NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF sees rise in campus burglaries since 2007
By Laura Montalto | Oct. 27, 2009UF's campus burglaries have more than tripled from 2007 to 2008.
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NEWS
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CAMPUS
College of Fine Arts begins dance showcase Thursday
By CAMERAN GILLIAM | Oct. 27, 2009The Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion will be transformed into a magical world, just in time for Halloween, complete with dancers, cross-dressers, an accordion player, pianists and video projections.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Immokalee workers gain support of Student Senate
By CAROLYN TILLO | Oct. 27, 2009A resolution supporting a one-cent pay increase for Immokalee workers passed 57-19 in the Student Senate on Wednesday. The workers pick tomatoes used by Aramark, UF's food provider.
METRO
Homeless shelter forced to limit holiday meals
By ERICA JOHNSON | Oct. 27, 2009For the first time in nearly 30 years, Gainesville's St. Francis House will have to slash the number of meals it serves on Thanksgiving and Christmas from more than 400 to 130 due to a city rule.
NEWS
House of Cans
By Danica Spears | Oct. 27, 2009Jamie Longville, left, and Stevie Scheller, right, decorate a miniature wooden house frame with assorted empty soda cans Tuesday morning on the Reitz Union North Lawn. The freshmen are a part of UF's chapter of Habitat for Humanity that gave away free sodas to bring awareness to the campus organization.
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
Football team looking for solutions to red-zone problems
Oct. 27, 2009Call it the "dread zone."
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Class works with police to study link between environment, crime
By ALEXANDRA LAYOS | Oct. 27, 2009An urban and regional planning class at UF is working with the Gainesville Police Department to make burglary more difficult through environmental changes like lighting and shrubbery.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF admissions office joins Twitter
By THOMAS STEWART | Oct. 27, 2009The new admissions office account puts the number of total accounts associated with UF at 25.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF to test texting system, hopes for better results
By THOMAS STEWART | Oct. 27, 2009UF will test its emergency message system at noon Wednesday. In a summer test, it took more than an hour for some to receive text messages on their phones.
NEWS
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GREEK AFFAIRS
Court clears UF's actions in Christian fraternity case
By THOMAS STEWART | Oct. 27, 2009A federal appeals court dismissed a case on Tuesday brought by a Christian fraternity that clashed with UF after it was not allowed to select members based on religion.
SPORTS
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
NCAA clears Tishman eligible to play
By ADAM BERRY | Oct. 27, 2009Florida's backcourt just got a little deeper.
SPORTS
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SOCCER
Townsend rejoins soccer team after three-game absence
Oct. 27, 2009While members of the UF soccer team traveled to familiar Southeastern Conference destinations like Athens, Ga., and Knoxville, Tenn., Tricia Townsend was exploring Budapest.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Condoms, sex education distributed during "Sex on the Lawn" fair
By MARISSA GAINSBURG | Oct. 27, 2009More than 100 participated in the annual sexual health fair hosted by Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood outside the Reitz Union.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS GOLF
Men’s golf team ends fall schedule with highest finish
By KELSIE HOECHERL | Oct. 27, 2009Five strokes separated the Gators from a first place finish at the Isleworth Invitational, their last tournament of the season.
NEWS
"Getchya $'s Worth" Fest 8 Schedule: Saturday
By J. HUNTER SIZEMORE | Oct. 27, 2009Saturday sees a strong showing for established folk punk artists including Andrew Jackson Jihad and Defiance, OH. If you like the genre's political side, be sure to check out Tim Barry's twangy commentary on current topics. If the fun side is more to your liking, Sharks Come Cruisin' serve up acoustic, nautically-inspired shanties and traditional songs of the sea.
NEWS
Blogging is good for your resume
By AMANDA MILLIGAN | Oct. 27, 2009Odds are you've read a blog. Blogs are all over the Internet these days, and they cover basically every topic you can ever think of. Yes, We Can Hold Babies is an example of how any random topic can become a blog, and an entertaining one at that.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Cold Shoulder: City shouldn’t put a limit on holiday meals
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 27, 2009The Gainesville City Commission's choice to enforce a 130-meal limit for St. Francis House this Thanksgiving shows how disconnected it is from many of Gainesville's residents.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Man shouldn't have been fired for wearing religious pin
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 27, 2009An Okeechobee man said he was fired from his cashier job at Home Depot for wearing a pin that read, "One nation under God."
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Being eco-friendly isn’t always easy
Oct. 27, 2009Maybe it's selfish, but I like to believe that humanity has evolved to the point that allows me to have a few modern mechanical luxuries.
