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UNFPD receives $16,100 grant from Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation

UNFPD receives $16,100 grant from Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation

Patrick Lloyd | Jan 31, 2015
The Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation gave UNFPD a grant with which to buy life saving equipment such as automated external defibrillators (AEDs), an AED trainer, a pads adapter and wall unit as well as a data cable.
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UNF remembers Garth Sangree at a memorial service celebrating his life

Amber Lake | Jan 31, 2015
Garth Sangree's memorial service was held today in the Robinson Theater at UNF. Over 350 people attended to remember a short life well lived. Friends remember Sangree as having a compassionate nature.
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Sangree, according to Smith, who has known Sangree since August 2011, is a friendly and loving guy. 
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Memorial service planned for Garth Sangree

Patrick Lloyd | Jan 30, 2015
Chets Creek Church is planning a memorial service honoring Garth Sangree. The service will be a “celebration of Garth’s life,” according to Mark Smith.
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Police Beat: missing elevator lights and dope driving

Patrick Lloyd | Jan 29, 2015
The following information is according to reports from the UNF Police Department.
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Police Beat: Underage students caught with beer and a non-UNF student caught with marijuana

Patrick Lloyd | Jan 29, 2015
Three underage students were found with beer after being pulled over. A 20-year-old non-UNF student was found with marijuana.
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Packed UNF vigil remembers Garth Sangree

Amber Lake | Jan 28, 2015
UNF students came together at the Student Union to honor the memory of fellow student Garth Sangree. Garth's father, Mark Sangree, spoke at the vigil that was hosted by Baptist Collegiate Ministries.
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Garth Sangree, 22-year-old Jacksonville resident and former RA at UNF, was last seen on Friday, Jan. 23.
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Coast Guard suspends search for missing UNF student

Patrick Lloyd | Jan 28, 2015
Garth Sangree, a 22-year-old UNF student who has worked as an RA, left for a kayaking trip and was last seen on Friday, Jan. 23.
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Turner not running for re-election

Turner not running for re-election

Christian Ayers | Jan 28, 2015
Student Body President Joseph Turner will not seek re-election over summer term.
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Police Beat: Marijuana in car and b—– scratched into side of student’s car

Patrick Lloyd | Jan 27, 2015
According to UNFPD reports, an FSCJ student had marijuana in his car and a UNF student found "b-----" scratched into the side of her car.
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Police Beat: Student reports threats from sexual partner’s boyfriend

Patrick Lloyd | Jan 26, 2015
On student reported that a sexual partner's boyfriend threatened him. The suspect said that his girlfriend said she was raped by the victim. The victim said the sexual encounter was consensual.
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Police Beat: Student tased, arrested for resisting police

Patrick Lloyd | Jan 22, 2015
Two female students discovered a male student asleep in their dorm. Neither student knew the man so they called the police. The police officers roused the man and he resisted arrest. They tased the man and charged him with resisting arrest without violence to his or her person, trespassing in an unoccupied structure or conveyance and disorderly intoxication--endangering property/others.
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The LLC will be in the Osprey Fountains.   Photo by  Alexis Molinaro

Gender-neutral housing coming to UNF

Cassidy Alexander | Jan 22, 2015
Housing and Residence Life is now offering gender-neutral housing at UNF. There will be a Living Learning Community in the Osprey Fountains that is gender-neutral and also for supporters of the LGBT community.
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