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SAMBA NIGHT IGNITES SPIRIT OF HISPANIC HERITAGE

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A preview of the new food-centric pairing of artists Ferran Adrià and Salvador Dalí. The two visionaries come from the same region of northern Spain, and break the boundaries of their respective art forms.

Alicia Keys, the R&B singer, says women shouldn’t be forced to wear makeup. Read Indhira Suero’s take on natural female beauty.

Dancers and students filled the USC Ballroom in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. Multicultural Activities Council hosted the Suave Samba Night to give students a taste of Hispanic culture.

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Students Show Interest in Cross-Bay Ferry By Ryan Callihan ryancallihan@mail.usf.edu Students will soon be able to traverse Tampa Bay on a 55-foot catamaran. In November, the Cross-Bay Ferry will open, providing public transportation between St. Petersburg and Tampa. Tickets cost $10 for a one-way trip. St. Petersburg’s port is within walking distance of the campus near Bay Shore Drive NE. From there, the Ferry heads to the Tampa Convention Center, located in the Channelside area of downtown Tampa. The proximity of the St. Petersburg ferry port makes it a popular idea among USF St. Petersburg students. Kat Harris, a biology major, became familiar with using ferries as a means of transportation during her visit to Greece, where large ferries connect the country’s numerous islands. She said that she would definitely use the ferry. “My mom lives downtown in Tampa and it’ll be cool to see her,” Harris said. “I think it’s a great idea. It could also help students go back and forth between campuses.” Harris thought that $10 for a one-way ticket is expensive. She’d like to see a student discount bring the price down.” Zeke Handelman, a junior marketing major, agreed that the price is too high for frequent use. “[The price] is a bit steep,” said Handelman. “$5 would be better.” Despite the cost, Handelman said that he’d still use the ferry occasionally because of how close it brings passengers to Amalie Arena. The Cross-Bay Ferry’s Tampa port is only a five minute walk away. “Amalie Arena is a nice area,” said Handelman. “I don’t go there often, but I’d probably go there more if there was a ferry.” Not every USFSP student is sold on the idea of marine transportation to Tampa. Sophomore international business major Cody Schoh said that he doesn’t have a need for the Cross-Bay Ferry. “I’d never use it,” said Schoh. “Maybe [I’d go for] a one-time thing to experience it, but with a car on campus, I don’t need it.” Schoh also said that while he respects the initiative, he thinks that the distance between the two ports is too far and that it won’t actually solve problems, such as dealing with traffic. Senior biology major Jasmine Cutler said that the ferry should cut down on the number of DUIs in the area. “I think DUIs will drop insanely. Think of all the college kids going to parties in Ybor,” said Cutler. November marks the beginning of the ferry’s six-month pilot program. The initiative is the product of collaboration between St. Petersburg, the city of Tampa, Pinellas County and Hillsborough County. CONTINUE READING, PAGE 2

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Motivated Minds: Jason Johnson (left) and Brian Perez (right) are from the North Tampa EPIC Center. They sit in a college classroom for the first time at USFSP. The boys were asked a series of questions about their goals and shown motivational videos that discussed how to achieve them.

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hey have hopes, dreams and aspirations. Many of them want to be professional athletes when they grow up. Others are drawn toward the idea of being a mechanic. One wants to be an architect. Students from the North Tampa EPIC Center visited USF St. Petersburg on Friday to see “how close - geographically, academically, and mentally - they are right now to the USFSP campus and to a college education.” The students, currently attending middle and high school, are considered to be at a high-risk of dropping out. Paul Burke, who works at the EPIC Center, emphasized that many of them had never seen past their own neighborhood before.

On Friday that all changed. Students arrived that morning and gathered near the bull statue for brief introductions before heading to a classroom. That’s where the students and volunteers really got to know one another. Harris Ambush, community liaison for the College of Education told students about some of the challenges that he faced while growing up. For Ambush, soccer was the outlet that helped him excel past the distractions of the outside world. Other speakers reiterated the importance of such outlets that provide a sense of community. No matter the struggle or story, everyone seemed to agree: college had changed their lives for the better. After watching a series of motivational videos that focused on concepts such as developing a mindset conducive to success, goal-setting and the power of visualization, students

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were encouraged to fill out a worksheet that asked them a series of questions. What kind of student are you? What are you interested in? What are two of your opportunities and what are two of your goals? The students were then asked to share their answers out loud. “The thing about goals is, you think of them, you write them down and you take action,” Ambush said as he stood in front of the classroom. “But when you actually say them out loud, that’s also attracting them to you. Saying ‘Hey, I want this’ out loud is literally telling the world that you want that.” At first, students seemed skeptical. 9th-grader Keenan Meeks was one of the first to volunteer. CONTINUE READING, PAGE 2

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School Spirit: Many of the students were at risk of dropping out and this event hoped to inspire them about how close college can be. The teens gathered around the bull on Harborwalk in front of the University Student Center. For some, going to college seemed like a pipedream.“Where I come from, you don’t always have a choice about whether or not you go to college,” said Reynier Reyes. The event was hosted by USFSP’s College of Education.

“I want to be happy and have a good life. Who doesn’t want that?” he asked the classroom. Everyone clapped. The nervous energy in the room quickly dissipated. “It takes courage to stand up there in front of a class. I’m proud of you guys,” Burke told his students. One by one they each came up and shared. “I talk a lot. It’s bad,” said Zachary Lagasse, a 9th-grader. “I’m a hands-on visual person. I can’t sit there and just listen and listen and listen all the time.” Lagasse plans on joining the Marines some day, but he acknowledges that it hasn’t been an easy road. “I think about it every morning. I didn’t come from a lot in life,” said Lagasse. “I wake up and look in the mirror and give myself a pep talk. Because some days I do just feel like dropping out of school.” When asked about opportunity, 7th-grader Reynier Reyes made it clear that he doesn’t take anything for granted. “One thing about me is that I never give up. If I have a goal, I’m going to make it,” he said. Reyes is from Cuba and has witnessed firsthand the lack of opportunities that others take for granted.

CONTINUED FROM FRONT Each of the four partners pitched in $350,000 of the total $1.4 million cost. During those six months, the popularity and use of the ferry will be monitored to determine if it will become a permanent addition to the public transportation system in St. Petersburg and Tampa. The Cross-Bay Ferry will seat up to 149 passengers and its trips will take about 50 minutes in either direction. There isn’t a firm schedule for the ferry’s runs yet, but a tentative timetable details two round trips a day and three on Saturday. Tickets will be available for purchase beginning on Oct. 15, with the ferry beginning its runs on Nov. 4. The tickets can be purchased online or at the dock if seats are available. Information from the Tampa Bay Times and CrossBayFerry.com were used in the writing of this article.

“Where I come from, you don’t always have a choice about whether or not you go to college,” Reyes said. After sharing their stories, the group went on a campus tour. Highlights for the students included the pool, the Waterfront and the basketball court. Next stop, lunch at the Reef. Helpings of pizza, burgers and pasta were dished out with great approval. Some even got seconds. The verdict was unanimous: the food was much better than the school lunches students were used to back home. After lunch was a dorm room tour. The students bunched together in the room, flopping onto the beds and excitedly staring out the third floor windows, as if imagining themselves living here. “Visualize it,” Ambush said, repeating the mantra throughout the day. Then it was time for class. The students gathered into Peter Rudy Wallace building for an audio-visual class and activity with USFSP Digital Journalism & Design graduate student Lorien Mattiacci. “What makes a video story interesting to you?” Mattiacci asked the group, giving them 10 seconds to brainstorm. The storyline, subject, plot twists, scenes and a hook were responses that echoed through the room. Students were then shown a pair of vid-

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Lunch Time: John, Jose Garcia and Christian Jones fill up on their fair share of pizza after completing the campus tour. Many of the students went for seconds and thirds. They said that food at the Reef was much better than what they had at their high schools.

eos and asked to think critically about what made them more or less effective. Students were divided into groups based on those who enjoyed the videos, those who didn’t and those who were neutral. Each group made their cases for how the videos could or couldn’t be improved.

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Lively discussion and lots of laughter filled the room, a far cry from the skepticism and nervous energy that had filled the room just a few hours ago. “Congratulations, everybody,” Burke told them.“You just completed your very first college class.”

Question: Would you use a ferry that takes you from Bay Shore Drive NE (near the Vinoy Park area) to downtown Tampa (near Amalie Arena)?

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Ferry Interested: The results of this survey came from a Facebook poll that was posted on Sunday afternoon. 104 respondents answered the question. The Cross-Bay Ferry will launch as a pilot program in November. It will go between St. Petersburg and Tampa. Tickets are set to go on sale Oct. 15 and will cost $10 in each direction.

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Suave Samba Brings Carnival To Campus By Tamiracle Williams tamiracle@mail.usf.edu Samba performers, donned in sparkling, feathered costumes, danced with students around the USC ballrooms. The Multicultural Activities Council hosted the Suave Samba Night, and introduced students to Latin American culture through food, activities and performances. The Sept. 20 event was part of celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

The night began with a buffet of traditional Hispanic and Spanish dishes, such as Chicharrón de Puerco, yellow rice and beans, beef empanadas and croquetas. A few activity stations were set up, such as “Come te llama,” where students made name tags, and guess that flag. Participants received Mexican candy and tiny handcrafted worry dolls, a Guatemalan traditional gift. One station set out glitter glue, feathers and jewels for students to create carnival masks. The masks

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Social Samba: During Suave Samba night members of the Phoebe Samba Team, an Orlando-based dance team, talked about their Carnival experiences in Rio De Janeiro.

coincided with information about the five-daylong Carnival of Brazil, an annual festival held prior to Lent. The Phoebe Samba Team joined shortly after. The Orlando-based dance team brought the atmosphere of Brazil to the ballrooms, teaching students the origin of samba and how people can get a spot in the Carnival in Rio De Janeiro. The team also gave a brief samba lesson. In return, Bulls taught the dancers how to do the unofficial school dance, the Petey Shuffle.

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Carnival Celebration: The Phoebe Samba Team taught students the origin of samba and Carnival of Brazil through a fun and interactive performance. Throughout the show students were encouraged to join in on the festivities. The 2017 Carnival is set to start Feb. 24.

New Book To Display Plight Of Civilians In War By Devin Rodriguez drodriguez7@mail.usf.edu

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To Be Released: Dr. Thomas Smith’s new book, “Human Rights and War Through Civilian Eyes” will be released on Nov. 1. Smith will present the new book and some of the research that went into it at the Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading on Nov. 12.

For the past seven years Dr. Thomas Smith, a professor at USF St. Petersburg, has been listening to the often unheard stories of people affected by war. He’s received data from firsthand accounts, surveys and interviews about the tragic circumstances of those in Syria, Iraq and the Gaza Strip. “The body count is just the beginning,” Smith said. These details are recorded in Smith’s new book “Human Rights and War Through Civilian Eyes” to be released on Nov. 1. Smith said he wanted to help establish a new perspective. “I wanted to reverse the gunsights, if you will,” Smith said. “To have Americans and others see the wars from the perspective of those people on the ground.” Smith is an associate professor of political science and the director of the university’s Honors Program. He holds a bachelor’s in anthropology from the College of William and Mary and holds a doctorate in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. Smith has taught at USFSP since 2000. Smith said, most academic papers and books concentrate on people within the conflict like soldiers and guerrilla fighters. He wanted to deliver a nonpartisan look at controversial and ongoing war zones. He hopes his book will change

the way people consider the lives of people from these war-torn places. “There is a kind of complacent view that civilians always die in warfare and they always will, so there is nothing we can do about it. That’s the assumption I want to challenge.” Smith did not travel to Gaza or Iraq for the book. To create a representation of the people affected in these war-torn regions, Smith brought together a number of personal stories, collected by various humanitarian organizations and people traveling to the region. These were accounts of tragedy and loss. Many, Smith said, were emotionally difficult. “There was a doctor living in Gaza,” Smith said. “He was a man of science and he was talking about, during the shelling, how to talk to his kids. I mean little children. He said, ‘I tell them about paradise, that this is what awaits you.’ Even though he doesn’t believe in it.” There are currently 263,500 displaced people in Occupied Palestine, according to a July 2015 study by the International Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). These people have lost their homes, their livelihoods and their loved ones due to the ongoing conflict. Smith hopes that his book can

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help inform more Americans about the current status of Syria. “By raising up this issue and making it part of the conversation, I hope to improve the lot of civilians around the globe. That’s a big order, but ultimately that is what I really hope to do.” He dedicated one portion of the book to discussing the Syrian refugee crisis, which Smith said isn’t well understood by many Americans. Over 6.6 million civilians have been displaced within the country, and many have been seeking relocation in various countries. “More than half of the population has been displaced by the war,” Smith said. “Millions have been displaced from their homes, their lives. There is a dramatic impact on everyday life. It is really hard to even fathom just what that experience is like.” The U.S. government set the goal of resettling 10,000 refugees this year, though there’s been heavy skepticism lobbied against the initiative. “The truth is much of the debate about refugees coming to the U.S. is not realistic. It’s based on a caricature of who these people are,” Smith said. “By humanizing them I hope to get people to see them, see their faces and get people to recognize our common humanity.”

I hope to get people to see them...to recognize our common humanity.”

Ferran Adrià Brings Food Exhibit to the Dalí By Erin Murphy erinmurphy@mail.usf.edu “It wasn’t like food, it was like going to the symphony.” Such were the exclamations of those who dined at elBulli, the three-star Michelin restaurant in Spain that world-renowned chef Ferran Adrià ran for decades. elBulli, located a few miles from surrealist Salvador Dalí’s home in Catalonia, offered patrons a 36-course dining experience that transcended what was possible with food. “When you get to the final movement, you’re not full of music, you’re just starting to get open to the music,” said Dr. Hank Hine, the executive director of the Dalí Museum. “It was that way with the food. [People] weren’t really full, [they] could keep on because it was like one new experience after another.” elBulli may have closed its doors in 2011, but the spirit of the culinary mecca lives on in a new exhibit at the Dalí, entitled “Ferran Adrià: The Invention of Food.” Adrià, who has been called “the Salvador Dalí of the kitchen,” was the guest of honor at the preview of the exhibit on Friday, Sept. 23. A group of professional journalists, as well as 15 USF St. Petersburg food writing students, were invited to take an early tour of the exhibit with Adrià and the museum staff. “For those of us lucky enough to live here, with this museum’s explosion of imagination right in our backyards, we hardly need a reason to find ourselves back here,” said Dr. Kanika Tomalin, the deputy mayor of St. Petersburg. Tomalin gave a brief introduction before the preview. “[This exhibit is] a grand illustration of two things that make St. Pete one of the absolute most special places on earth: art and food. Here in St. Pete, we can’t get enough of either, and fortunately, while ‘The Invention of Food’ is here in this lovely space, we won’t have to.” The exhibit itself is a multimedia, sensory experience, combining food-centric Dalí paintings, old video footage of elBulli and even a tasting of a special pata negra ham from Catalonia, Spain. “Ferran has rediscovered what cooking is. He’s reinvented

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the art. With that premise, we have put together this exhibition,” said Hine. “So that it not be totally vicarious, we have taken information from Catalonia [to bring you] the pata negra, the beautiful black-hoofed pig that gives up its leg to this sublime experience. You will be invited to try this surpassing food in the exhibit.” The pata negra is fed a diet of acorns near the end of its life, and the meat is aged for four years, according to one Dalí employee. Visitors to the museum will be able to sample the pata negra ham for free at the exhibit from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. It is also available for purchase in the museum’s Café Gala. Adrià himself sliced and sampled the ham during the pre-

The focus on food may push the boundaries of what some museumgoers see as art. view. Featured in the exhibit are a row of hardback-bound catalogs that compile all 1,846 of the dishes that Adrià dreamed up for elBulli. A few of the catalogs are very rare, and detail recipes from as early as 1983. Every dish from the ‘80s to 2011 is documented. “The cool thing is the sheer amount of detail that it gives, like the temperature, when it’s to be served, the season when it’s to be presented in, which family it belongs to,” said Peter Tush, the curator of education at the Dalí. “It’s pretty incredible.” “You can actually go through the show and note certain things and come back [to the catalogs] and find them and find out what they are. This is the archive of the mind of elBulli.” Although the exhibit includes videos, paintings and other artistic mediums, the focus on food may push the boundaries

of what some museumgoers see as art. But Hine believes that food can be expressive, too. “[Adrià] says he’s not an artist, but I think it’s because artists can be really annoying. They probably said, ‘You don’t paint, you don’t sculpt, you’re not an artist,’” said Hine. “But I think that when you do something really well, it transcends itself; it becomes something bigger, more important. That’s what art is for me. Limiting art to moving varnishes around with a stick with an animal hair on it - why is that the only kind of art there is? “Anything where you do something well and transform it into something bigger, I think, is art,” he said. Another link between the two visionaries is Catalonia. “Every art experience has something to do with place,” said Hine. “There may be universality, but place is prominent. It’s remarkable that that part of the globe, of Catalonia, gave rise to these great innovators. One in art, Salvador Dalí; and one in food, Ferran Adrià,” said Hine. The exhibit highlights this sense of place with a map of northern Spain. The map shows the proximity between elBulli and Dalí’s home in Port Lligat. “It’s as though they lived on the same ground. There must be something there about that place that inspired them, that gave them the sense to look at the world in a new way.” Adrià’s exhibit sought to display food as more than just a means of sustenance. “How is it possible to approach something so familiar as food and give it a new birth, to rediscover it?” asked Hine. “Ferran Adrià’s explorations of cooking, what constituted cooking, even what constituted food, [were] so fundamental that Ferran Adrià actually reinvented food.” The exhibit may also inspire students to see their everyday meals in a new light. “We come from the world of ramen and grilled cheese, and look at what [Adrià] is doing,” said Janet Keeler, a visiting assistant professor at USFSP who teaches a food writing class. “To see how someone can think differently about [food] is an interesting thing for students to see. [Food is more than] just something to wolf down as you’re running to class or in the car.”

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he new exhibit at the Dalí Museum, “Ferran Adrià: The Invention of Food”, displays art as food. Sadly, not everyone can afford to see cuisine as an art form. “We felt a responsibility to acknowledge that you can’t honor food without considering those in our community who are without it,” said Kathy Grief, chief marketing director for the Dalí. “In Pinellas County alone, 1 in 7 adults do not have consistent access to food they need and 17 percent of residents, including 1 in 4 children, lack reliable access to a sufficient quantity of food. In light of these sobering statistics, we wanted to do something to support our community. We’re joining the fight against hunger this fall.” To help bring awareness to the hunger crisis in our backyard, the Dalí will be hosting a food drive. From Nov. 1-23, the museum will be collecting nonperishable food items like dried beans, and canned goods such as canned vegetables, meat, soup and fruit. In exchange for those non-perishable foods, the Dalí will give donors a $2 credit towards admission into the museum. Food collected during the drive will help restock the shelves of the St. Petersburg Free Clinic and RCS Food Bank, two of the largest food banks in the area. The Dalí also partnered with Publix Super Markets in Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco and Pinellas counties for its “Food For Sharing” campaign. During the holiday season, Publix customers have the option to pay for a meal to be delivered to a local food bank. Starting Nov. 3 shoppers who purchase the donation will receive a $2 voucher off their next visit to the Dalí. The “Food for Sharing” program will run until Nov. 23

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World-Renowned: elBulli is the three-star Michelin restaurant in Spain that world-renowned chef Ferran Adrià ran for decades. elBulli was located only a few miles from Salvador Dalí’s home in Catalonia. Adrià swore to never make the same meal twice. He would close the restaurant six months out of the year to create an entirely new menu. Adrià was in charge of the restaurant from 1987 until it closed in 2011. It will reopen in the future as the elBulli Foundation. The restaurant could only seat 50 customers at a time and would have even more people working in the kitchen and on staff than that. Plates at the esteemed elBulli restaurant would cost about $400 each. Approximately 2 million people a year would try to make reservations at elBulli.

Top left: A Dalí employee cuts the pata negra ham for guests to taste at the exhibit’s preview. The ham is aged for four years and will be available for museumgoers to sample daily from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Top right: Ferran Adrià contemplates Dalí’s “Eucharistic Still Life” painting during the preview just before the tour started around his exhibit. Bottom right: “Marrow with Caviar (1992)” A photograph of Adrià’s marrow with caviar dish is currently on display in the exhibit. This plate is set on a tile of Dalí’s artwork. Bottom middle: The samples of the pata negra ham are ready for guests to taste. Adrià explained that people are supposed to rub the ham on their lips before eating it to experience the flavor in its entirety. Bottom left: “Alphabet Soup (2004)” Another example of why many critics say that Adrià reinvented food. These sponge-like letters are Adrià's abstract take on food. Bottom right corner: Ferran Adrià listens as museum personnel present the exhibit on Friday, Sept. 23. The display consists of old menus, notebooks, multimedia presentations and more.

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Makeup is Optional, Female Autonomy is Not

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indhirasuero@mail.usf.edu Alicia Keys doesn’t want to wear makeup anymore, and that's a problem for society. The award-winning songwriter has performed at the Democratic National Convention and the MTV Video Music Awards without a hint of face paint. She wrote an essay for Lenny Letter on May 31, 2016, about the insecurities she has endured from being seen without adornments in the public eye. Since then, Keys has received applause from her fans and critiques from others who don’t agree with her stance. “One of the many things I was tired of was the constant judgment of women,” wrote Keys. “[There is] constant stereotyping through every medium that makes us feel like being a normal size is not normal, and heaven forbid if you're plus-size. [There is a]

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Apparently what a woman decides to do with her life is a matter to society.

On this campus, parking has become an anxiety-inducing nightmare. The school wants to grow in terms of student enrollment, and that’s a great goal. But accepting a ton of students and not taking any measures to increase the amount of available parking spaces is unacceptable. There are 4,717 enrolled stu-

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#NoMakeup: Pictured is Alicia Keys on the set of NBC’s "The Voice." The award-winning songwriter has performed at the Democratic National Convention, the MTV Video Music Awards and recently season 11 of “The Voice” without wearing a hint of makeup.

movement; the burkinis (full body swimsuits) banned on France’s coastal towns and the burka and niqab ban in places like Belgium, the Netherlands and Chad. Prohibition is a common denominator in all of these cases. For instance, a lot of discussions were made around some schools that ban Afro hairstyles. The debate is also vivid after French police made a woman remove a long-sleeved tunic on a beach in Nice.

But, on the other side, what about the women who go a little further and use false eyelashes, tints, hair extensions and are contouring experts? Can we say that they’re not comfortable with their bodies? Are they less real? Not ‘raw’ enough? I think that it’s about more than makeup. All of this buzz should lead us to advocate for women's autonomy; for being who you are and not letting anybody tell you how you should be or act.

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constant message that being sexy means being naked.” “I don't want to cover up anymore,” she wrote. “Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing.” The producer wrote her essay at a time when thousands of YouTube makeup tutorials are getting more famous, and celebrities make millions with their cosmetics lines. To be honest, I barely use face cosmetics, but a bright red tint on my lips makes me feel unique and cute. That might also happen with other women, and that’s one of the reasons I consider that this #NoMakeup trend goes beyond the desire to achieve certain beauty standards. Apparently what a woman decides to do with her life is a matter to society. People talk if a woman chooses to wear a red wedding dress and avoid the traditional white gown. People discuss if a woman wants to have an abortion or keep her baby. People also talk if another girl prefers to have a DD bust implant, or if she chooses to age “gracefully” and avoid Botox. Even for a woman, the decision process is difficult. Questions often come to one's mind like: Would I please everybody? Or is someone going to be mad if I choose to wear this? That’s why this entire discussion reminded me of the debates going on regarding the natural hair

you probably have it best. I wish I were you. The majority of students on this campus are commuters. Driving a vehicle to campus means I need a place to leave my car while in class. Not having a spot means I’m going to be unhappy. When I pay to park at school, I am a consumer purchasing a product. I expect to have said purchase

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nicolesawyer@mail.usf.edu School safety employees directed students out of the parking garage after it filled to capacity on the morning of Sept. 20. I arrived on campus early that morning, narrowly escaping getting stuck in traffic. Many of my peers were not so lucky and throughout the day I listened to countless classmates angrily recounting their parking woes. Parking passes cost $78.88 for a fall pass and $155.08 for an annual, without taxes. That’s a steep price for a sticker that doesn’t guarantee much. When I attended USF Tampa, parking was a challenge. With over 40,000 students, multiple garages and lots, finding a spot should have been more difficult than the situation in St. Petersburg. That has not been the case.

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Parking Perils: On the morning of Sept. 22, students circled the floors of the garage, desperately hoping to snag a parking space. It's pretty clear that something needs to change.

dents on this campus, according to the USF System Facts of this academic year. Did the administration and those in charge of the parking situation expect all of these students to just not drive cars? I understand not every single USFSP student drives. If you live within walking or biking distance,

fulfilled, and, in this particular case, that means having adequate parking opportunities provided to me. All I’m asking for is a place to put my car for a few hours. I’m not demanding anything major. The administration needs to realize what a hefty fee the parking permits place on students.

I paid $78.88 for a fall parking pass before taxes and other fees. After all was said and done, my total was around $90. That’s ridiculous. The fact that parking is not included in our tuition is astounding. Parking on campus is not so much a privilege as it is a necessity for students. We are in college, not working well-paying jobs that can support such expenses. Some of us struggle and live paycheck to paycheck. Others rely on financial aid. That doesn’t give us students a whole lot of room to pay for a parking pass that we’re not seeing used to its fullest extent. If I were paying a more reasonable fee, maybe a third or a fourth of the cost, I wouldn’t be as bitter. But I’m paying for a permit that doesn’t fulfill its purpose. I have heard a few of my professors air their disdain towards the parking situation. So to whoever is in charge of this, it’s not just angry little students - some of your employees are just as unhappy with the ordeal. This is a problem. If we are being told we cannot park in the sole location where we may do so, what is the alternative? What do we do? I guess we are just expected to figure it out for ourselves. I would expect the administrators to consider how to properly accommodate a steadily growing student population, especially in something as vital as parking.

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Corrections: Students Create Murals For Resident Halls: Scott Hendershot will not be a part of the approval process. However, Hendershot will help to judge the floor murals. The university was ranked No. 24 out of 24 of best southern regional public universities by U.S. News and World Report, not 25 Best Colleges as the headline states. Some prestigious schools decline to participate in the ranking.

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Bulls Crushed By Seminoles

By Ryan Callihan ryancallihan@mail.usf.edu The USF Bulls football suffered a 55-35 defeat at the hands of the No. 12 Florida State University Seminoles. Saturday’s football game was USF’s biggest of the season. The previously undefeated Bulls had an opportunity to prove their worth against a Top 25 team. But the Seminoles had other plans. FSU looked to bounce back from an embarrassing 63-20 loss to No. 3 Louisville Cardinals. Early touchdowns by both the Seminoles and the Bulls set the pace for a high-scoring game. USF struck first with a 84-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Rodney Adams on the first play of the game. FSU answered back with a 75-yard touchdown run by running back Dalvin Cook. The two teams touchdowns traded once more bringing the score to 14-14 five minutes into the first quarter. From there, FSU put on an offensive showcase and left the Bulls in the dust. The Seminoles scored 31 unanswered points to make the score 45-14. FSU’s massive lead stemmed from a series of USF miscues on offense. While it had previously clicked on all cylinders, the offense quickly lost its ability to drive down the field. Quinton Flowers, USF’s junior quarterback, began to toss poor passes and fail to find wide open receivers down the field. He had just five completions on 14 passes for 160 yards. He threw two interceptions and one touchdown pass. On the other side of the ball, FSU quarterback Deondre Francois struggled as well. The freshman threw 11 passes for 169 yards and one touchdown. Cook served as FSU’s saving grace. Cook set a career-high for rushing yards in a game. USF failed to find an answer on defense as he rushed for 267 yards on 28 carries. He also scored 2 touchdowns. Cook earned his previous career-high of 266 yards last year in a game against USF. The Bulls scored three more touchdowns in the second half, but it wasn’t enough. USF will head north for a conference game against the Cincinnati Bearcats (3-1) on Oct. 1. Cincinnati won its game against the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks on Saturday. Last year, the Bulls dominated the BearCats by a score of 65-27. USF's homecoming game will be played against East Carolina University's Pirates on Oct. 8. Photos By Alyssa Coburn | The Crow’s Nest

Halted Streak: Quarterback Quinton Flowers had a miserable outing against FSU on Saturday. He only completed five passes on 14 attempts and threw two interceptions in USF’s biggest football game yet.

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Quick Strike: Senior wide receiver Rodney Adams celebrates his 84-yard touchdown reception. Flowers threw the long touchdown pass on the first play of the game and set the pace for a high-scoring football game.

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290 Rush Yards 160 Passing Yards 450 Total Yards 17 First Downs 2 Interceptions Bulldozed: Excited Bulls fans felt that their team had a strong chance to beat a nationally ranked FSU. The Bulls came into the game with an impressive 3-0 record. Taking down the Seminoles likely would have earned USF a spot among AP’s Top 25 ranking.

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