Academic departments safe from budget cuts
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Feb. 21, 2008UF's budget situation got brighter Thursday, at least for the near future.
UF's budget situation got brighter Thursday, at least for the near future.
With UF Student Government elections just four days away, the three candidates from each party said Thursday night that they are poised to tackle tough issues, including campus transportation and online voting.
Some UF agricultural students have joined agriculture industry leaders in opposition to potential budget cuts to the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
Two in-house candidates are out of the running for the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean position.
Editor's Note: In the online film "Barackula," the Barack Obama character is not a vampire.
An SFCC student accused of pointing a gun at another student made a first appearance in court Wednesday while SFCC administration spent the day evaluating its crisis management.
Giant posters of bloody bodies on UF's Plaza of the Americas on Wednesday offered passersby and students eating lunch pictures of what organizers called a new kind of genocide - abortion.
Republican student groups at UF have joined forces to support Republican presidential candidate front-runner John McCain while Democratic groups remain split as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton stay neck and neck.
More than 100 female students from three Alachua County middle schools participated in Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on Wednesday.
UF students expressed concern about an SFCC gunman Tuesday, but UF officials said there was no reason to worry - and no reason for an emergency text message.
In response to the UF Warrington College of Business eliminating its entrepreneurship minor this fall, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation ambassadors hosted an "Entrepreneurship for Dummies" workshop Tuesday night at Stuzin Hall.
Less than a week after five students were killed at Northern Illinois University, an SFCC student pointed a gun at another student on the college's campus Tuesday, sparking a five-hour manhunt that ended in a peaceful arrest.
The director of UF's Office of Sorority and Fraternity Affairs stepped down Feb. 13 in an unusually quick fashion.
Sherry Benton, the new director of UF's Counseling Center, introduced herself to student senators on Tuesday night after more than two weeks of being on campus.
Student organizations filled the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom on Monday and Tuesday with fake snow, oozing slime and ice cream to attempt to attract kids to science careers.
A UF student was arrested as he left his history class Tuesday on charges of selling and possessing drugs.
Another candidate has dropped out of the search for a UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean.
After the third college shooting in the last month, UF officials assured students that they're still safe on campus.
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After two years of recruitment, house renovations, community service and advisement from its national headquarters, Delta Chi Fraternity was officially welcomed back to the UF campus.