Keyrats invade Gainesville this Weekend

This weekend, in Gainesville, there’s some exciting stuff going down. First and foremost, UM will be playing UF. Because of the occasion, hundreds of Miami fans are coming up to watch the game and to party or sulk, depending on the outcome.

The Keyrats, seeing as so many of their fans will be about, will be playing not once but twice during the weekend. Here it is straight from the source:

FRIDAY NIGHT- Froggy’s Midnight Tailgate @ Silver Q. Forget the midtown madness, this is the best Friday night around.
Downstairs- The KEYRATS will be setting the mood as Gainesville’s best pool bar party pops off. Upstairs- DJ WillBuck and DJ Peekay will be tearing it down in the Peach Pit.

SATURDAY DAYTIME - Orange & Blue Bloc Party @ Links
By far the best outdoor tailgate in Gainesville. Located 100 ft from the stadium on University Ave!!!!! The KEYRATS will be playing throughout the afternoon. The party will feature
-8 LCD TV’s
-6 Beertubs
-10 bartenders
-DJ WillBuck

So, for all of those going up to Gainesville to support the Canes or the Gators, come party with the KEYRATS all weekend long!!!!

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World record flip cup?

(this is not the world record)

So I’ve heard some talk about a world record flip cup game being played up in Gainesville for the UM vs UF game this weekend. The way it was going to work, it was going to be a huge game played at the 112. Something like 10 tables were mentioned.

Now, though, I’ve been hearing that people are getting a little lazy. They don’t think it can be done. They think that a party like the one that’s going down this weekend will be good enough with a regular beer pong game.

I don’t think so, but that’s only one man’s opinion.

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UF officially bans Beer Pong

I know a lot of key rats have attended or attend the University of Florida, so this should come off as practical news for said rats: UF has officially banned beer pong. This doesn’t mean much to all those students who live off campus and seldomly partake in official school activities, but for those that do, it could be a disaster. If you get caught by the school playing any drinking games, you could be subject to disciplinary action, even if you’re twenty-one and live off campus.

As my friend Melissa so well puts it (she also pointed me to the article):

Let’s say I host an event for a student organization I’m in, and by student code I’m allowed to have it at a place that serves alcohol, but someone starts playing a “drinking game”. If anyone were to say something about it to someone in an administrative position I could be expelled. I know it sounds out there and maybe even paranoid, but shit like that happens all the time within UF organizations, sororities, fraternities, political systems – even sometimes to students who write for any of UF’s publications. All of these people (a large percentage of students) could be held accountable for these actions by a simple photo on Facebook showing them near a beer pong table. I don’t know, it just makes me worried for UF students who are 21, legal and living in a consumer based economy where they should be able to buy whatever they want as long as it’s legal. I mean next thing you know the local Sports Authority announced it stopped selling ping-pong balls! (Joke).

This all comes on the heels of the Princeton Review naming UF the number one party school in the country. I have to say that if UF is number one, I feel sorry for the kind of parties going on elsewhere.

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Miami commissioners approve building in the Everglades

This is the kind of stuff that makes you wonder if anyone is paying any attention at all to what goes on in the government. See, in Miami Dade we have this imaginary do not cross line called the Urban Development Boundary. It was created because someone at some point knew that developers would find it lucrative to pave the entire peninsula, and in an effort to save some of the wetlands we have, the line was drawn.

Last Thursday Miami Dade commissioners voted to let Lowes put a store up on the other side of the line. Without hesitation, the majority of the commissioners voted in favor of siding with the company on this and just pissing all over the UBD. TIME has an article up about the whole thing, poking fun at the fact that Miami’s government has a history of bowing to developers. The main proponent of the change in the line is commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz, who is already under investigation for accepting gifts from developers in exchange for votes. The TIME article also mentions that another backer is a commissioner who once said how she disliked manatees in an effort to push agenda that would screw manatee preservation.

Trying to justify the whole thing, Diaz says that the part where they would build the Lowes is, “muck. It’s not pristine wetlands,” as if there’s some kind of difference. The fact is that no one in Florida will ever see a Florida panther and the more we encroach into the area the more we’ll destroy the ecosystem. Nevermind that you could put a Lowes in a hundred different places across the county without having to cross into preserved land. The only real saving grace to the whole situation is that Miami mayor Carlos Alvarez is strongly against moving the UBD, and is trying to veto the commission’s decision.

[via TIME; thanks Rachel]

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There’s a new Florida state song!

I bet you didn’t even know there was an old Florida state song; shows what a Floridian you are. Well there was, and it kicked ass. The only problem is that it was a bit offensive; in particular a line about “darkies” in the chorus. It’s called Old Folks at Home. Here it is being sung by the beautiful Rosa Ponselle.

Now, you’re probably thinking, “how could they replace such a kick-ass song? Nothing can compare!,” but the truth is the song has its flaws. For one, the already mentioned offensiveness. Then there’s the guy who wrote the song, Stephen Foster. He wasn’t even from Florida, and he didn’t write the song for or about Florida. He chose one lyric (”Way down upon the Swanee river”) about Florida because it sounded right, and that’s it.

Now we have the new song. This song is actually written by Jan Hinton, a Pompano Beach music teacher. The song is written for and about Florida, and after listening to it only once, it already held a special place in my heart, as I’m sure it will yours too. It’s called (wait for it): Florida.

Now you know what to sing if you’re feeling like a proud Floridian. If for any reason you’re feeling like a proud Floridian and a proud Key Rat, you can always sing Florida, and then follow that with the KBES school song. Sorry, there’s no YouTube video for that one (yet!).

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