In the cold weather early Monday night, three Santa Fe College students and one adviser pitched tents on the Oak Grove to experience, for one night, what it’s like to be homeless.
A Facebook page claiming to be the University of Florida White Students Union was created Sunday.
For most UF students, Thanksgiving Break means turkeys and pumpkin pies at home. But for international students, it is nothing more than a week off from school.
Late Sunday evening, the Facebook feeds of many UF students became inundated with cries of outrage and disbelief over the purported existence of an exciting, new student organization: the University of Florida White Students Union! With a profile picture proudly showing off Century Tower and a cover photo showing the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence, the page for this totally real and not at all fictitious group claims on its "About" page that it represents "a place to celebrate the very beautiful European culture," and wants to "encourage you to preserve your heritage by sharing it and discussing its future."
The sexual violence on college campuses is not an issue that can be swept under the rug. Universities have served as the focal point for media coverage, awareness campaigns and congressional legislation in the discussion about sexual assault, regardless of whether they help or hinder the issue at hand. We’ve all experienced some offshoot of this, whether it was through last year’s Walk Safe program, the Interfraternity Council’s "It’s On Us" campaign or UF’s Sexual Assault Awareness month.
In light of the Charlie Hebdo shootings this past January, and the recent attacks in Paris, many have reacted by painting Islam and the Middle East as being fundamentally at odds with Western values such as free speech.
America is not and will never be a Christian nation.
Florida should have had no problems on Saturday.
As scooters whirred past on Saturday, Maria Coady thought of her son.
UF paid the U.S. government about $19.9 million Friday.
University Police arrested a UF student during Saturday’s football game after police said he tried to escape arrest after trying to stop police from taking his friend to Emergency Medical Services.
Melanie O’Rourke took a few steps back before she hit Donald Trump’s body with a stick.
In a chapel on Friday, every person received a slip of paper.
Beneath Saturday’s gloomy clouds, the path was lit by plastic candles.
While the rest of his team’s energy level was comparable to that of dead seafood, as coach Jim McElwain put it, wide receiver Antonio Callaway was quite alive on Saturday.
In its second game of a weekend back-to-back, Florida faced its first ranked team of the season and was unable to keep up.
Gerri Gerthe borrowed against her home to fund a festival.
Following Florida’s 2-1 loss to Duke in the third round of the NCAA tournament Sunday, coach Becky Burleigh opened her post-game press conference admitting that in her 21 years at UF, the final loss still hurts the most.
For the duration of this semester, we in editorial have intentionally sidestepped any discussion of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. We’d say it’s the journalistic equivalent of ignoring the elephant in the room, but it’s been more akin to trying to cover your eyes and ears while the girl from "The Exorcist" vomits all over you and your surroundings, punctuating her invasive illness with proud recitals of racist rhetoric, stomach-churning stupidity and blatant pandering.
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