Alexander heats up as Gators head to the Round of 16
May 14, 2008Vanderbilt, here's some news you don't want to hear:
Vanderbilt, here's some news you don't want to hear:
Student senators unanimously passed a resolution at Tuesday's meeting requesting that the UF administration consider more voices when making decisions about budget cuts.
UF's Board of Trustees approved President Bernie Machen's plans to shrink the university's budget by $47 million on Wednesday morning, resulting in about 130 layoffs.
Recent hard freezes, lack of rain and gusty winds have dried out Alachua County to the point of creating fire risks.
Officer John Bostick of the Gainesville Police Department resigned last week and is a part of an ongoing internal investigation, according to Officer Summer Hallett, GPD spokeswoman. Hallett said she could not comment on the nature of the investigation at this time.
UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences will face the largest monetary cuts of all UF colleges and administrative units next year, when it will lose $9.5 million and about 110 faculty and staff positions.
Gainesville is a place where odd niches can proliferate. Take Arena Baggage, a home business run by UF senior Mike Arena. He supplies the local market's need for custom messenger bags.
Forget football, this weekend Gainesville is a softball town.
You know those times when you clean your room and you proudly pronounce to your parents that you're done?
The results are in.
This season, models marched down runways blinding onlookers. The pages of May's In Style magazine look more like colors found in a candy shop, and even Forever 21's latest frocks are inspired by Vitamin C. It's official, girls, summer is here, and as Posh Spice might say: Bold colors are going to be major.
It would have been easy for UF to come out flat in their last nonconference game of the season.
"Ladies night," "two-for-one" and "all-you-can-drink" -Gainesville bars offer all kinds of specials to college partiers. But according to a new UF study, the deals could create a cocktail for catastrophe.
Florida's Board of Governors will continue to preside over the state's 11 public universities in its current structure despite a surge of support for a plan aiming to establish a new system with a limited board.
To meet its share of a $47 million budget cut, UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will reduce its foreign language offerings, lay off more than 30 faculty and staff and eliminate three Ph.D. programs.
Shands HealthCare was named one of five winners of the 2008 Governor's Sterling Award earlier this month.