UF eyes increased production following poor season-opening tournament
By Luis Torres | Sep. 9, 2014It was a disappointing and frustrating first tournament for first-year coach J.C. Deacon.
It was a disappointing and frustrating first tournament for first-year coach J.C. Deacon.
Florida opens its Southeastern Conference slate at home on Saturday against Kentucky, but there are other games happening around the country. Week 3 of the College Football season, besides a few decent matchups, is painful folks. It’s the sad truth. While I in no means would recommend you avoid any weekend of college football might I suggest you stick to watching the games I have put for you here. Conveniently enough, they are spread out between noon and 7 p.m.
Dressed in neon vests and armed with Walkie Talkies, 10 male students stood around a table at the University Police Department Tuesday evening, awaiting directions from the officers.
Alachua County residents wishing to oversee improvements to county roads should apply to be a part of the Moving Alachua County Forward Citizen Oversight Committee by Wednesday.
Neil Lawrence White had a love of cracking logic games, completing puzzles and caring for his students.
During a UF police manhunt Sunday, UF campus was illuminated not in orange and blue, but red and blue.
Linda Stump sipped her Coke through a thin straw as she drove her red Ford Explorer through UF’s campus Monday night.
After a record low turnout Sunday for students interested in running for a UF Student Senate seat, Monday drew enough applicants to fill the Fall 2014 Student Government elections ballot.
UF Chief of Police Linda Stump and Gainesville Police Chief Tony Jones hosted a press conference Monday afternoon at the UF Police Department regarding the recent string of assault cases both on or near UF’s campus in the last 10 days.
The Florida Prepaid program has reduced the cost of its rates after a new state law lowered future costs of attendance at state universities in Florida.
THE FEST 13 will expand onto Bo Diddley Community Plaza this year.
Television camera crews and concerned students swarmed the Plaza of the Americas on Monday in support of heightened campus safety.
I remember touring UF my senior year of high school and hearing my mom ask the most important question of all: "How safe is campus?" We got the speech about the three-lock dorm system, the blue lights, Student Nighttime Auxiliary Patrol and all of the resources that make UF one of the safest places to call home. Now I, along with every other student, can only think about taking a self-defense class and buying pepper spray.
A Gainesville couple’s donation could help UF reach top tier status
Shortly after 8:30 Sunday night, the entire UF Student Body received a series of alerts from University Police, warning them of a battery that had just occurred on campus near McCarty Hall.
The removal of Steven Salaita, a tenured professor at the University of Illinois, for his tweets in support of Palestine should be of great concern to those who value academic freedom at American universities. Salaita had been offered a job as a tenured professor of American Indian studies, and his appointment was contingent on approval by the University of Illinois’s Board of Trustees. The university chancellor, Phyllis Wise, refused to forward Salaita’s appointment to the board.
COJIMAR, Cuba — Ernest Hemingway’s love of the sea and eye for detail have scientists hoping that a visit to Cuba by the author’s grandsons will open access to his fishing logs, which may be a treasure trove of information about the state of deep-water species before they were diminished by overfishing.
ATLANTA — Chick-fil-A founder and billionaire S. Truett Cathy rose from poverty, building a restaurant chain that famously closes every Sunday and drew unwanted attention for the Cathy family’s opposition to gay marriage.
Low voter turnout has been a prominent feature of American elections for the last several decades. In the 2012 election, only about two-thirds of all voters cast ballots.
Most of us want to improve our lives, correct? We want to learn the magical formula that will make us into better human beings: lighter, brighter, happier.