For Elizabeth Mahlich, the trip north to East Lansing, Mich., this weekend is more of a homecoming than a road meet.
Although UF administrators and Student Government big shots are usually concerned with budget cuts and solving problems that come while running the university, come Saturday the only thing on their minds will be love.
During the flu season, people are islands. A nearby cougher is the village leper, his hacking the metaphorical bell clanging a warning of "unclean!" for all those with an upcoming chemistry exam.
After a long trip to California, the UF women's golf team will have a long trip back to Gainesville.
Trends always expose themselves on the third album. The Look only buys you so much time. Catchy singles only take you so far. By album three, you're either the White Stripes or you're Jet. Or, you're Franz Ferdinand, stuck in that untenable middle ground - milking the same-song formula for all it's worth, and in turn, fielding diminishing returns. So it goes, Tonight's "Ulysses" takes on "Do You Want To," which was take-two on "Take Me Out." That's a lot of "takes" for one sentence, not so many for three and a half years - the time between albums. And if this seems like a momentum killer, well, it is. So too are these songs - "Turn It On" and "Live Alone." They're all the same, really: slinky little danceable groove rockers that have three things in common. All catchy, all disposable, all written by a band destined to be the answer to a trivia question.
The musical death and rebirth of a rock band rarely happens in the span of one night. But for Averkiou, such an unusual life cycle is the norm for the three-year-old Gainesville band. Convinced that they were playing their farewell show at Pop Mayhem in May last year after the brief departure of their guitarist, Averkiou played an appropriately rollicking final set.
Many fans are quick to say the game of baseball is being ruined and degraded by the use of steroids.
After a 4-point loss to Central Florida Community College on Saturday, Santa Fe College was forced to cross off its goal of repeating as Mid-Florida Conference champions.
After falling 1-0 to Baylor on Sunday, UF coach Tim Walton placed all the blame for the loss on his hitters. Wednesday, the Gators showed their true potential at the plate.
UF can add one more title to its list after a recent study ranked it among the top 10 most popular colleges in the U.S.
A Gainesville man was arrested Monday and charged with stealing money in order to raise his ranking in the United Blood Nation, a gang more commonly known as the Bloods.
An iPod may be able to extend learning beyond the classroom for UF students if faculty members choose to connect to the Apple's iTunes U service.
Most weddings have those inevitable tense moments: the drunken toast from a distant relative, the mother-in-law's last ditch effort to abort the wedding, the clash of personalities that arise when families come together for the first time.
"Blood Bank"? More like bloodletting - well, the last song anyway. The first three on this four-track hold-me-over from indie-folk songsmith Justin Vernon ebb and flow with all the woodsy beauty of an icy stream or a staggering moose. Mr. Bon Iver plays sparsely arranged acoustic pop that lives and dies on lyrical content and vocal delivery. In the case of the title track and "Beach Baby," an achingly fragile voice spins off melodic narrative flush with images that come alive in the depth of their detail. "Babys," likewise, continues the theme with cappella passages, chopsticks piano, and a warm refrain - "Summer comes to multiply." This is throw-another-log-on music for snow-ins, chamomile tea and photo albums, except for the unholy Dylan-Daft Punk union of "Woods," which takes a leak on your crackling fire and sends you running for a snow shovel and icepick.
Wednesday afternoon brought word from Washington of an oh-so-close deal on the proposed economic stimulus package.
A Gainesville teacher was arrested on Monday after he was found to be in possession of two loaded firearms - a small one in his pocket and a larger one in his car.
The Progress Party was not disqualified Wednesday night by Student Government's Elections Commission, but they will have to dish out $80.
It's like a horrible nightmare the Gators just can't wake up from.
Though the $75,000 salary of state Sen. Mike Haridopolos, hired last spring as a lecturer at UF, drew criticism because it eclipsed most others in the political science department, it turns out UF approached him in the fall about teaching a seminar, which would have bumped his salary even higher.
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