They drain students’ pockets, but many students don’t know what they are. Activity and service fees fund services offered through Student Government, the Reitz Union and RecSports, and they generate millions of dollars.
The state legislature has awarded UF $600,000 in research grants to fund alternative energy and health care technology research.
The Gators won the yardage and time of possession battles Saturday against the Crimson Tide, but Florida still lost the game.
Like several other aspects of this season, Florida’s loss last Saturday immediately drew comparisons to another moment in the Urban Meyer era.
In the first round of qualifying, junior Nassim Slilam did something that no UF player had done in more than a year — post a straight-sets 6-0, 6-0 win.
Members of Volaticus, an aerial club at the University of Florida, practice with silks and trapezes in the Nadine McGuire Theater and Dance Pavilion on Monday. The club meets every Monday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
After being what he called “a serviceable backup” for three years, Duke Lemmens has found a home in Florida’s defense.
Everybody with cable TV and a proclivity toward captivating car-wreck television has an opinion on the sorta-famous young mothers on MTV’s “Teen Mom,” but this week marks the first time police started a case against someone based solely on what the baby momma did on MTV.
Chris Dodson’s criticism of President Barack Obama’s campaign against Fox misses the point.
The center ordered 10,000 doses of the vaccine this year, twice as many as last year.
Americans are having a lot of sex.
Rick Parker has spent more than a quarter of a century working for people who can’t afford to hire a lawyer. Now, he’s moving to Afghanistan to train young Afghan lawyers.
Sixth Amendment, Schmixth Amendment!
UF's Black Student Union is hosting its Homecoming 2010 celebration, Rhapsody, this week.
I am furious and cannot keep silent any longer. For those who are not aware, there has been a series of suicides over the last few weeks with a common theme: people who were being harassed for their sexuality. We all (or at least should) remember Matthew Shepard, the gay student at the University of Wyoming who was brutally beaten and left on a split-rail fence in the middle of nowhere to die.
William Tew’s Monday letter to the editor and his suggestion that socialist governments have more frequently brain-washed their citizens than capitalist governments should be called into question.
The Student Government Election Commission voted unanimously to let election code violators off with a warning Monday night.
A little more than a month after setting a new record for riders in a single day, Regional Transit System has broken its record for riders in a month and riders in a single year.
While some may view the combination of slashed budgets and skyrocketing costs as the death knell for the affordable college education in America, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sees it as nothing more than another round of challenges for what he still considers the greatest educational system in the world.
Nick Waisome committed to UF in August, but he’s not done with the recruiting process quite yet.
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