A Shock Felt Round The World

Call it the shock felt round the world: A disruptive,resisting student. Six police officers. A Taser gun. A thoroughly nonplussed U.S. senator. A dazed audience. Multiple video cameras capturing every excruciating moment.

And just like that, the University of Florida - the state's flagship university - is raw meat for every cable news commentator and every Internet blogger in the virtual world.

UF President Bernie Machen launched an earnest damage control effort with a press conference on Tuesday. He announced that the University Police Department's handling of a disruptive student at U.S. Sen. John Kerry's campus "town hall" meeting on Monday would be reviewed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and said that two of the officers involved have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of that investigation