SPORTS
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
UF looks to limit Downey
By ADAM BERRY | Feb. 9, 2010There’s no easy way to stop South Carolina guard Devan Downey.
El Caimán
SPORTS
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SOFTBALL
Gators shake up infield
By GREG LUCA< | Feb. 9, 2010At the end of the 2009 season, the general consensus was that the 2010 UF softball team’s infield would feature a quartet of upperclassmen ready to build on the excellence of the 2009 unit.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Werner gives little more than minutes
Feb. 9, 2010Of all the twists and turns in Florida’s unlikely basketball season, there’s one fact that I can’t wrap my mind around.
SPORTS
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Florida getting the most from its bench
Feb. 9, 2010Jordan Jones started Sunday’s game against Mississippi State in an unfamiliar position: on the bench.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS GOLF
Gators women's golf team falls to 12th place after struggling in second round
By KELSIE HOECHERL | Feb. 9, 2010With 36 holes completed and one round left in the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes, Calif., the UF women’s golf team dropped two spots to 12th place.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Graduate students may not have pay potential Reitz Union fee
By ELIZABETH BEHRMAN | Feb. 9, 2010Student Body President Jordan Johnson recommended Tuesday that graduate assistants should not have to pay a potential fee to help fund the expansion of the Reitz Union.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF students attempt water balloon fight record
By VINCENT ALVARADO | Feb. 9, 2010This is the second time UF is hosting an event of this kind.
METRO
Melting Pot short changes workers
By ROXANNE FRASER Alligator Contributing Writer | Feb. 9, 2010Former employees still have not received valid final paychecks or W-2 forms, though the restaurant closed in September.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Student Senate allocates $5,000 to UF organizations
By ELIZABETH BEHRMAN | Feb. 9, 2010Student Government senators allocated more than $5,000 to UF organizations at their meeting Tuesday night.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Chaplain Khalid Latif speaks for Islam Awareness Month
By Joey Flechas | Feb. 9, 2010Latif spoke to more than 60 people Tuesday night in the Reitz Union’s Rion Ballroom.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Two teams debate how to close racial gap in education
By MINCH MINCHIN | Feb. 9, 2010The U.S. Department of Education should be dismantled and the money given to individual states, according to a five-judge panel at the inaugural Great Gator Debaters policy debate Tuesday night between the Military Law Student Association and Esquire, the Society of Minority Pre-law Students.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Reitz Union Board offers students chance to find love
By TATIANA QUIROGA | Feb. 9, 2010UF students looking for a little love in the lonely days before Valentine’s Day got their chance at the Reitz Union Board Entertainment’s second annual Dating Game at the Orange & Brew Tuesday night.
METRO
Candidate Monica Cooper pushes for fiscally conservative actions
By ALISON SCHWARTZ | Feb. 9, 2010Editor’s Note: This is the third segment of the Face in the Race series.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Project Europa provides political, thought provoking art
By KATIE EMMETS | Feb. 9, 2010The once-white walls of a 3,000-square-foot room at The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art are now covered in black marker scrawl.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF researchers have ability to adjust the scent of flowers
By ASHLEY LARA MOSES | Feb. 9, 2010Flowers this Valentine’s Day may have longer-lasting, sweeter smells thanks to UF researchers in the environmental horticulture department.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Google Buzz entering social networking realm
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 9, 2010Social media seems to have settled down into its middle age. People are happily married to their Twitter accounts and Facebook pages, some are stuck with Myspace, their high school sweetheart. A few even ended up with the strange one from the bar like Dogbook or Stache Passion.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Move it, move it: First lady’s exercise campaign unrealistic
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 9, 2010Michelle Obama launched the “Let’s Move” campaign to end childhood obesity Tuesday. While the Editorial Board knows the program will succeed to the same extent the “Just Say No” campaign did, we question the methods the first lady plans to use to fix the growing problem by 2020. (She thinks America can kick this habit in a decade? Really?)
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Student Government opposes union fee for grad students
By Jordan Johnson | Feb. 9, 2010During my time as Student Body President, I have constantly tried to work with any student that has an opinion about how Student Government can improve the lives of students at UF.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Animal rights debate to inform students
By Bruce Friedrich | Feb. 9, 2010As vice president of policy and governmental affairs for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), I have debated animal protection issues around the world.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Monday's letter to the editor was homophobic
By Don Kershaw | Feb. 9, 2010Matt Simons’ letter in Monday’s Alligator absolutely infuriated me. It was so full of fallacies and ignorant homophobic assumptions that I don’t know where to begin.
