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SPORTS | COLUMNS

Don't let title hopes spoil the season

Aug. 5, 2009

Here it is. It all starts today.

THE AVENUE | NIGHTLIFE

Zumba offers fun fitness alternative

By MEAGAN MCGONE | Aug. 5, 2009

Before Erica Hyatt walks through the door, she is a chemical engineering major. She is a student at the UF. She thinks about homework and grades and meetings for the intramural softball team she is on. But for the hour she is in the room, she forgets all of that. She throws her arms in the air and sways her hips to the blaring music.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Prevention program earns $100K

By JESSICA CHAPMAN | Aug. 5, 2009

Despite its recent ranking as the nation/s No. 2 party school, UF was one of five schools named a 2009 Model of Alcohol or Other Drug Abuse Prevention Program on College Campuses by the U.S. Department of Education.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Campus housing to add surveillance

By THOMAS STEWART | Aug. 5, 2009

As a result of recent armed robberies, UF plans to install cameras at Corry Village and Tanglewood Village, two graduate and family housing complexes.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Smokers need to collect their butts

By Doug Barlow | Aug. 4, 2009

Thank you for your editorial piece "Campus ban removes smokers' rights." However, it neglects to mention one of the main problems with smokers: the fact that they just throw their butts on the ground no matter where they are at.

NEWS

Correction

Aug. 4, 2009

A cutline in Tuesday's Alligator incorrectly identified Deja Brew employee James Kenlon-Durrance, who has worked at the café for about two years.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Cronyism still permeates SG

By Frank Walch | Aug. 4, 2009

My name is Frank, and I used to be a senator. For the past 12 weeks, I served as a replacement senator in the Student Senate, and my term ended last Tuesday at the end of the last Senate summer session meeting.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Nudity should be embraced, not taboo

By DARREN D'ALTORIO | Aug. 4, 2009

Sunday nights, trash nights, before I roll the garbage out to the curb, I strip off all my clothes and leave them in a little pile on the bench by the front door. Naked, I approach the street with the garbage can, which smashes the grass under its weight. It's one of the busiest streets in Akron, Ohio, during the day. But come 2 a.m., traffic is sparse. After the can is in position on the curb, I don't hurry back to my pile of clothes. Instead, I pace the dew-soaked grass, and I let the night air touch all the parts of my body it normally can't.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Darts & Laurels

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 4, 2009

Change is afoot in Gainesville right now. All it takes is one look at the Alligator parking lot full of cars crammed with clothes, kitchen utensils and random boxes to know that summer is coming to an end, and everyone is ready to begin anew in his or her freshly leased pads. But, before you get too excited (and crumple up this paper to use as packing material), we would like to present you with an are-there-really-only-two-weeks-until-fall edition of…

NEWS

Correction

Aug. 4, 2009

An article in Tuesday's Alligator attributed a quote from Geoffrey Mason to a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement spokewoman. The quote was: "He's from a different society, different upbringing," he said. "He's a nice guy, but wrong place, wrong time, wrong situation." The same article stated that 19 charges against Robin Garg will be dropped. Twenty cases will be dropped.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Grads should look forward

By BEN CAMENKER | Aug. 4, 2009

It has been my secret dream for three years now to hijack my commencement speech. I had the perfect plan. There was just one problem; there will be no big-name speaker. When I learned this, it hurt. Because, Gators, there are issues we must discuss.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Fund awards $15K to Harn Museum for future exhibit

By JESSICA CHAPMAN | Aug. 3, 2009

A $15,000 grant from the French-American Fund for Contemporary Art will help the Harn Museum of Art commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in an exhibit set to debut in February.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS

No. 4: Will the baseball team improve on 2009 and make it to Omaha?

Aug. 3, 2009

The 2009 UF baseball team exceeded expectations before a disappointing end to the season.

SPORTS | FOOTBALL

Charity Challenge marks end of offseason workouts

By ADAM BERRY | Aug. 3, 2009

Before the rain came down Friday night, The Swamp was flooded with Gators fans eager to see UF football players battle it out in the Gator Charity Challenge.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Progressive taxation not something to fear

By Jordan Miller | Aug. 3, 2009

Johnathan Lott/s July 30th column is either deliberately misleading or laughably misinformed, possibly both. He implies that if marginal tax rates go up, the government will take "56 percent of every dollar" that a wealthy person earns. Is UF/s economics department really so bad that an economics junior doesn/t understand marginal tax rates? Honestly?

METRO

State to charge by amount of garbage

By ROBERTA O. ROBERTS | Aug. 3, 2009

A proposed state-wide "pay-as-you-throw" program would charge residents according to how much trash they throw out and increase state recycling requirements for businesses and apartments. Both requirements are already enforced by Gainesville.