Editor's Note: This is the first story in a three-part series on students who completed military service in the Middle East. Part Two will run Wednesday.
Fall semester marks the final stretch of a four-and-a-half-year journey for Adrianna Rodriguez, a UF senior who will graduate in December. On graduation day, she will walk across the stage, shake the hands of beaming administrators and collect diplomas in history and journalism.
UF law professor Christopher Slobogin painted a dark, Big Brother-esque picture Wednesday of the post-Sept. 11 regulation of government surveillance. His speech focused on how recent surveillance acts are in direct conflict with the Fourth Amendment.
(Jeremiah Stanley / Alligator) Hongqiang Zhai, an electrical engineering alumnus, plays table tennis at the Florida Gym on Wednesday evening. The games were part of a Table Tennis Club meeting.
Sharpen up those kissing skills, boys and girls, because that is all a new study says is needed to assess a mate.
Whether you like your grouper blackened or baked, a UF associate professor has been working on saving the fish favorite for the past 17 years, according to a UF press release.
September is a busy month for Gainesville Pet Rescue as students are returning to school, settling into their lives and looking to adopt a pet, said Cheryl Gibson, executive director of GPR.
(Charles Roop / Alligator Staff) Pastor Marty Hogan, dressed as the Apostle John, preaches to people at Turlington Plaza on Friday morning. Hogan, who was scheduled to appear at Calvary Chapel Gainesville on Sunday morning and evening, uses musical and dramatic presentations to spread his message, according to the chapel's Web site.
(Scott Robertson / Alligator Staff) Fred Thompson (third from left), who is running on the Republican ticket for the 2008 presidential election, talks to a fan before the University of Tennessee game outside Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on Saturday. Fred Thompson, who formally announced his bid for the Republican ticket on Sept. 5, stopped in Gainesville during his campaign to accept an invitation to sit with UF President Bernie Machen in the president's box during the game.
Maureen Hartney said she isn't perfect. She's still 15 push-ups shy of her 62-a-minute goal. She only has a 3.9 GPA. She hasn't saved the world yet.
Jodi-Ann Pinnock waited at the bus stop carrying her books. Her arms were tired. She wanted to sit down as she waited, but she couldn't.
UF freshman Talia Cadet was sitting in seventh-grade history class at her Long Island middle school when she first learned of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Though she was young, Cadet understood the gravity of the situation and feared for her mother, who worked at a New York City hospital.
The sound of a circular saw shreds the air on the ground floor of the Reitz Union as Adam Loose cuts a board.
The thick smell of active grease traps wafts in the air as some blood-shot college students dine on fried chicken, burgers and fries.
New and old faces trailed into the Stephen C. O'Connell Center on Thursday night to get a taste of The Gator Nation for Gatorfest.
(Jeremiah Stanley / Alligator) Hip Hop Collective member J.J. Richardson breakdances on Turlington Plaza Wednesday afternoon during a Breakdancing Club recruitment event.
Tension grips the fishing line as the snook struggles to escape from the hook penetrating its mouth.
It's no longer champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
Editor's Note: This is the second story in a two-part series on the Gator Marching Band. The first story ran Aug. 27.
A giant skillet weighing about 350 pounds teetered down a 30-foot-high ramp.
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