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Team loses final home game to Campbell in overtime

Spinnaker • Oct 22, 2008
The UNF women’s soccer team was defeated 2-1 in overtime by Campbell University in its last home game of the season Oct. 18. After a defensive struggle throughout regulation, Campbell’s Sarah Durham broke the tie in overtime. The Ospreys led Campbell in shots on goal 5-2 in the game, but two shots were all the Camels needed.
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Winning streak crushed four minutes into game

Spinnaker • Oct 22, 2008
The UNF men’s soccer team’s two-game winning streak snapped Oct. 17 when the Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles defeated the Ospreys 7-1. The Ospreys went down one goal four minutes into the game when a shot was deflected off a UNF defender to score an own-goal. The Eagles scored again less than four minutes later, putting them up 2-0 early into the game. “We simply didn’t show up to play,” UNF head coach Ray Bunch said. “They played very well and took chances, and they executed exactly the way they needed to.”
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Sports in Brief – Oct. 22

Spinnaker • Oct 22, 2008
UNF’s 2009 baseball season team schedule announced UNF baseball head coach Dusty Rhodes announced his team’s schedule for the 2009 season. Last year the Ospreys picked up what is arguably the biggest series win in program history with two wins against the 22nd-ranked University of Georgia Bulldogs at Harmon Stadium.
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To withdraw or not to withdraw?

Spinnaker • Oct 21, 2008

It's about that time of the semester again, where you have to decide what your academic willpower can stand against and what just can not be done. November 7 is the last day to withdraw from Fall 08'...

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Fan mail: a symbol of dedication

Spinnaker • Oct 15, 2008
Ringo Starr no longer wants his mailbox filled with fan mail. According to cnn.com, the former Beatle announced: "I want to tell you please...do not send fan mail to any address that you have. Nothing will be signed after the 20th of October. If that is the date on the envelope, it's gonna be tossed."
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Bright Futures burning out

Spinnaker • Oct 15, 2008
The Florida Board of Governors has been in discussion about setting a cap to the Bright Futures scholarship program, with funds appropriated for need-based aid and science, technology, engineering and math majors. Tight budgets and stricter admission standards have been forcing university administrators throughout the state to look much farther for places to save money, university officials said. And with the escalating cost of the scholarship program, its future is in question. The Bright Futures program currently costs Florida nearly $400 million, and while one Florida senator has voiced for it to be phased out in the next 10 years, the program is expected to cost the state nearly $1 billion annually throughout the next decade.
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UNF plans for additional cuts

Spinnaker • Oct 15, 2008
Gov. Charlie Crist informed all state agencies June 12 that in addition to the 3.3 percent cut for the 2008-2009 fiscal year, he was going to be holding back 4 percent of the allocated budget. To cover the 3.3 percent cut, UNF administrators decided to lessen non-academic travel, eliminate 25 faculty positions, some summer classes and limit enrollment. To cover the extra 4 percent, UNF did not have to do anything – rather it covered the costs with money saved from 2008-2009 reserves. “We pulled 4 percent of [the budget] out and locked it up and set it aside for a rainy day,” UNF President John Delaney said.
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UNF divided on grading policy

Spinnaker • Oct 15, 2008
After taking several classes at UNF, students might notice the grading scales used in their courses vary among faculty members. Earning a 90 percent with one professor who considers it to be an A lends a GPA of 4.0, while taking the same course and scoring 90 percent with a professor who considers it an A-minus results in a GPA of 3.7. Many students perceive this as an unfair system, according to the Florida Student Association, who argued in the past that students are disadvantaged by the varying grading policies.
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Election 2008 Update – Oct. 15

Spinnaker • Oct 15, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama has moved outside the margin of error and is now leading Sen. John McCain by 6.2 percent, according to the Reuters/C-Span/Zogby poll tracking. John Zogby, president and chief executive of Zogby International, visited campus to speak to a political science class and also addressed the student body at the University Center Oct. 14.
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UNF avoids high-risk investments

Spinnaker • Oct 15, 2008
UNF’s financial investments are making positive ground and are well situated to weather the financial storm, members of the Board of Trustees said. UNF had very little capital invested into Mortgage-backed Securities – high-risk sub-prime mortgages involved in the nation-wide bailout – which relieves the portfolio of pressure other less diversified accounts will face. UNF had less than 2 percent invested in Lehman Brothers and AIG, according to the Treasurers’ Report for the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
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What issues matter most to this college generation?

Spinnaker • Oct 15, 2008
Americans agree the cost of fuel has negatively affected their family, the government was spending too little on renewable fuels, and marijuana should be legalized, according to UNF’s Public Opinion Research Laboratory. In conjunction with the university-sponsored Transformational Learning Opportunity, the laboratory conducted UNF’s first nationwide survey.
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SG election results

Spinnaker • Oct 15, 2008

Name                            Votes Jessica Amick                 1,077 John Hodges                  1,070 Priscilla Perez                1,066 Katelin...

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