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About 100 people attended the “Take Back the Night: March and Rally to end Sexual Violence,” to fight sexual assault and stand up for survivors of it. The group marched from Plaza of the Americas toward 13th Street and down West University Avenue.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF students ‘Take Back the Night’ for sexual assault survivors

By Edysmar Diaz-Cruz | Apr. 4, 2019

About 100 people attended the rally

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF SG senators raise allegations of misconduct, slander, corruption

By Hannah Beatty | Apr. 2, 2019

Heads buried in laptops and cell phones bolted upright when Senator Nikolas Bindi (Inspire, Liberal Arts and Sciences) called the UF Student Government Senate out on Tuesday night.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Rupaul’s Drag Race Queens coming to UF Pride Awareness Month drag show

By Ana Escalante | Apr. 2, 2019

Gia Gunn, Soju, Ariel Versace and local drag queens will perform

Comedian Hasan Minhaj will speak at UF on April 11.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Comedian Hasan Minhaj to speak at Phillips Center

By Kelly Hayes | Apr. 2, 2019

ACCENT will pay Minhaj $78,000

UF President Kent Fuchs poses in a football uniform designed to resemble his graduation robe his annual April Fools' Day prank.

NEWS | CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

Did Kent Fuchs’ new football uniform, rick-rolling and Carly Rae Jepsen fool you?

By Christina Mouttet | Apr. 1, 2019

This is the fifth year in a row Fuchs has pranked students.

Comedian Jaboukie Young-White performs in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom to an audience of about 450 students Monday night. He cracked jokes about getting into college, having his phone stolen and gay insects.

NEWS | CAMPUS

'Bees are gay. Wasps are straight': Comedian Jaboukie Young-White performs at UF

By Kelly Hayes | Apr. 1, 2019

About 450 people attended the event

Andrew Jensen, the Overall Director of Dance Marathon 2019, rocks out during the Savants of Soul’s performance Saturday night in the O’Connell Center. Dance Marathon lasted for 26.2 hours and raised $3,230,025.23 for children at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital and Children’s Miracle Network.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Dance Marathon hits new record

By Josephine Fuller | Mar. 31, 2019

More than $3.2 million was raised

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF professor placed on leave after “sexting” accusation

By Angela DiMichele | Mar. 31, 2019

He taught at UF for 14 years

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Petition may bring online voting to UF Student Government elections

By Hannah Beatty | Mar. 31, 2019

Online voting was last on the ballot in Spring 2017

NEWS | CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

Parking decals and Divest: What happened at the UF Board of Trustees meeting

By Kelly Hayes | Mar. 31, 2019

Parking decals for non-students will increase by $18

UF Education Professor, Nancy Fichtman Dana, was announced as one of three finalists for the nationally-recognized Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF professor named finalist for national teaching award

By Ana Escalante | Mar. 31, 2019

This award would be the first for UF College of Education

UF alumnus Chris Malachowsky and UF chemistry professor Richard Yost will be inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame this year.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF alumnus and UF professor to be inducted into 2019 Florida Inventors Hall of Fame

By Tamarra Thal | Mar. 31, 2019

The Hall of Fame includes Thomas Edison

Stuart Newman visits the World War II Memorial located in Washington D.C. in late October 2018. Newman was a WWII veteran.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF College of Journalism Hall of Fame inductee dies at 96

By Mikayla Carroll | Mar. 31, 2019

Stuart Newman was a leader in the South Florida public relations industry

Burlesque performer Sally B. Dash performs her flying monkey routine during Sally B’s Noobie Reveal event Saturday night at the Hardback Cafe. The reveal showcased new performers, as well as longtime performer Dash, and about 50 people attended the performance.

NEWS | FEATURES

Red lips, rhinestones and the risqué: The life of burlesque dancer Sally B. Dash

By Romy Ellenbogen | Mar. 28, 2019

“Sally B’s not my alter ego. She’s my ego.”

More than 200 people listen to six speakers Thursday on Plaza of the Americas during the vigil for the one-year anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Florida universities react to deaths of MSD survivors

By Kyle Wood | Mar. 28, 2019

UF is home to 273 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School alumni

Audience members were offered free condoms, buttons and pizza Thursday during the No Es No: Dissecting Rape Culture on Campus event in Turlington Hall. About 75 students attended the event, which was presented by Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity and Sexual Trauma Interpersonal Violence Education by GatorWell.

NEWS | CAMPUS

‘No es No': Students dissect rape culture on college campuses

By Jordyn Kalman | Mar. 28, 2019

About 75 students attended the free event

NEWS | CAMPUS

New music building, infrastructure updates: What UF is lobbying for

By Kelly Hayes | Mar. 28, 2019

UF requested $38.1 million for infrastructure and utilities improvements

Avery Chambers, a 19-year-old UF Chinese freshman, made fliers to encourage students to help bring the Korean language program back to UF.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Korean language program to return to UF after 11 years

By Christina Mouttet | Mar. 27, 2019

The program stopped in 2008 due to the economic recession.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Glitch in ONE.UF system causes delays in course registration

By Mikayla Carroll | Mar. 27, 2019

Hundreds of students attempted to register every minute

Michael Murphy stands with 2017-2018 UF Student Government President Smith Meyers and 2016-2017 SG Vice President Brendon Jonassaint at the Western Wall in Israel.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

UF SG president-elect attends pro-Israel conference

By Hannah Beatty | Mar. 26, 2019

More than 270 student government presidents attended

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