Students use week to spread homelessness awareness
By KRISTEN WILKIE | Nov. 16, 2008UF organizations are banding together to make students more aware of the hunger and homelessness around them.
UF organizations are banding together to make students more aware of the hunger and homelessness around them.
UF is constructing a lacrosse stadium for the new women's lacrosse team that should be finished by July 2009.
It was a baptism by fire, and the Gators nearly got burned.
Incarnations of spacewomen, prisoners, Oompa-Loompas and Sean "Diddy" Combs pounded the stage of the Phillips Center for Performing Arts on Saturday night.
A weeklong search for a Gainesville man ended in tragedy in the parking lot of the Jacksonville International Airport Friday morning.
If you've ever seen the 2003 film "Something's Gotta Give" featuring aging stars Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, then you know firsthand the horrors and possible pitfalls of over-the-hill intimacy. In one of the movie's opening scenes, Nicholson's character has a heart attack as he is putting the moves on a disturbingly younger woman.
This is getting ridiculous.
MIAMI - During training camp, when Miami Dolphins rookie kicker Dan Carpenter refused to sing for his teammates, they took his gear and threw it in a tub of cold water.
An athletic department investigation into alleged student-athlete gambling revealed that UF guard Nick Calathes reportedly ran up a $600 online poker debt.
On this weekend's road trip, UF took two steps forward in a sweep of Tennessee and one giant step backward in a five-set thriller with Kentucky.
After a marriage proposal via Facebook five days beforehand, two UF sophomores were married (just for fun) Friday in a ceremony on campus.
Although Tony James of Gainesville has been out on the streets for about a week, he said it lifts his spirit to know that others are trying to help.
Huddled under rainbow-colored umbrellas, Amendment 2 protestors met in the drizzling rain Saturday afternoon with a message: equal rights for everyone.
The 34th Street Wall says it all for the UF women's cross country team: "We made it. UF XC to NCAAs 2008."
It's your typical Monday morning: You grudgingly fight your way out of bed, stumble across campus to class and slump into the first seat you can find in the back of Carleton Auditorium. Your professor walks in and somberly approaches the lectern.
UF linebacker Brandon Hicks had one start this season coming into Saturday's game against South Carolina.
With time winding down, the Gators made one final attempt to take a lead into the half.