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News Briefs President Obama to visit USF
NEWS
Library to undergo renovations
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The vice presidential candidates — Donald Trump’s running mate Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana and Hillary Clinton’s partner, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia — will participate in the vice presidential debate Tuesday. The event will air at 9 p.m. on all major television networks, as well as C-SPAN. There will be nine 10-minute segments with an opening question and a two-minute answer period. The rest will be allocated to response time.
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By Samantha Nieto C O R R E S P O N D E N T
President Barack Obama is visiting USF on Wednesday to speak on the Affordable Care Act. The official time of the speech is not yet announced but is estimated to be in the early afternoon. The press release from the White House stated he would be highlighting USF’s “diverse set of training programs for health professions.” All tickets for the event have been distributed.
Vice presidential debate Tuesday
USF offers fire prevention education
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Upcoming renovations at the USF Library are aimed at increasing seating and power source accessibility for students. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU are used less often will be stored communications and marketing By Morgan Blauth S T A F F W R I T E R in the basement, while items that director for USF Libraries, said the students frequently check out or project will rearrange the quiet Over the course of the next year, request will remain in smaller levels of the Library. The fourth students will see major changes shelving units on each floor for floor is currently the quietest floor to both the seating arrangements students to peruse or request in the building for those who prefer and collections shelving in the USF through the Circulation desk. a silent work environment. Tampa Library. It is important to Library staff “During construction, we’re The project is designed to that the Library collections remain going to have the basement be the dramatically increase the seating accessible after the project is quiet study space,” Thornton said. and power source availability to complete. During the renovation, Library students. “We don’t want to be a study staff will stay updated about the Todd Chavez, dean of the USF hall … we want to be a library that area of the Library in which the Libraries, said that the renovation provides great study spaces for crew will be working. Students comes partly as a result of students,” Chavez said. can ask the circulation desk for “anecdotal observation” of the The project will initially focus the workers’ location if they want need for new seating. For instance, on the fifth floor, with renovations to avoid those areas. The staff he said staff would often see to the fourth floor to come later. will also post signage around the students sitting on the floor, which Seating on the fifth floor will building to alert students to the he attributed to more studious increase from 117 seats to over current workspaces. students. 400. “We will have signage on the “We’ve had a lot of feedback The Library receives between floors to let people know what’s from students about needing 15,000 to 18,000 guests per day going to be happening on those more study space, needing more and currently seats 1,700 guests floors,” Chavez said. seating,” he said. “USF has better at a time. Ultimately, he said, the Library students (than previous years) The fifth floor will see the most staff wants to keep any disruption … who study more, students change. The renovation will add at a minimum. As a result, the who view their study space as seating, study areas along the library construction company will something they want to use more.” walls, additional power outlets and only work on one area of one floor The first phase of the project two additional study rooms. at a time and will utilize a staff will begin today and last until Chavez described the elevator to avoid disrupting normal December. Books and other renovations as a “win, win, win” elevator traffic. materials will be moved from the because the power supply and Work will take place from 6 third, fourth and fifth floors to new lighting will be improved, and a.m. to 4 p.m. from Monday compact shelving in the basement. the Library’s collections will be through Friday. Students who The re-shelving of books will be preserved. visit the Library on evenings and based on demand. Materials that Eileen Thornton, n See LIBRARY on PAGE 5
USF is will provide three days of seminars to teach students the many ways they can protect themselves. Running Oct. 11-13, USF Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) is joining forces with the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association to go forward with a National Fire Prevention Week. The goal of these events is to provide the university community with educational resources on fire prevention and how to respond in the event of a fire. In conjunction with the Office of the State Fire Marshal, EHS will conduct fire extinguisher training and provide campus and residence hall fire safety tips. From January 2000 to May 2015, there were 85 deadly fires in dormitories, fraternity and sorority housing, and off-campus housing, resulting in 118 fatalities — an average of approximately seven per school year, according to the U.S. Fire Administration. “Student lives are involved and the safety information we will distribute regarding smoke detectors will help to educate the students on the seriousness of maintaining and taking action when these life safety devices activate,” said Eugene Banks, the safety and compliance manager for USF’s Fire Safety Department. According to NFPA survey data, the public has many misconceptions about smoke alarms, which can put them at increased risk in the event of a home fire. According to Banks, knowing how to ways out of every building is vital information in the case of a fire. “If you’re living off campus, make sure your smoke detectors in your residence are properly operating,” Banks said. More in-depth advice in preventing and avoiding dangerous fire conditions will be distributed during Fire Safety Week on Oct. 12 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the south side of the Marshall Student Center during Bull Market.
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Simple. Natural. Primal. Ask the average person to describe his or her diet, and you are unlikely to hear these words leave their mouths. USF alumna Jordann Windschauer doesn’t only illustrate her food as such, but has modeled her business after this portrayal as well. Windschauer, a St. Petersburg native, founded Base Culture, a company that specializes in making desserts and snacks to suit the Paleolithic diet. Also known as the Caveman or Stone Age Diet, the Paleo Diet became popular several years ago. Its main guideline is that people can only eat what was available to humans in the Paleolithic period. This includes meat, seafood, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds. It also means no dairy, sugar, salt, processed foods and grains. Windschauer was first introduced to the Paleo lifestyle when she joined a CrossFit gym following graduation. Members of the gym did a 30-day Paleo challenge shortly after she joined. She took part in the challenge to get involved and make friends. She was so impressed with the health benefits she witnessed after the first 30 days that she decided to try it for another 30 more to “make sure that it wasn’t a fluke.” “For me, it wasn’t about losing weight of anything like that,” Windschauer said. “It was more about the fact that I slept better in the night and I had more energy in the day, and it just really felt better and I was more positive.” After the 60 days, she was sold. However, there was something missing: dessert. Windschauer had grown accustomed to sweets and snacks growing up and now they were nowhere to be found. “I started doing some exper-
USF alumna Jordann Windschauer’s dessert company, Base Culture offers, various Paleolithic snacks including granola, banana bread and a sampler box. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/VERONICA SOLECKI iments in the kitchen with no real intention of starting a business. It was purely for my own selfish cravings that I wanted brownies and cookies and muffins that still followed this Paleo diet that made me feel great,” Windschauer said. “That’s when I had started experimenting more on the baking side of things.” A graduate from USF Tampa’s mass communications program with a specialization in public relations, windschauer had no formal culinary training. She wanted to be an event planner, and that was her day job at the time. It took her a few months to get the recipes to the standards she wanted. “Learning how to bake with seeds and nuts as flour rather than actual flour or grains was definitely a learning curve,”
Windschauer said. She remembers the first time she tried to make cookies when she used too much coconut flour. She described that tasting experience as asphyxiating. “It’s just trial and error, and that’s really all the beginning stages of this company was, even on the business side of things,” Windschauer said. “Trying it, seeing if it works, and if it didn’t, just using that as a growing, stepping stone in the way to finding out the right answer because you can’t let failure stop you.” Shortly thereafter, her gym had another Paleo challenge and her fellow participants offered to buy her snacks. She said she did it for the extra cash but decided to start a Facebook page for what had
become a side business. At the time, she was still working at her day job from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., so she would begin baking at 7 p.m. and wouldn’t be done until around 3 a.m. Six months later, following a WFLA story about her company that aired in Tampa and across the country, she began to receive orders from around the country. At that point, she had to decide whether to make it a full-blown business or keep it a hobby. She chose the former. Now, three years later, she has 11 people on her team and is in the process of building a 44,000 square-foot facility in Clearwater that will function as a manufacturing plant capable of producing 1 million pieces of product daily.
Her company started supplying the P.O.D. Market on campus last December, and students can now buy Base Culture’s fruit and nut squares and granola at three P.O.D. market locations on campus: Juniper-Popular, USF Pharmacy at Moffitt and USF Health. Windschauer is currently on an 80-percent-Paleo, 20-percent-regular diet as she said that it allows her to stay true to the diet, rather than staying strict for 30 days and then binging later. “I view the whole Paleo idea as more of a lifestyle than a diet because I feel like if you’re so strict on a way of eating for a certain amount of time, you’re gonna get tired of it and you’re gonna get off track,” Windschauer said.
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weekends will not be affected by the renovations. “A lot of planning went into this to absolutely minimize the effect on the students,” Thornton said. Compact shelving will be installed in the basement in current staff-only areas. These new units will house the materials currently found on the third, fourth and fifth floors. Additionally, students will notice bathroom renovations on the third through sixth floors during the spring. To avoid extreme congestion in the first and second floor bathrooms, only two floors’ bathrooms will be worked on at a time. “We will not take all four out of service (at once),” Chavez said. “No way.” The final phase of renovation will begin in May 2017 when the fifth floor will close completely. The seating that is currently on that floor will be redistributed to other areas of the Library so that the seating capacity in the building remains the same. Students will still have access to the materials on the fifth floor via a “paging system” through
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which they can request an item at the Circulation desk and a staff member will retrieve it for them. By fall 2017, the Library renovation project will be complete and students will have full access to renovated bathrooms, as well as the updated and increased seating and power sources. “We want students to know that the inconvenience of the next couple months has a bright ending,” Chavez said. Megan Ostl, a Library research assistant, said that the renovations will be good in the long run but worries about an increase in lines when circulation workers need to leave the desk to find materials for students that are stored in the basement or elsewhere. “The Library is crazy busy,” she said. “The renovations are going to cause student workers to have to go find books that students could get (for themselves) before.” Busra Atalay, a student specialist working at the Circulation desk, said that an increase in seating will definitely benefit the USF Library. “There’s not too much room, I always see people walking around looking for seats,” she said. Chavez is excited about the project and its impact on students. “It’s gonna be great,” he said.
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Downtown renovations neglecting real problem By Abby Rinaldi C O L U M N I S T
Publications have been criticized for endorsing each of its preferred candidate in this election. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE By Breanne Williams C O L U M N I S T
This election has been unlike any other, as the fervor held by voters quickly has divided the nation. While citizens’ strong preferences toward one candidate or another are not, in theory, a new phenomenon, media outlets actively campaign for their preferred candidate is. What the public fails to realize is that it’s a reporter’s job to guide the public. Though it has evoked opposition, analyzing a candidate’s ability and fact checking his or her claims is literally in the job description. In their creation, media networks, whether they be print, broadcast or another form, are intended to be truth tellers. They were created to impartially report the facts to their audience and to report the opposing views to the general public without editorializing the content. Obviously, the polarization of our country has caused many to more freely express personal beliefs along with covering issues, as evidenced by networks like Fox News and MSNBC. Media is, after all, a business. If the public demands partisan news, the networks will deliver in order to retain viewers. However, it is extremely rare to see one publication or network straightforwardly tell readers who to vote for. This year, that anomaly has become the norm. Papers across the country are coming
out in support of their preferred candidates, even at the cost of losing readers. The Arizona Republic, Arizona’s largest newspaper, endorsed Hillary Clinton on Tuesday and received calls every 10 minutes for subscription cancellations. The paper is a renowned conservative publication and has never in its entire 126 years supported a Democrat for president. When it released its editorial in favor of Clinton, it stated, “Clinton has the temperament and experience to be president. Donald Trump does not.” Other publications, including the Cincinnati Enquirer, which has not endorsed a Democrat for president in nearly 100 years and the Dallas Morning News, which has supported Republicans religiously since World War II have penned editorials imploring readers to vote for the “opposing” side this election. In this economy, losing readers has a huge impact on a publication. The fact that so many are willing to risk profit in order to take a stand should show the public how much they care, not foster the sense of betrayal so many are adopting toward these stances. Though many are switching support to the Democrats, not all publications are avidly opposed to Trump. Fox News has dedicated both screen time and multiple columns online to attacking the Democratic candidate, including a column analyzing the first presidential debate that stated “it’s easy to show why Hillary
Clinton is not fit to be president.” The allegiances may vary from outlet to outlet, but the root of the support is the same — reporters have reached the point of desperation in this election. The New York Times released an article Saturday divulging Trump’s missing tax returns, highlighting his terrible business strategies and utilization of loopholes to possibly avoid paying taxes for 20 years. Criticisms for the investigation are coming left and right, spearheaded by the Trump campaign. However, the Times recognized the public needed to know in order to make an educated decision come Election Day. The paper also blasted a half-page editorial a week prior, detailing multiple reasons why it believes Trump should not be president. Questioning the validity of a publication’s beliefs is one matter, criticizing the entire institution for attempting to inform and guide the public is another. Papers across the country are losing readers and yet they refuse to budge on their stances, proving that at its core, the media are still focused on protecting the public, even if it’s from themselves. “We know we’re doing the right thing,” said Phil Boas the editorial page editor of the Arizona Republic. “We feel very good about this decision.” Breanne Williams is a senior majoring in mass communications.
Rows of shops, bright lights, crowds of people, walkways across a serene turquoise river. These are the images presented in the artist’s renditions of Lightning owner Jeff Vinik’s plans for downtown Tampa. As a lifelong resident of Tampa, I see one major flaw with these renditions and Vinik’s plan to revitalize the area around Amalie Arena: the projected image of the Hillsborough River — crystalline, blue and shimmering in the sun. The real river is a deep, muddy brown that one can’t clearly see into. Oil, foam and trash float on its surface and wash up against the edges of the downtown Riverwalk when boats go by. Of course, I would like to see the best in this region. But the reality is the river is nothing like the image presented in these artist’s renditions. However, what is so frustrating is that it wasn’t always this way. People in Tampa used to be able to fish in the Hillsborough River and not catch garbage. Locals used to be able to kayak on it and see the reeds growing on the river bottom and the fish swimming beneath its surface. To be fair, in some remote areas, these activities are still possible, but the section of the river that flows downtown is not one of those lucky locations. “Tampa Bay is the largest open water estuary on the Gulf of Mexico, yet it is assaulted by more than 4 billion gallons of oil, fertilizer ingredients and other hazardous materials each year,” Environment Florida reported on its website. Not to mention the abundance of sewage currently plaguing the Bay. I’ve watched the river change and I haven’t liked what I’ve seen. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the downtown renovations are projected to cost $1 billion. Some of that money will go toward building a boardwalk and providing more access for recreational water usage, according to the Times. However, with all that money, it’s hard to believe none of it will be spent on making downtown’s aquatic centerpiece look anything like it does in the artist’s renditions or anything like how longtime Tampa natives remember it. Yes, tourists will flock to downtown Tampa. But without major cleanups, they unquestionably will not be here for our waterfront.
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Bulls overcome illness in 2-1 win CROSSWORD Women’s Soccer
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Despite a number of Bulls’ players battling the flu, a quick start and two goals by freshman forward Evelyne Viens led the Bulls to a 2-1 victory Sunday afternoon over the visiting Houston Cougars at Corbett Soccer Stadium. With a handful of Bulls out Sunday, including senior defender Jordyn Listro, freshman midfielder Andrea Hauksdottir and freshman forward Gudrun Sigurdardottir, USF turned an early 2-0 lead into a defensive match. “We have a virus in our team, so it’s important that their bodies fully recover,” coach Denise SchilteBrown said. “We had three starters affected by (the virus) and a bunch of players that weren’t doing so well.” After the Bulls’ hot start, the game tightened and turned into a possession-oriented match that was contested until the final seconds, as Houston cut the goal deficit to one in the 55th minute on a penalty kick effortlessly stashed into the right netting by Houston’s Vanessa Almaguer. Houston’s penalty kick made Viens’ two early scores all the more important on a sweltering day at Corbett Stadium with 570 fans in attendance. It has not been an easy transition from the Canadian winters to routinely playing in the relentless Florida sun for Viens, who reflected on her path from the first practices of the season to her current status as offensive stalwart for the Bulls. “I knew that it would be hot out
Freshman forward Evelyne Viens led the way for USF once again, scoring both of the Bulls’ goals. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/GOUSFBULLS.COM there, the first practice I did, I called be the game-clincher, and a crucial my parents and said, ‘I think it’s hot-start for a team with multiple over, I will never pass the (fitness) starters battling flu-like symptoms. test,” Viens said. “Some girls are In a game preceded by an evebig and strong on the field, so I ning practice and a virus that has train three, four times a week plus been making its round on the practice so I wanted to be ready.” roster, these early scores would be Viens has been more than ready crucial as signs of fatigue began to so far in 2016, leading the Bulls set in during the second half. with her tenth and eleventh goals “The loss (against SMU) maybe of the season against the Cougars hit us harder than we thought, on Sunday. and I think the coaching staff perHer first goal came in the 5th haps didn’t give (the team) enough minute, as she drilled a low line recovery (time),” Schilte-Brown drive from inside the box across said. “We have like six kids sick, the goalie’s face and into the left so I would say … there was some corner of the net. sort of burnout effect in the second Then again in the 13th minute, half, almost like they weren’t sure Viens found the net once again, why.” this time using a touch on a lowIn order to prepare for Friday’s driven assist from fellow Canadian tilt against rival UCF, Schilte-Brown teammate Yasmine Hall to sneak pointed to the team’s preparation the ball past Houston’s goalie, plan for the upcoming week. Nicole Young. “A good rest, recovery … and This second goal would prove to we’ll be where we need to be.”
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Mack makes history in win over Bearcats Football
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Outside USF
Julio Jones breaks record in Flacons win Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones had a recordbreaking Sunday against the Carolina Panthers in which he caught 12 passes for 300 yards and a touchdown. Jones’ 300 yards set a Falcons record and was Julio Jones only the sixth instance in NFL history of a wide receiver recording at least 300 yards. Along with Jones, quarterback Matt Ryan also set the franchise record for passing yards in a game, throwing for 503 yards, passing his own record of 448 yards.
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Ever since Marlon Mack’s electric 275-yard, four-touchdown debut for USF against Western Carolina in 2014, it has been apparent coach Willie Taggart has a unique athlete on his hands. Saturday against Cincinnati (3-2, 0-1), with his parents in the stands, Mack cemented his place in Bulls’ history as the program’s all-time rushing leader. With a side step and a burst of speed, Mack scored a 49-yard touchdown run for USF’s final score in its 45-20 win over the Bearcats at Nippert Stadium. “That was a pretty impressive run,” Taggart said. “He used the L1 button on that one, you know PlayStation. He hit the L1 button and made the guy miss and took it to the house. I loved the fact how he did it, how he got the record. “I’m really proud of Marlon and what he’s done and how he can add on to that. He’s been special for us from day one and he deserves everything he’s getting.” Mack’s 118 yards on 20 carries Saturday gave him 2,755 career yards in two-plus seasons at USF, moving him past former record holder Andre Hall by 24 yards. “It feels great, it’s a great feeling,” Mack said. “Thanks to my O-line the last few years, for blocking for me, doing a good job and letting me do what I do.” Heading into halftime, USF (4-1, 1-0) was locked in a back-and-forth contest, leading the Bearcats 24-20. Powered by Mack’s two touchdowns and the defense’s three second-half turnovers, the Bulls quickly pulled away from Cincinnati with 28 unanswered points. “That was good for our guys after a loss (to Florida State) to bounce back and not let
Marlon Mack scored on touchdown runs of four yards and 49 yards in USF’s 45-20 win over Cincinnati on Saturday. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/JACOB HOAG that loss phase (them) and came into my life, I just feel erupted for at least 45 points not let that loss make them like everything’s changed,” in four of its first five games lose another one this week,” Flowers said. “I have to treat in 2016. Taggart said. football just like it’s my daugh“Just like I always say, we’ve Along with Mack, quarter- ter. I have a lot of responsi- got guys who will turn five back Quinton Flowers paced bilities; I have a lot of things yards into 60 just like Marlon USF’s explosive offense with I have to do for this team. I Mack,” Flowers said. “He had 196 passing yards, 74 rushing just went out there every play a draw play and made someyards and two rushing touch- and played every play like it’s one miss and he was gone in downs. my last.” the blink of an eye. After throwing for 160 The dual-rushing attack “Just knowing you have yards and two interceptions of Flowers and Mack, which a lot of guys like that will on 5-for-14 passing in Week 4 combined for 192 rushing change the game.” against FSU, Flowers credited yards and four touchdowns With a conference win his improved performance to Saturday, have transformed under its belt, USF returns the birth of his daughter, who the Bulls’ offense from a team home for its homecoming was born Sept. 26. that averaged 17.2 points per game against East Carolina on “Ever since my daughter game in 2014 to one that’s Saturday at noon.