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Computer lab

CELEBRATING 37 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

ENERGIZED LEARNING

technicians
expand help
for students

By Elise Reed

news®kykernetcom

Starting this fall, students will no longer need to
trek to McVey hall for minor computer problem; like a
forgotten password. Consultants in any computer lab
on campus will be able to reset student passwords.

The change is part of a number of projects that Stu-
dent Computer Services is working on over the sum—
mer break.

By August. all campus computer lab employees
will be able to reset student passwords, said Doyle
Friskney. associate vice president for information tech-
nology-at UK. Also. lab consultants will help handle
calls to the McVey Hall help desk when phone trafﬁc
is heavy. More complex questions and problems will
be routed back to the main help center.

“Right now. McVey is the only place students can
go for help." Friskney said. “i thought, wouldn’t it be
neat if instead of making everybody come to us. we
came to them?“

The majority of calls to McVey are from students
with password problems, Friskney said. He said he
hopes having the call center software and password-
changing capabilities in all labs will help students re-
solve password troubles more quickly. '

The software has already been tested in W.T.
Young Library and will soon-be tried in other labs.
Leonard Howell. who manages the lab in the Business
and Economics building. said he is not worried about
consultants having trouble handling their new responsi—
bilities.

“There is a learning curve to the software.“ he said.
“But once they've adjusted. they will be able to handle
the system without difﬁculty."

See Labs on page 3

Former UK official
stayed active in
the classroom

The halls of the Student Center were bustling
with the voices of more than 200 students yester-
day as they participated in the Govemor's Minori-
ty Student College Preparation Program. The
program. according to the Kentucky Council on
Post—Secondary Education, offers a grant to pub-
lic colleges and universities to focus on improving
the academic and study skills of minority studean
before college. From assembling circuits to ﬂash-
ing LEDs. students were immersed in applied
science and computer technology. They worked
with local school educators and faculty volunteers
from the UK College of Engineering.

PHOTOS BY ALLIE GAIZA l STAFF

Drevonte Morman, left and Matt Habren, both in the seventh grade, assemble circuits, while Wesley Clark, a volunteer teacher from Morton Middle School helps
Sixth grader Haneeta Muhammad with her circuit Once assembled completely, the circuits would turn on a light or make a fan spin.

Deondra Johnson constructs a flashing LED during the Governor‘s Minori-
ty Student College Preparation Program yesterday in the Student Center

By Allie Garza

agarza@kykarnel.com

A longtime advocate of equal rights and former vice
chancellor of minority affairs. Mr. William C. Parker,
died this week. He was 83.

Mr. Parker, a prominent member of the Lexington
and UK community. who served the university from
1984 through 1990. suffered a heart attack on Sunday.

“All of us who are pan of the University of Ken-
tucky family were deeply saddened to hear of the pass—
ing of Dr. William C. Parker." President Lee Todd said
in a statement released by UK. “Our thoughts and
prayers are with his family. As vice chancellor for mi-
nority'affairs at UK. Dr. Parker was a strong voice for
progress and action for the entire university community.
but particularly for African-American students. faculty
and staff."

Mr. Parker's grandson. Lamin Swan. said Mr. Park-
er suffered a massive heart attack on Sunday while giv-
ing a presentation at the Kentucky Humanities Council
Retreat in Cumberland Falls.

Swann. a social work junior. said Mr. Parker died
doing what he loved: teaching.

Born in Cairo, 111.. Mr. Parker studied and received
his bachelor's and master's degrees at Illinois State

See Parker on page 3

What’s next: Fall campaign m

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Obama and likely Republican contender John McCain has begun.
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All outdoor areas on UK‘s Medical Center
campus will be tobacco-free beginning Nov. 20.

The UK Board of Trustees formally ap-
proved the plan in late April to eliminate smoke
from the Medical Center campus. surrounding
grounds and other related ofﬁces.

That plan targets outdoor areas of the Med-
ical Center. as all indoor areas of the Medical
Center became smoke-free in November 2006.
when the Board of Trustees adopted an indoor
smoke-free policy. Since November 2006.
smokers on UK’s campus have been required to
stand 20 feet from any building entrance. exit.
window or air intake.

UK's new policy will be implemented in
conjunction with the American Cancer Soci—
ety's “Great American Smoke Out Day." an an—

nual event on the third Thursday of November.
which challenges people to quit smoking for 24
hours.

The new policy is UK‘s version ol’ a grow—
ing trend. said Elizabeth Cobb. health care poli—
cy director at Kentucky Hospital Association.

“Many hospitals are ﬁnding that it is impor-
tant to take a leadership role in decreasing l()<
bacco and improving the health care of their
community." Cobb said.

During the summer months leading up to
the policy's implementation. a committee com»
prised of people from within the Medical Ccn<
ter and UK’s medical colleges will be dcwising
a way to enforce the ban.

Although smoking has stopped inside L‘K‘s
facilities. it has proven to be much more diffi—
cult to enforce the “ZO-feet rule" for the cam»
pus‘s outdoor areas.

“To some extent. you‘re relying on pcoplcs‘

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willingness.” UK spokesman Jay Blanton said.

L'K‘s Chandler Hospital currently has two

designated smoking areas. and L'K’s Good

Samaritan Hospital has one. All of those desig»
natcd areas will be eliminated when the plan
comes in effect,

UK Hospital employee Lisa Durrum. a

longtime smoker. does not think the plan could
keep so many people from smoking.

“I just don‘t see it happening." Durrum

said. ”There are too many smokers around
here."

Despite the skepticism. the Medical Center

remains optimistic about finding a way to make
sure the plan works. Murray Clark. associate
vice president of Medical Center operations,
said L'K vull learn from other hospitals around
the country that have implemented such plans.

“We‘re taking lessons from them." Clark

said. "We think it's doable."

Obama vs. McCain — a study in contrasts

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WASHINGTON ~ At ﬁrst glance. the
John McCain-Barack Obama election looks
like a study in contrasts.

McCain is 71. a Vietnam War veteran
who‘s trying to become the oldest person
ever elected to a ﬁrst term.

Obama‘s 46. a native of Hawaii and a
one-time Chicago community organizer
who's trying to become the ﬁrst black per-
son to win the White House.

McCain is a usually loyal Republican
with an independent streak; he‘s voted with
his party 88.3 percent of the time in the cur-
rent Congress. well above his Republican
colleagues‘ average. He likes the idea of
making President Bush‘s tax cuts permanent
and thinks that the Iraq war remains a vital
US. interest and a noble cause.

Obama is a ﬁercely loyal Democrat with
his own independent thoughts. He‘s voted
with his party 96.4 percent of the time since
January 2007. He regards the lraq war as a
tragic mistake and wants to cut taxes for the
middle and poorer classes while raising

them on the wealthy

McCain is a 25~year veteran of Con»
gress. Obama‘s been in the Senate only
three and a half years. and a lot of that time
was spent campaigning for the White House
—- and missing votes.

Both candidates face problems. some
obvious. some historic.

Both still need to unify their parties.
Obama lost most of the year‘s big battle-
ground states in Democratic contests and
did poorly among older white voters. many
of whom have said they'll give McCain a
look.

McCain. though. still isn't the darling of
his party‘s conservative wing: long after his
major rivals left the race. he rarely got more
than 75 percent of the Republican primary
votes in late spring primaries.

Both also are ﬁghting history. which
shows that November voters don't simply
go down checklists and contrast candidates‘
stands on policy questions. Decisions often
are driven by passion about an issue or an
image that‘s been burned in their minds.

Three passions seem to be dominant so

far this year. and all offer advantages to
Obama: ending the Iraq war. restoring a
sense of economic security and ousting the
Republican Party from the White House.

The war‘s approval rating was 30 per»
cent in the latest CNN/Opinion Research
Corporation poll. Bush's job approval “as
28 percent. Economic anxiety is higher than
at any time since UN]. and $4 a gallon
gasoline isn't helping.

Obama will pound home the idea that “a
vote for McCain will be seen as a public ac-
ceptance of the idea we can stay there tin
Iraq) awhile." said John Forticr. a political
analyst at Washington's American Enter-
prise Institute. a center-right research center.

“The war was his launching pad during
the primaries." said Carl Pinkele. a profes-
sor of politics and govemment at Ohio Wes—
leyan University. “It should continue to be a
strong asset."

Yet Obama and McCain are close in
most national polls. Gallup‘s daily tracking
polls have had them in a virtual tie for the
past week.

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Mario Lopez and Karina
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to rest when they frolicked to-
gether on a Miami beach May
25. The hot duo remained close
while they splashed in the waves
and even attempted a Dirty
Dancing-style lift.

Perhaps they were choreo-
graphing some moves for the
new reality show they have been
working on about dancers in
LA. 80 how did Lopez, 34, and
the Dancing With the Stars pro.
30, handle the rumors that she
had dumped him for her Danc-
ing partner Mario?

“1 get a kick out of it."
Lopez tells Us. “That‘s all they
are — rumors.“ Seconds
Smirnoff. “It’s all BS and it’s
not true."

Jessica & Cash

When Jessica Alba and Cash
Warren tied the knot May 19
with a quickie courthouse wed-
ding in Beverly Hills. the couple
kept their “1 do“ plans so top-se-
cret that her own brother didn‘t
know about them.

“My sister? I’m going to
have to call her!" Josh Alba said
after Us broke the news to him
the next day.

(Not to worry: An Alba con-
fidant tells Us the ﬁlm -produc—
er. 29. and 27-year-old Love
Guru actress ~ who was
dressed down in a blue dress
and ponytail for her big day —
are planning a second wedding
for loved ones later this year.)

“The baby brought us clos-
er." Alba tells Us. “Starting a
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Christian's Crazy in Love

Christian Slater gushes to Us
of Jimmy Choo president Tama-
ra Mellon. 40. whom he‘s been
dating since the fall.

Is their relationship still
revving up? “What can I say?
There‘s not an adjective in the
world to describe it. one that
would give it justice. really."
says the actor, 38. who recently
wrapped a spy ﬂick. Lies & Illu-
sions. and has begun ﬁlming
2009's Dolan’s Cadillac. “Phe-
nomenal. excellent. all good!"

Mark & Kelly

Kelly Ripa. 37, tells Us she
and Mark Consuelos, 38. are
thinking about having another
baby.

“We talk about it all the
time." says the mom to Michael.
11, Lola. 6. and Joaquin. 5. “It’s
a huge discussion in our house.
At this point. we feel like we
have three healthy, beautiful.
sweet kids. l’m afraid I'm going
to be gilding the lily. asking for
too much. But never say nev-
er!"

Jesse 8t Aubrey

“Beautiful Soul" singer
Jesse McCartney. 2]. had a
beautiful lady on his arm when
he stepped out in NYC May 19
with Danity Kane singer Aubrey
O‘Day! They met two days ear-
lier at the concert Zootopia.
where they exchanged numbers.
says a source close to both. “I

saw him performing and knew I
had to meet him." the girl-band
star. 24. tells Us. “He’s very tal-
ented."

And though they were mak-
ing out on their date to hot spots
Waverly Inn and Butter. says the
insider. O’Day was spotted the
next night “all over" a mystery
man at Estelle‘s R&B Live con-
cert at Spotlight Live! “It‘s
new." says the pal. “So who
knows where it‘s going?"

Harrison's Happiness

After seven years. Harrison
Ford is still smitten with Calista

Flockhan, 43. The Indiana Jones . -

star. 65, says his perfect day
starts with “time with Calista!"
Flockhart, mom to Liam. 7.
clearly feels the same. Says a
source of the Brothers & Sisters
star. “She gets a look in her eye
when she talks about him."

Sienna's Hanging On
Despite recent reports that
distance has taken a toll on Si-
enna Miller‘s romance with
Rhys lfans, a source says. “peo-
ple are jumping to conclusions
because they haven‘t been to-
gether much recently." The in-
sider insists the actreSs, 26. now
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“Fantastic Four"

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open

22 Hair protectors

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a lot of partner
switching?

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35 Throw _

36 Start to Miss

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island

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8 First name in
comics villainy
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piece
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as tea
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13 Seats at a
wedding. maybe
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23 Singer McEntire
25 Official country
name until 1949
26 Rank-and-file
mover?
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so to speak
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31 Kill time
32 One of
Chekhov's
“Three Sisters"

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factor

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40 Pt. of a

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sea nymph

39 Kids’ hangouts

monogram
43 Snootiness

46 Limerick site

48 “_ reasonable"
49 Very different,

50 Pharaoh’s
cross

53 Viking language

54 Still in the sack

55 Thus far

56 Bar order

57 Type of lamp

58 Neck of the
woods

62 Shakespearean
assents

63 Shooter’s
sphere

grade

51 Basketball
defense

3 4 5

52 One catching a
lot of waves

56 Dynamites

58 Place of refuge
59 “Gentlemen

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since 1989

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get-together?
64 Holiday harbinger

65 Department store
employee

66 Result

67 Tedious card
game

68 Pope piece

69 Crackerjack

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fashion

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cousin

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business
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performances
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Barents Sea
17 “That‘s Not All
Folks!"
autobiographer
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19 Fashion issue
20 Field
22 Prefix meaning
“bad”
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25 A hot one is hard
to deal with
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homeowners
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34 An ex of Mickey
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7 Kevin’s “Tin Cup"
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10 Superficial
11 Singing syllable
12 Chicken dish with
ham and cheese
13 Nashville
attraction
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so to speak
21 Some residents
24 Seasonal laughs
26 Reasons for
overtime
27 Deadens
28 “If __ Would
Leave You"
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30 Outboard motor
jammer

39 Benefit

46 __-Cat
champs

pop album

32 Brownie bunch
33 Can’t stomach
picture paints

41 Deep greens
44 Comic strip duck
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55 Wagering sites,
briefly

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LABS

Continued from page 1

Some lab consultants have already un-
dergone training for their new responsibili-
ties. Ben Osborne. an education senior who
has worked for Student Computing Services
for four semesters. found his ﬁrst training
session difﬁcult.

“It was a lot of infomtation at one time,"
Osborne said. “Not all of the computers had
the software loaded, so we had to watch
rather than experience."

Despite this initial complication, Osborne
said he thinks having the software in labs
around campus will be a positive change.

“If it's designed to make the process eas-
ier, it'll be beneﬁcial in the end," he said.

In addition to the call center and pass-
word software being installed, Friskney said
Student Computing Services is working on
three other projects over the summer:

I All computer labs will include both
Mac- and Windows-based computers by the
beginning of the Fall semester. Currently,
UK operates separate labs for each operating
system.

I Students will be able to access their

university Blackboard accounts through
Facebook using a program called bbSync.
which Friskney said the university has
loaded and activated.

I The success of The Hub in the base»
ment of W. T. Young Library inspired plans
for the third project: the creation of smaller
hubs, or hublets, in other labs around cam-
pus. Friskney said. Hublets, which will con-
sist of new workspaces, are scheduled to be
created in the Business and Economics lab,
King Library lab. and Fine Arts lab.

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PARKER

Continued from page 1

University and held a doctorate in psycholo—
gy from Columbia Paciﬁc University.

Mr. Parker spent his time before coming
to UK teaching at several schools in the
Midwest and at Oberlin College in Ohio.

As vice chancellor of minority affairs at
UK. Mr. Parker was responsible for attract—
ing and retaining minority students. as well
as advising on minority affairs.

“(Mr. Parker’s) legacy lives on at UK

through the Parker Scholarships, which rec-
ognize students not only for their academic
excellence but also their commitment to lead-
ership. community and diversity,“ Todd said.

Retiring in 1990 at the age of 55, Mr.
Parker started Parker & Parker, a human-re-
sources-development consulting ﬁrm.
Swann said his grandfather never truly re-
tired.

“While it was on paper at UK that he
was retired because he reached the age of
55. he traveled and continued to teach from
that day on."

At the time of his death, Mr. Parker was
an adjunct professor at Bluegrass Communi-
ty and Technical College.

Swarm said that his grandfather touched
people everywhere. While Swan was taking
a cab to his grandparents‘ house. the driver
overheard him speaking about the funeral
arrangements.

“The driver asked if my grandfather
passed_away.“ Swann said. “When I re-
sponded ‘yes,’ he said that he had waited on
him at the UK Faculty Club.“

“He was a good man,“ the driver told
Swann.

A memorial service for Parker will be
held at 11 am. Thursday, June 5. at Memor-
ial Hall.

CAMPAIGN

Continued from page 1

Perhaps that’s partly because to many
voters. Obama remains an uncertain ﬁgure.

In contrast, “McCain can pull out his
record and show where he has clear posi—
tions." said Julian Zelizer. history and public
affairs professor at Princeton University.

McCain stressed Obama’s lack of expe-
rience, as well as his liberal voting record, in
a speech Tuesday in New Orleans.

“I have a few years on my opponent."
McCain said. “so I am surprised that a young
man has bought into so many failed ideas.”

Among them: “He seems to think gov-
ernment is the answer to every problem."

“Republicans think it will be easy to
paint Obama as someone too prone to diplo-
macy in foreign affairs and taxing and
spending in domestic policy. They did that
to Mondale and Gore. and it worked." said
chizer.

Former Vice President Walter Mondale

advocated tax increases as a major part of
his 1984 campaign, and former Vice Presi-
dent Al Gore in 2000 promised a tax cut
only 40 percent as big as opponent George
W. Bush‘s. Both lost.

On the other hand, Obama will say that
McCain represents a third Bush term and
would push the same radical policies that
have led to the Iraq quagmire, the sluggish
economy, high oil prices and global disdain
for the United States.

Nonsense. McCain said Tuesday.

“I have worked with the president to
keep our nation safe," he said, “but he and I
have not seen eye to eye on many issues."

Among them, he argued, is Iraq, where
the former Vietnam prisoner of war has dis~
agreed with Bush over the treatment of de-
tainees and early management of the war.
They’ve also broken over climate change
and ﬁnancing political campaigns.

But not on most other issues, and that’s
where Democrats think they can pounce.
Government. Obama contended Tuesday. is-
n‘t the problem: inept government is.

And. he said, he understands “that the
struggles facing working families can‘t be

solved by spending billions of dollars on
more tax breaks for big corporations and
wealthy CEOs but by giving the middle
class a tax break.“

And by using federal dollars to improve
schools and roads, and protecting Social Se-
curity. Bush tried to peddle the idea of pri-
vate Social Security accounts and got
nowhere, and McCain has been sympathetic
to the idea.

“I can‘t wait for John McCain to come
to South Florida and talk about his position
on Social Security." Obama supporter Rep.
Robert Wexler, D-Ha.. said sarcastically.

Rep. Eric Cantor. R-Va., a McCain sup-
porter, seemed just as eager for Obama to
keep talking about foreign policy.

McCain will sound more authoritative.
Cantor maintained: “John McCain doesn‘t
need any on-the-job training. It's in his
DNA."

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By M L Edwards

The Orlando Sentinel

ORLANDO. Fla. — It‘s
spring and alligators are on the
move — and they are hungry.

A famished gator will swal~
low just about anything, live or
dead.

A plastic toy turtle and a GI
Joe action ﬁgure caused the re-
cent death of a 9-foot-long alli-
gator in the Florida Keys. State
wildlife ofﬁcials said the toys
were lodged in the gator’s in-
testines.

A 2004 study of alligator di-
ets in three Central Florida lakes
—- Apopka, Grifﬁn and
Woodruff — found toys. golf
balls. ﬁshing lures, shotgun
shells, a lighter, spark plugs and
glass.

“Basically you can ﬁnd any-
thing in an alligator‘s stomach."
said Lindsey Hord. a biologist
with Florida’s Alligator Man-
agement Program. “They just
swallow stuff. They swallow

whatever they encounter."

Debbie Stewart knows.
She‘s a gator processor —— one
of the folks who butcher dead
gators for skin and meat.

In her 25 years in the trade.
she has come across dog collars.
a doll. lawn-mower parts, milk
jugs and beer cans inside the
toothy reptiles.

She has found lots of bones
—— including deer — along with
whole turtles and other alligators.

She once had to pull a
smaller gator out of the mouth
of the larger.

And then there was the
skunk. It smelled so bad that
Stewart could smell it as she
was skinning the gator.

Stewart said she doesn‘t
make it a habit to peek inside
the stomachs of the gators she
processes. But, if she feels
something weird, “I get curious.
and I open them up and look.“

Terry Parlier. a nuisance—al-
ligator trapper and processor in

Orange County, said he has seen
a lot of natural food, such as
ﬁsh, turtles. snails and armadil-
los, in the gators he has come
across.

But there was one gator.
pulled from a local lake. that ate
too many discarded tennis balls.

“He couldn't swim under the
water because he was so buoy-
ant." Parlier recalled.

Gators are particularly active
this time of year because they
are cold-blooded creatures. said
Gary Morse. a spokesman for
the Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission.

Having slowed down during
the cool winter, “their metabo-
lism increases as the weather
warms up.“ Morse said. “Their
need for food increases. They
mate.

“Everything that they do is
increased,“ he said.

Some become the equivalent
of garbage cans that swim.

“They basically eat anything

that‘s ﬂoating on top of the wa»
ter." he said. “If they see some-
thing. they just think it's food. I
call them a water buzzard."

In many cases. what you
find inside the alligator may be
a clue as to where it has been
living. Hord said.

“If an alligator lives on a
golf course. it‘s fairly likely he‘s
going to have golf balls in his
stomach." he said.

Likewise. gators in Lake
Okeechobee may have fish-
hooks in their stomachs.

Wayne Brooks has been pro—
cessing and famting alligators
for nearly his entire life. He
once discovered a 35mm camera
in the stomach of an ll-foot alli‘
gator he and his brother skinned.

He has also seen aluminum
cans and a lot of trash.

“It's amazing what they can
survive on." he said. “They‘ll
smell food on it. . . .They just
swallow the whole thing."

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