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NEWS | CAMPUS

Group promotes sober tailgating

By Jenna Bittner | Sep. 29, 2011

UF Ambassadors of Civility and Ethics is changing your typical Saturday gameday routine.

NEWS | CAMPUS

SausageFest returns for cookout at Murphree

By Saphira Lazarre | Sep. 29, 2011

There's a SausageFest this weekend, but women are invited, too.

Retired UF professor, Bill Hedges, and his wife, Robbie, donated about $1.93 million to the College of Education to aid with research funds.

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Alumni couple adds $63,000 to original donation of $1.9 million

By Katherine Greene | Sep. 29, 2011

As the almost $2 million they had set aside began depreciating, Bill and Robbie Hedges were not worried about losing money but concerned about how to give more.

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Florida receives A in civil rights history

By Mina Radman | Sep. 29, 2011

Do you know what Brown v. Board of Education is? Did you know that Miami once was the most segregated city in the United States?

METRO

Census: More same-sex couples living together than in 2000

Sep. 29, 2011

The number of same-sex households in the United States is on the rise, and Gainesville is no exception, according to 2010 census data released Tuesday.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Mobile museum educates about slavery in Florida

By Beatrice Dupuy | Sep. 29, 2011

The traveling Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum is back to show that slavery is still present today.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Big game calls for upped security

By Benjamin S. Brasch | Sep. 29, 2011

After six years, the Tide is coming back into The Swamp.

NEWS

Correction

Sep. 29, 2011

In Thursday's paper, it was incorrectly reported that Student Government Productions would be paying two members of Sister Hazel to perform the national anthem at Gator Growl. Florida Blue Key will be paying them to perform.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Darts & laurels

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 29, 2011

The results are in for this semester's SG elections, and needless to say, there were a few problems. Although the make-up of the Student Senate probably would be about the same regardless of the errors, the situation doesn't really support the idea that SG is a corruption-free organization.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Cyberbullying should be treated as a crime

By Akansha Mishra | Sep. 29, 2011

It has been nearly a year since Tyler Clementi, former Rutgers student, committed suicide after his roommate streamed an intimate video of Clementi and another man. I remember when I first read about the tragedy in the news. I didn't understand - how did this happen? What caused Clementi so much pain that he had to end his life?

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Villamil left out some details

By Alden Gillespy | Sep. 29, 2011

I don't know which budget Unite Party member T.J. Villamil was talking about in his letter this week, but it isn't one that was passed by the Student Senate.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Companies 'greenwash' consumers

By Stephen Harris | Sep. 29, 2011

A recent phenomenon in the marketplace has become a big deal in the past couple of years. The trend I am referring to is the flood of "green" products on store shelves.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Student petition protests moving of library collections

By Jessica Oliver | Sep. 28, 2011

Traci Reynolds puts up a fight.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Gator Growl adds Sister Hazel to the entertainment roster

By Clare Lennon | Sep. 28, 2011

The push for big-name Gator Growl entertainers continues with officials' announcement that two members of southern rock band Sister Hazel will host and sing the national anthem for the homecoming pep rally.

Unite Party members celebrate an election victory Thursday morning. The Unite Party won 46 of 50 contested seats. The Students Party took three seats and an independent student won one seat.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Unite sweeps election despite system errors

By Clare Lennon | Sep. 28, 2011

When Student Government Supervisor of Elections Toni Megna announced the results of the fall Student Senate elections, members of the Unite Party jumped up for their usual cheers and whistles.

On the first day of his international journalism class at the University of Florida, Kaplan tips his cap to his students after explaining he had been diagnosed with cancer. Despite six months of chemo treatments, he never missed a class but was not permitted by his doctors to fly with his “Florida FlyIns” students to Guatemala.

NEWS | CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

Photojournalism professor uses film to depict struggle with cancer

By Emily Morrow | Sep. 28, 2011

At the age of 48, John Kaplan was a Pulitzer-Prize winning photojournalist, a father of two and a journalism professor at UF. At the same age, he became a cancer patient.

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