Dentist helps fund revamp
By RODD TAVAKOLI | Mar. 18, 2010It wasn’t in his job description to fundraise, but he made a huge impact at the UF College of Dentistry anyway.
It wasn’t in his job description to fundraise, but he made a huge impact at the UF College of Dentistry anyway.
As six environmentally friendly cars rested on the Reitz Union North Lawn, students and environmental agencies talked about the possibility of more energy-efficient campus transportation options.
There will be eavesdropping, matchmaking and lying on the Plaza of the Americas today, Saturday and Sunday.
About 20 people attended UF’s Speech and Hearing Clinic, located at 1405 NW 13th St., to receive a free hearing screening Wednesday.
The five University Police officers involved in the March 2 shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong were placed on administrative duty under UPD policy.
Richard Selwach will sell you a handgun, but he won’t take a handout. Craig Lowe bought enough stamps to mail 23,672 first-class letters. Ozzy Angulo preferred to campaign by city bus.
Dressed in military fatigues and boots, UF Society of Professional Journalists President April Dudash led a mock protest of the First Amendment to the Constitution Wednesday afternoon on Turlington Plaza.
Leaving behind green beer and St. Patrick’s Day festivities, 1,577 people headed to the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday night to watch a sold-out Ben Folds performance.
About 30 students learned about the definition of beauty and the power of anonymous notes at the Operation Beautiful Forum on Wednesday night in Anderson Hall.
Singer, songwriter and pianist Ben Folds will perform tonight at 8 at UF’s Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
Although the student protest ended Tuesday afternoon, debate about the University Police shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong continued at Tuesday night’s Senate meeting.
Earth Day is celebrating its 40th birthday, and Gainesville residents are invited to a 40-day party.
Census forms started arriving in mailboxes this week, and Alachua County officials are encouraging everyone, including students, to participate by filling out and mailing in the form that is required by law.
Students are sick of waiting, and they’re tired of walking.
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They create a profile and post their pictures with hopes of finding a perfect match, but these UF students are not looking for love — they are looking for roommates.
After months of sign-waving, door-to-door canvassing and candidate forums, it all comes down to a vote.
Although student voters rejected a proposed Reitz Union student fee, some student leaders are still working to form a more perfect union. In a meeting of the UF’s Board of Trustees Committee on Educational Policy and Strategy on Monday, UF Student Body President Jordan Johnson said Student Government is seeking alternative sources of funding for renovating the aging student center.
UF electrical engineering student Thomas Hollister and his father, David Hollister, were killed Saturday when a pine tree fell on their car, causing it to swerve into a ditch.
Four days after the earthquake hit, Jason Byrd was in Haiti counting bodies.