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Flagships: music and nutrition at UNF

Flagships: music and nutrition at UNF

Ronnesha Rodgers | Jul 27, 2017

UNF offers several different flagship programs for students at the undergraduate and graduate level. When a program has reached flagship status they receive financial support for a five year period....

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Eiman and Anusha. Photo by Lili Weinstein

Immigration ban: What do you think?

Lili Weinstein | Feb 7, 2017

I asked people of UNF one question: “How do you feel about Trump’s immigration ban?” Here’s what they had to say. Eiman Eltinay, Post-Bach, Nutrition “I feel like this is the time that...

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The threat of weight gain freshman year may be over-exaggerated.Graphic by Ben Cross

Combating the supposed Freshman 15

Nick Blank | Aug 25, 2016

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...

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Fat taxes: a failure of a solution to obesity

Noor Ashouri | Jun 16, 2013
The idea of a "fat tax" needs a lot of work because of some of the adverse it effects it has on consumers. In an attempt to avoid paying the extra money, people are buying the foods in higher quantities to avoid paying the tax on multiple purchases. Also some items on the fat tax list aren't necessarily unhealthy or fatty at all, which makes the extra taxing of them confusing.
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