UF holiday traditions continue
By LAUREN BAKER | Dec. 3, 2008Santa Claus is still welcome in college towns.
Santa Claus is still welcome in college towns.
Legislation aiming to reduce Student Senate's minority party protections was rejected at Tuesday night's meeting. If passed, the proposed rules would have required 40 percent approval from senators present to add nominations for open committee seats in addition to those already made by the Replacement and Agenda Committee. Currently, 20 percent is required.
In 2003, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, left their friends and families in New York and Israel to run the Chabad house in Mumbai, India.
UF athletes Cornelius Ingram and Brandon McArthur performed in front of a different crowd than usual on Tuesday morning.
Students will soon be able to camp out at a couple of campus libraries for 20 hours straight if they so desire.
Students have been banned from smoking within 50 feet of all UF buildings for more than a year, but one UF professor's research shows students are still lighting up where they shouldn't be.
What began as a casual in-class reading assignment has matured into a theatrical production of a former UF professor's choreopoem.
Food from the local farmers market may not always be "Fresh from Florida."
Out of about 2,000 applicants across the country, one of UF's students was chosen to blog about her first year of college for Seventeen magazine.
Spring 2009 rental rates for campus housing may see a $40 increase in price.
When Freddy Vazquez sat in front of his computer to sign up for courses his sophomore year, he found a major flaw.
During his Thanksgiving break, Viraj Mehta, vice president of the Indian Student Association, spent hours watching the terrorist attacks in Mumbai unfold on CNN.
Florida's marine life is under threat because of changes in waterways, but UF researchers may now have resources to find some solutions.
Maikiejana has to travel more than 2,000 miles to visit his family.
As Thanksgiving draws near, several UF administrators and student leaders are looking forward to a holiday that means more than chomping on turkey.
A criminal charge of hazing against UF's Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity, known as TEP, has been dropped, but the fraternity has agreed to a suspension lasting until Jan. 1, 2010 for its participation in hazing activities discovered by UF earlier this month.
There's not much booing at Gator football games anymore, a sign George Edmondson Jr., more commonly known as Mr. Two-Bits, said means the team doesn't need him as much anymore.
A 22-year-old man sitting in front of the Fine Arts A building with a blue, plastic lightsaber toy was taken to the emergency room by University Police at about noon Monday.
UF President Bernie Machen has announced a plan to unite UF's environmentally friendly research and education initiatives into one academic program.
As students inside Gator Corner Dining Center feasted on turkey, mashed potatoes and other Thanksgiving staples Monday evening, UF's Erase the Waste campaign came to a close outside the dining hall.