Spring break for college students is always eagerly awaited, but in tough economic times when not everyone can jet off to Colorado for a week in the snow, students are finding other options for this year's break.
The UF softball team will have to face more than just the start of its Southeastern Conference season this weekend at South Carolina. The Gators will also have to try to fill the hole in their lineup left by injured center fielder Kim Waleszonia.
Although the UF women's golf team will be a couple of hours away from Gainesville, it will feel very much at home in this weekend's tournament.
Between the Gators bedspread, the closet full of UF apparel, the national championship Wheaties boxes and the posters, it's clear why Trey Burton's college decision was easy.
Students hoping to score tickets in UF's football lottery will need to enter more than just a credit card number this year.
The Santa Fe College men's basketball team (22-7, 8-4 Mid-Florida Conference) ended its season after falling during the first round of the state tournament to Suncoast Conference champion Polk Community College 65-63 on Thursday.
Following its first road win of the spring, the No. 9 UF men's tennis team returns to Gainesville as the best in the state.
Venezuelan journalist, politician and economist Teodoro Petkoff spoke about the Venezuelan media and Hugo Chávez's government during an informal discussion Thursday.
Get out the polka-dot bikinis and bottles of grain alcohol - The Department of Darts & Laurels officially declares Spring Break 2009 open for business.
If things continue to go poorly for UF in this weekend's three-game home series with Duquesne, it won't be because coach Kevin O'Sullivan has been unwilling to shake up the pitching staff.
And ignorance claims another victim - Matthew Meltzer.
Powerful music filled the air and the audience sat with awestruck expressions as the UF Symphony Orchestra performed Thursday night.
The success of UF's sports teams has led some students and faculty members to wonder why the University Athletic Association can't step in and rescue UF's academic programs from big budget cuts next year.
On Wednesday morning, the entire editorial staff of the Daily Emerald - the student-produced newspaper at the University of Oregon - went on strike in protest of the attempts of its board of directors to install a publisher with unprecedented control over the newsroom.
In a way, UF was victorious in the Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships. The team didn't win the championship trophy in Lexington, Ky., but it got the next best thing - experience.
It is no secret to anyone (except maybe Florida State economics students) that the economy is in its worst state in years.
The Gators aren't exactly used to this.
On a night Corey Hartung envisioned waving to the crowd after her floor exercise, she instead will face the harsh reality of not competing, waving to the crowd from the floor with her family, dressed up to cheer and coach while wearing a protective boot.
For those of you who don't know me, or for those of you who I have offended, I apologize if you took the meaning of my column to be anything but satire. As an effective satire only mirrors reality, I stand by what I have written for a few reasons.
The Harn Museum of Art will be hosting an international loan exhibition featuring the kimono, Japan's national costume.
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