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Amanda Butler addresses the team during a timeout during Florida's win against Stetson.
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InstaGraham: Butler needs to improve UF’s offense

When I arrived at women’s basketball media day in October, coach Amanda Butler was energetic and enthused about the upcoming season. Despite losing team leader Jaterra Bonds, Butler was eager to tell anyone who would listen that UF would be able to adapt and adjust.


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Opinion

Don’t pick that Venus flytrap

The nature-walk mantra “take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints” has not only ecological implications but political and legal ones as well.


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Opinion

Keep Amendment 1 focused on conservation

Many of us may have been disappointed by the results of last fall’s gubernatorial election, but few could complain about the passage of Amendment 1 by an overwhelming 74 percent of voters. 


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Opinion

Social progress shown through Golden Globes

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had an awesome holiday season. It’s great to be back and great to be writing again, although 2015 somehow already feels stressful. The first week of classes was a blur of expensive textbooks and schedule shuffling, but an event this past weekend helped to start my new year off with a bang: the 2015 Golden Globes.


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Opinion

The state of the union and security breaches

It’s the week leading up to President Barack Obama’s next-to-last State of the Union Address, so he’ll be revealing his policies for the coming year. It also means there will be a lot of rather sassy reactions to his stated plans, so get ready for a week full of some salty political news. See, for example, the president’s announcement this weekend of the plan to make community college tuition free, and the gleeful takedowns that followed.


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Opinion

Even offensive speech must be defended

By now, you’ve probably heard of the devastating terror attacks that shocked and horrified the nation of France. The terror began last Wednesday when masked gunmen murdered 12 people at the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a publication known for deliberately mocking various religions and politicians. Two days later, the violence continued as the attackers killed a French policewoman then held 16 hostages in a kosher supermarket, killing four.


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News

Horticulture chairman fights bad food science, Food Babe

UF’s Horticultural Sciences Department chairman holds a unique position in the Internet anti-GMO community. Kevin Folta is the leading discreditor of the spokesperson for the online movement, nutrition activist Vani Hari — better known as The Food Babe — who’s famous for her campaign against Subway to remove an ingredient in its bread that is also found in yoga mats. 



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