Showing posts with label UF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UF. Show all posts

Saturday, January 7, 2023

The University of Florida says there is no ‘standing’ to review Joseph Ladapo’s guidance on COVID-19

A group of University of Florida medical-school faculty members challenged controversial guidance by state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on COVID-19 vaccinations, but a university official said Wednesday the guidance is outside the scope of Ladapo’s work with the school. more

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Stop the University of Florida's Methane Dependent Fracked Gas Plant!

The University of Florida has committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2025. Despite this, the University is considering a fracked gas power plant set to begin construction in 2023.

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Friday, November 15, 2019

Florida GOP Michael Murphy Impeachment

 University of Florida student president is facing his own impeachment inquiry after he helped bring Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle to campus last month at a reported cost of $50,000.
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The school’s student government has served President Michael Murphy with the impeachment resolution, arguing that last month’s speaking engagement amounted to a misuse of student fees. They argue Trump and Guilfoyle were paid with mandatory student fees, making it an alleged violation of rules that ban the use of public student funds to support or oppose a “political party at any level.”
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Murphy has argued in the student newspaper, the Independent Florida Alligator, that the couple’s speech wasn’t a campaign event, so didn’t 
violate rules. HERE

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Florida students demand end to Israeli terror

 
University of Florida Students for Justice in Palestine held a solidarity protest in Gainesville  for Palestinian teens under attack by the Israeli state.

Friday, October 25, 2013

University Of Florida SDS Demands Tuition Equity

On Oct. 17, student activists at the University of Florida (UF) officially launched their tuition equity campaign by having a demonstration at Tigert Hall, the University of Florida’s administration building. Around 40 students gathered in front of Tigert Hall to demand in-state tuition for undocumented students who have graduated from Florida high schools. The delegation made speeches calling for the university to implement DACA (the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals process) at UF and live up to its claim of being a flagship university and open the door to undocumented students........more