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Cuban–American opinions differ on lifted restrictions
By SHAKILA CHOUDHRY | Apr. 20, 2009Ana Gonzalez has never seen the country she calls home.
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MLB union director says baseball thriving despite economy
By THOMAS STEWART | Apr. 20, 2009While labor unions have been hurting over the last 30 years, the Major League Baseball Players Association has been thriving, said Donald Fehr, executive director of the baseball union.
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Engineering students show off robot projects
By AMANDA MILLIGAN | Apr. 20, 2009At about 15 inches tall, Shoot 'Em Up, the beer-pong playing robot created by UF electrical engineering senior Jamie Unger-Fink, can aim and launch a ping-pong ball at a targeted red Solo cup eight times in a row.
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Jewish Student Union hosts Holocaust Remembrance Day
By JESSICA RONAY | Apr. 20, 2009Students will gather on the Plaza of the Americas tonight to remember those who died in the Holocaust more than 64 years ago.
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Tebow, SG raise $300K to benefit orphanage, Shands at UF
By TYLER RUTSTEIN | Apr. 19, 2009At 15 years old, Tim Tebow found his passion for something greater than sports and school when he returned to his birthplace in the Philippines and visited an orphanage for young children called Uncle Dick's Home.
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Guy Harvey visits campus
By TATIANA GONZALEZ | Apr. 19, 2009Guy Harvey, world-renowned marine life artist and water conservationist, will go to any depth for his inspiration.
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Gator Growl"s production team encourages feedback
By CAROLYN TILLO | Apr. 19, 2009Gator Growl may be six months away, but preparation for the largest student-run pep rally in the world has already begun.
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About 200 people participate in ninth Great Underwear Dash
By JESSICA RONAY | Apr. 19, 2009About 200 students stripped to their skivvies at about midnight Friday after gathering on Turlington Plaza for the ninth biannual Great Underwear Dash.
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Bob Graham discusses becoming a Gator
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Apr. 19, 2009Bob Graham may have been the governor of Florida and a U.S. Senator, but he was a Florida Gator first.
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Minus grades to be implemented during upcoming summer
By DEANA CASIMANO | Apr. 16, 2009Students will have a new reason to dread summer classes - the start of minus grades.
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About 225 turn out to hear Howard Dean speak
By HUNTER SIZEMORE | Apr. 16, 2009About 225 people watched Howard Dean speak on Thursday night in the O'Connell Center, which seats 12,000.
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Two UF students start selling new soybean fiber underwear
By AMANDA HINES | Apr. 16, 2009Soybean fiber underwear offers an eco-friendly way to help save the planet, starting with Uranus.
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UF shows no favoritism to wealthy applicants
By KATHRYN STOLARZ | Apr. 16, 2009Many colleges are favoring wealthier applicants this year due to funding cuts and students' swelling financial need, a New York Times article from March 31 stated.
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Tutoring Zone launches Facebook application
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Apr. 16, 2009Come summer, there will be a new Internet matching service for students seeking a little extra help with classwork.
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Budget cut proposals posted online
By THOMAS STEWART | Apr. 16, 2009About 400 UF faculty and staff could lose their jobs next year if UF absorbs a 10 percent budget cut from the state, according to the university-wide budget proposal released Thursday.
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UF provides SERA feedback
By EMILY FUGGETTA | Apr. 16, 2009UF is beating the University of California at Berkeley at its own game.
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Friends hold memorial service for drowned student
By TATIANA GONZALEZ | Apr. 15, 2009Thad Hammond Owens had long red hair and an equally bright red mustache and beard, but friends say he was better known for his uplifting and humorous personality.
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Group to hold rally for human trafficking awareness
By RACHEL KOPEC | Apr. 15, 2009Around the world, 800,000 to 900,000 human beings are bought, sold or forced across the world's borders each year, according to a U.S. Department of State estimate. But Friday night, some UF students will try to do their part to help.
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Students make orgasm T–shirts for Pride Awareness event
By JESSICA TURK | Apr. 15, 2009"My orgasm defies you."
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UF students, faculty put on opera at Phillips Center
By KATIE EMMETS | Apr. 15, 2009After her lover was shot by a firing squad, and she killed the man who tried to rape her, she jumped off a building.
