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UF to defend title at fishing championship

By Hannah Winston | Apr. 5, 2011

Jake Gipson and Matt Wercinski won a national championship last year by a 9-ounce margin.

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Medical school icon dies

By Morgan Watkins | Apr. 5, 2011

For more than 50 years, Dr. W. Jape Taylor watched the UF College of Medicine grow from a startup school to one that is well established in the medical community.

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Although the show was originally to be open to 8,000 people, Student Government Productions and Accent announced last week that only 4,900 UF students and members of the faculty will be permitted to attend.

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Senate bill keeps FLC its own entity

By Hannah Winston | Apr. 5, 2011

The Student Senate unanimously passed the Cabinet Reconstruction Act despite the commotion it caused at last week’s meeting.

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Student project ponders whether college is waste of time

By Ashton McLeod | Apr. 5, 2011

UF student Kyle Eschenroeder is working on a project that explores one question: Is college a waste of time?

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Students to perform German opera at Phillips Center

By Meredith Rutland | Apr. 5, 2011

A narrator stepped onto the stage in an olive tunic holding an empty three-ringed binder.

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WUFT to offer Spanish news

By Alexander Klausner | Apr. 5, 2011

For those with an HD radio, WUFT-FM will now be coming through the airways in two languages.

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Funeral service for student scheduled for Thursday

By Alex Orlando | Apr. 5, 2011

Tucker Obie McCarty, a UF student from St. Augustine, died Saturday night in Columbia County when his truck swerved off the road and flipped. He was 21 years old.

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Student football ticket prices to increase

By Alexander Klausner | Apr. 4, 2011

The University Athletic Association’s Board of Directors approved a five-dollar-per-game increase on its season ticket packages, jacking the price for a student package up from $70 to $105.

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Gainesville singer, songwriter lives for her music

By Meredith Rutland | Apr. 4, 2011

Cathy DeWitt, a UF alumna, will bring her music to Gainesville on Sunday when her band, Patchwork, performs at the Santa Fe College Spring Arts Festival in the downtown historic district.

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UF gets No. 1 ranking in sustainability report

By ALLISON BANKO | Apr. 4, 2011

The Gators’ green agenda has propelled them to a clean No. 1 spot.

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Dance Marathon raises record $700,000 for kids

By Morgan Watkins | Apr. 3, 2011

As the opening lines of Reel 2 Real’s “I Like to Move It” echoed through the O’Connell Center on Saturday, a mob of about 800 students rushed to the center of the floor.

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Dixie pride and diversity coexist at Waldo flea market

By Alex Orlando | Apr. 3, 2011

It might be racist. It might be heritage. Either way, no one seems to mind why or how Judy Byer gets her shipments of Ku Klux Klan shirts.

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This week in Gainesville

By Kat Bein | Apr. 3, 2011

April 7, 1979: About 5,000 people, ranging in age from 16 months old to 72 years old, gather at Lake Alice Field and smoke out in public as part of a “toke-in” benefit concert supporting the legalization of marijuana. A Tallahassee-based lobbying group collects 2,280 signatures in support of a bill proposing that posession of one ounce of marijuana be a violation, as opposed to the existing law, which makes posession of five grams a misdemeanor.

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Gospel choirs sing at annual spring extravaganza

By Jessica Kegu | Apr. 3, 2011

Voices from around the state filled the University Auditorium on Sunday evening for the University Gospel Choir’s annual spring Gospel Extravaganza.

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Student composer to debut his opera this weekend

By Morgan Watkins | Mar. 31, 2011

For more than a year, Evan Kassof has been writing his own opera. On Saturday, the first act of his work will be unveiled as part of his senior composition recital.