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A look at the candidates

Two tickets square off in race for student body president Page 3

Drawing the line at The Oscars Page 4

Fourth Friday thrives in first year Page 6

February 27, 2017 Vol. 54 No. 42

USF baseball completes sweep Page 10

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News Briefs The SG ballot On top of voting for the next student body president, students have the opportunity to vote on three referendums today. The first discusses the Student Green Energy Fee and whether students want to continue paying the $1 per credit hour. This fee goes toward initiatives that make the USF carbon footprint smaller, such as water bottle refilling stations around campus and placing solar panels on the roof of the MSC. Students vote on this fee every three years. Students also get to vote on a referendum discussing the creation of a committee to advise university investments. The goal is to make the USF Foundation divest from companies that allegedly support fossil fuels, private prisons and companies complicit in human rights violations. SG referendums are not binding, and this would not require action by The Foundation, but merely encourage it. The final referendum allows students to vote on the OUR shirt design for the 2017-18 school year. These are the official game day shirts of all USF athletic events. Students will also vote on who will fill the SG Senate for the upcoming term. Students can vote online at sg.usf.edu/vote. There will also be polling locations around campus, including in the MSC. Voting is open until Thursday at 5 p.m.

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Ryan and Logan

The Student Government presidential candidates — Moneer Khiereddine (left) and Ryan Soscia — offer different approaches to similar issues.

Khieredine‘understands Soscia pushes for increased diversity within SG the student experience’

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By Breanne Williams A S S O C I A T E

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Moneer Kheireddine believes he and his running mate, Shaquille Kent, are the perfect fit for roles of USF student body president and vice president. Kheireddine was a Senator for Student Government (SG) for nearly two years, an orientation team leader, president of his fraternity, Alpha Sigma Phi, and a USF ambassador for the alumni association. Kheireddine said he chose Kent as his running mate because Kent had a passion for being a servant leader versus being a boss, and had the right experience to make him perfect for the job. Kent was a resident assistant for USF Housing, a Senator for SG, as well as an ambassador for the

alumni association. “I believe, without a fraction of a doubt, that we understand the student experience and what it means to make a positive impact on this campus better than anyone,” Kheireddine said. “Kent and I bring two unique perspectives to the table. An international student from Trinidad and Tobago who has experienced economic hardships and who has had to fight every step of the way to attend USF. “A Muslim man who has experienced racial and religious discrimination and injustice. Both attending this university on scholarships, both understanding the plight of students who have had to work to overcome prejudice, both dedicated student leaders.” Kheireddine said the major

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Throughout the election season, Student Government (SG) presidential hopeful Ryan Soscia has spoken out for increasing support for survivors of sexual assault and generally pushing for more diversity in student representation. But when it comes to his first day in office, Soscia has a clear focus in mind. “We need to start getting the administration involved in helping our sexual assault survivors and we need to expand our resources in mental health,” Soscia said at the all-ticket debate on Wednesday. “That’s a fact, but our first day in office I need to have a conversation with our administration, have a conversation with Judy Genshaft,

about the relationship we’re going to have. “We need an administration that’s willing to put money outside of (Activities and Service) fees toward these programs … We need to make sure we’re protecting our students.” While pushing administration for answers is a major part of his campaign, Soscia is mostly trying to get students to open up the discussion. “Regardless of if we win or lose, students are talking about issues they were hesitant to bring up to Student Government before,” Soscia said. “As long as that continues, I will label my run for office as successful.” In addition to advocating for sexual assault survivors, Soscia plans to fight for a monthly tuition

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The Academy needs to draw the line on immoral deeds

Oscar controversies The Oscars are no stranger to controversy. It has been riddled with contention for years. As things heat up politically, many are boycotting the award show due to the fact that many of the nominees dedicated their acceptance speeches to talking on the controversial issues. Below are some of the most famous debates surrounding the award ceremony. #OscarsSoWhite In 2016, only white actors were nominated for the top four categories for the second year in a row. #OscarsSoWhite began trending on social media and many boycotted both watching and attending the event. Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee all refused to attend the event. Then-President Barack Obama, George Clooney and many others spoke out about the need for more diversity in the industry. “Green card” quip In 2015, Sean Penn announced the winner for “Best Picture.” When he read the card and realized the award was going to “Birdman,” directed by the Mexican-born Alejandro Iñárritu, he said, “Who gave this son of a b*tch his green card?” Anti-Bush Actors are renown for not remaining silent on political matters. In 2003, documentarian Michael Moore chastised thenPresident George W. Bush for taking the U.S. to war. He called him a “fictitious president” and created quite an uproar due to the fact that the war in Iraq had only begun days prior to his speech.

The Oscars are once again swept up in controversy with the nomination of an actor accused of sexual assault. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

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The Academy Awards is Hollywood’s Super Bowl. The top movies and actors from the previous year compete for the title of “best.” It’s prestigious, it’s coveted, and yet it seems the Academy is at a loss over whether it should award morally unsound people with the highest honor in the business. Last night, Casey Affleck was competing for the award of “Best Actor” for his performance in “Manchester by the Sea,” an honor he doesn’t deserve. Affleck directed a 2010 pseudo-documentary titled, “I’m Still Here,” and was sued for sexual harassment by not one, but two women working on the film. The producer, Amanda White, claimed Affleck ordered a male crewmember to show his penis to her, and the cinematographer Magdalena Gorka woke up one night to find Affleck in her bed caressing her back wearing nothing but a T-shirt and underwear. It was outrageous. It was disgusting. Instead of going to court, he settled both lawsuits. The Academy touts the importance of standing firm on a moral ground. Actors spent the majority of the evening blasting some of the ethical decisions made by the current administration and vowing to remain strong and united. Yet it didn’t hesitate to nominate a man who was accused of sexual harassment.

What’s truly baffling is the Academy already has chosen to condemn these acts, as is evident in its shunning of “The Birth of a Nation” after it was exposed the director, Nate Parker, and his close friend had been accused in 1999 of raping a female classmate at Penn State. The woman had taken them to court. Parker was acquitted at trial, but his friend was convicted, though he was able to successfully appeal the conviction on the ground of ineffective counsel. Then the bomb dropped. The woman who had accused Parker had, after multiple attempts spanning several years, committed suicide. Even though Parker was not convicted, the fact that there was even a chance he had done such a horrendous deed took the film from Oscar shoo-in to box-office flop. Despite the deep, meaningful content of the movie, there was zero talk of it being considered for an award. The movie, the actors, the crew, were punished for the alleged actions of the director. Where is the line drawn? Does there need to be a death for sexual assault to be taken seriously enough to make an actor an outcast? Is it because Parker is a black man and not a scruffy white guy who has a famous brother? Does Affleck get a pardon because the character he portrays is a jerk, a terrible human being, whereas Parker played a hero? The Academy must make up its mind. It

must decide if the horrendous actions a person does denies them the chance for the highest recognition in the field. And if it decides to draw the line, to deny awards to men and women who lead twisted lives, regardless of their acting ability, it must stick to its decision. Mel Gibson was ostracized after his antiSemitic rants, especially after it came to light he had frequently used racial slurs and drunkenly belittled women. Jokes on his behalf were weaved into multiple award shows and it was generally acknowledged the man would never be praised for his artistic talents again. The Academy was appalled at his behavior. And then it got over it. Eight years pass, and he finds himself nominated for “Best Director.” At the end of the day, people are watching what the Academy believes constitutes good art. If they see terrible people can do appalling things and still be considered the “best,” why should they make sure they live morally sound lives? It won’t impact their work, they can still have thriving careers, so might as well do whatever they want right? The Academy cannot permit those who do not value and respect all of humanity, not just a select few, to win or even be nominated for an Oscar. By permitting a detestable nature, it breeds it. Breanne Williams is a senior majoring in mass communications.

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At Bull Market on Wednesday, representatives from the organization Dear World will be interacting with students leading up to the University Lecture Series event that evening. Dear World takes pictures of participants with messages written on their skin. It’s geared toward storytelling from personal experiences, tributes to places and thank you notes. “Dear World goes to different campuses, conferences and conventions, sets up shop and people are able to tell their stories via pictures and also write a message on their arm to help share their story,” said Marion Huntley, coordinator for the Center for Student Involvement (CSI). The representatives will be

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listening to student stories on Tuesday and Wednesday to find five students willing to go up during the lecture that night to tell their story to a wider audience. “They work with people to share their message,” Joshua Wilson, associate director for CSI, said. “They have conversations with folks and they ask, ‘What does that mean to you?’ (Dear World) sees how they describe it, and then talks with them about their interest to potentially speak among their peers.” The movement started in New Orleans as love letters to the city, but has since branched out to include the college tour. Dear World has photographed Syrian refugees and survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing. It focuses on the fact that everyone has a story to be told and how telling them can bring people

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platform points of he and Kent’s campaign are to increase student involvement, revamp parking and have access to better quality dining along with many other issues. He plans to implement selfreported parking, which was showcased to him at Florida State University. “This university feature will push USF to the next level in terms of innovation and efficiency,” Kheireddine said. “Self-reported parking essentially allows students to report and check the status of parking spaces for garages and lots on campus. I know I’ve spent precious minutes that I’m running late for class driving round and round, looking for parking. Selfreported parking will save students time, gas and their sanity.” Kheireddine said his leadership style is heavily influenced by Ryan Newton, a supervisor from the Office of Orientation. According to Kheireddine, what formed his foundation for being a leader was a conversation held with Newton, whom he often sought for advice, in which he told him the goal of any form of leadership “Being a servant leader means

being the least important person in the room at any given time. Whether you’re president of a fraternity, of a university, or of a nation. Your goal is to always be caring about the opinions and lives of every other person, because that is why you’re in that role. To care for others.” Kheireddine plans on adopting that mindset in his role as president. He said listening to students’ opinions would be the basis of his administration’s decision making. He said taking mental health seriously and ensuring students had proper care was one of the things he would immediately begin working on if he were to win the election. “What I hope to start day one once starting in office is advocating to the Florida Legislature about increasing mental health counselors on campus and ensuring they are both funded within the program, and if any student on campus who needs assistance or needs mental health counseling will have it,” Kheireddine said. “I know it takes a while to get an appointment… We also will be starting the first Mental Health Awareness Week, that’s a platform point I wanted to share that we will start up as soon as we get into office.”

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Due to its immense success, the city is prepared to not only continue Fourth Friday, a monthly event in downtown Tampa celebrating the city’s arts and, but also enhance the festivities as it celebrates its one-year anniversary. Fourth Friday began as a collaboration between multiple cultural venues downtown, like the Tampa Theatre, Tampa Museum of Art and other iconic Tampa gems. The endeavor received such a positive reaction from the community that the Tampa Downtown Partnership agreed to take over managing the event. “Fourth Friday benefits the community by encouraging them to embrace the arts and culture that we have available here in this city by kind of grouping it all together and making it easily accessible for them,” said Rachel Radawec, the executive administrative assistant for Tampa Downtown Partnership. “A lot of the cultural institutions offer free or discounted admission and additional programing that’s not typically there.” Many of the venues involved in the monthly event met to discuss plans for the next year. They voted unanimously to continue into the new year and are even discussing expanding to Ybor City. “It has met and surpassed the goals we set for the event,” Radawec said. “Each of the cultural venues have really great ideas on ways to enhance this coming year.” There are plans to do more philanthropic work, especially around the holidays, by making the venues food drives or toy collection hubs. It also plans on working with local community partners to bring attention to their cause. Radawec also said the venues are committed to adding an experience twice a year that goes “above and beyond what they normally do.” She said this

People taking part in Fourth Friday have the opportunity to have unique Tampa experiences, such as touring the Tampa Theatre and the Henry B. Plant Museum for free. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE. will keep the schedule constantly 100 people on the tour… the sics and hopefully before the end great date night here… (Tampa) evolving and fresh to keep peo- majority of them who come on of the year we will be getting our really is a unique city that is startFourth Friday have never been new seats,” Witeck said. “We ing to hit its stride,” she said. ple who go regularly enticed. The Tampa Theatre has been to the Tampa Theatre before. should be revealing those to the Radawec echoed her sentiinvolved since the beginning. It So as a marketing tool, as a public around the end of this cal- ments and said Fourth Friday helped find other cultural venues tool to introducing people to arts endar year, so if I were to paint specifically is a way for a college to join in the monthly celebra- and culture in downtown Tampa, it in broad brush strokes, our student to enjoy a lot of culture tion. The Theatre offers a half- which is the whole point of the special thing will be paired on and events in one setting. hour tour, and opens the lobby event, it is incredibly successful.” top of something we are already “For students, I think it’s a realWiteck said the Theatre has doing.” for a happy hour for anyone ly great opportunity,” Radawec Witeck said there is a miscon- said. “One, it’s an affordable yet to decide what its special walking by. Jill Witeck, the director of experiences will be. However, if ception that there is nothing to option to get to experience a marketing and community rela- she were to speculate, she said do downtown. She said Fourth lot of different institutions, all at tions for the Tampa Theatre, said it would probably be focused Friday helps combat that by one time… It’s convenient for Fourth Friday is a great draw for around the unique events the helping students and other com- students. Everybody’s got stuff people who have never been to Theatre currently offers for the munity members realize there is going on, they’ve got class and a plethora of exciting venues in work and things like that so community. the Theatre before. “So we do a big program the city. “I ask every time I give a tour being able to cluster all of that “There really is a lot going on, together with the affordability how many people are there for around Halloween, around our the first time,” Witeck said. “It’s summer classics, we do a big you can make an entire evening is really a nice experience for not uncommon we have 75 to program around the holiday clas- of it, a weekend of it or have a them.”

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plan, create student advocacy councils and provide free weekend transportation to downtown, Ybor City and SoHo. Soscia plans to continue the initiative current president Chris Griffin started of a campus wide syllabus bank to allow students to view the past syllabus for a class before registering for it. Along with a syllabus bank, Soscia also plans on creating a room reservation database that would allow students to book private study spaces across campus and see where open rooms are, with the idea of cutting down on time spent looking for a place to study. He’s also discussed establishing a career fair for international students, making an A+ valued at a 4.33 GPA, creating SG scholarships, and hosting watch parties for away football games. When it comes to his work outside of SG, Soscia pushes for philanthropy at USF through the organization Bulls Forever, which he co-founded. “The whole point of the

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organization is to establish the spirit of philanthropy on campus and teach students the importance of giving,” he said. “We help raise money for various student-led initiatives that may be overlooked by the administration or SG, so it’s completely third-party. “I’m really passionate about that because I think at a school like this, everyone needs to understand how important being a philanthropist is.” Soscia met his running mate, Logan Holland, on his first day as Chief Financial Officer for SG last fall, and the two were fast friends. When it came to start thinking about running for president and vice president, he said it was a no-brainer for the two to run together. “He’s a big football fan and so am I, so we talk football all the time,” Soscia said. “We had a lot of the same critiques we saw among the Executive Branch and SG, we had pretty much the same opinion on it all. It was quite natural when we decided to run together because we had the same vision and we were really good friends. Our bond is going to push us through this whole next year.”

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together. Huntley said CSI hopes this different kind of lecture for ULS will bring out a different kind of crowd to the event. “We hope that students are invested in each other, as well as what they’re going through,” she said. “And their stories will bring more people out and a different crowd because it is their peers who are going to be lecturing.” According to their contract, Dear World is receiving $12,500 for the event, which includes two days of talking to students and gathering stories prior to the actual lecture. “I think it’s something different for ULS to kind of change it up a little bit,” Huntley said. “As well as, we know that all of our students have a story and that we want to give them the chance to be the lecturers for the evening.” The lecture will be held in the Oval Theater on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

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Baylor coach regrets violent remark Baylor women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey expressed regret Sunday in an interview with ESPN regarding her word choice in remarks about Baylor and sexual assault following a game Saturday. Mulkey was addressing anyone who has doubts of sending their daughter to Baylor because of the rape and sexual harassment allegations against student athletes. In her remarks, Mulkey said “You knock them right in the face,” about people who say they wouldn’t send their daughters to Baylor.

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said. “We’ve been in a few situations this year where the team only needed three more outs to put us away, and we just didn’t let it happen… “I think (it’s given them confidence), absolutely. When you do that, you realize you’re a pretty good team and you’re never out of it, so I definitely think that’s something we draw confidence from.” Aside from Saturday night’s drama, the Bulls had little trouble against the Red Hawks all weekend. Kingston credited his team’s hot start and 4-0 weekend to the pitching, as the Bulls held Miami to seven runs across 36 innings. “I think pitching has been what we do best so far,” he said. “That staff and (pitching coach) Billy (Mohl) have done a really good job this year of holding opponents down. So, you also factor in our defense, which we’re fielding over .980 at this point. Our offense, I think, will continue to improve, but

The USF men’s basketball team has exhausted all possible ways to lose on the court this season, as they’ve stumbled to a 7-20 record and have made a home out of the cellar of the AAC. But the Bulls took their dismal season to new Vinnie Portell d e p t h s CO M M EN TARY F r i d a y when two players — leading scorers Geno Thorpe and Troy Holston — were left asleep at the Houston airport while the team flew back to Tampa. “This unfortunate circumstance, for which I apologize, was recognized by our staff as the plane was leaving the gate and not in time to get the players on the commercial flight,” interim coach Murry Bartow said in a statement. “We immediately began to make arrangements to get the players on the very next flight to Tampa, and were in communication with them as soon as was possible.” Holston’s mother took to Twitter to voice her displeasure at the team, and within hours, USF had made its only national headlines of the season outside of its ongoing NCAA investigation for academic fraud. “When U think it cant get any worse THEY LEAVE UR

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Sophomore outfielder Chris Chatfield homered twice over the weekend as USF swept Miami (Ohio) in a four-game series. ORACLE PHOTO/JACKIE BENITEZ By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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USF baseball has been no stranger to late-game heroics just two weeks into its 2017 campaign. The Bulls (7-1) have had four of their eight games decided in the eighth inning or later, winning three of those contests. However, the Bulls gave fans a chance to relax Sunday at the USF Baseball Stadium, as they dominated the Red Hawks all afternoon in an 11-2 win that completed a four-game sweep. “I just told the team, ‘On Sundays, this is what you want to do,’” USF coach Mark Kingston said. “‘You want to pitch really well, which we did. You want to play great defense and make no errors and you want to score a lot of runs on Sunday.’ So, I think we were good in all three areas today and that’s what good teams do.” Miami (0-7) opened the scoring with a run on a passed ball in the

top of the first, but USF quickly regained the lead with solo homers from Coco Montes in the first inning and Chris Chatfield in the second. USF then scored in four of its remaining six innings thanks to 12 team hits, as it inflated its lead to 10 runs heading into the ninth. The second-inning homer was Chatfield’s second of the weekend, with his first propelling the Bulls to a win in the second game of Saturday’s double-header. Trailing 2-0 in the bottom of the ninth facing an 0-2 count with two outs and a runner on first, Chatfield launched his first homer of the season over the scoreboard in right field to tie the game. Two batters latter, junior Andres Leal hit a walk-off single to seal the win for USF. Though Kingston wouldn’t like his team to be trailing late, he said the team has used these late comebacks as emotional fuel. “We’re going to play 27 outs no matter what the score is,” Kingston

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right now we are a pitching and defense team and that’s how the good teams are built.” Friday night starter Phoenix Sanders scattered five hits across seven innings of shutout ball, striking out 10. In the first game of Saturday, freshman Shane McClanahan allowed just one hit and no runs while striking out nine over six innings in his first win as a Bull. Another freshman pitcher, D.J. Roberts, held Miami scoreless through six innings, but gave up two runs with two outs in the seventh in his first start. With Peter Strzelecki still confined to a pitch count of 70-80 pitches, the junior lasted only four innings Sunday despite allowing one unearned run while striking out six. USF will aim to keep its six-game winning streak alive when it hosts Toledo for a three-game series at the USF Baseball Stadium, beginning Friday night at 6:30.

SON +1 BEHIND SLEEPING AT THE AIRPORT GATE! Is there any other way 2 say ur not important?” Monique HolstonGreene tweeted. Personal responsibility aside, this level of incompetence shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s followed the program. Year-in and year-out, USF has shown it can’t sustain success on the court. Losing nearly every game is tough enough, but when that propensity for failure bleeds into the team’s off-court life, it’s enough to make you question everyone involved. Granted, two adults who are no strangers to traveling across the country should be responsible enough to catch their own flights. But for no one on the team to not notice that two players on a 13-man roster are missing, it calls into question the team’s attention to detail.

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This is unfortunate for Bartow, as he’s shown an exuberance of passion and work ethic that have been absent from the men’s side of the Muma Center since former coach Orlando Antigua’s early days. However, this incident coupled with the team’s unsightly 1-13 record under his lead should be more than enough to prompt athletic director Mark Harlan to probe elsewhere for the Bulls’ next coach. USF men’s basketball has slowly become the forgotten team on campus as the football team has stepped back to the forefront and other sports such as men’s and women’s soccer, women’s basketball, softball and baseball have all made postseason tournaments in the past two years. Turning around USF men’s basketball is clearly not going to be a quick fix, but in a year where the Bulls have left more players at an airport than games won, something’s gotta give.

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