NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF rates high in sustainability
By Joey Flechas | Oct. 27, 2010In its efforts toward sustainability, UF gets a B+.
COVID-19
THE AVENUE
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MOVIES AND TV
The horror, the horror: Scary flicks, local picks
By Joshua Saval | Oct. 27, 2010If you’ve ever wandered around the student ghetto post-midnight — or shopped at the Oaks Mall — you know that Gainesville can be creepy. Really creepy.
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LIFESTYLE
Start the Fest-ivities: Amping up for a weekend of rock
By Benjamin Evans | Oct. 27, 2010If you’re downtown any time between Friday and Sunday, you’ll probably notice an influx of 15-passenger vans, Paul Bunyan beards, bicycle traffic and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans on the side of the road.
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MUSIC
Local bands need love, too, at the Fest
By Kat Bein | Oct. 27, 2010Come Friday, Gainesville will be flooded with out-of-towners from all over the world who come to take part in the famous Fest. But let us not forget that Gainesville owes its ability to host a huge indie festival due to its own healthy and vibrant local music culture. Ready to go local? Here are three Gainesville-bred acts you can’t miss at the Fest.
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SEX
Sex and the Swamp: Be a gentleman — ladies first
By Jared Misner | Oct. 27, 2010Dear Jared,
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LIFESTYLE
The Crusty: A poem about our favorite Fest goer
By RICHARD STEHLI | Oct. 27, 2010Editor’s Note: This humor poem was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”
NEWS
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SFC
Santa Fe gets spooky with haunting lecture
By Chelsea Hull | Oct. 27, 2010Andrew Nichols has used Ouija boards, locked his wife in a dungeon and stared as a grandfather clock rotated completely around by itself — all in the name of his career as a parapsychologist.
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LIFESTYLE
The A-List
By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Oct. 27, 2010Each Thursday, the Avenue is serving up the best in entertainment, pop culture and everything in between. From the big screen to the radio waves, check out this week’s picks.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Block tuition a discriminatory policy
By Mitchell Norton | Oct. 27, 2010Francisco Sotomayor’s Tuesday letter completely ignores the struggles of working-class students. Sure, block tuition might be great for someone who wants to take underwater basket weaving, but some of us actually have to work to get through college.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Consumer confidence up
By Meredith Rutland | Oct. 27, 2010The economy may be improving, according to a new UF study.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Walking Gators kicks off fall semester walks with new routes
By Sara Solano | Oct. 27, 2010A small cluster gathered around library employee Jami Beserock, her orange Walking Gators T-shirt signaling their usual meeting spot outside Smathers Library.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Reader disappointed with endorsement
By Naveen Mudaliar | Oct. 27, 2010Wednesday’s endorsement for attorney general was the worst endorsement yet in the series of political endorsements.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Amendment Showdown
By Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 27, 2010We see you’ve made it through your near booklet of a sample ballot, filling in the bubbles for the best candidates (in black ink because apparently blue is just not acceptable) as we work our way through the endorsements of major political candidates. But you still have local races, judges to not reappoint (read: Charles T. Canady) and lots of amendments to bravely work your way through. Luckily, we’re not going to abandon you in the wake of a mind-numbing panic of legalese. Stay with us as we present you with your very own and possibly very first This-Looks-A-Lot-Like-Darts-&-Laurels-But-It’s-Really-Not edition of Amendment Showdown.
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FASHION
Tricks to look like a treat
By ALLISON BANKO | Oct. 27, 2010Sure, you’ve been going buck wild in all of autumn’s glory: breathing in sweet smells of cinnamon, indulging in candy corn, busting out the pumpkin spice candles. You may think you’ve got the fall feel down, but does your wardrobe?
OPINION
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COLUMNS
US legal system fundamentally flawed
By Nate Rushing | Oct. 27, 2010Pamela Raymond is a former nurse who lives in the quaint city of Morristown, Vt. And according to the state, Raymond is a murderer.
NEWS
Correction
Oct. 27, 2010Wednesday’s story on the Alachua County School Board forum discussed charter schools. For clarification, charter schools are independent, non-profit schools but are funded by the public.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
‘Sex on the lawn’ event offers food, free condoms, sex ed
By Mina Radman | Oct. 27, 2010Three blindfolded students raced to open condoms and place them on plastic model penises while others guessed how many condoms were in a jar Wednesday.
NEWS
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
Professor loses 10 years of racism research to burglars
By Jon Silman | Oct. 27, 2010Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston has spent the past 10 years studying racism in Nova Scotia — but now all of her research is gone.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
IFAS gets $2.9 million to study strawberries
By Gennaro Scibelli | Oct. 27, 2010The grant will help the multi-state research team, led by UF plant pathologist Natalia Peres, find better ways to fight fruit rot that plagues the strawberries in Florida fields and refrigerators every year.
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MUSIC
Meet the Zombie Beatles: Bands we want to resurrect
By Jessica Poitevien | Oct. 27, 2010Let's take a trip down music's memory lane, back to a time when there was no such thing as Auto-Tune or "Glee" or Ke$ha. We had our one-hit wonders (anyone heard from Haddaway lately?) and our boy bands that produced a few albums then disappeared (B2K ring a bell?).
