Sports
Gators' BCS road map to Miami
Oct. 20, 2008If there's one thing the BCS has been resoundingly successful at, it's evoking emotion.
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News
NCAA study shows higher graduation rate among athletes
By BRIAN KELLEY | Oct. 20, 2008Student athletes looking to dismiss negative stereotypes about their intelligence have some new ammunition.
Sports
UF will have short practice week in preperation for Arkansas
By CALLOVI< | Oct. 20, 2008Players on the UF soccer team will get to enjoy one less practice this week, but they will also be taken out of the comfortable rhythm they are in.
Sports
Butler stresses winning lifestyle
Oct. 20, 2008The phrase doesn't exactly sound cliche, but UF coach Amanda Butler might have created some new coach-speak when she said it.
Opinion
Halloween encourages poor decisions
By Danny Wenger | Oct. 20, 2008In the 2004 comedy "Mean Girls," main character Cady put into words what everyone had been thinking for years: "Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it."
Metro
YouTube political ads fail to sway voters
Oct. 20, 2008Wearing red hot pants, the brunette on the computer screen sings, "I got a crush on Obama."
Opinion
Issues of the Congo should mobilize students
By Carolyn Witte | Oct. 20, 2008College students pride themselves on being the most optimistic, innovative and take-action demographic in this country. Our generation in particular is said to be more committed to solving social injustices than any generation before us, but it seems as if college students have lost their giddy enthusiasm and unrelenting optimism.
News
Retired UF law professors remembered by co–workers
By LAUREN BAKER | Oct. 20, 2008After they had lunch together for the last time, Walter Weyrauch gave UF law professor Sharon Rush a book about a subject that had come up during their discussion.
News
Discussion addresses election from racial perspective
By GUYANA HAND | Oct. 20, 2008At the end of the first day of early voting, about 50 UF students met up to learn about common misconceptions at the polls during a discussion Monday night.
Opinion
College degrees don’t mean anything
Oct. 20, 2008The college degree you're working so hard to get doesn't mean jack. Last week, I mentioned a professor at New Mexico University, Marcus Ross, a paleontologist who believes dinosaurs walked the earth more than 65 million years ago but is also a Young Earth creationist. Yeah, doctorates don't mean a damn thing anymore.
Opinion
What’s in a name?
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 20, 2008There must be something in the water on the Atlantic side of the U.S. because people over here are making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Metro
Downed wire causes delays, outages around Southwest 20th Avenue
By RENEE COLE | Oct. 20, 2008A downed live wire that ignited the top of a telephone pole caused heavy traffic and left residents around Southwest 20th Avenue without power Monday, Gainesville Regional Utilities officials said.
Metro
Police receive false alarm about gunman in Wal–Mart
Oct. 20, 2008Eleven Gainesville Police officers reported to the Wal-Mart on Archer Road on Friday after they received a false report from a pay phone of a gun-wielding man in the sporting-goods section, a GPD report stated.
Metro
Tax break to offer incentive for bike–riding employees, their employers
By KATHRYN STOLARZ | Oct. 20, 2008It could pay to ride a bicycle to work.
News
UF cancels plans for GPS screens
By THOMAS STEWART | Oct. 20, 2008Because of high costs, UF no longer plans to install two LCD screens that would have displayed a GPS map of bus locations.
Metro
Police arrest driver after car chase ends in crash
Oct. 20, 2008Gainesville Police arrested a teenager Sunday in connection with a car chase that ended when the car hit a tree, a Gainesville Police report stated.
Sports
Gators prepare to face NCAA tournament hopefuls
Oct. 20, 2008When UF associate head coach Nick Cheronis addressed the media on Monday, he attributed the Gators' recent success largely to timing.
Opinion
BCS poll numbers frustrating
By Joshua Rose | Oct. 20, 2008The Bowl Championship Series poll is as biased as the sky is blue.
