New Bright Futures plans hurt minorities
By MATT HARRINGER | Mar. 21, 2010A bill proposing changes to the Bright Futures scholarship would put minorities at risk by raising the standards to get the award.
A bill proposing changes to the Bright Futures scholarship would put minorities at risk by raising the standards to get the award.
Subhajit Sengupta was standing onstage in front of about 200 people. He was singing a song half the crowd couldn’t understand, but they tapped their feet to the beat anyway.
We made history last night.
Theatre Strike Force worked around the clock at Orange and Brew on Friday, delivering improv from noon to midnight.
The Coalition Against Police Brutality does not share the Editorial Board’s faith in Margolis, Healy & Associates.
The 14th annual International Women Composers Festival drew composers from all over.
I want to publicly thank several student senators who reached across party lines Tuesday night to help pass the Student Alliance’s resolution calling for a grand jury investigation into the shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong. The Unite Party’s leadership repeatedly tried to make amendments to the bill that would have watered it down to the point of meaninglessness, even over objections from numerous members of the public who came out to support the resolution.
About 300 people traded in their rights to free speech for free food in an event hosted by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Students swapped Gators gear for wizard robes and magic wands as Hume Hall transformed into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on Sunday.
The Tea Party Movement has been causing controversy since its formation in 2009 to its organization of Saturday’s protest where racial slurs and epithets were screamed at House Democrats.
The class-action lawsuit against the city of New York concerning the ground zero response and cleanup effort suffered another setback last week. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein handed down a decision stating the lawsuit’s roughly $600 million settlement, filed on behalf of about more than 10,000 ailing first responders and workers who searched for survivors and cleared the wreckage after the Sept. 11 attacks, would be inadequate. He went further to delineate the settlement’s convoluted compensation allotment system and grossly excessive attorney fees as reasons for his recommendation to restructure the settlement. Hellerstein maintained the compensation paled in comparison to the effort displayed, hazardous conditions endured and compensation truly deserved by the plaintiffs, whom he made a point to refer to as heroes.
When the lights dimmed in the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom Friday, Mallory Zuckerman couldn’t help but feel a little nervous.
They ran relay races, played tug-of-war and won a two-day cruise to the Bahamas.
There are three things that — no matter how you spin it — are never good for your eyesight: Call of Duty marathon sessions, “2 girls 1 cup” and the springtime.
The last few weeks of school or upon us with finals and project due dates heading your way. Don't keep all the stress caged inside. Work it out while keeping fit at the same time.
Matt den Dekker jolted the Gators offense, and he barely needed his bat.
For yet another game, Florida's opponent had no answer for freshman attacker Ashley Bruns.
Mississippi State hitters hit fly ball after fly ball off of Alex Panteliodis on Friday.
On Senior Night in the O’Connell Center, a freshman stole the show for the Gators.
The purple scar slithers from the inside of Kevin Chapman’s elbow to the top of his forearm.