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MULTIMEDIA
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VIDEO
Fluid Moves
By MEGAN MILLER | Apr. 22, 2008Wakeskating, a sport combining skateboarding and wakeboarding, is gaining popularity in Florida among water sports enthusiasts.Slideshow. 6 photos.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Moseley completes term, checks off 21 goals
By ILEANA MORALES | Apr. 22, 2008Wearing a Gator Party T-shirt and khaki shorts, Ryan Moseley sat calmly on his couch with about a week left in his Reitz Union office.
SPORTS
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GYMNASTICS
Pair of Jokers – Castillo and Sinclair's friendship propels team to historic two-year run
By CALLOVI< | Apr. 22, 2008Before Amanda Castillo stepped in her new training center, most of the other girls at the Orlando Metro thought they knew her.
NEWS
Clarification: UF will lay off employees to cope with budget cuts
Apr. 22, 2008Janine Sikes, UF spokeswoman, said Wednesday that by saying, "We anticipate layoffs from every spectrum: from maintenance up to tenured faculty," in this story, she was referring to vacant positions that will be eliminated. She said she meant to say "tenure-track faculty" instead of tenured faculty.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Barbaric, antiquated capital punishment must be abandoned
Apr. 22, 2008Few issues represent so profound a moral conundrum and elicit so visceral an emotional response as capital punishment.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Always look on the bright side
Apr. 22, 2008I have always believed that things happen for a reason.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Professors consider classroom ban on laptops
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Apr. 22, 2008As checking e-mail and surfing social-networking sites have become compulsive for many college students, professors around the country - and at UF - have begun limiting laptop use in classrooms.
NEWS
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FEATURES
Deceased students memorialized on Facebook
Apr. 21, 2008Andrew Enriquez, a third-year history student, had 212 friends, pumped iron whenever he could and loved listening to Tupac - according to his Facebook profile.
NEWS
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
Contacting UF trustees requires going through middleman
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Apr. 21, 2008At the beginning of the fall, all it took was two clicks from UF's home page to call up your favorite UF trustee and ask him or her your burning question. But not today.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS SWIM AND DIVE
Lochte hopes Gainesville training yields Olympic glory
Apr. 21, 2008Bad luck first struck Ryan Lochte on June 30, 1985.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Unrealistic cultural expectations of beauty unfair to women
By Claire Beach | Apr. 21, 2008You've seen them at the Plaza of the Americas: Student Government-sponsored billboards, in an effort to boost self-esteem, encouraging women to love their bodies, claiming that "diets don't work" and assuring everyone that confident women who don't worry about looking like supermodels are sexier than those who do.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
UF has come a long way but still has work to do
By the Editorial Board | Apr. 21, 2008In the spirit of Earth Day, we think it's necessary to applaud UF's ongoing campus sustainability efforts and the progress that has been made to reduce the university's large environmental impact.
NEWS
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
UF to allow equipment-use fees in all colleges
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Apr. 21, 2008Equipment-use fees that UF piloted this semester in four colleges will be made available across the university this fall as part of a larger effort to generate funds in light of major budget cuts.
THE AVENUE
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FASHION
Summer trends to avoid
By VANESSA DIMAGGIO | Apr. 21, 2008Trends are the ebb and flow of the fashion pool. They arrive in huge, abrupt waves and wash out just as quickly. Most are sported by the likes of stylish celebrities, and some are created right here on campus.
METRO
Commission votes to change land use on one-stop homeless site
By KATIE GALLAGHER | Apr. 21, 2008City commissioners voted 5-2 at a special meeting Monday night to change the land-use designation for the location of a proposed one-stop homeless center at 3335 N Main Terrace.
