This weekend could prove to be historic for the Gators, just not in a way they may want.
Xavier Nixon became the first Florida freshman to start at left tackle in 18 years Saturday, but his parents were just as shocked as everyone else in attendance.
Columnists Phil Kegler, Bobby Callovi and Kyle Maistri spent most of the trip to and from South Carolina predicting the NCAA Tournament bracket.
A slow start on Thursday at the South Carolina Gamecock Invitational may have set Florida’s men back in their quest to challenge some of the top competitors in collegiate swimming.
The Gators football team plucked a highly touted prospect from the recruiting hotbed that is Southern California.
One of Gainesville’s newest innovations has earned praise on the national stage.
Augie Artiles will help play Santa Claus for children in Alachua County this year as he and other members of a comedy group collect toys for children in need.
UF students reported in a survey conducted earlier this year that they spend less time studying than their peers.
Thirty students gathered under the moon Wednesday, broomsticks in hand, and brought a sport called quidditch to UF.
From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today, the coveted award given to the top college football player in the country, will be on display on the front lawn of The Swamp Restaurant.
Before UF and Florida International University face off on the football field Saturday, the schools are teaming up to inform fans about breast cancer.
Melissa Castillo was tired of draining her insurance expense account by going to UF’s Student Health Care Center for her migraines.
UF’s Homecoming Queen was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence early Thursday morning.
In Patrick Poage’s response to Tuesday’s guest column, he took offense to the characterization of the United States’ actions against al-Qaida and other terror organizations as a “war on terror.”
There are still remnants of paper stuffed in Corey Davila’s trash can from Wednesday morning.
Sitting in the Reitz Union yesterday, I was approached by a student senator who encouraged me to sign a petition in favor of a “small fee” that would favor a new student union. He assured me that the fee would “only be a couple of dollars” and that I would be leaving a legacy for future Florida students.
It seems that there are many people out there ill-informed about the Cuban embargo. The first false assumption people make is that the U.S. initiated the embargo because Cuba became a communist country. The truth is that the U.S. enacted the embargo because when the Castro regime took power in 1959, it expropriated all of the properties of the U.S., including that of American citizens and corporations. Castro enriched his regime with the millions of dollars he stole from the U.S. and has never paid the money back.
Are undergrads seriously up in arms over a $20 flat fee plus $3 per credit hour for the new Reitz Union? I’m an out-of-state student receiving $0 in government aid. In case you’re unaware, out-of-state tuition is now approaching $800 per credit. My Reitz student fee of $65 would buy me a little more than one hour of class at UF.
On Wednesday, the UF Graduate Student Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing additional student fees for the renovation of the Reitz Union. This measure was taken to contest the recent resolution passed by UF Student Government proposing such fee increases.
Last week was unusually slow for the Department of Darts and Laurels. In light of this, we made a (desperate?) plea for Gators to go out and make some real news. While we doubt that the overwhelming response was due entirely to the public pity party we held for ourselves last week, we think it helped. So now, inundated with news, we would like to present you with a be-careful-what-you-wish-for edition of:
Solutions by The State News
