Mind you, I'm keeping with Alligator tradition and great traditions.

 It is my pleasure to introduce to you Mr. Joe Black, the editor of the

 Independent Florida Alligator. Even before becoming editor, Mr. Black

 distinguished himself by producing many excellent stories for the Alligator

 journalist staff more than three years ago. He has sat with student government

 and the University of Florida administration in higher education in Florida. [He is]

 a journalist news editor, new student edition coordinator, editorial page editor,

 and our inaugural Tallahassee bureau chief. He has interned for the Staurt

 News, the Port St. Lucie News, the Florida Times Union, and the Kalamazoo

 Gazette and the Muskegon Chronicle. In his spare time, Joe is a freelance

 writer for the St. Petersburg Times, the Palm Beach Post, and the Associated

 Press. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce to you the editor of the

 Independent Florida Alligator, Mr. Joe Black. [applause]

B: Well, I'll try to make all this kind of quick because I'm sure everybody is trying to

 get done eating and all that kind of good stuff. Basically, what I wanted to say

 was that I wanted to thank everybody for coming and showing up. It's been a

 great three years here at the Alligator. I'm getting ready to graduate soon. The

 first time I would have came to the paper would have been spring break just

 before my freshman year of college. I was deciding between University of

 Florida, Michigan State, and University of Michigan. So I made a trip down to

 Florida. The first time I came in I met the editor of the Times. She took me

 around the office. I saw Chronicles of Higher Education strewn about [and]

 random paperwork that no one probably had any idea of what it meant. I found