Sports
Picks Column: UF vs. Auburn
Sep. 27, 2007When it comes to celebrating in Auburn, Ala., confetti is for amateurs and champagne is for pansies.
El Caimán
Metro
Tennis on Wheels brings tennis to disabled children
By MARLY FALCON | Sep. 27, 2007Disabled children in the Alachua Country school district have a new activity to look forward to during gym, thanks to a service group of UF students.
News
Canned food drive focuses on Auburn game for donations
By LAUREN COLLINS | Sep. 27, 2007The Gators have won conference titles in both basketball and football, and now they're hoping to add one for community service.
Sports
Gators travel to Kentucky without Gal
Sep. 27, 2007The UF women's golf team will be in a familiar place this weekend, but the familiar faces, both present and absent, will be the story.
Metro
Local businesses use Taser jokes to their advantage
By KATIE GALLAGHER | Sep. 27, 2007Three days after Andrew Meyer was Tasered by university police, a sign went up in Gator Dawgs.
News
UF adds to deep class with Vargas commitment
By Andy Hutchins < | Sep. 27, 2007Despite losing seven players from two national championship teams, UF's roster is beyond full heading into the next two years.
News
Commissioners allow some felons to get towing permits
Sep. 26, 2007Ryan Williams, manager of Watson's Towing, was pictured in a photo Tuesday that appeared with the story "Commissioners allow some felons to get towing permits." Williams, who was at the far right of the photo, is not a felon.
News
Dance Marathon event decreases time to 26.2 hours
By KIM WILMATH | Sep. 26, 2007This year, Dance Marathon participants will quit moving and grooving five hours earlier.
Sports
Breakfast Club group emphasizes healthy weight gain
Sep. 26, 2007They may not act as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal, but several UF football players still fit the bill to form The Breakfast Club.
Sports
All-American Booth back from World Cup
Sep. 26, 2007When Melanie Booth finally returned to the UF soccer team, the last thing she expected to receive was a standing ovation.
News
Turlington preacher leaves UF to teach in South Korea
By KIM WILMATH | Sep. 26, 2007On Turlington Plaza Wednesday afternoon, in the shadow of his big white sign, Joey Johnsen said goodbye.
The Avenue
To make fantasies a reality, open up
By PAIGE USYK | Sep. 26, 2007My boy has a consistent bedtime routine: He brushes his teeth, sets his alarm and logs on to ESPN.com to check his fantasy baseball ranking and the homepage of his beloved Astros. I quickly learned I could tease him about his OCD-esque nightly redundancy, but I could never slight his Houston heroes.
News
Campaigns costly for SG parties
By DEVIN CULCLASURE | Sep. 26, 2007Attracting students' attention is not a cheap task for the two political parties competing in the fall Student Government election.
News
Board of Governors meets to discuss tuition increase
By KIM WILMATH | Sep. 26, 2007Florida's Board of Governors will decide how much of a tuition increase to impose on Florida's 11 universities at a meeting this morning in Tallahassee.
Opinion
Jean shorts spark 'intellectual nerve'
By Benjamin Branoff | Sep. 26, 2007There are very few subjects in our collegiate media circuit about which I've contemplated voicing my opinion. Certainly one would think police brutality, UF Playboy models or racial controversy would garner my voice. Sadly, for me, they did not.
News
UF students travel to D.C. for Iraq war protest
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Sep. 26, 2007Student protesters from Gainesville will join forces with activists from Washington, D.C., this weekend to protest the Iraq war.
Metro
'Fill the Boot' firefighters try to work around city panhandling ordinance
By KATIE GALLAGHER | Sep. 26, 2007Although a change in the county panhandling ordinances may allow nonprofit groups to collect money on roads, officials said there were no plans to change city ordinances.
Opinion
Legislators over Board
By the Editorial Board | Sep. 26, 2007Back in July, the Board of Governors decided to raise tuition at Florida universities by 5 percent - without the Legislature's approval.
