I hate to play the part of institutional memory for the Alligator, but I remember last spring semester when the editorial board went ga-ga for the Academic Enhancement Program, now known as the Tuition Differential Program.
The University Police Department is investigating three burglary calls in a UF residence hall.
A UF class will host a race to raise money for two children's organizations.
When the UF men's basketball team heads to Tampa today to take on Vermont, all eyes will be on center Marreese Speights.
It's only seven games into the season, but a disturbing trend has emerged for the UF women's basketball team.
Sitting across from an empty lawn chair, Michael Berry waits for someone, anyone, to talk to.
It may be 70 degrees out, but downtown Gainesville is getting ready to celebrate Christmas.
A great deal of Alligator articles and editorials recently have focused exclusively on Ron Paul, whereas there have been zero articles about any other candidates. An editorial Wednesday reported that 34 percent of Republican students on Facebook support Paul.
If you're like us here in the Department of Darts & Laurels, you have four days to pull it all together and pass all your classes. Oh yes, it's crunch time. If you have eight 10-page papers to write, five exams you have to get A's on just to get C's in those classes, and homework assignments from September you have to beg your professor to accept, you've got quite a weekend ahead of you. So grab your venti iced soy mocha-frappa-whatever and stay optimistic for the next 72 hours with this week's how-the-hell-am-I-ever-gonna-pull-this-off edition of…
Courage, hope and faith.
Do the organizations that sponsored "Obsession" really expect Muslims not to be offended? And that if we are, as one person's letter blatantly implied, we are radicals, too?
Students and faculty gathered Thursday for a panel discussion about misconceptions of Islam in response to the controversial promotion of a movie about "Radical Islam."
Marcie Hampton stood the entire time.
In response to UF's proposed budget cuts of ,34 million, the Cost Reduction and Efficiency Task Force proposed several solutions to save money and bring in extra revenue.
There is a scene in "Dan in Real Life" where one of Steve Carell's character's shrill, insufferable daughters ("She sounds like a tea kettle," to quote an earlier, better Carell movie) is pleading emotionally with him to let her boyfriend stay over. Once she uses the word "love," Carell suddenly laughs uncontrollably at his daughter's naïve stupidity. Not only is it the only genuinely funny scene in the film, but his line also accurately depicts how I felt watching "Dan in Real Life": "You've got to be kidding me."
"Hitman" is perhaps one of the better film adaptations of a video game. However, that is not saying much. It is quick and highly stylized but suffers from a lack of depth.
Shame on the news industry. You've been very naughty, and I'm sending you to your room without any new celebrity drunken-driving stories, outrageously priced politician haircut stories or developments on the latest celebrity divorces.
Every year it seems like there's more pressure to buy my loved - and sometimes not-so-loved - ones awesome, creative, flawlessly wrapped gifts. Yet even though Black Friday came and went, I have not one giveable gift.
If you're wondering what to get your music-savvy friends for the holidays, consider buying them these releases to add to their record collections. Ha, just kidding - who actually pays for music anymore? Anyway, I couldn't mention only 10, so here's my baker's dozen of top picks for the albums of 2007.
Solutions by The State News
