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Jonathan Braam, a 19-year-old electrical engineering major, and Torri Cicchirillo, a 19-year-old wildlife ecology major, sit and enjoy a sausage at Murphree Area's eighth annual SausageFest.

NEWS | CAMPUS

RAs serve it up hot at annual SausageFest

By Maria Galindo | Oct. 2, 2011

The Murphree Area has got meat.

Senate minority leader Gillian Leytham and Jonathan Ossip of the Students Party review elections records at the election commission meeting Friday. The commission voted unanimously to validate election results. The Students Party has chosen to appeal the ruling.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Election Commission validates results despite discrepancies

By Clare Lennon | Oct. 2, 2011

The Student Government Election Commission upheld the results of the fall Student Senate elections at a meeting Friday afternoon, despite alleged complications with the new electronic voting system.

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SG moves to validate election despite errors

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 2, 2011

The alleged glitches of the UF Student Government elections last week and the subsequent behavior of SG officials make Chicago politics appear clean and tidy.

Found in Turlington Hall, this declaration is an example of vandalism found across campus.

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Campus graffiti ranges from math theorems to initialed hearts

By Emily Morrow | Oct. 2, 2011

Ponce de Leon is dead.

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ButterflyFest will fly back Oct. 22

By Oriana Paolillo | Oct. 2, 2011

Hundreds of butterflies will be released Oct. 22 and Oct. 23 as part of the annual ButterflyFest.

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Innovation Hub to get first tenant

By Erin Jester | Oct. 2, 2011

The Florida Innovation Hub will receive its first tenant, UF's Office of Technology Licensing, on Friday.

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Undie run streaks across campus

By Mina Radman | Oct. 2, 2011

Get ready. Drop clothes. Run.

Alabama running back Trent Richardson (center) had a career-high 181 rushing yards and two touchdowns in the Crimson Tide’s 38-10 win against Florida on Saturday in The Swamp.

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Richardson carries Tide past Gators with career day

By MATT WATTS | Oct. 1, 2011

If Saturday’s game against Alabama was Florida’s first difficult test under first-year coach Will Muschamp, assigning a passing grade would be just as tough.

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Starting Saturday, Muschamp not likely to rewrite history

By MATT WATTS | Sep. 29, 2011

Calm down, everyone.

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Greeks raise $10K for tornado relief

By Amanda Cohen | Sep. 29, 2011

UF will show that compassion trumps rivalry at the University of Alabama football game Saturday when the UF Greek community presents a $10,000 check for tornado relief in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Scantily-clad students run through the streets of the UF campus as part of The Great Underwear Dash.

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Undie dash moonlights tonight across campus

By Mina Radman | Sep. 29, 2011

Red Dawn Gomonit wore only a blue bra and blue bikini bottoms with "love" written in pink.

Andrew Hart, Students Party president, and Gillian Leytham, a law student and member of the Students Party, talk about election results in District E, which had 535 voters this year but only 65 voters last year.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

SG officials to review election complaints, concerns

By Clare Lennon | Sep. 29, 2011

Fall Student Senate elections ended Wednesday, but some questions about the validity of the results still linger.

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Internet becomes as important as air to some college students

By Dana Burke | Sep. 29, 2011

The Internet is essential for life - at least for Generation Y.

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Campus buildings get new addresses in case of emergencies

By Meredith Rutland | Sep. 29, 2011

Emergency responders and visiting parents should have an easier time getting around campus because UF's buildings have new addresses.

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Group promotes sober tailgating

By Jenna Bittner | Sep. 29, 2011

UF Ambassadors of Civility and Ethics is changing your typical Saturday gameday routine.

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SausageFest returns for cookout at Murphree

By Saphira Lazarre | Sep. 29, 2011

There's a SausageFest this weekend, but women are invited, too.

Retired UF professor, Bill Hedges, and his wife, Robbie, donated about $1.93 million to the College of Education to aid with research funds.

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Alumni couple adds $63,000 to original donation of $1.9 million

By Katherine Greene | Sep. 29, 2011

As the almost $2 million they had set aside began depreciating, Bill and Robbie Hedges were not worried about losing money but concerned about how to give more.

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Florida receives A in civil rights history

By Mina Radman | Sep. 29, 2011

Do you know what Brown v. Board of Education is? Did you know that Miami once was the most segregated city in the United States?

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Mobile museum educates about slavery in Florida

By Beatrice Dupuy | Sep. 29, 2011

The traveling Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum is back to show that slavery is still present today.

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Big game calls for upped security

By Benjamin S. Brasch | Sep. 29, 2011

After six years, the Tide is coming back into The Swamp.