We Inform. You Decide.VOLUME 105 ISSUE 8 FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 2011Not officially associated with the University of Florida Published by Campus Communications, Inc. of Gainesville, Florida

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n UF senior center Vernon Macklin (right) has over-

come injuries and been a reliable

presence inside this season for the

Gators, who will take on South Caro-

lina on Saturday.See Story, Page 14.

Eight-year-old Oklahoma boy rescued after tongue gets stuck on frozen poleWOODWARD, Okla. — In a scene

straight from the movie “A Christmas Sto-ry,” an 8-year-old Oklahoma boy got his tongue stuck to a metal pole after he licked it on a dare.

Officials say when rescue crews arrived Tuesday morning, the boy was standing on his tiptoes, trying to wriggle his frozen tongue free from a stop sign pole across the street from Woodward Middle School.

Paramedics were able to help the boy by

pouring water on his tongue. Once free, the boy told officials he got

stuck after his brother dared him to lick the frozen pole.

The boy was taken to a Woodward hos-pital for treatment.

The scene was similar to one in “A Christ-mas Story,” a 1983 movie adapted from Jean Shepard’s memoir of a boy in the 1940s.

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Breaking in the BowlAaron Devlin, a member of the Gator Longboard Club, performs a skateboarding trick at the new Pos-sum Creek skatepark during the ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday. See Story, Page 3.

By ALEXANDER KLAUSNERAlligator Staff Writer

Fifteen bucks can get you a myriad of goodies. It can get you 15 downloads on iTunes, a new Blu-ray or a meal at Yamato Japanese Steakhouse.

Now, 15 bucks can get you Microsoft Office.Starting Wednesday, UF began selling copies of Micro-

soft Office Professional Plus Suite for the discounted rate

of $15. The discounted software is available to all UF stu-dents, faculty and staff.

Mac versions of Office are also being sold. Copies of the software are burned onto

CDs, which are then sold to students at the UF Bookstore in the Reitz Union, and the Com-puter Help Desk in the Hub.

In addition, the CDs carry an upgraded version of the Windows 7 operating system.

In the first six hours the software was available, 700 cop-ies were sold, said UF spokesman Steve Orlando.

“Everybody knows that students are on tight budgets and cost-conscious,” Orlando said. “This is a great way to help students save, in this case, several hundred dollars.”

The discount is made possible by the technology fee that students pay as part of their tuition and by an extension of UF’s agreement with Microsoft, Orlando said.

Representatives of the UF Computing Help Desk advise students not to attempt to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7. It is preferred to upgrade from Windows Vista operating systems.

UF selling copies of Microsoft Office for $15

LOCAL

By KAT BEINAlligator Staff Writer

An illegal resident from Jamai-ca, riding in a car pulled over for a traffic infraction Wednesday after-noon, was taken into custody after Gainesville police found drugs and

weapons in the car.Delano Frazer, 20, was seated in

the backseat of the car pulled over on Interstate 75. The driver had a suspended license, while Frazer had only a Jamaican form of ID and no alien paperwork or visas, despite living in the country since August

2010, according to the report.During questioning, Frazer de-

nied knowing of any firearms in the car, though a search turned up a pis-tol loaded with hollow-point bullets hidden a couple feet in front of him, the report stated.

He continued to deny that they

were hauling any illegal substanc-es, but police found 438 ounces, roughly 27.3 pounds, of marijuana in vacuum-sealed bags in the trunk, the report stated.

When police found hollow point bullets in Frazer’s pocket, he told them they weren’t his but went with

the driver’s pistol, contradicting his statements of ignorance concerning the gun’s whereabouts before.

Frazer denies his involvement, but is charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell, manu-facture or deliver, the report stated.

His bail is set at $25,000.

Police find gun, 27 pounds of marijuana in car

OnCampus

700 copies were sold in the first six hours

n THE LAWSUIT WAS FILED BY A STUDENT WHO WAS DENIED AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDINGS OF STUDENT SENATE MEETINGS.

By AL PANTONEAlligator Contributing Writer

On Monday, the Alachua County 8th Judicial Circuit Court ruled in favor of Frank Bracco, a UF graduate who filed a lawsuit against UF for denying him access to Student Senate records.

Bracco, a former student senator who graduated in May 2009, filed the suit in August 2009 claiming he was denied access to audio and video recordings of Senate meetings, which he requested in November 2008.

Court says SG violated open records law

SEE SG, PAGE 8

“Public meetings are implied to be open.”Frank Bracco

former UF student senator