TOM GREEN Alligator Staff Writer

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Florida’s

one-man show on offense turned into an ensemble performance Saturday night.

This time, Jeff Demps was cast in the leading role.

Demps rushed for 157 yards and two touchdowns as No. 12 Florida (4-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) downed Kentucky (2-2, 0-1 SEC) 48-10 in Commonwealth Stadium.

After relying on a heavy dose of Chris Rainey through its fi rst three games, Florida got contributions across the board — none bigger than Demps’ — in its last September tune-up before a brutal October schedule gets underway this week with No. 3 Alabama (4-0, 1-0 SEC) at home.

“There’s going to come a point where someone’s going to do some things that we have to adjust to,” coach Will Muschamp said. “We haven’t gotten there yet. We do feel comfortable about other players on our offense.”

Rainey, who accounted for more than 500 yards and fi ve touchdowns

in Florida’s fi rst three games, still did his share against Kentucky (105 yards on 15 touches). But he wasn’t Florida’s only weapon on offense Saturday.

Florida rushed for 405 yards and four different Gators found the end zone on offense. Surprisingly, Rainey wasn’t one of them.

Demps had a pair of touchdowns. Trey Burton added one of his own.

Tight end Gerald Christian scored for the fi rst time in his career, and running back Mike Gillislee tacked on a late one for the Gators, whose offense add-ed another dimen-

sion against the Wildcats. “I knew [the offense] was going to

open up,” Christian said. “I feel like as it goes down, more teams are going to be keying on [Rainey and Demps], so we have other players that are good, too. It’ll open up everybody else.”

While Florida has relied heavily on pounding the rock thus far — its rush offense ranks 10th in the nation — and

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MORGAN WATKINS Alligator Staff Writer

Lauren Mackie doesn’t think of herself as

a hero. But she has helped save a life. Nineteen-year-old Mackie was recog-

nized with fellow UF student David Wasser-man, 20, at a Friday meeting of the Ad Hoc UPD Campus Advisory Committee.

On Aug. 31, Mackie and Wasserman used CPR to help save the life of an engineering professor who had a heart attack and col-lapsed in the Reitz Union food court.

The students, both lifeguards with CPR training, immediately gave CPR to UF pro-fessor Stephen Pearton when they saw he had collapsed.

Mackie said any other lifeguard would have done the same thing in that situation.

“I don’t consider myself a hero,” she said. “I think we were in the right place at the right time.”

UPD offi cers Daymon Kizzar, Ken Motes and Tim Peck arrived within minutes to

help. They used CPR and an

Automated External Defi -brillator to help Pearton, who later received care at Shands Hospital.

UPD Chief Linda Stump, chair of the eight-member advisory com-mittee, presented the

students and offi cers with Police Challenge Coins, medallions awarded for “meritorious service,” according to a UPD press release.

For more on the meeting, visit alligator.org.

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� SDS PROTESTORS MUST SEND PROPOSAL BEFORE GETTING MEETING WITH UF PRESIDENT.

JOEY FLECHAS Alligator Staff Writer

After recently protesting tuition hikes

at Tigert Hall, Students for a Democratic Society will need to develop a formal pro-posal for reform before securing a meet-ing with UF President Bernie Machen.

Members of SDS met Friday with Mary Kay Schneider Carodine, assistant vice president for Student Affairs, to dis-cuss Machen’s expectations before agree-ing to a meeting.

Carodine said Machen wants the pro-posal to have “as much specifi city as pos-sible.”

SDS member Chrisley Carpio attend-

ed the meeting and said she and fellow members were under the impression they were going to fi nalize a meeting with Ma-chen — a meeting she said she now feels wouldn’t happen even with a proposal.

She said SDS still plans on develop-ing a proposal — one they would want to present to Machen face to face.

“We aren’t going to concern ourselves with sending it to the middle man,” she said.

Carodine said administrators studied the range of student and family income levels and fi nancial aid issues before de-ciding to raise tuition, and if students have realistic suggestions for how to ac-count for budget shortfalls, they should put them forward.

“I want to encourage all students, if they have ideas, to present them to who-ever is the relevant party,” she said.

Machen wants tuition proposal

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