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NEWS | CAMPUS

UF announces campaign for donors to name bats

By Jeana Fraser | Oct. 25, 2018

About 150 bats were named.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF College of the Arts opens 19 new faculty positions

By Dana Cassidy | Oct. 25, 2018

Positions include teaching areas such as music business and performance somatics.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Finally: fee increases went to the right programs

Oct. 25, 2018

At the local fee committee, SG made the right choices

Grace Banahan, an 18-year-old political science and journalism major, listens to Florida Governor candidates Ron DeSantis and Andrew Gillum debate on corruption and racism Wednesday night at the Governor's Debate Watch Party in Pugh Hall. Banahan is voting for her first time this year.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Governor’s debate watch party draws in over 50 people

By Aaron Ritter | Oct. 25, 2018

This was the last gubernatorial debate between Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Andrew Gillum.

In the 2012-13 school year, the Disability Resource Center center served 1,214 students. This academic year, that rose to 3,055.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Student fees may increase after local fee committee vote

By Alyssa Ramos | Oct. 24, 2018

This is the first time the committee has approved fees since 2014

NEWS | CAMPUS

Petition urges permanent funding of Counseling and Wellness Center

By Alyssa Ramos | Oct. 24, 2018

More than 1,200 have signed the petition

NEWS | SFC

Santa Fe College annual United Way fundraiser is underway

By Angela DiMichele | Oct. 24, 2018

The loser will get a pie in his face

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF students flown to Los Angeles by FOX Sports after winning competition

By Chris Day | Oct. 24, 2018

The students helped film a PSA

Diana Moreno, the assistant director of the UF Multicultural and Diversity Affairs, discusses the fine line between cultural appropriation and appreciation with students at a discussion held as part of Anti-Racism week.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Cute or Offensive? Students talk cultural appropriation

By Gabrielle Seminara | Oct. 24, 2018

About 40 students attended.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman to speak at UF

By Gillian Sweeney | Oct. 24, 2018

She’ll be speaking at the University Auditorium Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Have to go to class on Election Day? Some SG officials want to change that

By Gillian Sweeney | Oct. 23, 2018

The Senate did not bring the resolution to debate or vote.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF fraternity on probation for underage drinking

By Jessica Curbelo | Oct. 23, 2018

The fraternity was on probation in

The five temporary lots that will soon open to accommodate parking during the construction of Garage 14 on Gale Lemerand Drive. The cost for the temporary lots is projected to be around $4 million. Parking will be available to UF faculty and graduate students.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Four new temporary lots will open during UF parking garage construction

By Dana Cassidy | Oct. 23, 2018

Three of the lots will open in December.

Pictured is the Santa Fe College clock tower.

NEWS | SFC

Santa Fe to expand Blount Campus in $36.4 million project

By Dana Cassidy | Oct. 23, 2018

The campus should be open in Spring 2021.

NEWS | CAMPUS

On-Campus voting is a privilege: Use it

Oct. 23, 2018

Students who normally don't vote can access the Reitz Union

Nicholas Moore-Lefauve, a 20-year-old information systems and operations management major, puts on his "I Voted" sticker during the first day of early voting at the J. Wayne Reitz Union Monday morning. This is the third time Moore-Lefauve has voted in his life.

NEWS | CAMPUS

More than 40 people compete in first day of ‘Battle of the Ballots’

By Jeana Fraser | Oct. 22, 2018

Event organizers aim to dictate which college had the highest voter turnout.

Students practiced stuffing fake bullet hole wounds with gauze Saturday morning. The two-hour-long educational training taught attendees what to do when someone has life-threatening bleeding in an emergency.

NEWS | CAMPUS

‘Stop the Bleed’ emergency first-responder training comes to UF

By Angela DiMichele | Oct. 21, 2018

Danielle Gaeta packed gauze into an orange foam swimming pool noodle wrapped in duct tape Saturday morning.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Reitz Union opens for early voting

By Jessica Curbelo | Oct. 21, 2018

The union opened after students filed a lawsuit

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker joins Senator Bill Nelson at a UF College Democrats meeting on Oct. 19 at Weil Hall. Students asked them questions about policies and their thoughts on current issues in the Senate.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Senators Bill Nelson, Cory Booker visit UF

By Gillian Sweeney | Oct. 21, 2018

They met with over 60 students from the UF College Democrats

NEWS | CAMPUS

Come for the bagels. Stay for the politics.

By Gabrielle Seminara | Oct. 20, 2018

About 150 people attended the event

Solutions by The State News