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(03/26/08 12:00am)
For years, Florida's public universities have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to the Board of Governors at its request, but Florida State University will not comply this year with a system one lawmaker deemed "soft extortion."
(03/24/08 12:00am)
About 200 people watched 36 modern-day cowboys in pursuit of cattle and prizes on Saturday for UF's third-annual Ropin' in the Swamp competition.
(03/24/08 12:00am)
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(03/21/08 12:00am)
In her four years as a sideline reporter for ESPN, Erin Andrews has been outrun by football coaches, knocked over by a defensive lineman and forced to fight rumors that she was dating West Virginia University's quarterback, Pat White.
(03/21/08 12:00am)
A UF animal science class will hold its third annual cattle-roping competition, dubbed "Ropin' in the Swamp," on Saturday.
(03/18/08 12:00am)
A legislative proposal that would restructure education governance in Florida is a few steps closer to becoming law.
(03/17/08 12:00am)
Elton John has pushed back his Gainesville appearance to April 24 due to a kidney stone, UF President Bernie Machen announced at a Board of Trustees meeting Friday.
(03/17/08 12:00am)
Terry Hynes, the former dean of UF's College of Journalism and Communications, has been selected to fill the senior vice chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs position at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
(03/07/08 12:00am)
Two U.S. senators shared their views on this year's presidential candidates and the work awaiting the winner during a speech Thursday night.
(03/06/08 12:00am)
Hundreds of UF students, officials and alumni gathered at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service on Wednesday morning to dedicate the center and honor its namesake - a man UF President Bernie Machen deemed UF's "most prominent graduate."
(03/05/08 12:00am)
David McCullough, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian for the books "Truman" and "John Adams," spoke to a sold-out UF audience Tuesday night about the importance of writing.
(03/05/08 12:00am)
Members of the Florida Board of Governors are up in arms about a proposed joint legislative resolution that would strip the board of many powers and put higher education in the hands of the Legislature.
(02/29/08 12:00am)
Editor's Note: The state Board of Education does not oversee the Board of Governors.
(02/28/08 12:00am)
Some students don T-shirts proclaiming Gainesville a "drinking town with a football problem." But to a group of UF students, drinking is no joke.
(02/26/08 12:00am)
Kosovo's recent independence and subsequent Serbian protests hit close to home for some UF students.
(02/25/08 12:00am)
For Florida and Georgia, competition goes beyond football. A bill sponsored by Georgia state Rep. Barry Fleming would ban personalized license plates in Georgia honoring other state universities, including UF, if Florida and other states don't return the favor.
(02/22/08 12:00am)
Florida's two U.S. senators pledged to look for ways to reduce financial burdens on health care providers in an appearance at Shands at UF on Thursday.
(02/22/08 12:00am)
To comply with requests from the Board of Governors to stifle enrollment for the fall, UF may be left with only one option: cutting transfer students. And that news did not sit well across town at SFCC.
(02/21/08 12:00am)
Giant posters of bloody bodies on UF's Plaza of the Americas on Wednesday offered passersby and students eating lunch pictures of what organizers called a new kind of genocide - abortion.
(02/20/08 12:00am)
Fidel Castro, the Cuban president who overthrew the government on the island 90 miles south of Florida in 1959, resigned Tuesday. Still, as some celebrated the news, UF experts predicted relations between Cuba and the United States would remain strained.