OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Grad students are qualified teachers
May 26, 2008Philip Sandifer, Ph.D. candidate, English
El Caimán
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS GOLF
UF finishes 9 at NCAAs
May 26, 2008After winning its first regional title since 1986, the UF women's golf team had national championship aspirations.
METRO
SFCC students feel effects of UF transfer admissions cutbacks
By KATE HELLER | May 26, 2008Disappointment has become a recurring theme in the advisement office at SFCC.
NEWS
HAPPENSTANCE: Locals spend weekends picking berries at Cross Creek field
By ALYSSA LaRENZIE | May 26, 2008Phillip Whittington, 5, picks a blueberry at South Moon Farm in Cross Creek Sunday afternoon. Phillip picked blueberries with his mom, Susan Whittington, and her sister, Megan Romano, for their families and for Romano's daycare class. The class is going to make blueberry pies Tuesday, Romano said.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Alligator features insensitive cartoon
May 26, 2008LaShanta Harris, Gainesville resident
SPORTS
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SOFTBALL
Gators advance to Women's College World Series
May 26, 2008Stacey Nelson stood in the circle one pitch away from the Wome's College World Series as more than 2,000 screaming fans rose to their feet.
NEWS
Yannick has no problems with Jo
May 26, 2008According to a report in the Associated Press, Yannick Noah could care less about his son's arrest and drug possession charges.
METRO
Volunteers line Eighth Avenue with memorial tombstones
By CHRISTOPHER HAYES | May 26, 2008As students piled out of bars early Saturday morning, the day was just beginning for dozens of volunteers who unloaded cardboard tombstones for the annual Memorial Mile.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF finishes second at national steel bridge competition
By JENNIFER WALKER | May 26, 2008Steel bars and hard hats filled the O'Connell Center this weekend for the 17th annual National Student Steel Bridge Competition.
METRO
Joakim Noah arrested, charged with alcohol and drug violations
By APRIL DUDASH | May 26, 2008Former UF basketball player Joakim Noah was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with cannabis possession and an open container violation.
ABOUT US
Our History
May 26, 2008The Alligator was founded in 1906 as The University News, which was an independent, student-owned newspaper created to serve the University of Florida when it opened in Gainesville. In 1912, the newspaper became a part of the University of Florida administration, and was renamed the Florida Alligator.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF copes with loss of state matching funds programs
By TRAVIS PILLOW | May 26, 2008UF officials are working to cope with the loss of two state-funded gift matching programs eliminated by the Florida Legislature in the most recent state budget.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Student Health Care Center wins state award
By KATIE SANDERS | May 26, 2008UF's Student Health Care Center received an award from the Florida Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology for its reaction to a measles outbreak in Gainesville during spring 2007.
METRO
Police release sketch of man who assaulted Haile jogger
By APRIL DUDASH | May 26, 2008A sketch of the man who attacked and raped a woman jogging in Haile Plantation Wednesday was released this weekend.
METRO
Jewish Center celebrates Lag B'Omer and Israeli statehood
By JESSICA BRANDI | May 26, 2008Despite dreary weather, festivities for the ninth annual Lag B'Omer barbecue at the Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student and Community Center were lively Thursday night.The center combined the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer with the 60th anniversary of Israel's statehood, celebrating with a kosher barbecue, pony rides, face painting, crafts and live music from the Gainesville Chutzpa Band. Rabbi Berl Goldman said about 150 people attended the celebration and estimated that $300 was raised from ticket sales.Lag B'Omer is a Jewish holiday celebrating the lives of sages Rabbi Akiva, who promoted Jewish unity during the Roman occupation of Israel, and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who revealed the mystical secrets of the Torah, called Kabbalah.The holiday, celebrated on the 33rd day after the second day of Passover, also represents a break in the mourning period between Passover and Shavuot. It marks the end of a plague that affected Akiva's disciples.In Israel, thousands of Jews march through the streets in parades and demonstrations during the holiday.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS TENNIS
Briceno falls in second round of singles play
May 25, 2008Nestor Briceno got a head start to the courtroom a little sooner than he would've liked.
SPORTS
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SOFTBALL
Gators advance to Women's College World Series
May 25, 2008Stacey Nelson stood in the circle one pitch away from the Women's College World Series as more than 2,000 screaming fans rose to their feet.
MULTIMEDIA
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VIDEO
Veterans for Peace memorial
By Matthew Gonzalez | May 25, 2008[Read the full story]
SPORTS
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BASEBALL
Gators head to Tallahassee for NCAA Regional
May 25, 2008It has been three years since the Gators have made the NCAA's field of 64. In 2005, they were one of the last two teams standing in the College World Series. This year, the road to Omaha winds through the home of their rivals.
NEWS
Baseball headed to Tallahassee for NCAA Regional
May 25, 2008The Gators baseball team has been selected to the NCAA Tournament and will be traveling to Tallahassee for the opening round. UF, the No. 2 seed in the regional, will square off against No. 3 Tulane in its first game. Should the Gators win, they will play the winner of No. 1 Florida State and No. 4 Bucknell. UF lost two of three to FSU during the year.
