LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The UF women's basketball team failed to score for the first seven minutes of the second half and let a 6-point halftime lead disappear into a 79-62 defeat at Louisville on Sunday.
It's that time of year again - the time when the UF Board of Trustees gets together to decide how it can make life harder for UF students, usually financially.
It appears UF has been blessed with more than its fair share of armchair experts on First Amendment rights, counterterrorism and so-called "Radical Islam."
Gainesville has recently been afflicted with dorm-room robberies, downtown homicides and unfortunate traffic-accident casualties. In times like these, I would expect our tax dollars to be used wisely to protect us from recurrences. Instead, what did our honorable law enforcement officials choose to do? They responded to mounting pressure by creating a multi-agency narcotics unit, which, according to Gainesville Police Chief Norman Botsford, is the most important unit.
UF accepted a bowl invitation Sunday night to play Michigan in the Capital One Bowl on New Year's Day.
Thanks for the story in Friday's Alligator about Michael Berry, who listens. I once worked for a Mental Health Association in a large city, where we regularly gave a mini-course for bartenders and hair stylists because we understood they frequently become an inviting stop for the transiently troubled. Mr. Berry has taken it to the next level, and, unlike "Lucy" of comic-strip fame, his encounter just is what it is. That's nice.
In Friday's Alligator, Danny Beaulieu's letter complains of constant coverage of Ron Paul over other candidates, saying that Barack Obama leads Paul in a Facebook poll. Is the Facebook poll scientific? Could the poll have been influenced by the way candidates are campaigning?
Fall baseball practice is usually a time of change and transition, adjusting to incoming freshman and transfer players.
UF President Bernie Machen got his Christmas present a little early this year, and it has five zeros.
Twirling and pliéing, UF students danced this weekend to help provide food for people in Alachua County.
TAMPA - UF's game against Vermont on Friday night was technically a neutral site contest, but it hardly lived up to its billing.
(Marianne Lijewski / Alligator) Jerne Shapiro holds her son Jace, who is 4 months old, while he plays with an ornament at the annual Christmas-tree lighting at the Thomas Center on Saturday night. Shapiro and her husband, Matt, wanted to show their son the lights.
Why would Muslims on campus be offended if the fliers read "Radical Islam Wants You Dead," not "Islam Wants You Dead"? Islam on Campus' reaction only fuels the stereotype that criticism of Islam cannot coexist with the Western ideal of free speech.
When Allison Stark pictures a geek in her mind, she said she sees a skinny guy wearing glasses and staring longingly at a beautiful girl, too shy to approach her.
FINAL SCORE - UF 62, LOUISVILLE 79
UF is headed to the Capital One Bowl and will play Michigan on New Year's Day in Orlando.
The match had been over for more than 20 minutes, but Lauren Bledsoe's heart was still beating rapidly.
Recently, I was sprawled out on my couch, flipping channels and minding my own business, when I came across a program on The History Channel that freaked me out of my sloth-like daze. The television program I am referring to was, of course, about the apocalypse.
UF students can skip the long lines this book-buyback season thanks to a new UF book market Web site.
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