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Academic departments safe from budget cuts
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Feb. 21, 2008UF's budget situation got brighter Thursday, at least for the near future.
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Scooter decal price hike proposal cut
By KIM WILMATH | Feb. 21, 2008Scooter decal prices, which were proposed last month to increase from $36 a year to $121, may now only rise to $64.
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By KATIE SANDERS, Alligator Writer
Feb. 20, 2008Some UF agricultural students have joined agriculture industry leaders in opposition to potential budget cuts to the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
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CLAS dean search narrows to 4; interim dean does not make cut
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Feb. 20, 2008Two in-house candidates are out of the running for the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean position.
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Republican student groups ban together while Democratic groups remain split
By EMILY MOORHOUSE | Feb. 20, 2008Republican student groups at UF have joined forces to support Republican presidential candidate front-runner John McCain while Democratic groups remain split as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton stay neck and neck.
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Middle school girls introduced to engineering
By DAYNA MALEK | Feb. 20, 2008More than 100 female students from three Alachua County middle schools participated in Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on Wednesday.
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SFCC evaluates emergency system after gun scare
By APRIL DUDASH | Feb. 20, 2008An SFCC student accused of pointing a gun at another student made a first appearance in court Wednesday while SFCC administration spent the day evaluating its crisis management.
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Display compares abortion, genocide
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Feb. 20, 2008Giant posters of bloody bodies on UF's Plaza of the Americas on Wednesday offered passersby and students eating lunch pictures of what organizers called a new kind of genocide - abortion.
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SFCC student with gun alarms campus
By JESSICA PONN | Feb. 19, 2008Less than a week after five students were killed at Northern Illinois University, an SFCC student pointed a gun at another student on the college's campus Tuesday, sparking a five-hour manhunt that ended in a peaceful arrest.
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Engineering fair welcomes "scientists" of all ages
By KATIE SANDERS | Feb. 19, 2008Student organizations filled the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom on Monday and Tuesday with fake snow, oozing slime and ice cream to attempt to attract kids to science careers.
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Bullins resigns as UF's Greek direction
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Feb. 19, 2008The director of UF's Office of Sorority and Fraternity Affairs stepped down Feb. 13 in an unusually quick fashion.
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UF students react to gunman on SFCC campus
By ELIZABETH LEVA | Feb. 19, 2008UF students expressed concern about an SFCC gunman Tuesday, but UF officials said there was no reason to worry - and no reason for an emergency text message.
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New counseling center director addresses Student Senate
By KATIE SANDERS | Feb. 19, 2008Sherry Benton, the new director of UF's Counseling Center, introduced herself to student senators on Tuesday night after more than two weeks of being on campus.
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UF student group hosts entrepreneurship workshop
Feb. 19, 2008In response to the UF Warrington College of Business eliminating its entrepreneurship minor this fall, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation ambassadors hosted an "Entrepreneurship for Dummies" workshop Tuesday night at Stuzin Hall.
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UF junior arrested for selling, possessing drugs
By KIM WILMATH | Feb. 19, 2008A UF student was arrested as he left his history class Tuesday on charges of selling and possessing drugs.
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New Facebook tool aims to improve roommate matching
By KRISTEN HUFF | Feb. 17, 2008A new application launched on Facebook by a UF student aims to give residents more control in random roommate selection.
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Residents return to Thomas Hall after fire
By KATIE SANDERS | Feb. 17, 2008About 20 Thomas Hall residents who were forced out of their dorms after a Wednesday night kitchen fire were allowed to return Friday afternoon.
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Candidate drops from CLAS dean search
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Feb. 17, 2008Another candidate has dropped out of the search for a UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean.
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UF hopefuls overload online admissions system
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Feb. 17, 2008UF's online admissions system struggled to keep up with thousands of high school students who simultaneously logged on Friday with hopes of finding an acceptance notice, leaving some students in the dark on their admissions status long after it was available.
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UF reacts to NIU shooting
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Feb. 17, 2008After the third college shooting in the last month, UF officials assured students that they're still safe on campus.
