When Kitan Adeniji went to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for UF’s Institute of Black Culture Saturday afternoon, she felt that the university was listening to black students for a change.
Within one semester, two UF students created and launched a social networking forum that has registered over 300 users.
It was cold, dark and misty as hundreds, then thousands, of students began to fill in around the stage at Flavet Field Friday night.
Race is not real, Christopher Lebron said. It’s a way for people to consider themselves better than others.
UF’s Wheelchair Basketball Club only has able-bodied players, but its players are trying to change that.
Despite cold, wet weather, hundreds of people felt warm as they gathered this weekend for the reopenings of the Institute of Black Culture and the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures.
After two years of work and research, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program’s two-part documentary on the history and the making of the Institute of Black Culture and the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures was shown this week.
After living in Gainesville for eight years, Danielle Chanzes shared her struggles with city commissioners during public comment.
The case of a former UF resident assistant accused of attempted sexual battery is still up in the air as of Thursday night.
Although being ranked seventh among the top U.S. public colleges and universities is an achievement we can be proud of, it should not overshadow the dire issues at UF.
It was 1954, and about 30 Florida A&M University freshmen sat in a classroom during orientation. A student in the back row, W. George Allen, was the first to stand up and introduce himself.
At the University of Florida, we have one statue of a UF president, Albert Murphree, who was our second president. We have three statues of Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier, Danny Wuerffel and Tim Tebow. And we have many, many statues of alligators.
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — Several people were injured Thursday during a shooting at a Southern California high school and the gunman was in custody, authorities said.
Last month, hundreds protested Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle’s speaking event because they deemed their rhetoric as racist. Tuesday night, at least a hundred more gathered to protest conservative activist Charlie Kirk because they said his rhetoric wasn’t racist enough.
A week after about 11 people called for Student Body President Michael Murphy’s resignation during Senate, an SG senator emailed Murphy a resolution for his impeachment and handed it to him in his office Tuesday.
UF celebrated students who are the first in their family to go to college Friday on National First-Generation Day.
Mayor Lauren Poe faced a crowd gathered along the side of Eighth Avenue. His microphone buzzed, but his message was clear: In times of war, Gainesville advocates for peace.
Does UF Student Government have enough time to pass resolutions? Senators only have three school weeks left to do so.
UF’s first black alumnus and civil rights activist W. George Allen has died, his family confirmed Thursday.
After almost seven years of research, UF scientists are beginning to understand Gainesville’s nocturnal residents a little better.
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