News
UF to test texting alerts after LSU glitch
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Jan. 7, 2008Editor's Note:UF plans to test its text-messaging emergency notification system on Tuesday, Jan. 15.
COVID-19
Sports
Gators will need to overcome selves, not just opponents, to succeed in SEC
Jan. 7, 2008UF heads to Alabama tonight to kick off its Southeastern Conference schedule, but the biggest battle of the rest of the season isn't going to be with the opponents the Gators face.
Opinion
RIAA losing digital war
By the Editorial Board | Jan. 7, 2008Just when you thought it couldn't get any lower than suing single moms for thousands of dollars, the Recording Industry Association of America has taken its fight one step further.
Metro
Kidnapping just a hoax
By JESSICA PONN | Jan. 7, 2008A Gainesville man who reported that he had been kidnapped from a Shands at UF parking garage Thursday night admitted Monday that the incident never occurred.
Opinion
Interest in Pakistan too little, too late
By ANURADHA PANDEY | Jan. 7, 2008At last, another one of the Bush administration's foreign policy blunders has been placed under scrutiny: the protection of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf at all costs. I'm willing to bet that most Americans hadn't even heard Benazir Bhutto's name until she was assassinated, let alone had known that she was Pakistan's prime minister under a power-sharing agreement with Musharraf that the Bush administration orchestrated.
Sports
Spring offers a plethora of sports to keep Gators fans entertained
Jan. 6, 2008Grab a Snickers, Urban Meyer.
News
Lawsuit to clear up tuition control tossed
By KIM WILMATH | Jan. 6, 2008Former Florida Gov. Bob Graham and the Board of Governors, the State University System?s highest governing body, now face a stumbling block in their fight for tuition-setting power.
News
College of Engineering dean resigns after 6 years
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Jan. 6, 2008Pramod Khargonekar, the six-year dean of UF?s College of Engineering, announced his resignation Dec. 4.
Sports
UF Men's Basketball vs Charleston Southern
By Jeremiah Stanley | Jan. 6, 2008Video recap. 3:09.
Opinion
Lost phones make for lots of stress
By VINCENT MASSARO | Jan. 6, 2008There are two kinds of people in the world: those who lose their cell phones and those who do not.
News
Machen?s salary hiked up
By ILEANA MORALES | Jan. 6, 2008In 2012, UF President Bernie Machen?s salary will be bumped up to a cool million.
News
It's official: Wright is dean of College of Journalism and Communications
By <href="mailto:dswerdlow@alligator.org">DEBORAH SWERDLOW< | Jan. 6, 2008John Wright, who served as the interim dean of the UF College of Journalism and Communications for more than a year, was named the college?s permanent dean last month.
News
Student Democracts, Republicans respond to caucuses
By KATIE SANDERS | Jan. 6, 2008The victories of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., in Friday?s Iowa caucuses have earned support from some UF student political organizations on campus.
Metro
Shands employee OK after parking-garage kidnapping
By KATIE EMMETS | Jan. 6, 2008A Shands employee was kidnapped from a UF parking garage Thursday night, placed in the trunk of a car and dropped off uninjured at a local Wal-Mart later that night, according to a University Police Department news release.
News
Senate president launches bid for top SG position
By ILEANA MORALES | Jan. 6, 2008During the holiday break, the current Student Senate president announced he would run for next year?s Student Body president.
News
UF Trustee Fernandez resigns
By KIM WILMATH | Jan. 6, 2008Editor's Note: Manny Fernandez resigned from the UF Board of Trustees on Dec. 6. We reported otherwise in Monday's Alligator.
