The resolution to impeach UF Student Body President Michael Murphy failed at the Student Government judiciary committee meeting Thursday morning because it was deemed illegitimate.
When Sara Zandy closes her eyes, she sees springtime where mountains are covered in flowers. Pomegranates are the size of a hand. Waterfalls outline the landscape. Villagers make bread and drink tea.
The hearing regarding UF engineering team GatorWing’s charges against UF administration for claiming the team’s $2 million award has been pushed back more than a month.
We at National Women’s Liberation call for an end to all sexual assault and rape. One in three women at UF report being sexually assaulted, and we demand real action. UF President Kent Fuchs stated that “any occurrence of sexual assault is unacceptable” in his recent Alligator column that was a response to the Association of American Universities’ (AAU) 2019 Campus Climate survey results; and we agree. But what is he doing about it? Current “prevention training programs” are unacceptable and don’t make a difference in student safety. Rapists must be held accountable.
When a reserve member of the Israel Defense Forces spoke at Little Hall Tuesday night, protesters got up from their seats and left in support of Palestine.
This weekend, the UF Center for Arts in Medicine will explore border control, immigration and the Trump administration on stage.
UF Student Body President Michael Murphy’s potential impeachment has reached a state-wide and national audience, prompting him to seek legal counsel.
When Kitan Adeniji went to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for UF’s Institute of Black Culture Saturday afternoon, she felt that the university was listening to black students for a change.
Within one semester, two UF students created and launched a social networking forum that has registered over 300 users.
It was cold, dark and misty as hundreds, then thousands, of students began to fill in around the stage at Flavet Field Friday night.
Race is not real, Christopher Lebron said. It’s a way for people to consider themselves better than others.
UF’s Wheelchair Basketball Club only has able-bodied players, but its players are trying to change that.
Despite cold, wet weather, hundreds of people felt warm as they gathered this weekend for the reopenings of the Institute of Black Culture and the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures.
After two years of work and research, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program’s two-part documentary on the history and the making of the Institute of Black Culture and the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures was shown this week.
The case of a former UF resident assistant accused of attempted sexual battery is still up in the air as of Thursday night.
Although being ranked seventh among the top U.S. public colleges and universities is an achievement we can be proud of, it should not overshadow the dire issues at UF.
It was 1954, and about 30 Florida A&M University freshmen sat in a classroom during orientation. A student in the back row, W. George Allen, was the first to stand up and introduce himself.
At the University of Florida, we have one statue of a UF president, Albert Murphree, who was our second president. We have three statues of Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier, Danny Wuerffel and Tim Tebow. And we have many, many statues of alligators.
Last month, hundreds protested Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle’s speaking event because they deemed their rhetoric as racist. Tuesday night, at least a hundred more gathered to protest conservative activist Charlie Kirk because they said his rhetoric wasn’t racist enough.
A week after about 11 people called for Student Body President Michael Murphy’s resignation during Senate, an SG senator emailed Murphy a resolution for his impeachment and handed it to him in his office Tuesday.
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