Students drawn to new languages
By LINDSEY ROBINSON | Jan. 14, 2008While enrollment figures in some language courses at UF have dwindled, others have increased by over 200 percent in the past eight years.
While enrollment figures in some language courses at UF have dwindled, others have increased by over 200 percent in the past eight years.
The sweet smell of flowers and fancy food floated through the air. Future brides bustled from table to table to explore wedding options. A few men stood around - some looked excited, some looked bored.
A UF team's research could soon double the number of known planets outside our solar system.
Those who enjoy a plate of Krishna Lunch will have to pay an extra dollar for the hot vegetarian meal.
Bernard Machen, the father of UF President Bernie Machen, died in Gainesville Wednesday after a long illness. He was 94.
A student branch of The Peace Alliance, a nonpartisan national organization promoting peace, was formed recently to include students in Gainesville.
An upcoming speech at UF from Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who spent eight years in prison for assisting more than 130 suicides, has spurred about 1,000 e-mails to UF's administration in the past few days.
After closing for the holidays, the Kika Silva Pla Planetarium at SFCC will reopen Friday night, but admission is no longer free.
Flu season has officially arrived on UF's campus.
Following state funding cuts, UF students may have to take the summer off whether they like it or not.
After trudging through a Mexican rainforest, visiting his grandparents' birthplace in Greece and studying calligraphy in Japan, Christopher Matthews had charged almost ,5,000 on his Visa credit card.
If low-carb dieting, exercising daily or watching online lectures doesn't seem to be working as your New Year's resolution, perhaps a more artistic approach will stick.
Get ready to rumble.
Following Tuesday's New Hampshire presidential primaries, UF student groups supporting both the Democrats and the Republicans expressed satisfaction with the Democratic winner - but for different reasons.
The Student Government program that extended Library West's operating hours during final exams could become a finals-week fixture if UF's library administration is satisfied with the results.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist appointed two new members to UF's highest governing body, the Board of Trustees, on Wednesday.
As the final beam of the Shands at UF Cancer Hospital ascended into the air with the help of a powerful crane, the hopes of those searching for a cure lifted a little, too.
Students could have the chance to cap the size of UF Student Senate close to its current amount if senators approve a constitutional amendment proposed Tuesday night.
I'm not a particularly religious man, thought Robert Zieger as he made the long walk from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to his car. It's just a Baptist preacher, and I need to pick up my wife anyway, he said to himself.
The UF student groups involved in a campus free-speech controversy that got national attention met last month to discuss the issue and to put it behind them.