It began with a whistle, then an episode of organized chaos.
For at least one year, UF students' nighttime transportation options are expanding.
The UF student senate voted Tuesday to further the defining of online voting and stall the revision of UF Student Government's financial codes.
There's not a lot of debate going on in UF's Student Senate these days.
As your Student Body President, the most important part of my role consists of representing you on the Board of Trustees - the highest decision-making body of our university. Last week, the issue of a tuition increase was before the Board of Trustees. I voted for the increase because I believed it was best for every student only after making sure the neediest students were financially secured.
Santa Fe College students will be able to ride designated Santa Fe buses to and from campus starting this fall, according to a new Florida law.
A UF graduate student was arrested early Friday morning for assaulting two men and shouting anti-gay slurs at them.
A recently released autopsy report has confirmed that Molly Ammon, a 19-year-old UF student, died over Spring Break due to alcohol poisoning.
Student Body President Ben Meyers' mission to expand free printing on campus is underway.
University officials have noted a healthy response to this year's Student Experience in the Research University survey, which is being used a second time at UF.
Every semester students at UF pay $13.94 per credit hour in “activity and service fees.” That’s about $200 for the average 14-credit hour student at UF. But where does it go?
For some of you moving on, up, out, wherever, this may be the last time you ever read this paper. If you’ve read my column every Wednesday, then I am stunned and flattered. Most of you probably glance for something interesting between classes and that’s that.
Stereotypes are not what they seem. They are ideas. They are not people. Nobody — no matter how predictable one thinks their behavior — is a stereotype. We are all dynamic individuals with backgrounds and attributes completely unique to ourselves. The problem with stereotypes is the generalization of the specific quality to all members of the group — not the quality itself.
Ashton Charles sat front row in 2008 for the “Don’t Tase Me Bro” incident.
Drag is a part of gay culture.
While an opinion is something to always be respected, it is hard to do so when the motives behind it somehow insult the efforts of a community as a whole.
People mock what they don’t understand. Last fall, our country witnessed a string of suicides by gay teens as a result of bullying. These teens weren’t mocked for who they were — they were mocked because of who people assumed they were because of the labeling and gay stereotypes that have been forced upon us by specific members of our community.
In other news, the mildly funny comic Daniel Tosh renegotiated his contract for speaking at the UF O’Connell Center to reduce the crowd from 8,000 to 4,900 attendees.
The Student Senate unanimously passed the Cabinet Reconstruction Act despite the commotion it caused at last week’s meeting.
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