Gainesville Explorer is a collection of maps, stories and multimedia showcasing places to go in Gainesville as well as day-trip locations. Each week, one location on the map will be updated, adding multimedia and a brief review.
While enrollment figures in some language courses at UF have dwindled, others have increased by over 200 percent in the past eight years.
Weighing 150 pounds and listed as a generous 5-foot-11 inches, UF guard Jai Lucas has made a habit of playing big.
Gainesville may soon require towing companies to post in their offices a complete list of the rights of those they tow.
As part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday celebration, UF is planning several events over the next week to commemorate the achievements of the civil rights activist.
I was appalled when I woke up on Monday and read the letters by Ondi Crino and Martha Duffy.
The Florida Museum of Natural History's task of identifying DNA of 25,000 marine specimens is getting easier thanks to a ,186,000 private grant.
With the protests and stunts of the past few Accent-sponsored speeches fresh in mind, UF officials are readying security for Dr. Jack Kevorkian's speech tonight at the O'Connell Center.
Gainesville Police found the body of a UF student who committed suicide earlier this month. We reported otherwise in Monday's Alligator.
Sometimes during Gainesville's summer and fall, the sun becomes so unbearably hot on Newell Drive that Sarfaraz Suleman, a UF sophomore, has to improvise while waiting for the bus.
If you still have not received your copy of the latest issue of "Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research" in the mail, allow me to give you an exciting sneak peek at what academics are doing to stem the advancing tide of beer in the United States. Get ready.
Nine of the recruits who are coming to visit Gainesville this weekend.
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Though temperatures this winter season have been abnormally high, meteorologists expect cold weather for the remainder of the week.
Well, my first stimulating albeit frustrating week as managing editor has come to a close. Although the 50-hour workweeks, late nights and massive amounts of paper-shuffling will still take some getting used to - not to mention my rapidly disappearing social life - I am still excited about the opportunity to help set which direction the Alligator heads this semester.
One glance at Kyle Robisch's Facebook profile will tell you the UF freshman cheers for almost every Detroit sports team, scored a 99 percent for extraversion on a personality test and supports Sen. Barack Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, for president.
In response to Kevin Micocci's Monday column, it's satisfying to know that someone is willing to speak out for the girls that are being unjustly arrested for drinking underage. Sadly, the police department here in Gainesville is running amok, disbursing officers all over the town to reprimand these innocent and undeserving girls.
When Kelly Sweet heard the gunshots firing and the helicopter circling outside of her bedroom window, she thought a murderer was on the loose. Then she and her roommates heard the mooing.
Solutions by The State News
