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Petition Raises Interest in Employee Treatment By JEFFREY PALMER News Reporter
President of the University of Tampa’s International Student Organization, Nicole Robinson, recently sat down with assistant Dean of Students, Stephanie Russell Holz, and two Sodexo representatives to discuss student grievances against the food supplier. The discussion addressed issues dealing with both employee treatment and exorbitant catering prices for student-run events. Robinson stated that her four years of interaction with mistreated Sodexo employees at UT and her experience as organization president lead to her frustration in Abby Sanford/The Minaret both areas. Conferring with other club leaders and students across UT, Robinson was able to secure over three hundred Robinson told how she and other signatures on a petition protesting the policies of Sodexo. concerned students had personally
President Obama to Hold ‘Slurpee Summit’ with GOP
By MICHEAL ANGELO RUMORE Asst. A+E Editor
President Obama will hold a “Slurpee Summit” on Nov. 18 to reach out to the leaders of a reconfigured Congress. The top Congressional Republican leaders Speaker-elect John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, along with top Democrats, current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, were invited for a discussion on the issues facing both the new Congress and the upcoming lameduck session. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs relayed that the predominant issue of the gathering will be the soon-to-expire Bush tax cuts. Since the 112th Congress is not sworn in until January, the lame-duck Congress must deal with the tax cuts, which are set to expire in January themselves. Slurpees, jokingly suggested by President Obama, may or may not be served. Seven-Eleven seized upon the attention caused by Obama’s comment, creating a new Slurpee flavor: “Purple for the People.” “We are not surprised by President Obama’s comments about Slurpee, which is nonpartisan and has been bringing people together for more than 40 years,” said 7-Eleven President
Joe DePinto in a statement. However, John Boehner told Diane Sawyer that he’s not too keen on the Slurpee idea. “I don’t know about a Slurpee,” Boehner said. “How about a glass of Merlot?” Drink branding opportunities aside, the Slurpee Summit represents President Obama’s renewed focus on working together with the strengthened GOP. Speaking the morning after his party’s massive mid-term losses, President Obama described the night as a “shellacking.” The President appeared resigned as he said, “We were in such a hurry to get things done that we didn’t change how things got done. And I think that frustrated people.” The President also made a plea for bipartisanship. “I think John Boehner and I and Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are going to have to sit down and work together. [ . . . ] I don’t think people carry around a fixed ideology. I think the majority of people, they’re going about their business, going about their lives. They just want to make sure that we’re making progress. And that’s going to be my top priority over the next couple of years.” Speaker-elect John Boehner, adressed reporters on Wednesday [See Summit, 4]
witnessed a lack of respect shown to Sodexo employees by company officials and how she understood the reluctance of such persecuted individuals to stand up for themselves. She pointed to national instances where Sodexo has terminated employees who have attempted to unionize and voiced her opinion that the student body was best suited to represent such a cause. “In a university setting, everyone tries to cater to the students,” said Robinson, “If we work together we have power.” In the matter of relations between the food supplier and UT students, particularly organizations, she also expressed her dissatisfaction. She related incidents wherein Sodexo officials had been impolite and aggressive [See Sodexo, 2]
Campus Freeze: Icing Out and Boozing Up
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Students nationwide are “Icing their Bros” in a new drinking game involving chugging Smirnoff Ice. By CHRIS CAMPO
Special to The Minaret
The contagious fad of “Icing” is sweeping across the college scene and young drinkers nationwide. “Bros Icing Bros” is a drinking game where the purpose is to surprise your “bro” in order to get him (or her) to on one knee and chug a Smirnoff Ice Malt beverage against
his (or her) will. The most important aspect of the game: get your bro to drink one at the most unexpected, inconvenient of times. Hardcore “Icers” have proven to go to extreme lengths to “Ice” someone. “Before this summer, the Smirnoff Ice sat at the back of the cooler. Now, especially with school back in session, the stuff sells like crazy,” said John
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Harr, owner and operator of The Anchor Bar on Davis Islands. With all the hype about this new trend, a lot of eyes have shifted towards the Smirnoff company’s responsibility in the matter; the game promotes binging and irresponsible drinking. Diageo, Smirnoff’s parent company, is the third largest spirits manufacturer in the world. [See Icing, 4]
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