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The Independent Florida Alligator • 03/21/2025

Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle to speak at UF - The Independent Florida Alligator

President Donald Trump’s son is being paid to speak at UF. Donald Trump Jr., the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the senior adviser to the president’s campaign, will give a keynote presentation at the University Auditorium on Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. Trump and Guilfoyle will be paid $50,000, which is funded by student activity fees, according to the contract with UF. ACCENT Speakers Bureau, a UF Student Government organizati...

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The Independent Florida Alligator • 03/21/2025

'Florida Icon': First black UF alumnus dies - The Independent Florida Alligator

UF’s first black alumnus and civil rights activist W. George Allen has died, his family confirmed Thursday. Allen graduated from the UF College of Law in 1962. At the time, the college was not yet integrated and Allen became the first African American to graduate from UF. “I was admitted to Harvard and the University of California at Berkeley, but I’m a native Floridian, and I felt that somebody had to integrate the University of Florida,” he said in a 2013 in...

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WUFT | News and public media for north central Flo • 12/13/2018

Final Two Readings On Gainesville's Proposed Styrofoam, Plastic Bag Ban Scheduled For 2019

A Gainesville city commissioner’s yearlong push to reduce waste across the city appears to be nearing an end.Commissioner Adrian Hayes-Santos has throughout 2018 driven the effort for “zero waste” Gainesville. Hayes-Santos spoke at the Dec. 6 meeting that concluded with a unanimous vote to put a styrofoam and plastic bag ban to the first of two city commission votes on Jan. 3.The Dec. 6 meeting came a year to the day after WUFT's original report on Hayes-Santos' vision.And back in March, the cit...

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WUFT | News and public media for north central Flo • 10/04/2018

Andrew Gillum’s High School Adviser Predicted Years Ago He Would Be Florida’s Governor

During her 40-year career as a teacher and student activities director at Gainesville High School, Linda Awbrey opened the eyes of countless future community leaders and servants.In the 1990s, Awbrey helped push to diversify the school’s student government. Andrew Gillum, while still a freshman, was among those she recruited. He started as a senator, served as president as a sophomore and rose to a state district position as a junior.In spring 1997, Gillum told Awbrey he wanted to be state parli...