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Mixed in with every student’s list of fees and tuition is “Flat Fee A&S Tampa.” The Activity and Service (A&S) fee – which equates to more than $17.8 million — falls under Student Government’s jurisdiction. The funds are allocated to student organizations and offices on campus. The A&S fee is paid by students each semester. The fee includes a flat fee of $7 per semester and $12.08 per credit hour. If a student takes 15 credit hours, they pay $188.2 in A&S fees. The A&S Recommendation Committee (ASRC) is fully equipped with 12 voting members. This includes six voting senators and two alternate members if one of the six isn’t able to attend a meeting. Collectively, this committee reviews budget requests for funding parts of campus such as new equipment for Campus Students pay $7 per semester and $12.08 per credit hour in A&S fees. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE Recreation, furniture in the The ASRC committee will such as the MSC and Campus department wants to go in.’ We Marshall Student Center and meet Friday and vote on a chair Recreation, are due in December get a gist of that.” events for student organizations. – who is responsible for calling for the committee to start The 2017-18 budget allocated “The goal of ASRC would be all further meetings – and a vice reviewing when winter break $11.9 million toward these larger to receive budget requests from chair. ends. departments for activities and things that are asking for A&S During the remainder of “We want them to have them renovations. This is compared funding, to determine how they the fall semester, committee to us early on, at least relatively,” to the $10.8 million that went provide activities and services members go over practice budget Hiba said. “Well before this toward these departments in last to students and to fund them requests in order to learn the deadline happens, we’ll be year’s budget. for those activities and services,” rules and processes. Additionally, meeting with the departments. According to Sen. Saeed Sinan, Sen. Aladdin Hiba, who is starting members are assigned to We’ll have people communicating who is also starting his fourth his fourth term on the committee, different departments on campus with the departments to see ‘this term on the ASRC committee, said. “With the overall goal of that request funding to serve as a is what the department wants,’ departments are coming up with making things better for our liaison between that group and ‘these are things the department more new initiatives to request USF students, adding activities, the committee. thinks maybe could be cut,’ funding for and it’s part of the adding services.” The larger budget requests, ‘these are the directions the committee’s job to determine
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which of those are worth funding. “We don’t want to overspend and over allocate things,” he said. “Basically, we look to see if the impact was the best for the student body. Should we decrease that? Should we reallocate funds to a different entity or a different program within the department?” Hiba said one of the hardest parts of dealing with the budget is having the conversations about what areas or programs need to be cut.
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“If we’re spending say $50,000 on something that 200 people go to,” he said. “Well, $50,000 is enough to fund 50 student organizations for a year. We have to make these judgements, these decisions. This is too expensive, it’s not impacting enough people.” In comparison to the deadline for departments, student organizations have to submit budget requests in January for consideration by the committee. In last year’s budget, student organizations received $1.1 million, compared to $1.0 million the previous year. “There’s around 300 to 400 to 500 student orgs that submit budget requests, and then the chair assigns a set amount of orgs per ASRC member,” Sinan said. “Then we meet with them based on the standards we decide in the fall semester. Then we go on to review each budget request separately.” ASRC members are expected to disclose any organizations they may have a bias toward or against to promote fairness. According to
Sinan, all student organizations are viewed the same and go through the same process. “The philosophy of ASRC is basically ‘We do not fund to better the organization or department’ because we are the custodians of the A&S fee,” Sinan said. “So, we are here to serve the students and better their experience here at USF because they paid it so we are trying to empower them.” The committee allows student organizations to request funding for up to eight events per year and allocate $4 a head for food and event-related material such as tablecloths and decorations. In an attempt to make the per-head funding system more accurate, student organizations now have access to ID swipe machines to track event attendance. While most student organizations submit requests on their own, the ASRC committee has created councils grouping similar organizations together. Rather than funding each individual organization requesting money from ASRC, those organizations that fall under a council’s jurisdiction would request money from the
council, which requested money from ASRC. According to Sinan, if a council does fund something the ASRC committee normally would fund – such as an event – it can’t be funded differently. If the Engineering Council were to fund an event, it would still be required to fund $4 per head the way ASRC would. A member of the ASRC committee is assigned to each organization as a liaison between the organization and ASRC. What member of the committee represents what student organization is as random as it can be. “We give student organizations certain rights throughout the process,” Hiba said. “We give them the right to meet with an ASRC member, we give them the right to have their budget heard if they submit it on time, and we give them the right to appeal it to a different person if the person they met with the first time didn’t do a good job of representing them to ASRC.”
The academic calendar will remain the same, despite campus closures due to Hurricane Irma. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE By Jesse Stokes N E W S
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Following six days of closures due to Hurricane Irma, university officials are not planning to take away students’ reading days or Veteran’s Day holiday. Instead, the proposed plan is to leave the academic calendar unchanged. According to Paul Dosal, Vice President for Student Affairs & Student Success, the idea is to provide a buffer in the event of more closures in the future. “We can and should avoid extending the academic calendar,” Dosal said. He instead said students and faculty should plan to readjust course syllabi accordingly. Provost Ralph Wilcox spoke to the Faculty Senate on Wednesday and said faculty and students deserve a definitive decision. “We owe it to faculty and students to get a timely plan for the remainder of the semester,” Wilcox said. The idea of carrying on through the semester with the academic calendar as planned
is not yet final, according to Wilcox, and Faculty Senate is expected to vote on the decision. It next meets in full Oct. 18. “The reason that we have not made a final decision is because we want to be sure that Faculty Senate has a voice in the decision,” Wilcox said. Members of the Faculty Senate where given the opportunity to express their concerns regarding the proposal. No members of the senate took issue with the proposal at the time, so Dosal said he was confident the proposal would be made official. Another considered option was to move the deadline for midterm grades. Dosal said the preference is to keep everything unchanged. As it stands, midterm grades must be submitted by Oct. 24, the Veteran’s Day holiday will result in campus closures on Nov. 10, reading days — times designated for student exam preparations — are Nov. 21-22 and the semester concludes Dec. 7.
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with the sense that they were going to try to send a message and sometimes that works out and sometimes it doesn’t. Tonight it did.” The game had one red and nine yellow cards issued by referee Ted Unkel, including one yellow to UNF coach Derek Marinatos at the beginning of the second half. The lone red card was issued to Cormac Begley in the 88th minute after he took a Bull down from behind. He had already been booked with a yellow card for instigating a scuffle in the 60th minute. Playing with only 10 men, the Osprey’s lone goal came in the 83rd minute off a penalty kick. USF will open up conference play Saturday night at Corbett Stadium in the only regular season game scheduled against
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USF will host UCF on Saturday at 7 p.m. THE ORACLE/ ABBY BAKER UCF in 2017. “Ricky’s (Ricardo Gomez) leadership was outstanding and (Gabriel Pheffer) Pheff’s organization was outstanding,” Butehorn said. “I as a coach
am proud when guys on the field begin to convey what I’ve been saying to them. Tonight was a good one.”
there trying to make plays.” The Bulls set a season high for total yards and had a trio of 100-yard rushers (Flowers, Tice and Johnson) against Illinois. Through the air, four different receivers caught a touchdown. “It was a total offensive effort,” Strong said. “Quinton did a good job putting the ball in different playmaker’s hands.” After posting 680 total yards last week, the Bull’s offense is in a prime position to succeed again, with
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Temple allowing 523 rushing yards and 943 passing yards this season. USF will also need to prepare their special teams units better than they have in the first three games of 2017. The Bulls have had blocked kicks in each of their games this season, while Temple has led the NCAA in blocked kicks for the last three seasons with 17 total blocks. “It’s all fixable,” Strong said. “It’s a matter of us putting the right people out there and getting the right people in place and those things won’t happen.”
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What you said Multimedia editor Chaveli Guzman and opinion editor Renee Perez asked students if it’s fair to students that the academic calendar is not being extended despite Irma closures. “I think the workload should not be more, especially because it has been so catastrophic for so many of us. Coming back and having all this workload is really tough on us, especially me. I legit have only slept 8 hours total in the past 3 days.”
—Parth Bhammar, a freshman pre-med student
“My friend who is an International student said he didn’t want it to be extended because he already got his tickets to India on the day that school ends. So he’s really happy that they didn’t extend it. It’s too expensive to reschedule.”
St. Louis protesters are rightfully enraged at the acquittal of former officer Jason Stockley who fatally shot Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE By Allaa Tayeb S T A F F
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Former police officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty of the first-degree murder of Anthony Lamar Smith on Friday. Shortly after the verdict was announced, the streets of St. Louis were taken over by protesters demanding justice for yet another black life taken by blatant police brutality. The protesters flooding the streets of St. Louis are rightfully angry. They are fed up with a system that goes by the name of “justice” yet makes a habit of allowing police officers like Stockley to murder civilians and not be prosecuted. This disappointing verdict laughs in the face of a slew of evidence suggesting foul play on Stockley’s part and shows that the American justice system has not been listening to the cries of its people. Court proceedings indicate the evidence piling high against Stockley was almost too perfect to not warrant a conviction, the most disturbing evidence being his alleged comments. Just minutes before killing
Smith, Stockley was recorded in his dashboard camera saying to his partner what sounds like, “We’re killing this motherf-----, don’t you know?” Although Stockley claims he does not remember making these comments, he nevertheless justified them by saying, “during a vehicle pursuit, many things are said.” Prosecutors also cast doubts on Stockley’s innocence by arguing that Stockley planted the gun in Smith’s car. This claim is partially founded on the fact that the only DNA found on the gun belonged to Stockley. That’s right: Not a trace of Smith’s own DNA was found on the gun that was supposedly his. Further strengthening the prosecution’s allegation is that, shortly after the shooting, Stockley is recorded on the dashboard camera digging through and removing something from bags in his police vehicle before returning to Smith’s car. Additionally, Elijah Simpson, a fellow police officer who reported to the scene minutes after the shooting, testified that he did not find a firearm
in Smith’s car when he examined it. Yet the court dismissed all this compelling evidence. Somehow, it was not enough to prove his guilt. The justice system, yet again, turned its back on the millions of people screaming on Smith’s behalf. Their screams will not be silenced, however. The St. Louis protesters will continue to beg for their voices to be heard. They will continue to walk the streets hoping that someday the U.S. will understand that police brutality is a rampant epidemic for which officers need to be held accountable — hoping someday the U.S. will learn that Black Lives Matter. The lives of officers certainly matter, but not any more than the lives of the people they should be protecting. The persisting trend of police brutality plaguing the country has yet to be recognized as an issue by some government officials. Officers need to be held accountable when they end lives. Stockley should be behind bars.
Allaa Tayeb is a sophomore majoring in English and film studies.
—Shanze Zaidi, a freshman majoring in biomedical sciences “Yeah, I don’t really care, I guess. As long as you work hard, you can get it done.” — Riley Richardson, a freshman majoring in biomedical sciences “Not really. I had to push back two exams that ended up at the same time. Now all of the teachers are rushing everything. So now I have twice as much work and less time to do it.” — Shakira Morris, a senior majoring in biomedical sciences “No, I don’t think that it’s fair because it’s really unfortunate for us as students because we have to work twice as hard with the limited amount of time to get our work done” — Castillana Duvernay, a senior majoring in integrative animal biology
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three games this season. Also stepping up is the Bulls’ offense. “Whatever our coach calls, we just go out there and execute,” quarterback Quinton Flowers said after beating Illinois Friday. When asked if the playbook had been opened all the way, he said “No, not at all.” One way the Bulls opened their play-calling last week was by throwing to running back D’Ernest Johnson, who recorded his first receptions and first receiving touchdown of the season. “It felt good to catch the ball again,” Johnson said. “Everybody was hungry out
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USF Weekly Sports Schedule
Women’s Soccer USF (2-1-0) @ ECU (5-2-2) When: Thursday, 7 p.m. Where: Greenville, North Carolina
Volleyball
USF (4-5) vs. Cincinnati (2-10) When: Friday, 7 p.m. Where: The Corral, USF Sun Dome
Running back Darius Tice (No. 6) missed last year’s game against Temple, but leads all USF running backs with 262 rushing yards and four touchdowns in 2017. THE ORACLE/CHAVELI GUZMAN By Sam Newlon
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USF will be looking for revenge when they host Temple on Thursday night in their conference opener. Despite going 11-2 in 2016, USF didn’t make it into the AAC championship game because of their lost to Temple last October when the Owls topped USF 46-30, stripping the Bulls of their first-place spot in the AAC. In their triumph last season, Temple nearly doubled the Bull’s time of possession and rushed the ball 51 times for 319 yards. When the highpowered offense was needed more than ever, they netted just 352 total yards on the
night. “We remember [the Temple game last season], but it’s a new year,” junior cornerback Ronnie Hoggins, said at this week’s press conference. “We’re a new defense, and we’ve improved.” Temple’s most potent offensive weapons include running back Ryquell Armstead, who rushed for 210 yards and two touchdowns against USF last season, quarterback Logan Marchi and a receiving tandem with Isaiah Wright and Keith Kirkwood. Despite last year’s struggles, USF’s defense is currently tied for second in the country with eight interceptions and has allowed only 268 total rushing yards to opponents in the
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While the yellow cards and banter were plentiful for both teams, the goals only came in bunches for the Bulls on Wednesday night. Playing in front of 909 fans at Corbett Stadium, Tomasz Skulbak and Adrian Billhardt scored goals for USF in the game’s first six minutes and had three combined assists to lead USF past UNF 5-1. Both Skulbak and Billhardt went on to score another goal later in the game. “We came out here to send a message and I think we did the job,” Skulbak said postgame. “I feel like we’re starting to get to know each other a lot better and unifying as one…We came out strong in the first half, second half and we punished them.” Before the game, USF hadn’t scored five goals in a game since they put five past UCF on Aug. 31, 2007. “It was our night,” coach Bob Butehorn said. “It’s always good to play on home turf in Corbett and again, we need to get this place packed, people need to come out here. We will put on a good show if we can get some more fans.” The win brought USF’s record at home to 3-0, and their overall record to 3-3 with their 2017 losses coming against ranked opponents. “This should’ve been a tougher game tonight,” Butehorn said. “It’s an in-state rivalry, which was tough... I think they (USF) went at it
USF Athletics posted a twitter poll on Tuesday morning asking fans what they wanted to wear for Thursday’s game. The options were: End zones green and sidelines white, Raymond all gold and your James favorite USF color. The results came in with ‘end zones green, sidelines white’ winning (42%), while ‘your favorite color’ (36%) came in second and ‘all gold’ (22%) came in last. Students sitting in the student section are asked to wear green.
UCF (1-3-1) @ USF (3-0-3) When: Saturday, 7 p.m. Where: Corbett Stadium
Five-goal night pushes USF past UNF
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Fans vote for green and white out against Temple
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