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.
Somehow, though, such an emphatic rejection is lost upon Director of Recreational Sports David Bowles.
He still swears there are students who favor the use of hand scanners over Gator 1 Cards.
That may be so, but coming off the heels of the highest voter turnout in SG election history, we figured that such a resounding vote against the referendum would make students' feelings crystal clear to everyone, including Bowles.
UF seems to have gotten the idea and has postponed the scheduled dates for hand scanner installation.
To us, the scanners just seem unnecessary. Our Gator 1 Cards do the job just fine.
They're compact, cost-effective and lightweight, not to mention they conveniently fit in the card compartments of any standard wallet.
If you ask us, Students for a Democratic Society can chill out with their scanners-signal-the-apocalypse mentality, and Bowles should yank his head out of the sand. The students have spoken and in record numbers.
