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NEWS | CAMPUS

Blunder Mifflin: How will ‘The Office’ end?

Feb. 3, 2013

The show “30 Rock” ended last week.

OPINION | COLUMNS

The Internet is really great — for lying

Feb. 3, 2013

Facebook lies, and the rest of the Internet isn’t much better.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Maya Angelou coming to UF

By Alexa Volland | Feb. 3, 2013

To celebrate Black History Month, Maya Angelou and Kendrick Lamar will both be appearing on campus.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Most of us eat blindly. On a late Tuesday night, sitting in our college apartments with “Girls” on the laptop and hunger pangs setting in, the majority of us are not looking to make a commentary on modern day commodity food culture.

Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe makes the opening pitch at the 2013 Alachua County Emerging Leaders Champions for Charity kickball tournament. The mayor pitched the opening kickball to Newberry Mayor Bill Conrad. The tournament collected about $11,600.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Local kickball tournament raises money for charity

By Moises Reyes | Feb. 3, 2013

Players representing UF Student Affairs raised $5,000 for a local elementary school renovation project after winning a charity kickball tournament in southwest Gainesville on Saturday.

Alachua County high school students compete in Sante Fe College’s annual Brain Bowl competition. The Precious Pearls beat out two other teams to win the two-hour tournament, which focused on black heritage. The competition is held every year.

NEWS | SFC

Winning team hopes bowl competition will help fulfill dreams

By Fatemah Albader | Feb. 3, 2013

Many people might not know who helped discover the North Pole or when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.

METRO

Mayoral, city commission candidates set for elections

By Billy Kennedy | Feb. 3, 2013

With the conclusion of the five-day qualifying period Friday, the race for the March city elections is on.

Louis Lee stands in front of his new restaurant, LL’s Bar-B-Que, at 3807 E. University Ave., holding a photo of himself when he first started working as the Pi Lambda Phi chef.

METRO

UF fraternity chef opens up his own barbecue restaurant

By Eleni Kouvatsos | Feb. 3, 2013

It looks like an oasis at the edge of the 278-acre Morningside Nature Center in east Gainesville.

METRO

Police arrest shoplifter hours after new Walmart opens

By Kathryn Varn | Feb. 3, 2013

Just hours after a new Walmart Supercenter opened Friday, Gainesville Police arrested a man for shoplifting.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Court rules in Swamp’s favor

By Colleen Wright | Feb. 3, 2013

The UF Supreme Court voted Friday to uphold the Election Commission’s decision to not order a cease and desist on Swamp Party campaign activities.

METRO

Gainesville clubs always evaluating fire safety

By Nicole Zakrzewski | Feb. 3, 2013

Stop, drop and roll shouldn’t be the newest dance craze.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Students, residents race to show support for medical student

By Amber Swal | Feb. 3, 2013

With 40 seconds until race time, participants scurried to line up behind a UF College of Medicine student who incurred brain damage in a car accident in June.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Student Government officials shouldn’t double dip positions

Feb. 3, 2013

Last week in Student Senate, Swamp Party treasurer and Student Government Budget and Appropriations Committee chairman Joey Michaels was publicly asked to step down from one of those positions for the sake of the students.

Members of the Chinese Asian Student Association perform the Umbrella dance, a traditional Chinese dance, at the Chinese New Year Festival 2013: Enter the Unknown in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom on Saturday.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Students celebrate Chinese New Year

By Jensen Werley | Feb. 3, 2013

Year of the Dragon was so 2012.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Four reasons why you should study abroad

By Haley Doloboff | Feb. 3, 2013

In an increasingly competitive and global world, how do we make ourselves stand out? The answer to this question is one word. Well two words, actually. Study abroad.

METRO

Crossing Guard Appreciation Day honors more than 50 workersj

By Hanna Marcus | Feb. 3, 2013

At street corners all over the county, crossing guards stop traffic as they help school children safely cross the road, and on Friday, as part of School Crossing Guard Appreciation Day, it was their day to be thanked.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Getting involved: A group for everyone

By Abbie Dorwart | Feb. 3, 2013

As any Cicerone, pamphlet, or R.A. will tell you, there are over 975 official clubs or groups to join at UF. Do you like to dance the Argentine tango? There’s a club for that. Can’t go a day without discussing edible landscaping? There’s a club for that. Do you like to blow off steam by building robots? There’s a club for that, too! If more traditional community service and professional organizations are your cup of tea, well, there are so many of those that it would be impossible to join all of them. But there are some that I have heard a lot about just by being on campus and talking to other students.