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Lack of warning during shooting concerns students
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USF football player Benjamin Knox was released Monday on $32,500 bond. He is suspended from all team activities. S PORTS Volleyball standout has a will to win. BACK
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After a USF football player was arrested for firing multiple gunshots at the exterior of a campus residence hall early Sunday morning, some students voiced concerns that they were not notified of the incident in a timely fashion. Reserve offensive lineman Benjamin Knox, 21, was taken into custody and charged with discharging or possessing a firearm and shooting into an occupied dwelling after police
The damage to the outside of Holly D is believed to be the result of the shots fired by Benjamin Knox early Sunday morning. ORACLE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU say he fired at least two shots at the west side of the Holly D residence hall around 4 a.m. Students, however, weren’t alerted about the shooting right away. Instead, a school-wide email and university social media reported the incident nearly 12 hours later. One of the main concerns was that no bulletin was sent out by USF’s emergency notification system, which provides text messages to students
informing them of potentially hazardous situations on campus and in the surrounding community. “We only heard about it because people started complaining,” Rachel Janeck, an on-campus resident freshman majoring in behavioral health care, said. USF assistant police chief Chris Daniel said the primary reason there was no alert issued was the fact that no
individuals were found during the initial sweep of the area around Holly D, including the Crescent Hill parking garage, where an officer near the Greek Village and a student-resident reported hearing gunshots and screeching tires. Sending out an alert with no verified information, Daniel said, could have caused students to panic. “At no point during all of that
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USF lobbies for $22.5 million for downtown medical school By Camila Yori C O R R E S P O N D E N T
USF is lobbying for $22.5 million in state funding to continue with the next phase of the downtown medical school plan. In February, USF’s request to relocate its new Morsani College of Medicine and USF Heart Institute to downtown Tampa was approved, and in June, Gov. Rick Scott allotted $17 million from the state budget to fund it. Though combining the medical school and the heart institute cut down on costs, the university is still seeking $22.5 million more from the state in 2016 to continue with this project.
The total cost for the project is about $153 million. According to the presentation given to the Florida Board of Governors (BOG) by USF President Judy Genshaft, $41 million of the total cost is expected to come from private sources. Meanwhile, the remaining $111.6 million is requested from the state and only $56.1 has been secured to date. According to Genshaft, the $22.5 million from the Florida Legislature in 2016 would keep construction on schedule to start in August of 2017 and finish for fall of 2019. The first step to fund any university construction proj-
ect is getting board approval. The BOG approves a 3-year Public Education Capital Outlay (PECO), a program that provides universities with grants construction and maintenance using taxes, which serves as a funding request. It is then submitted to the Legislature, which creates a budget for all universities to be approved by the Governor. According to the State University System of Florida website, PECO is the primary source — and sometimes the only source, depending on the state budget year — of facility funding for the System. When the BOG meets in
November, it will submit another list. The Legislature would then write the state budget and submit it to the Governor to sign off on. He can either approve the budget or veto it but not change it. Mark Walsh, USF assistant vice president for government relations, does not anticipate any shortcomings on the funding. “It’s not a slam dunk. It’s certainly not easy. A lot of work goes into it but I do believe it will happen because of our community buy in,” Walsh said. Genshaft did not seemed concerned with the funding,
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either. Earlier this semester, during her fall address, she said the USF system leads the state in getting its construction projects funded. “It’s worth noting that the total project construction is also supported by private giving and support, making (up) almost 30 percent of the total project cost. In addition to the prior gift
from the Morsani family, we’re working hard on other fundraising opportunities,” Genshaft said during the Sept. 22 BOG meeting. Genshaft said the university is not at the point of naming particular donors but that private donors are waiting for the state to get on board. “A lot of people support the university,” Walsh said. “There are a lot of people that want to step up and help but are waiting for the state.”
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time was there anything that indicated an ongoing threat,” Daniel said. “It’s very difficult for us to send out a message about something that we have no confirmation of and really have no direction for the community or anything to tell them.” Daniel said police searched the Crescent Hill garage floor by floor, where they eventually found a parked car that contained an open gun case and a box of ammunition on the seat. The vehicle was quickly traced to Knox, who was arrested inside his dorm room, where they also located a Glock .45 ACP handgun, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Bullets from the gun matched shell casings found near his car. Knox was transported to Hillsborough County jail, where he was released Monday on $32,500 bond. USF coach Willie Taggart said Knox remains suspended indefinitely from all team activities as investigators continue to gather information. If Knox had not been apprehended quickly, Daniel said police had a text message prepared to send if the situation arose. “Putting out a message through a system that he may be receiving would tip him off and potentially create an even more dangerous situation for people,” Daniel said. Amer Khan, a junior majoring in biomedical sciences, said an alert notifying students that the suspect was in custody still should have been sent out earlier. “That needs to happen,” Khan said. “Obviously that’s concerning. In this day and age, public shootings are very common.” Daniel, however, wants students to know that police handled the situation responsibly. “We have to be cautious (and) put out good, solid information,” Daniel said. “Then, when it comes time to not put out information, such as when we identified (Knox), we’re doing that for the purpose of not creating an unsafe situation for students by notifying the suspect that we’re on our way.”
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Bowl run. During that historic run, Dan’s team lost only once and he soon drew the iconic moniker, “Danimal,” for his ruthless intensity on the gridiron. In his eyes, what made him great wasn’t his Dan Hampton ferocious attitude, reckless abandon or even his exceptional athletic ability, but the culture he instilled first in himself and his daughter. “When she was growing up, I really stressed to her the importance of a winning culture,” Dan said. “Believing in the things you have to do to win and to be successful.” Dakota grew up around athletics, playing everything from golf and tennis to basketball and even baseball. As well rounded as they come, she could simply play any sport and win. “In basketball, she was just like me, she had a horrible shot but was an amazing defender and rebounder,” Dan said of his 6-foot tall daughter. “In baseball, oh, my God, she had an (on-base percentage) of like 1.500. It was either a homerun or a triple every single time she was at bat. It was incredible.” She began to quickly realize the passion she had for winning. While driving her to a volleyball tournament during her junior year at Carl Sandburg High in Orland Park, Illinois — just outside the confines of Chicago — Dan heard his daughter say something that raised his ear. But the words didn’t come as a surprise at all. “‘You know dad,’” Dan recalled her saying. “‘The other kids on the team, they don’t care as much as I do, and it really bothers me.’” With that, Dan started laughing. “I said ‘Dakota, the day your teammates care more than you do, that’s the day I’m going to get mad,’” he said. “All the players on the team should think, ‘I am the reason we are going to win today. I will be great today.’” As great as her father was, the legendary image of him never sank in until his enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
Hampton on what her mindset is on the court: “When you’re out there, it’s about winning. Every winning team has great players, and yeah you want to be a great player. But you want to win first.” ORACLE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU
“I saw his (bust) and looked out third on the team with 349 digs at all of these people who came as an outside hitter. to see my dad get this award,” When Dan is able to make the Dakota said. “I didn’t realize it drive to Dakota’s games — like as much while it was going on, this past weekend’s matchup at but I look back Memphis, where at pictures and she recorded a dousee how big of ble-double in the a deal that was Bulls’ 3-1 victory for him.” — he always tries It didn’t take to lurk in the shadlong for USF ows, not wanting to coach Courtney take away from his Draper to draw daughter’s success. the comparison But standing at of Dakota to her 6-foot-5, it’s hard father. for him not to Courtney Draper “She is one draw attention in a USF volleyball coach of the most crowd. competitive players I’ve ever “It’s hard not to notice him,” coached,” said Draper, a Chicago Draper said. “He’s obviously one native, who remembers watching of the biggest guys in the crowd, Dan and the Bears’ Super Bowl and a lot of fans still know who victory when she was 7 or 8 years he is and want their picture with old. him. “If you talked to his teammates “He’s very gracious, but a quiet and his coaches, they’d say the guy really.” same.” Getting to see Dakota play in In her freshman season with person is one of Dan’s favorite the Bulls, Dakota played in the pastimes. As quiet as he tries to second-most sets and finished be in the stands, sometimes his
“(Dakota) is one of the most competitive players I’ve ever coached.”
louder football personality shines through. At a tournament in her hometown of Chicago, USF played at Northwestern with the Hampton crowd in attendance, including her father. “When you’ve played in the NFL (for) 12 years like I have, my shoulders my wrist my hands, all that, are sore,” Dan said. “I sat in those wooden bleachers at Northwestern during that game and when they would make a good play I would bam, bam, bam beat on those bleachers with palms of my hands. “I couldn’t hold a golf club for a month after that, I was so sore.” With Dakota now some 1,100 miles away at USF, the means of communication may have changed between them, but the message has remained the same: just win. “When you’re out there, it’s about winning.” Dakota said. “Every winning team has great players, and yeah you want to be a great player. But you want to win first.”
more. “I told coach, ‘Hey, just give me a shot. Just give me a chance. Let me go out there and play my game,” the sophomore said. “He called me up to his office and he said, ‘Hey, I’m going to let you go. I’m going to let the offense go and I want to see what you guys can do with it.’” The Bulls fulfilled the plan with near-perfection, putting up their most points against a Division I-A opponent since Taggart took over the program from Skip Holtz in 2013. Flowers also had a careerday through the air, throwing for 259 yards with three total touchdowns. “He is, to me, the profile of what you’re looking for from a tangible-trait standpoint, for that offense,” Connecticut coach Bob Diaco said. “A strong, strong runner, but also a guy that can throw. “He’s not a wildcat quarterback, it’s a legitimate guy that can move the ball around the field.” It helped running back Marlon Mack, too, as the sophomore racked up 184 yards to move to 28th nationally in rushing yards (115.2 per game). Now, it will be about keeping the momentum on Saturday against UConn at noon. “We’ve had those plays in our playbook, we just hadn’t called them much,” Taggart said. “It was good for our guys to go out and execute them when we did call them. But that was the excitement that we felt like we could see out of our football team and we’ve got to continue that. “Now, our guys have got to show that they can do that, week in and week out.”
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School, work and fun: a balancing act
Hitting the books after a full shift at work is often the last thing students want to do, but it is necessary to maintain balance between school and work. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE By Samantha Nieto C O R R E S P O N D E N T
College ensures students countless opportunities that will carry on through adulthood to help develop them into successful participants in a work-oriented society. As midterms and the holidays approach, maintaining schoolwork, a job and a social life in equal tact becomes more and more challenging. For many students, college is the first real taste of independence. But with that freedom comes a long list of decisions about how to spend time and money. One goal for a working student is a balance that allows them to excel in school and experience all that college life has to offer while holding down a job. According to a survey conducted by YouGov, approximately 4 in 5 college students work part-time in college, averaging 19 hours a week, but just 18 percent pay their way through school. With so much responsibility, maintaining a social life can be difficult.
However, many students manage to strike a balance between their social, professional and academic lives. In some cases, that balance is made possible by simple priority management. Nicole Ring, a junior majoring in psychology, works just about 25 hours a week as a server at Genghis Grill, and has made academics a greater priority than her social life. “My greatest aspiration in life, currently, is to be able to be independent in regards to finance,” Ring said. “Going to school and prioritizing schoolwork is an investment towards my future plans. The work I put in will eventually pay out and will help me achieve these goals.” Ring said she has worked weekends since she was 16 years old. “I can’t really remember the last time I had an entire weekend off and chose to be social,” she said. “Yes, I would like to have more time to relax and enjoy my youth, but I also am fully aware of my responsibilities. Saying that I am unhappy with my social life
would be completely untrue; I am wholly thankful for where I am, at 21 years (old), in all aspects.” Although some students keep with the mantra “work now, play later,” others see their social college experience as a more significant priority. Java Royal, a senior majoring in communications who works about 25 hours a week, said he makes time for his social life, although it can be difficult. “I think it’s important to have time for the ones who are close to you, and because of working and doing school work, it’s hard to keep that social life,” Royal said. Royal said he maintains two jobs, one as a member of the orientation team at USF, and the other at Wells Fargo. “I don’t hangout with my coworkers as much, so I wouldn’t say that my job plays a part. However, I would say that I do have that social life with my friends,” he said. “We go out to social places often and have great times.” Working on campus can allow for a more effective social college experience in
sPECIAL TO THE ORACLE several ways. “It allows for a student to really know the ins and outs of the campus as well as getting to know the faculty and staff,” Royal said. A USA Today article also emphasized the importance of getting out and around on campus. “When you’re pulled out of your dorm room or off-campus place, you are mingling with other students, professors and your coworkers. The more time you spend on the campus, the more likely you are to learn about and get involved in oncampus events and groups.” Russ Coughenour, assistant vice president of USF’s Career Services, said on-campus jobs are certainly beneficial and convenient to on-campus students. “It makes you feel even more connected to the campus,” he said. “You’re building contacts on the campus, you’re helping the university out, you’re making a little bit of money and it doesn’t take
you long to get to and from your job.” Coughenour also said there are several tips students should keep in mind while trying to balance good grades and a job. “(Engage) in the resources the campus has to available to you; (find) people on campus that you trust and have critical conversations with and can point you in the right direction; (be) intentional about your semesters and your class load,” he said. Success in balancing the two is all about “seeing things clearly, when you can and can’t fit things in, and balancing the financial part,” Coughenour said. Students who have managed to find the balance between work, school and play are living proof that one can be a student, a professional, and a young adult and be successful.
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Gators QB Grier banned for PEDs University of Florida quarterback Will Grier was suspended by the NCAA on Monday for the remainder of the season after testing positive for Grier a banned substance. The school will appeal the decision, but if it is upheld, the redshirt freshman will miss the first six games of next season as well. Grier, who has led the No. 8 Gators to a 6-0 record, said in a news conference that he took an over-the-counter supplement and did not report it to the team’s medical staff. “I’m really, really sorry to everyone,” Grier told reporters, fighting back tears. “Just really sorry.” Florida travels to No. 6 LSU on Saturday.
USF did its best to market last Saturday’s game against Syracuse, even advertising it to fans as a “whiteout.” Those efforts proved futile, however, as the Bulls drew their worst Homecoming turnout since being moved to Division I-A in 2001 with an actual attendance of 18,039, according to the Tampa Sports Authority. That surpassed the previous low of 21,365 set in 2013 against Louisville.
SMU kickoff time announced USF football’s next home game against SMU on Oct. 24 is set to kickoff at 4:30 p.m. and will be televised on ESPNU. The team announced it will honor it as a Breast Cancer Awareness game and will wear special uniforms with pink highlights.
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USF junior outside hitter Dakota Hampton (11) has a team-high 169 kills and 167 digs this season. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/SEBASTIAN CONTENTO
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With USF trailing by two sets against Tulane on Oct. 4, a frustrated Dakota Hampton stood up and got her teammates’ attention. “This is ridiculous,” she told her team, which had lost 11 of 13 matches going into its meeting with the Green Wave. “We need to get up and we need to go win this.” USF rallied for the victory in five sets. An intense, passionate player, Dakota doesn’t like to lose. The competitive gene passed down from her father makes what would sicken typical athletes an unacceptable outcome for her. Dakota’s father, NFL Hall-ofFamer Dan Hampton, played 12 seasons and was a member of what most call the greatest defense ever assembled, during the Chicago Bears’ 1985 Super
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Taggart: Excitement here to stay By Jeff Odom S P O R T S
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The first step was installing the flash, sizzle and zing on gameday. The key now will be sustaining it for seven more games. USF coach Willie Taggart said Monday during his weekly AAC coaches teleconference that the Bulls’ newfound electric offense that produced 535 yards in Saturday’s 45-24 victory over Syracuse is here to stay. “That’s who we are,” Taggart said. “I think that’s how our guys operate. They’re aggressive play-
ers, and our guys play well when we’re playing aggressive.” After saying the team would stick to its run-first mentality against the Orange early in the week, Taggart switched things up when the Bulls (2-3, 0-1 AAC) took the field at Raymond James Stadium, calling more pass plays, including a reverse flea-flicker that resulted in a 42-yard touchdown catch by Ryeshene Bronson. Starting quarterback Quinton Flowers said after the game that he met with Taggart on Wednesday to discuss opening up the offense
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