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SPORTS | COLUMNS

Hoops, football teams share youthful images

Oct. 11, 2007

Traditionally, basketball season has offered a change of pace from football season at UF.

NEWS | CAMPUS

More than 500 butterflies to be released this weekend

By LINDSEY ROBINSON | Oct. 11, 2007

A swarm of monarch butterflies, their familiar orange-and-black markings shining under soft museum lights, clung to wires in the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, waiting to be free.

SPORTS | FOOTBALL

UF football player, student killed in early-morning car accident

Oct. 11, 2007

A UF football player and one other UF student were killed in an accident at Old Archer Road and SW 23rd Terrace early Friday morning, Gainesville Police Department spokesman Keith Kameg said.

SPORTS | WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Gators ready for round two of up-tempo season

Oct. 11, 2007

UF is trying to turn a women's basketball game into a full-court race.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS

Swimming teams start out seasons with wins

Oct. 11, 2007

The No. 8 UF men's swimming and diving team defeated Virginia 162-133 in its season opener Thrsday night.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Chomp the Vote to hold off-campus registration this weekend

By DEVIN CULCLASURE | Oct. 11, 2007

UF students will have the chance to enjoy free food and drinks, catch some rays and register to vote this weekend.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Darts & Laurels

By the Editorial Board | Oct. 11, 2007

Blah. That's how this week has been. We're all hitting that mid-semester slump. Midterms have turned us into hermits. Papers have us gnawing our pencils. Starbucks has probably sold more cups of coffee this week than all the previous weeks of this semester combined. And sleep? What's sleep? Maybe we'll finally find out this weekend. Hopefully your exams are coming to a close and you can clear those textbooks off your bed so you can, you know, sleep on it. But for now, take a five-minute study break for this week's high-stress edition of…

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS

Gators try to rebound from worst stretch since '02

Oct. 11, 2007

As you enter the UF Soccer Practice field, you can't help but notice the large yellow sign on the far side of the complex displaying the message "No Whining, Just Winning" in bold red letters.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF study shows Floridians may spend more this holiday season

By JENNIFER BINGAMAN | Oct. 11, 2007

Florida residents might see a few more presents from their loved ones this holiday season, a new UF survey shows.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

New Senate president won't bring change

By Mark McShera | Oct. 11, 2007

After the changing of the guard in the Student Senate, we now have another Gator Party insider attempting to implement the party's failed agenda.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Psychic fair held in Reitz Union as part of October Fest

By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Oct. 11, 2007

Tasha Kaimrajh found out she's going to fall in love soon.

NEWS | FEATURES

Sedaris shares humor at UF

By KORI FREDERICK | Oct. 11, 2007

Whether dealing with snobbish house guests or secretly mocking a college professor for overstressing his pronunciation of Nicaragua, memoirist David Sedaris finds humor in the tiniest details.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS

HEADLINE

Oct. 11, 2007

As you enter the UF Soccer Practice field, you can?t help but notice the large yellow sign on the far side of the complex displaying the message BNo Whining, Just WinningC in bold red letters.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Skatin' Late

Oct. 11, 2007

(Jeremiah Stanley / Alligator) Joe Bender, a horticultural science junior, completes a front-side Ollie Thursday evening at the skate park at Broward Outdoor Recreation Complex.

NEWS