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Campus should enforce smoking policy

By Marcus Moore | Oct. 11, 2010

What good is a rule if there are no mechanisms in place to enforce it? I’m talking about UF’s no-smoking policy. I see people every day, all day, smoking on campus, and they’re not even having to hide because they know there’s nothing anybody can do to them. I think on-campus smokers should be ticketed for the offense. If you were to add $5 to that $4 pack of cigarettes, I bet people would think twice about lighting up on campus.

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Former professor showcases green waste invention

By Sara Solano | Oct. 11, 2010

Alex Green takes his name literally. Green, a retired UF physics professor and founder of Green Liquid and Gas Technologies, showcased his new environmentally conscious invention on Sunday afternoon at the Open House and Biochar Event.

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Asian students showcase talent

By Dan Deep | Oct. 11, 2010

The applause of more than 500 students echoed throughout the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom Monday night.

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UF great before Tebow, will be great after

By Paula Hogrefe | Oct. 11, 2010

I have to disagree with Monday’s editorial. First of all, UF was never invincible, even with Tim Tebow. He was a significant contribution to our football success, but Tebow didn’t make or break the team. Chris Leak was the one who led the 2006 Gators to a national title.

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Students celebrate LGBT community at celebration

By Estee Beck | Oct. 11, 2010

When his parents asked about what they found on the family computer’s research history, Anthony Dretzka denied everything. When he was 14, Dretzka, now 20, was researching information about what it means to be gay to make sense of the feelings he was having; they were feelings nobody had ever taught him.  

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UF defends accused ‘animal murderer’

By Jon Silman | Oct. 11, 2010

A university official defended a professor today who was accused by an animal-activist blogger of “animal murder.”

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Harn Museum of Art turns 20 years old

By Kate Feldman | Oct. 10, 2010

The Harn Museum of Art celebrated its 20th birthday Friday.

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Road to Atlanta Narrows

By ANTHONY CHIANG | Oct. 10, 2010

Surrendering the game-winning touchdown with just six seconds left is demoralizing.

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This bleauxs: UF no longer an academic, athletic force

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 10, 2010

Gator glory is dead.

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UF Graduate, American Bar Association president speaks

By Jerry Bruno | Oct. 10, 2010

Law students got a little lecture about their future Friday afternoon.

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Thousands of students line up to get free ‘beat’ T-shirts

By Alexander Klausner | Oct. 10, 2010

About 2,000 people encircled the building Friday morning, waiting to pick up their “Beat LSU” T-shirt.

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Students build house on North Lawn

By Mina Radman | Oct. 10, 2010

Students built a house in the middle of the Reitz Union North Lawn on Friday.

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UF’s marching band includes 20 Santa Fe students

By Michael S. Davidson | Oct. 10, 2010

Every Saturday during football season, Blake Bork dons his orange, white and blue uniform, harnesses his tenor drums to his body and marches with the Pride of the Sunshine.

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UF campus should get it together on game days

By Neal Wheeler | Oct. 10, 2010

Saturday's whole experience for most of The Gator Nation was horrible, but I'm not writing to complain about players or the result of the game.

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Student protestors speak out against Afghan war

By Alexander Klausner | Oct. 7, 2010

About 35 people in white T-shirts gathered on the Plaza of Americas on Thursday evening to protest the nine-year anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan.

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Male a cappella group to give free food, ‘embody swag’

By ALINA TORRES | Oct. 7, 2010

The Staff, UF’s all-male a cappella group, will be making its second appearance at Soulfest this year.

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Step show assistant adds charity element

By Ali Robertson | Oct. 7, 2010

It’s been more than a year since her mission trip, but Ciara Rodgers still can’t forget the little boy she saw running through the streets of the Dominican Republic.

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$7-million grant will improve dental care for needy

By Taylor Dixon | Oct. 7, 2010

UF faculty received $7 million in government funding that will bring healthy smiles to many faces – literally.

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Israeli consul general speaks at Reitz Union

By ANDREW PANTAZI | Oct. 6, 2010

Ofer Bavly, an Israeli consul general who works in Miami, spoke at the Reitz Union for Hispanic Heritage Month on Wednesday night.

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I was cursed out by Bob Dylan

By Andrew Gordon | Oct. 6, 2010

Like he did in 1976 and then again in 1988, English professor emeritus Andrew Gordon will watch Bob Dylan take the stage on UF territory on Friday. But years before he witnessed Dylan rock The Gator Nation, he had a not-so-polite run-in with the folk legend in the Big Apple.