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No car, no problem: alternative transportation plentiful
By Alexander Klausner | Aug. 20, 2010You’re stuck on campus late at night. You’ve got no car and no ride home. You’re armed with only your Gator 1 Card and your cell phone.
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Renovated SW Rec highlights UF recreation offerings
By ANDREW PANTAZI | Aug. 20, 2010After one year and $16.3 million worth of construction and renovation, the Southwest Recreation Center is scheduled to reopen on Wednesday.
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Drinking, parking top list of gameday problems
By Colin Simmons | Aug. 20, 2010Come fall, when the Gators play in front of more than 90,000 screaming fans at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, there will be about 200 police officers patrolling the campus who won’t be too concerned with the scoreboard.
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GREEK AFFAIRS
Common perception of Greeks more myth than reality
By ELIZABETH BEHRMAN | Aug. 20, 2010The Delta Tau Chi Fraternity at Faber College is more fantasy than reality.
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CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE
Parking induces migraines for student commuters
By Alexander Klausner | Aug. 20, 2010When seasoned UF students think of parking on campus, words like “nightmare,” “horrendous” and “atrocious” cascade out of their mouths, alongside other words that cannot be printed here.
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Bad high-school habits can make transition harder
By ANDREW PANTAZI | Aug. 20, 2010Freshmen often face difficulties when transitioning from high school to college.
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Keeping the Faith
By Alexander Klausner | Aug. 20, 2010Editor’s Note: This is just a sample of the many communities of faith around Gainesville.
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Laid-off professor officially reinstated
By Lidia Dinkova | Aug. 4, 2010UF educational psychology assistant professor David Therriault was officially reinstated to his position Monday after he received a layoff notice in July 2009.
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Humans vs. Zombies: Inside the campus infection
Aug. 4, 2010Editor's note: Kat Bein followed a group of humans around this weekend and wrote about her experiences.
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Student Government spends $16,000 for officials’ phone bills, meal cards annually
By ELIZABETH BERHMAN | Aug. 4, 2010Senators voted against a bill that would limit funds given to Student Government officials for meals and cell phone bills during Tuesday's meeting.
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SFC
New bus route to service Santa Fe students
By Angela Flatland | Aug. 4, 2010Starting this fall, a new bus route, 23, will be running from the Oaks Mall to Santa Fe College's northwest campus.
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2,900 grads to walk
By ANDREW PANTAZI | Aug. 4, 2010About 1,400 undergraduate students plan to attend the graduation ceremony Saturday, according to Donna Stricker, director of the commencement.
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Kofi shooting investigation over by late August
By ANDREW PANTAZI | Aug. 2, 2010UF spokeswoman Janine Sikes said the investigation should be over by the end of August, if not sooner.
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Fraternity named year’s most outstanding chapter
By MICHAELA TRIMBLE | Aug. 2, 2010The men of Alpha Phi Alpha beat out more than 700 other chapters of the fraternity to be crowned the Outstanding College Chapter of the Year.
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Anti-Defamation League cites UF vandalism in report
By JORDAN DIAZ | Aug. 2, 2010A gray swastika spray-painted on a UF fraternity house last year made national news this week when the Anti-Defamation League released its 2009 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents.
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Deferment program adds textbook rentals
By VICTORIA LASAVATH | Aug. 2, 2010Students can now rent their textbooks through a new deferment program that allows financial aid to be used for books before the money is disbursed to the student.
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Engineers race robot chariots
July 28, 2010More than 2,000 years ago, Romans raced wooden chariots around the track at Circus Maximus for sport.
