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OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Darts &amp Laurels

By the Editorial Board | Apr. 22, 2008

Well, it's finally here. Our calendars may say it's Wednesday, but right about now it sure feels like a Friday. This being the last issue of the spring semester and the last day of classes - though everyone seems to be too busy headed to the library for "exams" and "term papers" - we've decided to lighten it up a bit. C'mon, you know you're not really going to use both of those reading days, anyway. So grab a lounge chair by the pool, pop open a cold one and start thinking about summer. It's with bittersweet nostalgia that we here at the Darts & Laurels department compose our semester-ending edition of Darts & Laurels.

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NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Midnight run planned for Thursday

By VANESSA DIMAGGIO | Apr. 22, 2008

Put down your textbooks, grab your sneakers and get ready to run.

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NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Arredondo and Micanopy rooms in Reitz Union to be renovated, combined

By ALLISON CANDREVA | Apr. 22, 2008

Reservations for the Arredondo Room in the Reitz Union will be postponed, and the entire fourth floor will be closed this summer as remodeling plans are finalized.

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NEWS

Allez Cuisine!

By Harrison Diamond | Apr. 22, 2008

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OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

So long, Alligator; thanks for everything

Apr. 22, 2008

The Alligator's sports editor, Mike McCall, and I were talking about our long-term career goals recently, and we have come to simple terms about what would validate our lives' work.

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MULTIMEDIA  |  VIDEO

Two Worlds Together

Apr. 22, 2008

A local boy who has high-functioning autism is learning to cope with his disorder and the world around him. Slideshow. 10 photos.

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NEWS

Putting Things Into Perspective

By Rayiaz Khan | Apr. 22, 2008

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MULTIMEDIA  |  VIDEO

Fluid Moves

By MEGAN MILLER | Apr. 22, 2008

Wakeskating, a sport combining skateboarding and wakeboarding, is gaining popularity in Florida among water sports enthusiasts.Slideshow. 6 photos.

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NEWS  |  CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Moseley completes term, checks off 21 goals

By ILEANA MORALES | Apr. 22, 2008

Wearing a Gator Party T-shirt and khaki shorts, Ryan Moseley sat calmly on his couch with about a week left in his Reitz Union office.

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SPORTS  |  GYMNASTICS

Pair of Jokers – Castillo and Sinclair's friendship propels team to historic two-year run

By CALLOVI< | Apr. 22, 2008

Before Amanda Castillo stepped in her new training center, most of the other girls at the Orlando Metro thought they knew her.

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NEWS

Clarification: UF will lay off employees to cope with budget cuts

Apr. 22, 2008

Janine Sikes, UF spokeswoman, said Wednesday that by saying, "We anticipate layoffs from every spectrum: from maintenance up to tenured faculty," in this story, she was referring to vacant positions that will be eliminated. She said she meant to say "tenure-track faculty" instead of tenured faculty.

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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Barbaric, antiquated capital punishment must be abandoned

Apr. 22, 2008

Few issues represent so profound a moral conundrum and elicit so visceral an emotional response as capital punishment.

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SPORTS  |  COLUMNS

Always look on the bright side

Apr. 22, 2008

I have always believed that things happen for a reason.

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NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Professors consider classroom ban on laptops

By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Apr. 22, 2008

As checking e-mail and surfing social-networking sites have become compulsive for many college students, professors around the country - and at UF - have begun limiting laptop use in classrooms.

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AP  |  SPORTS

NL East-leading Marlins surprise of baseball

Apr. 21, 2008

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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NEWS  |  FEATURES

Deceased students memorialized on Facebook

Apr. 21, 2008

Andrew Enriquez, a third-year history student, had 212 friends, pumped iron whenever he could and loved listening to Tupac - according to his Facebook profile.

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NEWS  |  CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

Contacting UF trustees requires going through middleman

By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Apr. 21, 2008

At the beginning of the fall, all it took was two clicks from UF's home page to call up your favorite UF trustee and ask him or her your burning question. But not today.

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NEWS

Taking A Swing At Things

By Rayiaz Khan | Apr. 21, 2008

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SPORTS  |  OTHER SPORTS SWIM AND DIVE

Lochte hopes Gainesville training yields Olympic glory

Apr. 21, 2008

Bad luck first struck Ryan Lochte on June 30, 1985.

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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Unrealistic cultural expectations of beauty unfair to women

By Claire Beach | Apr. 21, 2008

You've seen them at the Plaza of the Americas: Student Government-sponsored billboards, in an effort to boost self-esteem, encouraging women to love their bodies, claiming that "diets don't work" and assuring everyone that confident women who don't worry about looking like supermodels are sexier than those who do.