Kari Bagnall, 58, who founded Jungle Friends in 1998, said the nonprofit needs $250,000 to be able to buy the 20-acre lot next door and expand.
Six days a week, Rex Tullius streamlines, kicks, pulls and flip-turns, cranking out about 200 laps in two hours. His goal? Competing in the 2012 Olympics.
These Regional Transit System workers drive buses that cater mostly to students, providing safe passage home for the inebriated, fatigued and lazy. They drive various routes from downtown to midtown, through and around UF’s campus and back to downtown.
In the ticket window of Gator Cinemas, off West Newberry Road next to the Oaks Mall, sits an 8-by-12-inch sign with these words: “Renovations are underway. Please bear with us.” They are typed next to a cartoon grizzly bear.
Lauren Embree has always said that watching is 10 times worse than playing. But down 4-0 to Stanford’s Mallory Burdette in the third set of a match that would decide the 2010-11 national championship, Embree had her doubts.
The Gators had finally cracked Matt Reed.
What is family?
In a conference call with student reporters Tuesday from Air Force One, Obama discussed a measure to keep student loan interest rates low.
Florida played two nearly identical games on Tuesday when it faced off against LSU. However, while the first was highlighted by late-game heroics and drama, the second was stained with disappointment.
Electrical and Computer Engineering professors Eric Schwartz and Antonio Arroyo will host the annual Robot Media/Guest Demo Day in the Harris Corporation Rotunda in the New Engineering Building from noon to 4 p.m.
The UF Office of Sustainability’s Spring Greening collection, which helps students and the community properly dispose of personal and hazardous waste, is today.
Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe spoke to four students in the Reitz Union on Tuesday about political activism.
Forbes.com, a business news website, posted an article Sunday condemning a proposal that would restructure UF’s Computer and Information and Science Engineering department.
The Bartram apartments, located at 2337 SW Archer Road, notified its residents in March 2011 that it would close indefinitely because the complex had to undergo repairs.
Two bills that will restructure the executive branch of Student Government unanimously passed their second and final rounds of approval at Tuesday night’s Student Senate meeting.
In the latest issue of PARADE Magazine, Gainesville was ranked the No. 6 hardest-working city in America. Columbia, Mo., was ranked as No. 1.
Temperatures flirted with daily record lows Monday and Tuesday.
In January, at the start of my final semester in college, I found myself leading my peers at the country’s largest independent student-run newspaper.
Facing budget cuts, UF is planning to do some serious damage to the CISE department.
A conservative on a college campus can achieve a serene state of being that is pursued by many but accomplished by few: the status of a contrarian.
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