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SPORTS | SOFTBALL

Eight players get homecoming with games in California

Feb. 26, 2008

UF is going back to Cali, Cali, Cali.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Voters go to polls despite drizzle

By ILEANA MORALES | Feb. 26, 2008

Both parties vying to succeed in UF's Student Government elections added umbrellas to their campaign materials on the first day of voting Tuesday.

METRO

Florida DEP supports emissions appeal

By ZAHARA ZAHAV | Feb. 26, 2008

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection joined California earlier this month in a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency to allow states to enforce their own standards for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.

NEWS | CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

UF administrator pushes for student assessments

By BRADLEY GOLDBACH | Feb. 26, 2008

Colleges at UF may start assessing students' learning so prospective employers have a better understanding of graduates' preparation in their intended field.

NEWS

UF Baseall Live Blog vs. Eastern Michigan Game 2

Feb. 26, 2008

GAME OVER

METRO

Power outages affect nearly 9,000 Gainesville homes

By JESSICA PONN | Feb. 26, 2008

Two power outages left about 8,800 Gainesville households without power Tuesday.

AP | SPORTS

Yao done for season, playoffs with stress fracture

Feb. 26, 2008

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEWS | CAMPUS

'Juicy' gossip site raises concern

By JEREMY FIELDS | Feb. 26, 2008

Making defamatory statements in a newspaper can get a person sued for libel.

OPINION | COLUMNS

True patriots question country’s path

Feb. 26, 2008

Americans have little to cheer about or believe in these days. The list of reasons to have lost faith in our republic is inordinately long and spectacularly depressing. Whether it's the incomprehensible incompetence of the government's response to Katrina, contentious elections rendering dubious results, complete disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law, the denigration of the environment, the use of torture on "enemy combatants" (whatever that means), the exponential increase of wealth disparity, steroids in baseball, "Spygate" in football or the quicksand quagmire that is Iraq - the American people have good reason to be despondent.

SPORTS | BASEBALL

Rays players, fans have mixed reactions to Bonds

Feb. 26, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Baseball's home-run king is without a home, but that may change in the near future.

SPORTS | SPORTS MULTIMEDIA SPORTSCAST

Sportscasts for 02/22/08

Feb. 25, 2008

Nick Zaccardi and Danny Klein talk about basketball and what the Gators need to do to get into the NCAA Tournament.

SPORTS | MEN'S BASKETBALL

Gators pick up right where they left off: on the bubble

Feb. 25, 2008

After five days, not much has changed.

NEWS | CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

UF begins charging for transcript copies

By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Feb. 25, 2008

UF began charging students and former students for transcripts Monday, and though university officials said things went smoothly, some students were still left grumbling.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TENNIS

Men lose heated contest against No. 22 Pepperdine

Feb. 25, 2008

This one couldn't have been much closer, and unfortunately for the UF men's tennis team it was on the wrong end of the outcome.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF forum features discussion of ‘radical Islamism’

Feb. 25, 2008

The chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy's board of directors said "radical Islamism" is a threat to everyone, including the Muslim community, in a Monday night speech on UF's campus.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

SG should be left to students, not admin

By Dave Chauncey | Feb. 25, 2008

As a UF student, I have been interested in the controversy with online voting that has unfolded in recent weeks. I sympathize with both sides and see valid points all around concerning the issue.

NEWS | CAMPUS