SPORTS
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Brooks, Dotson to wrap up home careers this week
Feb. 18, 2009Home will be a welcome sight for Sha Brooks and Marshae Dotson.
El Caimán
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Parties sling mud at elections complaints meeting
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Feb. 18, 2009Eight elections complaints were presented and voted on Wednesday night during a two-hour Student Government Elections Commission meeting.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS GOLF
UF looks to rebound in South Carolina tournament
By ANTHONY CHIANG | Feb. 18, 2009Much like a baby learning how to walk, the inexperienced UF women's golf team stumbled to the ground in its first event of the season.
THE AVENUE
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MUSIC
Album Review: Dalek – “Gutter Tactics”
By ROBERT HILSON | Feb. 18, 2009If the election of President Barack Obama was a big can't-we-all-just-get-along inquiry to the good people of America, then "Gutter Tactics" is a scathing, unqualified "Hell no!" Or "not yet," anyway. Atop corrosive grooves tangled in haywire electronic beats, this Garden State duo spits tales of torture, war, civil rights abuses and the like, exposing every closeted sin, protesting all the wrongs that still need be righted. "Armed with Krylon" and "Who Medgar Evers Was" make up a suite of continuously devolving ambient rap that taps a well of run-for-your-life paranoia. The latter track works off a big, beefy drumbeat, spiraling feedback and lyrics about assassination. Indeed, this is dark stuff that takes nerve to slog through, and that's speaking nothing of the introductory monologue - a caustic, hell, fire and brimstone throwdown from the Rev. Wright himself. Or as Dalek likes to call it, "feel-good music."
OPINION
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COLUMNS
SG’s inefficiency mirrors Capitol Hill
By JONATHAN LOTT | Feb. 18, 2009Ah, Student Government election season.
METRO
Festival showcases avant–garde films
By MARY MANCHESS | Feb. 18, 2009Random blurs of colors and images. There is static. The screen goes blank. The audience is confused.
METRO
Voters have big decisions to make before March election
By EMILY FUGGETTA | Feb. 18, 2009With two open commission seats and two proposed charter amendments on the ballot for the upcoming city election, voters have a lot to wade through on their way to the polls.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Personal vendettas reason enough to oppose candidates
By ERIK VOSS | Feb. 18, 2009It's funny how you're never really "done" with people in college.
THE AVENUE
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MUSIC
Album Review: The Bird and The Bee – “Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future”
By ROBERT HILSON | Feb. 18, 2009Aside from an obvious flair for album titling (makes you want to shout, "'Ray Guns' are now, bitch!" doesn't it?), vocalist Inara George and soundboard extraordinaire Greg Kurstin also have a way with swinging '60s pop music set to fantastically modernized, yet still retro, production. Does this make sense? If not, think of "Ray Guns" as the aural equivalent to Disney's Tomorrowland - both create a future that will never exist by looking to tail-finned Cadillacs and moon landings as points of reference. This record awaits the mythical Year 2000, and in so doing, delivers groovy neo-psychedelia ("Ray Gun"), doo-wop era Motown complete with seductress spoken word bits ("Baby"), and breathy cocktail lounge balladeering ("Meteor"), all in a sleek electronic shell. "Diamond Dave," George's irresistible tribute to the great David Lee Roth, is not only the most catchy song here, but the only appropriate evidence by which to date this offering. It's Van Halen hero worship dressed in spacey beats and a plat-blond 'do, and as such, cooler than Judy Jetson in a discotheque.
SPORTS
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BASEBALL
Adams, McArthur lead versatile infield into new season
By CALLOVI< | Feb. 18, 2009Josh Adams had little idea what position he would play for most of last season, as he split time between six positions.
SPORTS
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SFC
SFC's Glover drops 41 in win against CFCC
By KELSIE HOECHERL | Feb. 18, 2009The Santa Fe College women's basketball team needed a savior in Wednesday's game against rival Central Florida Community College, and they found one in sophomore forward Nichelle Glover.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Common Reading Program reveals title for freshmen
By HERSCHMAN | Feb. 18, 2009UF's Common Reading Program revealed the title of its required book for freshman on Wednesday on the Plaza of the Americas.
METRO
Economic condition does not affect marijuana sales
By KATIE EMMETS | Feb. 18, 2009He pushes the sawed-off top half of a Canada Dry 2-liter into a container of water, forcing smoke into his lungs.
SPORTS
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SOFTBALL
Batting-order switch breathes life into offense
By ADAM BERRY | Feb. 18, 2009Conventional wisdom says, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
METRO
Authorities ask community's help in finding missing man
By KATIE EMMETS | Feb. 18, 2009Authorities are looking for a Gainesville man who has been missing for a week.
THE AVENUE
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MOVIES AND TV
Festival showcases avant–garde films
By MARY MANCHESS | Feb. 18, 2009Random blurs of colors and images. There is static. The screen goes blank. The audience is confused.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Meyer should kick Johnson off football team
Feb. 17, 2009When Urban Meyer returns to the United States, he is not going to be happy.
SPORTS
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Donovan relishes rebuilding opportunity
Feb. 17, 2009Times have been better for the UF basketball program.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
SG debate series heats up on Turlington Plaza
By CHELSEA KEENAN | Feb. 17, 2009Students passing through Turlington Plaza Tuesday afternoon may have heard something a little different than ranting preachers.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Transcript fees not fair
By Matthew Schwarz | Feb. 17, 2009The ways in which our university manages its budget have never made sense to me, but as an undergraduate student striving to continue my education through graduate studies and independent research, I find one policy even more misguided than most - transcript fees.
