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NEWS
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CAMPUS
Gators hope to grant wish
By KRISTEN BURKE | Feb. 23, 2010UF students can help make a wish come true.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Votes are representative of agreement
By Matt Christ | Feb. 23, 2010The topic for today is voting. Or, more precisely, not voting.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Semper Fi hosts pull-up challenge
By MEG WAGNER | Feb. 23, 2010A crowd of students cheered on fellow Gator Matthew Lake as he did more than two dozen pull-ups Tuesday afternoon.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Aptitude tests are an unreliable method of gauging worth
By Will Penman | Feb. 23, 2010For the job I’m going to have next year, I had to take a computer skills test this week. There were ten questions, each one testing a random aspect of using computers.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Forum to address art funds
Feb. 23, 2010Local artists and organizations will attend an annual art forum today to discuss low art-program funding and their still-decreasing budgets.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Complaint filed against candidate
By ELIZABETH BEHRMAN | Feb. 23, 2010The Student Government Election Commission issued an order Tuesday that urged members of the Student Alliance party to stop handing out fliers and knocking on doors in apartment complexes.
METRO
UF students help local high schoolers understand finance
By JULIA MCCLURE | Feb. 23, 2010When Mayanna Hemenway heard that two UF students were visiting to teach her high school financial planning class, she said she pictured herself staring blankly, her mind numbed by material she didn’t care about.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Mean Marsupial: School right to take stand against crude TV show
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 23, 2010The University of California, San Diego has graced the pages and airwaves of national media outlets quite a bit the past week. The school was in the news last week when members of its Greek community sent out a Facebook invitation to a “Compton Cookout.”
METRO
'Hairspray' star sings at local talent show
By VICTORIA ISRAELS | Feb. 23, 2010"Hairspray" movie star Nikki Blonsky showed Gainesville she really has talent Tuesday night.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Ballot question deals with labor
By MATT HARRINGER | Feb. 23, 2010This election season, students have been sweating about executives, Senate seats and the Reitz Union fee, but there’s another important question on the ballot: Should UF support sweatshop labor?
METRO
Man dies after his car crashes into stairs at a Gainesville apartment complex
Feb. 23, 2010A 63-year-old man died after his car crossed Southwest Archer Road and ran into the stairs at Regency Oaks Apartments, 3230 SW Archer Road, early Tuesday morning.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
First day of Student Government election draws 5,289 voters
By ELIZABETH BEHRMAN | Feb. 23, 2010As the Unite Party and the Student Alliance party continued to campaign, 5,289 students cast their votes Tuesday on the first day of Student Government elections.
MULTIMEDIA
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VIDEO
Video: SG Voter Reactions
By Leah Goodwyne | Feb. 23, 2010Students give their thoughts on issues in this semester's SG elections.
FORMS
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CORRECTION
Corrections
Feb. 23, 2010An article in Monday’s Alligator incorrectly reported that enrollment would be cut annually by 5.6 percent. No such plan was implemented.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Student Government endorsements were fair, bipartisan
By Casey Eckberg | Feb. 23, 2010I, like many students, am shocked at the Alligator’s choice of endorsements. I’ve been here for a few years now and I’ve seen the Alligator side with the “indie” party far more times than not. Therefore, when I see that the Editorial Board has chosen to make no endorsement between the presidential candidates, I consider that a major victory for the Unite Party.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Reitz Union doesn’t need revamp
By Jordon Kalilich | Feb. 23, 2010By now, many students have probably seen the green signs that list the university’s reasons for wanting to expand the Reitz Union. I can’t be the only one who is outraged by some of the so-called problems with the current building, particularly the claim that there is “no place to study.”
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Campaign should focus on real issues
By Alan Martin | Feb. 23, 2010Why I am running for Student Senate:
NEWS
New York Fashion Week: Part 2
By ASHLEY MOSES | Feb. 23, 2010Since Fashion Week was so epic this year, I decided it was worthy of two posts.
NEWS
Alligator MusiCast #6
By FRANKIE FUSCO | Feb. 23, 2010In this week's MusiCast, we've got all the info you need to get the most out of Gainesville's music scene
