With the release of its platform on Sunday, the Progress Party became the first party competing in the fall election to officially state its goals.
A UF student was shot with a Taser gun today at a campus forum with U.S. Sen. John Kerry.
Tennessee's comeback bid lasted all but a few seconds.
(Scott Robertson / Alligator Staff) Fred Thompson (third from left), who is running on the Republican ticket for the 2008 presidential election, talks to a fan before the University of Tennessee game outside Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on Saturday. Fred Thompson, who formally announced his bid for the Republican ticket on Sept. 5, stopped in Gainesville during his campaign to accept an invitation to sit with UF President Bernie Machen in the president's box during the game.
Freshman linebacker Jerimy Finch is out for the season with a broken bone in his lower right leg, UF coach Urban Meyer said during his Sunday teleconference.
Sophomore running back Brandon James kicked off UF's Southeastern Conference season with a bang when made an 83-yard punt return on the Gators' first drive against the Volunteers on Saturday afternoon.
I am writing in response to Daniel Burroughs's guest column in Thursday's Alligator, "Florida must keep Bright Futures Scholarship Program." The assertion that Florida must maintain the Bright Futures program unchanged is, at best, misguided. The state cannot sustain the financial burden of maintaining Bright Futures' low standards indefinitely. Bright Futures pays 75 percent tuition for a mediocre 3.0 weighted high school grade point average and an SAT score of 970 - 51 points below the national average.
For two consecutive home matches, the UF volleyball team had come out sloppy and unready to play.
In response to William Sanchez's letter concerning Jack Kevorkian, I have just one question: Why waste your time caring about this situation? I would really like to know how his opinion would change after being confronted with a lifetime of pain and suffering without end. Would he decide to keep on truckin', or would he throw in the towel and end his own life? Would he call up Kevorkian and employ his expertise in the matter? If I ever reached a point in my life where the only thing that greeted me with every new day was the grim reality of more pain and agony, then heck, put me out of my misery!
The Ashley Harris and KeLeigh Hudson show continues for the Gators.
It wasn't exactly the debut they'd hoped for, but to the Gators, it was at least a promising start.
Tennessee's comeback bid lasted all but a few seconds.
For the third straight year, Tennessee couldn't run the ball against UF.
Sophomore running back Brandon James kicked off UF's Southeastern Conference season with a bang when made an 83-yard punt return on the Gators? first drive against the Volunteers on Saturday afternoon.
Percy Harvin did the work of two men on Saturday.
To say UF coach Urban Meyer was nervous about his defense heading into Saturday's game against Tennessee would be an understatement.
Tony Joiner sealed UF's 39-point win with a kiss.
The 2006-07 UF men's basketball team may have received its national championship rings Saturday at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, but former UF forward Chris Richard got a sneak peak at the piece of jewelry in an unlikely location.
UF students can't escape the pressure of being healthy because there are reminders lurking in the shadows everywhere we turn.
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