Gazing over sandy dunes into the calm Atlantic, one can almost ignore the brisk wind ever-present even in June, and imagine being on the shores of Florida. However here, on the beaches of Normandy, France, thousands have gathered to remember the events of June 6, 1944- known by Americans as D-Day.
Everything on the agenda was approved unanimously as a block during Tuesday night’s Student Senate meeting.
UF’s student senate unanimously elected Sen. Kevin Doan for the newest member-at-large position for the replacement and agenda committee during it’s June 3 meeting.
A Gainesville man was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly having 14 grams of weed in his car, along with prescription pills.
The UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital has been ranked among the nation’s best children’s hospitals this year, according to a new U.S. News & World Report list.
Local police identified a UF student on Wednesday after back-to-back public masturbation incidents earlier in the week.
The Stephen C. O’Connell Center will get a $45 million face-lift next year, UF and the University Athletic Association announced Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the Alligator ran a column titled “‘Pull and pray’: Yay or Nay?” singing the praises of the pull-out birth control method. We realize that the piece didn’t emphasize a few key pieces of information: That, like all birth control, the pull-out method isn’t for everyone, and furthermore, the study quoted in the article stipulated that the pull-out method should be used in conjunction with other forms of birth control.
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama outlined key changes to how millions of Americans repay their student loans. After years of typical political talk about student loan reform, someone finally took action on a growing issue that seriously threatens our economy.
Gainesville 3-D tech startup Paracosm won second place and $50,000 at this year’s CAT5 Awards Competition in Orlando.
One year, six months and eight days after he officially joined the Florida football staff, Joker Phillips is out as the Gators’ wide receivers coach after resigning Wednesday, according to the school’s website.
An activist group is trying to push the Princeton Review to include information on sexual assault in its rankings, but members of the UF community disagree.
JACKSONVILLE — Beautiful chaos precedes the beautiful game. It’s hot and sticky, just the way it will be every afternoon for the next four months in Northern Florida, but they are not deterred. They march for the sport they love. They march for their country’s colors and the team they’re so passionate about — their only hope is that their passion bleeds over to you. If you hang around them long enough, it’s impossible not to get swept up in the red, white and blue fever they exude from their pores right along with the sweat from the June heat.
Prior to this week, my knowledge of American colleges was limited to a vast array of American movies. Surprisingly, life on an American campus doesn't seem to be exactly like an American Pie movie. My journey to Gainesville began all the way back in England, which seems a million miles away from the orange and blue town that I will soon be calling home.
Florida has landed its quarterback of the future.
With the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs still vying for an NBA championship, two former Gators are playing, but neither is making much of a contribution to his team’s postseason run.
After the Gators’ subpar effort from the previous NCAA Indoors, the Florida track squads had another chance at redemption.
Ecoterrorism, the subject of Kelly Reichardt’s “Night Moves,” is a tricky topic to think about.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup kicks off today, and Gainesville bars are ready for the influx of customers during the month-long international soccer championship.
Phoenix-based folk-punk outfit Andrew Jackson Jihad proved on Sunday night at High Dive that punk isn’t dead. What’s more, it can be all at once smart, sincere and totally delirious.
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