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The Associated Press announced Sunday that Hillary Clinton, the democratic presidential nominee, was diagnosed with pneumonia. The diagnosis came Friday and, according to the AP, she is on antibiotics. Clinton attended a 9/11 ceremony on Sunday and left early, reportedly due to dehydration and heat stress according to Dr. Lisa Bardack, per the BBC World News. Bardack released a statement saying Clinton was “recovering nicely” after the event.
Bus driver accident in Taiwan deemed suicidal
The Taiwan Central News Agency (CNA) announced Saturday details concerning a bus accident that occurred nearly three months earlier, according to CNN. According to the report, a suicidal bus driver caused a crash outside of the Taoyuan International Airport in Taipei, killing 26 people. The CNA said that the driver’s suicidal intentions were caused by “family pressure and because he had been sentenced to prison in a sexual assault case,’” according to CNN.
The Sports Club Council responded to a change in the funding for traveling to events by organizing their teams to write a total of 46 letters from 13 of their teams. The team with the most letters sent in was tennis with eight. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE USF.EDU/CAMPUSREC members of over 13 of the In the past, SBS would make By Miki Shine sports clubs on USF’s campus the reservations and thereby M A N A G I N G E D I T O R against the change, which they pay for airfare and hotels for The Sports Club Council sent to Student Government student organizations prior (SCC) met within 24 hours (SG). The most common to events that involved travel. of getting what it considered argument against it is that Each organization only needed alarming news: the method of it would be unreasonable to to send notice two weeks’ prior paying for travel to events was expect members to shell out to the event. their own money to pay for SBS works as a part of SG likely to change. to distribute A&S fees — paid Now, rather than receiving these trips. “We would really like to by students — to the different pre-paid funding for travel, see this rule go back to the organizations. student organizations will have While some aspects of to pay for their own travel out way it was,” SCC Vice Chair of pocket and get reimbursed Danny Hoeflich said. “I know travel would be reimbursed by Activity and Service fees sports clubs do spend a lot of afterward, including a rental money as a whole organization car, the majority was pre-paid. (A&S) funds. However, the change will Student Business Services because we do travel on trips a (SBS) changed their policy as lot, but we do go out and show make it a retrospective payment process. Organizations will be a way to better manage their USF off. “With the new rule, yes, expected to pay out of pocket time after not receiving funding technically the university is for travel-related expenses and for a new staff member. Over the course of the next paying for it but it’s hard for us be reimbursed later. week, SCC leaders organized as students to front hundreds n See TRAVEL on PAGE 9 a total of 46 letters from its and hundreds of dollars.”
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Those on campus who have opened up their network connections on different electronic devices may have noticed a new wireless network available to connect to named eduroam. The network has existed for years, but USF just recently began to introduce it to its campus. According to Michael Sink, assistant vice president of Information Technology (IT), eduroam is set to eventually replace USF-Gold, the university’s current passwordprotected, secure network open to students, faculty and staff. USF and USF Guest networks will still remain. “There are a lot of other universities that are already using (eduroam), and we’ve received many requests from faculty members that do travel to other universities,” Sink said. “It’s something that’s becoming more common so that it’s easier to connect as people travel around.” Eduroam is also a secure network like USF-Gold. However, eduroam is more versatile in that it is used at multiple universities across the U.S. and Europe, according to Sink. Consequently, students, faculty and staff traveling to different universities and abroad won’t have to individually connect to each university’s separate guest networks, instead using one login for access to a secure network at all participating institutions. “There’s really not a reason not to use it,” Sink said. “It’s actually adding benefit. It’s not
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Tensions between citizens and police officers have escalated to unprecedented heights within the past few years. To make matters worse, the media has shone a light on corruption within departments throughout the country, highlighting major issues like racial profiling and abuse. Some blame President Barack Obama for waging a “war on cops” while others blame the media for skewing information to evoke a heated response from the public. However, one of the leading contributions for the continued abuse from a select few in blue is a flawed system, which allows bad officers to continue to serve. Eddie Boyd III was the officer notorious for both pistolwhipping a 12-year-old girl and striking another child a year later before falsifying a police report. He resigned and was then almost immediately hired by another police department. Shortly thereafter, he transferred to work in Ferguson, Mo., where a fellow officer would fatally shoot Michael Brown despite him being unarmed. Boyd’s case is unfortunately repeated throughout all 50 states and law enforcement agencies are aware of the problem. However, there has not been any substantial collaboration to create the change necessary to keep all Americans safe. In Obama’s Task Force report last year, officials stated there needed to be a data partnership between the Justice Department and the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training in order to weed out all those with cruel intentions or corrupt pasts. The current database has 21,000 names on a list of officers who dishonored or abused their power, and according to
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Mike Becar, the group’s executive director, the organization is unable to fully handle the database and needs assistance. Yet there has been no push for federal assistance to further develop the database. The result? Corrupt officials remain in places of power. Timothy Loehmann, the Cleveland officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, had resigned from a police force after a supervisor recommended he be fired, according to the New York Times. Yet he was still hired in Cleveland, and despite the controversy surrounding Rice’s death, still works for the department with only a slap to the wrist in the form of a delegation to desk duty. Hector Jimenez, an officer who shot and killed an unarmed man in 2007, was fired and then re-instated. They say if you don’t pay for
your mistakes, you never learn from them. That was clearly evidenced by Jimenez because seven months after re-institution, he shot and killed another unarmed man. The obvious result would be blacklisting Jimenez, however the two-time murderer was rehired and given back pay. “In Philadelphia, an inquiry was recently completed on 26 cases where police officers were fired from charges ranging from domestic violence to retail theft to excessive force to on-duty intoxication,” according to Forbes. Shockingly, the Police Advisory Committee undertaking the investigation found that so far 19 of these fired officers have been reinstated. Without a good database, corrupt officers will continue to be hired, keeping the job from someone who truly wants to serve and protect every citizen
of this nation. The public no longer has faith in those claiming to protect them and it’s leading to violence nationwide. Just look at the violent protests and acts of aggression toward innocent officers. Tensions are rising and unless something is done soon, those apprehensions could easily boil over. If the government truly cares as much about both law enforcement and its constituents the obvious solution is to provide agencies with a database to weed out corruption. A database may not keep every officer with malicious intentions off the streets, however it will ensure those with a problematic past can’t repeat their mistakes in a different setting. Breanne Williams is a senior majoring in mass communications.
On a day when this nation mourns the countless lives that were taken 15 years ago in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the world kept moving with hot issues of today in the forefront of the nation’s eye. With reports coming that teams were planning to kneel as a whole during the national anthem on Sunday, it seemed that the attention of the nation would be diverted away from what was most important on this day. Moreover, as the NFL season kicked off its full slate of Week 1 games Sunday, recurring protests have been grabbing the U.S.’s attention for much of the past few weeks, starting with San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick on Aug. 26. Players across the league have been joining Kaepernick’s peaceful protest against police brutality by sitting or kneeling during the national anthem. But what happens when this protest clashes with the remembrance of one of this nation’s most vulnerable days? Although police relations with the community are an issue that needs to be discussed, it’s a conversation that can be had 15 other times during the season. Despite those early reports, these sensitive, yet prominent, issues were handled in the best way possible. Trying to find balance between a player’s right to protest and showing respect for those fallen Americans seemed like it would become another national headline. Instead, players were still able to join together in solidarity while trying not to divert attention away from the various events honoring 9/11. It’s not the players’ fault that opening day fell on this date, but they were able to voice their opinion in a respectful way. Without drawing much attention, most teams, such as the Chiefs and Seahawks, simply linked arms to stand as a united front. Others, like select members of the Dolphins, still decided to kneel — some holding their hands over their hearts. Regardless, the tribute to the lives lost on that tragic day was able to shine through, saving the nation’s current issues for another day.
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really taking anything away.” There is no cost to move to eduroam for the university, Sink said, as the network is included in USF’s Internet2 membership and there are no closing fees for USF-Gold. Internet2 is a “memberowned advanced technology community,” according to its website. It lists USF as a Level 1 member, which costs the university approximately $92,960 annually in fees and dues. Sink said the university is working to phase out USF-Gold by the end of the semester. However, that time frame is only tentative and IT will monitor usage of USFGold up until the switch is made, as Sink said many people haven’t had the chance to connect yet. “So if we still have ... thousands of people that are still connecting to USF-Gold, then we know at that point we can’t just … shut it off if people are still connecting to it on a regular basis, so we’ll need to send additional communication … to make sure everyone’s aware that we are
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going to shut it off at a particular date,” Sink said. IT has been sending out notifications and instructions to students, faculty and staff in order to inform them of the switch and how to make it. Sink said IT will continue to do so until USF-Gold is fully replaced by eduroam. The emails sent to students, faculty and staff about eduroam instruct users to go to usf.edu/ netconnect to access eduroam. They will be taken to a portal that asks whether or not they are part of the main USF system or part of USF Health. Then, they will be asked to install a program that, once run, will connect them to eduroam. Each device connected to eduroam will only need to be registered once. “So, we’ve tried to make it as simple as possible and a consistent experience to set up across all the devices,” Sink said. “Instead of having instructions for how to set using an iPhone, how to set up using an iPad or how to set up using a laptop, we tried to develop this portal approach so that you could still use your NetID and password to subscribe.”
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Counseling Center aims to relieve student stress UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
By Nicole Cate L I F E S T Y L E
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When getting ready for college, most students’ first stop is usually Staples or Office Depot. Books, pens and other stationary top the list of things to get together. One thing that some people forget to prepare for is mental health. Most high school students hear horror stories about the stresses of college before they get there, but everyone either thinks that they can deal with it on their own or that it won’t happen to them. According to the American College Health Association’s National College Health Assessment (ACHA-NCHA) for Fall 2015, 82.1 percent of the 2,665 respondents felt overwhelmed by all they had to do in the past 12 months. Also,
52.2 percent of respondents felt overwhelming anxiety and 30.6 percent felt so depressed that it was hard to function in the past year. ACHA-NCHA’s Spring 2015 report states that two-thirds of students who are struggling do not seek treatment. USF’s Counseling Center offers various types of free and professional help. If students feel they need help, they can call the Counseling Center to set up an initial appointment. Previously, there was a 10-session limit on personal appointments, with students being referred to off-campus services when they reached their limit. However, the Counseling Center said that it “eliminated the former practice of referring a substantial number of USF
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students to community providers following a brief initial contact session” on their 20142015 Annual Report. The Counseling Center offers several drop-in group sessions for different topics weekly for people who don’t want to schedule individual sessions. On Mondays at noon, students who identify as pessimists can attend the Power of Being Positive in order to “celebrate positive events, demonstrate gratitude, determine accomplishments, develop positive habits, and other positive psychology traits,” according to the department’s website. At 2 p.m. on the same day, and at 5 p.m. on Thursdays, the center hosts Mindfulness Meditation, a group session on relaxation through meditation. Learning to Let Go is a session for students who struggle
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USF’s Counseling Center offers group sessions. ORACLE PHOTO/NICOLE CATE
with anxiety. This meeting is held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. Wednesdays at 1 p.m. are for Life Hacks at the Counseling Center. This group focuses on tips for staying mentally healthy in college. The office hours for USF’s Counseling Center are 8 a.m. to
6 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday; 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday; and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. It is closed during university holidays, but the 24-hour telephone number is 813-974-283. It is located at SVC 2124.
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Hoeflich said there is largely one reason sports club members are concerned about the change. “Being able to pre-pay for any trips we were to take was a huge benefit for us because we didn’t have to front the money,” he said. “I know, just personally, with the ice hockey club, when we go on trips, we’ll rent buses and rent hotel rooms. “For us to have to front $4,000 for a weekend is way too much money for us to have to wait … about a month to get back from the university.” While the SCC sent out a letter template to its members, the majority of those who sent it in added additional information to the letters so the final product ranged from one paragraph to a full page. Letters from the various sports clubs were collected by SCC and sent to main SG officials including the student body president and vice president, the senate president and senate president protempore, and several senators.
“We’re hoping this can be put back to the way it was so that we can take the pressure off of students who are having to front that kind of money,” Hoeflich said. However, the issue goes beyond travel for student organizations. SBS requested the funding for an additional staff member to help work with student organizations, for a total of $42,652 to pay this staff member. While senate approved the addition, student body president Chris Griffin vetoed it largely based on money. The position would be paid through the unallocated funds budget for this year, but would need continuous yearly funding. “Each of us is tasked with funding things in an unbiased manner, and because we all see the work that (SBS) provides every day, I feel that it may have been hard for us to fund this position in an unbiased manner,” Griffin said in his official veto memo. According to the memo, FSU, UCF and UF have smaller business offices than USF, all of which he visited, and many
have “responsibilities that were greater than ours.” Additionally, he said SBS has not seen a “substantial” increase in the number of requests submitted that would require a new position. “When the position wasn’t funded, (SBS) determined that to no longer pre-pay for student travel would the best way to manage their time without the addition,” Griffin told The Oracle. The veto pushed SBS to make the new policy that student organizations would request the travel, pay for the travel on their own and then get reimbursed for whatever they spent. However, SBS has received the letters of concern from SCC, and there’s still negotiating room on the new policy. “Student Business Services has heard the concerns that students have. They have brought them to the attention of various SG leaders in multiple branches,” Alexander Suarez, chair of the SG grants committee, said. “Ultimately, it will be up to the Senate to discuss and figure out how best to move forward.”
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The Rundown Outside USF
Officials suspended for late-game blunder Following the game-clinching Hail Mary on the final play in which Central Michigan defeated Oklahoma State 3027, all eight officials working the game have been suspended for two weeks. Due to a misunderstanding of the rules, officials awarded Central Michigan a final untimed play after ruling intentional grounding on Oklahoma State’s quarterback on what should have been the game-ending play. Because of their mistake, Oklahoma State drops to 1-1 on the season.
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The USF football team is receiving votes for the top 25 of the NCAA Coaches’ Poll for the second consecutive week. After earning five votes in Week 1, the Bulls received 12 votes in Week 2 following their 48-17 victory over Northern Illinois University, in which the Bulls recorded the second-most yards in school history.
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USF drops three in weekend tournament By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S
USF quarterback Quinton Flowers and running back Darius Tice (13) have career-best nights in win over Northern Illinois. ORACLE PHOTO/JACKIE BENITEZ
Flowers, Tice lead energized offense in impressive win By Chuck Muller S T A F F
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Even as opponents in high school, Bulls’ senior running back Darius Tice knew quarterback Quinton Flowers was special. “I already knew what he was capable of doing,” Tice said. Coming to USF as 3-star recruit, Flowers amassed 6,042 total yards at Miami Jackson High School. When he went to Miami’s Northwestern High School, Tice saw Flowers often as a district foe, but now sees the offensive captain as an unquestioned leader of a reenergized USF football program. “I already knew from the beginning. I played against him in high school, so I already knew that this man was a beast,” Tice said. “I knew that once he got in his groove, as
soon as they gave him a little more freedom, he would do his thing.” After accounting for 403 of the Bulls’ 658 yards in their 48-17 win over Northern Illinois on Saturday night, it’s safe to say Flowers is enjoying all the freedoms of the Gulf Coast offense. The junior quarterback declined offers from Alabama, Miami (FL), Nebraska, and Texas among others. He committed to the Bulls instead and began his career at USF, making five appearances with only a single start in 2014. Tice, among others, continued to push Flowers after his initial season, saying he foresaw the dual-threat quarterback emerging as the leader of the Bulls as he did during the middle of the 2015 season. “I was telling Quinton the whole time, stay confident ...
it’s coming,” Tice said. “I see a vision of you taking over the team and being able to do things for us … and from the Syracuse game last year, it was a wrap from that point on.” Flowers also said that game against the Orange became a jumping-off point that has lead him into the conversation for the Davey O’Brien Trophy as the nation’s top quarterback and the undisputed leader of the Bulls’ offense. “Last year, from the Syracuse, when Coach gave me the word ‘go,’ Flowers said. “I felt like at the beginning of last year, I was playing like a robot, just structurally sound instead of just going out and playing my game. Once he gave me the ‘go’, it was time to show the world.” Tice has emerged as a solid piece of the Bulls’ backfield,
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Despite rattling off six wins in a row to begin the season — the Bulls’ best start since 2000 — USF volleyball dropped all three of its matches this weekend in the DePaul Invitational in Chicago. After taking the opening set against DePaul University (5-4) in the first match of the tournament, USF (6-3) would eventually fall 9-15 in the fifth and final set. In USF’s second match of the tournament, the Bulls lost the first two sets of the best-offive match to the University of Illinois at Chicago (9-0) before storming back to win the next two sets 25-23, 25-17. However, the comeback effort wasn’t enough for USF, as it fell in the final set, 10-15. The Bulls dropped their final match of the weekend against Albany (3-6) in four sets Saturday. USF will return home when it hosts the USF Classic this weekend, which will feature Stetson, Wright State and LIUBrooklyn. No. 14 Women’s Soccer keeps streak alive The USF women’s soccer team shut out its opponent for the fourth-straight match Sunday when the Bulls defeated Georgia Southern 2-0 in Statesboro, Georgia. Junior goalkeeper Kat Elliott recorded her second shutout of the weekend with four saves in the match. No. 14 USF scored all it would need in the first half, with goals from freshmen Gudrun Sigurdardottir and
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backing up junior Marlon Mack. With Mack out for the game following a concussion he suffered in Week 1, Tice started and ran for his first career 100-yard game, running with power and more than enough energy to spark the rest of his teammates. “He seems like he drank Red Bull all day,” coach Willie Taggart said. “The kid was just so fired up all day long. Sometimes, we had to tell him to just calm down. The entire day, from breakfast all the way to pregame meal, he was goin’. He was just excited to compete and help this football team … he was ready from the time he woke up this morning, he was ready to go.” Taggart said that approach and excitement for the game has allowed Flowers to continue to improve week to week as well. “Quinton gets excited every time we go out,” Taggart said. “If a coach blows a whistle, or say we’re ready to go compete, he’s going to compete. He was the same Quinton Flowers he was last week … the kid is always ready to play and always ready to go out
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there and compete and find a way to win.” Flowers holds himself to a high standard, one that has allowed him to already become one of the prolific quarterbacks in the program’s brief 20-year history. “There is a standard I set myself at,” Flowers said. “Even in practice, I don’t like when I throw interceptions, I don’t like when I do things bad … but I can’t let my teammates see me down so at the end of the day, I just need to go out there and make my reads.” Tice believes that mindset has not only helped Flowers develop into a confident leader, but has helped in the development of the rest of the Bulls’ backfield. “That’s where our mentality comes from, from our leader.” Tice said. Even with the Bulls scoring more points than they ever have through the first two games in a season to begin 2016, Flowers believes that even a performance like the one against NIU isn’t enough. “It’s not enough,” Flowers said. “Our standards are too high. We’re trying to get to 900 (yards per game). That’s our standard, to put up 60 points a game.”
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Evelyne Viens in the 24th minute and 27th minute, respectively. USF (7-0) will be off for two weeks before resuming play on the road at Old Dominion on Sept. 25. Men’s Soccer wins first game After not winning through the team’s first five games, the USF men’s soccer team defeated the University of San Francisco 2-0 at Corbett Stadium on Saturday. The Bulls took a 2-0 firsthalf advantage thanks to goals from senior forward Nazeem Bartman and freshman midefielder Stephen Rudderham. USF locked down on defense, holding San Francisco to just three shots in the first 45 minutes and only three shots on goal the entire match. G o a l ke e p e r Spasoje Stefanovic made three saves in his 90 minutes, including a save on a penalty shot in the 40th minute. USF (1-3-2) will host North
Junior middle blocker Joli Holland was named to the all-tournament team for the DePaul Invitational following her 15-kill performance in the final match of the weekend. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/GOUSFBULLS.COM Florida on Wednesday as it and not let it cripple you? In tries to notch consecutive vic- athletics you get to keep trytories for the first time in ing, but in life, sometimes it 2016. cripples you to your knees. “One of my favorite things Our guys are still figuring out a about coaching is seeing how few things, but I’m very confiwe deal with adversity,” coach dent we’re moving in the right George Kiefer said in a release. direction.” “How do you bounce back
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