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SoCal Band EdstanleY Grows Out of The Hills and Is Ready to Rock ‘n Roll

By SoCal Band EdstanleY Grows Out of The Hills and Is Ready to Rock ‘n Roll

EdstanleY is not your typical SoCal band. They find themselves as one of the few semi-heavy metal bands left amidst a bunch of breathy singers at coffee shops and Maroon 5 wannabes at America’s Got ...

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The Fox News Mole: Amusing, But Not Much Else

By The Fox News Mole: Amusing, But Not Much Else

The so-called “Fox Mole” has been unearthed. The short-lived column to the website Gawker, which depicted a Fox News Channel employee’s complaints against the work environment, was quickly revealed to have been written by Joe ...

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Obama Takes on Latin American Trade in Tampa

President delivers speech at the Port of Tampa while on his way to Summit of the Americas

By Obama Takes on Latin American Trade in Tampa

On Friday, April 13, at approximately 12:10 p.m., President Barack Obama landed on Air Force One at the International Airport, where he was greeted by small groups of about 40 special guests, members of the ...

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April Showers Bring Rainy Fashions

By April Showers Bring Rainy Fashions

Florida rain is not romantic. It’s not the kind of rain that pours down from the heavens like a Notebook makeout scene. Florida rain smells like reclaimed water. I step out into torrential down pouring, ...

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Mac Malware Just the Beginning for Apple Viruses

By Mac Malware Just the Beginning for Apple Viruses

Finally, the fallacious claim that Apple’s flagship product, the Mac, cannot get viruses or malware had the nails on its coffin sealed shut. This month, it was revealed that there were 600,000 Macs infected with ...

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UT Junior Passes Away After Battle with Lymphoma

By UT Junior Passes Away After Battle with Lymphoma

On Thursday April 5, 2012, UT student Curtis Robert McIntyre passed away while home in Maryland. McIntyre was diagnosed with lymphoma in February of last year and was heavily involved with the UT ice hockey ...

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Student Government Candidates for President and VP Disqualified

By Student Government Candidates for President and VP Disqualified

Editor’s note: On Friday, March 30 the Election Appeals Committee voted to overturn the disqualification of president/vice president candidates Matthew Rutkovitz and McKay Ellis. A follow up article is currently in progress.  The Judicial Advisory ...

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Springsteen Gives the Tampa Forum a Boss Night

By Springsteen Gives the Tampa Forum a Boss Night

“This train,” Bruce Springsteen sang, “carries saints and sinners. This train carries losers and winners. This train carries whores and gamblers. This train carries lost souls.” All were in attendance on Saturday night, when he ...

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Concerns Center on ID Theft, Student Harassment

By Concerns Center on ID Theft, Student Harassment

Donna Alexander, the vice president for information technology at the University of Tampa, attended the scheduled faculty senate meeting last Friday to talk about the recent data breach at UT. As The Minaret previously reported, ...

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Tweets, Songs and My Lunch Invite to Lupe Fiasco

By Tweets, Songs and My Lunch Invite to Lupe Fiasco

All that 18-year-old Mike Stone wanted was to take a porn star to prom. Cnet.com reported on March 24, 2012 that the Tartan High School student from Minnesota got it into his head to go ...

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Juveniles Sentenced to Life in Prison: How Young is Too Young?

By Juveniles Sentenced to Life in Prison: How Young is Too Young?

When an adult is convicted of murder, some of the harshest sentences they can receive are life in prison with the possibility of parole, life in prison without the possibility of parole, or death. What ...

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Sensitive Student, Faculty Information Found During Class Assignment

By Sensitive Student, Faculty Information Found During Class Assignment

  On March 14, the Office of Information Technology sent a global message regarding a data breach in which sensitive information of students, faculty and staff was made publicly available due to a “server management ...

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Headphone Disco Lets Students Rock in Silence

By Headphone Disco Lets Students Rock in Silence

On Friday night around 9:30 p.m., the Vaughn lobby was a musicless rave with students dancing, clapping and occasionally singing to the songs playing in their heads–literally. Through Student Productions, the Headphone Disco came to ...

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A Weekend Fling Fighting Crime

Students serve as sidekicks to the Rain City Superhero Movement

By A Weekend Fling Fighting Crime

Where Minaret Editors Meet Superheroes  In February of 2011, a Minaret writer went on patrol with Phoenix Jones, a Seattle-based superhero. Over the course of the night they visited the worst parts of Seattle and ...

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