A UF student was taken to Shands at UF on Tuesday morning after she was hit by a Regional Transit System bus on West University Avenue, having suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
You hit below the belt, Rush. Well, actually right at the waistline.
We have a strange way of looking at tragedy and what’s important. It is our nature to be unconcerned about issues that do not directly affect us. I don’t know which is worse – the people who display complete ignorance of how their actions today will change the future, clinging to antiquated views through a misguided notion that to “stick to your guns” is a virtue despite new evidence, or whiny, liberal types who only care about issues as long as the problem doesn’t reach their doorsteps.
Robert Rodriguez (“Sin City”) directed a short film starring Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant called “The Black Mamba” for Nike, which was just released online over the NBA All-Star weekend.
Residents of the neighborhoods around the contaminated former wood processing plant, the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site, shared their stories and their disappointment about the Superfund cleanup plan at recent City and County Commission meetings.
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The annual film festival's competitive event comes once more, bringing filmmakers and film enthusiasts from across the country (and beyond its borders) to town.
Alex Panteliodis led the Gators with 11 wins, 84 strikeouts and 100 innings pitched last season, and he did it all with a bad hip.
With a quarter of the Southeastern Conference season remaining, Alabama has already locked up the West.
It didn’t take long for distance runner Dumisane Hlaselo to set a school record. In fact, it only took him 3:56.84.
For the second time in the last year, Florida lost a national title to Stanford.
In high school, our designated picture taker was Katie. Pictures were a must, and somebody had to take on the burden of snapping all the photos we’d instantly upload to Facebook and comment on for weeks. Katie never complained; in fact, she enjoyed it to a point it could get annoying.
Kyle Weber swore the girl was 17, but when he started sending sexually explicit pictures from his cell phone to a 15-year-old, it was the beginning of series of events that would land him in jail.
How loud is the roar of the crowd when the Gators score a touchdown?
We’ve already established that we’re a little old-school with our love for physical books. While we learn to slowly embrace the digital reading revolution, we’ve overlooked another change. The influx of 3-D movies has been well-documented and discussed, but for the most part we haven’t worried about the reasoning behind the fad. If filmmakers want us to feel like those action-movie explosions are happening in our faces, so be it.
The Wisconsin union crisis took us by surprise.
Travis Hornsby, the author of a letter published Monday in support of block tuition, has unfortunately taken sips of the block tuition Kool-Aid. Over the past few months, I’ve heard the administration espouse the virtues of block tuition, all the while trying to sweep under the rug its dirty little secrets. The fact of the matter is this plan will cost the average student more; there is no way around it.
A plan to modernize downtown Gainesville has been mapped out and color-coded.
UF Student Government is giving local politicians a reason to put UF back on their radar.
For three credits and 150 hours a semester, students of POS4940 stroll the campaign trail, passing fliers, hanging fliers and holding signs on busy street corners.
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