If you're anything like us, fall is one big wake-up call (and if you're even more like us, you totally missed your 7 a.m. wake-up call on Monday).
Gainesville is not the least bit chilly, but UF just got a little cooler after the Sierra Club Magazine recently placed the school No. 15 on its third annual "Cool School" list with an "A" grade.
Gainesville Police are still searching for a man who was involved in an attempted armed robbery of a family early Thursday morning.
Long lines, pricey books and empty shelves are often the norm for students during the first week of classes.
Just over a week after UF sent notices to many of the 60 employees being laid off, UF President Bernie Machen announced an initiative to use $10 million in stimulus money to hire up to 100 new faculty this year.
Why is it that our Student Government does not allow students to know what is going on? During my time at UF, I have seen a Student Government steeped in mystery and one that rarely interacts with the student body. I have seen SG officials ignore students, break the law and show an overall discontent for the issues facing us. As the lawsuit filed by Frank Bracco demonstrates, SG does not want us to know what is going on. SG has not only denied individuals the right to know what happens at public meetings, but it even goes so far as to not allow students to have the voting records of our elected officials, including our Student Body president who sits on the Board Of Trustees.
At Tuesday night's meeting of the Student Senate, the Unite Party passed a bill called the Executive Order Establishment Act, a bill that represents a serious threat to the democratic process within Student Government.
For the second year in a row, UF students, faculty and staff are choosing not to drive themselves crazy while getting around Gainesville.
I was very disturbed to read in Wednesday's Alligator Progress Party Leader David Schneider's blatant intellectual dishonesty. To say that giving the Student Body president the unilateral ability "to create executive orders to create offices, departments and policies" would "discourage too much centralization of one power," as the article stated, is exactly the opposite of what is going to happen.
Editor's Note: This is the conclusion of our four-part alligatorSports series in which we examine whether college athletes deserve to be paid for their athletic efforts.
Although the country is still deep in recession, consumers think it may get better soon.
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Raise your hand if you've slept with a midget, a deaf girl and an amputee. Anyone? Oh yes, in the back of the class, Mr. Tucker Max.
When I arrived on campus early Monday morning, I immediately headed to the newspaper dispensers near Turlington to get my copy of the New York Times. They only held copies of USA Today. I assumed that particular dispenser was simply out of the New York Times, so I checked the one near Library West. Again, only USA Today.
Drinking and driving is bad - there is no denying that fact. As somebody who files claims for an insurance company, I have heard the horror stories from the victims' families first-hand. I agree that Fabulous Rides sounds like a fabulous program and the student body president ought to be commended for trying to promote awareness of its existence in an effort to reduce drunk driving. However, his approach sells the dangers short.
Two women, one of whom was pregnant, fell from the second story of Lyons Apartments this afternoon when part of a balcony and outdoor stairwell collapsed.
A new service in Gainesville provides a driver for people too intoxicated to drive for a fee. The driver uses a foldable scooter that he places in the customer's trunk to return to work.
Upon graduating from Colorado State University in 2004, Abby Berendt landed her dream job at a large media corporation in New York City. Berendt had been working full time at the company for 10 months when she arrived at work one day with what she thought was a horrible stomachache.
The Dove World Outreach Center has already blurred the lines between a church and a for-profit enterprise and the lines between a place of "outreach" and a place that calls for exclusion.
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