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Big fish, big pond . . . big problem? Not for Florida's "Rutger"

September 27, 2006 RSS Feed Print
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One University of Florida freshman, Kurt "Rutger" Myers, has a new weapon in the battle against big-state-school obscurity: stickers with his name on them. "I partied with Rutger"; "Rutger cares"; and "Who is Rutger?" they say, among other weird things. His reward? 1,020 Facebook friends and four Facebook groups: two pro, two con. "I don't know why it bothers people," Myers told the Alligator. "I'm just trying to have a good time in college."

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