Senators praise tuition delay
By Chelsea Hull | Jan. 11, 2011Senators celebrated Student Body President Ashton Charles at their Tuesday night meeting for her efforts to postpone the implementation of block tuition.
Senators celebrated Student Body President Ashton Charles at their Tuesday night meeting for her efforts to postpone the implementation of block tuition.
The Student Senate unanimously passed a resolution opposing the implementation of block tuition during a meeting Tuesday night.
Ian Elsner puts safety first: No fire indoors, and new members are not allowed to play with knives. Elsner is the president of Objects in Motion, the official UF juggling club. The club will hold its first solo performance, “Objects in Motion Live! and in 3D” Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom. Objects in Motion has more than 50 active members, with an average of 30 participants at each activity, he said. Contact jugglers balance an acrylic ball on their bodies and allow it to roll across their arms, shoulders and hands.
After seven months in office, the Student Government executive officials gave the annual State of the Campus address Tuesday night.
UF scholarship recipients will have the opportunity to officially become a part of the university’s recorded history.
TJ Villamil said his committee increased the allotted budget by 5 percent this year, but the special event groups’ funding requests came in $1,800 under budget.
Students who are social-networking savvy may be ahead of the academic curve.
Determined to keep the curtain from falling on William Shakespeare, a new thespian troupe called Shakespeare in the Swamp will perform two free, local shows a year.
Methamphetamine dealers and a girl shaped like a pickle jar were topics of conversation among students and writers this weekend.
Andrew Nichols has used Ouija boards, locked his wife in a dungeon and stared as a grandfather clock rotated completely around by itself — all in the name of his career as a parapsychologist.