Over the past two weeks, the news has been covering the traumatizing earthquakes in Haiti. But it took a seven point earthquake followed by another one days later to portray a true natural disaster at its worst. One University of Tampa student in particular, Pascal Milien, has been affected personally both...

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Five months after the H1N1 virus overwhelmed the 1,800 square foot Health Center with sick students, the University of Tampa is expanding the facility to five times its size. Officials announced Monday that the new Health Center would open by the end of the year.

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It’s kind of hard to believe that Christopher Drew is only 18 years old. He’s toured the country, put out an array of EP’s and been featured on MTV all before he could legally vote.

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The University of Tampa baseball team’s season opener was postponed on Tuesday Feb. 2 due to inclement weather. A make-up day for Tampa’s home opener has yet to be announced. The Spartans are coming off a 39-17, 16-8 SSC season in which they had four players taken in the MLB draft.

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The column I wrote two weeks ago generated lots of reaction. Different people e-mailed me, asking about my conversion. Some had difficulty understanding how I could choose a religion like Islam. Despite the fact that Islam has been “opening” to the Western world during the last decade, there is still a lot of...

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President Barack Obama on Thursday rallied thousands who waited outside the Bob Martinez Sports Center more than six hours to see him. The doors of the Sports Center opened to ticket-holders at 10:30 a.m. and the President and Vice President Joe ...

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E-mails detailing how University of Tampa officials would hand out the limited number of town-hall event tickets available for students didn’t stop them from filling the second floor of the Vaughn Center before the official line-up time of 12 p.m. Finally, ...

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With Gasparilla coming up this weekend, we get to see another side of UT students: the “drunk self.” There are a few categories of “drunk” and I can help you learn to recognize these groups and try to avoid falling ...

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The University of Tampa men’s basketball team dropped a heartbreaker to Barry University 77-75 Saturday afternoon. The loss drops the Spartans to 8-8 on the season, with a 3-5 record in conference play. UT has now lost five games in a row. The ...

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While many University of Tampa students may not be familiar with the band Crash Kings just yet, it’s almost certain that their big break is on the horizon. The piano rock and guitar-less trio fuse over-driven bass sounds, smashing drums and ...

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Daytime classes have been canceled on Thursday as President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will hold a town hall meeting in Martinez Sports Center according to a Global Message from University of Tampa President Ronald Vaughn. The visit on ...

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Although Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio will be handing the keys to the city over to Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla, city officials are keeping security tight and sticking to a zero-tolerance policy for underage drinking. This change and many others have come to this year’s 106th Annual Gasparilla Pirate Fest. The changes come after last year’s festivities when a group of residents from the Bayshore and Hyde Park neighborhoods complained about the drunk party goers who passed out on their lawns and were caught publicly urinating.

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