Well, well, well. It seems Gov. Charlie Crist has finally come around to our side. Not willingly, of course. That would be crazy talk.
A photo caption in Friday's Alligator should have stated that the photo of UF football players Tim Tebow and Percy Harvin was taken before the Sept. 8 game against Troy University.
Everyone is to be excused for believing that the Gators football program existed within the broader UF community. The Tony Joiner incident has demonstrated the reverse: The UF community falls within jurisdiction of the Gators football program. What is good for the program trumps what is good for the greater community.
Five UF buildings Friday afternoon were without power after lightning knocked out a main power line, according to a UF spokesman.
Gators fans expected Sunday's rematch of last season's Southeastern Conference title game against Kentucky to be a showdown of two conference powerhouses. But following subpar starts to the season, both teams were simply hoping to keep their heads above water.
The audience in the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Friday night wiggled and shook their hips to salsa and Reggaeton music in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
On Friday, Gov. Charlie Crist again switched his position on increasing tuition in Florida when he said he would accept a proposed statewide tuition increase of 5 percent.
UF entered Death Valley on Saturday with hopes of knocking LSU from its throne.
Before Friday night, it was debatable.
(Charles Roop / Alligator Staff) Jesse Walker, vice president of the Gator Skim Club, skims through the puddles in the rain at the Plaza of the Americas on Friday. Charles Roop/Alligator Staff
For the UF men's golf team, hope is on the upswing.
UF proved two things with its 28-24 loss to LSU on Saturday.
BATON ROUGE, La. - Cancel the street-flooding celebrations for the night of Jan. 7, the climbing of light posts and the massive consumption of alcohol.
One of the things that has been driving me nuts this semester is the seemingly complete lack of manners presented by a few students in our lecture halls. What should you do when your instructor starts to speak? Shut up and listen, right? I didn't show up to listen to you chatting with your girlfriends about how lame today's video was or your thoughts about yesterday's test in a completely different course.
In the second Elections Commission hearing since the Gator Party won 44 out of 47 open Student Senate seats in the fall Student Government election, the Gator Party was assessed a ,75 fine for an election violation.
Wind, rain and the roar of airplanes taking off Friday couldn't stop DayJet, a new jet service, from opening its new base in Gainesville.
BATON ROUGE, La - In its biggest game of the season, No. 13 UF may have found a new playmaker.
BATON ROUGE, La. - The Gators entered Death Valley listening to the screams of 92,910 fans.
A story in Friday's Alligator incorrectly stated Jon Bennett's title. He is the Reitz Union Board film director.
As the Arctic ice cap melts at an alarming rate and the biggest recent headlines are about global warming, it's easy to think that the issue would be moving its way rapidly up the policy priority ladder for governments (notably ours) to slam the brakes on a catastrophe. Just read this week's Time Magazine, and you'll see that what's turning governments' heads toward the North isn't the glaring nightmare of a global climate shift but rather, the almighty dollar.
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