MULTIMEDIA
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VIDEO
An Unexpected Gift
By Chen Wang | Mar. 3, 2009An Unexpected Gift from Alligator Online on Vimeo.
El Caimán
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Man eats 30 wings in under three minutes to win competition
By ANA GONI–LESSAN | Mar. 3, 2009It took Kyle Myers only two minutes and 51 seconds to eat 30 wings at Gator's Dockside on Tuesday night.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Gym’s weight room not just for men
By Emily Congdon | Mar. 3, 2009Joshua Nederveld is a chauvinistic, pea-for-a-brain, wannabe meathead. As a woman who regularly uses the bench (with her measly 70 pounds), I am outraged by his delusional "unwritten laws" of the weight room.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Brooks may be greatest UF women's basketball player ever
Mar. 3, 2009It's hard to see it behind her meek smile.
THE AVENUE
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MUSIC
Album review: U2 – “No Line On The Horizon”
By ROBERT HILSON | Mar. 3, 2009Noisy, surging guitars; octopus-arm polyrhythms; Bono hollering on like a hopped-up Pentecostal preacher; spectacularly transparent declarations of purpose whooped in flailing whoa-oh frenzy. These are the first sounds of "No Line On the Horizon," U2's new album, and they combine to say what, with this band, goes without saying: This is a statement.
SPORTS
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GYMNASTICS
Senior Sacrifices: Gymnast takes long journey from home to compete for four years at UF
Mar. 3, 2009A white Hyundai Sonata cruises onto the turnpike blaring country music through scenic Pennsylvania.
METRO
Solar panel project powers GRU
By KATIE EMMETS | Mar. 3, 2009The first Alachua County Government large-scale solar panel project was unveiled Tuesday.
SPORTS
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SOFTBALL
Waleszonia may miss rest of season
By ADAM BERRY | Mar. 3, 2009UF coach Tim Walton announced at his weekly press conference Tuesday morning that senior center fielder Kim Waleszonia suffered a tibial plateau fracture in her left knee and will likely not be back on the field for the No. 2 Gators until the postseason.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Body image issues transcend "Barbie"
By NAUDIA JAWAD | Mar. 3, 2009Before Carrie Bradshaw, there was Barbara Millicent Roberts. She turns 50 years old this week, and she's never looked better.
NEWS
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
Proposed electric rate decrease may lower UF’s budget cut
By THOMAS STEWART | Mar. 3, 2009Progress Energy, which sells electricity to UF, has requested a decrease in electric rates that could soften UF's budget cut by between $2 million and $3 million, according to Matt Fajack, UF's chief financial officer.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Art in the Gardens provides peace of mind
By YVONNE AYALA | Mar. 3, 2009While many students buzz along Gale Lemerand Drive as they make their way to class, few may give a second glance to the shady oaks that conceal UF's Wilmot Gardens.
METRO
Man arrested after crashing car into house, fleeing scene
By KATIE EMMETS | Mar. 3, 2009A man was arrested after he crashed his car into the side of a house Tuesday night.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF committee to evaluate alternatives to E–Learning
By KRISTEN HUFF | Mar. 3, 2009After this week, it may not be long before blogs and Wikis become regular parts of the UF curriculum.
THE AVENUE
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SEX
Sex on the Beach
By ASHLEY ROSS | Mar. 3, 2009Oh, glorious day. Spring break is finally here.
SPORTS
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Gators look to win first-ever SEC Tournament despite late-season skid
Mar. 3, 2009Some may be searching for what went wrong all of a sudden or when everything just went bad.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Online news sources add to cultural illiteracy
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 3, 2009No news isn't necessarily good news.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Vigil protests cutting undergraduate programs
By THOMAS STEWART | Mar. 3, 2009A UF graduate student in the College of Education has organized a candlelight vigil scheduled for today to protest the possibility of cutting the college's undergraduate programs.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF student competes on Wheel of Fortune
By AMBER EHRKE | Mar. 3, 2009When she was 7 years old, Krystina Gustafson would slide into her mom's high heels, saunter in front of the television and pretend to be Vanna White, "flipping" the letters on the screen.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Conservative movement reduced to spiteful, whiny children
By ERIC CHIANESE | Mar. 3, 2009I was once informed that the only way to gain a clear understanding of a political group or a movement is to hear what one of their die-hard partisans has to say on the subject.
