Metro
City to get snazzy bus line
By Cristina Rabaza | Mar. 24, 2010Before the semester’s end, students taking bus trips from Gainesville will be able to sit back — or lie down — and enjoy the ride.
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Metro
RTS gets biodiesel grant
By EDEN JOYNER | Mar. 24, 2010The Gator Nation just got a little bit greener.
News
UPD cites SG president for disorderly conduct
Mar. 24, 2010UF Student Body President Jordan Johnson was cited for disorderly conduct by the University Police Department after demanding a SNAP ride to his off-campus home at about 1:45 a.m. Saturday.
Opinion
Accent mishandled Samberg show
By Brittany Fox | Mar. 24, 2010With deference to Andy Samberg, last night’s event was disappointing to say the least. Let me preface this by saying that if you don’t think $72,000 is a lot of money, just stop reading and check out today’s crossword.
The Avenue
Total Breakdown
By THOMAS NASSIFF< | Mar. 24, 2010What do you get when you throw 90 bands on six different venues in Gainesville? You get Total Bummer, Gainesville’s biggest do-it-yourself music festival.
The Avenue
Atten-tion! Bootcamp pushes students to new levels
By LANCE FULLER | Mar. 24, 2010For 30 seconds, you and a partner are shoulder- pressing a 30-pound tire together over your head. Just when your shoulders can’t take it anymore, you’re running 40 yards at full speed. Your jog to the next station is your break, only to throw a 10-pound medicine ball as hard as you can to your partner after squatting and then lunging forward with it. You throw back and forth with your partner for 50 seconds.
The Avenue
Slightly Stoopid, G. Love & Special Sauce play free show
By ASHLEY McCREDIE | Mar. 24, 2010UF will be taken over by bluey-hip-hop and funky-punk-reggae beats on Saturday.
Opinion
Health bill will lead to entitlement
By David Tombs | Mar. 24, 2010I find Will Penman’s Wednesday column urging conservatives to move on absurd. If you, Will, are going to write against your ideological archrivals, please make some attempt to understand them. May I do some explaining?
The Avenue
Fashion week ahead
By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 24, 2010Fashion has no limits. It’s daring, risky and of course, fabulous. Tuesday evening, Gainesville Fashion Week and CovetedList.com proved the absence of style’s boundaries with a fashion show that featured outfits fitting women of all colors, heights and body types.
The Avenue
Fashion blogs help define style scene
By ASHLEY McCREDIE | Mar. 24, 2010Blog: Sea of Shoes
Opinion
New Bright Futures standards will hurt everyone
By Jackie Simons | Mar. 24, 2010I think the idea that the Bright Futures Scholarship Program is going to hurt minorities is ridiculous. It is going to hurt everyone. I’m a white, middle-class female, and I took the ACT three times before finally reaching the goal of 100 percent. I feel like we set a low bar for minority students, when in reality they have the same potential to achieve these scores. As a future teacher, I believe everyone can learn, and it’s about time everyone adapted that principle. The purpose of Bright Futures is to help hardworking students afford college. It’s an incentive. Bright Futures is trying to refrain from giving out such an incentive by requiring higher scores, but that makes it difficult not just for a certain group but for everyone. Minority students are capable, very intelligent and can achieve similar, if not better, scores than their Caucasian peers.
The Avenue
Ben Stiller takes on more serious role in ‘Greenberg’
By MICHELLE PROFIS | Mar. 24, 2010Gaylord Focker, the leader of the Frat Pack and the guy from “Zoolander” who is really, really ridiculously good looking. These are all names that one uses to allude to comedic poster boy Ben Stiller.
Opinion
Columnist ‘too objective’
By Robert Perreault | Mar. 24, 2010Matthew Christ: To which political party do you belong? I couldn’t tell after reading yesterday’s column. Maybe if you had spent a few words glorifying one of the two parties, I could have figured it out. Perhaps some shameless, ruthless bashing of all things related to your political opposition would have helped. I turn to the opinions section of the Alligator to see stubborn opining, not acceptance and compromise.
The Avenue
Wonderland comes to town
By Jon Silman | Mar. 24, 2010You are cordially invited to a Mad Hatter’s ball. Don’t be late for this very important date.
Opinion
Samberg show disappointed
By A. Bern | Mar. 24, 2010OK, so Andy Samberg is funny. Unfortunately, not as funny as many expected. With a lot of the crowd leaving before he finished making his last weird face or avoiding his last question in a strange voice, it seemed the event didn’t quite live up to SNL dreams. The Q-and-A setup might have been rather interesting — I am personally addicted to “Inside the Actors Studio” — if Andy had actually answered a majority of the questions. His attitude, dress and request that no pictures be taken (what am I supposed to do with all that empty space in my OMGsPrING2010 album on Facebook?) made Andy appear less like the silly, fun guy who sings about jizzing in his pants. I’d personally like a $72,000 refund.
The Avenue
The great debate: oral sex or cheese?
By AMELIA HARNISH | Mar. 24, 2010A debate has been raging in the Alligator office conference room polarizing Avenue staffers and nearly causing a breakdown of operations. Well, not exactly. But it has been fun to discuss at our weekly meetings.
The Avenue
Party poolside with sun, drinks
By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 24, 2010Welcome back, Florida. It’s been about four months since we’ve been graced by your usual, bright and shining self. Our long-awaited warm weather is finally upon us, and the forecast for upcoming weeks is looking mighty delicious. Highs will be topping out in the 70s and lows, just on the brim of the 50s. So sayonara Jack Frost. It’s time to party poolside.
News
New tobacco policy urges campus to ‘kick butts’
Mar. 24, 2010Peer pressure can lead people to start smoking, but UF is hoping it can help people stop smoking on campus.
The Avenue
Film festival and events raise awareness to go green
By Alex Orlando | Mar. 24, 2010Shirley Lasseter isn’t buying her grapes from Chile anymore. Ray Weber is cutting down on his energy consumption. David Montgomery is reusing plastic food containers as flowerpots.
Opinion
Raise Bright Futures standards
Mar. 24, 2010Look at what has been on American television and what has been popular in American music for the past decade. Look at the countries that have been the most innovative in mathematics and physics for the past two decades; America is no longer one of them. Look at the American manufacturing machine and how it has been struggling for the past three decades. The list can go on.
