El Caimán
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF grad first GFW model to premiere line at event
By Kelly Richard | Apr. 6, 2011Paul Marji, a model in Gainesville Fashion Week, will be doing more than strutting his stuff down the runway this year. He will also be directing models today, when they debut his original clothing line, Sui Generis. Marji is the first GFW model to do so since the event’s inception in March 2009.
SPORTS
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BASEBALL
DeSclafani gives up game-winning run as UCF shocks UF
By TOM GREEN | Apr. 5, 2011Anthony DeSclafani wasn’t used to this. Not this season, at least.
SPORTS
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BASEBALL
Fontana leaves game with head injury, status unclear
By JESSE SIMONTON | Apr. 5, 2011UCF’s Darnell Sweeney hurt the Gators in more ways than one Tuesday night.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Spring game gives fans reason to be optimistic
By ADAM BERRY | Apr. 5, 2011Call me a cynic — and maybe this is just repressed jealousy because I wasn’t appointed to one of the four media guest coach spots — but it’s hard to get excited about what’s going to happen Saturday in The Swamp.
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
Dunkley suspended for academic issues
By GREG LUCA | Apr. 5, 2011Redshirt freshman wide receiver Chris Dunkley has been suspended for academic reasons, Florida coach Will Muschamp said Tuesday.
METRO
Man stabs friend for denting car
By Kat Bein | Apr. 5, 2011Kyle Gamble might have been in trouble for the damage to his mom’s car, but he only made it worse by breaking a knife off in his roommate’s back.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF to defend title at fishing championship
By Hannah Winston | Apr. 5, 2011Jake Gipson and Matt Wercinski won a national championship last year by a 9-ounce margin.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Medical school icon dies
By Morgan Watkins | Apr. 5, 2011For more than 50 years, Dr. W. Jape Taylor watched the UF College of Medicine grow from a startup school to one that is well established in the medical community.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Crowd limited for Daniel Tosh
By Kristin Lopopolo | Apr. 5, 2011Although the show was originally to be open to 8,000 people, Student Government Productions and Accent announced last week that only 4,900 UF students and members of the faculty will be permitted to attend.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
WUFT to offer Spanish news
By Alexander Klausner | Apr. 5, 2011For those with an HD radio, WUFT-FM will now be coming through the airways in two languages.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Princess movies hurting young girls
By Wesley Campbell | Apr. 5, 2011Disney movies teach awful lessons to children. They have ruined entire generations of Americans’ concepts of love, happiness and the pursuit thereof.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Football ticket price increase harms cash-strapped students
By Alex Kaufman | Apr. 5, 2011I am not a fan of the student ticket price increase for football. Not for the amount, but for the principle.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE
Funeral service for student scheduled for Thursday
By Alex Orlando | Apr. 5, 2011Tucker Obie McCarty, a UF student from St. Augustine, died Saturday night in Columbia County when his truck swerved off the road and flipped. He was 21 years old.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Columnist’s case against baseball overlooks prices, youth involvement
By Sarah Calise | Apr. 5, 2011In response to Laura Ellermeyer’s Tuesday column on Major League Baseball’s dwindling popularity: While I absolutely agree with Laura on the grounds of the declining popularity of baseball, she has gotten many of the reasons wrong.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Students to perform German opera at Phillips Center
By Meredith Rutland | Apr. 5, 2011A narrator stepped onto the stage in an olive tunic holding an empty three-ringed binder.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Sounding the Alarm
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 5, 2011We realized years ago that constant noise affects our mental health. It was only recently, however, that the World Health Organization published a report on the physical fallout of living in a loud atmosphere. This goes beyond hearing implications; WHO even went as far as to point to heart problems that may derive from coping with noises our bodies weren’t meant to handle.
METRO
Five Guys opens second location
By Danielle Alvarez | Apr. 5, 2011Students and residents have a new place to get their burger fix as Five Guys Burgers and Fries opened a second restaurant in Gainesville on Tuesday.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE
Student project ponders whether college is waste of time
By Ashton McLeod | Apr. 5, 2011UF student Kyle Eschenroeder is working on a project that explores one question: Is college a waste of time?
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE
Senate bill keeps FLC its own entity
By Hannah Winston | Apr. 5, 2011The Student Senate unanimously passed the Cabinet Reconstruction Act despite the commotion it caused at last week’s meeting.
