Gemma Spofforth is undoubtedly a champion. She owns seven UF school records, four Southeastern Conference records, an NCAA record, a U.S. Open record, a world record and an Olympic appearance for her native Great Britain.
The grueling portion of Florida’s early season schedule has taken its toll.
Throughout finals week, Santa Fe College students will be able to kick back and gaze at the stars between exams.
Residents of Northeast Seventh Street will see a bit of a change during the next week as “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” takes over the small neighborhood.
The 22-year-old telecommunications senior, who died Nov. 30 from cystic fibrosis, cracked jokes with classmates, served as a foster parent for animals and raised awareness for the disease that slowly took her life.
Members of Graduate Assistants United, a union that represents UF’s graduate assistants, are planning to speak at a the Board of Trustees meeting Friday. They will protest the addition of another fee to a growing list of student fees.
It’s not only the end of the week here at the Alligator, but the end of one great semester. We laughed, we cried... we got called names, and we cried some more (Well, a few made us laugh). But the saddest part of all is having to say goodbye.
Our glowing governor, Charlie Crist, is bent on convincing Floridians that his ultra-conservative views will save the country from financial ruin.
“You have the right — in your anxious and confused state — to try to figure out what rights you may or may not have by deciphering the ambiguous statement I am currently reading in a robot-like voice — as if my true intentions are not to inform you of anything, but rather to show my disdain for civil liberties and humanity in general.”
A question for first-years here at UF: How was your semester?
UF’s Intelligent Machines Design Laboratory students demonstrated their final projects at Monday’s Robot Demo Day at the Engineering Building, showing how college students with modest budgets can breathe life into metal and circuitry.
When Will Albury raps, he doesn’t talk about having loads of cash or driving lavish cars — he represents the orange and blue.
Harold Rocha trudged up 193 stairsteps to the top of Century Tower.
Throughout the semester, I’ve always looked forward to Wednesday’s column. The sardonic humor underlying Hilary Lehman’s commentary on anything from the benefits of being judgmental to the lack of literary merit in the “Twilight” series has always been a welcome Hump Day pick-me-up.
After reading the Alligator sports page, I was greatly disappointed. Not because of our stinging loss to Alabama, but because of the lack of support. Nothing spoke of support for our team. I was at the Southeastern Conference Championship Game, and I stayed until the last second, cheering for our team. You could tell Tim Tebow and the rest of the team were crushed, and it pissed me off when Alabama fans cheered at Tim’s crying face.
The following is an excerpt from a letter sent to New York State Sen. Tom Libous.
Three things to describe Tim Tebow: amazing athlete, outstanding character and 100 percent human. With humanity comes imperfection. Shocking, right?
ATLANTA — David Nelson didn’t want to leave the field.
ATLANTA — When the group of reporters around David Nelson dispersed, and the Florida players had mostly cleared out of the locker room, the senior wide receiver said what everyone was thinking.
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