Sports
Seniors participate in final college practice
Jan. 6, 2009MIAMI - Practice not only ended for the season Tuesday afternoon, it also ended the practice career of UF's seniors.
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Sports
Ingram will dress, likely not play in championship game
Jan. 6, 2009MIAMI - It appeared to be one of the misfortunes of sports, one of those bad things that happen to good people.
Opinion
No mercy not fair
By Matt Martz | Jan. 6, 2009Thanks for reminding us why we all hate you, Bernie, by not only reminding us how pathetically few tickets students get compared to alumni, but also by giving us your standard holier-than-thou insistence that we go to class while you nurse your hangover in Miami.
News
Student dies in car crash; friends plan memorial
By THOMAS STEWART | Jan. 5, 2009UF student Michelle Moses, 21, a fourth-year elementary education major, died while driving home to Mason, OH, a suburb of Cincinnati, over winter break.
Metro
Vandals shatter windows of parked cars
By KATIE EMMETS | Jan. 5, 2009Gainesville police officers responded to a Northeast Gainesville neighborhood Sunday morning after receiving several calls from residents reporting their cars damaged.
Opinion
Economic woes shouldn’t dictate faith
Jan. 5, 2009The culmination of a brutal year for every aspect of the Western economic paradigm birthed a dismal Christmas retail season. The blind faith in overheated consumerism that fuels the economic engine of the world exploded over the last year - and even 8-pound, 6-ounce baby Jesus could not steer us clear of fiscal ruin.
Sports
Franks’ comments provide UF bulletin–board material
Jan. 5, 2009FORT LAUDERDALE - Brandon Spikes has stressed all week long that being in South Florida is a "business trip." Luckily for Spikes, he did get a slight reprieve with a great joke on Sunday.
News
Provost leaves for Virginia Tech
By THOMAS STEWART | Jan. 5, 2009UF announced a search Monday to replace Daniel Wubah, who has been UF's associate provost for undergraduate academic affairs since 2007.
Opinion
Ticket office failed to please fans
By Dean Millard | Jan. 5, 2009I have been a football season ticket holder since 1997. In 2003, I not only kept up my Gator Booster status but I also upgraded to Champions Club at a time when the program was struggling to sell these seats due to a decline in the team's performance. In 2006, I had no trouble getting either SEC Championship or BCS Championship game tickets.
Sports
Freshmen get first taste of the spotlight
Jan. 5, 2009If the Meet the Team event is a prelude for the rest of the season for the gymnastics team, then UF fans can look forward to the opportunity for more than one national championship.
Opinion
No Mercy: Post–BCS hangovers don’t matter to Machen
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 5, 2009Apparently reaching the pinnacle of the college football world doesn't mean much to UF President Bernie Machen, who seems to think championships are as commonplace as players like Oklahoma's outspoken Dominique Franks.
Metro
Man arrested in Club Decadence for drug possession
By KATIE EMMETS | Jan. 5, 2009A Gainesville man was arrested at a downtown club after police found crack cocaine and two loaded handguns.
Sports
Improved secondary ready to take on Oklahoma
Jan. 5, 2009As UF defensive backs Major Wright, Joe Haden and Ahmad Black left the Gators' team hotel on Saturday morning, safeties coach Chuck Heater stopped them.
Opinion
Chomp out fires
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 5, 2009The Editorial Board understands that college students will be, well, college students come Thursday evening.
News
UF M.B.A. program doubles returns in five years
By ASHLEY HOOVER | Jan. 5, 2009Officials say UF students with their M.B.A.s can expect a profit double the cost of their degrees five years after graduating due in largely to networking.
Metro
Alligator gets an upgrade
By THOMAS STEWART | Jan. 5, 2009After a period of uncertainty and low morale last semester that witnessed The Independent Florida Alligator without an applicant for the editor-in-chief position for perhaps the first time in 40 years, the paper is back on its feet.
News
UF sets up mobile DMV office in Reitz Union
By TATIANA GONZALEZ | Jan. 5, 2009You could drive to the DMV and wait countless hours in a long line to get your license renewed. Or you could stop by the ground floor of the Welcome Center at the Reitz Union.
Metro
U.S. Marine charged with molestation of minor
By KATIE EMMETS | Jan. 5, 2009A man in the United States military visiting Gainesville on leave was arrested after being accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl early Saturday morning.
Sports
Spikes says Big 12 doesn't have the athletes on defense
Jan. 5, 2009MIAMI - The Gators' scout offense sure must be tired.
