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17 DAYS UNTIL JAGUAR FOOTBALL IS BACK! Editorial: --- Financial Aid’s attitude needs to be more accommodating.
By AARON ETHEREDGE etheredge@jagmail.southalabama.edu
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► Life Spotlight: --- Geocaching. Learn why it’s something worth looking into. See Life, page 20.
► Sports: ---Enrique Willaims
underwent surgery and returns to the field. See Sports, page 28.
New registration process for parking permits By JAYSON CURRY jayson-curry@hotmail.com
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he Fall 2012 semester at South Alabama will be slightly different for students who wish to park on campus. USA parking services will be unveiling their new way to register for a parking permit. The website for parking permits isn’t finished just yet but we recently did an interview with Lt. Keith West of the USA Police Department to get the information all students will need when they are ready to get their parking permit.
See PARKING, Page 17
New USA Students flock to the bookstore and to tour campus at Orientation.
COURTESY OF SOUTHBOUND
USA student Xavier Penn remembered By CASSIE FAMBRO editor.in.chief@usavanguard.com
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riminal justice major Xavier Penn was struck and killed by a vehicle on July 24. Penn was 18 years Xavier Penn old and a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Penn was allegedly in the middle of Schillinger Road near Ziegler Blvd. when a car driven by a 69-year-old woman hit him, according to police. The woman was determined not to be at fault. Questions have arisen over why Penn was in the road, and official answers have not been released. Penn’s mother Tanya told officials that a woman contacted her claiming to be
a witness, saying that Penn may have been involved in an altercation. The investigation is ongoing and toxicology reports will not be available for several weeks. One thing that does remain is Penn’s strong legacy built within the short time he was at USA. Penn’s fraternity brothers, friends and family have taken to his Facebook page and local forums to express their memories and support for their loved one they called “X.” “He was an angel among men,” wrote Chris Hames, his fraternity brother. Penn’s brother Nate took to Facebook to say that he “can’t explain what it feels to have to bury your own brother. It’s like a piece from my heart has left me.”
His mother Tanya told the Vanguard that she would like people to remember her son as the “fun, loving, honorable person he was.” She also wished to express thanks to his PIKE brothers and friends that came by their family home to bring food and to help in any way they could and show support. In Penn’s honor, the first Annual Xavier Penn Memorial Flag Football Tournament will take place on August 25, the day after Penn would have turned 19. There is a Facebook group detailing information and you can get more information on how to take part by contacting event organizer Zakary Park-Gosa Lewis at zpg901@jagmail. See PENN PENN, Page 5
Campus Quarters runs into mail dilemma By CASSIE FAMBRO editor.in.chief@usavanguard.com
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VOL. 51, NO. 3
“If it matters to the USA family, it matters to us.”
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esidents at newly-opened Campus Quarters (CQ) aren’t sure how they’re going to get their mail. The facility’s built-in mailboxes are empty, and it looks it
they’re going to stay that way indefinitely. Citing issues with the way leases are issued, the United States Post Office is refusing to deliver mail. At CQ, leases are made with each individual instead of collectively.
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USPS calls Campus Quarters “transient housing” and therefore claims the building is the same as dormitories. Campus Quarters disagrees. CQ property manager Allison
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BY CASSIE FAMBRO | EDITOR IN CHIEF
n today’s world, “going green” has become a much larger issue than it has been in the past. In this uncertain economy that we live in, it’s very important to minimize waste. Recycling plastics and glass, using less and less energy and conserving water are all examples of ways to do this. Fresh Food Company at the University of South Alabama, in an effort to be as green as possible, has started a green “to-go” box program. Rather than getting a Styrofoam togo box every time you come into the cafeteria, you are now able to use a washable, plastic version of the to-go box. “What we do, we charge a five dollar deposit that is refundable if you turn it [the plastic to-go box] in at the end of the semester,” stated Senior Food Service Director Craig Stephan. “Every time you come in, you bring it back with you. You don’t have to clean it. We’d like it rinsed out, but you don’t have to do anything to it. We run it through the dish machine, and we issue you a new one. It’s a swap out. And at the end of the semester, come back and we’ll give you a five dollar refund. It costs you nothing to do it.” Stephan explained that his ultimate goal is to eliminate the 25,000 units of Styrofoam boxes that the Fresh Food Company uses a month, making both less waste and spending less money. Marketing Manager Michael Brown explained that this fall there will be to-go insulated mugs available to South Alabama students. These See FRESH FOOD, FOOD Page 4
In this Issue: Life, Page 10, 15, 20 Opinion, Page 8 Sports, Page 26