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The smoke-free policy continues to be met with mixed reviews By Maria Ranoni C O R R E S P O N D E N T
The USF Tampa Tobaccoand Smoke-Free Policy began on Jan. 4, 2016. It prohibits the use of tobacco and related products on campus. It was initially met with mixed reviews from students, which continues to be the case. The policy states that if a student is repeatedly caught using tobacco on campus they will be in violation of the Student Code of Conduct and will be handled accordingly. Currently, administration offers a form students can submit online to report people smoking. Dr. Rita DeBate, the associate vice president of Health and Wellness at USF, worked on a research study with students using geographic information systems (GIS) to determine the effectiveness of the policy enforcement to date. “After the first year of implementation, we did a research study to see what the impact was and how people were with regard to the peer monitoring
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of the smoking and peer enforcement of the policy,” DeBate said. “A couple of students walked the campus and they GIS mapped where anyone was smoking on campus or where there was a pile cigarette butts. In addition to that, in the map, they noted if there was a no smoking sign or not.” DeBate and her students concluded that the main problem with enforcement was a lack of communication about the policy. “The study found that we need better communication of the policy to our faculty, staff, and students,” DeBate said. “In addition to that we need better signage around campus because the GIS mapping technology told us that many of the places that people were smoking there was no non-smoking signage. That (research study) was presented to senior administration and they approved new signage and we’re in the process of getting that signage.” Currently, there are no plans to create new enforcement methods or
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Jackie Cruz comes to campus Tuesday By Kayla Gamble C O R R E S P O N D E N T
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strengthen penalties for people caught using tobacco on campus, according to DeBate. “USF is a community, so as a community we have the responsibility to enforce it,” Debate said. “So that means faculty, staff, students, everyone that’s a part of this community. Nonetheless we have to make sure that the policy is there and visible for people to see and I think that was the missing piece.” For some, the policy is not just a matter of conformity, but a matter of physical health. Christopher Atkins, a junior majoring in cellular and molecular biology, is a nonsmoker and is asthmatic. He said he supports the tobaccofree policy because it is advantageous for his health and makes it less likely he’ll suffer from an asthma attack. “I do not think the policy is being enforced well, as I have
never seen the policy actually being enforced,” Atkins said. “Students still smoke wherever and whenever. I believe just as people get fined for parking in the wrong spots, people who are smoking on campus should be fined.” His complaints are not unique. Some students who do not smoke want harsher penalties for smokers who break the rules. Kayla Brown, a senior majoring in biomedical sciences, also supports the policy. “I have seen, as well as inhaled smoke from someone’s cigarette while walking through campus,” Brown said. “I mean of course not everyone is going to abide by the policy, but I think if more consequences were given for smokers on campus, then there would be a lot less use. Harsher penalties would be very effective.” Even with this general support for harsher penalties, one smoker said he has never received more than a warning.
“People are going to smoke either way,” Leeland Blackford, a sophomore majoring in literary studies said. Blackford expressed that the tobacco policy has encouraged students to smoke around campus even more. “[The policy] doesn’t make any sense and they know that people still smoke,” Blackford said. “I feel like it’s a lot easier to just blatantly smoke anywhere. I’ve had RA’s come up to me when I was outside the dorm smoking, but never when I’m smoking at the library, or off to the side.” Regardless of the opposition, an advocate of the tobacco ban says peer enforcement is a good policy because it keeps students responsible for their own campus environment. Lauren George, a senior majoring in public health, said she likes the current enforcement method. George is also the President of Relay For Life of USF and has been a volunteer with the American Cancer Society for nine years.
Her experiences in advocating for cancer awareness and prevention strengthen her opinions on the Smoke-Free Policy. “The smoke free policy is extremely beneficial to those who may have smoke induced asthma, such as myself, or do not want to have to deal with the repercussions of second hand smoke,” George said. “I think that the peer enforcement policy is nice, because it helps to keep students accountable for one another.” The plans for the policy call for the introduction of additional signage around campus so students, faculty and staff are more aware the policy is in place. “We’re really excited about the new signage, we’re really excited about the new communications that’s going out to faculty, staff, and students, and we are very proud that USF is a smoke and tobacco free campus,” DeBate said.
Jackie Cruz is one of the most outspoken stars of the Emmy-award winning Netflix series Orange is the New Black, and she will be the first speaker of the University Lecture Series on Sept. 26. The lecture is titled “Cruzing Through Adversity,” and she will offer lessons on using challenges faced in life as opportunities for change. As a member of the Keppler Speakers – an organization for inspirational messages from accomplished individuals around the world – “she inspires with her story of overcoming adversity after a near-fatal accident and urges others to pursue their dreams in the face of life’s challenges,” according to Cruz’s bio on the Keppler website. Not only is she an inspiration to young Latino women, but also women across the U.S. who have dreams and aspirations of one day being just like her. Cruz has had many accomplishments throughout her life. At 31 she was named one of the “Top Latino Powerhouses in Hollywood under 40” by the Hollywood Reporter, certainly a different lifestyle than the convict she plays. Cruz is also an artist offscreen, as she creates music in both English and Spanish to reflect her DominicanAmerican ethnicity. Cruz’s love for music started at a very young age and
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in Cincinnati. After holding the Bearcats scoreless for 88 minutes, Cincinnati eventually broke through off of a corner kick that was curled in by the corner taker, defender Karli Royer. USF goalkeeper Kat Elliot, who recorded a season high eight saves, was able to get her hands on the ball but not stop it from going in. The win propelled Cincinnati to 7-1-2, while the Bulls fell to 5-3-0. “A little bit unorthodox, but you have to put things on target for goals to be scored,” Cincinnati coach Neil Stafford said post game on the goal off the corner kick. After two AAC away games, USF returns to Tampa for a 7 p.m. game against Memphis on Thursday. The first 400 fans at the game will receive a USF scarf. Former USF football coach Willie Taggart loses first game Former Bulls football coach
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With the win over UCF, USF is now 4-0-1 in conference openers since the AAC’s inaugural season THE ORACLE/ ABBY BAKER Willie Taggart left USF last December after four seasons with the program to accept the same position at Oregon. Playing on the road against Arizona State Saturday night, Taggart’s Ducks, who were favored to win by 14, lost 37-35. In the defeat, the Ducks were 1-9 on third downs against an Arizona State team ranked 129th in the nation in third down defense.
“We weren’t doing the thing we are capable of doing and I was more frustrated by that than anything,” Taggart told The Oregonian. The loss dropped the Ducks, who were previously ranked No. 24 for one week, out of the Associated Press Top 25. USF, who was previously ranked 20th, moved up to No. 17 in this week’s poll after defeating Illinois 43-7
“The holes were wide open,” Armstead, now a junior, said after Temple won 46-30 last season. “Anyone could have run through them.” Playing a big part in limiting Armstead, Sanchez had some words of his own. “I mean, I guess you feel like you have to back up your talk,” Sanchez said. “I think (it feels great to limit their run game) after the comments they made last year, absolutely.” On the offensive side of the ball, USF failed to execute inside Temple’s 30-yard line – where they started six drives due to an errant punt and turnovers – and ended the game settling for five field goals, with kicker Emilio Nadelman making all three. “We had two 100-yard rushers and I know we didn’t
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produce the touchdowns, but we got the field goals and we can always get better with all of the dropped balls and the penalties,” coach Charlie Strong said. “One of the penalties was on me, but we can’t have penalties.” For the second game in a row, running backs Darius Tice (15 rushes, 117 yards, 2 TD’s) and D’Ernest Johnson (24, 106) both ran for over 100 yards. Quinton Flowers, who ran for 59 yards and two touchdowns himself, had his worst game throwing the ball since 2015, going 8-20 for 96 yards. “You give us the ball that many times, it’s only right we put it in the end zone,” Tice said. “Like I said, our defense is playing lights out and they gave us excellent field position on a lot of those turnovers, so it was only right we returned the favor to those guys.”
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developed as she got older. After high school, she worked with will.i.am’s label and was apart of a girl group called Krush Velvet. The girl group never signed, but it was Cruz’s first time experiencing the music industry. Cruz was born in New York Aug. 8, 1986, but was raised in Los Angeles. Her upbringing was rocky, as she was homeless at the age of 16 after moving out Jackie Cruz, perhaps better known as her character Flaca, will be the of her mother’s apartment. first speaker in the University Lecture Series. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE At the age of 17, she was in a near-fatal accident that whole life, I studied to be an In order to pre-register for resulted in her being in a actress and a singer, but I tickets, you must be an active coma for 72 hours. This led to wanted to be this little rebel. USF Tampa student and go major brain surgery and she But, you know, my accident to usf.edu/ulsreg. For nonhad to be taught to walk and woke me up and forced me students, pre-registering is not talk again. to say, ‘No, you have another available and admission will “Getting in a huge car path, don’t lose that path.’’’ be on a first-come, first-served accident at 17 — that was After eight years of basis. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. the main thing that woke me overcoming tribulations, Cruz the day of the lecture. up and showed me what was landed her first major role as important,” Cruz said in an a star of Orange is the New interview with CBS News. “My Black.
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Trump’s NFL outrage is misguided and misplaced
President Donald Trump says football players who exercise their right to freedom of speech should lose their jobs but is apparently unperturbed by athletes who break the law. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE
By Delaney Mutchler C O L U M N I S T
Friday was an eventful day in the life of President Donald Trump. Not only did he push the world one tweet closer to the brink of nuclear war with North Korea, but he managed to slander a collection of NFL players for simply exercising their First Amendment right. Not only are organized sports a wholly inappropriate topic for a president to discuss during a time rife with serious political tensions, but Trump’s denunciations are grossly misdirected at the wrong group of football players. At a Friday rally in Huntsville, Alabama, Trump boasted, “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say ‘Get that son of a b------ off the field. He’s fired!’?” The comment was in reference
to some football players — most notably former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick — refusing to stand during The Star-Spangled Banner in protest of the systemic oppression of black people in the U.S. The president’s remarks are troubling on multiple levels. First of all, such a nonchalant use of profanity coming from the so-called leader of the free world is unacceptable and speaks to the president’s inability to behave in a respectable manner. Moreover, considering the fact there are millions of Americans who have just been devastated by catastrophic hurricanes, one would hope the president would devote his platform to more pressing issues than athletes kneeling during a song as an act of peaceful protest. However, if Trump is going to ignore serious public policy concerns to instead condemn football players’
conduct, it would be of some conciliation if he disparaged athletes who committed actual crimes rather than defame athletes for practicing their right to free speech. Indeed, there is no shortage of football players with problematic legal histories who remain employed in the NFL. There are so many, in fact, that USA Today maintains an online database listing the names of NFL players who have been arrested for a multitude of offenses. Among these names is Willie Snead, a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints. In June, he was arrested in Kenner, Louisiana, for driving while intoxicated and crashing his car as a result. Officers determined that Snead’s blood-alcohol concentration was .125 percent at the time of his arrest, which is much higher than Louisiana’s legal limit that one’s bloodalcohol concentration can be while
driving — .08 percent, according to DrivingLaws.org. The NFL disciplined Snead by merely suspending him for three games, despite the fact that he could’ve injured or killed innocent people as a result of his reckless, unlawful actions. Another case with a questionable outcome is that of running back Adrian Peterson, who, in 2014, was indicted by a grand jury under a child abuse charge for beating and injuring his four year old son with a tree branch. Peterson was suspended from the NFL for the remainder of the 2014 season, was charged a fine of $4,000 and was required to complete 80 hours of community service while serving probation as punishment. Despite all of this, Peterson — a child abuser — was permitted to return to play in the NFL for the 2015 season. It is now 2017 and both of these
men are still actively playing in the NFL. Meanwhile Kaepernick, the first “son of a b----” to kneel during the national anthem, has yet to be signed by another team. It is outrageous that Trump says players like Kaepernick, who are not committing any crimes but are invoking a right fundamental to liberal democracy, should lose their jobs. He should be outraged, if anything, by the fact that players like Snead and Peterson haven’t been fired from the NFL for jeopardizing others’ lives with their irrational, illegal behaviors. However, sound judgment should not be expected from the same president who threatens to start a nuclear war over Twitter.
Delaney Mutchler is a freshman majoring in English.
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The Rundown New Years Six bowl
San Diego State, Memphis, UCF right behind USF In the preseason, USF was deemed the favorite of all non-power-5 schools to earn the automatic bid reserved for non-power-5 teams to play in a New-Year’s-Six bowl game, but now has other teams on their tail. The bid is awarded to the nonpower-5 team who’s ranked the highest in The Associated Press poll at the end of the regular season and conference championships. USF (4-0), that’s currently ranked No. 17, is only one place ahead of No. 18 San Diego State (4-0) of the Mountain West Conference. The Aztecs have already played and beaten two power-5 schools (Arizona State and Stanford) compared to USF’s one (Illinios). Neither USF nor San Diego State will face another opponent in the regular season that’s of a power-5 conference or ranked, and both teams are favored to win every game played for the rest of the season. Other potential teams who could surpass the Bulls are Memphis and UCF. Though neither teams are ranked in the Top-25, they are both receiving votes, and UCF will face USF later this year with a chance to become the highest ranked non-power-5 team if UCF were to beat USF and win out. UCF and Memphis play this Saturday, and the Bulls travel to face UCF on Black Friday in the last game of the regular season.
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Defense shines, carries USF to win over Temple
Men’s soccer defeats UCF in overtime
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USF’s secondary leads the nation with 12 interceptions in 2017. THE ORACLE/CHAVELI GUZMAN By Josh Fiallo S P O R T S
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For USF’s defense, the 43-7 rout of Temple last week was revenge, domination and record breaking all in one. Playing exactly eleven months after they were embarrassed by Temple and its 528 yards of total offense last fall, the Bulls held the Owls to 85 yards of total offense and forced six turnovers Thursday night. The 85 yards were the lowest amount allowed to a Football Bowl Subdivision
(FBS) program in school history, while the takeaways were one away from tying the program record. “I think we’ve (the defense) only scratched the surface,” senior linebacker Auggie Sanchez said post game. “I think we have a lot more game, especially when we get those younger guys to come along and they’re able to play, you’ll be able to see something that’s pretty serious.” No FBS team allowed fewer yards than USF did in Week 4. “Negative four (rushing) yards by us, three-hundred
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Men’s soccer downs UCF with golden goal USF entered Saturday’s game against UCF at Corbett Stadium with three straight home wins and left with a fourth after 107 minutes, three goals and two comebacks. Ending the game in double overtime with a goal from outside the 18-yard-box via Alex Zis, USF improved its record to 4-3 in front of a season high 1,248 fans. After falling behind in the ninth minute, USF’s Avionne Flannagan tied the game up before halftime with his first career goal. UCF (1-3-1) regained the lead in the 72nd minute, but the Bulls tied the score again, this time with Ricardo Gomez from 25 yards out. “I’m really proud of the guys and their resiliency today and the way they kept pushing through,” coach Bob Butehorn said. “They kept responding every time we went down one. If this is what the future holds for the I-4 rivalry, this is going to be a lot of fun.” USF will not face UCF again in the regular season, but could play them in the AAC tournament. The Bulls ended UCF’s season last year in the tournament’s semi-finals with, fittingly, a doubleovertime goal. Next up: USF travels to face No. 10 Louisville in Kentucky on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
yards by them, and the turnovers,” Temple coach Geoff Collins said. “Six turnovers. You’re not gonna win very many games turning the ball over six times.” A key priority heading into the game was finding a way to slow down Temple running back, Ryquell Armstead, who had 205 yards and two TD’s Women’s soccer falls to versus USF in 2016. Cincinnati The Bulls did just that, limiting Armstead to four yards In contrast to the men’s soccer on 11 carries and avenged a team that won in heartbreaking statement made by Armstead fashion, the women got the short after last year’s win. end of the stick Sunday afternoon
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