Word of the week: corpulent. Webster's New College World defines it as fat and fleshy; stout; obese. It says the origin is Middle English, corporality, from Latin corpulentia, corpulence, from corpulentus,corpulent, from corpus, body; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots. Merriam-Webster says the origin is Middle English, from Latin corpulentus, from corpus with a first known use in the 14th century. The writer uses the word to describe primates that are being fattened up for studies on obesity.
Catch of the week: "While some students choose are spending their Spring Break soaking in the debauchery of sun-kissed tourist destinations..."
This was clearly an error at the copy desk. Someone must have changed the lede from "choose to spend" to "are spending" but forgot to remove the word choose. It reads rather funny and makes you do a double-take.
Headline of the week:
Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll and engineer Norman Augustine speak at UF
Another Alligator speech article with a boring headline. Not only do most students not know who Carroll or Augustine are, they probably don't care. I would have used the following headline, which would attract more eyes to the pieces.
Florida is falling behind in technological advancements, Lt. Gov says
Passage of the week:
I ask Boyer about the girl. Does he worry about her? I don't know how she feels, because I haven't been able to track her down. (The fact that I tried angers some colleagues, who tell me that I would be victimizing her all over again if I contacted her. The fact that I fail distresses others, who argue that a story containing even a measure of sympathy for Boyer, without his victim's perspective, is an outrage.)
It's from a story about the first American cyclist in the Tour de France and his life as a child molester. While the prose isn't that powerful, the ethical dilemma is and it sparked an inner debate for myself.
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