Not officially associated with the University of Florida Published by Campus Communications, Inc. of Gainesville, Florida We Inform. You Decide. VOLUME 105 ISSUE 77 TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011 Scott to UF: It’s time to tighten your belt The veto includes $6 million for UF sees $12 million slashed a research and academic facility at Gov. Scott’s Vetoes: By JOEY FLECHAS Lake Nona in Orlando — a project Alligator Staff Writer “However, we recognize the that has already broken ground. $5.3 million for maintenance and repairs of existing facilities state of Florida is in a very UF President Bernie Machen is- sued a statement Thursday stress- A broken air conditioning sys- difficult economic situation.” $6 million for Lake Nona Research and Academic Facility ing the importance of these projects tem, a hole in the roof and a busted Bernie Machen and disappointment that they won’t water chiller. UF President $369,000 for WUFT-TV and WUFT-FM, UF’s public television be funded. The cost of these would-be re- and radio stations He also acknowledged the diffi- pairs, after Gov. Rick Scott vetoed culty of budgeting in tough times. roughly $12 million in funding for Scott vetoed a record $615 mil- “However, we recognize the $500,000 for Statewide Brain Tumor Registry Program at the UF Thursday, would not come out lion dollars from the state budget State of Florida is in a very difficult McKnight Brain Institute of state funds. before signing it, including about economic situation, and the Legis- Instead, the university will have $5.3 million for routine maintenance lature and the Governor faced hard $34,000 to somehow foot the bill. and repairs at UF and $500,000 for a for Southwest Alachua County Primary and Com- choices,” he said. “Hopefully, these “We might have to make some statewide brain tumor research pro- munity Health Care Clinic, a project run by the UF College of projects will be funded when the very tough decisions,” said UF gram based at the McKnight Brain Nursing revenues return.” spokeswoman Janine Sikes. Institute. Locals remember those who died serving the U.S. n VETERANS FOR PEACE ERECT MEMORIAL. By MICHAEL SYKES Alligator Contributing Writer The Gainesville chapter of Veterans for Peace erect- ed more than 6,000 tombstones along a mile of North- west Eighth Avenue between Northwest 34th Street and Northwest 23rd Street this Memorial Day weekend. The tombstones, which stood in rows of four, with 6 inches between columns and 4 feet between rows, were part of a memorial to United States soldiers who have died in the wars in Afghanistan since 2001 and Iraq since 2003. This is the fifth year the memorial has been displayed, and as the number of casualties continues to Local climb, it will not be the last, said Scott Cam- News il, president of Veterans for Peace Chapter 14. There’s nearly 200 feet of space between the last stones placed and a sign that reads “Afghanistan 2012” in ex- pectation of next years’ victims. It took about 30 minutes for some to walk the trib- ute, stopping every so often to look at unfamiliar names and handwritten messages along the way. But for Anita Jonny Shiver / Alligator High, it took longer. Walking tall “Your mom misses you like crazy,” High wrote on the Leah Gaddis, 10, left, and Kelsie Mizzell, 8, middle, play around as Summer Gaddis, 11, slaps five with a stone of her nephew Randolph A. Sigley, 28, who was festival volunteer on stilts during the Palatka Blue Crab Festival on Sunday. See more, page 12. killed April 18, 2010 in Afghanistan. SEE MEMORIAL, PAGE 12 n Florida short- Snakes on a train terrify passengers in Vietnam; owners apparently escaped shop Nolan Fonta- HANOI, Vietnam — Railway officials pounds (45 kilograms). Today na and the Gators have discovered snakes on a train in Viet- Security staff removed the cobras, baseball team cap- nam — highly venomous king cobras in which were likely destined for restaurants FORECAST 2 tured their first SEC bags under a seat. in Hanoi. Their owner apparently escaped OPINIONS 6 Tournament title Railroad official Pham Quynh says in the chaos. CLASSIFIEDS 8 since 1991 after passengers were terrified when four cloth Snake meat is considered a delicacy in Partly beating Vanderbilt bags containing the writhing cobras were Vietnam, but cobras are protected by law. CROSSWORD 11 cloudy 5-0 on Sunday in spotted Friday. The snakes were alive but Quynh says the cobras were given to SPORTS 12 93/69 Hoover, Ala. had their mouths stitched shut. forest rangers who released them into the See Story, Page 13. Quynh says the exact number of snakes wild Saturday after no one claimed them. was unclear but the bags weighed 100 — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS visit www.alligator.org 2, ALLIGATOR n TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011 News Today VOLUME 105 ISSUE 77 ISSN 0889-2423 NATIONAL Not officially associated with the University of Florida FORECAST Published by Campus Communications Inc., of Gainesville, Florida No good humor in frosty Pa. TODAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY NEWSROOM frozen treat feud 352-376-4458 (Voice), 352-376-4467 (Fax) UNIONTOWN, Pa. — Police Editor C.J. 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