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Gainesville Comedy Showcase takes on area’s bar scene
By Drew Wilson | May 19, 2010“I drive a Honda Fit, which is ironic,” Chris Cope said.
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Gatorade ad serves purpose
By Alex Orlando | May 19, 2010“If you want a revolution, the only solution: evolve, gotta evolve.”
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How to survive, enjoy the summer slowdown
By DAVE JOHNSON | May 12, 2010“You’re staying in Gainesville for the summer?” This is the last thing my friend said to me after I had finished helping him move out of his apartment a couple of weeks ago.
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Pulitzer Prize winners, authors meet for story summit
By Erin Rauch | May 12, 2010Dust off your morals and pray for calamity. Ellis Amburn, former editor to the stars and author of seven biographies, is just one of the 30 writers coming to a workshop at the UF.
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Facebook privacy issues raise concerns about the site’s safety
By MARGARET GRECO | May 12, 2010Just when the e-dust settled and pretty much everyone forgot what the “old Facebook” looked like, the unstoppable website did it again. The company’s new changes to profiles’ information section strip users of any sort of individuality and beg the question: Really?!
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Go out with a bong
By MICHELLE PROFIS | Apr. 14, 2010As the semester comes to a close, many students try to go out with a bang, while others, with a hit.
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Eating healthy not impossible
By LANCE FULLER | Apr. 7, 2010It’s five minutes until your next class. You have just come out of a three-hour-block and now have to run across campus to present a project. By the way, your stomach is growling.
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Protocol for pranking every fool
By Alex Orlando | Mar. 31, 2010• Messy pranks:
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If you missed it...
By Jared Misner | Mar. 31, 2010For those of you left crying in your exam-induced state of self-hatred and last-minute studying, here’s what you might have missed in the entertainment realm.
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Ratemyprofessors.com rates good teachers, good looks
By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 31, 2010The end of the semester is just on the tip of the horizon. It’s so close you can almost taste your celebration drinks. But, hold up! There’s some major housekeeping that needs to be done, and that my friends, is registration. Whether registering for summer or fall courses, ISIS has been bombarded with many trying to sort out their lives—at least for a semester. Although tailoring your schedule to what you may think is an acceptable time to get out of bed, other factors obviously have to be taken into account—like the professor. Boosting help with your research for a Cinderella-fit of a schedule is the ever so reliable Rate My Professors Web site.
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On-campus gym offers classes for everyone
By LANCE FULLER | Mar. 31, 2010Standing on a squishy purple bubble about 3 feet around, you raise one foot in the air and twist your torso while keeping your balance. By the instructor’s command, you flip over the half-shaped ball and start doing push-ups with the bubble side on the floor and the hard plastic side facing up. The unique half-ball/half-platform wobbles while you push up and down engaging your core and pushing your abs to the limit.
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Will iPad be iHit or iFlop?
By NATALIE CERABINO | Mar. 31, 2010Apple is hoping cell phones, laptops, digital cameras, iPods, PDAs and Kindles just won’t be enough.
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Atten-tion! Bootcamp pushes students to new levels
By LANCE FULLER | Mar. 24, 2010For 30 seconds, you and a partner are shoulder- pressing a 30-pound tire together over your head. Just when your shoulders can’t take it anymore, you’re running 40 yards at full speed. Your jog to the next station is your break, only to throw a 10-pound medicine ball as hard as you can to your partner after squatting and then lunging forward with it. You throw back and forth with your partner for 50 seconds.
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Party poolside with sun, drinks
By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 24, 2010Welcome back, Florida. It’s been about four months since we’ve been graced by your usual, bright and shining self. Our long-awaited warm weather is finally upon us, and the forecast for upcoming weeks is looking mighty delicious. Highs will be topping out in the 70s and lows, just on the brim of the 50s. So sayonara Jack Frost. It’s time to party poolside.
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Andy Samberg makes waves
By AMELIA MARTY | Mar. 17, 2010Mr. Pibb and Red Vines? Crazy delicious.
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Don’t bake, fake to keep tan
By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 17, 2010You may be freshly bronzed from those Spring Break fiascoes in the sun, but soon the honeymoon will be as done as your reputation from that night out in Cabo. However, your tan (existing as your one bit of dignity from that vacation) will soon disappear—causing you to resemble more of a “Twilight” vampire than Jessica Alba’s doppelganger.
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Effortless ways to avoid packing on the pounds this break
By LANCE FULLER | Mar. 3, 2010Editor’s Note: How much you weigh and how long you exercise will determine how many calories you will burn.
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Local spring break tips
By MICHELLE PROFIS | Mar. 3, 2010Stuck in Gainesville over Spring Break? We’ve got you covered. Here are some fun things to keep you occupied throughout next week:
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Fitness: Cardio is Key
By LANCE FULLER | Feb. 24, 2010With more students going to the gym to get in shape for Spring Break, they may be hitting the weights hard but could be neglecting one of the most important muscles in the body -- the heart. When it comes to getting in shape, cardiovascular exercise is king.
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Students take over blogosphere
By Benjamin Evans | Feb. 24, 2010It’s no secret that blogging can put you on the fast track to success. But how much you achieve out there on the Web depends on the amount of work you’re willing to put in.
