By Jordan Dominy

What Every UF Undergrad Should Know About Graduate Assistants United
Dear Undergrads of UF,
In all likelihood, you will have a class this fall taught by a graduate assistant—a graduate student employed by UF while completing his or her degrees. Graduate assistants may be either teaching assistants (TAs) or research assistants (RAs). TAs and RAs work hard [...]

By Ashton Charles

Far too often, people are pigeonholed. I am a blond-haired, blue-eyed, Catholic, Cherokee Indian in Student Government that just happens to be a vegan. Does that define me as a person?
Since my decision to become a vegan in fall 2006, I have been bombarded with questions like: “What can you possibly eat?” and “Can vegans [...]

By Jeremiah Tattersall

All of the food officially sold on campus, from Arredondo Café to Starbucks, is controlled by Aramark, a private corporation with a shady history at UF.
These are the people who decide what food businesses are allowed to operate on campus and what meal plans are offered.
The only place that non-Aramark food can be bought is [...]

By Esteban O Sullivan

Aramark, UF’s food service supplier, has agreed to pay a penny and a half more per pound for the tomatoes they purchase – a premium that will go directly toward increasing the wages of tomato pickers.
UF Student/Farmworker Alliance members heard the decision on March 22.
“We had heard from the [Coalition of Immokalee Workers] two weeks [...]

By Nadine Navarro

Why UF agreed to join the Workers Rights Consortium

Every day, average Americans drive to their jobs, work for about four hours and then take a legally mandated lunch break for 30 minutes to an hour. After about four more hours of work, they go home.
But Gina Cano and Lowlee Urquia’s workdays were nothing like that. [...]