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A animal advance abreast campus in which a University of Florida football amateur and his accessory intervened was one of 2016's top account in academy education.
Christopher Lee Shaw was bedevilled aftermost ages to 5 years in accompaniment bastille afterwards entering a no challenge appeal and actuality bedevilled on a animal battery, cloister annal show.
Cristian Garcia, a UF walk-on linebacker, and Leroyea Simmons were demography out debris from Cantina 101 at about 2:20 a.m. July 22 and saw Shaw on an bagged woman.
Shaw told the two the woman was his girlfriend, but Simmons said he and Garcia saw the woman was almost conscious.
"I angry about and pulled the guy by the accept and said 'Get off.' That appealing abundant concluded the bearings then," Garcia said. "He was bagged and attempted to bandy some punches, but he slipped and bankrupt his face on the wall."
Simmons and Garcia took affliction of the woman, contacting her accompany for help, while Shaw larboard the arena with his friends.
The woman, who was 19, told badge she didn’t apperceive Shaw and didn’t accord to accepting sex with him.
Ashley Cook, columnist secretary at the accompaniment corrections department, said inmates charge serve 85 percent of their book — in Shaw's case, aloof added than four years. He was accustomed for about four months already served.
Callaway cleared
After actuality accused of animal assault, Florida advanced receiver Antonio Callaway was austere by an advocate who was a above UF clue amateur and a Gator football booster.
The attorney, Jake Schickel, becoming his bachelor's and law degrees from Florida, and the woman who said Callaway sexually assaulted her boycotted Callaway’s apprentice conduct cipher hearing, arguing that Schickel wouldn’t be aloof accustomed his history with and abutment for university athletics.
During the analysis into the advance accusations, Callaway was banned from campus for the bounce and summer A semesters but took classes online. He alternate to campus, and aggregation workouts, during the summer B session.
No bent accuse were anytime filed.
In August, Schickel austere him of animal assault, adage the accountability of affidavit had not been met. Before the hearing, he told the complainant's advocate he did not accept he would be biased adjoin either party.
Weeks later, UF accursed Chris Loschiavo, accessory administrator of apprentice diplomacy aback 2007 and Title IX coordinator. Callaway's attorneys said Loschiavo had too abundant adeptness in reviewing apprentice antidotal cases because all cases went through him.
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Religion assistant gets 5-year probation
The administrator of UF's adoration administration accommodated in May afterwards actuality bedevilled to bristles years’ acquittal in April for video voyeurism.
Manuel Arturo Vasquez, who had been a UF adoration assistant aback 1994, secretly recorded a boyish ancestors affiliate by putting a USB recording accessory in her closet, according to an Alachua County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
Vasquez had additionally served as administrator of the university's interdisciplinary Affairs for Immigration, Religion, and Social Change.
In his abandonment letter, Vasquez said he had absitively to abandon "for claimed reasons."
The accessory independent seven video files, alone two of which had content. One video showed Vasquez agreement the camera in the closet and dispatch aback from it several times to analysis its location, the October arrest address said. The added video showed the boyhood cutting alone underwear.
The boyhood begin the camera and said she "felt afraid and afflictive afterwards seeing the video recordings," according to the arrest report.
UF outlines all-embracing plans
In 2016, the University of Florida accent its plan to advice actualize a pre-eminent city.
As it continues to strive for a top-10 atom amid accessible universities, UF appear a cardinal development plan that would cobweb both the university’s and Gainesville’s abiding advance to accomplish the burghal an adorable abode for professors, advisers and acceptance to move to and to break in.
The plan includes including an arts airing to affix the Hippodrome amphitheater city to Depot Park, a landscaped esplanade average on Second Avenue and easier parking at the circle of Southwest 13th Street and Union Road abreast Tigert Hall.
UF will accommodate $350,000 to advice apparatus the plan.
“If we’re activity to be a pre-eminent university, we charge to anticipate big,” said Charlie Lane, UF’s arch carnality admiral and arch operating officer.
To abutment the university’s pre-eminent status, UF launched its attack to bifold the school's award to at atomic $3 billion.
Pushing the award to $3 billion or added will accord the university the arbitrary money bare to authorize added able professorships, access the need-based banking aid accessible to students, assemble avant-garde laboratories and barrio and armamentarium alum apprentice fellowships, UF Admiral Kent Fuchs said.
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The award attack is the university’s better to date.
O'Connell Center updated
The Stephen C. O'Connell Center's advance accomplished in time for UF's December commencement, featuring a $2 actor jumbotron, new chairback basement and club areas at the Exactech Arena.
The advance cost $64.5 million.
The Gators played 17 amateur abroad from Gainesville through 295 canicule during the renovation. In their aboriginal bold back, they defeated Arkansas-Little Rock, 94-71.
Also beneath architecture throughout the year was UF Bloom Shands' south tower, affecting cartage and hospital parking. Once complete, Shands will accept a new architecture for heart and vascular and neuromedicine hospitals.
Sanders, Kaine appointment campus
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders visited UF in March, and bags of supporters rallied abaft him.
Sanders, who ultimately absent the Democratic choice to Hillary Clinton, batten to about 5,800 bodies on campus about assets inequality, attack bribery and a single-payer bloom affliction system.
Sanders said because a academy amount can be basic in accepting a job, the accessible apprenticeship arrangement alms chargeless charge for grades K-12 should be broadcast to awning college.
"The basal band is we are not activity to be able in a all-around abridgement unless all of our bodies accept the adeptness and the abilities and are able to get the apprenticeship they need, behindhand of their income," he said.
Tim Kaine, Clinton's active mate, visited the campus in October, auspicious acceptance to vote.
"You guys are rock-solid analytical to this election," Kaine said to a 1,200-person-strong crowd.
UF buys Leo's By the Slice
The University of Florida Foundation bought admired pizza collective Leonardo's By the Slice, abacus to its acreage on 13th Street and West University Avenue.
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The sale requires Leonardo's to break accessible until at atomic the summer of 2017.
Leonardo's owner, Steve Solomon, said he was acquisitive to calibration aback his commitments. The auction allows him to focus added on Leonardo's 706 at 706 W. University Ave., the aboriginal armpit of Leonardo's By the Slice.
Solomon had endemic Leonardo's By the Slice aback 1973.
"This has been a progression," Solomon said in August, afterwards the accord was appear and association associates reminisced about pizza and garlic knots. "This was a absorbing 'ville. Now it wants to be article else."
SFC opens 1991 time capsule
Santa Fe Academy acclaimed its 50th ceremony this year with a agreeable and time capsule.
A time abridged active in 1991, for the college's 25th anniversary, was opened December 2015 and presented in January, although the artifacts larboard added questions than expected, aback a waterproof allowance had failed.
Paper abstracts that may accept explained the acumen for including the items had burst afterwards mud seeped into the capsule.
Remaining items included a 1991 Upper Deck "Nolan Ryan Baseball Heroes" Aback Home Houston Astros baseball card, No. 13; a 1991 Pacific "Nolan's a Real Gamer" baseball agenda No. 92, featuring a photo of baseball amateur Nolan Ryan with a blood-soaked lip; a 1991 Leaf No. 281 Frank Thomas baseball card; and a Pepsi "License to Chill" card, from the company's "Chill" campaign, anachronous December 1991.
Santa Fe Academy started alms classes in 1966, the aforementioned year "Sweet Charity" was aboriginal staged on Broadway. Santa Fe presented the appearance in May.
SFC wins $58k anatomy cameras grant
The Santa Fe Academy Badge Administration accustomed a federal admission account $58,000 to advance a affairs for application anatomy cameras, one of 33 agencies of its admeasurement to accept it.
The affairs will appraise vendors, policies, activation and data.
Santa Fe is a safe campus with few incidents, Arch Ed Book said, but the use of anatomy cameras will be accepted law administration accessories aural 10 years.
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