Local hip-hop artist, Tough Junkie, just released a new album, “Grab What You Can,” and to be perfectly honest, it is one of the best churned from Jacksonville. A titillating 45 minutes of pure, soul power music that can make a deaf person bob their head.
The history of Tough Junkie remains unclear. One fact for certain was that he was born and continues to be a Jacksonville native. However, any facts past his birth seem to be reclusive and utterly untraceable.
Although …

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Question 1: Rookies in the NBA often experience fatigue in the middle of the season because it’s twice as long as they are used to. What do you think rookies could do in order to keep their stamina up?

Play more double-headers.
I would say steroids, but that seems to have other consequences later in a career.
I don’t see how they become fatigued if they are working out throughout the entire season. They should still be …

Soldiers returning home without job opportunities, a failing economic situation and people fatally sick without health care or hope – these were a few reasons Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker decided to travel across the country and campaign for the upcoming election.

Whitaker, who won a 2007 Academy Award for best actor in “The Last King of Scotland,” spoke to a crowd of UNF students, faculty and staff Sept. 26 on the Green, supporting Sen. Barack Obama and urging students to vote and grab their friends to join them at the polls.

The Board of Trustees submitted an action to the state in September unanimously passing an increase in all 2009-2010 housing rates by an average of 6.02 percent.

The cost of living on campus has increased every year since 1990, but the last time it increased this drastically was in 1999 when it was raised 8.26 percent, according to the Board of Trustees agenda.

The decision stemmed from budget cuts, rising utility rates, reduced enrollment and the construction costs of Osprey Fountains and was decided through an annual public approval process, said Lynn Hendricks, director of Residence Life.

Sept. 18 – Grand theft (Building 14) – A student had his book bag stolen from the cafeteria. It contained five textbooks.

A possible suspect is in question.

Sept. 18 – Grand theft (Building 15) – A computer hard drive was stolen out of a classroom after a club meeting took place there.

Fingerprints from the room came back negative, and there are no suspects.

Sept. 19 – Burglary (Building 34) – A staff member reported cash and computer software missing from her office.

A group of 10 college interns from around the nation founded a viral voter registration campaign, Stop and Vote, with the intention of getting their generation to the ballot boxes this November.

The Concept Farm, a New York communications company, spearheaded this movement with hopes that its interns would become proactive and reach countless numbers of disaffected youth, according to a company statement.

With the White House and congressional leaders struggling to resurrect a rescue of the nation’s struggling financial markets, they are searching for ways to sweeten the deal for reluctant lawmakers.

The idea of boosting the cap on federal bank deposit insurance has gained some momentum, with both candidates for president – Democratic Barack Obama and Republican John McCain – propose lifting it to $250,000. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. insures individual bank deposits up to $100,000.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sept. 30 – the first polling data available based entirely on interviews following Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama’s first Presidential Debate – shows Obama getting 51 percent of the vote while McCain garnered 45 percent.

Before another stressful day of teaching, music professor Charlotte Mabrey rested on a bench overlooking the Green, her lips encircling the filter of a cigarette as she pensively sucked out the tobacco smoke.

Those walking by don’t notice she’s breaking UNF’s campus policy by smoking too close to covered walkways.

“When I started, we smoked in the classroom,” Mabrey said, reminiscing about her 27 years teaching at UNF.

While Mabrey might be aware of UNF’s smoking policy, many students are not.

Senate President Brandon Eady called Sen. Robert Foster out of order during the Sept. 29 Student Government Senate meeting and had him removed from
the chambers.

The debate began during the first reading of Foster’s proposed bills, two amendments to Title VI concerning election penalties and campaign financing.