Changes might be in store for UF’s approach toward handling campus threats, including increased attention to threatening or troubling behavior from faculty and staff members.
I participated in the Interfraternity Council’s fall 2010 recruitment this past week. Now, as much as I’d love to say I entered into the process like Hunter S. Thompson did in “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72,” — a journalist looking for the scoop on a mystical and oft-misinterpreted process — that wasn’t the case. I was genuinely interested in finding a fraternity that would suit my needs.
University Police Department Chief Linda Stump announced Tuesday she’s still awaiting an independent report from the consulting agency responsible for reviewing the UPD’s response and subsequent March 2 shooting of a UF graduate student while on campus. The editorial board has many concerns about the outcome.
We’ve come an awfully long way since Geneva.
Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” is required reading in many schools. I wonder if the Rev. Terry Jones has ever understood its message. A famous refrain in the novel about a fireman who doesn’t put out fires, but starts them, is that you “don’t face a problem, you burn it.” It is the utter stupidity of this approach Bradbury tries to address in his novel.
The browning, wilting leaves on the tree branches in the McCarty Hall courtyard foreshadow the end for the biggest avocado tree on campus.
Bryan Griffin is a little quick to jump to the conclusion that America was founded on Judeo-Christian philosophies in his Thursday column. He assumes, as many others have before him, the God mentioned in the Declaration of Independence is the God of Judaism and Christianity.
I have read the Dove World Outreach Center intends to burn copies of the Quran Sept. 11. This is profound ignorance, straight and simple, and it is hypocritical.
If you walked into UF’s West African Dance and Music class on Monday and Wednesday evenings, you’d see just what you’d expect — a class full of college students.
In his Thursday column, Bryan Griffin argues, “our country’s founding is inseparable from Judeo-Christian philosophies.” What Griffin fails to do is provide even one example of what a Judeo-Christian philosophy might look like, even though there are apparently several. As it stands, “Judeo-Christian philosophies” is simply a buzz-phrase.
Student Government party leaders were impressed with the turnout for slating Tuesday, which marked the final day of interviews for those hoping to run for SG positions.
I participated in the Interfraternity Council’s fall 2010 recruitment this past week. Now, as much as I’d love to say I entered into the process like Hunter S. Thompson did in “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72,” — a journalist looking for the scoop on a mystical and oft-misinterpreted process — that wasn’t the case. I was genuinely interested in finding a fraternity that would suit my needs.
For all the clear-minded, innovative scholars who study in Gainesville, the town has drawn the international attention of the Associated Press and the top commander in Afghanistan because of the grossly ignorant, misguided gestures of the Dove World Outreach Center, which plans to burn the Quran Sept. 11. Spare the idle criticisms of the Quran. The overarching consideration is millions of people across the world have an interpretation of Islam that they say influences them to live peacefully and productively.
Lila Leach, a 96-year-old Newberry resident who was brutally attacked in her home on July 16, was pronounced dead early Monday.
Nobody expected the RedHawks to keep up with the Gators.
The Gators football team wasn’t the only orange and blue squad winning ugly Saturday.
On a cool Tuesday night in November, the most memorable speech this side of “The Promise” was issued in The Swamp.
UF alumni returned for a record-setting night Friday, as sophomore McKenzie Barney now sits tied for the school record after scoring a goal in her seventh-consecutive home game.
In May, women’s golf coach Jan Dowling said her team needed to believe in itself after a disappointing finish in 2009-10.
At first glance, Dove World Outreach Center's plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11 seems like an easy target.
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