Welcome

"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants"-- Louis Brandeis (1914)
"The politics of the university are so intense because the stakes are so low" -- Wallace Sayre (1973)

We're tired of seeing the many words but little thought that come done daily by an uninformed lunatic and a misinformed tool.

RTS announces cutbacks in bus service, even as students pay $73.32 a semester, even when we are in an energy crisis in this country. Students are going to wait longer.

Four law students playing dress-up in black robes throw the 5700-signature online voting petition off the ballot, declaring themselves actual judicial authorities who may interpret the United States Constitution. SOLVe sues the university.

Gator Growl sucks even more than usual, with Jon Reep -- apparently a reality-show Jeff Foxworthy knockoff -- as our headliner.

We see really bad leadership from Gator. We see 150K missing from Student Government Productions, forcing a Kanye West concert to be canceled. We see that, in a state that decided the presidency less than 600 votes eight years ago, a Chomp the Vote executive director is appointed while he's living in Washington--and works for the RNC.

We see self-aggrandizement from a few of O&B.

We see self-importance and sanctimony all around.

Meanwhile -- as InsideHigherEd reported today -- Florida faculty are fleeing to universities in states whose legislatures don't think they can run on air and goodwill. UC Berkeley used $113m and UWisconsin used $10m to keep faculty in-state. Meanwhile, our state legislature utterly fails. We can talk about being a "top ten state university" all we want, but if we don't get enough funds so students aren't told to print out their own syllabuses, we will never get there.

We're not into conspiracy theories or horseshit. We're tired of failure. And we know that SG could be so much more than it is. We can do better, and that's is why we started this blog.

We'll post more shortly.