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When Saleha Huuda showed up to try out for the UF Competitive Cheerleading squad, her smile immediately made an impression, and her skills as a flyer had her fellow cheerleaders fighting over who would be the one to catch her as she fell from the air.
We here at the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column understand this season has been a little underwhelming.
Now that the bloodletting has stopped and we collectively nurse our wounds after a messy and angry election cycle, the mantle of governance weighs heavy on newly minted insurgent members of Congress.
I admit — I wept when Jon Stewart announced “The Rally to Restore Sanity.” Since entering college, this girl, who once thought there were no such things as “stupid people,” had grown into the kind of person burdened with very real nausea at a glimpse of Fox News. Or any news program, for that matter. Any message board, too. Any public political dialogue that descended into arrogance and insanity — and so many do. The reaction frustrated me, and when Stewart called for a rally to encourage reasonableness and respect in public discourse, I felt my anxieties might be soothed.
To prepare for the weekend’s Friends of the Library fall book sale, volunteers Ron Beauchamp and Peter Levine are finishing up organizing the music corner, complete with records, eight-track tapes and cassettes.
A young boy loudly announced what most had already noticed at Hogtown Reptile Shop Saturday afternoon.
In the fall, Gainesville is a hustling, bustling place.
The infamous Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sending an estimated 5,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day.
Competing for a national title on the field it uses for practice is a dream scenario for any team, but for the UF Paintball Club, that scenario involves a trip to Lakeland.
Hot. Tub. Time. Machine. These four little words bring together an awesome '80s atmosphere with the humor of the 2000s to transport movie-goers back to a time they barely remember.
Tales about snakes more than 40 feet long will be told, plate tectonics will be explained with Oreos, and stones will become jewelry Saturday at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
In a society that goes out of its way to celebrate the mediocre — Applebee’s restaurants, allowing the Detroit Lions to be televised on Thanksgiving Day, ‘80s music — we really outdo ourselves on March 17.
Whether guests are taking full advantage of the not-so-complimentary items or are caught canoodling with their loved ones in the pool, a recent survey found a lot more hotel guests have checked their inhibitions at the door.
Meat eaters gathered on the Plaza of the Americas Wednesday to sample a slice of political activism for the "PETA Barbeque" held by College Republicans.
Four hundred and four years ago today the infamous Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament was foiled, and co-conspirator Guy Fawkes was consequently executed. Though I do not condone acts of violence, this event serves as an important reminder for us all to stay vigilant in the face of tyranny. During the pre-revolutionary era in America, colonists celebrated Nov. 5 to express their anger toward the authoritarian government back in England, providing the foundation for the American Revolution. Today it is celebrated to express opposition to an increasingly belligerent government that not only puts our liberties at risk but also undermines the very principles this country was founded on.
Members of UF's Model United Nations and students linked themselves through their support of global cooperation among nations Thursday.
A 2-year-old girl getting strangled by her parents' escaped Burmese python should finally convince Florida to ban the sale of dangerous reptiles.
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