Paul Marji, a model in Gainesville Fashion Week, will be doing more than strutting his stuff down the runway this year. He will also be directing models today, when they debut his original clothing line, Sui Generis. Marji is the first GFW model to do so since the event’s inception in March 2009.
Even in competition, six groups will be working toward the same goal: raising money for Japan’s tsunami victims.
In other news, the mildly funny comic Daniel Tosh renegotiated his contract for speaking at the UF O’Connell Center to reduce the crowd from 8,000 to 4,900 attendees.
Daniel Tosh, best known for his show on Comedy Central, “Tosh.0,” poked fun at topics such as sex, college, basketball and Tim Tebow.
Charity and rock ‘n’ roll will come together today in the form of a benefit concert aimed at ending hunger throughout Florida.
Jake Gipson and Matt Wercinski won a national championship last year by a 9-ounce margin.
For more than 50 years, Dr. W. Jape Taylor watched the UF College of Medicine grow from a startup school to one that is well established in the medical community.
Although the show was originally to be open to 8,000 people, Student Government Productions and Accent announced last week that only 4,900 UF students and members of the faculty will be permitted to attend.
The Student Senate unanimously passed the Cabinet Reconstruction Act despite the commotion it caused at last week’s meeting.
UF student Kyle Eschenroeder is working on a project that explores one question: Is college a waste of time?
A narrator stepped onto the stage in an olive tunic holding an empty three-ringed binder.
For those with an HD radio, WUFT-FM will now be coming through the airways in two languages.
Tucker Obie McCarty, a UF student from St. Augustine, died Saturday night in Columbia County when his truck swerved off the road and flipped. He was 21 years old.
The University Athletic Association’s Board of Directors approved a five-dollar-per-game increase on its season ticket packages, jacking the price for a student package up from $70 to $105.
Cathy DeWitt, a UF alumna, will bring her music to Gainesville on Sunday when her band, Patchwork, performs at the Santa Fe College Spring Arts Festival in the downtown historic district.
The Gators’ green agenda has propelled them to a clean No. 1 spot.
As the opening lines of Reel 2 Real’s “I Like to Move It” echoed through the O’Connell Center on Saturday, a mob of about 800 students rushed to the center of the floor.
It might be racist. It might be heritage. Either way, no one seems to mind why or how Judy Byer gets her shipments of Ku Klux Klan shirts.
April 7, 1979: About 5,000 people, ranging in age from 16 months old to 72 years old, gather at Lake Alice Field and smoke out in public as part of a “toke-in” benefit concert supporting the legalization of marijuana. A Tallahassee-based lobbying group collects 2,280 signatures in support of a bill proposing that posession of one ounce of marijuana be a violation, as opposed to the existing law, which makes posession of five grams a misdemeanor.
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