Environmental films highlight second day of Cinema Verde
By Matt Boles | Feb. 26, 2012About 60 people attended the second day of the Cinema Verde Film Festival Saturday afternoon in downtown Gainesville.
About 60 people attended the second day of the Cinema Verde Film Festival Saturday afternoon in downtown Gainesville.
Twelve drivers competed for a chance to be titled Gainesville’s best bus driver during Saturday’s 14th Annual RTS Bus Roadeo at the Gainesville Regional Airport Driving Pad.
Parking decal prices could go up by 4 percent starting in May if a request from UF’s Transportation and Parking Services is approved.
The UF Supreme Court determined that three upcoming Students Party engineering senators will be allowed to keep their seats.
University Police filed sworn complaints to the State Attorney’s Office on Thursday alleging that nine UF students and one alumnus engaged in hazing with a risk of physical injury or death.
The Strong Gator competition, hosted by RecSports, took place on Maguire Field on Saturday and tested contestants’ strength, endurance and speed as they fought for bragging rights and a Strong Gator champion T-shirt.
About 400 people feasted Saturday on stranger-than-usual fare at the UF student chapter of The Wildlife Society’s 29th annual Beast Feast.
Aidan Knowles is one of about 200 international exchange students who study at UF every year.
Using three photographs, a 55-year-old video clip and $700 from the Benton Engineering Council, the UF Gator Robotics club resurrected a 7-foot robot from the past.
A new UF blog about the Reitz Union is set to debut in early March and is still looking for student bloggers.
The deadline for SFC’s second annual 48 Hour Film Competition was 7 p.m. sharp Sunday night at Emiliano’s Cafe — a deadline so strict that two teams were disqualified for submitting three minutes late.
Although it was the men’s team that came into this weekend’s meet as defending champions, it was the women who added yet another Southeastern Conference title to the school’s history books Sunday.
The Election Commission ruled that the Unite Party did not directly or indirectly coerce voters to vote in the Student Government elections held on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Like other college students facing midterms, Santa Fe junior Laura Putlek has a project and paper due this week, two exams and two lab practicals.
About 236 people attended Shaykh Omar Suleiman’s speech about American media bias toward Islam on Thursday night as part of Islam Awareness Month.
One Regional Transit System mechanic joined eight members of Students for a Democratic Society in Tigert Hall on Thursday as they asked the UF administration to support bus drivers’ contract negotiations.
A former intern at Harper’s Bazaar filed a class-action lawsuit in regard to her unpaid work from August to December 2011.
A Miami couple donated $5 million to a UF gene therapy program.
The Gator Nation recently showed its social media presence to the judges of an online contest.
Scam versions of Angry Birds have been flooding the Android application market, prompting UF to warn students about the potential danger.