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The Football Founders Club met Wednesday April 17 to discuss fundraising for the University of West Florida’s potential football program. If the club can gather investors and the necessary funds, UWF will be on pace to start new facilities construction by early next year. Beginning with the demolition of the current tennis courts, UWF will [...]

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The University of West Florida Student Government Association’s recently elected president and vice president discussed their plans to bolster student involvement and recognition on campus in the coming academic year at the April 19 meeting. “Our platform that we ran on was ‘Argos Moving Forward, Together,’” Sherrell Wood, SGA vice president, said. “We wanted to [...]

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The soft vocals of local performers blanketed over the sounds of children playing, dogs barking and vendors attempting to save the environment. The Earth Day Pensacola festival took place on Saturday in Bayview Park. The festival featured more than 40 vendors and organizations. Each booth had an environmental aspect to it. Some were selling their [...]

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Psychedelic rock’n’roll band The Flaming Lips released “The Terror,” their thirteenth studio album on April 16. The album represents a departure for the band, both in sound and disposition. Before “The Terror,” The Flaming Lips, led by the ever-positive singer Wayne Coyne, would bring their positive energy to both albums and exciting live shows, but [...]

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The University of West Florida’s chapter of Health Occupation Students of America will continue on to the HOSA National Leadership Conference in late June. Nine students from the organization competed at the Florida HOSA State Leadership Conference during the weekend of April 4 in Orlando, Fla. The students qualified for the state level at the [...]

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After a full month off from competition, the No. 18 West Florida men’s golf team will kick off postseason play Monday when it heads to the Gulf South Conference Golf Championships in Tunica, Miss. The Argonauts will contend for their 11th all-time GSC Championship and seek their first victory in the tournament since 2010-11. Of [...]

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On April 15 in the UC auditorium from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., The University of West Florida’s Students for Suicide Awareness group hosted their 5th annual Seeds of Hope Music and Art show to support suicide awareness and prevention on campus. Seeds of Hope Music and Art show was founded in 2009 by students [...]

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Federal student loan interest rates are set to increase on July 1. The concrete changes are yet to be determined, but the future of student loan interest rates may go one of two ways. They will either  double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent or they will be regulated annually based on market interest rates. [...]

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For those looking to merge their interests in athletics and academia into a career, the athletic training program at the University of West Florida might be the way to go. Athletic training majors can find careers working with physician’s groups, private practices and sports teams at any level. Athletic Training Program Director Richard Frazee said [...]

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Confusion, concubines and comedy are the order of the night as the University of West Florida theatre department stages Bertolt Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera” at the UWF Mainstage Theater. The German pseudo-opera, translated into English by Marc Blitzstein, appears to be a dark and twisted spin on “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to [...]

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