said. The initiative focuses on two major areas in the city: transportation and energy. The goal is to have all municipal vehicles run on electric energy by 2035, Gastmeyer said. By 2045, she hopes the energy Gainesville Regional Utilities supplies to homes and businesses will also be entirely renewable energy. “This is the future,” Gastmeyer said. “This is good and healthy for the commu-

nity.” Although she believes the city is moving quickly toward electric vehicles, Gastmeyer said it should provide incentives to business owners and homes to encourage the use of solar panels. City Commissioner David Arreola is also hoping to see more of a focus on solar energy. Right now, GRU draws from several energy sources, including two coal factories, natural gas turbines and a biomass plant, Arreola said. The hope is to phase out aging coal facilities and transition to natural gas until the city can focus on renewable energy, he said. Due to Gainesville’s location and environment, solar energy is one of the most viable options, Arreola said. Batteries would be necessary to store solar energy, but the technology is currently too expensive and can’t store the energy well enough to use when the sun isn’t out, Arreola said. “It all hinges on battery technology,” he said. “We can’t rely on solar energy at night or on a rainy day.” Fiona Hogan, a second-year UF sustainable development practices master’s student, said she is excited about the possible resolution. The impact of switching to renewable energy would improve the environment and general health because of cleaner water and better air quality, said Hogan. “There’s nothing that wouldn’t improve,” she said. @jesscurbelo jcurbelo@alligator.org

UF Health awarded $200,000 grant for pediatric cancer research THE MONEY WOULD BE USED TO FIND A NEW TREATMENT FOR LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA. By Jordyn Kalman Alligator Contributing Writer

Finding a cure for cancer was not always the goal for Dr. Paul Castillo. But that changed when he became a pediatric oncologist at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital, focused on the recovery of the immune system after conducting bone marrow transplants at Texas Children’s Hospital at Baylor College of Medicine. To find a cure for childhood cancer, Castillo received a twoyear, $200,000 grant from the Hyundai Hope on Wheels Foundation. The money will be used to find a new method of treatment

for leukemia and lymphoma that would reduce the damage on a patient’s immune system, Castillo said. “I am extremely happy to have received this grant and very excited to help,” Castillo said. In Castillo’s previous research, patients with leukemia would get infected with a lethal fungus after bone marrow treatments because the cancer treatments would wipe out the T-cells, he said. While looking for a solution, Castillo came across a group of doctors studying cellular therapy on T-cells, a type of white blood cell that defends the body against foreign substances, and realized he could apply that data to fight leukemia. “I never thought I would be so passionate about this type of research,” Castillo said. “It clicked after a couple months of being in a lab with my great mentors. Everything was in the right place at the

right time for me.” Castillo said he would use the grant to apply cellular therapy to train T-cells in the body to target only cancerous cells, leaving patients with a much higher chance of survival. The funds will go toward buying the equipment and infrastructure needed to conduct the T-cell experiments on mice, Castillo said. Isabella Ramirez, a 21-year-old University of South Florida prenursing junior, was diagnosed with stage 3 lymphoma when she was 17. She became a patient of Castillo’s after she relapsed and needed a bone marrow transplant. “I feel proud to have been one of his first bone marrow transplant patients here at Shands Hospital,” Ramirez said. While going through her treatment, Ramirez said Castillo made her feel like his only patient by always checking in on her and cheering her up.

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UF Health Shands Hospital staff and pediatric cancer survivors join Dr. Paul Castillo Sept. 18 at the Hyundai Hope on Wheels Handprint Ceremony, where he received a $200,000 grant. “It is very comforting to me knowing that he is getting this grant, so his research can grow and get closer to finding better

treatments, so future kids won’t have to go through what I did,” Ramirez said.

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HSA hosts Hispanic Heritage 5K and field day MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE CAME TO SUNDAY’S EVENT ON FLAVET FIELD. By Gillian Sweeney Alligator Staff Writer

Students dashed, danced and scored on Flavet Field to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. UF’s Hispanic Student Association put on a 5K and field day Sunday morning as part of the monthlong cultural celebration, said Kendra Blandon, the Hispanic Heritage Month coordinator. The field day included activities such as a Zumba exercise, soccer tournament and bean bag toss. The annual heritage celebration began at UF in 1996 as a week-long event, Blandon, a 20-year-old UF religion and international studies senior said. The festivities now last a month, spanning from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. The event attracted more than 100 participants and was funded by a variety of sponsors, including $3,800 from Student Government, Blandon said. Participants donated more than $1,000 for UF Chispas, a UF student organization that aims to address the needs of immigrants, Blandon said. “Since it’s so early in the school year and it’s a lot of Latinx Gators’ first introduction to the UF com-

munity and to the other Hispanic Gators,” Blandon said, “we want them to feel that this is a place where they can always come to make new friends and meet new people.” The run provided an opportunity for Carmen Florez, a 20-year-old UF psychology senior, to work out with three of her friends. The four of them made a “walking squad” and strolled through the course together. The course was different than a typical 5K because participants faced fun obstacles while they ran, such as an inflatable climbing wall, Florez said. Florez said she’s attended all of the Hispanic Heritage Month activities that Hispanic Student Association has put on in the past few weeks, including an art show and pageant, she said. “I just wanted to support the Hispanic Heritage Month team,” Florez said. Events like this are about celebrating culture, said Shiselle Povedano, a field day coordinator and a20-year-old UF economics and public relations senior. “It’s about getting all of us together, sweating together, laughing together, bonding together through the struggle of running five kilometers,” Povedano said.

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Participants face off in a soccer tournament celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month Sunday morning. The field day activities followed a 5K race that raised money for UF Chispas.

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‘4 Hungry College Boys’: UF student publishes cookbook The book was released Sept. 13. By Adrianna Santiago Alligator Contributing Writer

Not every college student survives on a diet of microwave ramen and saltine crackers, and one UF student published a cookbook to prove it. Jason Wysocki, a UF business administration junior, created a cookbook titled “4 Hungry College Boys: 101 Recipes for When Mom Stops Cooking,” to break the stereotype that college students can’t cook, he said. The 20-year-old compiled 101 recipes from ones he found online then tweaked himself and divided them into six sections: pork, poultry, pasta, beef, dessert and other. The book released on Amazon Sept. 13 and has since sold more than 20 copies. “Everybody thinks that you go to college and eat ramen every night, or you don’t eat at all,” Wysocki said. “I think this deﬁnitely defeats that stereotype.” The cookbook has been in the works for about a year, after Wysocki made a deal with his roommates, he said. At the start of his sophomore year,

Wysocki agreed to do the cooking in the apartment if his roommates did the cleaning. After a few of Wysocki’s meals, his roommates suggested he craft a cookbook. Jonathan Newman, a 20-year-old UF finance junior and Wysocki’s roommate, knew the moment he tasted Wysocki’s food that it should be shared with other people. “My mom is a great cook and all, but for a 20-year-old kid to make meals that are as good as my mom’s, that’s something special,” Newman said. Of his recipes, Wysocki said his favorite is the South-of-the-border burger, which is topped with caramelized onions, mangos and chipotle ranch. Wysocki picked up most of his cooking skills from his mom, he said. Growing up, she taught him about flavor profiles and showed him how to appreciate a homecooked meal. “It’s like a work of art,” he said. “You’ve got to work on it and work on it and then at the end of the day you get to reap the benefits.”

“South of The Border” Burger

Ingredients: 1 medium onion, sliced into thin strips 1 tablespoon butter 4 ¼ lb. beef patties ⅛ teaspoon cayenne ¼ teaspoon chili powder

¼ teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon canola oil 4 slices pepper jack cheese 4 sandwich potato rolls Sliced jalapeños 1 beefsteak tomato, cut into ¼-inch slices 1 head of romaine, chopped into sandwich size pieces Chipotle ranch dressing

Directions: Place a pan on a burner at slightly less than medium heat and add onions and butter. Stir onions to coat in butter. Cook for 18 to 22 minutes or until onions are caramelized, stirring occasionally, then set aside. Season both sides of all patties with cayenne, chili powder, garlic powder, pepper and salt. In the same pan used for the onions, add one tablespoon canola and turn the burner

to medium-high. When the oil begins to sizzle or ripple, place the patties in the pan. Cook for four minutes per side, putting the pepper jack cheese on top in the last 30 seconds. Let burgers rest for two to three minutes. Dress burger by putting onions on the bottom bun, burger, a generous number of jalapeños, tomato, and lettuce on top. Spread chipotle ranch dressing on top bun, close burger and enjoy.

Serves 4 Hungry College Boys Prep Time: ~10 min Total Time: 45 min

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Florida safety Donovan Stiner (13) sacked Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald at the end of the game, forcing a turnover on downs and sealing the win for the Gators.

FOOTBALL, from pg. 1 It will need a repeat performance when it faces No. 5 LSU on Saturday. Mullen said his team played hard

against Mississippi State and grinded for the win. He compared it to the Kentucky loss on Sept. 8, with the only difference being UF executing its big plays against the Bulldogs. “We came out and played hard tonight

and were better this week than we were last week,” Mullen said. “If we want to continue, if we continue to do that, we’ll have the opportunity to win another game next week.” The Gators’ tenacious play showed a lot

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more in the second half, but they were outplayed by MSU in the first half. The Bulldogs ran for 94 yards in the first two quarters behind Fitzgerald and running backs Kylin Hill and Aeris Williams. But a major stat was that Mississippi State converted on just one-of-five third downs in the first half, and the Gators held MSU to just six points. That was all of the points they allowed. The Bulldogs failed to score in the second half and had four three-and-outs in their final seven drives. Defensive end Jabari Zuniga said the win was a testament to how much work the defense has put into improving. “It motivated us,” he said. “That following Monday when we went to practice we got after it. We had a lot of physical periods, team run, we had some one-on-one periods, so we just got after it.” The defense is improving but still isn’t at the level Mullen wants it to be. Florida’s defense might have to play even more physical next week with a matchup against a top-five opponent in LSU on Saturday. The win in Starkville was just a foundation for the Florida defense. How it responds in practice this week will determine how it will play against the Tigers. “I think our guys are really starting to buy into, ‘We need to prepare the right way,’” Mullen said. “And if we do that, your performance is going to start to improve.” @DreilingerJake jdreilinger@alligator.org

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Gators sweep Alabama in Tuscaloosa At what point do we start giving Feleipe Franks credit By Dylan Rudolph Sports Writer

Freshman Thayer Hall and junior Rachael Kramer jumped up simultaneously in the final rally of the match, rejecting yet another Alabama strike. Florida’s front row held firm from the continuous attacks from the Crimson Tide, who were trying to win its first set over Florida since 2008. The attacks kept coming and coming, the hitters kept pounding and pounding, but they could not find a hole through the wall in front of the net. Hall and Kramer jumped up one more time to ferociously block the ball back down and win the final point of the match. That defense was vital as the Gators swept their opponent for the fourth-consecutive time on Sunday when they beat Alabama in three sets (25-20, 25-20, 26-24) in Tusca-

loosa to complete their short, twomatch road trip. They’ll return to the O’Connell Center on Friday to take on Texas A&M. Florida (13-3, 4-0 SEC) held Alabama to just a .137 hitting percentage thanks to the 40 digs and 11 blocks by the defense in the three sets. Kramer led the team with six total blocks while senior middle blocker Taelor Kellum bolstered the front-row defense with four blocks of her own. Junior libero Allie Gregory shored up the back row with her 12 digs. “This was a great win against an Alabama team that played really well, especially in their pursuit of balls in the back row,” coach Mary Wise said in a release. Florida’s offense, however, struggled to get past the stout defense of Alabama (13-4, 1-3 SEC)

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that entered the match ranked first in the SEC in digs per set (15.37) and second in blocks per set (2.53). The Gators were held to a measly .217 hitting percentage and made 17 attack errors along with 10 service errors. Florida struggled with getting past the Crimson Tide’s back-row defense, which seemed impenetrable thanks to sophomore libero Kaylee Thomas. She racked up 17 digs and received 11 serves with only one error. Alabama’s defense was exposed in the front row, however, when Kramer and Kellum began to dominate the middle offensively. The duo combined for 22 kills on .512 hitting percentage. “Our pins were struggling a little bit, so they wanted more production to come from the middles,” Kellum said. “We were getting

SEE VOLLEYBALL, PAGE 16

Now seems as And he needed just one game to good a time as any to prove those sentisay it: I told you so. ments true. For all the earlyseason skepticism Franks strung tosurrounding Dan gether the best performance of his colMullen’s decision lege career Saturday to start quarterback Alanis Thames twitter: @lanisthames night in the Gators’ Feleipe Franks over Kyle Trask and for 13-6 win against Misall the overreaction sissippi State. He hadn’t been much to rave disguised as “fair criticism” that was thrown in Franks’ direction about so far this season, even after Florida’s Week 2 loss to though he entered the contest with a 6:1 touchdown-to-interKentucky. I told you so. ception ratio. I told you it would take time Franks performance in for Franks to fully acclimate him- Starkville wasn’t so much about self with Mullen’s system. I told the numbers, though, despite it you to give it some time before being a solid outing on the stat judging whether he’s improved sheet (22 for 31, 219 yards). from last year.

Gators ranked in latest AP Poll The Florida football team opens Week 6 ranked No. 22 in the latest Associated Press Poll. It’s the first time since Week 2 that UF has been ranked. The Gators were No. 25 before losing to Kentucky on Sept. 8.

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Opening days for fall tournaments have been a mixed bag for the Gators. A miserable first day at the Carpet Capital Collegiate set the tone for a disappointing 13th-place finish. John Axelsen’s 64 on the opening round at last week’s Trinity Forest Invitational sparked a fourth-place finish for both Axelsen and the Gators. So it’s only fitting that the Gators’ opening round at the Nike Collegiate Invitational in Dallas was somewhere between those two extremes. They sit in a tie with USC for seventh out of 15 teams in the field after scoring a 286 (+6) as a team, five strokes behind leader Vanderbilt, and placed four of their five golfers in the top 30. The problem, however, is that the highest of those four are sophomores Axelsen (+1) and Manny Girona (+1), who tied for 19th place. Freshmen Aden Ye (+2) and Eugene Hong (+2) were right behind them, but mistakes from senior Gordon Neale (+10) cost the Gators on Sunday. Neale’s round started off innocently enough, scoring a bogey and a birdie to go along with four pars across his first six holes, but he his day first derailed with a triple bogey on his seventh hole. The senior’s last 11 holes featured a birdie, two bogeys, a double bogey and another triple bogey to give him 72nd place. Having four golfers in the top 30 is a good sign for the Gators, but they are going to need at least one golfer to stand out individually. All six teams ahead of UF on the leaderboard have at least one golfer in

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Sophomore John Axelsen finished Day 1 of the Nike Collegiate Invitational at 1-over par, good for a share of 19th. the top 10. The gap between Axelsen and Girona and the top 10 is only one stroke, but it is something to keep an eye on over the next two days. The Gators will need some-

one to emerge from the pack if they are to move up the leaderboard. @Bfarrell727 bfarrell@alligator.org

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Florida struggles in pre-qualifying round By Kyle Wood Sports Writer

The Florida men’s tennis team did not fare well in the pre-qualifying round of the ITA All-American Championships. Sophomore Brian Berdusco and freshmen Greysen Cacciatore and Lukas Greif all competed the round of 256 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this weekend. Berdusco fell in three sets to Finn Reynolds of Ole Miss. After winning the first set 6-2, Berdusco dropped the next

two sets 4-6 and 0-6 and was bounced to the consolation round. Greif lost in two sets to James Trotter of Ohio State 3-6, 2-6 and also headed for the consolation round. Cacciatore was the only Gator to move on to the round of 128 with a victory in three sets over Clement Sarradin of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. After jumping out to a lead in the first set, he dropped the second and then swept the final set to move on. Cacciatore then lost to Josh Sheehy of Abilene Christian

(1-6, 4-6) to cut his time short. Berdusco defeated Akinora Wada of Abilene Christian in three sets (6-1, 3-6, 10-7) in the consolation round. Greif swept Sansidh Kommaraju of UT Arlington in two sets (6-0, 6-4) in his consolation match. Sophomores Duarte Vale and Andy Andrade and senior McClain Kessler will all take the court in the men’s qualifying rounds today. @Kkylewood kwood@alligator.org

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Jarlskog and Kessler fall short of qualifying rounds By Brendan Farrell Sports Writer

McCartney Kessler and Ida Jarlskog needed just one more win to reach the doubles qualifying rounds of the ITA AllAmerican Championships. They had already defeated Texas’ Marta Perez-Mur and Tijana Spasojevic earlier in the day, and were eight games away from escaping the pre-qualifying rounds. The duo, however, came up short against Oklahoma’s Ivana Corley and Jasmine Asghar, 8-6, bringing Jarlskog and

Kessler’s doubles run to an end. The sophomore tandem began the day with an 8-6 win against Perez-Mur and Spasojevic. Jarlskog and Kessler fell behind 2-0 early in the match before bringing the match back to a 4-4 tie. UF’s pair took over in the second half of the match to earn the win and move on to the finals of the prequalifying round, from which only four doubles teams advance to the qualifying rounds. The duo’s second match against Corley and Asghar was a close, back-and-forth affair. Kessler and Jarlskog took an early

3-1 lead, but the teams continued to trade games. They faced elimination with a 7-5 deficit before winning another game. Their run in the tournament ended, however, as they dropped the next game to lose 8-6. Kessler and Jarlskog were the first of two UF doubles teams at the tournament. Victoria Emma and Tsveta Dimitrova had already qualified for the doubles qualifying round. All four are also in the qualifying draw for singles. @Bfarrell727 bfarrell@alligator.org

Feleipe Franks completed a nine-yard screen pass to Kadarius Toney on Florida’s first drive of the third quarter in its low-scoring war of attrition at Mississippi State. This play may not seem significant. It got some yardage back on a Jawaan Taylor holding call that negated a 53-yard reception by Trevon Grimes, and two downs later on 3rd-and-8, Franks threw a pick to end the Gators’ advance. However, it wasn’t until the next possession that Toney’s catch-and-run became a play of much importance and helped lead UF to its 13-6 victory over coach Dan Mullen’s former team. Franks swung a lateral out to the sophomore on first down from the MSU 20 yard line that looked to be of similar scheme, but the Bulldog defense made the mistake of disregarding tight end Moral Stephens and turned its full attention to the former quarterback with the ball — a big mistake. Safety Stephen Adegoke and corner Maurice Smitherman were sucked up by the threat Toney posed and Stephens snuck behind both of the defensive backs to get wide-open in the end zone for an easy catch. It was the redshirt senior tight end’s only reception on the night and the game’s only touchdown, and it was set up by Florida’s ability to get the ball in the hands of its playmakers. “(It was) something we’ve been practicing and something we got coached up on, knowing that they we’re going to bite right there,” Franks said. “I think he did a great job during the moment calling that play to set us up and put us ahead right there.” Toney may have only had one catch on the night, but the screen game was established by Franks making quick throws to Grimes. The sophomore transfer from Ohio State had four catches, three of which went for first downs. Grimes caught the ball in space behind the line of scrimmage each time, and he had wide receivers blocking out in front. He finished the night with 34 yards. Another dynamic of the touchdown strike was the play-action fake to running back Lamical Perine. He was effective on the ground for Florida, and he found his stride on the major scoring drive. The junior from Mobile, Alabama, rushed the ball three times during Florida’s six-play sequence. Two downs before Toney’s pass, he trotted for 22 yards, the longest run of the game for either team. Perine followed the dash with a 16-yard reception, becoming the focal point of the drive and giving Mullen the perfect opportunity to dial-up play action. While Feleipe Franks didn’t have a passing performance that popped off the stat sheet (he completed 22-for-31 passes for 219 yards), the Gators offense produced the game’s biggest plays by getting the ball into their hot hands and allowing their quarterback to manage the game to victory. “I don’t think he ever got conservative,” Mullen said about Franks. “He was... trying to take what they were giving us and stayed aggressive all night long.” @mstinejr mstine@alligator.org

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COLUMN, from pg. 14 It was about what his performance meant. It showed that whatever Mullen and his staff are doing to develop the redshirt sophomore is working. Franks showed poise in one of the most hostile environments in the SEC. And that poise seemed to rub off on his teammates. “Feleipe, he’s very confident,” receiver Kadarius Toney said. “We rely on him and he (relies) on us, so we have faith in him.” No amount of artificial crowd noise in practice could have prepared Franks and this Gators team for the ear-splitting clanging of cowbells at Davis Wade Stadium. But that ultimately didn’t matter on Saturday. Franks remained composed amid the pandemonium. He made some solid reads and good throws down the field. He managed the game pretty well as the crowd’s intensity eventually weakened along with the hopes of the home team walking away with a win over its former coach. Franks still hasn’t proven that he can take a game into his own hands and squeak out a win. He didn’t even throw for a touchdown in Saturday’s victory, due to some trickery by Mullen that left Toney slinging a 20-yard touchdown pass to tight end Moral Stephens. Still, it’s probably time to admit that some of the criticism earlier in the season was premature. Maybe praising him for one (semi) complete performance is a bit premature as well. But you have to take what Florida gives you week to week, and Franks gave Gators fans a little hope that he has what it takes to at least help this team to a winning season. The answer to whether Feleipe Franks is actually a good quarterback still lies in the future. But at least he’s starting to confirm that he really was the best choice as the Gators’ starting quarterback. Alanis Thames is a sports writer. Follow her on Twitter @alanisthames or contact her at athames@ alligator.org.

Gators recorded 10 service aces

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Middle blockers Rachael Kramer (pictured) and Taelor Kellum combined for 22 kills in Florida’s sweep over Alabama.

VOLLEYBALL, from pg. 14 great passes to our setters, and our setters were giving us good sets, so Rachael and I were able to step up.” It was the Gators’ aggressive serving that resulted in 10 service aces, though, that made the dif-

ference. The team produced clutch aces that generated big runs, including two from ﬁfth-year setter Allie Monserez as part of a 7-0 run in the ﬁrst set that would help Florida pull away and win it. This was the second time in the last four matches that UF recorded 10 or more service aces.

The team will seem unbeatable if it can minimize the service errors and keep up that production from behind the line. Follow Dylan Rudolph on Twitter @dyrudolph and contact him at drudolph@alligator.org.

Women’s Tennis: ITA All-American Championship (Main Draw), Paciﬁc Palisades, California Men’s Tennis: ITA All-American Championship (Main Draw), Tulsa, Oklahoma Soccer: Home Match vs. Tennessee, SEC Network 6:30 p.m., Gainesville

FRIDAY

Women’s Tennis: ITA All-American Championship (Main Draw), Paciﬁc Palisades, California Men’s Tennis: ITA All-American Championship (Main Draw), Tulsa, Oklahoma Volleyball: Home Match vs. Texas A&M, SEC Network 7 p.m., Gainesville

SATURDAY

TEAM COMPARISON: UF vs. MSU Final: Florida 13, Mississippi State 6

Offense:

Defense:

Florida’s Stand-out players

UF: Total yards: 357 Rushing yards: 118 Passing yards: 239 First downs: 20

UF: Tackles for loss: 8 Sacks: 6 Passes defended: 3 Takeaways: 0

Kadarius Toney, sophomore, wide receiver: One reception, nine receiving yards; two rushes, 20 rushing yards; 1-for-1 passing, 20 passing yards, one passing touchdown

MSU: Total yards: 202 Rushing yards: 104 Passing yards: 98 First downs: 15

MSU: Tackles for loss: 3 Sacks: 1 Passes defended: 4 Takeaways: 1

Vosean Joseph, junior, linebacker: Seven tackles (three solo), one sack Jachai Polite, junior, defensive end: Three tackles, two sacks, one pass batted down

Women’s Tennis: ITA All-American Championship (Main Draw), Paciﬁc Palisades, California Men’s Tennis: ITA All-American Championship (Main Draw), Tulsa, Oklahoma Football: Home Match vs. LSU, CBS 3:30 p.m., Gainesville

SUNDAY