Students react to anti–Semitism in Venezuela
By LEORA ARNOWITZ | Mar. 5, 2009For many students in Gainesville, hearing the news of a bomb exploding inside a Jewish Community Center in Caracas, Venezuela, on Feb. 26 hit too close to home.
For many students in Gainesville, hearing the news of a bomb exploding inside a Jewish Community Center in Caracas, Venezuela, on Feb. 26 hit too close to home.
The success of UF's sports teams has led some students and faculty members to wonder why the University Athletic Association can't step in and rescue UF's academic programs from big budget cuts next year.
UF's Interfraternity Council met to sign its first anti-hazing pact at Beta Theta Pi Fraternity house on Wednesday night.
Editor's note: This is the final part of a two-part series about veteran UPD officers.
When he wakes up in the morning, the thing that gets to him the most is that he hasn't always been this way.
Twelve graduate students from the UF School of Architecture traveled to California to learn how Google and Intel design and manage their properties.
The fight against the potential cut of UF's undergraduate education program got off to a dark, cold and slightly windy start last night outside of Norman Hall.
A team of UF professors and alumni, sponsored by Quick-Med Technologies Inc., has created a new adhesive bandage that repels bacteria and promotes faster healing.
Last night, about 30 of Krystina Gustafson's friends packed her living room to watch Wheel of Fortune projected onto a white sheet tacked to the wall. She was about to relive her $17,700 win on the show.
For some people, four years at UF just isn't enough.
When she was 7 years old, Krystina Gustafson would slide into her mom's high heels, saunter in front of the television and pretend to be Vanna White, "flipping" the letters on the screen.
A UF graduate student in the College of Education has organized a candlelight vigil scheduled for today to protest the possibility of cutting the college's undergraduate programs.
It took Kyle Myers only two minutes and 51 seconds to eat 30 wings at Gator's Dockside on Tuesday night.
The 28 photos displayed on the wall of the Reitz Union show the faces and lives of people who, according to some, often face adversity in society.
Two men lounging at the Patrol Division front desk said I was in for some good stories that night.
Progress Energy, which sells electricity to UF, has requested a decrease in electric rates that could soften UF's budget cut by between $2 million and $3 million, according to Matt Fajack, UF's chief financial officer.
As lawmakers started the spring legislative session Tuesday, they were joined by lobbyists from around the state, including about six of UF's own lobbyists.]
Tuesday night's back-to-back Student Senate meetings were filled with tearful goodbyes and words of encouragement, as old senators left and new senators sat through their first meeting.
After this week, it may not be long before blogs and Wikis become regular parts of the UF curriculum.
While many students buzz along Gale Lemerand Drive as they make their way to class, few may give a second glance to the shady oaks that conceal UF's Wilmot Gardens.