VOLUME 106 ISSUE 33 WWW.ALLIGATOR.ORG THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011

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We Inform. You Decide.Not officially associated with the University of Florida Published by Campus Communications, Inc. of Gainesville, Florida

Student musicians vie for solo spotlightOne student won solo performance with the orchestra in an upcoming performance, pg. 3.

Questions over election presented to UF Supreme CourtThe Election Commission is set to start the investigation, pg 3. Gay Pride Festival returns to Gainesville this yearThe festival will take place on Oct. 22, pg 4.

The Avenue talks

to Comedy Central’s

“Workahol-ics.” See

Story, Page 10.

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Aundre Larrow / Alligator Staff

Gainesville activist Jesse Schmidt stands before a crowd of about 120 people as Occupy Gainesville rallies on the steps of City Hall Wednesday evening. Occupy Gainesville is a splinter group of Occupy Wall Street, a movement to “stop corporate greed and corrupt politics,” according to occupywallst.org.

� THE FIRST RALLY TOOK PLACE ON WEDNESDAY.

BENJAMIN S. BRASCH Alligator Contributing Writer

College towns are joining

a national movement, and Gainesville is no exception.

The Occupy Wall Street protest has now spread to 75 college campuses, according to the Occupy Colleges web-site.

Occupy Wall Street is a pro-test in New York City to voice the opinion of the 99 percent of the population that isn’t as wealthy as the top 1 percent, said Maya Garner, a member of Occupy Gainesville.

Occupy Gainesville held an informational meeting Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Bo Diddley Community Plaza.

The meeting was held to organize the efforts that will

parallel those of the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

At fi rst, the plaza was the scene of the meeting, but once the crowd became too large it moved across the street to the front of City Hall.

“We have no country in a sense,” said Jesse Schmidt, a Gainesville activist.

He described the Occupy Gainesville protest as a revival of the fi ght against multina-tional corporations.

“We are standing with brothers and sisters all over the world,” Schmidt said.

While the movement is not led by anyone in particular, multiple organizations are in-volved.

“We don’t have the future that was promised to our par-ents,” said Jeremiah Tatter-sall, organizer of Fight Back Florida, a group dedicated to making sure union and stu-dent issues are represented in Florida.

Occupy Wall Street movement makes it to Gainesville

SAMANTHA SHAVELL Alligator Contributing Writer

The UF College of Medicine plans

to launch a new traumatic brain injury research center within the next few weeks.

A UF alumnus recently donated $500,000 to help establish the new cen-ter, which will be housed in an existing space in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

“The center will be a one-stop shop for information and resources on brain injury for victims, families, students and professionals who wish to under-stand more about this devastating dis-

ease,” said Latha Ganti Stead, who will spearhead the new research.

The money will go toward Stead’s professorship.

At the center, there will be lectures on brain injury-relat-ed topics to residents training in emergen-cy, neurology, neu-rosurgery, psychol-ogy and critical care.

The center will also provide in-ser-vice training for nurses managing vic-tims of brain injury.

Stead said she hopes to develop

$500,000 donation will help fund new brain trauma center

ON CAMPUS

RACHEL CROSBY Alligator Contributing Writer

Plastered bulletin boards and chalk-covered

sidewalks have made it hard to avoid UF’s newest student-focused website: fratweiner.com.

The website is run by part of the assumed male, non-Greek portion of the student popu-lation.

Featuring candid, phone-quality pictures of fraternity members on campus doing every-thing from walking to class to hanging at the Reitz Union, as well as Sperry-clad induced captions like, “Straight Off the Yacht,” the web-site, at fi rst, seems comical.

But quickly the mood turns, and the site becomes, as some have said, comparable to a “Mean Girls” style “Burn Book.”

With the ability to comment on photos anonymously available to everyone, what might have been seen as funny has morphed into a type of cyberbullying.

Explicit comments are becoming more com-mon, and most of them are aimed at the young men’s sexuality, one referring to a member as, “the frattiest [expletive] I’ve ever seen.”

As far as the pictures portray, the posts are unique to UF.

To some, the comments aren’t considered

Fratweiner.com attacks male Greeks with photos, comments

SEE OCCUPY, PAGE 5

SEE MEDICAL, PAGE 5

SEE FRAT, PAGE 5

“Since anyone can comment on the website, they have the ability to

counteract anything they don’t like. I don’t see the problem.”

Jeffrey Rudolphpre-pharmacy freshman

Stead