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Morning thunderstorms cause tornado, flood warnings
By Max Chesnes | Apr. 4, 2017Alachua County residents woke up to thunderstorms, flooding and a tornado warning on Tuesday.
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Interim UF MCDA director to fill position permanently
By Romy Ellenbogen | Apr. 3, 2017After a months-long search, UF’s Multicultural and Diversity Affairs officials have chosen Will Atkins as the new executive director.
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UF, GAU continue bargain over health care insurance costs
By Romy Ellenbogen | Apr. 3, 2017After two weeks of not having bargaining meetings, UF negotiators came forward without a counteroffer to Graduate Assistants United.
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Ben Shapiro, supporters unfazed by protesters
By Paige Fry | Apr. 3, 2017Clarification: About 750 supporters and 25 protestors were at the University Auditorium
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By Molly Vossler | Apr. 3, 2017Contact Molly Vossler at mvossler@alligator.org and follow her on Twitter at @molly_vossler
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UF student plans Gainesville car show to benefit charity
By Courtney Moberley | Apr. 3, 2017Cars, trucks and motorcycles will line the streets of downtown this Saturday during the first Great Gainesville Car show.
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Spacemen, Skunk Apes and Skeeters: Renaming the Gators
By Matt Brannon | Apr. 2, 2017President of UF Kent Fuchs made an unbelievable announcement over the weekend.
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Professor calls on Fuchs to add diversity course
By Paige Fry | Apr. 2, 2017A UF professor and her students want more than UF President Kent Fuchs’ condemnation of recent hateful events on campus.
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Eighth annual TEDxUF attracts about 1,200 people
By Jimena Tavel | Apr. 2, 2017Correction: This article has been updated to reflect that the 2017 TEDxUF event was the eighth annual, not the fourth and that admission for the event was capped.
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UF Student Government leads citywide volunteer effort
By Paige Fry | Apr. 2, 2017Mamie Leath sat inside the small, light-peach home in Gainesville’s Porters Community where she has lived for most of her life.
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Thousands of students celebrate spring with color at Holi
By Meryl Kornfield | Apr. 2, 2017Blue, pink, green, yellow, orange, purple and red flew through the air Sunday.
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Controversial Princeton Holocaust historian visits UF
By Romy Ellenbogen | Apr. 2, 2017As Jan Tomasz Gross addressed a crowd Sunday night, a single image was projected behind him.
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UF’s Pi Kappa Alpha accused of hazing, distributing drugs
By Meryl Kornfield | Mar. 31, 2017The UF chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity was placed on administrative suspension by its national fraternity Wednesday after UF began investigating accusations of hazing, drug use and the distribution of drugs.
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Suspended Rollins student was accused of stalking while at UF
By Romy Ellenbogen | Mar. 30, 2017Court records show that a former UF student whose hostility toward a Muslim professor got him suspended from Rollins College was accused of stalking a student and entering her room while at UF.
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UF student plans protest of Ben Shapiro’s UF appearance
By Jimena Tavel | Mar. 30, 2017As students enter the University Auditorium on Monday to hear Ben Shapiro speak, Nate Quinn will stand outside and protest.
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UF announces new director for The Brechner Center
By Paige Fry | Mar. 30, 2017The executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Student Press Law Center is coming to work at UF.
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UF professor honored with SEC-best award
By Karen Patino | Mar. 30, 2017A UF professor could be in line to win another award for his teaching skills.
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UF’s online students promised added majors for Fall term
By Romy Ellenbogen | Mar. 30, 2017Come Fall, UF students enrolled in online-based programs will be offered a wider selection of majors, inching them closer to parity with on-campus students.
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Campus scavenger hunt leads to two Lil Wayne tickets
By Romy Ellenbogen | Mar. 29, 2017A day before her birthday, Tessa Pirkola won two front-row tickets for Lil Wayne’s upcoming UF concert.
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UF professor helping save Papua New Guinea’s coffee
By Sophia Carballo | Mar. 29, 2017A UF professor is helping to prevent tiny insects from harming coffee plants in Papua New Guinea.
