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August 29, 2016 Vol. 54 No. 3
Fulbright professor headed east Page 3 Contest offers students free rides Page 3
Uber fights for Tampa business Page 4
Women’s soccer wins 3-0 Page 8
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USF professor to teach in Belarus
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Burkini Ban ruled out by French court
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Uber offers free rides for students through sweepstakes By Miki Shine M A N A G I N G
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France’s burkini ban was overturned by the nation’s top court on Friday. The ban focused on swimsuits that incorporated Muslim dress, drawing on public emotion regarding terrorist attacks on France, the most recent of which took place in Nice on July 14. France’s Council of State said concerns about previous terrorist attacks “cannot suffice to justify in law the contested prohibition measure,” as reported by CBS. According to reporting from CBS, the decision is one designed to set a legal precedent.
Election day approaches
Primary voting for Florida’s primary election is Aug. 30. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., according to the Florida Division of Elections. Those who do not know their polling location can find it at election.dos.state.fl.us. The general election will be held on Nov. 8.
USF professor Jerry Koehler received the Fulbright Award which will allow him to teach in an executive MBA program at Belarus State University in Belarus. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE By Abby Rinaldi N E W S
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The winter temperatures in Belarus can average between 17.6 and 23.9 degrees Fahrenheit, according to converted figures from the country’s official website. Jerry Koehler, a professor in USF’s college of business administration and Fulbright Award winner, will be teaching at Belarus State University starting in February. He won’t escape the cold during his four-month stay, and it’s not something he is looking forward to. “It’ll be amazing on February first to step off a plane and go from the temperature in Tampa, Florida to the temperature in Belarus,” he said. “I’m sure it’ll be below zero.” Koehler isn’t too worried about it, though. In fact, the Fulbright Award winner was the one who picked Belarus in the first place. The Award allows scholars to visit
institutions across the world using U.S. government funds. USF’s Muma College of Business has had three Fulbright Award winners since 2015, including Koehler. His award will have him travel to Belarus to teach in an Executive MBA program at Belarus State University. He will stay in Belarus from February to May. Afterwards, he will return to his post at USF. Dean of the Muma College of Business Moez Limayem said Koehler’s receiving the Fulbright Award is an honor that will help USF down the road. “When he comes back, he will bring an amazing story and new type of examples and case studies and anecdotes that frankly, I don’t know many professors of management who would have that type of experiences,” he said. Limayem said the other benefit goes to the students, who can learn about another country. The experiences play
Professor Jerry Koehler visited Belarus in 1986 with his family. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE
into a global literacy goal that goes beyond just sending students abroad, according to Limayem. “Now, all the sudden, they’re having and they’re being taught by a professor who actually went to a very interesting place like this one and who (will) tell them about the culture there, about doing business there, about some companies or how many
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With classes starting up, Uber has announced a contest geared toward making Florida’s college students safer. The prize: a semester’s worth of free Uber rides. In order to apply, students must use their college email to set up an account or link an existing account to their college email. The offer is extended to 12 schools across the state, and one winner will be randomly announced via email on Sept. 8, the day after the sweepstakes closes. The winner earns a $1,600 credit toward Uber rides for the semester. A student can get up to three more entries by using their promo code to refer classmates. The contest is taking place in 38 states, including the District of Columbia, with one winner per state being selected based on meeting the necessary criteria of being 18 years or older and being a legal U.S. resident. “Uber’s mission is to connect people with safe and reliable rides,” Javi Correoso, Uber’s Florida spokesperson, said in an email with the Oracle. “With the start of school, students will be running from class to class, social and sporting events. This sweepstakes is an opportunity to make getting around safer and easier.”
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Despite opposition Uber fights for Tampa business
Response to Kaepernick protest unjustified
By Nicole Cate C O L U M N I S T
UberEATS app available for iPhone and Android. ORACLE PHOTO/JACKIE BENITEZ
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Tampa Bay may soon become home to UberEATS, a food delivery service that makes dining-in a breeze, however its beloved parent company could be forced to take its services elsewhere. Uber has been battling restrictions from the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission (PTC) and may have found a way to remain in Tampa regardless of the upcoming vote on regulating not only Uber but other transportation network companies as well. The PTC cannot regulate food delivery services, which means UberEATS technically will not be under its jurisdiction, allowing the company to keep its Tampa following. The inclusion of Tampa into UberEATS will greatly benefit USF students. Food delivery services like Doorstep Delivery or GrubHub have yet to truly take off in the area due to delivery times that average at an hour. Uber claims to be able to beat that by nearly half with “the average order (taking) 35 minutes from the start to the
finish,” according to UberEATS. com “Sources” told the Tampa Bay Business Journal that favorite Tampa restaurants like Ceviche, the SoHo Donut Company and Taco bus are expected to be included in the app. The aggressively negative response from PTC toward Uber is doing nothing but hurting Hillsborough residents. Yes, the taxi industry is suffering to the rise of cheaper, faster transportation services like Uber and Lyft. However, binding the hands of those services will not revive the commerce directed toward taxis. Pinellas County has accepted that reality and its public transportation agency went so far as to partner with Uber and Lyft on two programs to ensure the prosperity of the region as a whole. Uber has become a staple of college students’ lives and the PTC must consider the repercussions of voting against the company for those living within their turf. Students at USF value not only the lower prices provided by Uber but also the conve-
nience of the simple-to-use app. Despite claims of safety concerns by the PTC, most users do not feel that Uber is dangerous due to the rider-based rating system, which weeds out unreliable drivers. Riders are able to share their ETA with friends so the journey can be monitored and all payments are done via the app so there is no risk of fare disputes or carrying cash to pay for the ride. In fact, the company is offering a contest for a student to win a semester’s worth of free Uber rides, a $1,600 credit, in order to make it “easier and safer for Florida college and university students to get around,” Uber said in a press release. Students don’t want to see Uber go, and its forced removal by the PTC will not go over well in Hillsborough. The possibility of a community without Uber does guarantee one thing: UberEATS will be receiving a large amount of business. Many living in Tampa, whether students at USF, UT, or HCC, do not have vehicles and rely heavily on the trans-
portation services offered by Uber. A trip to the airport for students at USF is only $20 through Uber. The same trip is $47 in a Yellow Cab. Eating at an establishment not directly beside campus will soon be a privilege many will not be able to afford when forced to rely on taxis. Being able to order Taco Bus from the Library and knowing it will be there within a half hour will ensure the app is as frequently used among students as Twitter. Within the next few months, Tampa will learn if PTC will vote in the best interest of Hillsborough or if they will continue to try to regulate a perfectly safe and reliable business. Regardless of their decision, Tampa residents can at least console themselves with the knowledge Uber will continue to put users first, even if Tampa loses half of what would be a great pairing. Breanne Williams is a senior majoring in mass communications.
Before a preseason game with the Green Bay Packers on Friday, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick chose not to stand during the National Anthem. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL media afterward. As an immigrant to this country, I am not going to sit here and pretend that I understand the complex relationship America has with patriotism and its symbols, such as the National Anthem and the American flag. I am impartial to if you agree with him or not. However, what I do have an issue with is how some people reacted to the protest from Kaepernick. Following his statement, some people took to Twitter and decided to call Kaepernick strong racial slurs in their response to his protest. This has been happening frequently on Twitter in the past few months. Whenever a person of color does something that is even remotely disagreeable, their race gets drawn into the forefront of the argument. We have seen this happen to Saturday Night LIve’s Leslie Jones and Fifth Harmony’s Normani Kordei, who both took breaks from Twitter following each of their racial attacks. There are many ways to object to someone’s opinion without being racist. In fact, many people would agree that the usage of racial slurs makes the argument sound ignorant and unintelligent. When that type of ignorant, hateful rhetoric is used, the opinion is immediately thrown out the window and is no longer even considered valid, regardless of what else was said. There are many people who disagreed with Kaepernick but did not resort to demeaning and vile language. Having an intelligent and civil conversation is the only correct way to argue any viewpoint. If your immediate reaction is to call someone an offensive term, I implore you to rethink your worldview and seek professional help.
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operate leadership there,” he said. Koehler’s choice of Belarus came down to limited options as a Fulbright Award winner teaching business. He said he feels he found a “perfect fit” in the program at Belarus State University. “They were looking for someone with my background, who’s got an academic background, business background and a lot of experience,” he said. “So, they were very interested in having me and vice versa.” Koehler also visited the country in 1986 with his wife and two children when Belarus belonged to the since-dissolved Soviet Union. Koehler said he feels that Eastern Europe differs from the U.S. in both politics and education. “Many things are quite different than in the U.S., and that’s always interesting and exciting to understand and comprehend how these
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countries go about their business day to day,” he said. He also missed a few planned stops in that 1986 trip, one of which was the city of Minsk, which he could not visit due to the meltdown of Chernobyl, a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that sat near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, in April of that year. He will now get the chance to see the city as the university he is teaching at is located in Minsk. “I’m just excited to go to someplace I really wanted to go to in ’86 and to see how things have changed,” Koehler said. His worry outside of the weather patterns is the lack of English speakers outside of the university. The program he’s joining is taught in English, and neither Koehler nor his wife— who will join him on this trip — speak Belarusian. Belarus isn’t much of a tourist attraction, Koehler said, meaning that unlike the more-often-visited countries in Europe, English isn’t spoken by a lot of people.
However, Koehler said the couple was in a similar situation when they traveled in 1986 and said the two never felt uncomfortable. Koehler will be teaching organ ization al th eory, organization behavior and organization development in business, which are his specialties. He also hopes to
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ambassador and your job is to do more than just what you teach but to learn, understand and comprehend their environment, and communicate things that you think that can be helpful to them,” he said. “At the same time learn as much as you can to come back and share with the students you have at USF.”
I’m just excited to go to someplace I really wanted to go to in ’86 and to see how things have changed.
Jerry Koehler, Fulbright Award winner teach executive leadership. He said he is most looking forward to faculty interactions in the business discipline, the life and culture of the university itself, and the chance to interact with members of the community. “The Fulbright is (when) … you’re an academic
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The Illinois native joined USF in 1976 to assist the president after working at American Express in California and at the University of CaliforniaIrvine. He became the chairman of the management department before taking a sabbatical at Honeywell and serving as Deputy Secretary of
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Labor for four years. As a colleague, Limayem said Koehler is eager to learn and willing to go out of his way to help his students. “We’re very blessed at the Muma College of Business and at USF to have great faculty,” he said. “Faculty that are willing to go out of their comfort zone to learn more, faculty that believe that learning is a journey, not a destination, and they’re always hungry to learn more so that they can go back to the classroom and help their students more.” Limayem said Koehler is the essence of that ideal. Koehler himself agrees with Limayem’s observation of his willingness to learn, and emphasizes the importance of always being open to opportunities to learn. “Learning is fun,” he said. “Learning is exciting. If you’re not learning, you’re probably not enjoying life as much as you should. Some people think … learning is work. If they think of learning as work then they’ve made a mistake. Learning is just an opportunity to enjoy yourself.”
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The Rundown Romo out with back fracture
Tony Romo, who has started each of the past nine Dallas Cowboys’ season openers, will likely be on the sideline this year due to a compression fracture in his back. The injury came as the result of a hit by Seattle Tony Romo Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril last week. Doctors have speculated Romo could be out anywhere from 6-10 weeks, meaning rookie Dak Prescott will most likely get his first opportunity as the Cowboys starting quarterback. So far this preseason, Prescott has thrown for 454 yards and five touchdowns with no interceptions to go along with two rushing touchdowns. Dallas opens its season Sept. 11 against the New York Giants.
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In what began as a friendly, but competitive match between the USF women’s soccer team and the University of Massachusetts, quickly escalated to a physical battle that saw the Bulls leave with a 3-0 victory at Corbett Stadium on Sunday afternoon. “Our goal going into the game was to win our first four games… and based on our schedule we thought that we could do that,” said USF coach Denise SchilteBrown. However, it was not only the tightly-contested first half that debunked thoughts of an easy victory, but the excessively physical style of play that made for great athletic theater. The USF defense, led by seniors Jordyn Listro and Carlotta Fennefoss, was intent on keeping its opponents far from the goal, or even the penalty box and they were highly successful.
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“(They) have been a backbone for us,” Schilte-Brown said of the duo. “They’re our bloodline back there.” As the first half ticked to its end, the momentum had clearly shifted and the game remained tied. Within the final eight minutes of the first half, three balls bounced off of the UMass goal posts, missing the net by mere inches. In the second half, the goals would finally come. And with it would come an increase in physicality on the part of both teams and the number of yellow cards issued. It was senior Trudi Carter’s successful penalty kick — the result of a tripping penalty — that opened the scoring in the 54th minute. Then again in the 60th, freshman Evelyne Viens received a pass from fellow forward Leticia Skeete, took one touch to her right, and buried a dagger of a shot into the upper right side of the goal. Maintaining their recent pen-
Freshman Evelyne Viens sealed USF’s win over UMass on Sunday, scoring two goals in a 3-0 win at Corbett Stadium. ORACLE PHOTO/JACKIE BENITEZ
chant for netting three goals per game, Viens converted a penalty kick into a goal less than two minutes later. As the goal differential increased, so did the level of physicality, taking on a reciprocal effect between the teams. Ultimately, however, SchilteBrown was proud of her team,
maintaining that they stuck to a mantra she has instilled in them specifically for physical games like this. “We have an acronym…it’s composure under pressure,” she said. “You can’t control the other team, you can’t control the referees…so we remind the girls to do that…not come undone.”
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Missing at Saturday’s USF Fan Fest among the faces of USF’s nearly 500 student-athletes were two highly recruited men’s basketball players: Troy Baxter Jr. and Andres Feliz. According to a report by The Tampa Bay Times over the weekend, Baxter and Feliz are currently not on roster. The fall semester at USF began August 22. Baxter is a four-star recruit and the 90th-best player in ESPN’s top 100 recruits for 2016. As a senior at Oldsmar Christian School last season, Baxter averaged 17 points and seven rebounds. A three-star recruit out of West Oaks Academy in Orlando, Feliz led the Dominican National Team in scoring with 18.9 points per game at the 2015 FIBA World Championships.
With the losses of Baxter and Feliz likely related to the ongoing NCAA investigation regarding academic fraud at USF, the Bulls retain freshmen Malik Fitts and Michael Bibby as the only recruits of 2016 currently with the team. USF volleyball wins Charlotte Invitational Following an 11-21 season in which USF volleyball finished ninth out of 11 teams in the AAC, the Bulls won the Charlotte Invitational this weekend, dropping only one set over three dominating wins. Senior right side hitter Elyse Panick earned the title of tournament M.V.P. for her 50 digs, 28 kills and 12 blocks over the threematch weekend. “I think it was important for our team to start out strong during the opening weekend to set the tone for the season,” coach Courtney Draper said in a release. “It’s tough to prepare for three teams in two
days, but our kids executed well.” USF (3-0) will look to continue its undefeated season when it hosts the USF Invitational, beginning Friday with a match against Western Carolina at 1 p.m. at The Corral. Mike White wins starting WKU QB job Former USF starting quarterback Mike White, who transferred to Western Kentucky following USF’s switch to its “Gulf Coast” offense, has earned the starting quarterback job for the Hilltoppers. Replacing record-setting quarterback Brandon Doughty, White was competing with senior Tyler Ferguson and sophomore Drew Eckels over the offseason for the starting job. The 6-foot-4, 215-pound quarterback threw for 1,639 yards and eight touchdowns with seven interceptions over 11 games in his final season with the Bulls in 2014.