Budget cuts cancels UF's day at the Capitol
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Feb. 24, 2008Following statewide budget cuts, UF canceled its annual lobbying day, known as Gator Day, at the Capitol.
Following statewide budget cuts, UF canceled its annual lobbying day, known as Gator Day, at the Capitol.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity's lion statue outside the chapter's house was smashed again Friday - just a few months after an artist had to completely reconstruct its stone face.
Jerry Seinfeld brought his knack for twisting life's little dilemmas about nothing into big laughs to Gainesville on Friday night.
UF's Air Force ROTC swept the board for push-ups and sit-ups and almost clinched first place in the soccer tournament in overtime.
Pounding bass, coordinated steps and strobe lights turned the O'Connell Center into a thunder dome as nine step teams from across the nation battled for first place at the 19th Annual Florida Invitational Step Show on Saturday night.
University Police Department officers arrested Kevin D. Bradshaw, 19, on UF's campus at Fletcher Drive and University Avenue after finding he had a stolen gun.
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Scooter decal prices, which were proposed last month to increase from $36 a year to $121, may now only rise to $64.
To comply with requests from the Board of Governors to stifle enrollment for the fall, UF may be left with only one option: cutting transfer students. And that news did not sit well across town at SFCC.
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.
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.
Two in-house candidates are out of the running for the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean position.
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.