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Atheist, theist to face off
By BRENTON BROWN | Apr. 5, 2010A great debate will take place tonight at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on a topic as old as Adam and Eve.
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Students to paint orgasms on T-shirts
By NICOLE FLIKIER | Apr. 5, 2010What does an orgasm look like?
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Disney representatives to recruit interns on campus
By Matthew Riva | Apr. 5, 2010Disney representatives will be on campus today looking for students who want to make a career at the happiest place on Earth.
Metro
City sees string of window, car burglaries
Apr. 5, 2010More window-smashing burglaries have occurred in student-dense areas.
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RecSports to take class reservations
By KARINA LISENBEE | Apr. 5, 2010This fall, being turned away from full exercise classes will be a thing of the past — for a price.
Opinion
Playing It Safe: Housing department’s Nerf gun ban overkill
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 5, 2010First it was the hippies and communist professors who were corrupting our children’s minds with radical concepts such as gravity and the letter “Q.” Then it was those damn femi-Nazis who wanted to turn our prom queens into jezebels who choke down birth control pills like Skittles.
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Neuroscience club kicks off Brain Awareness Week
Apr. 5, 2010In an attempt to promote one of the human body’s most vital organs, UF’s Neuroscience Club kicked off its Brain Awareness Week Monday.
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Students to rally to support shot graduate student
By ELIZABETH BEHRMAN | Apr. 5, 2010A rally calling for justice for graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong will take place today from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Turlington Plaza.
Metro
Commissioners support urbanization investments
By OLGA VELEZ | Apr. 5, 2010City commissioners decided to support private investment in Five Points, a small urbanized area of the city, and land along Hawthorne Road in a Community Development Committee meeting Monday.
Metro
Site ranks schools based on texting
By GWEN RAHN | Apr. 5, 2010After debate over which university is the No. 1 party school, some UF students have developed their own ways of deciding.
News
Yawn on the Lawn
By Steven H. Keys | Apr. 5, 2010Matthew Wagshol, a senior in UF's mechanical engineering program, takes his shoes off, sprawls out and enjoys his time between classes in the warm weather on Monday afternoon. He avoided the heat by lying in the shade beside his bicycle on the North Lawn behind the Reitz Union. Monday's temperatures reached a high of 87 degrees. Steven H. Keys / Alligator Staff
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Correction
Apr. 5, 2010An article in Friday’s Alligator incorrectly reported that 10 people attended a Pride Awareness Month Event at which Wilson Cruz spoke. The number was a misprint — about 100 people attended the event.
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Former Senate majority leader holds video talk
By MATT HARRINGER | Apr. 5, 2010Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., answered questions on health care legislation, obesity and Haiti recovery via satellite Monday night.
Opinion
Zombie editorial disappointing
By Dunai Harris | Apr. 5, 2010I am disappointed by the stance the Editorial Board took in Monday’s editorial “Zombie Nation.” Humans vs. Zombies is just a master game of tag that unites all different kinds of students across UF’s campus in a game that makes the boring walk to class more interesting for a week.
Opinion
Students should take stand
By Dave Schneider | Apr. 5, 2010I was standing on Turlington Plaza Monday with some members of the Coalition for Justice Against Police Brutality, telling students walking by about the shooting of Kofi Adu-Brempong by the University Police Department. As we were handing out fliers for today’s protest, a girl stopped me and asked me about the incident. To no fault of her own, she said she hadn’t heard anything about it and wanted to know how UPD could possibly shoot an international student on campus.
Metro
Police investigate alleged GRU theft
Apr. 5, 2010A Gainesville Regional Utilities employee was arrested on charges of stealing equipment and tools.
Opinion
In love, actions speak louder than words
Apr. 5, 2010I think it’s fair to say there are few phrases in the English language that are more emotionally loaded than “I love you.” For that matter, it’s probably fair to say there are few phrases that are more regularly abused and misused than those three words.
News
Swimsuit trends for the spring
By ASHLEY MOSES | Apr. 5, 2010Now that the warm weather is here, it's time to break out the bathing suits and head out to the beaches (or lay out by the closest pool).
