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Student bicycles for 24 hours for cancer awareness
By ELIZABETH DOW | Feb. 22, 2009Lisa Sawicki had never pulled an all-nighter until this weekend when she spent 24 hours riding a stationary bike.
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Blood thinner testing improves medication measurements
By REBECCA WEISS | Feb. 22, 2009Doctors prescribing Warfarin, a blood-thinning medication, will now be able to use genetic testing as a means of estimating the initial dosage size for their patients.
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Alumnus donated $30 million to new business school
By CAROLYN TILLO | Feb. 22, 2009Although construction began in December, about 90 people attended the official groundbreaking ceremony on Saturday for William R. Hough Hall, a $23 million building being constructed for graduate business students at UF.
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Musicians, attorneys discuss modern music industry
By ANA GONI–LESSAN | Feb. 22, 2009Hopeful artists must first garner a following before attracting a record label in today's music climate, said an attorney and musician at a conference Saturday.
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Car hits woman on campus
By KATIE EMMETS | Feb. 19, 2009A woman was arrested Wednesday night after she hit another woman with her car in a UF parking garage.
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Trustees keep retreat local
By THOMAS STEWART | Feb. 19, 2009UF's Board of Trustees is taking a staycation this year due to budget cuts.
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Intruder hacks UF's Grove system, accesses files
By THOMAS STEWART | Feb. 19, 2009An intruder gained access to files containing the personal information, including Social Security numbers, of more than 97,200 UF students, faculty and staff who used the Grove computer system from 1996 to 2009, UF announced Thursday.
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Professor challenges UF’s authority to adjust course load
By KRISTEN HUFF | Feb. 19, 2009UF's authority to change the agreement under which faculty are hired without their consent was questioned Thursday in a six-hour arbitration hearing.
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Stimulus’s impact on UF depends on state’s share of package
By THOMAS STEWART | Feb. 19, 2009UF could rake in hundreds of millions of dollars from the $787 billion stimulus package signed by President Barack Obama on Tuesday but, then again, the number could be much lower.
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Bright Futures won’t cover possible tuition increase
By KRISTEN HUFF | Feb. 19, 2009Fall tuition at UF could increase by as much as 15 percent if a bill unanimously approved by a Florida State Legislature committee passes.
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Candidates get last words in at final SG debate
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Feb. 19, 2009About 75 people attended the last debate before Student Government elections on Feb. 24 and 25 at the UF Hillel.
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First NC–17 film at Reitz
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Feb. 19, 2009The Reitz Union Board will hold free showings of an NC-17 rated film starting on Sunday, a move that received a mild response from UF President Bernie Machen.
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Parties sling mud at elections complaints meeting
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Feb. 18, 2009Eight elections complaints were presented and voted on Wednesday night during a two-hour Student Government Elections Commission meeting.
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Common Reading Program reveals title for freshmen
By HERSCHMAN | Feb. 18, 2009UF's Common Reading Program revealed the title of its required book for freshman on Wednesday on the Plaza of the Americas.
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Senators opt out of Safe Run event to campaign
By KRISTEN HUFF | Feb. 18, 2009Though many student senators were running around campaigning today on campus, not one was running in the UF Naval-ROTC event to promote the Safe Run program.
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Guest speaker says race and health are connected
By JESSALYN BERGER | Feb. 18, 2009B. Lee Green, vice president of the Office of Institutional Diversity at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, spoke about the differences between racial classes and their health on Wednesday.
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DOH to use reserve fund for common area wireless
By KRISTEN HUFF | Feb. 18, 2009At a time when many professors can't even print syllabi for students because of budget cuts, UF is spending nearly half a million dollars to install wireless Internet in the common areas of dorms.
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Friends mourn the loss of UF graduate student
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Feb. 18, 2009Friends and classmates are mourning the loss of UF graduate student Shannon Kane, 22, who died in a car accident on Monday.
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SG candidates discuss transparency, responsibility
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Feb. 18, 2009Three of the students running for Student Body president had their say Wednesday in the third and final debate hosted by The Independent Florida Alligator and UF's College Republicans. Candidates were publicly questioned in Turlington Plaza with the aim of educating students before the Feb. 24 and Feb. 25 Student Government elections.
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SG debate series heats up on Turlington Plaza
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Feb. 17, 2009Students passing through Turlington Plaza Tuesday afternoon may have heard something a little different than ranting preachers.
