State leaders gathered Tuesday evening to speak about Medicaid expansion and its effects on Gainesville residents during a monthly Alachua County Labor Coalition meeting.
After taking a UF engineering entrepreneurship class, three UF alumni knew they wanted to use the skills they were learning in school to help people.
Alachua County Sheriff deputies arrested a UF student last week for missing his court date after he was charged for owning an illegal alligator skin.
Gainesville Police arrested a local man early Tuesday morning after he reportedly tried to hide cocaine and escape arrest.
Almost every day, Margaret Haney gets a cup of coffee.
Fresh off a 31-30 home loss to Ole Miss, a disheartened, tearful Tim Tebow stood at the podium, answering for what had been one of the most disappointing losses for Florida in recent memory.
Considering he was the team’s starting point guard, Kasey Hill seemed to disappear on the court last season.
Within his first six weeks at Florida, Mike White finished putting the past behind him.
Florida’s secondary is considered one of the best in the nation, but Saturday’s opponent will threaten the Gators in a way Tennessee didn’t.
On a team full of new faces and young players, coach Mike White needs a leader, a veteran who can anchor the team and hold it together.
Time-management skills: Some of us got ‘em, some of us don’t. In high school and the preceding years, time-management skills essentially boiled down to doing your menial homework assignments as soon as you got home (unless you had a job, in which case your life was made exponentially harder), and saving the hard studying and projects for the wee hours. If you were of a particularly anxious sort or prone to procrastination, the wee hours could mean as early (or late) as 5 a.m. As far as the weekend went, school was essentially a non-entity, at least until Sunday evening rolled around.
Recently, I read an old article by Laura C. Mallonee in "The Paris Review" titled "Some Realms I Owned: Elizabeth Bishop in Manhattan."
Last Friday, I observed a sign on the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house that read "ATΩ + ∆∆∆ YOU’RE THE TEN-I-SEE." My first reaction was to scoff and write off the sign as a misplaced joke. But it merits consideration so that we might better understand how Greek life prescribes the interaction between men and women and how our culture inadvertently permits abuse.
I have had the pleasure of serving on the Gainesville/Alachua County Cultural Affairs Board since January 2012. I am more excited now than ever for the future of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs in this region. Arts and culture are thriving in our area, but there is so much more we can do if we all share in the effort. The 352ArtsRoadmap is a set of priorities that will help chart the future of arts and culture in Gainesville and Alachua County over the next five to 10 years.
What was meant to be an open dialogue for students to learn more about Student Government turned into a debate.
After two weeks of heavy campaigning from Access Party and Impact Party, the Fall 2015 Student Government elections start today.
At Saturday’s UF vs. University of Tennessee football game, Gators cheered "It’s great to be a Florida Gator," but the band didn’t initiate the penalty chant, "Move back, you suck."
When Brittany Ferguson painted her childhood hero, Malcolm X, in July, she had no idea his daughter would be holding the painting two months later.
UF sociology senior Gigi Bermudez said there are standards that define how Americans see beauty: blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skin and a slim figure.
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