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Bradley investigation closing, hiring process revised By Abby Rinaldi
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After almost two months, the investigation into the hiring process for Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications Director Samuel Bradley is reaching a conclusion. Thomas Gonzalez of the Tampa law firm Thompson, Sizemore, Gonzalez & Hearing, P.A. was hired by USF’s General Counsel Gerard Solis to investigate Bradley’s employment. Bradley has been on paid administrative leave since March. He came into the spotlight after a report from his former employer, Texas Tech University, revealed several inappropriate— and
often sexual — relationships with at least four students during his employment there. Gonzalez is currently compiling the final report on the investigation, according to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Eric Eisenberg. USF has yet to receive the report, but Eisenberg expects it in a few days. “I expect to get it any day now, and I’m very, very anxious to see what’s in it,” he said. The conclusion of the investigation comes alongside the release of a memo by Provost Ralph Wilcox to USF staff members indicating changes to the background check portion of the hiring process for employees at the university. Effective May 11, all new
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faculty hires will require a signed statement from the dean of the respective college “attesting to the completion of satisfactory, current reference checks … prior to final review and approval to extend a letter of offer,” Wilcox stated in the memo. Eisenberg feels the change is related to the incident with Bradley, as a measure of insurance that something similar doesn’t happen again. “Basically, what the Provost’s memo does is it makes sure that before we hire somebody here, we’re in direct conversation with their current or immediate past supervisor so we can be certain to ask questions about their employment status and
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Studies aim to help the hungry in Bay Area By Miki Shine C O - N E W S
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One in four children and one in six people in Tampa Bay struggle with hunger, according to Feeding America Tampa Bay. This is a fact the organization and USF researchers are working to combat. Thomas Mantz, executive director of Feeding America Tampa Bay, is leading the organization’s collaboration with USF through anthropology professor David Himmelgreen and the College of Public Health to study how hunger affects the 700,000 food insecure people in Tampa Bay. “The ongoing challenges presented by hunger in the community are persistent, pervasive and growing,” Mantz
said. “The long term issue of people not having enough food in their lives will, we think, have a significant downstream effect on the future. “A child who doesn’t have enough food to eat obviously can’t develop physically, emotionally, mentally. A senior who doesn’t have access to food will have greater health care issues. That problem is growing.” According to Feeding America, people who are food insecure have limited access to enough food and at times experience changes in diet or reduced food intake as a result of that insecurity. As part of the collaboration, the university conducts research and provides the data to Mantz and his team to apply it in their relief programs.
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The team of graduate and undergraduate students helping with the research has already completed two studies focused on elementary and middle school kids in food insecure families. One focused on a “backpack program,” which provided kids with a backpack of food for the weekend while the other focused on a similar concept during summer. The backpack program has been used by Feeding America Tampa Bay for several years. Each backpack would include enough food over a weekend for two small meals per day that were nutritionally normal for the age group. What the research found is that the child wasn’t the only one eating the food. Rather, the bag’s contents would become more of a meal substitute for the whole family. “That changes what a weekend backpack means and what those food products need to be,” Mantz said. “Our target previously was the small child
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but it appears to us that our target is, in fact, the entire family. That’s a substantial change.” The research also found that some backpacks were going home to families of different ethnic backgrounds, according to Mantz, and the food they were provided weren’t attractive to some groups. As a result, the team learned that, in order to properly implement a backpack program, the organization needs to be contientous of the families’ varied ethnic tastes and prepare backpacks accordingly. Despite the general conception that food insecurity derives from low income, homelessness or a lack of higher education, research has proven otherwise. Forty-nine percent of those seeking help from Feeding America across the country have a high school diploma, 29 percent have some level of college education and more than 90 percent either rent or own their home, according to the most recent Hunger in America study conducted once every four years.
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Thomas Mantz, executive director of Feeding America Tampa Bay, helped distribute backpacks of food at Foster Elementary School on Monday as part of a program that is starting to evolve due to USF research. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE Mantz said the team received funding for more studies. According to a press release, other studies currently in planning include examining the health impact of mobile
food pantries that provide fresh fruits and vegetables to people in areas where fresh produce is scarce. “What we do here in Tampa is translatable nationwide,”
Mantz said. “If a child or senior is hungry in Tampa, it’s the same information and same circumstances that would likely be seen in Albuquerque, New Mexico or Traverse, Michigan.”
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the best players in the country year in and year out, they still oppose camps that help players get more exposure and opportunities. “When they banned the camps, I thought it was really bad — especially in Florida — because Florida has some of the best talent in the world when it comes to football,” USF sophomore defensive back Ronnie Hoggins said. “For them to ban it in Florida is bad because a lot of these kids don’t have the opportunity to play in front of some of these coaches.” For many aspiring college athletes, satellite camps provide an affordable and local opportunity to get an offer that might not have come otherwise. “You’ve got kids on the verge of a university taking them or not,” USF defensive coordinator Raymond Woodie said. “Well you’ve got Joe Blow, a D-I prospect who shows up at a satellite camp and you’re wondering if he’s playing at a high level of competition. “Well when he goes against those big-time Division-I guys and shows up — guess what: that benefits the kid on the borderline who maybe wasn’t going to get that offer.”
Hoggins’ first satellite camp was put on by USF in his hometown, Fort Lauderdale. He said meeting the coaching staff and the ability to showcase his skills near home made it easy for him to commit to the Bulls. If the NCAA revisits the decision to rid itself of satellite camps, Hoggins said the impact will most be felt by the players who have limited resources. “I would think it would have a negative impact (if satellite camps were banned) because not every athlete has that person in their lives that can take them to visit all these universities,” Hoggins said. “So, it would have a negative impact, especially where I’m from.” Aside from the obvious benefits players receive from having the option to attend these camps, they also help non-Power 5 schools to remain competitive in a world where most recruits already flock to ACC and SEC schools. Woodie, who also heads recruiting efforts for the Bulls, easily rattled off a list of the players he and the rest of the staff discovered at satellite camps. “Ryeshene Bronson, Deadrin Senat, D’Ernest Johnson, Marlon Mack, Malik Dixon, and I can’t even mention some other guys,” Woodie said.
The NCAA Board of Directors made the right decision when they decided to allow satellite camps to continue, but with some of the most influential coaches in college football still up in arms over these camps, it could only be a matter of time before this rule is tweaked once again. Even with the ACC and SEC lifting their self-imposed bans on these camps to maintain “competitive balance” in response to the recent rule reversal, coaches like Clemson’s Dabo Swinney are continuing their stand against the camps. “It’s a loophole people are taking advantage of and I think it’s something that needs to be addressed,” Swinney said in an interview with ESPN. “I don’t think it’s a good thing because ultimately what happens is, instead of having camps, you’re having combines. I think there’s enough of that.” Coaches have every right to recruit how they choose, but it doesn’t seem right that young kids should have a tougher time getting an offer from their dream school just because some people oppose the idea. When it comes to satellite camps, the NCAA needs to remember it’s about the kids and ensure these opportunities stay open.
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shares similar goals as O’Neal. “If I can beat the Olympic qualifying standard, I think I might have a shot at the trials and possibly going to Rio,” Screen said. “Before the conference championships, I thought I was wasting my time even thinking about it because I was dealing with injuries and only throwing 180. But after that competition on Friday, I started thinking I might have a shot at throwing for the school record.”
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Following the conclusion of their careers at USF, both Screen and O’Neal said they’re shooting for the Olympics. O’Neal, who has already qualified for the Olympic Trials in Oregon on July 7, is hoping to build on his recent personal record to make the Olympic team. With a conference championship under his belt, Screen now
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their suitability to be working at USF,” he said. Officials at USF claimed to have been unaware of the report upon hiring Bradley, which led to heavy scrutiny of the university’s hiring process by the community. “(The hiring process) is always something you can tighten up and do a better job of and just make sure that if there’s anything to be discovered about somebody’s situation that you know about before you make such an important decision as hiring somebody,” Eisenberg said. Eisenberg recalled a Tampa Bay Times editorial from March that called out USF on its hiring practices, which may have spurred changes to the process. “Either Texas Tech failed to disclose what it knew about Samuel Bradley’s performance there, or USF failed to ask when it hired him,” the editorial said. “This is a colossal failure of due
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diligence, and it demands a thorough review to determine the cause of a systemic breakdown that put individual students and USF’s reputation at risk.” Since then, Gonzalez has been investigating that very process, conducting interviews and reviewing relevant documents. The signed statements from the deans must include information about references, including their names and positions, the date they were contacted, and information about the USF employee who did the background check and the method used. Wilcox also included a temporary alternative for those who may have reservations concerning the timely completion of all background checks. The statement must include the phrase “this offer is contingent upon the completion of satisfactory reference checks,” as stated in the memo. The dean of each respective college is held responsible for following up and providing documentation. These new responsibilities
fall on the deans, but Eisenberg doesn’t consider it a huge addition and instead welcomes it. “It adds a little bit more work, but frankly many universities already do something like this, and all it does is it just makes this a very clear expectation, which is fine,” he said. “I’d much rather take the five minutes to ask a question on the front end than have to deal with the potential of hiring the wrong person on the back end.” Eisenberg does not want to speculate as to whether or not more changes are to come following the release of the investigation report, nor does he wish to make any predictions about Bradley’s fate. Upon its release, Solis, Eisenberg and Wilcox will review the report and determine what steps need to be taken next. “I honestly don’t know what (Gonzalez) is going to find and so I want to review that. Then if changes need to happen then they will, and we’ll take it from there,” he said.
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USF softball Tallahassee bound for postseason By Jacob Hoag E D I T O R
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Despite being shut out 4-0 by Tulsa in Saturday’s AAC conference finals, USF softball is heading to Tallahassee for a matchup with South Carolina in the regional round of the NCAA tournament. The game, which starts at noon on Friday at the Seminole Softball Complex, will be a rematch of the opening weekend of the season, which South Carolina (36-21, 7-17 SEC) won 7-1. This is the fourth time in five years that USF (44-14, 15-3) has made the postseason, missing last year’s tournament by one vote. The 2016 regional presents an oddly familiar situation for USF, which beat South Carolina twice in 2014 to reach the championship game where it fell to Florida State 2-1. This is the fourth time USF has played in the Tallahassee Regional and the team’s 13th NCAA tournament appearance under coach Ken Eriksen. No. 8 Florida State (47-8, 21-2 ACC), which is hosting a regional for the third straight year, opens against Florida A&M. FSU has advanced to the Super Regional in three consecutive seasons. Should the Bulls move on, they would play the winner of the Lexington Regional, which features No. 16 Kentucky. The Women’s College World Series will run from June 2-8 in Oklahoma City. Men’s tennis falls in first round After one of the best seasons in program history, the 17th-ranked USF men’s tennis team was sent home early after a 4-0 defeat to No. 9 Florida in the opening round of the NCAA tournament in Gainesville. After dropping the doubles point Sunday, USF struggled as the Gators carried the momentum into the singles matches, boasting four ranked players in their lineup. The Bulls fought back late, but Florida was able to clinch
matches on courts two, five and six in straight sets to put USF away. “We were up in some of the matches but Florida was too good today,” AAC Coach of the Year Matt Hill said in a press release. “We know they are a good team, they are SEC champions and we have a lot of respect for them.” Despite an early exit as a team, two senior Bulls will press on as they prepare for the individual rounds held May 25-30 at the Michael D. Case Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. No. 2 Roberto Cid finished the season 22-2 and earned his third consecutive conference Player of the Year award. No. 47 Dominic Cotrone also qualified for the individual rounds. “They changed the image and the brand of this program in college tennis,” Hill said of the seniors. “Now people have a lot of respect for our program, especially now that we have been in the mix.” Men’s golf sweeps conference honors
After defending its AAC title with a wire-to-wire win in the conference championship on May 3, the USF men’s golf team received several conference awards. Second-year coach Steve Bradley was named AAC Coach of the Year with senior Aksel Olsen taking home the AAC Player of the Year honor. Olsen finished in the top 25 in each of his six spring events, including a win at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate in Los Cabos, Mexico in March. USF accounted for a third of the 14 All-Conference selections with senior Chase Koepka and freshman Claudio Correa earning unanimous selections. Bradley leads the No. 11 Bulls in their quest for a second consecutive appearance in the NCAA Men’s Golf National Championship. USF is currently in third place after two rounds in the New Mexico Regional. The final round kicks off tomorrow with the top five teams advancing.
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The battle for employment Breanne Williams COLU M N I ST
As USF prepares to welcome another generation of students, eyes are turning to the job market to determine the chances of landing a meaningful job after graduation. The incoming group of freshman was roughly 10 years old when the economy tanked. They’ve grown up in a world full of “we’re not currently hiring” and the constant threat or reminder of recession. Getting part-time jobs in high school turned the students into sharks desperately fighting for the few available scraps of chum. Instead of simply competing against their classmates, this generation also had to compete against college graduates who were unable to get jobs worthy of their degrees. The recent unemployment rate for college graduates was 5.5 percent, which is a 1.2 percent increase from 2000, according to an article in Saturday’s New York Times. However, that doesn’t mean that all those employed are working at their dream jobs. In fact, nearly half of employed college graduates are “underemployed.” Nearly 45 percent of college graduates were working jobs that do not require a college degree, according to an April report by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s right. Instead of taking their business degree and working for a major corporation, degree-holders are stuck flipping patties at Burger King for minimum wage. The number of graduates working in positions for which they are well overqualified has increased to 44 percent, up 6 percent from 2000. Obviously, the recession played a large part in reducing the number of jobs available in the workforce. College became not only unaffordable for most,
but also necessary to compete for the few high profile careers still available. “If you look at the longterm trend, (college tuition) has been rising almost six percent above the rate of inflation,” Ray Franke, a professor of education at the University of Massachusetts Boston, told CNBC. “That’s brought immense pressure from the media and general public, asking whether college is still worth it.” Working minimum wage jobs makes it nearly impossible for graduates to repay their loans, which in turn leads to a life of debt. Luckily, the economy has been slowly recovering and the job market has started to once again open up over the last few years. Millennials have been taught since elementary school that degrees are necessary to have a successful career. But while the obstacles to obtaining such a career have increased throughout their lifetime, the belief remains true. Students have to pay through the ceiling to receive their education and upon graduation will fight tooth and nail to secure places in the job market. However, without those costly degrees, they would be unfit to even compete for most available positions. But this generation of students is well aware of the battle ahead of them. Business, education and health profession programs have been among the top fields in which students have received degrees in the last 10 years, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics. Students are enrolling in programs in which they have the best shot of having successful careers. The game has changed and millennials have evolved to fit the new societal norm. Hopefully, as the economy continues to grow, students will begin to once again be able to fully utilize the degrees they worked so hard for.
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What you said With a competitive job market , graduates are having a tougher time finding jobs in their field. Multimedia Editor Jackie Benitez asked students how the feel about finding a job after graduation.
“I’m pretty pessimistic about getting a job after graduation, because with the field I want to go into there aren’t a lot of people retiring or a lot of jobs opening up.” -Kirk Mitchell, a graduate student majoring in history
“I’m optimistic about getting a job in the future.” -Harold Major, a senior majoring in marine biology
“It looks optimistic in the beginning, because there are a lot of new opportunities opening up for me in this field.” -Nikila Gudipati, a graduate student majoring in management information systems
“I think it’s going to be a while before I get into my career, because I’m going to seminary and medical school, but I’m optimistic for the future because I’m excited for what I want to do.” -Tina Tang, a senior majoring in microbiology and religious studies
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Odor, Bautista suspended for on-field fight The Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays emptied the benches Sunday when a fight started between Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor and Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista. Odor took offense to Bautista’s hard slide into second and responded by punching him in the face. Odor has been suspended eight games and fined $5,000 while Bautista has been suspended for just one game. Toronto coach John Gibbons was also suspended for three games. First-base coach Tim Leiper and Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus were also suspended for one game. USF News
USF hires new Deputy Athletic Director USF hired Scott Kull as its Deputy Athletic Director of External Operations on Tuesday. Kull, who helped TCU earn an invitation to the Big 12 and sustain athletic success in multiple sports, comes to USF hoping to achieve much of the same. “I have admired Scott’s career from afar for many years and witnessed how he has played a critical role in the incredible success at TCU,” Athletic Director Mark Harlan said in a statement. “He will bring those experiences with him to USF, which will prove to be invaluable as we continue on our path towards excellence in all that we do.”
Devin Screen finished in first-place in the conference for the discus throw with a toss of 187 feet, despite dealing with a torn labrum. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/GOUSFBULLS.COM By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S
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With his collegiate career coming to a close, Devin Screen thought he had lost as his final discus throw sailed through the air at the AAC Championships in Orlando on Friday. Screen, hampered by a torn labrum and right knee injury, took off running into the arms of his coaches and teammates as the distance of his final throw was announced. “I thought he had it won because I hadn’t really thrown over 183, 184,” Screen said. “Even in practice, I’ll have some good throws, but we don’t measure them, so I don’t know how far they really go, but I know I usually throw mid 180’s. “I was just like, ‘Wow,’ I mean I beat the guy by three centimeters. As soon as I heard 57 (m), I was so excited; I was ecstatic.” After leading for five rounds with a distance of 180 feet, Luke Vaughn of Memphis stole the lead with a throw of 186 feet, 11 inch-
es. With only one throw remaining, the senior discus thrower heaved a personal best of 187 feet to claim the conference championship. “Coach told me in the third round that I needed to respond,” Screen said. “He said the guy who won last year came back and won on his last throw. And he didn’t do it until his last throw he came back on my mark. “As soon as he did it, I was like ‘Aw man, I can’t believe this.’ When I was in junior college, I used to win the competition up until the last throw and then someone would always come back and win on me. So I said, ‘I’ve got to turn this up. I don’t care how the technique looks, I don’t care what has to be done, but I’ve got to come out with a victory.’” Screen, who also placed as a runner-up in the hammer throw despite fighting through the pain of a torn left labrum, inspired his teammates throughout the weekend. USF finished fourth in the
conference championships and gained a second conference champion when senior Matt O’Neal set a new school record with a triple jump of 54 feet, 11.5 inches. “(Screen) really got us fired up as a team and told us that we can do a lot better than we were thinking and we can hang with these guys,” O’Neal said. “I really believe he was a major contributor to how the rest of the team competed this weekend. He gave us the mindset to compete with everything we had. Most of us were seniors there and we wanted to go out the best that we could and I believe we did that this weekend.” O’Neal, who usually competes in only the triple jump, placed as a runner up in the long jump despite having hardly practiced for the event. With the regular season now over, Screen and O’Neal will look to qualify for the NCAA Championships in the preliminary round beginning May 26.
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The NCAA’s most recent debate over legislation regarding satellite camps has been a typical display Vinnie of how the interPortell ests of students C O M M E N TA R Y can fall to the wayside when it comes to making the rules. While the NCAA Board of Directors voted to overturn the short-lived ban on satellite camps on April 28, the initial banning and outcries against them by several coaches across the country show what really matters in the grand scheme of college athletics. The argument against satellite camps by the ACC and the SEC is that these camps interfere with the recruiting process and put more emphasis on summer camps than academics. These two conferences simply want to play by their own rules, and the well-being of potential student athletes isn’t the concern of these coaches and commissioners. “We continue to believe football recruiting is primarily an activity best focused in high schools during the established recruiting calendar,” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement. “(This) has provided opportunities for football prospective studentathletes from all across the country to obtain broad national access and exposure but with appropriate guidance from high school coaches, teachers and advisors that focuses on both their academic and athletic opportunities as they decide where they will play college football.” Despite the fact that these schools have no trouble recruiting
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