By now, we think it's safe to assume Gainesville touts a fairly left-wing point of view. The area's liberal tendency is especially obvious on UF's campus, where protests are as common as man-crushes on Percy Harvin.
You can rarely make it through Turlington without some random activist group informing you of their humanitarian cause of the week.
That's exactly why we're not surprised UF student organizations are not afraid to push the importance of sharing the wealth.
In keeping with this UF tradition, today marks the beginning of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.
In addition to a weeklong canned food drive, the week of awareness will also be hosting the Oxfam Hunger Banquet. The banquet is structured to emphasize class disparity in the U.S., especially the hardships endured by the less fortunate.
Students at the banquet will be divided into three groups to represent society's poor, middle class and elite. Each group will be fed and treated differently for the duration of the meal.
We're pretty sure this might have made some sense on paper, but when we try to visualize how this would actually play out, we're a bit more skeptical.
How effective could one night of reduced dinner portions and insincere, faked insults be? After all, everyone in attendance still gets to eat, which we can safely assume isn't the case for those actually living day to day on the streets.
We highly doubt that anyone not already concerned with the plight of the homeless would revamp their entire outlook because they were given a half-serving of beans rather than a filet mignon.
