Let's start on a good note this week. We'd like to offer a they-go-together-like-lamb-and-tuna-fish LAUREL to the UF Student Senate for their smooth and respectful transition.
It seems that the powers that be have lost their concern for the opinions of the UF student population. This year, we have been misrepresented and ignored by many of the different groups within our university.
The great thing about politics is that if you allow yourself to take a step back from the headlines for a second, you can feel how absurd the entire system can be.
There is a growing epidemic saturating college campuses nationwide: the hobby guitarist.
I found it strange that in an editorial that was otherwise touting the exact same principles as the Students for a Democratic Society-supported referendum against installing hand scanners at UF's gyms, there was need to chastise SDS for their "scanners-signal-the-apocalypse mentality."
I arrived at Tuesday night's first meeting of the new Student Senate apprehensive of what was to come. I was afraid of the ugliness that would follow when the gloves came off in the start of a new Senate session.
The new online ticket system is infinitely better than the old phone system.
During last week's Student Government elections, student voters overwhelmingly rejected the referendum to install hand scanners at Southwest Recreation Center. OK, they did more than reject the referendum. An 84 percent supermajority verbally scolded the hand scanners in front of their parents and bitchslapped the taste out of the scanners' mouths, all while peeing on the scanners' rug.
Erik Nyberg, SFC student
Ryan King, 4HH
Celebrities in advertising are as common as Gainesville pool parties during the summer.
Daniel Milian, 4EG
Buck McMullen, Vietnam Veteran Against McCain/For Barack Obama
Robert Bradfield, 4JM
Ann Brosius Gainesville resident, SG election poll worker
It looks like we're finally going to get our chance to figure out what we're going to be doing with the rest of our lives. Courtesy of Student Government and the Career Resource Center, we will be treated to the first ever UF Majors Fair.
By a show of hands: Did anyone consume on Saturday before the LSU game? You know what we mean (Sorry Big Machen).
For those of you who haven't read it already, pick up a copy of George Orwell's "1984." It holds some remarkable insight into the workings of the mind of man when it comes to political and even religious allegiance. The two most important terms in there are "doublespeak" and "doublethink."
Solutions by The State News
