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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2005


 WYOMING 14 F UF32- STUDENT LIFE
 STUDENT LIFE

Gator Nation reawakens Alcohol policy

 By FARZAD SAFI
 and LOUIS ANASTASIS playsfavorites
 Alligator Staff Writers
 It was just a walk. It felt like a By JUSTIN RICHARDS
parade. Alligator Writer
 It was just a first-time stroll jrichards@alligator.org
through a dark tunnel -a 90-deci-
bel, heart-thro a darkttlng stroll for Urban Matt Bryan, son of former UF President Robert
Meyer. Bryan, had three liquor bottles and a cooler of beer
 It was just a post-game song, yet outside Ben Hill Griffin Stadiumh before Saturdays
the Gators never felt prouder, their football game.
fans never felt so loved and a semi- He was one of many alumni in
conscious program seemed to breathe reserved lots, celebrating with drink
again, one trumpet note at a time..in hand.
 Meyer and the Gators might The game, the first since UF
have won the first game of a heavily President Be-ie Machen began a
hyped marriage, but Saturday it was campaign against binge drinking,
all about a wedding reception the raised questions about whether UF's
beginning of a novel nuptial tradition most lucrative sport conflicts with
that stirred the soul and rallied Gator Machen Machen'S efforts.
Nation. ., UF president The university's policy, while
 "It felt like I was a freshman again," ever-tightening around students,
safety Kyle Jackson said. "It was a ... may exempt alumni who bring money to the University
whole new experience. Everything Athletic Association.
has pretty much changed around here: Matt Bryan is a Bull Gator, a member of the highest
with all the new traditions." --. tier of the Gator Booster club. Bull Gator status requires
 Tailgaters plastered every inch of at least $12,000 in annual donations to UAA.
University Avenue before midday I.Though fans can be ejected from regular stadium
had even arrived. seating for alcohol possession, alcohol is allowed in select
 Then Meyer, who has always been areas. These include the Bull Gator sections, Touchdown
quick to label Gator Nation as the Terrace and Champions' Club, as-well as the $48,000 per-
most numbing college football ex- season luxury suites over the north end zone.
perience, sampled some of that very Meanwhile, 68 fans were ejected and/or arrested
feeling as part of the first-ever Gator from the stadium Saturday in alcohol-related incidents.
Walk. Serving as the anesthetic were University Police Department spokesman Joe Sharkey
 thousands of fans that lined up t said that most of the ejected fans were not UF students,
thousand ds of fans th at lined up to bu i eo h ig ta r s e e e
wish a sharply dressed team as they but five of the eight arrested were.
filed into the Swamp. -Bryan said a separate alcohol-onsumption stan
 "I thought Gator Walk was big dard for alumni raises a "tough question."
time," Meyer said. "I had no idea Maureen Miller, UF's Alcohol & Other Drug
it could ever be like that. This was Prevention Specialist, echoed Bryan's sentiment.
about as big-time as it gets for a home Andy Apicella / Alligator SEE ALCOHOL, PAGE 4
opener. The largest crowd to ever watch a football game in the state of Florida

 SEE FOOTBALL, PAGE 4 gave Urban Meyer a grand reception at his UF debut.


 New skin cancer vaccine created at UF shows promise


* TESTED AGAINST MELANOMA, THE
VACCINE MAY HAVE BROAD REACH.

 By RESHELLE SMITH
 Alligator Contributing Writer

 Future cases of a common cancer may be
prevented by technology developed at UF.


 Andre Caldwell
 fights to stay on
 his feet during the
 second quarter of
 UF's 32-14 victory
 against Wyoming.
 The Gators im-
proved to 1-0 under
 Urban Meyer.
See more coverage
 in SportsTuesday.


 Though it is years away from being used
on humans, UF professor of immunology
Howard Johnson has tested a vaccine for the
skin disease melanoma in mice with promis-
ing results, he said.
 Eighty to 100 percent of the mice given
the vaccine survived two lethal doses of
melanoma, one given immediately after the
vaccine and one given six months after the


vaccine was administered, he said. Mice that
were not given the vaccine died within two
weeks of the lethal dose.
 In humans melanoma is the deadliest form
of skin cancer, according to the American
Cancer Society's Web site. The society esti-
mates that in 2005 there will be 59,580 new
cases of melanoma in the United States, and
about 7,770 people will die from the disease.


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 Though more than
 $16,000 was collected
along University Avenue
this Saturday to assist
 victims of Hurricane
Katrina, at least one UF
group's efforts were cut
short when it was asked
 to move off campus.
 See story, pg. 3.


 Johnson hopes to change those numbers
with his vaccine, but the path from Johnson's
lab to hospital beds is a long one.
 Johnson is applying for a patent for the
vaccine, and if he receives it, human clinical
trials could begin in three to four years. The
trials could then last for many more years,
testing both the safety and the effectiveness
 SEE VACCINE, PAGE 5


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