After meeting with UF officials, the NCAA did not find any rules violations through Tuesday night in the recruiting of junior college signee wide receiver Carl Moore and his girlfriend, UF gymnast Maranda Smith.
On Friday, Florida4Marriage.org submitted the last few thousand signatures required to get a proposed state amendment banning gay marriage on the November ballot.
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey still isn't sure if the interrogation practice known as waterboarding - where an individual is strapped down with a rag placed over the nose and mouth while water is poured over the rag to simulate drowning - constitutes torture. That is, unless he were to be subjected to it.
Kudos to the Alligator. Finally an objective analysis of the transgender ordinance and what it really means. Everything else I have read has been slanted and inciting.
A car crashed into a utility pole on Southwest 34th Street just south of Archer Road, in front of Back Yard Burgers on Tuesday evening.
Editor's Note: Interviews in the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean search will take place Feb. 15, 16 and 17. We reported otherwise in Wednesday's Alligator.
UF has to cut $16 million come July 1, when officials project the total drop in recurring state support will be $47.2 million.Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University expects to lose another $4.6 million this year, and Florida State University anticipates a reduction of programs and a hiring freeze because of new cuts in the $16 million to $18 million range. The Board of Governors, facing $147 million in cuts to the state university system this year alone, gave university presidents the go-ahead last month to lay off faculty members, slash enrollment and take other actions to salvage their budgets.
Do you keep up with the news? Are all your friends tired of hearing you talk about the upcoming election or the latest campus scandal? Would you like to have a say in what goes into the Alligator?
The Southeastern Conference schedule leaves little time to worry about the past.
Shakespeare once wrote, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Truly it is the substance of the rose - not the name given - that makes it the beautiful flower it is. But what if we took the opposite approach? Would calling a dandelion a rose make it smell sweet? Of course not. There is much in a name.
For some people, participating in City Commission meetings can be intimidating or inconvenient, so city officials decided to bring the meeting to them, City Manager Russ Blackburn said.
Vanessa Pineda's heartbeat rises when the phone rings with a call from Colombia.
I think you guys were too hard on the Writing on the Wall project.
The recent ruling of the Gainesville City Commission to approve an ordinance protecting transgender residents from discrimination at local businesses was not a revolutionary move - the commission is just keeping up with the times.
In a perfect world, our wall would end racism and cure intolerance. Obviously, that is a ridiculous goal, and that has never been our intention.
Despite two home losses last week, don't count UF out of the NCAA Tournament picture just yet.
The Orange and Blue party is the second Student Government party to announce its executive ticket for the Feb. 26 and Feb. 27 SG elections.
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