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SPORTS
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GYMNASTICS
Summer gives gymnasts chance to rest up
Apr. 14, 2009Maybe it's fitting that the NCAA Championships signal the arrival of summer for the UF gymnastics team, much like exam week in the spring is the sign of summer for students.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF student chooses major after 15 attempts
By AUBREY SIEGEL | Apr. 14, 2009At UF, No. 15 usually stands for quarterback Tim Tebow, but for Bobby Moon, it's the number of times he's declared a major.
SPORTS
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SOFTBALL
Love of the Game: Senior catcher Kristina Hilberth makes most of time in Gainesville
By ADAM BERRY | Apr. 14, 2009When Kristina Hilberth was involved in a head-on collision during her freshman year of high school, she was told that she could never play sports again.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Man inappropriately touches UF women on campus
By THOMAS STEWART | Apr. 14, 2009A man inappropriately touched three female UF students on campus Monday after claiming he was trying to remove a bug off each of their bodies, according to the University Police Department.
NEWS
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SFC
Asbestos scare closes Santa Fe College building
By KATIE EMMETS | Apr. 14, 2009After an asbestos scare forced its closure on Friday, Santa Fe College's Health Sciences Building W reopened Tuesday after testing.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
GM food products need to be labeled
By Jason Ludlow | Apr. 14, 2009While I agree with the heading of Amanda Sookdeo's article from Tuesday's letter to the editor, "GMOs represent technology of the future," new technologies shouldn't invalidate good old American values.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
SG approves more than $500K for academic budget
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Apr. 14, 2009Senators voted to approve the $569,602 academic budget for the 2009-2010, which will be dealt out to UF's 24 different college councils.
METRO
Local Hindus come together to worship, discuss faith
By EMILY FUGGETTA | Apr. 14, 2009Every evening at 6:30, Crocs, Skechers and flip-flops join the shoes piling on a powder-blue porch where people shed them before stepping over the threshold onto the Krishna House's checkered temple floor.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Faculty, student Senates launch budget–cut blogs
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Apr. 13, 2009Student Government joined the blogosphere on Monday.
METRO
Online mag hopes print edition will increase readership
Apr. 13, 2009In an age when publications are struggling to make the switch from print to online, one online magazine is working on finally making it to print.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Somali pirates up to snuff with Web 2.0
Apr. 13, 2009The American media worked themselves into such a frenzied pirate orgy over the long Easter weekend that they forgot to check and see if the actual pirates had something to say.
AP
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SPORTS
Isiah Thomas close to taking FIU coaching job
Apr. 13, 2009MIAMI - Isiah Thomas is on the verge of starting his coaching career over at Florida International.
METRO
More than 200 homes destroyed, damaged in flood
By ALEX CHACHKEVITCH | Apr. 13, 2009Historic flooding is forcing people to evacuate their houses in Alachua County and the rest of northern Florida.
SPORTS
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BASEBALL
Gators to determine series winner with Seminoles in Tallahassee
Apr. 13, 2009The Gators are hoping to avoid a case of deja vu in Tallahassee tonight.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Navy SEALs save captain from Somali pirates
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 13, 2009The most special Easter Sunday of Capt. Richard Phillips' life had nothing to do with the typical holiday fare of oversized chocolate bunnies or a plethora of purple Peeps.
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
Jenkins to have finger surgery; Pouncey out for three months
Apr. 13, 2009With all the injuries to his team, UF coach Urban Meyer joked that he doesn't know how the Gators will even play their spring game Saturday.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Antiquated practice of hazing reveals dark side of Greek life
By Anonymous | Apr. 13, 2009The comic featured last week-concerning the hazing incidents that brought the UF chapter of Sigma Lambda Gamma to its second suspension for hazing violations - legitimized and downplayed the crimes of which the organization has been found guilty.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Farmers must demand right to grow pot
By Brittany Yurkovitch | Apr. 13, 2009Although I can understand the frustration felt by Matthew Vann in his letter to the editor and tobacco farmers in general, I also understand the reasoning behind taxing a dangerous product that creates a huge burden on the state's health care system.
