Despite opposition from her own party, state Sen. Paula Dockery, a UF alumna, filed paperwork Tuesday to run against Attorney General Bill McCollum for the Republican nomination for Florida governor.
The eyes of Donna Gail Weeks tell a story that could rip the toughest leather binding. The whites, chiseled with scraggy red lines, contain two empty black holes that seem to yearn for a world beyond the forbidding confines of prison walls, where she will spend the next 6 1/2 years.
Eventually, a couple of players will have to start separating themselves from the rest of the pack to win the Heisman Trophy, but until then, our alligatorSports Heisman Watch will continue to have shake ups.
Brett Boncore, a UF sophomore, holds a sign advertising "Couch Talk." The couch, which Boncore and friends Michelle Hubbard and Daniel Hemme set up on the Plaza of the Americas, is intended to give students a place to just come and talk about their lives, he said.
Wolfe Cronin, a UF mechanical engineering junior, lies on a bench next to the "potato" on Turlington Plaza while playing his guitar to pass the time in between classes Monday afternoon.
Despite a growing stigma surrounding tanning beds and recent studies linking tanning to tobacco, hepatitis B and arsenic gas, Gators are still getting their golden glow on this fall.
In September, UF spent about $3,500 to install hand sanitizers on campus. Hopefully Library West is well stocked, because they're about to experience a sharp increase in demand.
With winter approaching, sunny skies give way to pale thighs for some UF students. But many trying to hold on to that elusive summer tan take excessive risks to retain it.
This is the first semester that students with Bright Futures scholarships will have to refund the cost of any dropped or withdrawn course paid for by the scholarship.
More college students are enlisting in the military as part of a larger increase in recruitment in 2009.
Attention Republicans in Congress:
The Resolution Affirming Support for the State of Israel that Senate will be voting on tonight is a travesty. Every word of it represents the extremist pro-Israel position, from the first Whereas clauses that subtly try to deny any right of Palestinians to the land and which gloss over the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that took place during the founding of Israel, to quotes from president Ahmadinejad of dubious authenticity and support for sanctions against Iran (not unlike the ones that killed 500,000 Iraqi children in the 1990s), to trying to cover up the slaughter of over 1,300 innocent civilians by Israel in Gaza this December and January.
Of many issues to be presented at the Student Senate meeting tonight, one is a resolution calling for the Student Senate to denounce the Goldstone report. The Goldstone report is a UN document ratified by 25 of the 47 nations involved in the UN. It was written after a fact-finding mission by Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda.
In regards to your article covering Sunday morning's violent incident involving Fest goers and local police, I find it extremely interesting that the only perspective on the incident was from the police.
A 19-year-old woman in town for The Fest was arrested on campus Saturday for spitting on a University Police Department officer.
UF received its first batch of swine flu vaccines--800 of which are for students only--Monday afternoon.
Florida linebacker Brandon Spikes is suspended for the first half of Saturday's Vanderbilt game, coach Urban Meyer announced Monday.
As cold and flu season approaches, those who want to prevent from getting sick will pay extra attention to eating well, washing their hands, sleeping for no less than eight hours per night and taking their vitamins. All of these things usually come to mind when one thinks about preparing one's immune system for this time of year, but exercising does not.
As planning begins for the renovation and possible expansion of the Reitz Union, UF administrators and the Student Government must take care not to alienate students and faculty who are facing tough times.
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