UF students travel to D.C. for Iraq war protest
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Sep. 26, 2007Student protesters from Gainesville will join forces with activists from Washington, D.C., this weekend to protest the Iraq war.
Student protesters from Gainesville will join forces with activists from Washington, D.C., this weekend to protest the Iraq war.
(Jeremiah Stanley / Alligator) Students participating in a Flashmob UF event on Turlington Plaza on Wednesday wave their arms like robots. A flashmob is a group of people who assemble at a predetermined time and place to create a random display of cooperation.
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.
When Backinathan Aruldas arrived in America after a tear-filled, two-day flight from Chennai, India, he went straight to Shands at UF.
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.
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.
(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.
SFCC students have the chance to intern for a Florida senator - if they survive "The Interns."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the name of school spirit, some students would give the shirts off their backs.
One out of every 12 college students has thought about suicide and planned a way to do it, according to Active Minds, a student-based mental-health advocacy program.
Glittery Greek letters and mascots waved in the air as sorority girls danced and chanted beneath them in preparation for the 2007 Sigma Phi Epsilon Surf Frenzy on Thursday night.