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NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF service project is in need of more volunteers
By MEGAN MERRILL | Feb. 24, 2010With as little as two hours every week, students can impact a child’s life and fulfill volunteer requirements for class.
SPORTS
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
UF ends losing streak to UT
By ADAM BERRY | Feb. 23, 2010The Gators shook two monkeys off their backs Tuesday night.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS
Gators win in wet weather
By TONI-ANN MILLER | Feb. 23, 2010Florida was up against more than just La Salle on Tuesday.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Florida continues to overachieve with victory over Tennessee
Feb. 23, 2010The Florida men’s basketball team did wonders for its NCAA Tournament hopes by beating Tennessee on Tuesday, as the Gators are trying to avoid their third NIT appearance in as many years.
SPORTS
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BASEBALL
Freshmen have another chance to impress against UCF
By ANTHONY CHIANG | Feb. 23, 2010The Gators’ freshmen are most comfortable in the spotlight and on the field.
SPORTS
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Florida women's basketball team draws inspiration, toughness from local 8-year-old
Feb. 23, 2010Before the Gators take the floor at Memorial Gym tonight at 7 to take on Vanderbilt, they’ll be reminded by an 8-year-old about toughness.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS TENNIS
UF sweeps FSU, extends streak
By JAIME MANHEIMER | Feb. 23, 2010The No. 9 UF women’s tennis team defeated No. 15 FSU on Tuesday, improving its record to 8-2 and furthering two impressive streaks.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS GOLF
Lendl sisters lead Gators to first-place finish
By KELSIE HOECHERL | Feb. 23, 2010It was a sister act for the Florida women’s golf team Tuesday in its final round at the Central District Invitational.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Booty Booty Booty
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 23, 2010We’re all used to American Apparel’s advertising style. Commercials seldom have much clothing in them, and a trip to the company’s Web site offers nipple sightings galore. Even their child models often pose in an arguably provocative manner.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Renew Your Reitz campaign ads appear on library computers
By ELIZABETH BEHRMAN | Feb. 23, 2010Student Government candidates are still campaigning and so is the Reitz Union.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Gators hope to grant wish
By KRISTEN BURKE | Feb. 23, 2010UF students can help make a wish come true.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Votes are representative of agreement
By Matt Christ | Feb. 23, 2010The topic for today is voting. Or, more precisely, not voting.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Semper Fi hosts pull-up challenge
By MEG WAGNER | Feb. 23, 2010A crowd of students cheered on fellow Gator Matthew Lake as he did more than two dozen pull-ups Tuesday afternoon.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Aptitude tests are an unreliable method of gauging worth
By Will Penman | Feb. 23, 2010For the job I’m going to have next year, I had to take a computer skills test this week. There were ten questions, each one testing a random aspect of using computers.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Forum to address art funds
Feb. 23, 2010Local artists and organizations will attend an annual art forum today to discuss low art-program funding and their still-decreasing budgets.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Complaint filed against candidate
By ELIZABETH BEHRMAN | Feb. 23, 2010The Student Government Election Commission issued an order Tuesday that urged members of the Student Alliance party to stop handing out fliers and knocking on doors in apartment complexes.
METRO
UF students help local high schoolers understand finance
By JULIA MCCLURE | Feb. 23, 2010When Mayanna Hemenway heard that two UF students were visiting to teach her high school financial planning class, she said she pictured herself staring blankly, her mind numbed by material she didn’t care about.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Mean Marsupial: School right to take stand against crude TV show
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 23, 2010The University of California, San Diego has graced the pages and airwaves of national media outlets quite a bit the past week. The school was in the news last week when members of its Greek community sent out a Facebook invitation to a “Compton Cookout.”
