Terry Jones Arrested, Found with Gas-Soaked Qurans According to the Release
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UF quarterback Jeff Driskel suffered a knee sprain against Miami but is expected to play against Tennessee. Read the Not officially associated with the University of Florida Published by Campus Communications, Inc. of Gainesville, Florida We Inform. You Decide. story on page 15. VOLUME 108 ISSUE 16 WWW.ALLIGATOR.ORG THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 Terry Jones arrested, found with gas-soaked Qurans according to the release. Deputies also arrested the driver, He was on the way to burn 2,998 near Tampa 44-year-old Dove World Outreach Pas- KATHRYN VARN At about 5 p.m., deputies arrested 61-year-old Jones tor Marvin Wayne Sapp Jr., on charges of Alligator Staff Writer [email protected] about 35 miles east of Tampa on one count of unlawful con- unlawful conveyance of fuel and invalid veyance of fuel, according to a Polk County Sheriff’s Offi ce registration for the smoker attached to MULBERRY, Fla. — Polk County Sheriff’s Offi ce depu- news release. His organization had planned to burn 2,998 his car. ties arrested the Rev. Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach copies of the Quran in a park, according to its website. Deputies seized Sapp’s 1998 Chevrolet Center — which left Gainesville this summer — on Wednes- Jones Jones will additionally face a charge of unlawful open 1500 pickup truck as well as the smoker day afternoon after they found a smoker full of kerosene- carry of a fi rearm because some deputies said they saw him containing the Qurans, according to the release. soaked Qurans attached to the car he was riding in. carrying a handgun in a Mulberry McDonald’s parking lot, SEE TERRY, PAGE 4 Record number of students slate for October elections � MORE THAN 670 QUALIFIED. COLLEEN WRIGHT Alligator Staff Writer [email protected] After a slow start, more students qualifi ed and slat- ed for UF Student Government Senate seats than last semester. A record 674 students qualifi ed for the 2013 Fall elections, which are next month. In Spring, a total of 513 students qualifi ed, accord- ing to Alligator archives. Supervisor of Elections Justin Hoover said he tried to spread the word about qualifying through social me- dia and advertisements through the Gator Times and Kan Li / Alligator Staff Channel 8 news in the dorms. Wednesday, he said, was the biggest rush, with 465 Dissolving the Union students qualifying in one day. Construction workers watch as a portion of the Reitz Union Colonnade is demolished Wednesday after- “People were trying to get in here and get it done,” noon. The construction at the Reitz is expected to be completed in 2015. Hoover said. Students Party Campaign Manager Helie Dharia said her party will fi ll 44 seats on its slate, the same CAMPUS number as Spring 2013. A total of 61 students slated with the Students Party. Overall, 550 students slated with the Swamp Party. Tenured faculty make for worse teachers Party Spokesman Joseph Michaels said the party will SEAN STEWART-MUNIZ class. Tenured teachers were found to sors are judged on their mentorship, have a full slate with 50 seats. Alligator Staff Writer do poorly on both fronts, as opposed teaching and research, among other “Swamp Party is confi dent that it has assembled the [email protected] to adjunct or nontenured professors. things. Professors who achieve tenure, best candidates the University of Florida has to offer,” Professors dimming the lights and But Marc Heft, senior chairman of typically after a seven-year period, are he said. reading off PowerPoint slides is noth- UF’s Faculty Senate, said giving a pro- given security in that their salaries are The remaining 63 students either did not slate with ing new to college students, but a new fessor tenure doesn’t necessarily mean guaranteed by the university. either party or intend to run as independents, Hoover study from Northwestern University they’re going to become bad teachers. “It’s a bidirectional commitment,” explained. states a teacher’s underperformance “It’s not a fair assessment to say that Heft said. “It’s saying ‘we believe once people get tenure they don’t care in you,’ while you give us your best Both parties announced their slates around mid- might be due to tenure. about anything anymore,” Heft said. work.” night. A mandatory meeting for selected candidates The study followed freshman stu- dents of tenured and nontenured “Some of the most outstanding teach- He said not all faculty is brought on will be held today at 9 p.m. in Rion Ballroom B in the ers I’ve met are highly established ten- to teach, which is why some students Reitz Union. faculty, rating the teachers by the stu- dents’ grades and how many of them ured faculty members.” might be dissatisfi ed with their lectur- took upper-level courses in the same He said the concept of tenure is a ers. Faculty brought on for research fi eld after completing the introductory peer-review process where profes- SEE TENURE, PAGE 4 Today 91/70 Community garden preps for workshops, next season UF alumnus searches for funding to FORECAST 2 CLASSIFIEDS 12 The farm has been operating for about a year, pg 3. publish third novel OPINIONS 6 CROSSWORD 14 Migraine research might mean less of a headache Patrick Arenson launched a Kickstarter, pg 8. the AVENUE 7 SPORTS 15 UF scientists found the source of throbbing pain, pg 5. 2, ALLIGATOR . THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 News Today VOLUME 108 ISSUE 16 ISSN 0889-2423 FORECAST Not offi cially associated with the University of Florida WHAT’S HAPPENING? 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