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Polite, Joseph fuel Gators defense in win against LSU

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Florida defensive back Brad Stewart (right) dives into the end zone following an interception return for a touchdown.

LSU quarterback Joe Burrow (9) hadn’t thrown an interception all season prior to Stewart’s pick-six.

LSU quarterback Joe Burrow didn’t stand a chance against Jachai Polite.

Florida’s defensive lineman blew by right tackle Adrian Magee without any fancy moves. No spins, no rips, just pure speed before Polite stalked Burrow from behind like a lion creeping up on a gazelle.

All it took was three seconds for Polite to catch his prey.

Polite dove for Burrow, slapping the unprotected ball from Burrow’s throwing arm and forcing the LSU quarterback to drop it.

The strip-sack, which was immediately picked up by defensive tackle Kyree Campbell, was a game changer for the Gators. It stopped an LSU drive dead in its tracks and prevented the Tigers from going up by two scores in the first quarter.

Polite was just one major defensive factor that helped Florida take a 27-19 win over LSU on Saturday night.

The other factor: linebacker Vosean Joseph.

The duo combined for four of the Gators’ five sacks on the night, constantly providing pressure to Burrow in the pocket.

“Defensively, I thought we played great all night,” coach Dan Mullen said. “We’re in there, we’re battling.”

Polite finished the game with two sacks, a forced

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Tropical storm Michael UF student detained in Israel set to be deported threatens Florida

By Dana Cassidy Alligator Staff Writer

Florida Gov. Rick Scott issued a state of emergency for 26 counties Sunday night ahead of Tropical Storm Michael, which is expected to become a hurricane.

The storm developed east of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Sunday afternoon, according to a weather update from the National Hurricane Center. The storm is expected to produce heavy rainfall and flash flooding over parts of Cuba and Mexico during the next couple of days.

As of 10 p.m. Sunday, the storm was forecast to become a hurricane either tonight or Tuesday night, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The maximum sustained winds

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are about 60 miles per hour and are expected to strengthen over the week, according to the report.

The National Hurricane Center called Florida’s Gulf Coast vulnerable to a storm surge.

Tony Hurt, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service branch in Tampa Bay, said Gainesville may see some minor effects.

“Keep in mind that the rainfall threats can affect areas that aren’t directly in the storm.” Hurt said. “It can affect areas outside of it as well.”

UF is monitoring the storm but will not be canceling any classes or events, for the time being, UF spokesperson Steve Orlando said.

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SHE APPEALED HER ENTRY TO THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TWICE.

By Dana Cassidy Alligator Staff Writer

After being detained in Israel since Tuesday, UF alumna Lara Alqasem will be deported.

Alqasem’s initial appeal to a judge to be allowed entry into Israel was denied, the Consul General of Israel to Florida Lior Haiat said. Alqasem appealed again and the judge will make a decision today.

Alqasem was held at the airport on her way into the country to study for allegedly participating in nonviolent protests of Israeli companies.

The results of Alqasem’s second appeal were published at 9 a.m. Israeli time, which was 2 a.m. in Gainesville, Haiat said.

She was already heard at the local court and is now appealing to a regional one. The next step would be the national court, however, Haiat said it’s unlikely for someone to be heard by the national court unless the matter is urgent or would result in

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an irreversible decision.

After the hearing with the judge, it’s only a matter of time before Alqasem boards a flight out of Israel, he said.

Two months before Alqasem went to Israel, she applied for a student visa at the Consulate General of Israel in Miami. Although Alqasem got a visa from the Consulate General office, once the Israeli government realized Alqasem was previously involved in an activity that is banned in Israel, the boycott, divest and sanctions movement, they denied her entry, Haiat said. The visa was initially issued because of a letter from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which Haiat said is standard.

Alqasem, 22, was offered a flight back to Miami paid for by the Israeli government after her first appeal was denied, but she refused, Haiat said.

Alqasem graduated from UF in May with bachelor’s degrees in international studies and Arabic and was accepted into a master’s program at the university with a scholarship, said Grace Chun, a 22-year-

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Admission is $8 for adults, $7 for Florida residents and $5.50 for kids and adolescents ages 3 to 17. Florida Museum members and UF students with a valid Gator 1 Card receive free admission. For more information, visit floridamuseum.ufl. edu/exhibits/permian or call 352-846-2000.

Florida Museum to host 13th annual ButterflyFest Saturday Guests can explore the lives of bats, bees, birds and butterflies at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s 13th annual ButterflyFest from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Learn about butterfly gardening, native pollinators, conservation, backyard wildlife and more. Enjoy the ButterflyFest Plant Sale, which is one of the museum’s largest sales of the year with more than 150 species available, from Friday to Sunday.

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Orchid Show Saturday and Sunday The Gainesville Orchid Society is hosting an annual orchid show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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It will feature displays from area societies and state orchid vendors. During the event, vendors will sell plants for the home and landscape as well as supplies for orchids and other plants. It is free and open to the public.

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The collision turned a relaxed Saturday afternoon into chaos at an upstate New York spot popular with tourists taking in the fall foliage. Relatives said the limousine was carrying four sisters and their friends to a birthday celebration for the youngest.

Supreme Court moves right, but how far, how fast?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The moment conservatives have dreamed about for decades has arrived with Brett Kavanaugh joining the Supreme Court. But with it comes the shadow of a bitter confirmation fight that is likely to hang over the court as it takes on divisive issues, especially those dealing with politics and women’s rights.

With Kavanaugh taking the place of the more moderate Anthony Kennedy, conservatives should have a working majority of five justices to restrict abortion rights, limit the use of race in college admissions and rein in federal regulators.

The newly constituted court also might broaden gun rights, further relax campaign finance laws and halt the expansion of the rights of LGBT people, who three years ago won the right to marry nationwide with Kennedy in the majority.

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Athena Organ, an 18-month-old Gainesville resident, has fun doodling with her parents at the Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival. The festival was held Sunday afternoon at Depot Park and was hosted by the Children’s Trust of Alachua County.

Kids play with a giant beach beach ball Sunday afternoon at Depot Park. The Children’s Trust of Alachua County put together the Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival, which featured princesses, beach balls and chalk art.

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RESEARCH ROUNDUP

UF College of Medicine gets $5.1 million to map the human body

By Fotini Sisois Alligator Contributing Writer

UF researchers are using over $5 million to map out the human body to find better solutions and treatments for diseases like cancer.

The nearly four-year grant will be used to create a 3D diagram of the spleen, thymus and lymph nodes, as part of the National Institutes of Health’s Human BioMolecular Atlas Program, said Harry Nick, a UF neuroscience professor and project researcher.

The goal is to create a 3D map of healthy cells for scientists to compare to diseased tissue, Nick said. Scientists will be able to use the comparison to find the problems and solutions.

UF received $5.1 million of the project’s $54 million budget. The money came from a research fund backed by

Dr. Francis Collins, a geneticist and the National Institute of Health director, Nick said.

Mark Atkinson, the project’s leader, spent the last 10 years using the same imaging technique on the pancreas to study diabetes at UF. UF is collaborating with Bernd Bodenmiller, a quantitative biology assistant professor at the University of Zurich. The team will use high-powered microscopes to photograph tissues and stitch them together to form part of the map, Nick said.

The University of California San Diego, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology and Vanderbilt University were also awarded grants to map parts of the body, Nick said.

“We are working amongst a group of prestigious institutions, and I am very excited about this grant,” he said.

Large families could be taking a toll on the health of African Americans RESEARCHERS WORKED WITH 138 AFRICAN AMERICANS IN TALLAHASSEE.

By Julia Mitchem Alligator Contributing Writer

Larger families may be harming the health of African Americans, UF researchers said.

African Americans with larger families who have to provide emotional and financial support have higher blood pressure than any other racial group, said Kia Fuller, a 27-yearold UF doctoral genetics and genomics student.

“The relationship between family members and health is more complex than we originally thought,” Fuller said.

Fuller, who led the study, worked with 138 African Americans in Tallahassee because she was inspired by another UF professor’s work in the area, she said. She worked

with African Americans because they have high rates of hypertension.

“Having more family members results in more stress on the individual because they’re expected to provide emotional support and financial resources, which causes negative health impacts that aren’t balanced out by having family members to support you,” she said.

The study consisted of two interviews and a collection of information including blood pressure, income, stress level and memories of discrimination, she said.

This study may help explain more about racial disparities, said Connie Mulligan, a UF anthropology and UF Genetics Institute professor. Nobody else is looking at how family affects health, she said.

“I don’t think people are looking in the right places to understand racial disparities in health,” she said. “We are looking for a reason to explain issues in the non-majority population.”

People aren’t clicking on online recommendations as much as previously thought AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED WITH A MAJOR DEPARTMENT STORE.

By Taylor Roth Alligator Contributing Writer

Past studies may have overstated how often people use online shopping recommendations,

a UF researcher has found.

Anuj Kumar, a UF business professor, said the benefits of product recommendations on websites are not as effective in getting people to click on them as previously thought.

To demonstrate that the economic value of product recommendations is not as high as expected, Kumar partnered with a major department store that sells

apparel and home goods to study the impact the recommendations have on shoppers. Kumar said he can’t reveal the name of the store because he signed a confidentiality agreement.

“It’s not that the placement of these recommendations are bad,” Kumar said. “The success of them is simply exaggerated.”

Kumar collected data for more than two months on what cus-

#MeToo: One year later

By Dana Cassidy Alligator Staff Writer

UF students have mixed feelings or haven’t seen the change promised by the outing of common-place sexual harassment made just a year ago.

On Oct. 5, 2017, The New York Times published an article revealing that producer Harvey Weinstein had been paying for the silence of those who accused him of sexual assault.

Since the publication of the piece, countless people have come forward with their accounts of sexual abuse. Prominent figures who were accused alongside Weinstein include former NBC “Today Show” morning host Matt Lauer, U.S. Sen. Al Franken, comedian Louis C.K. and President Donald Trump.

“In Hollywood, in academia, basically in every field of living, it’s just a huge problem everywhere,” Seth Piatek, a 21-yearold UF political science and

family, youth and community sciences junior, said.

The movement has left Piatek with mixed emotions. He said it is disheartening to see how pervasive the matter is, regardless of gender.

“It’s very empowering to watch women and men like Terry Crews come out and speak about their experiences,” Piatek said.

The anniversary of the article’s publication occurring around the same time as the Kavanaugh hearings is ironic, said Irfan Kovankaya, a 21-year-old UF political science junior. The movement’s prominence a year later indicates the persistence of the issue.

Kovankaya said he can talk about this movement differently than women because he personally does not face what some women face in today’s society.

“I do speak with a certain sense of privilege where no matter what where I’ll understand on a logical perspective how it feels,” Kovankaya said. “But on an emo-

tional one, I’ll never understand.”

The allegations and controversies that have occurred in the past year created mixed feelings, said Savannah Hall, an 18-year-old animal sciences junior.

“On one hand, if these things happen you definitely need to come forward, but if it was 30plus years ago, I don’t necessarily think that’s fair because a lot of people’s lives are ruined about it and it’s subjective,” she said.

The movement’s momentum starting now rather than later is important, 19-year-old UF biology sophomore Jenna Jaeger said.

Down the road, Jaeger hopes that what has happened this past year will inspire others to continue sharing their stories.

“Fifty years into the future, they can say that it started and people became more truthful about what happened to them,” Jaeger said. @danacassidy_ dcassidy@alligator.org

tomers looked at, which recommendations they clicked on and if they purchased the product. He then compared this data to another group of shoppers who did not receive any recommendations to see how it affected purchases.

The research is important to companies because they want to know if they’re getting a return on their investment in online recommendations, Kumar said. It

was previously thought that there was a 30 to 40 percent increase in sales from the recommendations, but it’s actually 11 percent.

Victor Santos, a 21-year-old UF marketing junior, said he appreciates product recommendations.

“I think these recommendations are great because they help me find products that I am usually interested in,” Santos said.

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The situation is horrible and unfair, Alqasem’s friend and 22-year-old UF international studies senior William Christou said.

“It’s always been her dream to be in a program like this,” Christou said.

“She’s always been passionate about Israel, Palestine and helping solve the issue.”

Alqasem is not actively engaged in any BDS movement and only wants to go to Israel to study, Christou said.

“She was going to Israel to further her education and help make the world a better place, and she was put through a pretty harrowing situation,” Christou said.

A person can disagree with the values of the Israeli government, Haiat said, but the decision was made because Alqasem was allegedly involved with BDS, a movement that is considered anti-semitic in Israel.

“It makes it ironic that she supports BDS, but wants to study in the university and country she boycotts,” Haiat said.

Since 2017, involvement in the BDS movement will cause someone to be kept from the country, Haiat said. He said it seemed like Alqasem wanted to promote BDS during her time in Israel.

“It wasn’t just an innocent student going to study in Israel,” Haiat said.

Prior to entering the country, Alqasem deleted all her social media, Haiat said. When questioned by the judge about it, Alqasem allegedly did not explain why.

Haiat said Alqasem was not deprived of food or water throughout her detainment and has had access to her lawyer.

Despite the outcome of her second appeal, Alqasem will leave the country, Haiat said.

“She will be deported,” Haiat said.

“The question is when.” @danacassidy_ dcassidy@alligator.org

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Gainesville Regional Airport to offer nonstop flight to Dallas

By Lily Strickland Alligator Contributing Writer

Travelers will soon be able to board flights in Gainesville, close their eyes and wake up on the runway in Dallas, Texas.

Gainesville Regional Airport announced the addition of a nonstop flight from Gainesville to the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Tuesday. The new flight will be offered through American Airlines, said Erin Porter, the

manager of marketing and public relations at the Airport.

“We are honored, and our community is very happy with this news,” Porter said.

Airlines will release more information on the cost of the flight today, Porter said. Flights to Dallas from Gainesville will begin March 3.

The estimated cost for a oneway flight to Dallas is $171.29 and $263.60 for a round trip, depending on the duration of the trip, ac-

cording to American Airlines.

Gainesville currently offers flights with Delta and American Airlines, Porter said. The additional flight will help further establish Gainesville and Alachua County as a tourism destination, Porter said.

Gainesville Regional Airport hopes to add another nonstop flight to New York as it is a popular destination, Porter said. Although flights to New York are popular, airlines have a tough

time filling seats on returning flights, she said.

The nonstop flight will allow travelers to shave hours off their routes, said Travis Eden, a 19-year-old UF applied physiology and kinesiology sophomore.

“I’m really excited about being able to fly from Gainesville straight to Dallas without having to take two different flights,” Eden said.

The flight will help him save six hours in travel time each time

he flies to Dallas, where he goes about three to four times every year.

The trip typically takes him seven to nine hours either way, he said.

Eden hopes to make more future trips home to Dallas, he said.

“I would be able to visit my family, friends and my pride and joy, my dog, more often,” Eden said.

UF wants to improve society with $17 million worth of initiatives THE PROJECTS ARE CALLED “MOONSHOTS.”

By McKenna Beery Alligator Staff Writer

Diane McFarlin said the world is suffering from a crisis of trust.

McFarlin, the dean of UF’s College of Journalism and Communications, is one of the leaders on a $17 million initiative to fund individual research projects. The eight projects, called “moonshots,” bring different departments together to find solu-

tions to broad challenges like media distrust.

The journalism college’s project will establish UF as a leading resource in media and technology, McFarlin said. UF is bringing together scholars from engineering and liberal arts departments to monitor trust in the age of fake news and help readers filter out fact from fiction, she said.

“People are bombarded with messages of uneven veracity, and third parties — search engines, social media outlets — have become information brokers that are vulnerable to manipulation,” she said.

The broader initiative, which is funded

by UF, will last for three to four years, said UF Provost and initiative coordinator Joseph Glover. Each moonshot is led by a college dean and other faculty members.

UF whittled down 18 ideas three months ago to settle on the eight projects, which include cancerous tumor research and placing scientists in every Florida K-12 school, Glover said.

“They are called moonshots because we may not actually solve the problem in my lifetime,” Glover said. “But it is more about the journey than it is the destination.”

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McFarlin believes the moonshots will raise UF’s position as a public research university. The initial cost for the first two years of the journalism school’s project is about $1 million, she said.

Universities like UF should use their resources to tackle complicated scientific and social problems, Glover said.

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Editorial

How Amendment 4 fails violent felons

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urder and sex crimes.

These are the two exceptions under which felons in Florida will be denied the right to vote. If Amendment 4 passes in the November elections, it will otherwise grant voting rights to all felons, who under current Florida laws are stripped of their voting rights after conviction.

Murder and sex crimes at first glance seem like two reasonable exceptions. After all, we think of these two types of offenses as more heinous and reprehensible than other crimes.

Although the thought of sharing a cab ride with a violent felon or sex offender may make you uncomfortable, we ask you to consider how vital voting rights are — whether we should deny that critical right no matter how long an offender has been reformed and no matter how productive they are.

We support Amendment 4. But we must also think critically about those who Amendment 4 leaves behind.

The amendment is a promise to those who made serious errors in judgment. It is about second chances. Redemption. Reintegration into the community. The amendment is about getting these ex-criminals to be civically engaged, participating in government and making up for lost time. For those convicted of robbery, burglary, assault, corruption, drug possession or distribution, the amendment serves as a life preserver thrown from shore — a statement that we believe in their ability to make good choices both in candidates and in life.

But for those convicted of murder or sex crimes, the amendment is a shut door.

Amendment 4 is a statement to those felons that their crimes were so egregious that they cannot return to full citizenship. They will not be rehabilitated. It tells them that their lapse in judgment was so disgraceful, repugnant and unforgivable that even voting for elected office is a privilege too high for them.

Why is this is an ill-advised message to send to some felons and not others? Because the recidivism rate, the rate at which offenders commit other crimes after being released, is drastically lower for those who have their voting rights restored. The reoffense rate drops by about 30 percent for those who have been given their voting rights back after being released, according to studies from the Governor’s Board of Executive Clemency, which is currently the body that restores voting rights. After November, when Amendment 4 hopefully passes, the recidivism rate will likely drop for those convicted of non-violent offenses. For those convicted of murder and sex offenses, it will not. Keeping these felons from voting does not make Florida a safer state.

There are plenty of other reasons why the distinction between murder and sex offenses and other felonies isn’t helpful. For one, no other state constitution categorizes citizens by their conviction offense when considering restoring their voting rights. Florida’s would be the first.

Second, there are economic benefits to restoring voting rights to felons. Restoring voting rights under Amendment 4 would bring a $365 million positive annual impact and bring an increase of $151 million to Florida’s household income, according to a study conducted by The Washington Economics Group. Those numbers would only increase with more felons being re-enfranchised. Giving more felons the right to vote, absent any other downside, makes good economic sense.

We should not keep needlessly punishing criminals after they serve jail time. If we expect all felons to shoulder the burdens of full citizenship, we should grant all felons their rights accordingly.

Meryl Kornfield EDITOR

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ché advice, it really works, and it can help you reidterm season is once again upon us, view the material and alert you to things you need with students crowding the libraries to go over more. Another solid method is to try and other public spaces preparing for teaching the material to someone else. Whether those all-important examinations. For you do it in a study group, enlist your roommates those of you who still have some exor just talk to your pillow, saying the material ams to take, you may be wondering how you can aloud and going through what you think is the best get ready for midterms. Where should you study? What are good methods to help remember Jason Zappulla best way to teach it makes it more likely you’ll the material? What can I do to ensure my success? opinions@alligator.org remember the material. And speaking of studying in groups, that can be effective too, but be sure to Well, have no fear, because this column is here choose the right study group. A good study group to help.

First, before you start studying, you need to decide where will stay focused on the material and work together to figure to study. Although some choose to study in their dorm or things out, while still allowing a bit of levity. A bad study apartment, many others study in the UF libraries. Studying group, however, will be all levity, with a group that’s conin the libraries is always a good choice, but those who do stantly joking around and going off-topic. What good is a study in the libraries often notice how full they get during study group that never does any actual studying? Make sure midterm season. That’s why you need to get a little creative. you find a study group that is responsible and focused.

After you’ve done your studying, it’s time to take the Although the main floors of Library West and Marston Science Library are both popular, they can be noisy and crowd- exam. If you’re taking your exam in-person, be sure to arrive ed. For a quieter atmosphere, consider going to the quiet on time or even early; just like with class, it’s always better floor of the library (fourth floor for both Library West and to arrive early instead of late. Give yourself some extra time Marston). How crowded they are can vary, but they’re al- to get there in case of traffic or delays. If you’re taking an ways calmer and less crowded than the bustle of the main online exam through ProctorU, a private desk in a private floor. You can also avoid the main libraries altogether and room would be ideal. However, if you don’t have your own go to the lesser-known libraries. The Grand Reading Room room, don’t fret! Library West has booths that can be rented in Smathers East is a magnificent, quiet spot for studying, specifically for ProctorU exams. To rent a ProctorU booth, and elsewhere in Smathers East, you can also find a quiet go to ufl.libcal.com/reserve/ProctorU, and next to any of the space in the Latin American Collection. In the Architecture six booths, click the light blue boxes (which represent the and Fine Arts Library, you can not only find a quieter and available times) that correspond to the time of your exam. less-crowded study space, but also a unique system of dou- Each box represents 30 minutes, and you can rent a booth ble-decker, bunk bed-like stacks of study spaces, with lad- for a maximum of three and a half hours at a time. However, ders allowing you to reach the upper study cubicles. If you the best times can fill up quickly during exam season, so want to feel like a kid again, the Architecture and Fine Arts reserve early.

With these tips in hand, you are now ready to face down Library is for you.

However, finding a place to study is only half the battle. your midterms. So grab your textbooks, flip over those flashYou still need something to do once you get there. So, here cards and pass that exam. are a few tips on how to study. First, make some flashcards Jason Zappulla is a UF journalism and history junior. His for yourself. Although making flashcards may seem like clicolumn appears on Mondays.

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Letter to the Editor I don’t agree with the points you laid out in your column this Wednesday. The United States does not have an official language, and it should not. We are a nation of immigrants, and we should embrace that rather than enforcing people of other cultures to conform.

Additionally, the issue of voter suppression is far more important than the issue of language barriers.

Don’t you think it’s more important that American citizens are informed and accurately represented by their government than that they all speak the same language? Just because you speak three languages doesn’t make your point valid.

Also, if you honestly think our nation’s current leaders believe that “diversity is strength,” then you haven’t been paying attention.

Zack Delaney is a UF sustainability and the built environment sophomore. Delaney is writing in response to a column by Eduardo Neret titled, “A nation needs a common language” which appeared on page 7 of the Oct. 3 issue of The Alligator.

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Donate peanut butter, fight food insecurity

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One jar from each person adds up e hear a lot about hunger. to thousands of peanut butter conYou’ve no doubt seen tainers that wind up at food pantries public service announceacross the Panhandle each year at ments on television, askthis time. The less fortunate then pick ing you to give to charitaup the peanut butter at the pantries. ble organizations to help feed people.

During the past six years, PanYou’ve probably even seen crowdhandle residents have generously dofunding efforts online. nated thousands of pounds of peanut It’s a fact of life: Some people Nick T. Place around the world are starving and opinions@alligator.org butter to help feed hungry families in northwest Florida. not just in third-world nations. Some Data support the need for these hungry people live next door, down donations. One in seven Floridians — including the street or somewhere in your town.

How can we even begin to feed all these hun- one in five children — struggles with hunger, according to Feeding America, the nation’s larggry people?

Maybe by taking the issue one jar at a time. est domestic hunger-relief organization.

Specific to the Panhandle, many residents A jar of peanut butter, that is. Drop off a jar of peanut butter at any of a number of locations are hungry or at risk of not getting sufficient across the Florida Panhandle through Nov. 21, food. For example, in Bay County, 26.2 percent of children rated as food-insecure in 2015, acand you’ll help feed a family.

This effort doesn’t happen by magic. UF’s In- cording to Feeding America. Food-insecure stitute of Food and Agricultural Sciences agents means the children lack access to, or resources in counties across the Florida Panhandle work to buy or eat, nutritious food.

IFAS faculty are working to provide food acwith the public and Florida Peanut Producers Association to coordinate this annual event, cess to more people and stem this tide of hunger. known as the Peanut Butter Challenge.

Since 2012, volunteers and IFAS faculty have Of course, you can donate peanut butter to a charity or a needy family anytime you want, collected thousands of jars of peanut butter but IFAS has set aside October and much of No- from residents, volunteer groups and businesses vember to emphasize peanut butter collections. in 16 northwest Florida counties. In 2017, IFAS

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What loneliness can teach us

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by our modernity, it was supposed here are certain moments to be our connections. Our devices, in college when you feel an for instance, disembody us, freeing inexplicable gladness, when us to converse with our siblings in you realize you are living California or Detroit from our bedthe “college experience.” rooms. Social media allows us to Friends feel it when they pay the check on friends back home while bill at a restaurant but stay seated for another hour, lost in converScott Stinson we wait in line at Starbucks. You no sation. Fans feel it on Saturdays opinions@alligator.org longer need to be physically present with a person to have shared in The Swamp, when they look around at 90,000 people united around the an experience with them. Suffice to say that loneliness was not supposed to linger. same cause, and their adrenaline spikes.

And yet, one of the chief mysteries of modIt’s the joy that comes from belonging, and I tend to feel it during lunchtime — not ern life is how our growing connection is also just because I get to eat but because it’s my growing our isolation. So widespread is this favorite time to be on campus. It is undoubt- experience that the U.K. appointed a minisedly the busiest time of the day. If you walk ter of loneliness earlier this year to control the through campus around noon, you will prob- phenomenon.

In light of these things, would it be reasonably see Hare Krishnas serving food on the Plaza of the Americas, crowded Chick-fil-As able to suggest that the connections mediated and clusters of friends sharing a meal togeth- through our devices are weak, or at least not er. Every Starbucks line will take half an hour strong enough for us human beings? I think to get through, and Turlington Plaza will be so. Our loneliness suggests a telos, or inherent purpose. In other words, our social lives were a beehive.

You will see thousands of people united by not meant to consist in swipes right, views, the fact that they are all students at the same likes, texts or tweets.

This implies that our relationships are school at the same time. This is what excites me. Lunchtime on campus is a reminder to me meant to be a certain way. And I think this that I am not a student in isolation, struggling is what causes many, including myself, to see to learn alone, but that thousands of others our relationships as being planted firmly in are here as well. It is a reminder that we are thin air. To be disappointed is to have a sense of how things ought to be. How then, in the students together and thus are a community.

But if you look closer, you’ll also see heart of a radically connected world, can we benches that were designed to support four still feel uninvited to the party?

Because we know there is more to friendholding only one. You’ll see people, rather than conversing with another person, con- ship than what our modernity can offer. We versing with their phones instead. You’ll see know that our devices have stretched our lives too thin and connecting with other huas many eating alone as you do in clusters.

TED Talks have been given on how diffi- man beings is a weighty endeavor. Ask us to cult it is to be an introvert in today’s world. As demonstrate this on the board or put it in a an introvert, I think that is wrong. It is much test tube, and we will seem foolish. But we harder today to walk up to a stranger and say cannot help but know our lives could be more hello, or to knock on your neighbor’s door. It meaningful.

Loneliness, then, is our curse. But if we is incredibly difficult to form new friendships, and much, much easier to stay in one’s room. consider its origins, its meaning, why we feel In a word, it is easier today to be isolated, it so greatly today, it may be our salvation. even in a large, multifarious community such as ours. It is easy to be lonely.

Scott Stinson is a UF English senior. His colIronically, if anything was to be improved umn appears on Mondays.

county offices received 10,800 jars of peanut butter, more than triple the previous year’s total of 3,875 jars.

Those donations don’t normally come from groups or companies giving 1,000 jars apiece, although that giving is welcome.

Jars generally come in little by little, one person or family at a time. It just takes a jar — about $1 or $2, or you can go to a grocery store and purchase peanut butter through a “buy one get one free” deal. Drop off that jar at your county IFAS office or at any of a number of locations that your county will tell you about.

IFAS agents in your county are out in the community this time of year, spreading the word about the Peanut Butter Challenge. Look for them at schools, churches, community events and more.

It’s my honor and privilege to serve as the leader of the IFAS faculty who give their all to help feed the hungry people of the Panhandle.

The challenge is a community-based event, and residents from all walks of life donate.

This effort comes down to the generosity of Panhandle residents. They just keep giving and giving. Many are stepping up, and so can you.

Nick T. Place is the dean of extension for UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and director of the Florida Cooperative Extension Service.

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Give back to Gainesville: volunteer

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much teachers and school boards y political philosophy can do to help children when class was just discussthey are not at school. If college ing the concept of students helped with food drives communal reciprocor provided food to fill backpacks ity, which is the theory for the Food4Kids Backpack Prothat a society flourishes when its gram, school children would not citizens care about one another, worry about going hungry. regardless of whether they get Hannah There are also plenty of midsomething in return. This theory dle and high school-aged chilcould easily be implemented in Whitaker our everyday lives, as students opinions@alligator.org dren who may need a tutor but are unable to afford one. Being a attempting to navigate college careers and newfound adulthood, or as active, college town with not one but two major colleges, tutors could readily be provided. functioning members of society.

I find myself thinking now and again that My parents participate in a mentorship proI don’t do enough for the community. Sure, gram in which they are each paired with a I did community service in high school, but middle school student and follow that stuit was a graduation requirement. Like com- dent through their entire high school career, munal reciprocity, I want to help for altru- ensuring they are able to graduate and go istic reasons, and what better way to start to college. A similar program could easily be implemented on campus, but instead of practicing this than in your hometown?

People always talk about going far and mentoring, students could be paired with wide to solve world problems, and although other students and help tutor them, whether that is great and so, so needed, I think we on a specific subject or standardized testing often forget that people need help in our prep. College students with specific backown backyards. How can we expect to pro- grounds in certain majors could easily tumote peace, fix hunger and foster education tor high schoolers. A biology major could on a global scale if we neglect our own local help one kid study for the AP Biology exam, while an English major could help another communities?

The Gainesville community is often get ready for the AP Language and Compooverlooked, yet it deserves love and atten- sition essays.

Of course, volunteering should go betion. Being that UF fosters a population of approximately 50,000 undergraduate and yond just college students helping local graduate students, and Santa Fe College is schoolchildren. There are plenty of other home to nearly 20,000 students, it seems types of service to be done around town, only logical that students devote some at- and this doesn’t apply to just Gainesville. tention to the city that now houses them. As Wherever you live, find out how to get instudents, getting involved outside the col- volved.

Leave everything better than you found lege campus can seem daunting. However, there are plenty of ways to put our skills to it. That’s the Girl Scouts motto, and although my Girl Scouts glory days may be use around a town of this size.

As college students, we know about long over, that phrase reverberates with my being hungry. Usually, though, it’s just a every heartbeat to this day. I’d like to think joke about only eating ramen noodles. The that when my time in Gainesville comes to unfortunate truth is there are some local a close, I may have left this place just a little school children who actually do go hun- bit better than I found it. gry on weekends or holiday breaks when school lunches are not provided. Some Hannah Whitaker is a UF English schools have taken to providing breakfast to students who qualify, but there is only so sophomore. Her column appears on Mondays.

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Strong aftershock rattles north Haiti day after deadly quake THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A magnitude 5.2 aftershock struck Haiti on Sunday, even as survivors of the previous day’s temblor were sifting through the rubble of their cinderblock homes. The death toll stood at 12, with fears it could rise.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter of the aftershock was located 9.8 miles (15.8 kilometers) north-northwest of Port-dePaix, the city hard hit by Saturday night’s 5.9 magnitude earthquake. Sunday’s aftershock had a depth of 10 kilometers.

“It was an aftershock. It was at the same

location,” said Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the USGS. “This is the first significant aftershock.”

The tremors caused panic on streets where emergency teams were providing relief to victims of Saturday’s quake, which toppled cinderblock homes and rickety buildings.

Haiti’s civil protection agency said at least seven people died in the coastal city of Port-dePaix and three people died in the nearby community of Gros-Morne in Artibonite province.

Among the dead from Saturday night’s quake were a 5-year-old boy crushed by his collapsing house and a man killed in a falling audi-

torium.

A total of at least 12 people were killed in the quake, Interior Minister Fednel Monchery told radio station MAGK9. Authorities said 188 people were injured.

“I feel like my life is not safe here,” said nun Maryse Alsaint, the director of the San Gabriel National School in Gros-Morne, where several classrooms were severely damaged.

Impoverished Haiti, where many live in tenuous circumstances, is vulnerable to earthquakes and hurricanes. A vastly larger magnitude 7.1 quake damaged much of the capital in 2010 and killed an estimated 300,000 people.

In Haiti, officials have struggled to shore up buildings despite the two major fault lines along Hispaniola, which is the island shared with the Dominican Republic. Deep poverty and government instability have also rendered weaker homes and structures particularly vulnerable in earthquakes.

Rescue workers in Haiti said they were not looking for any more victims.

Pierre Jacques Baudre, a farmer and father of seven, said he was afraid to return to his home after one wall built with rocks and cement crumbled.

“The house can fall at any time,” he said.

What were those planes flying over the LSU game?

By Gillian Sweeney Alligator Staff Writer

After the national anthem at Saturday’s football game against Louisiana State University, a flight of three military planes soared over Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. On Friday afternoon, the pilots practiced for the flight, said Will Pantages, the assistant director of athletics communications.

What were the planes?

The three planes are Air Na-

tional Guard F-16s from the 100th Fighter Squadron based in Montgomery, Alabama, UF spokesperson Steve Orlando said.

sent out a tweet to inform people of the afternoon practice run, said University Police spokesperson Maj. Brad Barber.

Who were the pilots?

The flight was led by a 2002 UF alumnus, Lt. Col. Jesse Proctor, Orlando said. His wingmen were Capt. Christopher Coenen and Capt. Cy Eckhardt.

What did students think of it?

Friday’s test flight woke Jack Kirsch, an 18-year-old UF biology freshman, from his nap on the second floor of Jennings Hall, he said.

However, it prepared him for what was coming Saturday.

Kirsch and his friends sat at the top of the student section near the 50-yard line, he said. They eagerly

Did UF tell anyone about the test flight on Friday?

UF Public Safety on Thursday

watched the planes zip through the sky.

“My friend next to me went, ‘Oh my god, what are those?’”

Kirsch said. “I was like, ‘Oh, it’s a flyover.’”

Shaquiann Fregiste, an 18-yearold UF health science freshman, said she was excited to see the planes soar over the field.

“I never expected them to be at the game,” Fregiste said.

Fregiste’s father is an engineer for the military and she’s spent her life on military bases around

planes similar to those flown, she said.

She remembered the song “Taps” playing nearly every day when she lived on military bases, Fregiste said. The song was followed by the sounds of planes rushing through the air, like on Saturday.

“It reminded me of home,” Fregiste said. @gilliangsweeney gsweeney@alligator.org

· CRIME ROUNDUP · All Stories By Jessica Curbelo | Alligator Staff Writer @jesscurbelo | jcurbelo@alligator.org

ACSO: Couple smashed car window Man accused of knife fight over McDonald’s hamburger with woman and baby inside A family feud ended with a Gainesville couple arrested after shattering a car window with a baseball bat Saturday morning, deputies said.

Kevin Peres, 20, and his girlfriend, April Gannon, 21, were accused of threatening Peres’ family, according to an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

Peres texted a relative about money she owed him at about 10 a.m. The relative tried to drive away from her home, on the 7000 block of Southwest 122nd Street, but Peres and Gannon blocked her car with theirs, deputies said.

Peres argued with the relative before breaking both side mirrors and shattering a backseat window with a bat. Broken glass fell into the car with a relative in the driv-

er’s seat and her 2-year-old child next to her, deputies said.

Gannon tried to hit the relative through the broken window, the report said.

When Peres’ father tried to stop the argument, Peres put his hands up as if to hit him. His father punched him in the face, the report said.

Gannon hit Peres’ father, cutting him above his left eye, deputies said.

Peres is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, criminal mischief and cruelty toward a child. Gannon is charged with aggravated battery and burglary for reaching into the car.

Peres and Gannon are being held in the Alachua County Jail in lieu of a $25,000 bond and a $15,000 bond, respectively.

A man threatened to cut a homeless man with a knife over a McDonald’s hamburger Friday night, Gainesville Police said.

Henry Chambers Jr., 58, of Gainesville, got into an argument with the man at McDonald’s after someone handed both of them a burger, at 3826 SW 40th Blvd., according to an arrest report.

The two men don’t know each other, the report said.

The man told police Chambers raised a razor blade with a black handle above his head and swung at him while yelling, “You stole from me,” the report said.

The man feared Chambers would cut him, the report said. He dropped his drink, hamburger and backpack as he jumped away from Chambers.

A witness told police he saw and heard the argument but didn’t see Chambers threaten the man with a razor blade, police said.

Chambers told police the man had called him a racial slur but nothing else happened, the report said.

He later admitted to having an argument over the burger but insisted it wasn’t violent.

Chambers had a razor blade matching the man’s description, police said.

He was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

He is being held in the Alachua County Jail in lieu of a $50,000 bond, according to jail records.

Two men accused of breaking into cars, stealing one Two Gainesville men were accused of burglarizing and stealing multiple cars last week.

Kenyatta Patterson, 20, was arrested Tuesday morning after being suspected of stealing two cars, deputies said. Two days later, Zachary Stevenson, 18, was accused of breaking into cars and working with Patterson, police said.

A man told Gainesville Police his unlocked 2012 Honda was stolen on Sept. 29, according to arrest reports.

Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies used GPS to find the Honda and another stolen car next to a house on Southwest 98th Avenue, the report said.

Deputies found the keys to both

cars underneath Patterson’s pants, the report said. He told officers he didn’t know why he had the keys.

Fingerprints inside the Honda matched Stevenson’s prints, police said.

Stevenson was accused of walking around the Stone Hill Apartments parking lot, at 13820 NW State Road 235, and checking for

unlocked cars Thursday, according to the report.

Stevenson and other men ran away as soon as they saw police.

Two cars in the parking lot were burglarized and a cell phone was stolen, deputies said.

Stevenson was charged with two counts of burglary and one count each of grand theft auto,

small theft, loitering and resisting an officer.

Patterson is charged with two counts each of burglary and grand theft of a motor vehicle.

Stevenson and Patterson are being held in the Alachua County Jail in lieu of a $45,000 bond and a $60,000 bond, respectively.

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Pumpkin patches and runs: City Fall festivities begin

Shelbie Eakins / Alligator Staff

Shelbie Eakins / Alligator Staff

Gainesville’s Peanut Patch and Corn Maze will be open through Oct. 28. During the day, family-friendly attractions like the kiddie corner, hay ride and kiddie maze are open. After 8 p.m., three mazes are open: the kiddie maze, regular corn maze and haunted corn maze. The hayride also becomes a haunted attraction after dark.

Leah Sandaval, 8, laughs as she makes “corn angels” in the corn pit at the Peanut Patch and Corn Maze Saturday afternoon. The maze will be open until Oct. 28 and features family-fun activities during the day and a haunted hayride and scary corn maze after 8 p.m.

Shelbie Eakins / Alligator Staff

Shelbie Eakins / Alligator Staff

Brendan Williams, 31, finishes the first lap through Depot Park at the Pumpkin Run 5K Saturday morning. The event was put on by Buy A Pumpkin Feed A Child, a program created by Gainesville Church Of God.

More than 500 runners were expected at the first Pumpkin Run 5K at Depot Park Saturday morning.

Runners received a shirt, pumpkin bread and a coupon for a free pumpkin from the Buy A Pumpkin Feed A Child pumpkin patch. Proceeds from the race went to feeding hungry children in Alachua County and Chiquimula, Guatemala.

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Defensive end Jachai Polite (99) and linebacker Vosean Joseph (11) led Florida’s defense to a resounding win over the then-No. 5 team in the nation. Polite finished with a pair of sacks and a forced fumble.

VOLLEYBALL

Gators remain undefeated in SEC play after second five-set weekend thriller

By Mari Faiello Sports Writer

Freshman Thayer Hall stared intensely through the net at Georgia’s side of the court with her hands behind her back.

She quickly moved into position as soon as the ball passed over her head from a Florida serve, arms bent at the ready and standing on her toes just toward the left side.

A long rally ensued full of onearmed saves and back-and-forth volleys until Hall finally stole the spotlight with a kill on an improvised play, sending the ball just behind the 10-foot line.

The O’Connell Center floor shook as fans quickly jumped to their feet.

Screams echoed throughout the

dome as the 37-second rally ended and the Gators went up 13-7 in the fifth set.

Florida used that scrappy demeanor to ultimately defeat Georgia in a thrilling five-set contest Sunday afternoon after trailing the match two sets to one. The Gators narrowly escaped what would have been their first loss of conference play at home.

No. 11 Florida (15-3, 6-0 SEC) jumped out to an early lead over the Bulldogs in the first set, taking a 25-13 victory. Georgia racked up 13 attack errors in the frame while the Gators only logged three.

It looked like smooth sailing from that point on, but Georgia answered back in the second and third sets,

Linebacker Vosean Joseph was named the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week for his performance against LSU. Joseph recorded 14 tackles and two sacks.

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fumble and six tackles — four of which were solo. He also had a pass breakup and a quarterback hurry.

His first sack was early. His next one came in the final two minutes of the game.

LSU started its drive with 1:37 left on the clock. Polite broke through his blocker and blitzed Burrow, forcing the Tigers to burn a timeout.

If Polite was a lion on defense, Joseph was the ringleader.

Joseph was all over the field.

He led the team with 14 tackles, four solo. Three-and-a-half of those tackles were for loss, and two of them came on sacks.

His performance earned Joseph the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week honors, the first Gator since linebacker Antonio Morrison earned it on Oct. 4, 2015.

Joseph’s two sacks came at crucial moments in the game.

His first one ended an LSU drive late in the first quarter. Tommy Townsend’s punt pinned the Tigers at the five-yard line, and Burrow

needed to find four more yards to pick up a first down.

The Gators blitzed with four to the right side, and no one blocked Joseph. He came to Burrow’s blind spot and tackled him for an eightyard loss.

“I want to say my defense helped me out with that,” Joseph said.

“They opened up probably some of the pass rush so I can get in there and get a couple sacks, bouncing it out to me so I can get on the edge.”

His second sack came in the second quarter.

The Gators rushed five, and as Joseph broke through the line, he hurled his body right at Burrow as the LSU quarterback tried to escape.

The sack forced the Tigers to face third and long, continuing Florida’s momentum at that point.

“Today was probably my game, but everybody on the team did absolutely well,” Joseph said. “I don’t want to miss nobody that played on the team today. Everybody did an absolutely great job.” @DreilingerJake jdreilinger@alligator.org

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This was a different kind of win for Florida ordinator Todd Grantham in the moPeople make sports special. ments after the game when his orange The upsets, the touchdowns and visor juggled on his head as he excitthe fancy plays are all very exciting, edly pumped his fists at the stands. but it’s the human interest element You could see it in the players. that continually draws us in.

No one cowered during the game That’s what made Florida’s 27-19 when things went awry. Their postvictory over LSU different on Saturday. The people.

Alanis Thames game celebration of singing songs and hyping each other up and their coach The upset in the Swamp was ob@alanisthames was an ode to that. viously the Gators’ most important “It’s a testament to our whole team. victory of the Dan Mullen era and as close to a dogfight that we’ve seen from Florida I mean, you could see how tired we were, those long drives that we had, the whole team’s tired, this year.

But there was something different in the at- but that’s part of the mental endurance and physical endurance you have to have throughout a mosphere that night. football game,” quarterback Feleipe Franks said.

You could see it in the coaches.

Mullen couldn’t contain his pre-game excite- “When it boils down to it and the game’s on the ment as he bounced up and down with his play- line, what team is going to flinch. The team that ers before the team took the field. He was caught doesn’t flinch is the team that is going to pull it on camera with that same passionate fervor af- out. Our guys didn’t flinch and we went out there ter a fourth-quarter, game-clinching pick-six by and we executed what we’ve been practicing to safety Brad Stewart. Mullen was seen flailing his do.”

You could see it in the crowd. arms up and down so vigorously that he knocked Gators fans had filled the Swamp with a noise his white visor cap from his sweat-soaked head so vicious it affected their own players. onto the ground.

But he didn’t care. Neither did defensive co-

Gators rise in new AP poll Florida rose from No. 22 to No. 14 in the latest AP top-25 poll Sunday. LSU remained ahead of UF at No. 13. The SEC now has eight teams ranked in the top 25.

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FOOTBALL

Under pressure: Franks needs more time

By Morgan McMullen Sports Writer

“Feleipe Franks isn’t as good of a quarterback as Joe Burrow.”

That’s not exactly a hot take.

After all, LSU’s quarterback finished with more yards and more completions in Florida’s 27-19 win over LSU. Burrow hadn’t thrown an interception all season until the 1:45 mark in the fourth quarter in the Swamp. He took advantage of mismatches on receivers and looked like an above-average quarterback when he wasn’t getting hounded by the Gators’ defensive line.

“Franks isn’t as good of a quarterback as Burrow.”

It’s not a hot take. It’s just wrong.

Franks showed better instincts, better poise under pressure and better decision-making abilities than Burrow throughout the game.

Franks’ second-half stats aren’t much to look at. He completed 6-of-15 passes for 91 yards and threw a crucial pick in the red zone. But the nature of those nine incompletions is something to examine.

Franks threw the ball while under pressure in the second half. A whole lot of pressure.

Florida right guard Fred Johnson flat-out whiffed on his block of LSU nose tackle Breiden Fehoko on UF’s second play of its opening drive in the second half. Fehoko pushed Johnson to the ground, ran right by him and attacked Franks’ midsection.

Was Moral Stephens open down the seam for what could’ve been his second touchdown of the day?

Absolutely. Could Franks have hit him before LSU safety Grant Delpit crossed his path for the interception? We’ll never know thanks to Fehoko’s pressure.

What about all the other incompletions? Of the eight he threw in the second half, seven came while

SOCCER

Gators shut out for ninth time in last 12 matches

By Sam Campisano Sports Writer

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Florida quarterback Feleipe Franks (13) was pressured by LSU defensive players on seven of his nine incompletions in the second half of the Gators’ 27-19 win Saturday.

Franks was either running to escape pressure or while he was being dragged to the ground.

Second-and-10 at the UF 20.

The Gators had just given up a field goal and led 14-13. Left tackle Martez Ivey takes a step toward the left guard to help Tyler Jordan kick out to the right. That leaves LSU linebacker Michael Divinity Jr. to rush unimpeded toward Franks. He steps up into the pocket and looks to receiver Trevon Grimes on a crossing route. Offensive lineman Brett Heggie, who has replaced our friend Fred Johnson at right guard, takes his man and drives him to the left of Franks.

What Heggie probably wishes he should’ve done next would’ve spared Franks a lot of pain. LSU defensive end Rashard Lawrence stunts inside to where Heggie used to be and gets a free shot on the quarterback, doubling him over Divinity Jr., who has hit him at the waist.

Incomplete over the middle. Divinity Jr. gets pressure on the next play and forces Franks to throw it away. Three-and-out.

That was the story throughout the game. Franks has trouble under pressure. Any quarterback not named Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers does. But he made plenty of

good decisions to throw the ball away while getting harassed by defenders.

“You’ve got three guys that won Heisman Trophies that have statues in front of the stadium that played your position,” coach Dan Mullen said after the game.

“There’s always pressure at (the) quarterback position.”

Franks has shown he can handle the mental pressure. If he can get protection from the physical pressure, he can be a good quarterback. @MorganMcMuffin mmcmullen@alligator.org

MEN’S TENNIS

Florida’s ITA All-American run comes to an end

By Kyle Wood Sports Writer

Oliver Crawford and Andy Andrade were in position to move on to the finals of the men’s main doubles draw Sunday afternoon. The duo swept through their first three rounds at the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma, setting up a matchup with Alex Kobelt and Kyle Seelig of Ohio State.

But the magic from the duo ran out on Crawford and Andrade as they fell in the semifinals to the Buckeyes (5-7, 4-6), ending their week of competition.

Johannes Ingildsen, the only remaining Florida player competing on Sunday, lost his semifinals match in the consolation singles

draw. Ingildsen finished the tournament with five wins across doubles and singles before falling to John McNally, another Buckeye.

Several other Gators were sent home on Saturday as well. Crawford also competed in the main singles draw and lost in the Round of 16 to Stanford’s Axel Geller (7-6, 4-6, 5-7).

Sam Riffice joined Ingildsen in the consolation singles draw and was swept in the round of 16 by UC Santa Barbara’s Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (4-6, 3-6).

Ingildsen teamed up with Brian Berdusco in doubles, in addition to competing in singles, and ultimately lost in the quarterfinals of the main draw. Ingildsen and Berdusco lost in three sets to Sven Lah and Jimmy Bendeck of Baylor (4-6, 6-3, 10-12).

The Florida men’s tennis team will be in

action again a week from today on Oct. 15 in Harlingen, Texas, at the USA F28 Futures.

Crawford and Andrade earned a spot at the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships in Surprise, Arizona, in early November after finishing the weekend as doubles semifinalists.

UF left Oklahoma without any hardware, but head coach Bryan Shelton said he was pleased with the performance he saw from his young team.

“We have identified what we need to work on the rest of this fall,” Shelton said in a release, “but I’m really excited about the direction we are heading.” @Kkylewood kwood@alligator.org

Florida’s 2018 soccer season would look a lot like Sunday’s 1-0 loss to No. 12 South Carolina if it could be boiled down to one game.

The Gators (4-8-2, 2-3-2 SEC) were held scoreless for the third straight game and for the ninth time in their last 12. An 11th-minute goal from freshman midfielder Selma Sol Magnusdottir was all the Gamecocks (11-2, 5-1 SEC) needed to escape with a win in their home ground.

Florida was not without its chances, though. The Gators had 12 shots on the day, two fewer than South Carolina, but had six more corners. They also had three golden opportunities to equalize in the dying minutes of the game.

In the 78th minute, Cassidy Lindley crossed the ball into the box.

Sammie Betters had her defender beat, but her sliding attempt to tap it past the goalkeeper came up just short and the ball landed harmlessly in the hands of Mikayla Krzeczowski.

Forward Madison Alexander had UF’s best chance of the game a few minutes later. With the goal vacant, her close-range shot was deflected

by South Carolina defender Lauren Pinkham.

The Gators had a last-gasp chance in the dying seconds, but midfielder Tess Sapone’s volley from outside the box went just wide of the net as time expired.

“There were definitely some chances,” UF coach Becky Burleigh said in a release. “There were long stretches – especially in the second half – that I felt we outplayed them.

In the end, we all know that we get judged by the scoreboard.”

South Carolina came away with its 10th shutout of the season. The Gamecocks have allowed just five goals this season, the lowest total in the SEC. In addition, Krzeczowski earned the 32nd clean sheet of her career, setting a South Carolina program record.

The only goal of the match was a pretty one. Sol Magnusdottir dribbled around UF midfielder Briana Solis and smashed a shot past Florida keeper Kaylan Marckese while falling away from goal. It was the freshman’s fourth goal of the season.

With just four regular season games remaining, Florida is in danger of missing the NCAA tournament for just the third time in its history.

The last time the Gators missed out was 2002.

The good news for Florida is that it has an entire week before its next game against Alabama in Tuscaloosa to work out the kinks.

“It will be nice to have a full week of practice,” Burleigh said. “I think that will be really beneficial to us.” @samcampisano scampisano@alligator.org

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Gators remain undefeated in SEC

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Freshman Thayer Hall ended the win over Georgia with 11 kills and hit a shade under .180 for the match.

VOLLEYBALL, from pg 14 taking a pair of 25-22 victories.

“In the second set, especially offensively, we were so disconnected,” coach Mary Wise said. “Then finally, when the offense got better, the defense was disconnected, which is being a part of a young team.”

The fourth set took on a different tone for Florida. Defensive efforts and better choices offensively made the difference as the team stole a 25-21 victory to tie up the match at two apiece.

The Gators dominated the fifth set coming out to a 13-7 lead off Hall’s kill. The momentum from the play led to a victorious ending for the Gators as they stole a second five-set contest win in four matches.

“Welcome to volleyball in the SEC in 2018,” Wise said. “It was a great match, but

unlike (Texas) A&M, we play Georgia twice.”

Redshirt sophomore right-side attacker Holly Carlton tied for the most kills on the match (17) with Georgia’s T’ara Ceasar and sophomore outside hitter Paige Hammons finishing right behind with 13. Hall ended the contest with 11 kills, hitting just under .180.

Redshirt senior setter Allie Monserez led the Gators’ offense with 29 assists. She also dominated the back of the court defensively with junior libero Allie Gregory, with both players logging 14 digs apiece.

“We’re just trying to find our way,” Wise said. “And now, I think we have a better idea of what’s our persona, and I think the understanding that in the fifth set you can’t play tentative.” @faiello_mari mfaiello@alligator.org

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Coach Dan Mullen could be seen trying to fire up the crowd at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium several times throughout Saturday’s game against LSU.

COLUMN, from pg 14 “At one point I had the headset on and couldn’t hear Coach Johnson talking,” Franks said. “Usually I can hear him really well. I said at the top, our fan base was crazy tonight. That’s always a good thing. It always helps, when they do things like that.”

And when he took a knee to make the victory official, Franks headed straight to the Gators’ student section where the Florida fans remained. He had the ball still clutched in his arms as he embraced the ones he said made the win possible.

“It feels so good just getting the Gator

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standard right,” he said. “Our fans, just running to the fans because those are our guys, people that are helping us out in the Swamp.”

Maybe it was the efficiency of the running game, Mullen’s timely trick play call or the execution of Grantham’s defense that won that game on Saturday.

But it was ultimately the people, their effort, their passion that affected the outcome. And that could be the difference for this program moving forward.

Alanis Thames is a sports writer for The Alligator. Follow her on Twitter @alanisthames and contact her at athames@ alligator.org

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