Few issues represent so profound a moral conundrum and elicit so visceral an emotional response as capital punishment.
I have always believed that things happen for a reason.
As checking e-mail and surfing social-networking sites have become compulsive for many college students, professors around the country - and at UF - have begun limiting laptop use in classrooms.
Andrew Enriquez, a third-year history student, had 212 friends, pumped iron whenever he could and loved listening to Tupac - according to his Facebook profile.
At the beginning of the fall, all it took was two clicks from UF's home page to call up your favorite UF trustee and ask him or her your burning question. But not today.
Bad luck first struck Ryan Lochte on June 30, 1985.
You've seen them at the Plaza of the Americas: Student Government-sponsored billboards, in an effort to boost self-esteem, encouraging women to love their bodies, claiming that "diets don't work" and assuring everyone that confident women who don't worry about looking like supermodels are sexier than those who do.
In the spirit of Earth Day, we think it's necessary to applaud UF's ongoing campus sustainability efforts and the progress that has been made to reduce the university's large environmental impact.
Equipment-use fees that UF piloted this semester in four colleges will be made available across the university this fall as part of a larger effort to generate funds in light of major budget cuts.
Trends are the ebb and flow of the fashion pool. They arrive in huge, abrupt waves and wash out just as quickly. Most are sported by the likes of stylish celebrities, and some are created right here on campus.
City commissioners voted 5-2 at a special meeting Monday night to change the land-use designation for the location of a proposed one-stop homeless center at 3335 N Main Terrace.
I was disappointed, but not surprised, by Vincent Massaro's column Monday about the pope's U.S. visit. It confirmed what many people know but do not want to admit: Anti-Catholic speech is one of the remaining acceptable forms of discrimination in America today.
With the approach of today's Pennsylvania presidential primary - the first Democratic primary since March 11 - campaigning by both candidates has gotten aggressive.
As the United States enters the sixth year of the war in Iraq, a UF organization wants to install a memorial for local veterans who have served the country in the past 63 years.
At age 16, Lynn Bailey represented her home state of South Carolina in a nationwide 4-H competition for her research on nutrition and healthy dieting.
It took a little bit longer than expected, but the preseason prediction made by UF coach Tim Walton has finally come true.
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