City trying to sober up
By DREW HARWELL | Mar. 27, 2008Editor's Note: This is the final story in a three-part series on the drinking culture of Gainesville.
Editor's Note: This is the final story in a three-part series on the drinking culture of Gainesville.
Due to a lack of consensus among committee members, the dean search committee for UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences submitted a recommendation to the provost that doesn't endorse any specific action.
While the Gators were busy dismantling the Buckeyes and climbing to the top as football national champions last year, UF's television spot was also beating its peers in terms of diversity.
After collecting faculty feedback this week, the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean search committee will meet to make its final recommendation to the provost today.
Editor's Note: This is the second story in a three-part series on the drinking culture of Gainesville.
When doors opened for Bob Saget's stand-up Wednesday night, fans didn't just wait in line.
With a quick step and determined look, Nicole Bauman presented a ticket to a security guard monitoring the Pugh Hall Ocora Room on Wednesday morning.
For UF employees trying to kick their smoking habit, UF now offers a free program to help them quit.
Gator Stompin', the traditional end-of-semester pub crawl, may not be the drunken fest students would imagine.
Yom huledet same'ach - that's "happy birthday," for those who don't speak Hebrew.
Editor's Note: This is the first in a three-part series on the drinking culture of Gainesville.
A UF student senator called for the resignation of another senator at a meeting Tuesday night, charging that he does not live in the district to which he was appointed.
During a Student Senate meeting marked by division and bickering between parties, senators from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences expressed heated disapproval of decisions that have kept them out of all Senate committees.
The results from SFCC's Student Government elections will be determined tonight, but one decision is set in stone: There will be no runoff election.
A UF fraternity that was suspended in 2006 until 2011 challenged its charges on Tuesday before a Tallahassee appeals court.
For years, Florida's public universities have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to the Board of Governors at its request, but Florida State University will not comply this year with a system one lawmaker deemed "soft extortion."
State Sen. Evelyn Lynn, chairwoman of the Higher Education Appropriations Committee, relinquished pay for her post at Florida State University on Monday.
Bob Saget doesn't think he'll drop the "f-bomb" too much at the O'Connell Center tonight.
Those still hoping to attend former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's Wednesday speech are out of luck.
When Debra Walker King came to UF in 1994, she said she was a "young kid on the block," watching the wheels of administration turn as a new English professor.