Two architectural firms are visiting UF this week to discuss possible expansions and renovations to the Reitz Union. Students have the opportunity to meet with the team in two open forums.
Hoping to get a glimpse of their futures Friday night, about 50 students lined up to see psychics at the first floor of the Reitz Union. Three psychics tended to five students at a time for 10 minute sessions.
The Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo opened its haunted home to more than 5,000 people for an afternoon of fairy tales and furry tails Saturday for its 15th annual Boo at the Zoo.
The text message, sent a little after 11 a.m. on Friday, took just over eight minutes to be sent out to cell phone carriers, said UF spokesman Steve Orlando.
Candlelight flickered in the humid Thursday night, as the normally bustling Plaza of the Americas quieted during a vigil for breast cancer.
Halloween in Gainesville is about to get a whole lot wilder.
A UF department chair resigned earlier this month following accusations that he had sex with students.
Student Body President Jordan Johnson said an anonymous donor presented him with a 10-foot-long oar to heat up the rivalry between UF and the University of Georgia.
The first phase of UF's campus-wide tobacco ban will go into effect Sunday at UF's Health Science Center and all Shands at UF facilities.
Dominic "The Drill Instructor" Esposito, a staff writer for Pool & Billard Magazine known for dressing in drill instructor garb, gave onlookers tips and techniques on how to improve at pool.
After a flubbed test of its emergency messaging system Wednesday, UF will send another batch of text messages to students and employees some time Friday.
The UF College of Fine Arts re-created Johann Sebastian Bach for a "live" video Web cast. Resembling the technology used by Pixar Animation Studios, Bach answered questions from the audience at Norman Hall.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was the topic of interest Thursday when UF’s Pro-Life Alliance held a demonstration on the Plaza of the Americas. The organization called the demonstration Margaret Sanger Exposed and talked about her attitude toward eugenics, or selective breeding, through sterilization and birth control.
Five bands will play a free show an the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom as part of The Fest 8, a punk music festival taking place Friday through Sunday in Gainesville.
About 40 residents of Maguire Village and University Village South, two of UF’s graduate and family housing facilities, met with officials from the Department of Housing Thursday night to discuss problems with their wireless Internet.
UF said it will conduct another test of its emergency messaging system soon – perhaps Thursday – after problems plagued its test Wednesday.
Florida Prepaid's tuition differential fee plan has raised its price for newborns from $4,600 in 2008 to $20,000 in 2009.
Representatives from 25 UF organizations participated in Student Government's Politics on the Plaza to encourage students get politically involved on campus.
About 30 members of the comedy troupe Theatre Strike Force pretended to be a horde of zombies on campus. They were inspired by the UF Emergency Zombie Plan that appeared on e-Learning and was taken down earlier this month.
A resolution supporting a one-cent pay increase for Immokalee workers passed 57-19 in the Student Senate on Wednesday. The workers pick tomatoes used by Aramark, UF's food provider.
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