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Vol. 75 No. 28
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UT Officials Preparing for Possible Epidemic
By Ellery McCardle News Editor
With the swine flu spreading in several countries, traveling from Mexico to Spain and China, students wonder how it could affect them. Resulting from a strain mutation, the virus can be passed on from swine to humans. North American Influenza is spread by close exposure to ill people, such as being coughed on, sneezed on or touched. The Center for Disease Control is developing a vaccine for the virus, which should be included in the new flu shot this fall. The 2008 flu shot did not contain a vaccine against North American Influenza. The disease does respond to antiviral prescription drugs commonly administered to flu patients such as Tamiflu and Relenza. On April 28, the university’s Emergency Operations Team sent out a global mail, stating: "The University of Tampa is closely monitoring developments regarding the swine influenza outbreak that is being widely reported on by the media...The UT Student Health Center is actively involved with the state See “Flu” [7] wide surveillance system for all influen-
Students’ Views on Torture The Obama administration’s decision to release the torture memos has created a fury of discussion over whether or not the release of the memos was proper. By admitting to violating both national and international law in the use and practice of torture, has the United States government’s goal of greater transparency allowed us to open up dialogue and reconstruct our trust with other state actors, or has the release of the memos created more anger in the international
May 1, 2009
King of Fun with a Will to Smile: Friends Mourn Loss of Laughter
By JP Busche Staff Writer
By Jillian Randel Staff Writer
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community over U.S. actions that were carried out during the Bush administration? The Minaret asked University of Tampa students for their opinions. Some students feel Obama’s release of the memos was beneficial. “It’s really great that the United States is holding itself accountable. It gives our democracy legitimacy. The United States is part of the Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions and is a host for the practice of Habeas See “Torture”
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For Valerie Ingram-Hinkley, advisor of WUTT, seeing Will King every week in class was a joy. “He was fun and energetic… he was the type of guy who helped out,” Ingram-Hinkleysaid. King was set to graduate this May but planned on taking summer courses. He was also trying to get a web design internship. King asked Ingram-Hinkley to be his reference last week. That’s the last time she saw him. The night of King's death, Ingram-Hinkley learned of it during her radio class, “I said, ‘Really? Are you sure?’ Then I started praying for him,” she said. Some members of WUTT radio were also close to King, taking classes with him during fall 2008. He served as budget director and assistant marketing director. Kate Lamm, senior, took a By Charlie Hambos class with King and said even Asst. Editor-in-chief though she didn’t know him well, “He stepped up to the plate every She was his “Beetle” and he time we needed him to, and I really was her “Prince William.” respect him for that.” She is Barbara Bush, Will Freshman Kate Magruder also King’s girlfriend. On Wednesday, worked at sporting events and did April 29 King collided with a Toyota promotions S U V h ead in g with King at Will King Memorial Service toward Davis WUTT. She Tuesday, May 5 at 11:11 a.m. Island on Hyde said he was Brevard Community Room P a r k Av e n u e a great guy just south of who was easy Kennedy Blvd. to get along with. She remembers They met at the Retreat and the goofy side of him, “He wanted Dubliner, not far from where King to be Jim Carrey… He did a great passed away. He happened to be a Ace Ventura impression.” friend of a best friend in the nursing Ingram-Hinkley and Lamm program. said King loved his motorcycle. “It was love at first sight,” Bush said. “An instant attraction between See “Mourning” [4] the two of us.”
Will King 1986-2009
Girlfriend Remembers Her “Prince William”
“When he saw me, he knew he had to have me,” Will told her when they met. Those next few days in December began their relationship before Will headed back to Connecticut for Winter Break. They spoke to each other See “Couple”
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Barbara Bush and Will King
Poet Breaks from UT to Write New Lines at University of Houston By Derrick Austin Commentary Editor
“I think I got a gene for literature and writing,” said Martha Serpas, Associate Professor of English, referring to her love of literature. A professor for 10 years, her voice brims with zest whenever she discusses writing; her energy is infectious. With a soft spot for “Harold and Maude,” Ecclesiastes, Elizabeth
Bishop and the “screamy, threechord, white boy music” she grew up with in Galliano, La., Serpas is a cherished member of UT’s English and Writing department. However, this will be her last semester at UT. This fall she will teach undergraduate and graduate poetry writing at the University of
Houston. One reason is to focus on her own writing, but, more importantly family health concerns swayed Serpas. “My mother...I need to be in the vicinity of my mother and sister to provide health care for my mother and that’s gonna be easier for me from Texas,” she said. Red sunglasses propped up, she smiled while we discussed her childhood infatuation with poetry, influenced by her mother’s 30-year
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career as a high school English teacher. “As a kid I think I saw the figure of the poet as a romantic, iconoclastic figure. I read Dylan Thomas because Jim Morrison of The Doors read Dylan Thomas, and I loved The Doors and pretty soon after Thomas I was reading Yeats. And my 11th grade English teacher said: Why don’t you look into the Lost Generation? Hmm, Lost Generation that sounds like me. Turns out that was Gertrude
Stein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Hemmingway.” Ending her science studies her first year at Louisiana State University, Serpas tried creative writing. “After my first poetry writing workshop, I knew I never wanted to sit a class of 300 again, in the sciences, with a final exam of 10 questions. I was too lazy for that,” she said.
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Staring Down Graduation [16] Letter: Stop Construction [14]
Senior Says Goodbye [19]
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