News
SG hopefuls debate spending, online voting
By ILEANA MORALES | Feb. 25, 2008Student Body presidential candidates found one thing to agree on - "Family Guy" is better than "The Simpsons."
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Metro
City garage violence raises concern
By DREW HARWELL | Feb. 25, 2008A city-run garage that many UF students use as a starting point for a night downtown has also been at the center of two violent outbursts in the last few months, leading some to question whether something can be done to make the garage safer.
Sports
Center fielder set to return to lineup tonight
Feb. 25, 2008In the first three games of the baseball season, UF's starting lineup has been a well-oiled machine operating with interchangeable parts.
Metro
Starbucks to close for employee training
Feb. 25, 2008All company-operated Starbucks coffee stores throughout the country will close their doors to latte lovers earlier than usual tonight in order to train employees in the "Art of Espresso."
News
SG parties spend big bucks
By ILEANA MORALES AND KATIE SANDERS | Feb. 25, 2008The whirl of orange and blue stickers, fliers and T-shirts signals the start of Student Government elections today, but the campaign goodies come with a lofty price tag.
Metro
Salsa dancing sees rise in popularity locally
Feb. 25, 2008For a horse trainer with a Southern drawl, 60-mile treks to attend salsa classes might seem unusual.
Metro
Georgia politicians might ban UF license plates
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Feb. 24, 2008For Florida and Georgia, competition goes beyond football. A bill sponsored by Georgia state Rep. Barry Fleming would ban personalized license plates in Georgia honoring other state universities, including UF, if Florida and other states don't return the favor.
Sports
Nelson strikes out career-high 13, UF remains undefeated
Feb. 24, 2008As the saying goes, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Sports
Gators fail to hold on to lead after second day, finish second in SEC Championships
Feb. 24, 2008After Day Two of the Southeastern Conference Championships, UF swimming and diving coach Gregg Troy said, "It's a four-day swim meet."
Sports
Men dominate No. 9 Illinois
Feb. 24, 2008The UF men's tennis team that showed up to play Sunday looked like it was the one that had played in the national championship match a year ago rather than its opponent.
News
UF places second in ROTC Lime Cup competition
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Feb. 24, 2008UF's Air Force ROTC swept the board for push-ups and sit-ups and almost clinched first place in the soccer tournament in overtime.
News
Sigma Alpha Epsilon's lion statue vandalized again
By KATE KENNEDY | Feb. 24, 2008Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity's lion statue outside the chapter's house was smashed again Friday - just a few months after an artist had to completely reconstruct its stone face.
Opinion
Serbian conflict not religious in nature
By Dardan Tigani | Feb. 24, 2008As a Kosovan-Albanian who has lived through the horrors of the Serbian occupation of Kosovo in the '90s, I am very disappointed that Mr. Jurich misled the Gainesville community Friday by suggesting that the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Germany and other western countries are sponsoring terrorism by supporting Kosovo's independence.
News
Budget cuts cancels UF's day at the Capitol
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Feb. 24, 2008Following statewide budget cuts, UF canceled its annual lobbying day, known as Gator Day, at the Capitol.
News
UPD arrests man with stolen gun on UF campus
By JESSICA PONN | Feb. 24, 2008University Police Department officers arrested Kevin D. Bradshaw, 19, on UF's campus at Fletcher Drive and University Avenue after finding he had a stolen gun.
Sports
Women dominate field in home tournament, win by 23
By Andy Hutchins < | Feb. 24, 2008The UF women's golfers expected to win the SunTrust Lady Gator Invitational.
Opinion
New science standards are step forward
By Brent Henderson | Feb. 24, 2008The Alligator threw a dart to the State Board of Education Friday regarding its decision to amend proposed state science standards to include the qualifier "scientific theory of" before the term evolution.
Multimedia
UF Teaching Observatory
Feb. 24, 2008UF students can gaze at the stars from UF's own observatory.
News
Summer readng chosen for UF's incoming freshmen
By KATIE SANDERS | Feb. 24, 2008The UF Dean of Students Office revealed "When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century" as the book incoming freshmen must read as part of the second year of UF's Common Reading Program.
