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“Gator On The Lawn”
The Who, What, Where, When, and Why of life in Gainesville and at the Universiy of Florida. Brought to you [SINCE 1973*] by The Independent Florida Alligator.
((( GATOR LIFE* )))
“The Incredible Pulp” by don addis (’66)
[FROM THE TOP]
The year the Florida Alligator won, earned, or took its “INDEPENDENCE,” hometown boy TOM PETTY* was the leader of a hot-shit, local Rock N Roll band called Mudcrutch.* It was the beginning of Petty’s high-speed journey starting at Dub’s Steer House (out on 441) and downtown at Lillian’s Music Store. Petty’s road was fast. He moved to Los Angeles in 1974, and by 1981 when he was scheduled to play the most highly anticipated HOMECOMING, he played an important role, not only in the evolution of Gainesville and the University of Florida, but to all The World of Music.
For its part, the Alligator was there to RECORD IT ALL. As the New York Times says, “ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT.” From its home in North Florida, the “all” was much, and it was near and far. Day-Trip near by car, and looking far into both the distant future and the distant past. From the pre-historic depths of Florida’s heralded, fresh water springs, to the Earth’s Orbit and beyond, to the Dark Side Of The Moon, for the Alligator, “ALL” was LOCAL NEWS.
Today, visitors to The Alligator are greeted by two of the paper’s most distinguished alumni. In its hundred years, The Alligator has been a first home to many accomplished journalists. To welcome visitors, it made accurate-reporting sense to choose writer Carl Hiaasen* and photograper Tom Kennedy* to represent ALL IN THE INDEPENDENT FLORIDA ALLIGATOR FAMILY.
The Incredible Pulp
by David Klein
“READ ALL ABOUT IT“
Vol 1 No 1
A.A. Murphree’s Opening Sermon
SEPTEMBER 24, 1912
Insurrection Day
Abortion and Womens’ Rights Matter
OCTOBER 6, 1971
Independence Day
Lighting Gainesville and The University of Florida on journalistic fire.
FEBRUARY 1, 1973
The Mysterious Murphree Stones
Voyage La Florida*
Alligator Time Passages
(1969-1983)
FLORIDA HISTORY
FLORIDA ART & LITERATURE
earthjustice.org
a.lligator*
CONTENTS*
New Student Edition ’81
PG.1* — From The Beginning
PG.2* — Ride Captain Ride
PG.3* — Into The Future [80s]
PG.4* — To The Moon
PG.5* — Lost In Space
PG.1
I’m Gonna Follow You
UF at 75
College Life
On Campus
Gator Country
Blues In The Night
The Daily Scroll [ 1.]
LOCAL NEWS
Fools In Love
“A” Is For Abortion
Insurrection and Independence.
ABORTION
—What a difference a decade makes.
SEX AND THE COLLEGE GIRL
—Laura’s first time, NOT what she imagined.
BIRTH “NATURE’S WAY”
—Nancy Redfern’s “Home” Deliveries
GATOR COUNTRY
—Home of the Good Ol’ Orange & Blue, and sometimes Green.
FOOTBALL ALMIGHTY
As it was, as it is, and as it will always be.
GATOR GROWL
—Growl Contents*
HOMECOMING UF’s BIG TICKET ITEM
—When The Gators Growl Loudest*
Steven Wright, Scott Free @ Lillians
TOM PETTY* (HOMECOMING ’81)
HALLOWEEN BALL
—FULL MOON LUNA(CY)
CLASSIFIED ADS
independent florida navigator*
a.lligator music*
ALLIGATOR MUSIC COLLECTION
GAINESVILLE [PLAYLIST]*
NORTH FLORIDA [PLAYLIST]*
PLAYING GAINESVILLE
CONVENIENCE
Is In The Eye of The Beholder.*
CONVENIENCE (PROBLEM WITH THE GROWL)* PG.2
When Dan Eifert saw blood dripping off his arm, he thought he had been shot in the heart.
Gainesville is Green*
There’s more to Gainesville than meet the academic and football-worshipping eye. In North Florida, Marijuana farming is BIG “BUSINESS,” and Gainesville is WORLD RENOWNED.
God Gators & Guns*
Like any good, God-fearing Bible college in Deep South America, the University of Florida had more than its fair share of students who loved their guns, almost as much as Jesus.
movies
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW*
The Movie With No End
RONALD REAGAN (JUST SAY (OH) NO.
THE TROUBLE WITH OIL
BOMB IRAN (ROCK THE CASBAH)
REAGAN SHOT
NO NUKES (D.C./NYC)
SUMMER IN THE CITY
moving still pictures*
Home Is Where The Rockets Fly.*
Day Tripping (#1.)*
Mysteries In The Florida Jungle
Day Tripping (#2.)*
Weeki Wachee to the Moon [SR50]
Jeff Cardenas [A1A]
A Beach For All Seasons*
SUMMER (MORE THAN A BREAK)
Let’s All Go To The Moon*
On The Alligator Road
w/ CHARLES KURALT*
Happy Days Are Here Again! [PG3]
FLORIDA SUGAR*
How Sweet Is It
The Marstons Have Landed [PG3]*
Sugar (Raw Alternative)
SUWANNEE RIVER (BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL)
Suwannee River Ghost Stories
MAYPORT (JAZZ FESTIVAL)
The General’s Daughter
A Day Trip In The Life of the Independent Florida Alligator
Friday
May 31, 1979
vol. 71 no. 147
The Alligator‘s Patrick Cronin has a psychic moment in Cassadaga,* Florida’s most mysterious town, from Gainesvillians, an easy day trip away.
places
100 THINGS TO DO IN GAINESVILLE (1978)
101 THINGS WE’LL MISS AFTER GRADUATION (1979)
100 THINGS TO DO IN GAINESVILLE (1982)
1980: The Year Everything Changed (1980)
RETURN TO SPACE
April 12, 1981 — A NEW MISSION
Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-1)
Gator Growl ’81*
HOMECOMING
When the Gators Growl Loudest
RODNEY DANGERFIELD
Face(s) In The Crowd
Tom Petty 1981*
DENNIS QUALMANN (SGP)
MUDCRUTCH (Tom Petty Before The Heartbreakers)
TWO TICKETS TO TOM PETTY PARADISE
The Year God Saved The Growl [1980]
Friday
October 24, 1980
Halloween Ball*
LUNA(CY)
A NIGHT OF INSIDIOUS TEMPTATION
BALLS OF OLD
HAVE A BALL (EDITORIAL)
FRANK ZAPPA ’79
QUEEN OF THE BALL ’81
GATORS FROM ANOTHER PLANET
HALLOWEEN NIGHT (XTRA)
Football Almighty*
As it was, as it is, and as it always will be.
Gator Country
The Good Ol’ Orange and Blue
CRIS COLLINSWORTH
Good As Gold
CHARLIE PELL
BEAR BRYANT (DADDY’S HOME)
ALBERT (CELEBRITY REPTILE)
FLORIDA FIELD 1971
FLORIDA FIELD (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE)
FLORIDA FIELD (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) ALT.
FLORIDA FIELD
ARTIFICIAL INTELEGENCE
LAST STAND (SOUTH END)
HOPE FOR 1980, AFTER 1979’s DISASTER
STEVE SPURRIER
& His Christian Gator Warriors
Danny Wuerffel
Tim Tebow
ALBERT (THE ALLIGATOR)
DR. CADE (GATORADE)
PAY TO PLAY (TUTORING ATHLETES)
YOGI BERRA (Visitor)
Gainesville is Green
GAINESVILLE IS GREEN (CONTENTS)
GREENER GRASS (EDITORIAL)
GREEN GRASS & HIGH TIDES (BIG BUSINESS)
LEGALIZE IT
NARCS AMONG US
POTTED PLANTS
IF BONGS WERE OUTLAWED
HOMEGROWN WILDWOOD WEED
“Marijuana is illegal because it makes you God.”
STEVE (“Z”) THE EDUCATED FARMER
“I’d Like To Fertilize Her Buds.”
Marston and UF’s administration called the “sexist” and “drug permissive” skits in 1982, “the lowest point in Gator Growl history.”
God Gators & Guns
GOD GATORS & GUNS (CONTENTS)
SMART GUNS
CONVENIENCE (IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER) PG1
CONVENIENCE (PROBLEM WITH THE GROWL) PG2
COOLING OFF (EDITORIAL)
THE LAST WORD (DECEMBER 8, 1980)
POINT BLANK (GUN LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)
SHOTS IN THE DARK (GOD GUNS & GATORS)
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES (LOOKING DOWN THE BARREL OF A GUN)
DAILY GUNS (GATORS IN ARMS)
DOMINANCE AND SUBMISSION (WHOSE AIM IS TRUE?)
XTRA GUNS
FOR THE LOVE OF GUNS (WORKING)
GOD COUNTRY & GAINESVILLE
GUNS & VIOLENCE
JANIS JOPLIN AND GUNS
people
ALBERT A. MURPHREE (THE HOLY SPIRIT)
Front Page News (1912) Flagler’s Moon
HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER (THE DEVELOPER)
STEPHEN C. O’CONNELL (COMMANDER IN CHEIF)
ROBERT Q. MARSTON (RAISING FUNDS FOR JESUS)
TOM PETTY (FAVORITE SON)
CRIS COLLINSWORTH (GOOD AS GOLD)
TRACY CAULKINS (KILLER QUEEN)
HOWARD APPLEDORF (LIFE AND DEATH IN A COLLEGE TOWN)
HARRY CREWS (THE UNPOPULAR TRUTH)
JERRY UELSMANN (PHOTOSURREALIST)
ERICH FARBER (SOLAR STUDIES)
SCOTT CAMIL (COMING HOME)
FATHER MICHAEL GANNON (PEACE BE WITH YOU)
Saint Among Us*
FATHER GANNON
“Peace Be With You”
ALLIGATOR (JAN 14, 1971)
Spirit In The Sky*
FATHER GANNON
“One Fine Morning”
UF ARCHIVE (2017)
NANCY REDFERN (A NATURAL WOMAN)
JOHNNY HINES (UNIVERSITY AVENUE BLUES)
MR. 2-BITS (HEAD CHEERLEADER)
GATORMAN (LIVING IN A DREAM)
ALBERT (GATOR #1)
STEVE SPURRIER (THE ANOINTED GATOR)
DR. CADE (THE GATORS’ AID)
SONNY TILLMAN (BARBEQUE ON THE HILL)
FRED BAER (BOW HUNTER)
Dead Presidents
ALBERT A. MURPHREE* (THE HOLY GATOR)
Best Bible College in the Land. Southland, that is.
STEPHEN C. O’CONNELL* (GATOR IN CHEIF)
ROBERT Q. MARSTON* (GOOD CHRISTIAN GATOR)
news
RETURN TO SPACE (ALLIGATOR)
SHUTTLE
RETURN TO SPACE (COLUMBIA MTV SPACE COAST)
MARIEL BOAT LIFT (Kyle Kulish Kim Kulish Barbara Hansen)
MIAMI BURNING (David Futch Albert Diaz)
IN THE PRESENCE OF THE POPE (“FUNKY NASSAU”)
IN LAKE CITY, FLORIDA, THE KKK CALLS ITSELF CHRISTIAN.
September 8, 1981
THE KKK WILL NEVER DIE.
February 26, 1982
DEATH PENALTY (THE FINAL PENALTY?)
WOMEN INMATES (EQUAL PRISON RIGHTS)
LOOKING BACK AT HELL (SUICIDAL VET)
O’CONNELL CENTER (OF ATTENTION)
O’CONNELL CENTER (“O” DOME)
CONVENIENCE IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
HOSTAGES IN IRAN
PREACHERS (ON THE GREEN)
GOD, GUNS, & GATORS
FLORIDA NUKES
dead presidents
ALBERT A. MURPHREE* (THE HOLY SPIRIT)
Murphree’s Opening Message (alt.)
Best Bible College in the Land. CHRISTIAN SOUTHLAND THAT IS.
STEPHEN C. O’CONNELL’S SUDDEN RESIGNATION
by CARL HIAASEN
ROBERT Q. MARSTON* (THE FUNDRAISER)
NIXON “GOODBYE DICK”
GERALD FORD (“SUBSTITUTE”)
JIMMY CARTER (“EVEN THE LOSERS”)
CARTER “RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA”
RONALD REAGAN (“JUST SAY OH NO”)
The Mysterious Murphree Stones
GROUND ZERO*
MURPHREE STONES [INTRODUCTION]*
MURPHREE STONES [STORY]*
Gainesville Places
UF PLACES
Hyde & Zeke
Leonardo’s* (PEPPERONI AND A FIG LEAF)
Nell’s Take Out*
Dub’s Steer House Lounge*
a.lligator*
PG1 — FROM THE BEGINNING
PG2 — RIDE CAPTAIN RIDE
PG3 — INTO THE ’80S
PG4 — TO THE MOON
PG5 — LOST IN SPACE
Summer ’69*
1968 — For Earth Below (APOLLO 8)
1969 — Gator On The Moon (APOLLO 11)
1971 — Space Truckin’ (APOLLO 14)
Apollo 11
JULY 1969 — ALLIGATOR MOON
JULY 08 — GATOR IN WAITING
JULY 11 — TENURE MATTERS
JULY 15 — ANXIOUS MOON
JULY 18 — LUNAR REST AND RELAXATION
JULY 22 — PIONEER STROLLING
JULY 25 — HOME AGAIN
The “Astro” MixTapes
MOON SHOT (PLAYLIST)*
MOON SHOT (PBS) VIDEO [WATCH IT]
MOON (PLAYLIST)*
EARTH (PLAYLIST)*
Apollo 14
FEBRUARY 3, 1971
Special Delivery
Back To The Moon
Artemis
APRIL 1, 2026 — After fifty five years, NASA sends men (and women) back to the Moon. (((VIDEO))) See it like a Native, including the drive north on Indian River Drive (The River Road) to the 1880s church, with a widow’s watch with a clear view of the Sacred Ground, across the Indian River Lagoon.
SPACEX (MARCH 31, 2026)
ARTEMIS (K’S BEACH)
ARTEMIS (A MOON TO REMEMBER)
ARTEMIS (IN THE SHADE)
It’s All Greek To Me
Squeal Day
The Thrill of Victory or The Agony of Defeat. The most important moment in a young girl’s college life.
Sad Night For The Brother
A fraternity hopeful, who just broke up with his girlfriend, spent the night drowning in his own Rush Week Tears.
Smart Guns
One UF freshman loves his machine gun, and he’s not the only one. The number of firearms living in on-campus housing is alarming.
Convenience Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
When I saw blood dripping off my elbow, I thought he had shot me in the heart.
Killer: It’s All In The Game
Jayne Thompson and her associate set out to assassinate Greg Taylor, a transfer student from Alabama, FOR THE FUN OF IT. It was fun, but the game called KILLER wasn’t played without risk.
Killer News Story
The Naked Truth
A revealing visit to a camp in the Central Florida woods.
PLAYBOY PLAYMATE AND MISS NUDE WORLD
Taking The Plunge
What’s so funny about jumping out of an airplane?
Invasion of the Quarter Snatchers
In the early 1980s, video games had arrived, and college campuses were fertile ground to nuture what would become a social “gaming” addiction.
University Avenue
BLUES IN THE NIGHT
AFTER MIDNIGHT (UF NIGHTLIFE)
Johnny Hines
MUDDY WATERS (GAINESVILLE LOVE STORY)
BO DIDDLEY
BB KING @ THE COTTON CLUB
Chitlin’ Circuit
Opinions
ABORTION (WHOSE CHOICE?)
CONVENIENCE (IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER)
DEATH (THE FINAL PENALTY?)
JANE, JOAN, AND JANIS
E.R.A. (ALLIGATOR) PG 1.
E.R.A. (ALLIGATOR) PG 2.
TITLE IX (PLAYING LIKE GIRLS)
UFLAGS HAVE NO REITZ
A COLD WASHINGTON WINTER (VIETNAM MEMORIAL)
NICARAUGUA MARCH 19, 1982
JUST SAY OH NO (IRAN, BOMBS, HOSTAGES, AND OIL)
THE DRAFT
DRINKING (ALCOHOL: AGE & ABUSE)
JUST SAY NO (1980) NANCY & RON
IRAN (BOMBS, HOSTAGES, AND OIL)
The Clash “Rock The Casbah”
FLORIDA NUKES
SHELTER FROM THE NUCLEAR STORM (D.C.)
Letters
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE TROUBLE WITH LAURA
SATIRE IS HARD TO DO
SLOW MOTION (TURTLE RACING CONTROVERSY)
ABORTIONS (RIGHTS AND WRONG?
UFLAGS HAVE NO REITZ
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES
Convenience is in the eye of the beholder.
GUNS ‘R’ US
BAD NEIGHBORS
VANILLA AND CHOCOLATE DON’T MIX
DEAN OF THE PIT
FIGHTING DOGS
RACING TURTLES
BOMB IRAN!
Letters
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE TROUBLE WITH LAURA
SATIRE IS HARD TO DO
SLOW MOTION (TURTLE RACING CONTROVERSY)
ABORTIONS (RIGHTS AND WRONG?
UFLAGS HAVE NO REITZ
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES
Convenience is in the eye of the beholder.
GUNS ‘R’ US
BAD NEIGHBORS
VANILLA AND CHOCOLATE DON’T MIX
DEAN OF THE PIT
FIGHTING DOGS
RACING TURTLES
BOMB IRAN!
Movies
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW*
Movie With No End
American Pie
Don McLean
@ The Florida Gym
((( UF LIFE )))
alligator
It started with Ed*
JANUARY 15, 1971 — Ed Barber was, and will always be, the Soul of the Independent Florida Alligator. It was early 1971, and as operations manager, it was Ed’s decision to refuse “abortion” ads that had been submitted to the Alligator, as they had to college newspapers around the country.
At the time, the Alligator was published by the university and its right-wing Christian president, Stephen C. O’Connell. Ed followed the righteous “rules,” but also started to work with Hugh Cunningham, Ron Sachs, and Jean Chance in the rebellious effort to sever the Alligator’s relationship with UF.
After dealing with all the abortion shit that had hit the fan, Ed, encouraged by Hugh Cunningham was more than instrumental in securing the Alligator’s independence, and its move across University Avenue to the office behind the College Inn, a few small rooms at the end of the Inn’s hall of walk-in refrigerators. [SEE THE JAN. 15, 1971 ALLIGATOR HERE]
THE ALLIGATOR AND ABORTION
It Started With Ed (JANUARY 15, 1971)
APOLLO 14 (FEBRUARY 3, 1971)
For the Alligator, America sending astronauts to the Moon was “local” news.
ARTEMIS 2 (APRIL 1, 2026)
Fifty five years after Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon, four NASA astronauts and their Orion/Artemis 2 rocket were launched from the 39B, and onto orbit the Moon, having travelled farther from Earth than any manned mission before.