Couple denied Ladies Night discount at bowling alley
By Webb | Sep. 10, 2012It was Ladies Night, so Saereedun brought her girlfriend hoping one of them could bowl for free. But they left before they even saw the lanes.
It was Ladies Night, so Saereedun brought her girlfriend hoping one of them could bowl for free. But they left before they even saw the lanes.
The University of Florida Alumni Association has nearly 350,000 members total, according to its website. “The integration came as part of an ongoing effort to further involve current students despite budget cuts,” said associate executive director Katie Marquis.
Since that day, security has tightened across the nation, including in Gainesville, said Kelly, spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office.
As stressed-out students walk onto the second floor of the Counseling and Wellness Center, they’re greeted by the 1-year-old Havanese with wet kisses.
It was a rough start for Santiago Gavino on Sunday. The redshirt sophomore started off his first tournament as a Gator by bogeying three of his first four holes.
Maggie Rodgers knew Erika Tymrak was going to score.
It took three weeks, but for the first time this season the No. 15 Gators (6-2) are in control of both sides of the net.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Will Muschamp walked into his post-game press conference dripping in sweat with a white towel wrapped around his neck. He looked worn out from yet another close game.
The 18-year-old architecture freshman took four Advanced Placement classes in high school, ran both track and cross country and worked part time as a waiter. Yet, compared to his first three weeks in college, that was a piece of cake.
Obama stood in front of a crowd of about 3,000 adult and student spectators Saturday to speak about everything from education to health care. The speech was part of Obama’s two-day Florida tour to sway voters in the swing state.
Qualifying, which determines whether a candidate is eligible to be a student senator, continues today and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 284 of the Reitz Union.
About 100 Gainesville residents gathered Saturday to celebrate the reopening of the Boys & Girls Club of Alachua County’s Rotary Campus & Mentor Center.
Ryan’s had to explain what he actually meant by his totally-ran-a-marathon-under-two-hours claim; it’s been so long since he ran one that he wasn’t sure what a normal time was anymore.
Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion,” will speak at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service. The event is free and open to the public. It will also be streamed live at www.bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu.
From 4 p.m. to midnight, both rookie and expert gamers flocked to the Reitz Union Ballroom to participate in GatorLAN, a video game tournament hosted by Gator Gaming. About 800 people attended; at any point during the day, there were about 150 computers in the room, said Gator Gaming president Ed Fonseca.
Concannon will come to UF from the University of Virginia, where he currently serves as a professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics. He is also the associate director of the Center for Public Health Genomics at UVA and has been an affiliate professor of immunology at the University of Washington.
About 150 Gator women of all ages met to celebrate football and fashion at a tailgating-themed expo hosted Friday by Gainesville Health & Fitness for Women.
It’s a well-known truth that MTV took its main focus off music long ago. For the past few years, the only time I’ve ever really watched the network has been for music videos broadcast late at night or into the early morning and to see interesting episodes of the documentary series “True Life.”
Teach for America, an organization that recruits qualified graduates from more than 600 campuses to teach in low-income areas, ranked UF second overall of colleges contributing the most graduates in 2012, according to a press release.
The Florida Museum of Natural History partnered with Gainesville’s nonprofit Lubee Bat Conservancy to host the Year of the Bat Celebration.