Barack Obama Wins!
Vol. 75 No. 12
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Prominent Alumnus Killed in Mexico City Plane Crash By Peter Arrabal Editor-in-chief
After a quick ascent to one of Mexico’s most powerful positions, Juan Camilo Mourino, Mexico’s Interior Secretary, died in a fiery plane crash in Mexico City. He was also a 1993 Univesity of Tampa economics grad. Mourino, who drew criticism in Mexico because he was Spanish-born and U.S.-educated, was a key player in Mexico’s war on drugs. He was traveling in a government jet from San Luis
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Potosi, where he was celebrating the launch of a program to welcome back migrant workers. The plane was headed to the international airport in Mexico City. “With his death, Mexico has lost a great Mexican, intelligent, loyal and committed to his ideals and his country,” Mexican President Felipe Calderon told a news conference. “I ask all Mexicans that they don’t allow any event, no matter how difficult or painful, to weaken them in the pursuit of a better Mexico.”
The plane crashed into an affluent neighborhood, the Associated Press reported. Several buildings and cars were set on fire, and officials evacuated buildings in the area, displacing about 1,800 people. Mourino, 37, previously was
November 7, 2008 the chief of staff for Calderon and ran his election campaign in 2006. He said in a 2007 interview with “UT Journal” writer Dan Sullivan that he faced big challenges in creating jobs for poor Mexicans and fighting organized crime. Officials from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and FAA will assist the Mexican government in the investigation of the crash. Peter Arrabal can be reached at parrabal@gmail.com
College Democrats: MLK’s “Dream” Is a Reality Staff Report
“His win hits home hard because my grandparents and my parents grew up in segregated America. Just look how far we’ve come. ” -- Nicole Robinson
Photo by Mindy Tucker Nicole Robinson speaks on her cell phone in the Spartan Club as she watches the election results come in.
Barack Obama left John McCain and the “Straight-Talk Express” in the dust Tuesday, coasting to an easy victory. McCain conceded shortly after 11 p.m. on election day, and Obama gave a speech in front of 200,000 supporters in Chicago’s Grant Park. There was a 4,000 vote difference in Hillsborough County, with Obama in the lead. He took 51 percent of the popular vote in Florida. Once inaugurated, Obama will be the first minority president in U.S. history. The College Democrats were celebrating the early returns in an exclusive Obama party in the downtown Marriott. “I feel just unbelievable, I can’t describe it,” said Mike Long, president of students for Barack Obama. Sophomore Clint Hanaway said race wasn’t the biggest factor
for him. “America not only has a black president, but we have a leader who is planning on doing great things for the people,” he said. “He is living out Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream. I could not be happier.” Other students on campus followed the election from their rooms and the Spartan Club. “This country needs change, and he’s the man for the job,” said Alysha Otte, a sophomore. If McCain won I’d be afraid that he and Palin would not only ruin this country but everyone else’s too.” Senior Ryan Leandro is interested to see what Obama will bring to the table now that he has been elected President. “I’d like to see what he’s going to do now,” he said, expressing cautious optimism. “As happy as I am to see George Bush out of power, a lot of people say there are problems See “Obama”
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Lone Female Head Coach Succeeds in Nearly All Male Environment Leslie Kanter’s colleagues are all male but despite their differences, Kanter claims she’s never been discriminated against
By Olivia Glynn Sports Reporter
Coaching jobs at the collegiate level are seeing increasing competition among applicants, both men and women, but the fact remains the occupation is still male dominated. With few women at the helm of athletic teams, it brings about a question as to why more females are not teaching the game that they love. “I don’t think it’s a prejudice or anything like that as much as its just women trying to get caught up with experience,” associate athletic
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director Gil Swalls said, “and right now there’s just too many men out there who have done more.” There are 13 men’s and women’s sports teams at the University of Tampa, 12 of them have male head coaches. The sole exception is Leslie Kanter, head coach of the women’s softball team. Kanter has been at UT for 15 years, and has been lucky enough to have never been faced with any discrimination in the workplace throughout her coaching career. Many female coaches have not been so lucky. While the sport of softball continues to be coached mostly
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by females, o t h e r sports, both men’s and w o m e n ’s , are primarily coached by men. The growing Kanter success of women’s sports has made the coaching positions more desirable for males, kicking up the competition for those few jobs, most of which are given to the more experienced men. Women are finding it harder to compete with men who have
the same credentials, but the upper hand in the realm of male dominated athletic department. What it essentially comes down to is the decision of the athletic director, who is responsible for hiring new head coaches. Throughout the nation, similar to the position of head coach, the job of an athletic director is most commonly filled by a man. Some believe that this fact is directly correlated to the amount of male coaches, supposing that the athletic director would choose a male over a female applicant. At the University of Tampa, when the athletic department is
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“At this defining moment, change has come to America.”
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looking for a new head coach, advertisements state that females and minorities are encouraged to apply. Steps like these are helping to shine a positive light on the acceptance of female applicants as head coaches. Even with this kind of action being taken to try to level the playing field on which coaches are being hired, women are still deterred by the thought that a man will get the job simply because he is a man. With equal qualifications, who is to say that a woman should receive the job over the man, and See “Kanter”
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