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VOLUME 111 ISSUE 19 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

UF volleyball plays at home this weekendRhamat Alhassan leads the Gators in blocks, pg. 14

SG platform generation endsImpact Party received hundreds of suggestions, pg. 5

Grand Jury: Police justifi ed in March shootingRobert Dentmond was 16 when police shot him, pg. 5

Michelle Kwan speaks with studentsShe discussed her support for Hillary Clinton, pg. 3

CAMPUS

By Melissa GomezAlligator Staff Writer

Passion Pit, Waka Flocka Flame and DJ Whoo Kid, Timefl ies and Maddie & Tae will perform at Gator Growl 2016, organizers announced Thursday.

This is the fi rst time four artists will perform at the event. The in-crease in the number of perform-

ers, up from three artists in 2015, was to encourage more of a music-festival type of atmosphere, said Tristan Ahlquist, the associate pro-ducer of communications for Gator Growl.

The event, hosted by Student Government Productions and Flor-ida Blue Key, will take place on Flavet Field on Oct. 14 at 6 p.m. Student tickets are $15, and public

tickets are $25. Pit pass tickets, for access to the front of the stages, are double the price of a general admission ticket.

This year, the event will have two stages, but only one performer at a time, Ahlquist said. The event was able to include a fourth art-

ist because of an increase in fund-ing from money raised from last year’s event, he said.

Deciding on the perform-ers came down

to the artists’ schedules, Ahlquist said, adding that the committee looked for artists of different genres so students would be able to enjoy different types of music all in one place.

“We thought a lot about the in-terest of our students,” he said.

UF linguistics senior Wills Blake decided to buy tickets when he saw Passion Pit and Waka Flocka were coming, despite not knowing the

Passion Pit, Waka Flocka Flame, more to perform at Gator Growl

By Melissa Gomez Alligator Staff Writer

After more than a year as dean, Lau-ra Ann Rosenbury has changed the face of the UF Levin College of Law.

Since she began, the law school has enrolled not only its most diverse in-coming class — with 35.9 percent of in-coming students identifying as ethnical-ly diverse — but also the most selective; their average LSAT law school aptitude test score was three points higher than

the previous year’s.However, not all of her decisions

have sat well with students and faculty.After an essay Rosenbury authored

in Spring was published, students of the law school took to social media to ex-press their discontent with her. In the essay, she wrote about a former student and a UF law professor who made sexist comments by referring to her as “young and vivacious” during a banquet last Fall.

Students on social media argued the

dean should have refrained from iden-tifying the student, saying it was unfair for her to identify the two men in a neg-ative light.

“Attacking a student as a Dean of one of the graduate programs is a really bad precedent,” one commenter posted.

Rosenbury, 46, said she thought that by not including names, she was keep-ing it confi dential.

“I thought by declining to use their names, I was doing enough to protect their identity,” she said in a phone in-terview. “In hindsight, I would have worked harder to protect the identity”

of the student and faculty member, she said.

She said she doesn’t believe the men meant anything by the comment, but it was something she felt needed to be ad-dressed.

“I believe that we fi rst need to iden-tify problems before we begin to solve them, and one way to begin to identify the problem is to talk about them and then to discuss,” she said.

Jeffrey L. Harrison, a UF law pro-fessor, said although he doesn’t agree

A look into Levin: Students, faculty express administrative concerns

LOCAL

IN 30 DAYS, SHE WILL

BRING SUPPLIES TO 20

REFUGEE CAMPS.

By Rebekah DainAlligator Contributing Writer

The night before she was set to leave, Cindy Nelly’s living room was full of supplies.

A sleeping bag. A suitcase full of prenatal vitamins. An obstetrical kit.

After watching the civil war in Syria unfold over the past six years — and displace millions — the UF alumna felt it was time.

At 6 a.m. Wednesday, Nelly put her life in Gainesville on hold as she boarded an airplane bound for Turkey. Upon landing on the East-ern coast of the country, she began a monthlong medical trip, tending to

women and children at more than 20 refugee camps.

“It really just calls to me,” she said. “It feels like I have to go.”

� � �The trip to Turkey had been

weeks in the making.On Aug. 5, the 46-year-old mid-

wife and advanced nurse practitio-ner set up a GoFundMe page to fun-nel donations.

About a month later, the page has raised more than $8,100, which Nel-ly will use to buy medical supplies, like antibiotics, sutures and bandag-es, in Turkey.

Within the country’s borders, the money translates to nearly 24,000 Turkish liras.

Nelly said the need for health care

UF alumna heads to Turkey

Isabel Bonnet / Alligator Staff

Cindy Nelly, 46, packs on Tuesday evening before leaving to Turkey on Wednesday morning to give medical aid to women and children at several refugee camps. Since Aug. 5, the UF alumna has raised more than $8,100 to purchase medical supplies in the country, where she will stay for a month.

SEE GATOR GROWL, PAGE 4

SEE REFUGEE, PAGE 4

SEE LAW DEAN, PAGE 4

Waka Flocka FlamePassion Pit

Rosenbury

Four artists will perform

Some unhappy with dean’s decisions