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Students will see increase in free printing

Student Government has attained funds to raise the daily free printing allocated to students by 50 cents

Along with the increase in the free printing allocation to students, Student Body President Moneer Kheireddine said Student Government has installed printers around campus and he plans to install more based on a survey that will soon be sent out to students. ORACLE PHOTO/CHAVELI GUZMAN

By Jessenia Rivera S T A F F

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Student Government (SG) has effectively pushed for an initiative that will give students a 50-cent increase in daily free printing.

With the goal of helping students attain more free printing throughout the day, SG has been focused on making the change and incorporating the daily $3 printing allowance by the fall semester. Presently, students can use an allotment of $2.50 per day.

Printing costs 11 cents per black and white page and 20 cents per color page. With the current $2.50

allocation, student can print about 22 black and white pages and about 12 pages in color. With the $3 allocation, students can

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Moneer Kheireddine, said the topic of achieving more free printing has been a popular subject in SG for a while and he is

We didn’t think our students had enough proper resources to go about what they need to do within their academics.

Moneer Kheireddine, Student Body President

print about 27 black and white pages and 15 pages in color.

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glad the change will occur.

Along with increasing the free printing amount, Kheireddine

said he has also installed printers around campus and he plans to install more based on a survey that will soon be sent out to students.

Printers have been placed in residential areas such as the Hub and in the help desk in Cypress, but SG is set on providing more printers in areas where they are needed by students.

“We know that there’s a lot of students in places such as ISA (Interdisciplinary Sciences building) or maybe in other resident halls who might not have access to printing services, so we

really just want to survey our student body and see what their thoughts are,” Kheireddine said.

Kheireddine said the increase in free printing has been asked for continuously by students and it’s the first time in five to 10 years that something has been done about it.

But before anything was legitimately increased, Kheireddine conducted a printing trial for all members of the USF campus in November.

Kheireddine said the trial was made possible by allocating more

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money out of SG’s executive branch budget.

“We did a printing trial to try to understand what the implications would be,” Kheireddine said.

“We figured out from that data, the exact amount that would be needed to request to make it $3 permanently.”

Kheireddine said it took $60,000 in additional funds toward the contract with RICOH, the company that contracts printing services to USF, to accommodate this increase. After reviewing the data gathered by the trial, Kheireddine said he reported the information to RICOH. SG is still finalizing documents with the Activity & Service Fee Recommendation Committee (ASRC), but Kheireddine said students could possibly see the implementation start toward the end of summer. Nevertheless, students will have the daily $3 free printing allowance in the fall.

He then later requested the amount from the ASRC, who voted in favor of the increase and allocated the additional money toward free printing.

Kheireddine said these incorporations needed to be made so that students can get their work done more efficiently.

According to Kheireddine, printing abilities and accessibility to these printers are crucial for the success of students who depend on these resources.

“Without an increase in print and without more available spaces on campuses in which students can print, we didn’t think our students had enough proper resources to go about what they need to do within their academics,” Kheireddine said.

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A Profile: Sarah Lucker, new SG Senate President

By Maria Ranoni N E W S

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With a new year comes a new Senate president. Student Government (SG) welcomes Sarah Lucker into the position for 59th term and Lucker plans to not only be a president, but an advocate.

Lucker was overwhelmingly voted in as Senate president with 32 out of 40 Senators present voting for her. She ran against fellow Senators, Yousef Afifi (who received the other eight votes), Suzane Nazir and Murzia Siddiqui.

Lucker, who will be beginning her senior year this fall, said the most important role for her as Senate president will be as an advocate for her fellow Senators.

“My main role is to be there to encourage them and support them (Senators) and really empower every member of Senate to become a leader in their own right,” Lucker said.

As a start to implement this, Lucker said one of the first initiatives she wants to work on is having oneon-one meetings with each Senator.

“I know it can be intimidating,” Lucker said. “I started Senate as a freshman and I didn’t really know how much work was going to go into it and having someone in my corner

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Sarah Lucker was voted in as Senate President for the 59th term with 32 of the present 40 Senators voting for her. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/SARAH LUCKER committee for the current term, said her roles within Senate prepared her for this type of advocacy.

Most importantly, she wants to help Senators work on their own initiatives and help them get involved on campus.

It really helped me gain a lot of confidence in myself and I realized how much I could do to serve the students.

Sarah Lucker, Senate President

saying, ‘You can do this,’ and ‘Let me help you get these things you want to accomplish this year,’ is a really big encouragement.”

Lucker, chair of the policy

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Being in Senate and filling these roles helped her grow as a person, according to Lucker.

“Starting off in Senate, I kind of had an unusual path,” Lucker said.

“I’m an education major, and we do have a lot of political science and biomedical science students, and I really found this as my place to grow here at USF. It really helped me gain a lot of confidence in myself and I realized how much I could do to serve the students, try to make USF a better place for my fellow students and then wanting to give back for one more year.”

Even though Senate and SG as a whole may experience times of contention, Lucker said this common bond of service is what creates a familial atmosphere within Senate.

“All of us have different political views, different views on the issues that affect the student body,” Lucker said. “We can all come together with

that main mission to serve others and if we all respect that, we can respect each other and make sure we’re accomplishing those big initiatives.”

On that note, Lucker said if there is ever anything students are upset with SG for or if a student simply wants to have their voices heard, her door is always open.

“Our office is on the fourth floor, but it’s always open for anyone who wants to come up there and speak with us,” Lucker said. “We’re all there because we want to be servants to the student body. I want to let students know that we are here to serve them first — we are students too — and we want to be open to communicating with them throughout this next year.”

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heads after the Bulls defeated the Knights 4-2. Among them was Sandi Dietrich, Alexsa and Tyler’s mother.

“It was heartwarming,” Sandi said. “Alexsa was mentioned several times on player’s ‘I cut my hair for’ papers.”

Players and coaches filled out papers that read “I cut my hair for:” and wrote down names of those who are affected by cancer.

“Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, Dad, Sarah, My Sis Alexsa,” were some of the responses.

Alexsa was recently inspired to change her major when she encountered a sign in the lobby of Moffitt Cancer Center. She was walking between clinics to another during one of her treatments when she saw a social worker appreciation poster. She saw the display, which read some of the duties of social

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workers. She knew then that she wanted to pursue a career in oncology social work instead of her original major in business.

According to her mother, Alexsa’s cancer motivated her to make the change.

“Oncology social workers help families find resources they may not know of or have the financial ability to do,” Sandi said.

The Vs. Cancer Foundation organizes the Cut for the Cure events. The foundation started when Chase Jones was diagnosed with a brain tumor as a freshman on the North Carolina baseball team.

“This whole thing started from a guy I played for in college named Rick Jones,” Mohl said.

“His nephew got diagnosed with brain cancer and he was a good friend of mine. He started this thing and we got behind him, obviously my wife going through it. The older you get the more people you start knowing that

go through this stuff; people on our team have families going through it. The event is really important to me.”

Vs. Cancer is the signature fundraising campaign of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. Its proceeds are split between child-life programs in local hospitals and national research.

This year, the Bulls have raised over $10,000 for Vs. Cancer. The foundation partners with 150 other college athletic programs and has raised over $4.2 million.

As the crowd cleared from the right-field line at USF Baseball Stadium, a trail of hair littered the grass and tears filled the eyes of those affected the most.

“I think that (the Cut for the Cure game) bonds them,” Sandi said, donned in a shirt that read ‘Alexsa Strong.’ “The anticipation of shaving their heads and then it bonds them. It puts a whole new spin on teammates.”

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Tyler Dietrich (right) waiting for the rest of his hair to be shaved off. ORACLE PHOTO/SAM NEWLON

Softball

USF drops two games at ECU for first series loss of 2018

By Brian Hattab S T A F F

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USF dropped two of three games over the weekend in Greenville, North Carolina, against ECU, losing an AAC series for the first time in 2018.

The Bulls took Friday’s game 7-3 thanks to a three RBI performance from junior Samantha Worrell, a season high for the Oviedo native.

Freshman Georgina Corrick started the game, allowing two runs on four hits in 5.1 innings pitched. Junior Cheyenne Eggens pitched the final 1.2 innings, picking up her eighth win of the season.

USF lost Saturday and Sunday’s games each by a score of 3-2.

All three of ECU’s runs Saturday came in the third inning

off Eggens. USF answered back in the fourth with two runs of its own thanks to a two-RBI single by senior Lauren Evans, but that would be all the Bulls could plate.

Sunday’s game came down to the wire. The game was tied in the bottom of the seventh before ECU centerfielder Tyler King drove in the walk off run for the Pirates off Eggens, though both the run and the loss were charged to senior Hannah Parker.

Despite the series loss, USF still finds itself on top of the AAC standings at 10-5, in front of both Wichita State and UCF at 8-6.

The Bulls and Knights face each other Friday through Sunday at the USF Softball Stadium in the penultimate series of the season.

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‘Student debt is not distributed equally because pay is not distributed equally.’

By Paige Wisniewski S T A F F

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Higher education is an investment many borrowers make on the promise that the money they put into tuition can one day be paid back with the level of income acquired from earning a degree.

But with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reporting that 45 million Americans owed $1.4 trillion in student loan debt in 2018, the investment put into a degree has not appeared to pay for itself. This fact is especially true for women and racial minorities.

Student debt is not distributed equally because pay is not distributed equally. Working to close pay inequality would help resolve the disparities in debt.

Women and people of color are disproportionately burdened by higher debt. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) reports that the debt owed by women makes up two-thirds of student debt at over $800 million.

Time magazine reports that black and low-income students are more likely to borrow more for a Bachelor’s degree. Eighty-one percent of black students attending a public college or university graduated with student loans. They also borrow around $3,500 more than white students.

There is not a simple explanation or solution as to why certain minorities carry heavier student debt burdens. Higher education should be accessible to all students. The price a student pays for their degree should not be based on social demographics.

The existing cultural structures that establish where individuals fall into socio-economic groups cannot be changed overnight, but implementing strategies to close large gaps in equality can be made, specifically in gender and racial pay gaps.

Minimizing pay inequality can help reduce student debt inequality.

Borrowing more but earning less is paradoxical. It can trap students in a cycle of debt that is difficult to escape. How can a person effectively manage repayments if their income is insufficient and inconsistent with their peers’ earnings? This system is not only counterproductive, but also dysfunctional and unsustainable.

In 2015, the Pew Research Center estimated that black people earned 75 percent in median hourly earnings as much as white people and women earned 83 percent as much as men. These large gaps in income are partly responsible for the student debt inequality currently plaguing borrowers.

Some type of degree has become a required qualification for obtaining a moderate to higher paying job. It is this standard that encourages many students to pursue higher education. A degree is intended to elevate a low-income student into the middle class. The disparities in student debt serve to keep certain social groups in the same economic standings that they are attempting to improve.

Male and white should not be part of the credentials one needs to earn a higher income or accumulate less debt.

Gender and racial pay gaps

should be addressed so all students are able to feel the return of their investments in higher education.

This is easier said than done.

Cultural attitudes regarding women and people of color in the workforce must first shift to ensure all employees are paid equally. Equal pay can lead to equal distribution of student debt.

Since corporations are legally bound by anti-discrimination policies, equalized income allotment should be considered a caveat of these laws. Pay gaps may not always be a conscious effort by employers, but cultural biases are often implicit. A policy mandating that employees with the same skill sets be paid in the same amount would help close income disparity between different social demographics and ensure that even implicit biases are being curbed.

Student debt inequality must be addressed on a pre- and postgraduate level. For women and people of color, the input into their educational investment is not meeting the output from their eventual income.

Debt and income should not vary by gender and race.

Higher education enables students to improve their lives. But the inequalities in student debt and employee income thwart the efforts and achievements made by women and people of color when earning their degree.

Paige Wisniewski is a junior majoring in interdisciplinary social science.

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What you said Multimedia editor Chaveli Guzman asked students how they feel about the increased printing allowance.

“I used to have to split up the days that I had to print really long articles ... so I am really excited that they raised it.”

- Tiffany Rank, a freshman majoring in criminology.

“I don’t really care I didn’t get to the limit ever for the past two years.“ ­ - Carlos Melecio, a sophomore majoring in chemistry.

“I’m excited because for the finals I needed more paper to print.”

- Wijie Kang, a freshman majoring in computer science.

“I think it ($2.50) was enough for me.”

- Theerat Silamahakul, a freshman majoring in finance.

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Cut for the Cure: More than just a Sunday baseball game

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USF wins series over UCF after back-to-back wins

By Josée Woble C O R R E S P O N D E N T

Coach Billy Mohl watches as his son Hunter shaves off a chunk of his hair at USF’s annual Cut for the Cure game. ORACLE PHOTO/SAM NEWLON

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Cancer affects more than just the patient.

The disease reaches family and friends, bringing sadness to each connection. It also, however, brings strength and unity.

Support and perseverance in the face of cancer was on full display Sunday when the Bulls concluded their Cut for the Cure game, with each member of the USF baseball team taking the field a second time after its victory over UCF to shave their heads.

USF coach Billy Mohl, who lost his wife Sarah to a rare form

of cervical cancer in 2013, was among the last to get his head shaved. Holding the clippers was his son Hunter.

“Bald is beautiful,” Mohl said. “I promised (Sarah) right before she died that I wouldn’t stop raising money for cancer awareness. She’s looking down and has a big ol’ smile on her face.”

Mohl is just one member of the team who is impacted by cancer.

“Some of us have family members who are going through cancer,” catcher Tyler Dietrich said. “It’s incredible, only a few of us may be impacted directly, but the whole team coming

together and showing support is amazing.”

Dietrich is among those directly impacted. His 20-yearold sister, Alexsa Dietrich, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in February.

Alexsa, a student at Ohio State and a former member of the dance team at the University of Alabama, is in her third of 12 chemotherapy treatments at Moffitt Cancer Center. She is enrolled in school remotely while she receives treatment in Tampa.

A crowd of USF fans, friends and family watched as the team lined up to shave their

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USF won its series against UCF after coming on top 4-2 Sunday for its second win of the weekend in front of 907 fans at USF Baseball Stadium.

Friday night’s 1-0 loss meant USF had to win Saturday and Sunday if it wanted to avenge last season’s AAC conference tournament and series loss last season.

That’s exactly what USF coach Billy Mohl and his team did.

“We’re a veteran group,” Mohl said. “We’ve done it over and over again. If you go back and look, we consistently do that — we play with a lot of confidence and one game’s not going to set the tone for the rest of the weekend.”

After a slow first inning, UCF (27-14) struck first scoring two runs in the top of the second.

Starting pitcher Collin Sullivan found himself in a few pinch situations, but only allowed two earned runs, giving USF (26-14) a chance to win the series.

“I was putting myself in a lot of tough spots,” Sullivan said.

“Just trusting Mohl and what he calls and just executing the pitch is really all we can do.”

Things started to ramp up in the third inning with a single from Garrett Zech. An error by UCF’s second baseman allowed Tyler Dietrich to reach first base, advancing Zech to second.

Zech was caught stealing third base leaving Dietrich

as the only runner on. Duke Stunkel Jr. quickly answered with a homerun to right-center field, tying the game in the bottom of the third.

David Villar, thc next batter, followed it up with another homerun to center field to put USF ahead 3-2.

“It was great,” Villar said.

“Duke led it off and he kind of gave us that spark. I just tried to come through and, you know, just get on base for the team.”

After back-to-back homeruns in the third inning, USF rallied.

“It energized us and it gave us a lift,” Mohl said. “It took the energy out of their dugout.”

Sullivan later found himself in a pinch situation in the top of the fifth inning. UCF had runners on first and third bases with two outs, but USF finished unharmed with a clutch strikeout from Sullivan to end the inning.

USF was in another scoring opportunity situation in the fifth inning.

Zech led things off with a double down the left field line. After a bunt from Tyler Dietrich, and a wild throw to first base, Zech scored and Dietrich advanced to second base. The Bulls extended their lead to 4-2, and would never relinquish it.

Next up, the Bulls take on Bethune-Cookman (17-24), who they beat 16-1 on Feb. 28, on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at USF Baseball Stadium.