Weekend events raise $6,300 for Haiti relief
By MINCH MINCHIN | Jan. 24, 2010Events included a gala, a concert and a pancake dinner.
Events included a gala, a concert and a pancake dinner.
Chandler Parsons is starting to feel a little lucky.
Stephanie Alman, president of the UF chapter of Invisible Children, said she was proud of the work supporters did during the contest.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — If you ask Kenny Boynton, Erving Walker wasn’t just the best player on the floor in the first half Thursday night.
The Gators went into Memorial Coliseum wanting to prove they could excel away from the friendly confines of the O’Connell Center.
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams celebrated the careers of 15 seniors Friday against Auburn on Senior Day.
The voting ends midnight for Chase Bank’s $1 million Community Giving Facebook promotion.
Things couldn’t have been much worse for Alabama, which was in the basement of the Southeastern Conference, heading into its game against Florida on Thursday.
Every year the Gators bring in a recruiting class filled with talented prospects, often with many at the same position.
After notching their first win of the season last week, the Gators are out to prove just how good they can be.
Lane Kiffin’s departure from Tennessee to USC certainly doesn’t hurt UF’s recruiting class, but the Gators didn’t really need the help.
The Gators men’s tennis team opens its spring dual match season against in-state competition at home and then hit the road for an early season out-of-conference.
To many Americans, iconic images like the fall of the Berlin Wall symbolize change in regime.
The Gainesville City Commission continues to debate the start date for the cleanup efforts of the Koppers Inc. industrial site.
For UF students, fundraising for Haiti this weekend may be as simple as eating pancakes, listening to music or attending a gala.
He’s been the Gainesville City Commissioner since 2003, but tonight Craig Lowe is taking another step in his climb up the political ladder.
Some people believe that Tuesday’s Republican victory in Massachusetts, which may have cut the throat of health care reform, was big news. I beg to differ. The big news came out of a large room holding nine small people and a few witnesses on Thursday afternoon. It was doomsday for the individual in American politics. The Supreme Court decided on Thursday that corporations and unions are no longer beholden to the rules that had limited their spending on federal elections. Remember that date. Because the gargantuan coffers of those corporations and unions are now open very, very wide, and the words “shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech” have led to some very murky consequences. Justice John Paul Stevens read a long, lonely dissent from the bench. He called the decision “a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have ... fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the time of Theodore Roosevelt.”
Editor’s note: This letter was written in response to Thursday’s sex column. To read the column, visit alligator.org/the_avenue
We’re not sure about you, but the Editorial Board is certainly glad to see it’s almost the weekend. We’re already annoyed, pissed off and just plain exhausted. So why don’t we skip the formalities and go right to Darts & Laurels
30,364 vs. 210. Obviously, 30,364 is a much greater number than 210. Sadly, the former amount represents the number of gun-related deaths, including homicides, suicides and accidental deaths, in the United States in 2005. According to a blog post from the New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, 210 is an extrapolated figure that represents the number of gun-related deaths in the United Kingdom if its population was equal to the United States. In reality, there are only 42 gun-related deaths per year in the U.K., according to the blog.