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An older sculpture in the Sculpture Park.

UNF sculpture students auction off artwork for first time in history

Kaitlyn Bowers, Video Director | Jul 30, 2019

Sculpture students at UNF have the honor of making history by being the first students at the school to have their artwork auctioned online for anyone to purchase.  This auction will take place on...

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Opinions: Here’s the bad news you need to know

Opinions: Here’s the bad news you need to know

Austin W Belet, Opinions Editor | Jul 30, 2019

Here in the age of 2019, and frankly for most of the time journalism has existed, there is a need to call it out: people crave the worst in humanity. When true-crime podcasts are ablaze, serial killers...

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Dietary restrictions? Where to eat when there's nowhere to eat

Dietary restrictions? Where to eat when there’s nowhere to eat

Breanna Cataldo, Features Editor | Jul 29, 2019

If you're vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, lactose-intolerant or on any type of diet with food restrictions, you've probably spent quite a bit of time looking for places to eat here in Jacksonville. Diets...

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“Miss Senior Jacksonville” crowned at UNF

Erik Feliciano | Jul 29, 2019

‘Miss Senior Jacksonville’ was crowned at the University of North Florida Saturday night. The pageant is designed to empower women of all ages, and has been running in Jacksonville for the past...

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Exclusive video: UPD body-cam video shows alcohol-fueled end-of-year class party

Courtney Green, News Editor | Jul 29, 2019

“Spread it out. This is good stuff.” It’s the first thing that can be heard in a police body-cam video that Spinnaker recently obtained of Dr. Brian Thornton’s end-of-the-year luau -- a class...

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Back-to-School supplies

Add this to your calendar: tax-free holiday

Courtney Green, News Editor | Jul 26, 2019

Gear up on your back-to-school necessities, Ospreys! Florida’s Sales Tax Holiday, otherwise known as the “tax-free holiday,” begins next Friday, August 2.  This is the perfect time to stock up...

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Here's what you need to know about what's in store for Marvel Phase 4

Here’s what you need to know about what’s in store for Marvel Phase 4

Erik Feliciano | Jul 26, 2019

With another year of Comic-Con coming to a close and with Phase 3 of the MCU closing out with "Spider-Man: Far From Home," we collectively look to the future of Marvel's MCU. On Saturday, July 20, Marvel...

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Agent Orange Town Hall at UNF's Military and Resource Center

Agent Orange Town Hall at UNF’s Military and Resource Center

Breanna Cataldo, Features Editor | Jul 25, 2019

UNF's Military and Resource Center is partnering with Community Hospice Veterans Partnership of Community Hospice & Palliative Care to host an "Agent Orange Town Hall" on August 7. The Town Hall...

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Rocky Balboa on top of the steps

Spinnaker Sports Editor’s top five sports movies

Drew McDonald, Sports Editor | Jul 25, 2019

Every sports fan has their favorite sports movie, whether it’s Rudy, Rocky, or Summer Catch. There was a plethora of sports films that I had to cipher through and it was hard to nail it down to five....

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Dr. Andrew King. Photo by Audrey Carpenter

Director of UNF Counseling Center resigns

Drew McDonald, Sports Editor | Jul 25, 2019

Dr. Andy King, Director of the UNF Counseling Center, has resigned weeks before the Fall 2019 semester has begun. An email from the Interim Associate Provost Dr. Daniel C. Moon said, “Dr. Andy...

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Students respond to Delaney’s involvement in Tumeo scandal

Ramona Ramdeen, Police Reporter | Jul 24, 2019

After being caught in a sex act on campus in October of 2018, Dr. Mark Tumeo, former dean of UNF’s College of Computing, Engineering and Construction, filed suit against the University of North Florida,...

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The Latest: Mueller warns of ongoing Russian Interference

AP Newsroom | Jul 24, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former special counsel Robert Mueller's congressional testimony on the Russia probe (all times local): 3:30 p.m. Former special counsel Robert Mueller has finished...

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