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Students display unity after USF projects survive vetoes Charleston attack in final budget

By Russell Nay A S S T .

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The best and the worst of this summer’s hit songs.

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S PORTS O’Neal makes U.S. national team.

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n Ionia Knott recited her poem, titled “The Other Child,” to the crowd of more than 125 people in the SVC breezeway Wednesday evening, coming together with students for a vigil in memory of the nine victims of last week’s shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. See PAGE 3 for full story.

Researchers rescue missing boater

By Russell Nay A S S T .

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The crew and some of the students aboard a Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) research vessel likely had no idea they would help save a man’s life on the last day of their research cruise.

Around 9 p.m. on Saturday night, the U.S. Coast Guard issued an urgency broadcast signal indicating there were three boaters separated from their boat in the Gulf of Mexico between Egmont and Passage Keys, which is one to two miles from the closest coastline.

While the Coast Guard was able to quickly rescue two of the three boaters, the third remained separated from the others and adrift in the dark waters of the Gulf.

Realizing the man was near-

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Researchers from the Florida Institute of Oceanography housed at USF assisted the U.S. Coast Guard to save a man from the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday night. PHOTO PROVIDED BY MARK COLLINS

While Gov. Rick Scott signed the largest state budget in Florida’s history of $78.2 billion on Tuesday morning, Scott also made the most expensive vetoes of any Florida governor, amounting to approximately $461 million in cut projects and programs from the Legislature’s approved budget.

The final budget includes no increases to tuition rates and a historic level of funding for state universities totaling $4.5 billion, a $178.2 million increase from last year.

New tax cuts include a firstever elimination of sales tax on the purchase of college textbooks for one year, which is expected to save Florida’s students $43.7 million according to the governor’s transmittal letter.

The budget also provides for a 10-day back to school sales tax holiday Aug. 7-16 this year, which will allow for tax-free purchases on school supplies and is projected to save Floridians $67.8 million.

Performance-based funding, money awarded to colleges and universities based on mutually agreed upon metrics of student success, has grown to $400 million for the State University System (SUS), marking a $100 million increase in new state revenue.

For individual state universities and colleges, the new budget has likely garnered mixed reactions, and while some schools’ projects were funded in full, others did not survive Scott’s veto pen.

USF’s two largest funding requests, $17 million for building the Morsani College of Medicine downtown and $12.3 million for finishing the construction of the USF St. Petersburg’s Kate

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by, the captain of FIO’s R/V Weatherbird II, Brendon ‘Boomer’ Baumeister, determined where the boater was likely located, and he, the crew and some of the students on the ship searched for about an hour before finally spotting the missing boater and taking him aboard.

FIO Director William Hogarth said he was happy the crew and students were able to perform the rescue, and he said this was a good opportunity for the students present to learn about the risks of working at sea.

“It’s a tough environment, and we stress safety here,” Hogarth said. “I’m proud they were able to get involved and were in the right place at the right time.”

The six graduate students onboard, two of whom are USF students, were scheduled for a four-day research cruise from June 18 to 21 accompanied by their professors — chemical oceanographers Kristen Buck from USF St. Petersburg, Angela Knapp from FSU and Dreux Chappell from Old Dominion University.

Baumeister said the students were ahead of schedule on their way back Saturday evening, so he dropped speed to avoid returning too early and brought the R/V Weatherbird II closer to Tampa Bay at 8 p.m. to get cell phone coverage for the students and crew.

This slight change in plans may have been the reason they were able to rescue the missing boater, as about an hour later, Baumeister

said he heard the Coast Guard’s urgency broadcast and plotted the given location to find they were only two miles away.

“We decided to respond… and called the Coast Guard to let them know we were in the area and would assist with the search,” he said. “At this point (the Coast Guard) had a small boat searching, and I believe a helicopter was on its way.”

Baumeister, who has been with FIO for five years and involved with more than 100 research cruises in his career, said it is not uncommon for him to hear urgency broadcasts about people separated from their boats. He said it is very rare, however, to be in a position to assist with the search.

“I have responded to Coast Guard calls before, but I’ve never run an active search and then rescued a person,” Baumeister said.

By the time they reached the location indicated by the Coast Guard, the missing boater had been in the water for about half an hour. To increase their chances of finding him alive, Baumeister needed to make a set and drift calculation to determine where the man had likely drifted to.

Baumeister said quickly finding the missing boater was imperative because he didn’t have a life jacket or locating device and every minute is critical when treading water in the Gulf. Baumeister recalled a prior instance in Asia during his previous employment as a ship captain when local responders unfortunately arrived too late.

“The last person I pulled out of the water was dead,” he said. “People on board said they

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thought they saw a mannequin … and I turned around and it was a body. … When you’re alone in the water with no life jacket at night, the odds are definitely against you.”

Al Savor, the R/V Weatherbird II’s engineer, said finding the missing boater was especially difficult due to the cover of night and the flocks of birds. Despite Savor and Baumeister using the ship’s large spotlights to scan the water, there were several false alarms during the search.

“This guy we found didn’t have a life vest, a light or a whistle, so he was basically 10 inches of head above the water,” Savor said.

After searching for about an hour, Savor said they decided to turn off all non-essential equipment which made noise, such as their exhaust fans, in an attempt to hear the boater calling for help.

Baumeister had also instructed the students who came up to the bridge after noticing the commotion to act as lookouts to make sure they didn’t hit the boater during their search.

After five or 10 minutes of searching with minimal noise, Savor said they heard the man shouting and were finally able to locate him with the ship’s spotlights. He said Baumeister then told the students to not take their eyes off the boater, as there was a chance they could lose sight of him in the water.

As Baumeister maneuvered the ship around to pick up the boater, Savor said he threw the man a life ring, strobe and rope before pulling him on deck.

The crew then performed a brief assessment of the boater’s health and determined he was mostly unharmed other than being tired, dehydrated and bleeding from an incision from hernia surgery two days prior. The man told the researchers he would have only survived for a few more minutes, and they brought him water before a small Coast Guard boat arrived with the other two missing boaters.

Baumeister said he and the present Coast Guardsmen then allowed the boaters to come aboard the R/V Weatherbird II where the boaters reunited and gave their thanks to the researchers before being taken back to shore.

“It was lots of tears and lots of hugging, and then the hugging turned to us,” Baumeister said. “It was a great ending to a potentially very sad night.”

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Students display unity after Charleston attack

By Christopher Collier A S S T .

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The air was still and muggy in the SVC breezeway as a crowd of more than 125 people gathered to stand in solidarity with the victims of last week’s shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.

Psychology major Ionia Knott recited a poem she wrote about her feelings about Charleston.

“I’m convinced my country hates me,” Knott wrote. “I’m convinced that like a child of an affair, my country doesn’t even want to see me because every time they look at my face I remind them of their secret shame.”

The crowd reacted to Knott as she spoke, each word reverberating with every syllable.

“I’m always kept hidden, my history is rewritten and devalues my existence and even in death the proper respect isn’t given to call a murderer what he is, a grown man. A racist and a terrorist and do I need to remind you again that I was completely innocent.”

Knott said this recent attack has highlighted the excuses given for people who commit violence against others, specifically those of color. She said what the country needs now is prayer and to stay together.

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Tiedemann College of Business, successfully passed through the budget untouched. At a combined $29.3 million, the two requests were the largest of any university in the state.

With the final funding amount approved, USF St.Pete’s new College of Business is expected to open fall 2016.

Other universities and colleges were not as fortunate, including Hillsborough County Community College, which did not receive $3 million for the addition of a student services center and community center on its SouthShore campus.

The Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) was also included in the long list of vetoes made by Scott. FIO is an independent entity of the SUS and

Dylann Roof’s massacre of nine innocent people, including South Carolina state senator Clementa Pinckney, is another ember in the growing pyre of violence in the U.S. From Charleston, the lethal shots fired in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church were felt across the country.

Denisela Thicklin, president of the USF chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and one of the organizers for Wednesday evening’s gathering under the breezeway, said discovering the news of the attack in Charleston was difficult to believe.

“It was kind of surreal to me,” she said. “… When I found out there were nine victims it occurred to me ‘OK … this can really happen like anywhere.’ It made me kind of afraid to even go to church anymore and to go out in public in general.”

News of the incident came to many through social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook.

“I heard about it and so I went on social media and I saw a flurry of different posts,” said English major Daniel Sheppard. “Who premeditates things like that? To go inside of a church and take lives of

pastors and people who are actually doing good for their community.”

Sheppard said he was more disappointed than surprised with the shooting, citing examples such as Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown in recent years.

“I just want everybody to realize that it doesn’t need to keep being white versus black you know?” Sheppard said. “It doesn’t need to keep being race versus race or culture versus culture or religion versus religion. I feel like we’ve come far enough along in our society to realize that there are good people in every race (and) there are bad people in every race. We just have to channel our energies not to exact revenge on one another when things like this happen but to continue promoting peace and non-violence.”

According to the New York Times, Roof wrote in a manifesto that he intended to incite a so-called “race war” with his actions. At the USF breezeway, groups of people from various ethnicities gathered instead to share the messages of peace and unity within the USF community and around Tampa.

As the ceremony came to an end, people of all backgrounds joined hands and prayed in a moment of silence.

represents about 30 different state agencies and institutes who work collaboratively through the Institute, which is headquartered at USF St. Petersburg.

FIO did not receive a requested $6 million for the construction of a new research vessel that would replace its now 40-year-old R/V Bellows.

Including the Bellows, the Institute only possesses two research vessels which all state universities in the SUS can use for marine research and education, which means professors of marine science and oceanography may have to compete for space to train students.

“To my understanding, the Bellows brings in 100-150 sea days a year, which translates to about half a million to threequarters of a million dollars in research,” said Kristen Buck, a chemical oceanographer at the College of Marine Science at USF.

“The way this field works is if you don’t have a ship available, you would typically go somewhere else. That could take research funds away from either the state of Florida or an institution here.”

A letter from Scott’s office states the request was vetoed because “there is available funding throughout the State University System that could be used by the institutions desiring to purchase this vessel.” However, FIO director William Hogarth said he feels the money is not currently there.

“We can’t buy (a new research vessel) with the budget we have,” Hogarth said. “(It’s) impossible unless somebody who can afford it would step up to the plate and say they think Florida’s marine resources are worth it and Florida’s future tourism and restaurants and teaching are all worth the investment of $6 million.”

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Editor’s picks:

Summer playlist 2015

By Alex Rosenthal C O M M E N T A R Y

As the summer heat begins to reach its peak, it can be a good time to kick back and enjoy the sounds of summer.

TOP PICKS It wouldn’t be summer if Mr. 305 wasn’t on the top of the charts, and Pitbull’s collaboration with Ne-Yo, titled “Time of Our Lives,” is just what you would expect in a summer hip-hop anthem.

As plenty of college students can probably relate, the song starts with: “I knew my rent was gon’ be late about a week ago / I worked my ass off, but I still can’t pay it though / But I just got just enough / To get up in this club

WORST LIST Though these songs may be catchy enough to soak up radio time all summer, they should be avoided whenever possible.

Worst of the worst is “B---Better Have My Money” by Rihanna, who is well past her days of “Pon De Replay” and “Umbrella.” Hopefully this song is meant to be ironic because otherwise Rihanna is just spouting standard toughguy rap lyrics repetitively in an unusually raspy voice.

Without going too in-depth with the lyrics, the name of the song is repeated about 30 times in a track that is just 3 minutes and 39 seconds, occasionally interrupted with

/ Have me a good time, before my time is up.”

Even if Pitbull isn’t your cup of tea, this song has a catchy beat with lyrics sympathetic to the broke college student just trying to have a good time.

Another usual member of every summer’s playlist is Maroon 5, this time with the seasonally named track “This Summer’s Gonna Hurt Like A MotherF****r.”

While you are more likely to catch the watered-down lyrics on the radio, the meaning is the same: Another song about a guy chasing a hot girl.

What makes this song unique from the cliché, however, is Adam Levine’s voice as he sings about how fancy the girl is while also thinking she’s a bit shallow.

In the end he is going to chase her but knows full well it’s going to hurt: “Her body’s like the summer / I’m in a trance or something / Her mind is not, no / As sharp as all her diamonds / She must be smoking something” Of course, another popular way to look at it is as a motivational song, thinking of yourself getting through another tough summer – or at least, surviving the Florida heat, which also hurts like a mother.

New to this summer’s top songs are Tove Lo and The Weeknd, each with danceable tracks that can chase away last year’s summertime sadness.

Tove Lo’s “Talking Body” is a 180-turn from her previ-

ous “Habits (Stay High)” from last summer. More upbeat, “Talking Body” shows Tove Lo as an artist comparable to Lana Del Rey, albeit a less depressing, more club-ready Lana Del Rey. “Can’t Feel My Face” is The Weeknd’s new summer track, and though this rapper is not usually on mainstream radio, he makes this song with Michael Jackson-esque vocals and rhythms different from his previous works. While the rapper is noted for his lyrics that combine drug use with deep emotions, this track is cheerful with a nice groove – one to be enjoyed at a summer party rather than analyzed for the lyrics in the chorus, “I can’t feel my face when I’m with you, but I love it.”

a “brrap, brrap, brrap.”

Neither the instrumentals nor the vocals are worthwhile in this song, and if it comes on the radio, its best to change the station – even it is to something currently on a commercial break.

Another rap song that somehow made it to the Billboard’s Hot 100 list is “Post To Be” by Omarion and Chris Brown. While it is not clear what the lyrics are ‘post to be,’ the song features three sets of vocals supporting how they are hooking up with people they aren’t ‘post to be.’

Though it goes against every lesson you were taught in English class, the song does have a steady beat that

at the least will make you bob your head when it plays in the background.

While Meghan Trainor managed to get “All About That Bass” to be the anthem for plus-sized women everywhere, “Dear Future Husband” will probably be a setback in her career if feminists have anything to say in the matter.

On blogs everywhere, you can find critics of her lyrics: “Dear future husband / Make time for me / Don’t leave me lonely / And know we’ll never see your family more than mine / I’ll be sleeping on the left side of the bed / Open doors for me and you might get some (pause) kisses / Don’t have a dirty mind”

Beyond the cutesy lyrics, the song features the sameold doo-wop melodies from her other tracks.

With her most popular hit since “Call Me Maybe,” Carly Rae Jepsen is back this summer with “I Really Like You.” No surprise in the lyrics, which feature the same message as many of her other songs – that of a preteen girl with a crush on a boy.

If the bubble-gum pop lyrics and beats don’t do it for you, the music video is at least worth a view: Somehow, Jepsen got Tom Hanks to perform the song with her, with full dance numbers and everything. Who doesn’t enjoy Tom Hanks?

OTHER TOP SONGS FOR SUMMER “Budapest”

by Georga Ezra “Shut Up and Dance” by WALK THE MOON “You Know You Like It”

by DJ Snake “Bright”

by Echosmith “Uma Thurman”

by Fall Out Boy “Marvin Gaye”

by Charlie Puth ft.

Meghan Trainor “I Don’t Like It, I Love It”

by Flo Rida ft.

Robin Thicke

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for soccer and I had an injury to my thigh. So that’s when I started thinking about it, and toward the end of the season is when I told my coaches it would be my last season.”

O’Neal most recently dealt with a left leg injury that nearly prevented him from reaching the NCAA Outdoor Championships, which he has reached in every season at USF. But he said he’ll be healthy for the World University Games because he’s seeing the results on the track.

“This week we went out to do some jumping,” O’Neal said. “I’ve been working on my first phase and that’s gotten a lot better, I’m

seeing good results. I’ve been able to get a lot more speed than I have been in the past, so I’m feeling better with running and that definitely turns into better distance for the triple jump.”

O’Neal has been the most consistent member of the men’s track and field team since arriving on campus and with his focus now entirely on track, only time will tell how much more he can accomplish in his final season at USF, starting with the World University Games.

“It’s an enormous opportunity and an enormous blessing as well,” O’Neal said. “I thank God for being chosen to that team because they only chose two triple jumpers to come along with them. So to be one of those two and represent the U.S.A., it’s a big deal.”

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game at Paul Brown Stadium last season, USF and Cincinnati will once again play under the lights when the teams match up at 8 on Nov. 20 at Raymond James Stadium.

The game will be one of three Friday games for the Bulls this season, with the first coming against Memphis at Raymond James Stadium on Oct. 2 and the last against UCF on Nov. 27.

The Bulls’ game against the co-defending conference champion Bearcats will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network.

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Sexual violence prevention strategies often include not leaving a drink unattended, walking in groups at night and selfdefense classes. Now, it’s coming in the form of apps.

A new collection of iPhone apps for college students called We-Consent is meant to open a conversation between partners about affirmative consent, in which explicit consent is given before sexual activity happens, as reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education. One app allows users to record themselves giving mutual consent, and the other two are “no” apps to record that someone saw a message on the app saying “no.” The videos are then saved in an offline database and are only accessible if there is a legal reason.

While these apps do help promote a dialogue between partners — that is, if they actually use them — they are also part of the market of products for sexual assault prevention with far-fetched results.

There’s nothing wrong with affirmative consent. However, an app to get people to talk about consent, which is its main purpose, according to the apps’ creator Michael Lissack of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, is a short-term solution to the problem of rape and sexual assault.

Products with the intent to prevent sexual assault include clothes such as extremely tight underwear and shorts for women that are “resistant to pulling,” as shown on Buzzfeed. Or, anti-rape lingerie geared with a GPS device and pressure sensors that can deliver shock waves into an attacker.

Other items include the female condom with teeth and an anti-rape dress that disguises a

woman as a vending machine.

While the apps don’t necessarily make it a woman’s responsibility to deter assault as all of these products do, it still falls in line with the idea that something must actively be done in order to prevent a dangerous situation, when in actuality all that needs to happen is the conversation itself, or for people to just respect boundaries.

As Lissack pointed out in an interview with the Chronicle, the app in practice necessitates a conversation, as one will have to talk about consent in order to use the app. Yet, it also serves as a reminder that communication needs to happen, when that should be understood without the app.

Sexual assault prevention shouldn’t be done in the form of a Changed Mind App, a We-Consent app described as a “gentler version” of the “no” app. It shouldn’t be about nail polish that detects date-rape drugs. It also shouldn’t be about policies to ban women from fraternity houses.

As Alexandra Brodsky of the Know Your IX campaign pointed out in a Think Progress article, products for sexual assault prevention can lead to more victim blaming, as those who didn’t use them could face criticism for not doing enough.

While these products do have safety in mind, prevention should be more focused on emphasizing consent, whether that’s through sexual violence prevention programs at colleges that discuss dangerous cultural norms or through educating people on bystander intervention, since reliance on apps or untearable underwear just isn’t enough.

Isabelle Cavazos is a senior majoring in English and Spanish.

— Nanah Fofanah, a graduate student studying public health

“I probably wouldn’t use anything like that. There are already plenty of outlets to express political opinion.” ­— Virginia Caponera, a junior majoring in biology

“I think so. It’s a way of getting information out there.”

— Sierra Teegarden, a senior majoring in biomedical sciences

“I’d have to be convinced to take that space up on my phone. I would use it if it was interactive.”

— Varna Kesani, a sophomore majoring in health sciences

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O’Neal chosen to represent Team USA

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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The last time Matthew O’Neal traveled overseas was during his junior year of high school when he flew to London to try out for a West Ham soccer academy.

Now entering his senior year of college at USF, O’Neal will once again travel overseas where he will compete as one of two U.S. athletes in the triple jump in the World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea from July 10-12.

“There is not a better athlete to represent USF and the United States than Matthew,” USF coach Warren Bye said in a statement.

“He’s going to get an unbelievable experience competing against the world and spending time in a foreign country.”

In the time since his trip to London, O’Neal embraced both soccer and track, playing both sports throughout high school and his first three years at USF.

But after enduring three years of injuries and busy schedules, O’Neal has decided not to play soccer his senior season.

“It came down to it being a lot on my body and my schedule,” O’Neal said. “Previously I was pretty good at time management, but soccer still got in the way of going to church and being able to devote my life to God as I really want to.

Also, this next semester I’ll have six classes, so it would be tough to balance everything.”

Without the burden of playing a fall sport, O’Neal will have the ability to compete in events such as the World University Games without having to worry about other training.

“I have a tendency to be injury-prone, but over the summer I switch from track to soccer without a break,” O’Neal said.“You’re using different muscle groups and everything. Last year, I had a (track) competition in August, and when I came back, it was preseason

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Matthew O’Neal was one of two athletes chosen to represent the country in the World University Games’ triple jump event. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/GOUSFBULLS.COM

Notebook

UCLA quarterback eyeing transfer to USF

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

With former starting quarterback Mike White now playing at Western Kentucky, coach Willie Taggart may add UCLA quarterback Asiantii Woulard. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU

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Coach Willie Taggart could add another player to his quarterback carousel in the coming weeks, as reports have surfaced that one-time USF commit Asiantii Woulard has expressed interest in transferring to USF. Woulard was ranked as a four-star recruit coming out of Winter Park High School and committed to the Bulls twice before his final de-commitment shortly after the firing of former coach Skip Holtz in December of 2012.

After failing to play his way off the bench in two seasons at UCLA, JuCo Football Forer initially reported Monday that

Woulard had interest in transferring to USF. After slipping to third string this past year, Woulard announced in early June he would leave the program.

Woulard sent a Tweet on Monday that read: “I’ve made no decision. I don’t know what’s going on.”

He will have to sit out the 2015 season due to NCAA transfer rules as long as he transfers to another FBS school.

Pair of Bulls make professional debuts After pitching as a starter for his entire career at USF, Jimmy Herget came out of the bullpen in his professional debut in a save situation for the Billings Mustangs on Saturday.

Herget continued his dominance from his time at USF, striking out two batters and walking one in a scoreless ninth inning.

Unlike Herget, former USF closer Tommy Peterson has grown accustomed to pitching at the tail end of games.

Peterson pitched a scoreless eighth inning for the Gulf Coast League Nationals on Monday in his first professional appearance.

Former USF pitcher Casey Mulholland has yet to pitch at the professional level, but was assigned to the Arizona League Dodgers.

Cincinnati kick time announced

After playing a Friday night

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