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Jacksonville isn’t a hurricane hot spot, but it does receive occasional conditions from nearby larger hurricanes — such as Hurricane Frances in 2004. Hurricane Dora’s landfall in 1964 is the...
The Spinnaker Team took on Shaky Knees for the second day. We were not disappointed.
Cloud Nothings
As an enthusiastic Cloud Nothings fan, I was adamant to make sure the first time I saw them...
Shaky Knees is having its fifth annual music festival in Atlanta from May 12-14. The Spinnaker Media team will be there documenting all the action.
Friday, May 12th:
Headliners...
Music festivals are an experience. There are festivals like Bonnaroo or Okeechobee Fest where you camp and don’t shower for three days, and there are ones like Shaky Knees or Rolling Loud where you...
Summer A runs from Wednesday, May 10, through Tuesday, June 20. Here’s a comprehensive list of the hours for the businesses and services on campus.
Student Wellness Complex:
Monday...
UPDATE 5/1/17 @ 5:15 p.m.
Police have identified the suspect, 21-year-old student Kendrex J. White, and have taken him into custody.
A stabbing left one dead and two with "potentially serious injuries"...
The Red Party, handling the dismissal of Vice President-elect Tajmaus Johnson, dealt with two new complaints Friday, though the outcome was not as severe.
On a Facebook post the Red Party claimed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig9EjeyvVJg
Video by Brooks Baptiste
UNFPD and JSO canvassed 13 square miles of woods surrounding The Flats Tuesday for more than eight hours in the search for missing...
Nicholas Humphrey never sought money when he drew a handgun on the customers and staff at the Edgewood Community First Credit Union. He ordered the 13 hostages to line up behind a booth and wait until...
Deadpool
Ryan Reynolds could be in a thousand more movies as terrible as Green Lantern or Definitely, Maybe, and it still wouldn’t ruin the goodwill built from making Deadpool. Reynolds and...
The next time you see Canada geese roaming UNF might be the last, in the core of campus at least.
Citing a “health hazard,” UNF is considering moving geese away from the center of campus with a...
You’ve probably seen the 70 or so walkie-talkies dangling outside the UNF Gallery of Art. UNF alum Erik DeLuca started building the piece Monday, Nov. 14, by taping walkies-talkies to the ceiling.
The...
UNF President John Delaney said students should report racial incidents and tolerate opposing viewpoints in an email sent to all students in light of an alleged increase of verbal assaults and discrimination...
Heads up! Men’s basketball is back, several fun fall events as well as free food throughout the week.
Monday, Nov. 14
Men’s Basketball season kick-off!
What: Cheer on the Ospreys at their first...
On Thursday, I stopped by the Military Veteran’s Resource Center, which provides assistance to help those who exchange the military for civilian life. The bookshelf is packed with autobiographies, strategies...
In it’s 3rd year, River City writers read from their own work and talk everything writing at the Jax by Jax Literary festival. Organized by author and UNF alum Tim Gilmore, the literary festival has...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jmbexu56JM
Video by Jack Drain
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized the Dump Trump rally with about 30 students supporting all four candidates coming out...
A man charged with killing a UNF student in a home invasion will serve a minimum of 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and armed burglary.
Jarod Miller broke into his ex-girlfriend’s...
The fall concert is canceled indefinitely.
Osprey Productions announced Friday that the headliner, Ludacris, would be unable to perform Nov. 4. It’s now too late into the semester to reschedule with...
Osprey Productions announced that rapper Ludacris will not be able to perform at the Coxwell Amphitheater on Nov. 4, according to a Twitter post.
Hello Ospreys, unfortunately Ludacris is unable to...
Get out the way, Ludacris is the headliner for Osprey Productions Fall concert Nov. 4.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m., and the show starts at 8 p.m. for students with an active Osprey1Card. Tickets cost $25...
Editor's Note: This story is satire, and the views expressed in this story are solely the author's. Spinnaker Media does not in any way condone irresponsible drinking, and does not recommend consuming...
It's now safe for UNF students to return to campus and classes are set to continue as planned starting Monday, but the University is still covered in debris that fell during Hurricane Matthew. UNF officials...
Students who were evacuated to The Fountains Oct. 6 are allowed to return to their residence halls, a Hurricane Matthew update posted to myWings said.
Four shuttles will take the approximately 270 residents...
Hurricane Matthew is now officially a category 4 hurricane, according to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center.
Matthew will be brushing the first coast on Friday afternoon...
Hurricane Matthew‘s trajectory up the Florida coast is “moving westward” and closer to Jacksonville. It’s expected to strengthen to a category 4 hurricane by Thursday, Florida Governor Rick Scott...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SsMvttZQz8
Video by Brittany Moore
Spinnaker spoke with students about what they're doing to prepare for Hurricane Matthew. Some are heading home while others are not...
The number of student hand, foot and mouth disease cases rose from the three reported last week to eight, UNF health officials said.
“When we identified four in one day, that was just out of the ordinary,”...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YksHR89r6RM
Former NBA player Jason Collins — the first openly gay athlete to play in a major American sports league — stood on the lip of the Green Sept. 29 to implore...
Hand, foot and mouth disease has trickled onto UNF’s campus. The reported cases have been enough to cause university health practitioners to take notice, especially after the 15 reported cases at Florida...
Spinnaker talks to Housing Vice President Chief of Staff Tom Serwatka concerning the end of the first-year housing requirement, and how this may impact UNF going forward.
UNF student Neal D. Buckles was released from jail Friday morning, and is barred from having unsupervised contact with minors or using the internet.
Nick Blank offers some helpful tips on how to keep up with this year's election, with all of the knowledge and none of the emotional commitment.
https://youtu.be/v_NPCgyIJbE
In many ways Rev. Bob Gray was an architect. Gray turned Jacksonville's Trinity Baptist Church into financial power. He sculpted a strict fundamentalist message, and gave...
11 students were appointed as senators Monday, increasing the overall number to 39.
UNF Health Promotion will be hosting Healthy Campus Week from Sep. 17 to Sep. 23 with a full schedule of events.
UPDATE 9/19/16 @ 3:01 — An original version of this story said that Monday Trivia at the Boathouse would be followed by a performance by UNF's Jazz ensemble. That was added to the UNF calendar in error...
Monday Sept. 12
Bystander Intervention Launch Party
When: 5:00 p.m - 6:30 p.m
Where: Student Union, Building 58W
The Women’s Center presents a film produced by UNF students raising awareness...
My 9/11 story is similar to most children at the time: I was in first grade and my teacher interrupted class to turn on the TV. I lived near a military base, meaning the school was locked down for a...
Monday Sept. 5
It’s Labor Day! Don’t. Do. Anything.
Tuesday Sep. 6
Opening Reception for UNF Wood-Fired Ceramics Invitational
When: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Where: Student Union, Building 58E,...
Labor Day is a useless holiday. It was established because of worker’s rights or something. It’s been a hundred years: who cares? It means you can get trashed live as an upstanding citizen for one...
Over a thousand students turned up for the “Welcome to the Nest” festival last week eager to watch Rodney Atkins perform, until hazardous weather conditions stepped in.
“Everything had indicated...
With a tropical storm headed for Florida and almost four hundred Potential New Members (PNMs) signed up, kick-off events for Panhellenic Recruitment have been canceled.
The Panhellenic Recruitment Kick-Off...
The U.S men's national team attempted to emulate sweltering Carribean conditions by practicing at Hodges stadium for its world cup qualifier against St. Vincent and Grenadines, a tiny pocket of islands...
Monday Aug. 29
Monday Trivia at the Boathouse
Where: The Boathouse
When: 6:00 p.m.
Students compete in a test of minds for prizes. I’ll take “I’m going to this” for $600, Alex.
Tuesday...
Rodney Atkins will not be returning to UNF after his Saturday night concert was canceled due to lightning, according to a tweet from Osprey Productions.
Though the fans had a good time, Atkins...
By all indication, Rodney Atkins was willing to play in the rain, but lightning prevented him.
If you’ve listened to country music in the last ten years you’ve probably heard of Rodney Atkins. If not, Spinnaker has you covered before Osprey Productions’ Welcome to the Nest Festival.
Atkins...
https://youtu.be/3FpOCmth_F4
Subject to their first taste of freedom from high school and parental guidance, freshman students take on new responsibilities like the taxing balance of work, school and...
UNF is anchored in college basketball mediocrity — and you can blame the conference.
Envision the ASUN as an inescapable pit. At the bottom are good teams trapped in small-conference stagnation like...
Welcome back Ospreys! The fall semester is underway and there is so much to do in your first week (or first week back). Be sure to check out the calendar of events and the Week of Welcome webpage for the...
For three days, lines of students bought up Student Government’s (SG) discounted season tickets at the Osprey plaza. Jaguars cheerleaders and mascot Jaxson de Ville were present as SG tripled the season tickets they sold on the first day of sales last year.
*Correction: An earlier version of this story stated the cost of 25 free prints per student is $36,600. The story has been updated to reflect the accurate amount of $33,600.
At the July 20 Senate...
Students voted largely in favor of keeping Student Health Services (SHS) on-campus, in a Student Government (SG) poll conducted last week.
Of students polled, 1,176 (81%), said they “would like the...
UNF may be moving Student Health Services (SHS) off campus so that they can begin accepting health insurance.
The university issued an Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) to healthcare providers regarding...
Former UNF Osprey Beau Beech struggled in his second NBA Summer League game to find the quality from his debut.
Student government will conduct an Osprey Voice student survey on the potential outsourcing of Student Health Services (SHS) off-campus.
Bruce Evans is coming back to the Osprey’s Men’s Basketball coaching staff after a four-year stint at Georgia Tech.
He was an assistant under Head Coach Matthew Driscoll at UNF from 2009-2012. During...
John Hutcheson, who died on Tuesday at age 71, taught printmaking at UNF for eight years. He printed at workshops around the world--New York, London, Singapore-- and mastered disciplines of printmaking like Stone Lithography, Silkscreen, Handmade Paper, Etching, and Woodcut.
When a Florida A&M student was elected student body president, got his election voided, sued the school, and won on appeal, it led to a case that ballooned into a discussion of whether student government is equivalent to real government, and if students can sue universities over decisions made on campus.
*Correction: An earlier version of this article indicated that Senator Beacham talked directly to SG President Grantham about the hiring bill. Beacham communicated to Grantham through the attorney general,...
UNF officials announced May 11, the Activity and Services (A&S) fee, the $4.4 million in student fees UNF allocates to Student Government (SG), would no longer be used to fund a student government...
Update 6/10/16 — 3:10 p.m.
Thursday night's fire at the UNF maintenance building caused $70,000 in damages according to a UPD report filed after the incident.
A UPD officer was dispatched to the scene...
In the muggy Mayport woods lay a bounty of Native American artifacts from trash piles dating back to 1000 AD. You know the saying.
Keith Ashley and his students cleaned and analyzed animal bones, shells...
Student Health Services may be moving off campus, Student Body President Caleb Grantham told senators Wednesday.
Located in the Brooks College of Health, Student Health Services provides students with...
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) upgraded a storm system near Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula to a tropical depression Sunday morning. The upgrade also brought tropical storm warnings for an area stretching...
Ndaba Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, will speak at the Martin Luther King Jr Scholarship Luncheon February 21, 2017.
DePaul isn't afraid to criticize fellow Democrats, challenge the misconceptions about the transgender community or fight for better treatment of adjunct professors.
Corey Fehribach’s solo homer that clanged off the scoreboard in the top of the ninth was the winning run in a FGCU’s 3-2 ASUN semifinal win, leaving the Ospreys still searching for their first ASUN title.
This is the worst X-Men film ever made, and I say this with full knowledge of X-Men III and X-Men: Origins.
The Ospreys split a pair of one-run Atlantic Sun tournament games in Nashville, though they’re far from finished.
The bird hasn’t flown just yet. No Osprey has ever played in the NBA, and the dream must wait another year for Atlantic Sun Player of the Year Dallas Moore, who pulled his name from the 2016 NBA Draft.
When the list of 103 players was whittled down to 15, senior Osprey catcher Keith Skinner’s name remained in contention for the Johnny Bench Award, given to the best catcher in the nation.
The Budget & Allocations Committee, with four voting members, approved $5,081 in travel requests in the first committee meeting of the summer semester.
Chance The Rapper is proving nominative determinism wrong. “Rapper” is a limiting term for him, just like it was for Andre 3000.
UNF students are about to see a shift in business in Alumni Square. You could call it a spectacle.
National college eyeglasses chain Campus Optical will replace CPR Cell Phone Repair, which recently went...
Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Mauricio Gonzales decided that student fees should not be spent on a Student Government lobbyist, according to SG Business Manager Dawn Knipe.
Florida Governor Rick Scott summoned UNF President John Delaney to Tallahassee because of a failure to notify the state about a downgrade in the university’s bond rating from an “A+” to an “A.”
Burr is set to perform May 8 in the Moran Theater, located within the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts.
About 25 student-activists supporting Divest UNF met at the Green Thurs. April 14 to protest the UNF Foundation’s possible investment in fossil fuels.
Senate President Chase Baker and Senator Katherine Thames decided to postpone Student Government’s declaration of support for Divest UNF because they felt the meeting’s agenda was too full.
The University Student Affairs committee passed a bill (5-0-0) to the Senate supporting Divest UNF.
UNF will construct a veterans’ memorial near the Student Union.
Caleb Grantham and Isabella Genta are officially, with no surprise or suspense, your new Student Government President and Vice President.
The validation of the Spring 2016 election will occur one week earlier than anticipated because the election must be confirmed within ten business days.
The remaining $11 million required for renovating Skinner-Jones Hall was included in the Florida budget passed Friday March 11.
More on the Club Reform Bill and clarifications to Policies and Procedures.
Republican Presidential candidate Marco Rubio focused on winning the March 15 Florida primary, criticizing Democrats and praising Jacksonville’s military background in a Saturday stop on the First Coast.
An uncontested election did not deter students from voting for “The Baker Bill” (CR-16S-2926), an attempt to raise the minimum GPA for Student Government members from 2.25 to 2.5.
A total of 888...
Though the UNF men’s basketball team earned a loss against Florida Gulf Coast University, the energy and support from the fans remained a key element that enhanced the game day experience.
The Club Funding Reform Bill passed unanimously in both the Budget and Allocations and Constitution and Statutes committees to send the bill to the Senate.
I’ve had enough of people saying: “DiCaprio went ALL OUT man.” Just give it to him.
The 2016-17 budget passed through the Student Government by a vote of 23-0-6.
SG voted to raise the GPA requirement to serve in office.
The Budget and Allocations committee approved a $12,772 special request for 10 laptops and $8460 in travel requests.
Hail, Caesar has more of a whimsical fare on par with The Ladykillers or The Player, with a glamor of Hollywood’s darker side and its McCarthy-era ideological struggles.
Student Government sent a message to local government, and raised the academic requirement to be a senator.
The United Party’s Caleb Grantham is set to become Student Government (SG) President due to an uncontested candidacy, according to SG Election Commissioner Bradley Johnson.
“There are twenty candidates...
The Budget and Allocations Committee approved the 2016-2017 budget by a vote of 5-0-1 in an emergency meeting Wednesday.
The Budget and Allocations committee has postponed sending a budget and a new SG minimum GPA will be effective Fall 2016.
