Southwest Recreation Center is a lot farther from your dorm than it looks on the map. That’s when buses come in handy.
It’s 6 p.m. You just woke up from a nap in your dorm room, and your stomach is screaming in hunger. The last thing you want to do is put an Easy Mac bowl in the common area’s sketchy microwave. It’s the first week of your freshman year, so you don’t know anything beyond the bounds of University Avenue or 13th Street.
The Reitz Union offers leisure courses, or informal classes taken for fun, year-round. The classes meet periodically at the Reitz Union or at other locations in Gainesville, making them popular for students, faculty members and locals alike. People enroll each semester by the hundreds.
When you first get to UF, that stretch of bars and restaurants across from the stadium, on a little lane called University Avenue, seem to glisten. That strip, in all its glory, beckons you from your dorm late at night after your parents move you in, when you’re finally free of curfews.
Mutch, a Gainesville native, created the blog Indie Gainesville last August as a way to organize a collective voice for the independent local businesses in Gainesville. As the wife of a local business owner, Mutch saw the issues that many local businesses were facing such as parking in the downtown area and felt they needed to be faced together.
UF police have arrested two suspects who claimed to have placed a bomb in Shands Hospital for Children on Tuesday. The suspects were placed under the Baker Act and are undergoing psychiatric evaluation. Their identities have not been released, according to the Act.
A source close to the situation confirmed to The Alligator that Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel missed practice with a sore shoulder Monday and Tuesday.
UF has decided to postpone the removal of 19 newspaper racks until January 2013.
Story time is over in Gainesville.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1,152 people in the U.S. were treated in hospital emergency rooms last year for injuries they got while walking and using their electronic devices.
Ever since new offensive coordinator Brent Pease arrived at UF, Gators quarterbacks have had former Boise State signal-caller Kellen Moore on the brain.
Former Gators running back and sprinter Jeff Demps gave up a chance to play in the NFL so he could run for the United States in the Olympics.
The Office of Sustainability and the college are implementing the Green Audit, which calls for changes in energy, waste, water and food consumption.
Amazon, which already sells and buys textbooks, launched a textbook rental program Wednesday, according to a press release.
The Alligator must remove 19 of its orange racks by Wednesday, which makes up 80 percent of the newspaper’s circulation. Several more racks must be consolidated. Alligator newspapers will be moved into university-owned black modular units.
From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Kane waves his arms and sways his hips on the plaza. He listens to the Backstreet Boys, U2, Lady Gaga, Sufjan Stevens, Hanson, Angels and Airwaves or maybe Alicia Keys.
Now, UF students will be able to take advantage of hundreds of dollars worth of free software through UF Information Technology and software distribution company e-academy.
By the people, of the people, for the people. That is how the Alligator operates. It’s how everyone should operate.
Researchers at the UF Genetics Institute have identified the gene causing brain-related symptoms of the most common muscular dystrophy in adults.
With the Sept. 1 season opener 25 days away, recruiting coordinator and wide receivers coach Aubrey Hill resigned Friday morning according to a University of Florida press release.
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