If there’s one thing that’s unavoidable in your first semester of college, it’s stress. The pressure of living away from home for the first time, having to make new friends, wondering whether or...
Age: 54
Experience: U.S. Senator from Colorado (2009-present), Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (2013-2015).
Fun Fact: Bennet was diagnosed with prostate cancer on April 3, 2019....
Age: 58
Experience: Mayor of New York City (2014-present)
Fun Fact: Bill de Blasio’s birth name is Warren Wilheim Jr. He legally changed his name to Warren de Blasio-Wilheim because of his father’s...
Age: 44
Experience: N/A
Fun Fact: Andrew Yang is the founder of Venture for America, a nonprofit organization that promotes entrepreneurship by training recent graduates and young professionals to...
Age: 69
Experience: U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (2013-present)
Fun Fact: Before entering politics, Warren was a law professor for more than 30 years. She taught at the University of Michigan,...
Age: 66
Experience: N/A
Fun Fact: Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a nonprofit organization that provides free meals for men and women who are too sick to cook for themselves.
Marianne Williamson,...
Age: 38
Experience: U.S. Representative from CA-15 (2013-present), Member on Durbin, California City Council (2010-2013)
Fun Fact: Swalwell became the first person in his family to attend college...
Age: 77
Experience: U.S. Senator from Vermont (2007-present), U.S. Representative from VT-AL (1991-2007), Mayor of Burlington, Vermont (1981-1989)
Fun Fact: In 1963, Sanders was arrested in Chicago...
Age: 45
Experience: U.S. Representative from OH-13 and OH-17 (2003-present)
Fun Fact: Ryan played quarterback for his varsity high school football team.
Tim Ryan, a nine-term congressman and...
Age: 46
Experience: U.S. Representative from TX-16 (2013-2019)
Fun Fact: In his 20s, Beto O’Rourke was part of a punk rock band in El Paso called Foss.
One of the most hyped up candidates...
Age: 40
Experience: U.S. Representative from MA-06 (2015-present)
Fun Fact: Moulton served four tours in Iraq as part of the United States Marine Corps.
Moulton, the congressional representative...
Age: 44
Experience: Mayor of Miramar, Florida (2015-present)
Fun Fact: Messam was a national champion in college football at Florida State, and briefly played in the NFL.
Another candidate looking...
Age: 58
Experience: U.S. Senator from Minnesota (2007-present)
Fun Fact:
Another one of the moderates in the race, Klobuchar’s campaign is centered around realism and pragmatism in regards to...
Age: 68
Experience: Governor of Washington (2013-present), U.S. Representative from WA-01 (1999-2012), U.S. Representative from WA-04 (1993-1995)
Fun Fact: In 2009, Inslee participated in a basketball...
Age: 67
Experience: Governor of Colorado (2011-2019), Mayor of Denver, Colorado (2003-2011)
Fun Fact: After Hickenlooper lost his job as a geologist in the 80s, he used a library book on business...
Age: 54
Experience: U.S. Senator from California (2017-present), Attorney General of California (2011-2017)
Fun Fact: Harris’ parents are Jamaican and Indian immigrants, which would make her not...
Age: 88
Experience: U.S. Senator from Alaska (1969-1981)
Fun Fact: Gravel served as the CEO of KUSH, a company which makes marijuana-infused products for recreational and medicinal use.
Gravel...
Age: 52
Experience: U.S. Senator from New York (2009-present), U.S. Representative from NY-20 (2007-2009)
Fun Fact: Gillibrand was named among Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the...
Age: 38
Experience: U.S. Representative from HI-02 (2013-present)
Fun Fact: Tulsi Gabbard is the first ever Hindu member of Congress.
Tulsi Gabbard rose to fame in 2016, when she stepped down...
Age: 56
Experience: U.S. Representative from MD-06 (2013-2019)
Fun Fact: Delaney was once the youngest CEO on the New York Stock Exchange when his first company went public.
No, UNF students,...
Julian Castro
Age: 44
Experience: U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (2014-2017), Mayor of San Antonio, Texas (2009-2014)
Fun Fact: Castro has a twin brother, Joaquin, who serves...
Age: 37
Experience: Mayor of South Bend, Indiana (2012-Present)
Fun Fact: Buttigieg can speak seven languages, including Norwegian and Arabic.
The millennial mayor of South Bend, Indiana announced...
Age: 76
Experience: Vice President of the United States (2009-2017), U.S. Senator from Delaware (1973-2009)
Fun Fact: In 2012, then-Vice President Biden became the highest ranking official in the...
Age: 49
Experience: U.S. Senator from New Jersey (2013-present), Mayor of Newark, New Jersey (2006-2013)
Fun Fact: Booker has made appearances as a television actor, appearing on a 2015 episode of...
“Map of the Soul: Persona” is the biggest album of 2019.
The music video for its lead single “Boy With Luv” broke the record for most YouTube views in 24 hours, with nearly 75 million, as well...
Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida’s higher education leaders have committed to freedom of expression on university and college campuses in Florida. In a news conference Monday, DeSantis presented a statement...
The Ogier Gardens will offer the local Jacksonville community the opportunity to learn about the value of growing and preparing their own food as part of their "Taste of Ogier Gardens" fundraiser on Thursday....
The Fine Arts Center and Arena garages will both have extra spots reserved for events in the coming days. Students will not be able to use these spots during the times that they are reserved.
In the...
This album was always gonna be a divisive one. If “That’s the Spirit” was Bring Me the Horizon’s attempt at testing the waters of pop music, “Amo” is them diving headfirst into it, without...
The Fully Announced
Bring Me the Horizon - Amo:
It’s been more than three years since that last album by deathcore-turned-metalcore-turned-pop rock group Bring Me the Horizon, whose 2015 effort “That’s...
At the start of December, UNF blocked access to websites featuring adult content on the school Wi-Fi. This ban included not only sites with pornographic content, but also comedy and entertainment websites...
Just like any other year, 2018 brought us some great (and not so great) music. But some albums flew far above the rest, many of them showing how growth, change, and struggle can help make us better as...
UNF’s Osprey Café was recently named a 3 Star Certified Green Restaurant by the Green Restaurant Association.
The Green Restaurant Association is a national nonprofit organization helping restaurants...
This past week, students discovered that adult content that was previously available on UNF’s school wi-fi is now blocked by the UNF web filters. Now, we know the reason.
A statement from the University...
The first recount of over 8 million ballots in the U.S. Senate race between Rick Scott and Bill Nelson has concluded, but there's still no official winner.
Florida's secretary of state has now ordered...
Andrew Gillum has officially withdrawn his concession to Ron DeSantis in the Florida gubernatorial race, following news that an official recount was announced by the Florida secretary of state. A recount...
With tens of thousands of ballots from Broward County still apparently not counted, the Andrew Gillum campaign is now closely watching the votes being tallied in preparation for a possible recount.
Last...
Florida Amendment 4 has passed, achieving the 60 percent “yes” vote that was required.
Amendment 4’s passing restores the voting rights of over 1.5 million Floridian citizens who committed a...
Republican candidate Clay Yarborough was re-elected in District 12 of the Florida House of Representatives.
Yarborough graduated from UNF with a bachelor’s degree in business administration....
Republican candidate Cord Byrd was re-elected in District 11 of the Florida House of Representatives.
Byrd, who received his bachelor’s degree from UNF, was first elected to the seat in 2016....
Over 1.5 million Floridian citizens are unable to vote in the upcoming midterms, or any subsequent elections, due to previous felony convictions. This number is more than any other state in the nation....
One thing I can say about “Anon.” is that it probably has the most fitting album title of the year so far. Ever since they cast aside their image as the “band that does post-hardcore instrumentals...
As Tropical Storm Michael continues to move through the Carolinas and back into the Atlantic Ocean, it may have significant after-effects on the Jacksonville area.
According to the forecast by the...
I did not expect this album from Twenty One Pilots in 2018. To be honest, I’d be surprised if anyone did.
After “Blurryface” catapulted them into the mainstream three years ago, it seemed certain...
Ron DeSantis claimed victory in the Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday. DeSantis won by 621,132 votes in total.
DeSantis is a U.S. Representative for the sixth district of Florida. A Jacksonville...
As Election Day wears on, several reports of ballot problems have emerged from polling locations across Duval County.
Florida Politics reported ballot issues at Precinct 606 and Precinct 510 in Jacksonville....
For even the most acclaimed artists, the "concept album" is a challenging beast. Crafting a satisfying, complete story while making sure each individual song can stand on its own two feet is one of music’s...
“Possibility of loss or injury.”
This is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of the word “risk.” Next to it, you should probably find a picture of Ariana Grande’s upside-down head...
One thing Panic! at the Disco has never done, from the emo cabaret of “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” to the dark electropop romp of “Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die,” is make two albums that...
Pop-punk always makes for an interesting review, because it seems to be the genre where artists have the hardest time standing out.
Most pop-punk albums are simple, catchy collections of three-minute...
2016 held a couple big milestones for Dance Gavin Dance. First off, it marked the band’s fourth year with vocalist Tilian Pearson, making him the only man on Earth to last more than three consecutive...
In 2007, Linkin Park released their third album, “Minutes to Midnight,” to a torrent of controversy and fervor from fans. After two relatively similar rap-rock records garnered them tens of millions...
Whenever an artist goes an unusually long time without releasing an album, it means one of three things. Either they’re losing their touch and struggling to come up with new ideas, they’ve gone...
Jared Leto & Co. have always been trend-hoppers. From the emo-tinged alternative of 2005’s “A Beautiful Lie” to their artsy electro-rock venture “Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams” in 2013,...
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