By Ellen McHugh
“In a Democracy, the people get the government they deserve” – Alexis de Tocqueville. Many UF students are not aware of the power Student Government has to shape their campus experience. This isn’t high school, where they simply plan cute parties. UF’s SG is modeled off the state constitution and controls a $14 million budget. [...]
By Chris Cano
In the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the transition to cleaner modes of transportation has never been more urgent. Although Congress is currently on recess without so much as an oil spill response bill, there may still be hope for moving away from fossil fuels. One way to help is [...]
By Travis Pillow
From Tim Tebow to “Don’t Taze me Bro!” to its adoption of America’s first solar feed-in tariff program, Gainesville is no stranger to the national spotlight. But nothing in this town has set off a worldwide media firestorm like a local eBay furniture business with a congregation of about two dozen. That outfit goes by [...]
By Jessica Newman
Bill Bryson is one of the founders of Grow Radio, an online Gainesville community radio station with both musical and non-musical programming, as well as the former publisher of Satellite Magazine. He moved to Gainesville in 1992 and opened the Covered Dish, a music venue that operated for eight years. He was involved in college [...]
By Cody Bond
If I die in Key West, there will be a party. They will toast me at sunset in Mallory Square, and they will play up and down Duval Street, shouting into shop corners as their hats fill with pocket change. Everyone will dance. And in the morning, when the sweat has dried, they will forget.
By Nadine Navarro
Why UF’s award-winning Documentary Institute is relocating to Wake Forest The notorious UF budget cuts have brought opportunity to another institution. While the cuts have affected every college in the university in some way – some more than others – they’ve had a particularly interesting effect on UF’s award-winning Documentary Institute, which will permanently close [...]
By Travis Pillow
The real significance of the Unite Party recordings has nothing to do with a supposed feud between Greeks and non-Greeks. The recordings show that the political machine, run by Greek houses along with other groups, remains intact to this day.
By Henry Taksier
March 19 marks the beginning of the first annual Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival, a 10-day celebration of the earth and its resources with a chance to learn about the problems the earth is facing and how to build a better future. Click here for The Fine Print’s complete coverage of the festival.
By Travis Pillow
The Fine Print has learned that Reitz Union officials are actively involved in funding and supporting the Renew Your Reitz campaign – the one with all those green banners and T-Shirts seen all over campus. They want us to “Vote Yes and Yes” for a Reitz Union expansion and new student fees that won’t be [...]
By Nadine Navarro
In January, UF’s Office of the Provost awarded the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, SPOHP, with a $150,000 grant for a three-year research project that involves conducting and transcribing interviews in Alachua County and surrounding areas with black Americans who came of age during legal segregation. Most of the interviews will be conducted by UF students and put into a database accessible to students all over the world.
