When Nicholas Kristof goes on family vacations, they aren’t the ones his daughter’s friends go on. He would rather go to the slums of Honduras and dirt-poor countries around the world than to Disney World or the Caribbean.
UF students do not have to go off campus anymore to see what a real courtroom looks like.
About 120 UF students gathered Monday night in the Rion Ballroom to commemorate the end of Islam Awareness Month.
Picture a typical Friday at UF. Turlington Plaza is filled with its usual crowd of students, professors, fraternity members and the occasional shouting preacher. You could find this assortment of people walking across the pebbled ground of Turlington any day of the week.
It may not come as much of a surprise to hear that Susan Bottcher and Rob Zeller donated to candidates in other races who belong to their respective parties.
UF’s celebration of Black History Month came to a close Monday night as students gathered to commemorate the largest Black History Month celebration in the country.
The UF women’s tennis team gets a lot of attention for its depth, featuring five players ranked in the top 40 of the ITA singles rankings.
Blood, knives and carcasses surround Tommy Estevez on a daily basis.
Zack Smith concludes in his column published Feb. 21 that U.S. House Republicans voted to end the public funding of presidential campaigns because of its “unpopularity” and its waste of public funds.
We’ve been mentioning our governor’s proposed budget cuts here and there, but it’s time to get specific about people on the losing side. Of course, most organizations receiving government funding could be counted among the losers, but the money needs to be sheared from somewhere. We just don’t like that people who are already struggling may have their helping hands abandon them.
I just wanted to say “bravo!” to Zack Smith for his insightful column published Monday on why Planned Parenthood should lose its funding. His sleuthing uncovered the fact that even though absolutely zero government dollars spent on the organization go toward abortion services, some of the money they receive is instead being used on insidious programs like “sexuality education” and “public policy objectives.”
Starting in March, Starbucks customers will experience a slight alteration to their experience in the form of an updated logo. Starbucks recently unveiled the design, which while not very different omits the text from the famous emblem.
When a baby is housed in the Shands Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, something as simple as grabbing dinner gets pushed to the back burner.
Some local businesses are reporting that more college men are using their services.
The Florida men’s basketball team has already clinched at least a share of the regular-season Southeastern Conference East championship. Losing Saturday at Kentucky prevented the Gators from winning the title outright — not from securing it, as written in Monday’s Alligator.
An article about a Regional Science Bowl that ran on Monday stated that 17 high schools competed. It should have said that 17 high school teams competed.
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Optimists tend to perform better at work, resist depression when bad events occur and have better physical health.
On the seventh installment of our weekly video show, Greg Luca returns from Lexington, Ky., with analysis and interviews of the Gators' 76-68 loss to the Wildcats in Rupp Arena and a brief look forward at Florida's upcoming showdown with Alabama. Jesse Simonton and Anthony Chiang also recap the No. 1 UF baseball team's weekend sweep of Boston College in Gainesville.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Gators will need at least one more game to clinch the Southeastern Conference East crown.
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