I am sad to report that on-campus residents have been dealt a great injustice by their voice within the residence halls, the Inter-Residence Hall Association.
At least once during your educational career at UF, you’ve had one or will have one of those dreaded three-hour classes. Being trapped in those walls for longer than 50 minutes can put the mind into a zoned-out coma.
The Student Senate passed a resolution during Tuesday night’s meeting condemning the Dove World Outreach Center’s planned Quran burning on Sept. 11.
As a professional engineer and prospective graduate student on the University of Florida campus for a single day, Aug. 30, I flipped through the Independent Florida Alligator and was shocked to read a campus poll result indicating 74 percent of the students regret women were given the vote.
Traditional and contemporary culture blended seamlessly at UF during the Asian American Student Union's "Rolling Out the Red Carpet" assembly Friday night.
The Progress Party has returned.
The UF College Democrats hosted the March to recreate the 1913 women's rights march on Washington, D.C.
Gators football player Jeff Demps' favorite Gatorade flavor is lemon-lime. He cites the 2008 BCS National Championship win as his favorite moment as a Florida Gator. He also joked that he listens to country music before games.
The Student Senate unanimously approved a nearly $2 million increase to the 2010-2011 Activity and Services Fee budget Tuesday night, bringing the total from about $14 million to nearly $16 million.
It's hard to justify dropping $100 on anything when you're a broke college student scraping by on other people's meal plans - never mind a book detailing the social ramifications of the use of the red-legged grasshopper as a symbol of communism in post-modern Russia.
David Cantu knows he cannot cure the world of infectious diseases.
Each fall at UF marks the beginning of a new era as another group of recently admitted Gators arrive on campus. These students can look forward to defining moments that will be etched in their minds and will live on long after they walk across the stage on graduation day.
When seasoned UF students think of parking on campus, words like “nightmare,” “horrendous” and “atrocious” cascade out of their mouths, alongside other words that cannot be printed here.
Senators voted against a bill that would limit funds given to Student Government officials for meals and cell phone bills during Tuesday's meeting.
They are white, black, Asian and Hispanic. They are rich, and they are poor. They come from all over the United States.
A 20-year-old Gainesville man was killed early Saturday morning when he was hit by a car while crossing Southwest 13th Street on his scooter.
Yoga is one of the many classes offered at the on campus gyms and taking one is an extraordinary and spiritual experience.
After an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck 200 miles southwest of Santiago, Chile, early Saturday morning, UF has contacted a student in Chile and is taking measures to provide relief for the catastrophe.
There is more to Gainesville politics than Student Government elections.
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