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.
It wasn't the smell of feces and urine from the overflowing toilets or the 95-degree ovenlike surroundings that bothered Paul Harris the most, but the power of fear.
About 600 students will stand for a cause this weekend in the O'Connell Center.
At 11 p.m., registered nurse Alexis Lynch gulps down a Dr Pepper and some animal crackers to give her energy for the 16th hour of her shift on the pediatrics floor at Shands at UF. She agreed to work late even despite being scheduled to leave at 7 p.m. because there were not enough nurses to cover the shift.
Persistence is the word a UF law professor lives by, and he said it earned him a seat on a Florida appointing commission.
It's not often that meetings designed to address college budget cuts have audience members feeling more like they're in the middle of a teen musical.
Right after sunset, 14 students kneeled in the direction of Mecca on the floor of Touchdown Terrace at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Thursday night to take part in prayer before Jamillah Karim took the podium to speak to a crowd of about 40 people.
Two editors with about 65 years of combined journalism experience took the stage at Pugh Hall Wednesday night to describe the media's influence on President Barack Obama's campaign and the Internet's impact on print journalism.
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