The second annual Majors Fair took place Tuesday in the Reitz Union Colonnade to help uncertain students decide which major is right for them.
Elevated traces of the West Nile virus and Eastern equine encephalitis, both transmitted by mosquito bites, have seeped into Alachua County.
As part of a national trend toward online library collections, Alachua County's public libraries now hold 10,000 digital books.
A man drove himself to the hospital after being shot in the face.
A UF graduate student launched a Web site that allows people to share belongings instead of buying them.
Jacksonville will increase police and the number of sideline safety zones while waterfront venues cut back on alcohol sales.
Allison Megano, left, pies Ari Garay with a plate full of whipped cream for a $2 donation to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation Tuesday afternoon on the Reitz Union North Lawn. Garay and other sisters from the alpha Kappa Delta Phi Sorority held the fundraising event.
A proposed Reitz Union renovation plan to remove asbestos and replace lighting and plumbing lines could be funded through a new student fee.
Riker Hall's third-floor residents may have to shell out $3,000 each in damages after the building flooded Oct. 10.
A history professor from the University of Notre Dame discussed Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Lincoln's usage of the Bible to a crowd of 300 at the University Auditorium.
I would like to respond to the opinions in the Alligator that show a bias against health reform. And ignoring the likely possibility that these gentlemen watch Fox News, I'm going to try to debate with them rationally. First of all, studies show that 45,000 people are dying otherwise avoidable deaths every month based on the simple fact that they don't have health insurance. If that isn't worth fixing, I don't know what is.
Government's raison d'être is to be of the people, by the people and for the people. This is a core tenet of our republic. When the people wanted safe food to eat, the government provided it through the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Yesterday I got a text from my brother saying, "Stay away from the Reitz Union today. There's a bomb threat there, and the bomb squad was deployed."
In response to the letters today regarding health care, I think it is unfortunate that some think this way. What about children - do they not have a "right" to health care? They can't go out and get a job, and often their parents won't spend money on something that is not mandatory. They would rather go to the emergency room uninsured, and guess who pays the bill for them? We do with our hard-earned taxpayer dollars.
I know Darts & Laurels doesn't come out until Friday, but I'd just like to give a spot-on-nail-on-the-head-explanation laurel to Delta Upsilon President Matthew Panzano.
Guzzling Gators and boozing Bulldogs will have to find new ways to get wasted at this year's UF-Georgia football game.
Four years ago this week, my mom sent me a Halloween care package. It included Halloween decorations, a haunted house soundtrack for our dorm party and a tin of cookies.
Three Santa Fe College students with a boat, beef kidneys, candles and a blow-up doll were banned from campus when they tried to shoot prank pictures on Lake Alice.
Police are looking for two people who used fake meal vouchers to score free food at the Hub Monday.
UF student Nicholas Cravey is silhouetted through a sheet he is painting on the Plaza of the Americas Tuesday afternoon.
Solutions by The State News
