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UNF poll indicates Bill Nelson lead

Gordon Rhyne Oct 19, 2012
Results from a poll conducted by UNF students reveal a 50 percent to 40 percent lead for incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson over Connie Mack IV.
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Pulitzer Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin visits UNF

Natalie Logan Oct 19, 2012
Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin visited UNF Wednesday to speak about various aspects of her career in history as part of the annual Presidential Lecture Series.
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Rededication ceremony welcomes Student Wellness Complex

Lydia Moneir Oct 18, 2012
Dottie Dorian, a UNF benefactor, says UNF has come a long way since she was a UNF student when it first opened.
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Photo Gallery: Take Back the Night

Connor Spielmaker Oct 17, 2012
Connor Spielmaker brings you photos from Oct. 16's Take Back the Night candle-light vigil hosted by the UNF Women's Center and Alpha Chi Omega. Students of both genders came together to march across campus, sporting matching neon shirts, and wearing glow sticks to pierce the darkness and silence that often plagues the issue of domestic violence.
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UNF hosts fourth annual Take Back the Night event, observes Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Noor Ashouri Oct 17, 2012
UNF’s Women’s Center and Alphi Chi Omega women’s fraternity hosted the fourth annual Take Back the Night March and candlelight vigil Tuesday to help unite the community in raising awareness about domestic violence.
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Fassi: Results matter for Red Party

Lydia Moneir Oct 16, 2012
Initiatives that the Red Party wants to pursue include a universal scantron on campus and an expansion of the amount of free prints a student can use during a semester.
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Aimed for native Spanish speakers, new course encourages nonnatives

Ahmed Aedan Oct 16, 2012
A course that started in spring 2012 will be offered in spring 2013 and hopes to enhance fluency among native Spanish speakers and nonnative speakers alike.
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Join the Conversation: #iamunf

Catherine Byerly Oct 15, 2012
Right on our home page there is now a stream of all the latest tweets from any user featuring #iamunf. These are your words. This is part of your osprey experience, unfiltered. You can write your own 150 character front page news and see it published immediately.
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Yellow Party runs on “Different Perspective. Same Objective.” principle

Natalie Logan Oct 15, 2012
The Yellow Party candidates running in the upcoming Student Government Senate election are hoping to enhance diversity within SG and improve communication between it and the students.
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Archaeology lab receives grant to conduct survey of former Fort Caroline

Lydia Moneir Oct 15, 2012
The UNF Archeology Lab received a $43,000 grant, which it will use to conduct a survey of the former site of Fort Caroline, in the hopes of uncovering evidence of the lost French fort.
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UNF poll indicates Obama’s slight Florida lead

Noor Ashouri Oct 11, 2012
Students conducted the polling through computer-assisted telephone interviewing stations at UNF's polling labs. The results also indicate that blacks and Latinos favor incumbent Barack Obama in considerable amounts to Mitt Romney.
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UNF Intercultural Center for PEACE makes room for student lounge

Gordon Rhyne Oct 10, 2012
The Intercultural Center for PEACE added glass doors to the first floor of the Student Union East Building to create a lounge space for its students. Karmele Oupa Seane, director of ICP, said the center paid for the installation of the glass doors to add more space for its new offices, which are now behind those doors.
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