Pounding bass, coordinated steps and strobe lights turned the O'Connell Center into a thunder dome as nine step teams from across the nation battled for first place at the 19th Annual Florida Invitational Step Show on Saturday night.
UF's Air Force ROTC swept the board for push-ups and sit-ups and almost clinched first place in the soccer tournament in overtime.
Following statewide budget cuts, UF canceled its annual lobbying day, known as Gator Day, at the Capitol.
University Police Department officers arrested Kevin D. Bradshaw, 19, on UF's campus at Fletcher Drive and University Avenue after finding he had a stolen gun.
The UF Dean of Students Office revealed "When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century" as the book incoming freshmen must read as part of the second year of UF's Common Reading Program.
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With UF Student Government elections just four days away, the three candidates from each party said Thursday night that they are poised to tackle tough issues, including campus transportation and online voting.
To comply with requests from the Board of Governors to stifle enrollment for the fall, UF may be left with only one option: cutting transfer students. And that news did not sit well across town at SFCC.
UF's budget situation got brighter Thursday, at least for the near future.
Scooter decal prices, which were proposed last month to increase from $36 a year to $121, may now only rise to $64.
Some UF agricultural students have joined agriculture industry leaders in opposition to potential budget cuts to the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
Two in-house candidates are out of the running for the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean position.
Republican student groups at UF have joined forces to support Republican presidential candidate front-runner John McCain while Democratic groups remain split as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton stay neck and neck.
More than 100 female students from three Alachua County middle schools participated in Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on Wednesday.
An SFCC student accused of pointing a gun at another student made a first appearance in court Wednesday while SFCC administration spent the day evaluating its crisis management.
Giant posters of bloody bodies on UF's Plaza of the Americas on Wednesday offered passersby and students eating lunch pictures of what organizers called a new kind of genocide - abortion.
Less than a week after five students were killed at Northern Illinois University, an SFCC student pointed a gun at another student on the college's campus Tuesday, sparking a five-hour manhunt that ended in a peaceful arrest.
Student organizations filled the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom on Monday and Tuesday with fake snow, oozing slime and ice cream to attempt to attract kids to science careers.
The director of UF's Office of Sorority and Fraternity Affairs stepped down Feb. 13 in an unusually quick fashion.
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