Alligator Facts
July 26, 20121) In 1912 Florida Alligator became UF’s official student newspaper. A year later it published photographs for the first time, and a summer edition was added in 1915.
1) In 1912 Florida Alligator became UF’s official student newspaper. A year later it published photographs for the first time, and a summer edition was added in 1915.
In a response to a letter from the Journalism Department Advisory Council, UF President Bernie Machen made a few claims about the current situation with the Alligator's orange racks that deserve clarification.
While the Alligator certainly has problems of its own at the moment, they obviously pale in comparison to the horrible incident at “The Dark Knight Rises” premiere in Aurora, Colo., last week. That brings us to this week’s our-thoughts-go-out-to-everyone-affected-by-this-tragedy edition of...
Kelvin Taylor is no stranger to the bright lights in the Swamp.
With the eyes of the world watching, a spoonful of sugar will make the Dark Lord go down in London on Friday. Actually, it will take several spoons.
With the opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics only three days away, sprinter Jeff Demps woke up Tuesday morning to an email sent at 3 a.m. giving him a second chance at London.
The band will perform at the U.S. ambassador’s house in London for first lady Michelle Obama, about 1,000 American military children and American and British students at Let’s Move!, a program created by the first lady in May to combat childhood obesity.
For the first time, an undocumented student will receive a private scholarship from a UF organization.
The facility for the Gainesville Regional Transit System can support a maximum of about 70 buses.
The resolution asked the UF administration to halt the removal of all independently owned newspaper racks until retired economics professor David Denslow finished an impact study.
Raymond E. Wortham, 38, of Archer, was arrested just before 5:30 p.m. Monday and charged with two counts of obscene communication and one count of using a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony.
A 59-year-old woman was struck and killed by a mid-sized pickup truck traveling north on Northwest 13th Street on Wednesday night.
Gifthorse is in its last week at 101 N. Main St. and is moving to a location at 201 SE Second Ave. in mid-August.
If you give Passion Pit’s, second album “Gossamer” a listen, you’ll barely scratch the surface into understanding the Boston-based electro-synth pop group’s lead vocalist Michael Angelakos.
When Lia-Lucine Cary was a child, her grandfather taught her a valuable lesson — that educating oneself is the most important thing one can do. Today as a middle school teacher in Hawaii, Cary teaches that lesson to her students who are raised in a culture that doesn’t encourage college as an option.
After an undercover Internet sex sting led police to the arrest of seven suspects, the bonds set for the convicts have shown a notable gap, despite the men being charged with similar crimes.
Tobias, a GPD spokesman, said he posts updates like this on social media sites several times a day. According to a survey recently published by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, social media is becoming a popular tool in law enforcement, especially in departments serving smaller cities.
Offenther, originally from Coral Springs Fla., graduated from UF in 2007 with a degree in philosophy. He says the city of Gainesville saved him. Offenther dove into Gainesville life in every way through involvement on campus and in Gainesville’s cultural community, something he never felt he could do in his hometown. His first DJ gig was at the now-closed bar Tim and Terry’s Music & More, where he played the type of retro music that he wanted to dance to. “I wasn’t very good but it was unpretentious and fun,” he said.
This week, I am so sickened and saddened by the cinema shooting in Aurora that it’s difficult to navigate my thoughts on the matter in a coherent fashion. Senseless acts like this boil down to something that not all psychologists and sociologists will admit exists: genuine evil.
HOOVER, Ala. — The second year has been a significant one for past Gators coaches.