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.

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What attracted you to the Obama campaign?
“In the beginning he seemed like he represented the change we needed. I really liked his education policy.”	“I am actually a Republican. Mainly his stance on the war on terrorism ... I liked his position to refocus our efforts on Afghanistan to capture Osama.”	“He didn’t just stick to black and white. He could see the gray area in between.”

UNF offers many surprises to its students on a daily basis: free T-shirts on the Green, free scantrons in the Student Government office and no classes on a Tuesday in honor of Veterans Day. But not all of its surprises are pleasing, including the holds on students’ accounts that appear just hours before registration. It never fails. Students check their accounts a week before and are in good standing for registration. They check it again, just to make sure, and still are set to register. Hours before they’re scheduled to add classes, a hold is placed on their accounts for failing to pay a late library book fine or to release emergency information for the Code Red system. They don’t find out until it’s too late.