University of Florida

UF Frat Boys in Blackface for Halloween Cause Campus Controversy

Some Halloween parties at the University of Florida this year ended up looking like 1800s minstrel show, as white frat boys and a member of the team's softball team decided it would totally be a good idea to dress up in blackface.The incidents have lead to a lot of controversy, town hall meetings, a ... More >>

University of Florida Has Been Overtaken by Feral Cats

The University of Florida's Gainesville campus is starting to resemble the smelly apartment of an old cat lady. The school has been overtaken by more than 100 feral cats, and it's ignited a war on campus over what to do with them. While the school current's policy could lead to many of the cats bein ... More >>

Floridians' Consumer Confidence Hits Highest Level Since Before the Recession

When it comes to the economy Florida consumers have been muttering "Oh man, I hate that stupid thing" for the past five or so years, but according to numbers released today Florida' consumer confidence has hit its highest level in five year. Which means Floridians are feeling more optimistic than th ... More >>

University of Florida Ranked Playboy's Third Top Party School; University of Miami Left Out

Playboy's top party school list seems to be an ever changing beast. The University of Miami used to dominate the list back in the '80s, but its party-hard reputation sort of tapered off as its academic standing improved. Though, back in 2009 the school made a dramatic return to reclaim its stop as A ... More >>

University of Miami Drops in College Rankings, But Still Best In Florida

The University of Miami has dropped out of the top 40 of US News and Colleges Reports' widely cited college rankings, reversing years of slowly trudging up the rankings. The school dropped from 38th, its highest ranking ever, to 44 this year. Despite that, UM still remains the highest ranked school ... More >>

Almost Every Florida Team (Including FIU) Got a Vote in Preseason Coaches Poll, Except for the Hurricanes

According to voters in the just-released preseason Coaches Poll, the University of Miami Hurricanes are about on the same level as the Florida Atlantic University Owls: Neither team received a single vote in the poll. Every other Division I FBS team in Florida did, though. Even Florida International ... More >>

FIU Will Have The Highest Tuition of Any Florida Public School

It's not the best public university in Florida. But soon it will be the most expensive. The State University System's Board of Governors announced today that it's approved a tuition raise of 15 percent for Florida International University, and full time students will pay $4,669 a year starting ... More >>

Invasive Crazy Caribbean Termites Threaten South Florida

Between Burmese pythons and giant African land snails, South Florida already has enough invasive species to worry about, but now officials have detected a new alien threat popping up in our region: the Nasutitermes corniger termite. These mites are meaner and more threatening then the domestic termi ... More >>

Here Are YouTube Videos of How To Oddly Pronounce Every Member of the Miami Heat

​Somewhere in the world exists a person who has decided that it would be a good idea to upload 2,600 YouTube videos in which he mispronounces various names in a strange inflection. As part of this person's RunTheCube YouTube channel he has uploaded videos mispronouncing the name of every single pl ... More >>

University of Miami Ranked 38th Best University in Nation by US News

​The University of Miami has risen nine spots in the latest edition of US News & World Report's annual college rankings. The school is now ranked the 38th best in the nation, up from the 47th position last year. For the second year in a row, the school is the only Florida institution ... More >>

Only God and LeBron Can Improve Sales of Florida Specialty License Plates

​Florida offers 122 specialty license plates, and all but two saw declines in sales between 2009 and 2010: The "In God We Trust" plate and the Miami Heat plate. Yep, unless you're God almighty or LeBron almighty, Floridians just don't want to shell out the extra cash to worship you on their bumper ... More >>

University of Florida Named 10th-Douchiest College in America

"We coulda WON, gosh-darnit!"​Those snooty, Wayfarer-wearing jazz fans over at GQ have been crunching the numbers and actually come out with something quite meaningful: Out of the 2,364 four-year, degree-granting institutions in the U.S., the University of Florida is douchier than all but nine.

Pied a Terre's Andrew Balick On Learning to Survive in the Kitchen, Part 2

Andrew Balick (back left) and his kitchen crew ​After working at Azul for six years, Andrew Balick got the opportunity to head the kitchen at Pied a Terre, a small restaurant inside the Cadet Hotel in South Beach. In the first part of the interview, he spoke about why he wants people to try his ta ... More >>

Don't Throw That Milk Away, You Can Still Drink It a Week After the Expiration Date

Ily Goyanes Dip which I allegedly shouldn't have eaten past April 2, 2011, which tasted great on June 5.​Who actually pays attention to those "use by" and "best before" dates on food packaging? Apparently a lot of people do, to the tune of millions of pounds of good, still edible food being ... More >>

University of Florida Threatened Students Not to Hang Out with Jersey Shore Cast

​So after a brief flirtation with returning to Miami Beach for season four, the Jersey Shore-ites instead packed their bags and headed to Florence, Italy. It seemed that this time around, no Floridians would be harmed during filming. Actually, though, the University of Florida has a study abroad p ... More >>

Disease Epidemic Forces Miami-Dade Animal Services to Temporarily Suspend Many Services

​Following an outbreak of infectious diseases in the animal shelter, Miami-Dade Animal Services has announced that they will temporarily suspend numerous services for "no more than two weeks, effective immediately." The shelter will no longer accept the intake of any new dogs. Most stray dog pick- ... More >>

Projectile in Gold

Mercury Turns Straight Birds Gay

Wikicommons​The Independent Florida Alligator is reporting that researchers at the University of Florida have found a link between mercury consumption and homosexual behavior among white ibises.Seven years ago, Peter Frederick, a UF professor of ecology and conservation, hypothesized that increase ... More >>

Did Channing Crowder Just Call Anne Frank a Ho?

University of Florida"I don't know who the fuck Anne Frank is."Well, no, he didn't... we think. But the Miami Dolphins linebacker did somehow confuse the diary-writing Holocaust victim with deaf and blind author Helen Keller, which is a front-runner for this month's Most Ignorant Comment By an Athle ... More >>

High School Football Coaches Deserve More Cash

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke tackles high school football coaching salaries.Florida -- and Miami-Dade -- seriously need to change the way high school ... More >>

After Historic Decline, Florida's Population is Growing Again

​Between 2008 and 2009 Florida's population shrunk for the first time since World War II. The net loss of 58,000 residents was attributed to the recession and real estate woes. Now, the University of Florida says Florida's population is back on the rise, and says that may be a good sign for t ... More >>

UF Student Paper "Accidentally" Calls Sorority Recruits Hoes

​The Independent Florida Alligator, the fine student paper of the University of Florida, decided that the phrase "sorority girl" and "ho" are pretty much interchangeable in their lead story on Wednesday. They claim they weren't intentionally expressing what all journalism student geeks actually th ... More >>

Celebrate Alligator Hunting Season With Crocked Gator Recipe

Photo by Riki Altman​Every summer since 1988, the state of Florida has opened many of its lakes, rivers and swamps to a limited-time public alligator hunt. This year's hunt began August 15 and continues through September 12.Also, since it is the start of football season and all, and because I'm an ... More >>

UMiami and UF Criticized For Having More Liberal Student Groups Than Conservative Groups

​CampusReform.org's mission includes giving college "conservatives powerful new weapons in their fight for the hearts and minds of the next generation of citizens, politicians, and members of the media" and helping "a new generation of student activism to identify, expose, and combat the radical l ... More >>

University of Miami Rises in U.S. News College Rankings, Finally Bests UF

​Under President Donna Shalala, the University of Miami has seen a slow but steady rise in U.S. News & World Report's highly touted college rankings. Last year, it became a top 50 university for the first time. This year, it continued to climb and became the highest-rated school in Florida. La ... More >>

Florida Schools Rank Low on Forbes Best Colleges List

​In US News and World Report's rankings of America's best colleges, the state of Florida boast two schools in the top 50: University of Florida and University of Miami. Forbes is now in the college ranking business too, and the rankings for the schools in Florida strike as a bit weird. Only o ... More >>

One Night Only

City's Stray Chickens: Friend or Foe?

Until last October, the city used to pay a guy $14,000 a year to round up the thousands of stray chickens that roam our pockmarked streets. In a story in this week's New Times, Lesther Jorge, the last Chicken Buster, toured some old battle sites, like Overtown, the Gaza of stray fowl. ​He found t ... More >>

University of Florida Prez Defends Nazi-themed Student Gov Fliers on Free Speech Grounds

​Politics can get dirty, even on the Student Government level. Take for example a recent flier that started showing up on the University of Florida campus that read "Student Alliance party is the Nazi Party," which featured a swastika. The fliers are attributed to a fake group called "UF for Israe ... More >>

Fight the Gator Raid

Alcohol and Energy Drinks Could Be a Deadly Combination

via BabblePut down the Red Bull​You might want to pass on that next round of vodka Red Bulls. A new University of Florida study shows that mixing energy drinks and alcohol can be a dangerous combination.Previous studies have shown that caffeine masks some of the sedative properties of alcohol ... More >>

Surfer Blood Releasing Debut Astro Coast January 2010

​If you haven't been following the meteoric rise of West Palm Beach's Surfer Blood, it's definitely not too late to start. The band, who will be all over CMJ in New York this week, including the Brooklyn Vegan's showcase on October 22, make great indie-pop music, it's as simple as that.Well, its b ... More >>

By the Horns

UF President Thinks His School Is as Great as Harvard; UM and FSU Are Just "Meh"

I wouldn't say US News & World Report's annual list of best colleges is a total joke, but the fact that about 25 percent of the ranking for each school is determined by a survey of reputation filled out by college presidents should raise some serious speculation as to how seriously the list sh ... More >>

UF Football Team Plays Down It's Status as New Thug U

A University of Miami football player gets a parking ticket and every sports outlet in the country would rush to get the scoop. A University of Florida player getting arrested? Well, no one seems to notice that much despite the fact it's happen to twenty players since Urban Meyer showed up in Decemb ... More >>

Peel the Vote '09: Luis Morse For Miami Commish

Alex Izaguirre Today Banana Republican begins a weekly series assessing candidates running for various municipal elected offices this year. Let's turn our attention to the district three city commission race in Miami where we have seven contenders vying to replace Joe Sanchez, who is running for ma ... More >>

Dead Men on Campus

via Counterfeit ChicWho wouldn't want to rest for eternity on their college campus? What better a final resting place than the first spot you nervously smoked marijuana because the cute senior offered it to you and you didn't want to seem like a geek but felt like you were somehow giving up some of ... More >>

University of Florida named best school in country (at which to get a penis crudely drawn onto your forehead)

The UF Consensus: Kerry's a Dirtbag

Nature’s Candy

Check out a fruity celebration in Key West

Catwalkin’ Babes

Cheer on the sisters as they strut, pivot, and turn

Fruit of Our Desires

They Just Wanna Dance

Getting Wild

Science museum hosts habitat chat

The Energizer

Forget the bunny. Robin Parker has a battery that might save the world.

The Music Man

Forget River City; there are problems aplenty at the New World School of the Arts, where members of the music faculty have declared war on their boss

If You Sink It, They Will Come

Creating an artificial reef is no longer a slam-dunk affair, despite an abundance of missile sites, water towers, and wanna-be philanthropists

See You Later, Alligator Penis

North Florida gators are losing their manhood to pesticides and other toxic chemicals -- and that's no phallusy