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For the third time in two weeks, a USF football player has landed behind bars. Freshman receiver Deangelo Antoine was taken into custody early Sunday morning on felony charges of possessing of a controlled substance, University Police (UP) said. The 19-year-old Antoine, who has not appeared in a game for the Bulls this season, was released hours later from Hillsborough County Jail on a $2,000 bond. According to UP Assistant Chief Chris Daniel, Antoine and an unidentified female passenger were pulled over around midnight Sunday near the intersection of Fletcher Avenue and North Palm Drive. As the officer approached the vehicle, he detected the odor of marijuana, which gave him probable cause to search the occupants, Daniel said. While patting down Antoine, he found “a couple” tablets of Xanax for which Antoine did not have a prescription. No other drugs were found in the vehicle. Daniel said the
USF football player Deangelo Antoine was charged with possession of a controlled substance early Sunday morning, making him the third player to be arrested this month. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE
passenger was not affiliated with the university or the football program. In a statement, USF Athletics said Antoine has been indefinitely suspended from all team activities. “USF Athletics is aware
of the arrest of studentathlete Deangelo Antoine,” the statement said. “Antoine has been suspended from all team activities as we continue to gather more information and work with the proper authorities.”
Antoine is the third player to be arrested this month. Previously, reserve offensive lineman Benjamin Knox and cornerback Lamar Robbins were arrested following USF’s Homecoming win over Syracuse and charged with discharging a firearm on campus. Antoine, an Orlando native, was rated a three-star prospect by 247Sports and ESPN out of Oak Ridge High, where he was named 12th on the Orlando Sentinel’s list of top-60 players in Central Florida and 58th in the state. His former coach at Oak Ridge, Elijah Williams, told the Sentinel he was disappointed in Antoine’s actions. “I’m very disappointed, but at the same time, like a parent, once you instill the rules and the ways and values they should go by, once they leave, they have to make their way through the world,” Williams said. “Everybody makes mistakes and you have to learn from it and hopefully he won’t repeat it. Hopefully, he’ll use this as a learning experience.”
Jessica Williams brings laughter and silence By Abby Rinaldi A S S T .
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One could have heard a pin drop in the long silences between some of the passionate anecdotes Jessica Williams gave as she opened up to the audience about her experiences with discrimination and inequality during her life. The senior correspondent for “The Daily Show” spoke Thursday night in the Marshall Student Center (MSC) Oval Theater about the obstacles she has overcome as a woman of color. She said she struggles
with obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. Williams also said a main motivator for speaking with a therapist is her frustration with society, especially after she has personal encounters with how unfair the world can be. Williams recalled going out with her white boyfriend and trying to call a taxi to get home at the end of the night. They decided to stand apart on the sidewalk so they could cover more ground. Williams was trying to wave down a cab which then slowed down, came by her and drove right past to go instead to her boyfriend.
She said when she got into the cab with her boyfriend, she yelled “Surprise!” at the driver, who was visibly unhappy to have her in the cab. She kept trying to get him to admit he had driven past her and the man — an elderly white gentleman — would not budge. The 26-year-old comedian eventually stopped and asked to roll down the window. The man refused and would not explain why. Williams recalled him saying this is why he didn’t want to pick her up in the first place. She protested and the driver called the cops. The cops told them not to
worry about it, that the cab driver was racist and they weren’t in trouble. Williams told the driver he had hurt her, but the driver simply asked her to get out of his cab. Williams cried on the way home, feeling helpless. “I felt so heavy for something I could not change,” Williams said. Williams said her desire to work in TV and comedy came from her relationship with her grandmother, a woman Williams described as her best friend in her childhood. As her grandmother’s health declined,
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