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Machen announces $47 million in UF budget cuts
By KATIE SANDERS | May 6, 2008UF President Bernie Machen announced on Monday long-awaited plans to slash the university's budget by $47 million.
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UF promotes interim CLAS Dean Joe Glover to provost
By KATIE SANDERS | May 5, 2008UF officials announced Friday that Joe Glover, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will become UF's provost starting in July.
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Machen announces $47 million in UF budget cuts
By KATIE SANDERS | May 5, 2008UF President Bernie Machen announced on Monday long-awaited plans to slash the university's budget by $47 million.
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Midnight run planned for Thursday
By VANESSA DIMAGGIO | Apr. 22, 2008Put down your textbooks, grab your sneakers and get ready to run.
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Arredondo and Micanopy rooms in Reitz Union to be renovated, combined
By ALLISON CANDREVA | Apr. 22, 2008Reservations for the Arredondo Room in the Reitz Union will be postponed, and the entire fourth floor will be closed this summer as remodeling plans are finalized.
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Binge drinking triggers epilepsy in UF student
By KATIE COUVILLON | Apr. 22, 2008When Stephanie Yelverton woke up after the first one, she couldn't remember her own name. The seizure had scrambled her mind so thoroughly that she didn't recognize the face of her worried mother waving to her as the doors of the ambulance closed her inside.
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Moseley completes term, checks off 21 goals
By ILEANA MORALES | Apr. 22, 2008Wearing a Gator Party T-shirt and khaki shorts, Ryan Moseley sat calmly on his couch with about a week left in his Reitz Union office.
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Professors consider classroom ban on laptops
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Apr. 22, 2008As checking e-mail and surfing social-networking sites have become compulsive for many college students, professors around the country - and at UF - have begun limiting laptop use in classrooms.
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UF student attempts to create robot costume
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Apr. 22, 2008Martin McBriarty, a UF materials science and engineering senior, is calling all Gainesville residents to donate scraps and junk for his personal summer project: creating a nearly 40-pound robot costume.
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Machen accepts recommendations from Taser committee
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Apr. 22, 2008On Tuesday, UF President Bernie Machen accepted the recommendations from a committee created after University Police officers Tasered a UF student at a campus speech.
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Poll reveals UF students willing to pay extra for renewable energy
By AMELIA HARNISH | Apr. 22, 2008More than 800 students responded to a survey that asked if they would be willing to pay 50 cents per credit hour to finance sources of renewable energy on campus. Results are in, and more than 80 percent said "Yes."
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UF will lay off employees to cope with budget cuts
By KATIE SANDERS | Apr. 22, 2008As the UF community braces for the announcement of long-anticipated budget cuts, officials have confirmed that despite UF's efforts, some faculty and staff won't have jobs at the university next year.
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Student Senate rejects advisory board bill
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Apr. 22, 2008UF student senators voted against a bill that would create a socially responsible investment advisory board at UF on Tuesday's Student Senate meeting.
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UF student to appear on 'Wheel of Fortune'
By LYNSEY WILLIAMSON | Apr. 22, 2008Curiosity led Mary Katherine Smith to the opportunity of a lifetime - the chance to spin that famous wheel.
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Floridance to showcase performance choreographed by students
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Apr. 22, 2008Floridance, UF's student-run dance company, invites the community to get "Caught in the Movement" and get caught doing a good deed on Sunday.
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Collegiate Veterans Society seeks to build memorial for local veterans
By JOEL MORA | Apr. 21, 2008As the United States enters the sixth year of the war in Iraq, a UF organization wants to install a memorial for local veterans who have served the country in the past 63 years.
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UF professor Lynn Bailey named Teacher Scholar of the Year
By KATIE SANDERS | Apr. 21, 2008At age 16, Lynn Bailey represented her home state of South Carolina in a nationwide 4-H competition for her research on nutrition and healthy dieting.
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UF to allow equipment-use fees in all colleges
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Apr. 21, 2008Equipment-use fees that UF piloted this semester in four colleges will be made available across the university this fall as part of a larger effort to generate funds in light of major budget cuts.
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Contacting UF trustees requires going through middleman
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Apr. 21, 2008At the beginning of the fall, all it took was two clicks from UF's home page to call up your favorite UF trustee and ask him or her your burning question. But not today.
