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Meatless Monday furthers UF’s sustainability
By Jamie Schindewolf | Nov. 21, 2010In his Thursday column, Nate Rushing truly misrepresented UF’s new Meatless Monday campaign.
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Colleagues remember law professor
By Joey Flechas | Nov. 21, 2010Moffat, 73, passed away Nov. 14 after a two-year battle with cancer. He had served as a UF law professor for more than 40 years, specializing in jurisprudence, or the science or philosophy of law.
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LGBT Affairs honors transgenders with vigil
By Coral Denton | Nov. 21, 2010Greg was a son and a brother. He played football for East Carolina University. He was a husband and the father of two children.
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Faculty consider making Wednesday holiday
By Jon Silman | Nov. 18, 2010Faculty senators discussed a proposal to not hold classes on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving in future years.
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UF ranked seventh on list of universities with happiest employees
By Cristina Rabaza | Nov. 18, 2010The study felt the university did well at providing job security and growth opportunities for its staff, as well as allowing enough time for faculty and staff to spend with family.
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Student organizations host event to raise awareness about world hunger
By Alexander Klausner | Nov. 18, 2010Students got a taste of world hunger Thursday night.
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UF to celebrate Lakeside’s birthday with ‘culture clash’
By Jasmine Harris | Nov. 18, 2010Students won’t get cake and ice cream for this birthday celebration, but they can expect much more.
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Art Bash to feature exhibit of Native American pieces
By Daniela Abad | Nov. 18, 2010Today is the last day to see a Native American art exhibit being shown in the U.S. for the first time.
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Students hear tales of Israeli politics
By Mina Radman | Nov. 18, 2010Students got a little lesson on Israeli international relations Thursday afternoon.
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Meatless Monday movement good for UF, world
By Austin Saacke | Nov. 18, 2010In his Thursday column, Nate Rushing does an excellent job of stating his opinion and, frankly, not much else. In his unabashed attempt to denigrate the vegetarian movement, a target too often eliciting the scrutiny of chest-thumping, ultra-macho, self-aggrandizing he-men, he overstates the trivial and overlooks abundant evidence that runs counter to his agenda. Indeed, he stands so thickly eclipsed by straw men, one need not wonder why his views embody carnivorous myopia.
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Balloons used in night walking event to support cancer awareness
By Karly Kehres | Nov. 18, 2010The UF Premed American Medical Student Association (AMSA) hosted Gainesville's 14th Light the Night Walk to raise money and awareness for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society on Thursday night.
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Student uses Internet to solicit help finding lost dog
By Miguel A. Chateloin | Nov. 17, 2010Ricky Klopfenstein was frantic when he didn’t see Molly’s patchy-haired “rat tail” wagging under the crawl space of his house.
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Library celebrates technology in GPS systems
By MEG WAGNER | Nov. 17, 2010If you’ve ever used a GPS, you’ve used GIS.
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Hillel hosts banquet, represents global issues
By Ali Robertson | Nov. 17, 2010Today, students will arrive at the UF Hillel for dinner. But if all goes according to plan, most will leave with nearly empty stomachs.
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UF frat house catches fire after hookah tips over on mattress
By Lidia Dinkova | Nov. 17, 2010A fire at the Sigma Chi fraternity house, 8 Fraternity Row, on Wednesday morning will lead to the eviction of one house resident and a mandatory fire safety educational session from the Gainesville Police Department.
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Student's project sends smiles overseas
By Kathryn Schofield | Nov. 17, 2010When Marielle Ness’s father, Lt. Col. James Ness, told her about the local kids who give him and other soldiers the thumbs up as they drive the streets of the green zone in Kabul, Afghanistan, it ignited an idea for a project.
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Students march with tuition petition for Machen
By Alexander Klausner | Nov. 17, 2010About 70 students chanted and marched with signs from Turlington Plaza to Tigert Hall on Wednesday to protest the administration’s block tuition proposals.
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Student senate gives $352,731 to special events
By Chelsea Hull | Nov. 16, 2010TJ Villamil said his committee increased the allotted budget by 5 percent this year, but the special event groups’ funding requests came in $1,800 under budget.
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Overturned vetoes mean money for UF
By Miguel A. Chateloin | Nov. 16, 2010A newly elected legislature overturned eight of outgoing Gov. Charlie Crist’s vetoes, including a $9.7 million budget appropriation for Shands Teaching Hospital, during a special session Tuesday.
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Block tuition proposal discriminatory, unsuitable for UF
By Alden Gillespy | Nov. 16, 2010Unless you live under a rock and don’t use Facebook or read this newspaper, you’ve heard about plans to bring a block tuition program to UF. UF President Bernie Machen is eager to implement block tuition as soon as possible, but his administration’s proposal is unsuitable for this campus.
