Campus bookstores giving 7 percent discount on books today
By Samantha Shavell | Aug. 21, 2012UF bookstores will give students a 7 percent discount on all new and used books. However, books for rent and books bought online are not discounted.
UF bookstores will give students a 7 percent discount on all new and used books. However, books for rent and books bought online are not discounted.
Senate President Pro Tempore Logan Harrison announced Price’s resignation via email Monday.
The freedom of your first semester of college can be overwhelming. No one is telling you where to be or what to do. There are no curfews, no dress codes, no detention or hall passes.
UF Student Body President Tj Villamil and UF Board of Trustees member Alan Levine greeted new students and their families during residence hall move-in day with cold bottles of water and words of welcome and advice.
To the freshmen reading my writing for the first time, welcome! Hopefully you’ll come to be regular readers and feel closer to me than the effervescent guy who works the night shift at the Taco Bell on Archer Road (To find out why that is funny, Google “Skambis Defecation Proclamation”).
Researchers with the Florida Museum of Natural History dissected a 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python Aug. 10, the largest of its kind ever found in the state. The 164.5-pounder was pregnant with 87 eggs and broke previous state records for pythons.
AtThePool.com will launch at UF Aug. 27. Students can make free online profiles and join themed “pools” that connect them with like-minded strangers.
The Student Senate will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to vote for a new Senate President.
Chris Thompson scored six touchdowns last season for Gainesville High School. His mother saw every one.
With Jaye Howard gone to the NFL and Ronald Powell injured, Sharrif Floyd and Dominique Easley will try to pick up the slack for Florida’s 2011 sacks leaders.
He has hijacked SportsCenter broadcasts for three years now. He turned Cortland, N.Y., a city of 19,212 people and the site of the New York Jets training camp, into a media circus.
Media members had a surprise visitor during player availability Wednesday afternoon.
Welcome to UF, that shining orange-and-blue Mecca of fellowship and camaraderie. Here, you’re not a number, you’re a person — part of a family that has linked arms across the country to make the Gator Nation.
You just graduated from high school, where people knew and loved you.
Welcome to UF! You have made an excellent decision in choosing UF, and I know you are excited and eager to get started on your journey here.
My name is Tj Villamil and I’ll be serving as your Student Body president for the 2012-13 academic year. Not only will you have one of the best collegiate experiences in the nation, but the people you will meet here at UF will be your friends for life.
Out-of-the-box vegan options, a wide array of Asian food and classic college fare of pizza and Mexican food are done well here.
But we do know you need to use it for a lot of classes, especially introductory-level classes. So you might as well learn it, even if you don’t love it.
Toga parties might be fun, but there’s more to UF’s Greek system of fraternities and sororities than liquor and letters.
Less Than Jake might not look the same as they did when you first started listening to them.