UF student part of next ‘Real World’ cast
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Apr. 14, 2008Greg Halstead lives in Murphree Hall with 350 other UF students, but he said nothing prepared him for living with six roommates on MTV's "Real World: Hollywood."
Greg Halstead lives in Murphree Hall with 350 other UF students, but he said nothing prepared him for living with six roommates on MTV's "Real World: Hollywood."
Budget cuts have left UF art students with an abstract future.
Even as nine judges moseyed around with evaluation sheets, SFCC students, some clad in business attire, appeared comfortable standing next to their research posters on campus Monday evening.
While members of UF's online voting committee debated privacy concerns at their Sunday meeting, all agreed that online voting in Student Government elections would be cheaper than traditional ballots.
Members of the Gators football team paced the sidelines of UF's Norman Field on Sunday. They could only watch as a football flew from one end zone to the other. This time, it was not their game.
More than 70 years ago, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author traveled 100 miles along the St. Johns River and chronicled the journey in a novel named after a rural town outside Gainesville.
Despite the Orange and Blue football scrimmage on Saturday and gray skies Sunday morning, about 400 people showed up to buy around $9,000 worth of plants, shrubs and flowers over the weekend at the annual Spring Plant Sale on campus.
UF will invite about 2,000 transfer students to enroll Tuesday - about 1,000 fewer than last year.
Hundreds of carpoolers will be displaced in August when a new building breaks ground in the parking lot east of Criser Hall.
A UF official is calling for a review of the College of Medicine's dean's decision to admit a student over the objections of the selections committee and after he reportedly had not taken the standardized medical admissions examination.
Members of a committee formed to investigate the possibility for online voting in Student Government elections were chosen last week and should provide recommendations by May 1.
A loosely constructed booth, made of PVC pipe and covered by maroon cloth, sat quietly on the Plaza of the Americas on Wednesday. A small, white sign invited perplexed looks and slowed paces of passers-by with its one-word label: "Confessions."
Two UF dance troupes will share the spotlight on the small screen tonight competing on a BET dance show.
UF will bring Moe's Southwest Grill to campus in fall.
Most people are uncomfortable when others watch them eat. But that wasn't the case for the 250 adventurous taste testers who gave their palate a world tour on Wednesday night.
Until they eat with Bernie, they won't eat at all.
After most students have left Gainesville for the summer this May and June, city commissioners plan to discuss changes that could impact their weekend nights.
When Diablo Cody was growing up, she wanted to be a butcher. But she settled for writing an Oscar-winning screenplay instead.
In light of the country's economic troubles and the controversial war in Iraq, many students are seeking answers from an increasingly popular department: philosophy.
Billy Perez is a Guitar Hero machine.