If Florida hopes to advance to the NCAA Championships for the 28th time in the event’s 29-year history, the Gators will have to get past a couple of familiar foes Saturday.
Coming into the season the junior battery of Stephanie Brombacher and Tiffany DeFelice was expected to carry the bulk of the load for the Gators.
Injuries have forced Florida to constantly adjust its offense, but a new tactic and growing team chemistry have led the Gators in the right direction recently.
The Southeastern Conference East standings in both men’s and women’s tennis will be shaped by this weekend’s matches.
The No. 10 Florida women’s golf team will host the Gator Women’s Golf Invitational at Mark Bostick Golf Course for the 38th year.
Students will have food for thought when UF hosts the first Florida Food Summit next week.
A gentleman is as gentle as the woman he wishes to impress or pursue. When we see chivalry as a long-forgotten, dusty corpse, it means that somewhere inside we have murdered it. The problem with our generation is not that we don’t know how to court, but that women have forgotten how to be women and men have become utterly confused as a result.
Sharon McDow will be walking for a cure Saturday morning.
About 725 students will stand up to help the Children’s Miracle Network this weekend at the 16th annual Dance Marathon at UF.
About 300 students attended the Fierce and Fabulous Drag Show, a show for Pride Awareness Month that included several drag kings and queens.
Tatiana Salazar reports to class five times a week to conjugate verbs and use punctuation in French.
I feel the public is ignoring one side of the graduate student shooting incident, probably because it is easier to identify with the student and not with the police officers. People say things like “I feel like this could happen to me,” or “This should have been handled by mental health professionals,” without really thinking about the situation.
A group of about 30 students walked barefoot on campus as part of an international event called One Day Without Shoes.
I’m tired of everyone standing up for Kofi. You only have a problem because he is a student like you. You have no reason to defend him. In case you didn’t know, he had been sending e-mails to staff accusing them of wanting to kill him. He was also under the impression he was going to be kidnapped and taken to Africa and slain. He was either on drugs or completely insane. The police officers who broke into his apartment were in the right. They did exactly what they were trained to do. There is no such thing as police brutality. The police are trained to do whatever it takes to subdue a problem. People just blow it out of proportion. Stop defending Kofi, and stop trying to fight the police officers.
I am writing to lodge a complaint against Tommy Maple and Ryan Spencer. A column is an opportunity to make people think about ideas and issues in a way that other sections of the newspaper can’t. I believe the two of you often squander this opportunity in an effort to sound humorous and smart. As an avid reader of The New Yorker, where high-brow, and often convoluted language ultimately serves as a flourish to a more important point, I encourage Maple and Spencer to have a little more respect for their readers. I often finish one of their columns and find that thought-provoking substance occupies a marginal space, and the remainder is a weekly exercise in the stringing together of forced metaphors. Now, I know that these columns are supposed to be humorous, and I think they both have a talent for humor. I only ask that if you’re going to write a column with a subject matter of importance, that the subject matter get a little more airtime next to the humor.
Get excited, people – the end of the semester is on the horizon. But beware because there’s something else lurking on the surface of the calm waters. And that something has taken the form of an exams-project-and-paper iceberg that will take that optimistic steamboat of yours down if you’re not careful.
Author Jeff Johnson will be speaking Friday night in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom in an event co-sponsored by Accent and the Black Student Union.
TutoringZone, Grooveshark and Satchel’s Pizza represent innovation. Ask any entrepreneur.
I would like to compliment the Animal Activists of Alachua (AAA) for once again hosting a successful VegFest event (“500 Try Vegan Pizza, Ice Cream at VegFest,” Thursday).
Race relations in the United States are not perfect, nor will they ever be. Since the election of Barack Obama, the problems seem to be increasing.
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