Alligator Online
By DAVID COHEN
UF alumnus and former Student Government Treasurer Kenneth Kerns used to joke about creating a parody about SG during his tenure at UF.
Two and a half years later, the idea has come to life.
Kerns’ debut novel runs chock full of SG stereotypes he said still lurk within the Reitz Union.
“UF Student Government is pretty silly,” Kerns said. “I’m just poking a little fun at them. The politics and parties and drama are just silly.”
The 224-page novel, “Reunion at University Avenue,” is a self-referential parody with places, organizations and personalities students may recognize.
The novel’s protagonist, Mike Adams, is a former SG member who writes a renowned book and ends up in Gainesville, 15 years after his graduation, producing a film based on the work.
However, Adams starts receiving suspicious phone calls during filming and finds out a former SG member is willing to kill him in order to halt the production of the film.
“I would caution senators not to take their job too seriously and realize the humor in what (they) do,” Kerns said.
Kerns graduated from UF in 2002 with a degree in political science and was named the Spring 2002 Outstanding Senator of the Term.
The book will be available online in a fewmonths.