Board of Governors meets to discuss tuition increase
By KIM WILMATH | Sep. 26, 2007Florida's Board of Governors will decide how much of a tuition increase to impose on Florida's 11 universities at a meeting this morning in Tallahassee.
Florida's Board of Governors will decide how much of a tuition increase to impose on Florida's 11 universities at a meeting this morning in Tallahassee.
Student protesters from Gainesville will join forces with activists from Washington, D.C., this weekend to protest the Iraq war.
When Backinathan Aruldas arrived in America after a tear-filled, two-day flight from Chennai, India, he went straight to Shands at UF.
Yellowed manuscripts, books, journals and other critical archival materials that document the life of a controversial Brazilian priest are being exhibited on the second floor of George A. Smathers Library.
Editor's Note: This is the second story in a three-part series on students who completed military service in the Middle East. Part Three will run Thursday.
Although the Tasering of Andrew Meyer, a UF telecommunication senior, has been scrutinized from every camera angle, the legal implications of the situation remain clouded.
UF's Student Senate shifted its focus from politics to the environment at its Tuesday night meeting.
(Scott Robertson / Alligator Staff) An excavator machine that fell into a large pit behind the Mechanical and Aerospace Building B this weekend is retrieved by two winch-wielding tow trucks. Recent rainfall caused the earth beneath the excavator to give way, allowing the machine to slip into the pit and sink into the mud. The tow trucks, along with several workers, were successfully able to retrieve the machine.
A UF student was taken off life support Monday afternoon after spending more than two weeks in Shands at UF without brain activity.
If the word "tricycle" conjures up images of the shiny red model from childhood, think again.
The outcome of the fall Student Government elections on Oct. 2 and Oct. 3 might not be a surprise if past elections are any indication.
Editor's Note: This is the first story in a three-part series on students who completed military service in the Middle East. Part Two will run Wednesday.
SFCC students have the chance to intern for a Florida senator - if they survive "The Interns."
Tasers have been used 17 times in University Police Department incidents since summer 2001, according to the UPD spokesman.
Fall semester marks the final stretch of a four-and-a-half-year journey for Adrianna Rodriguez, a UF senior who will graduate in December. On graduation day, she will walk across the stage, shake the hands of beaming administrators and collect diplomas in history and journalism.
In the name of school spirit, some students would give the shirts off their backs.
Nations collided on Hume Field on Sunday as students competed for a gold-colored cup and the right to be called champion of the Americas.
Even without his teeth, Andrew Enriquez smiled.
With Gov. Charlie Crist's proposal to cut state funds for university building projects, several brand-new buildings under construction at UF might remain the newest buildings for a while.
As thousands of activists converged on Jena, La., more than 400 UF students participated in two silent rallies Thursday in support of six black students involved in a racially charged controversy.