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NEWS
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GREEK AFFAIRS
Sororities rushing, albeit quietly
By ELIZABETH LEVA | Jan. 14, 2008As Fraternity Row is abuzz this week with banners advertising pizza and chicken wings to lure prospective members into fraternity's homes, Sorority Row looks like business as usual.
NEWS
Tejada, Bonds, Clemens become focus of baseball's trip to capitol Hill
Jan. 14, 2008WASHINGTON - Taking on baseball's steroids problem once again, Congress kept the finger-pointing and tough questioning to a minimum. Maybe that's because the people under the most scrutiny this time - Miguel Tejada, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens - were nowhere to be seen.
METRO
University Avenue accident causes power outages
By DREW HARWELL | Jan. 14, 2008A man crashed his car into a utility pole on West University Avenue on Monday, causing major traffic backups on the busy road as well as power outages for about 600 nearby residents.
SPECIAL REPORTS
Gainesville Explorer
Jan. 14, 2008Gainesville Explorer is a collection of maps, stories and multimedia showcasing places to go in Gainesville as well as day-trip locations. Each week, one location on the map will be updated, adding multimedia and a brief review.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Students drawn to new languages
By LINDSEY ROBINSON | Jan. 14, 2008While enrollment figures in some language courses at UF have dwindled, others have increased by over 200 percent in the past eight years.
SPORTS
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Lucas sees expanded role as Gators head to Mississippi
Jan. 14, 2008Weighing 150 pounds and listed as a generous 5-foot-11 inches, UF guard Jai Lucas has made a habit of playing big.
METRO
Commision approves towing rights draft
By WILL PAFFORD | Jan. 14, 2008Gainesville may soon require towing companies to post in their offices a complete list of the rights of those they tow.
METRO
UF celebrates civil rights hero
Jan. 14, 2008As part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday celebration, UF is planning several events over the next week to commemorate the achievements of the civil rights activist.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Kevorkian's message opposite of university mission
By Anders Bergmann | Jan. 14, 2008I was appalled when I woke up on Monday and read the letters by Ondi Crino and Martha Duffy.
NEWS
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FEATURES
UF given nearly ,200K grant to study marine DNA
By KATIE SANDERS | Jan. 14, 2008The Florida Museum of Natural History's task of identifying DNA of 25,000 marine specimens is getting easier thanks to a ,186,000 private grant.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF prepares for controversial Kevorkian
By LIA GANOSELLIS | Jan. 14, 2008With the protests and stunts of the past few Accent-sponsored speeches fresh in mind, UF officials are readying security for Dr. Jack Kevorkian's speech tonight at the O'Connell Center.
NEWS
Correction: UF student commits suicide.
Jan. 14, 2008Gainesville Police found the body of a UF student who committed suicide earlier this month. We reported otherwise in Monday's Alligator.
METRO
Shelter added at bus stops
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Jan. 14, 2008Sometimes during Gainesville's summer and fall, the sun becomes so unbearably hot on Newell Drive that Sarfaraz Suleman, a UF sophomore, has to improvise while waiting for the bus.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Harmless college fun will cost you later
By GERALD LILES | Jan. 14, 2008If you still have not received your copy of the latest issue of "Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research" in the mail, allow me to give you an exciting sneak peek at what academics are doing to stem the advancing tide of beer in the United States. Get ready.
SPORTS
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SPORTS MULTIMEDIA
Visiting Recruits
Jan. 14, 2008Nine of the recruits who are coming to visit Gainesville this weekend.
AP
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SPORTS
West Virginia will investigate records disappearance after Rodriguez's departure
Jan. 14, 2008THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
METRO
Cold to last through Sunday with lows in 30s, 40s
By JESSICA PONN | Jan. 14, 2008Though temperatures this winter season have been abnormally high, meteorologists expect cold weather for the remainder of the week.
NEWS
New semester, new Alligator
By DEVIN CULCLASURE | Jan. 14, 2008Well, my first stimulating albeit frustrating week as managing editor has come to a close. Although the 50-hour workweeks, late nights and massive amounts of paper-shuffling will still take some getting used to - not to mention my rapidly disappearing social life - I am still excited about the opportunity to help set which direction the Alligator heads this semester.
