Equality director holds open forum
Jan. 31, 2010Speaking before a crowd of about 15 people at the Pride Community Center of North Central Florida, Gainesville Equal Opportunity Director Cecil Howard made a promise.
Speaking before a crowd of about 15 people at the Pride Community Center of North Central Florida, Gainesville Equal Opportunity Director Cecil Howard made a promise.
When the dust settled, students started to smash.
Soup was served with a side of hospitality in the St. Francis Catholic High School gymnasium Sunday.
UF’s Southwest Parking Garage Complex has been certified as one of the greenest facilities in the nation.
Students can expect 10- to 15-minute traffic delays due to construction starting today at the intersection of Southwest 23rd Street and 35th Place.
Be careful what you put on your Facebook. Someone is always watching and something you say in your status or wall can affect your life in a big way.
Thanks to their recent success and a well-timed upset, the Gators are right back in the thick of things.
The Gators showed up at 8:30 a.m. Saturday for their 10 a.m. match against Furman. At 8:15 p.m., after a 10-hour rain delay, the two teams finally squared off in the opening match of ITA Kick-Off Weekend.
The Florida gymnastics team continued to improve Friday night in the O’Connell Center, as it topped No. 13 LSU (3-3, 1-2 Southeastern Conference), 196.725 – 195.050 for the Gators’ third-consecutive dual meet victory.
The minute UF athletes slip on their orange-and-blue jerseys, they are shoved into the spotlight.
While Bianca Thomas, the Southeastern Conference’s leading scorer, and Ole Miss (14-6, 5-2 SEC) spent part of this week prepping for their matchup with South Carolina on Thursday night, the Gators rested on their bye week.
UF coach Rhonda Faehn has said several times the team’s goal is to get better as the season progresses and prepare itself for the postseason, and according to her, her young squad is right on schedule.
Gray Horn’s life revolves around competing in the decathlon.
As the Florida men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams take on Tennessee in their last dual meet of the regular season, two undefeated streaks will be on the line.
It’s a busy weekend for tennis in Gainesville.
The Florida Board of Governors may allow Florida counties the power to regulate gender-specific drink specials.
Eight stages of entertainment and 160 artisans will take Gainesville back in time starting this weekend at the 24th annual Hoggetowne Medieval Faire, organized by the City of Gainesville Division of Cultural Affairs.
After pedaling 12,993 miles, two cyclists made a pit stop in Gainesville Thursday as part of a worldwide bicycle tour to promote solar energy.
Four students from Miami Dade College pass through Gainesville on a hike from Miami to Washington, D.C.
On Wednesday, I went to Student Body President Jordan Johnson’s town hall forum concerning the new fee for the Reitz Union expansion and repairs. The forum made clear that Johnson is all about appearances and does not care about substance. Despite the repeated explanations I and others gave him that graduate students are already financially stretched thin and do not use the Reitz Union enough to justify paying the fee, he continued to evade the issue and use George W. Bush-like circular logic. Such an approach was not only insulting, but it betrayed the fact that, at the end of the day, Student Government is for and by the undergraduate population, and among them, the Greeks.