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MTV's 'Engaged & Underage' to hold local auditions
Nov. 20, 2008MTV is looking for a good love story.
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UF ranks No. 7 in most vegetarian–friendly campus
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Nov. 20, 2008UF's football team isn't the only program improving its ranking from last year.
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UF students grow beards for charity
Nov. 20, 2008What ended as a $500 donation to the American World Adoption Agency began with one man's affinity for his facial hair.
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Faculty Senate discusses guidelines for budget cuts
Nov. 20, 2008As UF braces for an estimated budget crunch of about 7 to 8 percent, members of UF's Faculty Senate discussed Thursday measures meant to ensure it has greater input over the cuts.
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UF spreads organ, tissue donation awareness
By HILARY SHEINBAUM | Nov. 20, 2008UF will hold a "Festival of Life" and try to break a world record Dec. 3 to promote organ donation and awareness.
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Students talk body issues in play tryouts
By TATIANA GONZALEZ | Nov. 20, 2008Women put taboos aside Thursday night to talk about one thing they all have in common: a vagina.
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Engineering students work on pico–satellite
Nov. 19, 2008A team of UF aerospace engineering students and professors is trying to shrink space's most frequent flyers.
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Johns Hopkins University tests gunfire detecting system
Nov. 19, 2008A Virginia-based company has developed a system for universities that distinguishes a gunshot from other sounds that could raise alarm, such as a car backfire.
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Students, faculty celebrate Geographic Information Systems Day
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Nov. 19, 2008About 300 people celebrated Geographic Information Systems Day, an annual event observed by about 80 other countries, at Library East on Wednesday.
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Senators vote down two bills, save minority bill for after break
By LAUREN BAKER | Nov. 19, 2008After meeting for five hours Tuesday night, student senators will have some unfinished business to attend to after the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Senators debate legislation limiting minority party power
By LAUREN BAKER | Nov. 18, 2008Student Senate ended without voting on legislation that would limit the power of the minority party early Wednesday morning after a five-hour meeting.
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Ticketmaster apologizes for ticket sales problems
By THOMAS STEWART | Nov. 18, 2008Ticketmaster and UF Athletics Director Jeremy Foley issued an apology Tuesday for kinks in online ticket sales that prevented many students from buying tickets to the Southeastern Conference Championship Game on Dec. 6.
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'Batman' movie franchise producer speaks at UF
Nov. 18, 2008When he was 3 years old, Michael Uslan read "Casper" comics in New Jersey barbershops.
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Accent hosts final semester show with originator of Batman movies
Nov. 17, 2008Michael Uslan really likes comics - so much so that he based his career on the Caped Crusader.
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Suicide attempt proves false alarm for UPD
By THOMAS STEWART | Nov. 17, 2008A student talking on a cell phone on the roof of Sisler Hall brought about a dozen University Police officers to the scene Monday afternoon in response to a possible suicide attempt.
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Victim of sexual assault shares story with UF audience
By LAUREN IRIZARRY | Nov. 17, 2008Kelly Addington can only recall bits and pieces of the Saturday night she was raped. It was 1998, and Addington was a senior in college.
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Panelists give students financial advice
By JENNIFER TORMO | Nov. 17, 2008Beware of free smoothies and pitas.
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Justice, judge cover legal issues for lecture series
By THOMAS STEWART | Nov. 17, 2008Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Jose A. Gonzalez Jr., U.S. District Court Judge, agreed on a litany of legal issues at an on-campus discussion Monday.
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Gharmony to act as match–up site for service groups
By ALLYSEN KERR | Nov. 17, 2008Lovers have eHarmony and Match.com, and now service organizations can find their perfect matches, too.
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Ticketmaster kinks leave some students ticketless
Nov. 17, 2008For some UF students, the road to the Southeastern Conference Championship Game in Atlanta ran through the Midway Islands on Monday night.
