As drop/add came to an end and we all settled into our spring classes, we got to enjoy the time-honored tradition of seeing our tuition bill show its sinister face.
A panel of six UF faculty members from five different colleges held a panel discussion at the Reitz Union on Thursday that addressed various work being done in Haiti. “Rebuilding Haiti: Perspectives from the Field” included Michael Bannister of the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, William Tilson of the College of Design, Construction and Planning, Ben Hebblethwaite of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Timothy Townsend of the College of Engineering, Andrew Kane of the College of Public Health and Health Professions, and Bernard Okech of the Emerging Pathogens Institute.
About 50 people gathered to celebrate the official city dedication of Possum Creek Park on Thursday afternoon, which included a brief speech from Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe and skateboard demonstrations.
During a week littered with stories of tragedy, we’ve had to admit the hassle of drop/add period doesn’t warrant all our usual complaining.
In a salute to the wonders of space exploration, the UF Chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics presented “The Apollo Program: The Space Race to the Moon” Thursday at Weil Hall.
The UF Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science for Life program and the College of Fine Arts will team up to host the third annual Creativity in the Arts and Sciences Event on Sunday.
There’s a different atmosphere in Gainesville this week — it’s almost palpable — and for good reason. Tennessee is coming to town.
All throughout Billy Donovan’s career at Florida, his teams have followed a similar offensive formula.
After our show at Jeff’s Deli on Friday night, we comics decided a few squirts might induce slumber. We bolted to Mother’s Pub.
Update October 2013: The felony charge against Yasha Lichtschein was amended to misdemeanor battery and dismissed.
The depiction of women in video games has always been a mark of shame in the industry. Undoubtedly, the majority of video games developers are male — as is the industry’s target demographic. Thus, it’s not surprising that many virtual females are designed to look like idealized perfections of the gender at best and pubescent fantasy at worst. Take these favored femmes: Bayonetta has 4-foot long legs, Taki from “Soul Calibur” has triple-E sized breasts, and the entire female cast of “Dead or Alive” can be summed up with the phrase “jiggle physics.”
When the earthquake hit Haiti one year ago, Getro Naissance didn’t feel right being in Gainesville.
Trash collection for Alachua County will be delayed the week of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
If UF’s campus had a soundtrack, it would surely be the ringing bells of Century Tower. The distant sounds echo throughout campus from every corner, providing comforting music as students hustle and bustle to class.
In the fall of 1962, when the United States and the USSR stood inches away from the brink of an international blood-letting, word reached the Kennedy administration that the hard-line Soviet government did not desire to lead the world hand-in-hand into the furnace. In a flex of diplomatic bravado, Secretary of State Dean Rusk boasted: “We’re eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked.”
Famous for his books on the future, Ray Kurzweil spoke to an audience of almost 1,700 at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
Dan Scholes spends his days at UF, armed with lawn equipment — usually a lawn mower — tending to the landscaping that students walk over every day on their way to class.
When describing UF gymnast Maranda Smith, “bubbly” would be an understatement. Although she gleams with a gleeful smile and eyelids full of sparkles, Smith is full of spice — as is her iPod.
In 1996, Sheryl Crow opined on the human condition: “If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad. If it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?”
Wikipedia is celebrating its 10th birthday Saturday, and, fellow students, what would we ever do without it?
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