The serial comma is serious business
By AMANDA MILLIGAN | Apr. 6, 2010The serial comma is used in everyday written English except in journalism writing. It is meant to clear up ambiguity, but is removing the comma really necessary?
The serial comma is used in everyday written English except in journalism writing. It is meant to clear up ambiguity, but is removing the comma really necessary?
In this week's MusiCast, we're keepin' you current.
Florida is still searching for its offensive identity, but the Gators got a step closer to figuring it out Monday.
He was taught never to hit a woman.
Brian Johnson used to keep runs off the scoreboard.
After two consecutive disappointing performances, the Gators were in desperate need of some momentum.
A great debate will take place tonight at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on a topic as old as Adam and Eve.
What does an orgasm look like?
Disney representatives will be on campus today looking for students who want to make a career at the happiest place on Earth.
More window-smashing burglaries have occurred in student-dense areas.
This fall, being turned away from full exercise classes will be a thing of the past — for a price.
First it was the hippies and communist professors who were corrupting our children’s minds with radical concepts such as gravity and the letter “Q.” Then it was those damn femi-Nazis who wanted to turn our prom queens into jezebels who choke down birth control pills like Skittles.
In an attempt to promote one of the human body’s most vital organs, UF’s Neuroscience Club kicked off its Brain Awareness Week Monday.
A rally calling for justice for graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong will take place today from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Turlington Plaza.
Paul Murty made several appalling claims in his column last Friday. First, he claimed there were “pretty valid reasons” for the cover-ups of sexual abuse. The only reason he gave is a shortage of priests. Is that a reason to cover up child sex abuse? What about a teacher shortage? Then he claimed “people seem to think that these problems are only in the Catholic Church,” implicitly blaming the media for the misconception.
City commissioners decided to support private investment in Five Points, a small urbanized area of the city, and land along Hawthorne Road in a Community Development Committee meeting Monday.
What is the deal with 3-D?
After debate over which university is the No. 1 party school, some UF students have developed their own ways of deciding.
Matthew Wagshol, a senior in UF's mechanical engineering program, takes his shoes off, sprawls out and enjoys his time between classes in the warm weather on Monday afternoon. He avoided the heat by lying in the shade beside his bicycle on the North Lawn behind the Reitz Union. Monday's temperatures reached a high of 87 degrees. Steven H. Keys / Alligator Staff