It’s that time again.
We’re a week away from finals, so now’s the time to crack those books that have been collecting dust on your shelves. It’s time to calculate what you’ll have to score on the final to make a decent grade. It’s also time to figure out the least destructive day to have your last party of the semester.
As you break out your calendars, we’ll give you this week’s how-are-we-supposed-to-get-everything-done-in-two-weeks? edition of...
Darts & Laurels. We aren’t the only ones who need to make time for important things.
Several restaurants on the UF campus garnered some minor complaints from the Alachua County Health Department, which leads us to think they need to take a moment to clean up their eateries.
With so many students chained to these food vendors via meal plans or time constraints, we expect to not have mentions of “rodents, roaches, flies and other vermin” on the inspection reports.
While we understand the violations are minor, we’re still throwing a we’re-at-your-mercy-here DART at Aramark.
We’d like to hope these infractions won’t happen.
It’s that same futile hope that caused us problems at the Orange and Blue Debut on Saturday.
We can’t say it was much of a letdown, but having a new football coach with a new method in charge ignited, if nothing else, some curiosity. When The Swamp shows more love toward three statues than toward the living, breathing team on the field, we’ve got a problem. For setting us up for disappointment, we’re airing out a this-is-football’s-version-of-the-disappointment-Obama-supporters-felt DART at blind optimism.
We guess we signed up for this when we donned our orange and blue.
But enough with the bad. We received some good news this week, even if it took the form of remorse.
A Quinnipiac poll shows that our favorite supervillian look-alike, Rick Scott, is losing supporters. It was bound to happen as he slashed the state budget while funneling more funds to the workers closest to him.
Oh, and that whole getting back to work thing isn’t panning out like he thought either. For coming to their senses nearly half a year too late, we’re giving a better-late-than-never LAUREL to Florida voters. We’re not as stupid as we thought.
With this loss of support, we’re hoping Scott will be merely a four-year historical footnote for our state.
The same should go for the immigration law Arizona passed last April, not to mention the bill in our own state legislature.
The immigration challenge needs an answer that doesn’t leave our state open to legalized discrimination in the form of racial profiling, but that solution is not yet on the table.
For moving such legislation ahead, we’re throwing a “reasonable-suspicion”-sounds-pretty-unreasonable DART at the Florida House. The decision by a committee to pass the bill along isn’t only morally wrong but also economically stupid.
On that note, we hope everything is sunshine and rainbows for you this weekend, Gators. Relish these last few hours of free time.
