Dwyer looks to add to early success on UF's swim team
By TONI-ANN MILLER | Nov. 18, 2009It is never too late to make your dream a reality, and so Florida junior Conor Dwyer has proven.
It is never too late to make your dream a reality, and so Florida junior Conor Dwyer has proven.
The Reitz Union is a place where students can gather together, but discussions of a proposed student fee to fund its renovation, repairs and expansion are dividing students and Student Government senators.
Theatre Strike Force doesn’t need scripts to get a laugh.
The office of UF’s political science department was closed for about three hours Friday due to safety concerns after a political science professor was arrested on a domestic battery charge the day before.
It’s not too often that an ad campaign goes from startlingly stupid to strangely brilliant with a swapped-out voiceover, but Miracle Whip pulled off that trick with some of their most recent ads. And like a lot of things that are brilliant, Stephen Colbert is involved.
A new report released by the National Wildlife Federation shows that the sustainability movement is energizing college campuses across the nation.
Students waiting outside the Student Health Care Center Thursday had more on their minds than the upcoming Thanksgiving break.
Fingers stained with ink and rooms with the scent of freshly brushed paint adorned the UF campus Friday night. Art students scattered with their artwork throughout the Fine Arts complex to showcase their latest creations for UF’s School of Art and Art History’s annual Art Bash event.
The streets of downtown Gainesville boomed with music, art stands and eager visitors last weekend as the 28th Annual Downtown Festival and Art Show filled about eight city blocks with entertainment.
After Bret found “love” and VH1 ended “Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels,” the trashy reality television gods have blessed me with another gem in the form of an hourlong block of the new season of “Tough Love.” I find Sundays lazing on the couch watching no-thought-involved TV medicinal, but for those of you who don’t, let me recap the show.
The club is offering free mixed martial arts lessons during the students' free time.
When Theory of a Deadman commands the stage, there are no frills or gimmicks.
In high school, I jealously watched my older sister on her laptop. She was on Facebook, a network exclusively for college kids. I couldn’t wait for college — if not for the freedom, then definitely for the college e-mail address that would grant my entry into the elite Facebook club.
Tuesday’s Student Government vote on the proposed Reitz Union expansion has stirred up almost as much interest (and as many impassioned letters and Web site comments) as SG’s pending decision on a resolution denouncing the Goldstone report, the controversial UN report alleging Israeli war crimes.
Sometimes, simplicity can feel startlingly fresh.
Editor’s note: The writer spent twelve hours shadowing Anthony Raneri of Bayside to write this story.
Barcelona native Laura Vela will be studying at UF and selling her custom-made line of handbags
While driving Oprah to her highest ratings in two years, Sarah Palin asked that we cast aside our petty sociopolitical differences and as a united country pray for the everliving soul of Levi Johnston.
This morning, while I strolled through Turlington Plaza, I was delighted to see that people were handing out copies of “The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin. This seemed a vast improvement over coupons and fliers. Then I opened the book and found the “special introduction” urging me to accept an intelligent designer and “receive the gift of eternal life.”