The case for the auto industry bailout has been presented on several occasions as a way to help the economy from collapsing since too many people depend on the health of that industry. The problem with this argument is that bailing out the auto industry does not guarantee its success in the future at all. Regardless of how costly it would be to let the companies fail now, it’s preferable to what their failing business model could cost at a later time. Unfortunately, the reason government is usually not desired in running businesses is that profit maximization and public policy require different actions.

Millions of NFL fans across the world watch and wait for it each year. Fans of losing teams the season prior regain hope with expectations their favorite team will select a player who will bring a franchise to winning ways. The NFL commissioner gets on the stage, announces the first overall pick and one young athlete, just months removed from college, becomes a multi-millionaire.

Jacksonville's 'End the Fed' rally Nov. 22, where approx. 150 like-minded people gathered to protest the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department's bailout of Wall Street, and the planned bailout of the automakers.

After UPD discovered a body inside a parked car on the fourth floor of Garage 44 around 2:15 a.m. Nov. 12, investigators declared it a case of suicide. “From the scene, it was pretty obvious [it was a suicide],” UPD Chief Mark Foxworth said. But the family of 22-year-old psychology major D’Angelo Hurd, who was found with a gunshot wound to the head and a 9mm Glock pistol in his lap, are not willing to accept his death as a suicide. “We would rather just call it a death because ultimately, you never know,” said Hurd’s mother, Hazzel Sutton. For her and the rest of Hurd’s family, the death was a shock. Although Hurd’s demeanor never seemed to change in the months prior, Sutton feels her son might have been overwhelmed by his full-time class load, particularly a statistics class he was struggling with, she said.

UNF’s global environmental struggles class is hosting the first Environmental Awareness Day on the Green Nov. 25. Five groups of students from the class will be doing demonstrations and talking with other students to raise awareness for environmental issues. The creator and instructor of the class, Dr. Suzanne Simon, never planned the event into her syllabus. “There was this growing sensibility within the class that rather than simply write one more paper… many of the students basically said they would rather do something,” Simon said. The students chose topics such as battery recycling and disposal, preservation of animal habitats, and water and electricity conservation. They connected these broad issues to real problems at UNF and in the Jacksonville area.

The second annual Garbage on the Green is scheduled to take place Nov. 18, and the UNF Environmental Center is abuzz with activity in preparation. The event will kick off with a campus clean up from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and will continue from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. with the trash audit and expo. The trash for the expo will be taken from four buildings on campus, an administration building, an academic building, the food court area and a housing building.

Nov. 8 – Drug and alcohol violation (Building V) – A UNF employee found a partially smoked marijuana cigarette on the bathroom sink counter during a health and safety inspection. The room occupant denied possession of the substance and claimed there was not enough evidence to place the subject in constructive possession of the illegal substance. Further examination of the room revealed a 750 ml bottle of tequila in the refrigerator.

The largest philanthropy event in the nation is scheduled to take place Nov. 21 and 22 at the UNF Arena. The Children’s Miracle Network-sponsored Dance Marathon is the first campus-wide event of its kind, with a little more than 220 dancers registered so far. The event will force participants to be on their feet for 18 hours straight from 6 p.m. Nov. 21, when dancers will be welcomed and divided into groups, to noon Nov. 22, when the total amount of money raised will be announced. All proceeds will benefit the CMN at Shands Jacksonville and Wolfson Children’s Hospital.

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During the registration period, holds on accounts are often mentioned in the context of unfair treatment from the university to its students. Once holds are placed on students’ accounts, students are unable to access their transcript, register and even graduate. “It doesn’t matter whether you owe a penny or $5,000,” UNF Bursar Margaret Partyka said. The Controller’s Office system records all fines imposed on the students’ accounts by various departments and places a hold on each of these accounts programmatically overnight, she said.

The university’s Information Technology Services department recently experienced an up- tick in computer viruses, which started in October, said an Information Technology Services spokeswoman. There were 1,478 incidents of virus detection on 30 managed computers – staff and lab machines – which is considerably higher than the last several months, said Alison Cruess, ITS communications coordinator. The virus triggered the university’s virus protection – Symantec’s new Bloodhound software that tracks down heuristic viruses.

The nation’s education system currently faces a critical shortage of professionally certified teachers, and Northeast Florida is not exempt from the problem. About 1,400 classroom teachers in the area only have temporary teaching certificates, according to the regional coordinator of the North Florida Personel Development Partnership who founded a program aimed to do something about it. Dr. Kathryn Krudwig started the Educator Preparation Institute at UNF last November to help alleviate the problem in the local school districts.