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Gators midfielder using headers to score
By LANDON WATNICK | Sep. 26, 2012Holly King likes to use her head.
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Friends, family continue to search for missing student
By Chris Alcantara | Sep. 25, 2012Aguilar, an 18-year-old biomedical engineering freshman from Miami, was reported missing Thursday night. The search continues for him.
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UF senior leads fight against new rules in college tennis
Sep. 25, 2012As the Division I Men’s and Women’s Tennis Committee deliberated on changes to speed up the college game, Florida senior Bob van Overbeek reacted with three simple words:
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Column: LSU game to prove UF’s worth
By ADAM PINCUS | Sep. 25, 2012Florida hasn’t done anything this season.
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Campaign rules go against UF’s mission
Sep. 25, 2012I agree with David Bradshaw that the recently enacted Student Government campaign rules needlessly obstruct free speech. I write to encourage fellow students and the administration to oppose these unreasonable time constraints on a candidate’s ability to campaign for SG elections.
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Gators using bye to heal injuries, work on self-improvement
By JOSH JURNOVOY | Sep. 25, 2012The season is young, but the Gators could already use a break.
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National Voter Registration Day event rakes in new voters
By Jewel Midelis | Sep. 25, 2012Fifty-nine people showed up to register to vote and update their voter information Tuesday at Pugh Hall Ocora.
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Study finds students become skeptical of negative political ads
By Samantha Shavell | Sep. 25, 2012A study done by a UF political science professor determined that negative ads don’t always work, but when they do, it’s on people who trust the government — which Christian said she only does sometimes.
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Religious group wants Tebow
By Sarah Brand | Sep. 25, 2012In 2010, Alan Nanney was arrested for breaking into the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, where, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, he was found barefoot and shirtless.
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Students fast for Yom Kippur
By Rachek Kurland | Sep. 25, 2012Yom Kippur is a day of atonement and reflection during which Jewish people ask for forgiveness for any wrongdoings, according to Rabbi Gail Swedroe, the newest campus rabbi at UF Hillel. There is also a 25-hour period of fasting.
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UF group hopes to spread obesity awareness to children, parents
By Laura Hogan | Sep. 25, 2012A UF research team will work with about 200 parents and children during a childhood obesity awareness and intervention workshop Thursday.
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UF Florida Museum goes digital
By Noelia Trujillo | Sep. 25, 2012The Florida Museum of Natural History received a three-year $339,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for researchers to expand their digitized collection of invertebrate specimens.
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Senior midfielder brings composure, stability to Gators
By ADAM LICHTENSTEIN | Sep. 25, 2012Jo Dragotta was doing her best to keep her mind clear.
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Students sit in Student Senate meeting protesting referendum
By Samantha Shavell | Sep. 25, 2012About 10 people attended the Student Senate meeting in support of a referendum that asks students if they want to rename the Reitz Union after Virgil Hawkins, an African-American man who was denied entrance to UF in 1949.
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Scientist gets grant to study worms
By Melissa Harvard | Sep. 25, 2012Akito Kawahara, an assistant curator at the McGuire Center of Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History, received the one-year grant to do field research in Central America to investigate the tobacco hornworm and relatives.
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UF grads launch businesses online
By MICHELLE PROVENZANO< | Sep. 25, 2012Despite the daunting nature of starting a business, two UF alumnae have taken the plunge to create their own startups. One launched her business this month, and another is celebrating one year running a successful website.
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UF choir first North American group to attend international festival
By Rosa Llamo | Sep. 25, 2012Chamber singers in the Concert Choir will headline the 17th annual Encuentro Coral de Musica Colombiana in Buga, Colombia, from Oct. 16 to Oct. 21. The noncompetitive international choral festival will feature about 25 choirs from six countries — and UF’s is the first North American choir to be invited.
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Rally: Does this season’s 4-0 start mean more than last year’s?
By GREG LUCA | Sep. 25, 2012Joe: When the sun rises in Gainesville this Saturday, everything will be a little bit brighter.
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Search for missing UF student continues
By Chris Alcantara | Sep. 25, 2012Diego Aguilar, 43, and the volunteers were part of dozens of friends and family who searched the woods near Cabana Beach Apartments and State Road 121 on Monday for Christian Aguilar.
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Late-night fire in Beaty Towers leads to student evacuation
By Chris Alcantara | Sep. 24, 2012A small kitchen fire on a stove led to students living in Beaty Towers being evacuated late Monday night.
