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New Goals for a New Year
By DREW HARWELL | Jan. 8, 2008Officials set 2008 resolutions.
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Senate proposes amendment to limit amount of representatives
By KATIE SANDERS | Jan. 8, 2008Students could have the chance to cap the size of UF Student Senate close to its current amount if senators approve a constitutional amendment proposed Tuesday night.
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UF professors use Facebook to keep in touch with students
By ILEANA MORALES | Jan. 8, 2008Kelly Bailey doesn't make phone calls or wait in line to speak to her academic adviser. After all, they're friends - on Facebook.
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UF administration changes stance on 'Obsession' controversy
By ALYSSA LaRENZIE | Jan. 8, 2008The UF student groups involved in a campus free-speech controversy that got national attention met last month to discuss the issue and to put it behind them.
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Professor publishes book on minority working rights
By LINDSEY ROBINSON | Jan. 8, 2008I'm not a particularly religious man, thought Robert Zieger as he made the long walk from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to his car. It's just a Baptist preacher, and I need to pick up my wife anyway, he said to himself.
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Ambassador: Peru ripe for free trade
By LINDSEY ROBINSON | Jan. 7, 2008Latin America is the newest frontier for free trade agreements, U.S. Ambassador to Peru Mike McKinley told UF faculty and students in a public meeting Monday.
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
UF to test texting alerts after LSU glitch
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Jan. 7, 2008Editor's Note:UF plans to test its text-messaging emergency notification system on Tuesday, Jan. 15.
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
After Taser incident, committee recommends new public-forum guidelines
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Jan. 7, 2008The Committee on a Civil, Safe and Open Environment, created by UF President Machen after the September Tasering of UF student Andrew Meyer, has released a draft of recommendations to improve UF's public forum policies.
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SFC
SFCC green efforts to be ranked in national program
By KATIE EMMETS | Jan. 7, 2008The SFCC administration announced on Friday that the school has been invited to participate in a national program that aims to rate universities based on their commitment to environmentally sound practices.
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UF flag football team snags a championship
By KATIE SANDERS | Jan. 7, 2008UF students suffering from championship-game nostalgia can look to a different UF football team for this year's national bragging rights - and they're not just pulling your flag.
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Student Democracts, Republicans respond to caucuses
By KATIE SANDERS | Jan. 6, 2008The victories of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., in Friday?s Iowa caucuses have earned support from some UF student political organizations on campus.
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Machen?s salary hiked up
By ILEANA MORALES | Jan. 6, 2008In 2012, UF President Bernie Machen?s salary will be bumped up to a cool million.
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Social networking Web site geared toward Gators
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Jan. 6, 2008Move over, Facebook.
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CAMPUS
UF transfer student dies in crash
By KATIE EMMETS | Jan. 6, 2008A newly enrolled UF transfer student died Dec. 29 in a motorcycle accident in Dunnellon, a small city in Marion County.
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
It's official: Wright is dean of College of Journalism and Communications
By <href="mailto:dswerdlow@alligator.org">DEBORAH SWERDLOW< | Jan. 6, 2008John Wright, who served as the interim dean of the UF College of Journalism and Communications for more than a year, was named the college?s permanent dean last month.
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
Lawsuit to clear up tuition control tossed
By KIM WILMATH | Jan. 6, 2008Former Florida Gov. Bob Graham and the Board of Governors, the State University System?s highest governing body, now face a stumbling block in their fight for tuition-setting power.
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
College of Engineering dean resigns after 6 years
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Jan. 6, 2008Pramod Khargonekar, the six-year dean of UF?s College of Engineering, announced his resignation Dec. 4.
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Senate president launches bid for top SG position
By ILEANA MORALES | Jan. 6, 2008During the holiday break, the current Student Senate president announced he would run for next year?s Student Body president.
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
UF Trustee Fernandez resigns
By KIM WILMATH | Jan. 6, 2008Editor's Note: Manny Fernandez resigned from the UF Board of Trustees on Dec. 6. We reported otherwise in Monday's Alligator.
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GREEK AFFAIRS
Hazing allegations land ATO on probation
By ILEANA MORALES | Jan. 6, 2008For accusations of hazing, UF?s Greek Judicial Board recommended that Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity be placed on conduct probation for the spring semester.
