Jared Diamond visits UF, starts off Earth Month
By HUNTER SIZEMORE | Apr. 9, 2009Human society could cease to exist in as few as 30 years, author Jared Diamond said to about 1,600 Gainesville residents Thursday.
Human society could cease to exist in as few as 30 years, author Jared Diamond said to about 1,600 Gainesville residents Thursday.
A Reitz Union Wendy's employee was fired Monday after being charged with repeatedly punching a man in the face at the McCarty Drive bus stop last week, according to a University Police Department report.
Luis Velasco Jr. is an 18-year-old freshman at UF. He is studying English. And he is gay.
Local feminists protesting what they see as a racist and sexist pattern in layoffs at UF presented the university with a statement signed by about 240 supporters Wednesday around noon.
UF and Wendy's are breaking up, and it's not on the best of terms.
To combat the strain of unemployment, young adults are making life-changing decisions and increasing their debts simultaneously, according to a national study released Wednesday.
High fashion from around the world will be presented at the One Night Only fashion show on Friday.
Equipped with a microphone, Deeb Kitchen grabbed a cell phone to call state Sen. Steve Oelrich before leaving the makeshift stage in the middle of the Plaza of the Americas on Tuesday.
UF's Student Senate discussed upcoming changes to the Reitz Union's food choices, including the closing of Wendy's, at Tuesday night's meeting.
When 14-year-old Patricia Aguerrevere felt her brother kicking inside her mother's belly, she knew she was feeling life. Now, as a second-year art history major, she is a member of the Pro-Life Alliance.
Kyle Evers' Tuesday started like many other people in Gainesville. He woke up at about 7 a.m. next to his wife with his dog at the foot of the bed.
"How does your belief system, or lack thereof, affect your life?" This was one question posed to five panelists, each representing a major religious outlook, during UF's first Interfaith Forum on Tuesday evening in front of about 250 people. Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and non-theism were represented. "Our goal was to spark religious dialogue, and I think we accomplished that," said David Yakobovitch, who was credited with initiating the forum's creation.
Despite the economic downturn, the number of students grabbing passports to head to Paris with UF's College of Journalism and Communications has remained steady.
The sounds of hammers, drills and country radio filled Weimer Hall's basement Monday afternoon as workers remodel for a million-dollar multimedia lab.
Student senators plan to discuss a resolution supporting the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM, Act at tonight's Senate meeting.
Four hundred years since Galileo Galilei first gazed into outer space, UF scientists are still searching the corners of the universe through new technological developments.
When Brooke Emory was six years old, doctors found a brain tumor on her optic nerve, the cause behind her recurring migraines. Rather than having the tumor removed via surgery, which would likely cause blindness, she underwent 18 months of chemotherapy.
Her driver would take her no further; he felt crossing the sandy riverbed that marked the border of Chad and Sudan, nations of central Africa, was for the foolhardy.
UF President Bernie Machen stressed the importance of raising the academic standards for the Bright Futures Scholarship and implementing new state taxes for education during a town hall forum hosted by IRHA, the Inter-Residence Hall Association, for on-campus residents Thursday night.
UF would lay off about 100 more staff and faculty under budget cut proposals described this week, bringing the number of layoffs UF could see in the next round of cuts to about 250.