Students raise $517K for children's charity
By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Apr. 11, 2010725 dancers stood for 26.2 hours this weekend and earned a record-breaking $517,260 for the Children’s Miracle Network at Shands.
725 dancers stood for 26.2 hours this weekend and earned a record-breaking $517,260 for the Children’s Miracle Network at Shands.
About 400 students stripped down to their skivvies for the 11th Great Underwear Dash to donate clothes to the Salvation Army.
Move the queen. Protect the king.
Students will have food for thought when UF hosts the first Florida Food Summit next week.
TutoringZone, Grooveshark and Satchel’s Pizza represent innovation. Ask any entrepreneur.
Author Jeff Johnson will be speaking Friday night in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom in an event co-sponsored by Accent and the Black Student Union.
A group of about 30 students walked barefoot on campus as part of an international event called One Day Without Shoes.
Tatiana Salazar reports to class five times a week to conjugate verbs and use punctuation in French.
About 725 students will stand up to help the Children’s Miracle Network this weekend at the 16th annual Dance Marathon at UF.
Col. Ann Wright has 15 reasons to speak out against the government — one for about every time she’s been arrested.
Five student organizers of Tuesday’s rally for Kofi Adu-Brempong, the graduate student recently shot by the University Police Department, met with President Bernie Machen and other administrators Thursday afternoon to discuss what the university can do to help meet protesters’ demands.
Activists Among Us: The Gainesville's Women's Movement Across Generations panel discussed civil and women's rights a the Matheson Museum.
UF students added color to their sex lives Wednesday during Pride Awareness Month’s Paint Your Orgasm event on the Reitz Union North Lawn.
For some of the 40 people who waited in line at Best Buy Saturday morning, the iPad may not have been worth the wait. If they attend UF, they may have a difficult time using Apple’s latest gadget.
Student senators passed a bill allocating more money to student organizations.
Equipped with new chants but the same purpose, about 250 people crowded on Turlington Plaza Tuesday afternoon to protest the University Police Department shooting of a UF graduate student.
Although March Madness is over, another bracket battle is brewing on college campuses.
Although it wasn’t their first go-around, Tuesday’s debate between Christopher Hitchens and Dinesh D’Souza didn’t lack enthusiasm.
Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., answered questions on health care legislation, obesity and Haiti recovery via satellite Monday night.
A rally calling for justice for graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong will take place today from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Turlington Plaza.