Oscar night for movie buffs is like the World Series for baseball lovers, but after the Academy Awards Sunday, some felt like Red Sox fans watching the Yankees take the trophy yet again.
The Gators are still searching for a signature win to hang their NCAA tournament resume on.
Six weeks after UF quarterback Tim Tebow announced his intent to lead his team to a third national championship in four years, a different group of Gators athletes quietly beat him to it.
While a typical study abroad trip may include basking in the Australian sun, UF's latest overseas offering will take students even further down under.
The possibility of a $5.3 million budget cut next year has caused the dean of UF's College of Engineering to consider replacing the phone lines with magicJack, the inexpensive Internet phone system famous for its late night infomercials.
When a new parking garage goes up on UF's campus, the price of parking decals will likely also rise.
Winning student votes doesn't come cheap. Parties spent a pretty penny this election season, with the majority of funds spent on T-shirts. The rest went toward campaign materials, such as fliers and stickers.
Students will have the chance to vote on three referendum questions and one initiative on today's Student Government ballot.
A Gainesville man was arrested for possessing guns and crack cocaine after a police foot chase.
IHOP will give out free pancakes today to celebrate National Pancake Day.
Even as a naïve freshman, I have already been exposed to far more Student Government politics than anyone would ever want to know. Ever since the "green means go" scandal in which several members of the Gator Party were implicated for fixing interviews so that only individuals with select organizational affiliations would be selected, I have been interested in discovering what really goes on in SG elections.
State Rep. Kurt Kelly spoke at UF Tuesday night about conservative politics and issues ranging from Obama's stimulus package to global warming.
Last week a New York cartoonist sparked a national controversy by directly relating a rampaging, face-biting monkey to the stimulus package recently signed into law.
Go cure cancer. Go write the great American novel. Go start a sandal company.
UF President Bernie Machen's recent statements concerning a desire to focus mostly on graduate education is troubling. In itself, setting a goal to become the best research university in the nation isn't a bad thing, but only focusing on the programs that attract the most grant money forecasts a dire picture of UF's future.
Coming off a sweep of a top-25 team and with a weekend matchup with perennial powerhouse Miami looming, UF cannot overlook its weekday games sandwiched in between.
Seconds can mean the difference between millions of dollars.
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