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USF alumna gives $10 million to create Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy.

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Maybe it was the announcement of Lynn Pippenger’s $10 million gift to the Muma College of Business, that caused hundreds to smile Tuesday morning.

Maybe it was just her quiet humor.

During the announcement of the newly named Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy, Moez Limayem, dean of the recently named Muma College of Business, described a dream where every student would graduate from his college with a job — one in a field they were trained for, one with a competitive salary.

Though this dream received a significant boost months ago when Pam and Les Muma donated the largest gift in USF history, $25 million, and created the Muma

College of Business, Pippenger’s gift will continue driving that dream forward. *** Pippenger said she used to be the type of student that would make USF President Judy Genshaft cringe: a student that took the better part of 16 years to get a four-year degree between St. Pete College and USF St.Pete, before enrolling in USF’s Executive MBA program.

She graduated from the pro-

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Hospitality connects USF campuses

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Sarasota got a taste of Bulls hospitality Tuesday night, a sense of hospitality that will likely be fostered in Tampa this coming fall.

By the end of the night, over $70,000 was raised, all to support of the very students who were serving them.

Over 500 seats, at $150 each, were filled at the Resort at Longboat Key Club for the fifth annual Hospitabull Evening, titled “A Taste of Israel.”

The donations went to the College of Hospitality and

Technology Leadership at USF Sarasota/Manatee (USFSM).

There is currently no hospitality program at USF’s main campus, but this will likely change by the next fall semester.

Cihan Cobanoglu, the dean of the hospitality college at USFSM, said expanding the program has been one of his goals since he took the position in 2011.

“One of my biggest priorities since (becoming dean) has been to convince the big mother that I’m ready to bring hospitality to Tampa,” he said. “We can do this.”

USF President Judy Genshaft and Provost Ralph Wilcox

expressed approval for bringing over the program, though the plans are pending approval from Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

The hospitality college will be brought to USF Tampa, Cobanoglu said, along with a culinary lab in the Marshall Student Center. The culinary lab in USFSM emulates the experience of managing and cooking in a restaurant.

“It’s turning theory and practice,” Joe Askren, the director of the Culinary Innovation Lab at USFSM. “It’s stuff they’re going to

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As day three of voting in this year’s student body elections begins today, voter turnout is expected to increase as the ERC works to improve polling operations.

Online voting faced several glitches this week, and though the voting website still faces some issues, SG Supervisor of Elections John Quiroz said IT is aware of the problems and working to resolve them.

One of the larger issues resolved was the computer error, which Quiroz attributed to communications with the network operating the voting system, which prevented students in the College of The Arts from voting. Quiroz said the problem was resolved as of Tuesday morning.

As of late Tuesday evening, the voting link, sg.usf.edu/vote, still had the banner that read “Spring 2014 Election Documents” and the only button to vote read “Proceed to eBallot” with last year’s date listed.

The other major issue for voter turnout, lasting several days, was the weather.

Quiroz said Tuesday’s windy morning and afternoon showers destroyed one SG tent, and prompted three polling locations to close as the day went on.

“Rain is delaying the vote counts,” he said. “Its not going to be what I expected, when my goal was 6,000 to 7,000 voters, but right now we’re getting close to half of that goal despite the weather.”

To further increase voter turnout, Quiroz said the SG Executive branch donated left over OUR shirts, and the Election Rules Committee purchased 1,000 more from the bookstore to give out to students who vote.

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be exposed to ... many have never worked in the kitchen before, never worked in the back of the house, never done water service, or know how to clean and all these things that go into an event.”

It’s about setting up the students to be successful for a job in hospitality, Askren said. The lab creates an environment where theory meets practice.

“You can’t just keep them in the classroom,” he said. “You got to kick them out and expose them to as much as we can ... it’s about whether they will have the confidence and skills they can show to future employers.”

If a student graduated without getting hands-on experience, Askren said they would be “thrown in the fire” when entering a real kitchen.

“That’s what we call the gap.

It’s the gap that exists between the industry and the university,” he said. “A lot of hospitality programs are using more hands-on and experimental classes.”

The experiences learned in the classroom and in the lab are culminated, Askren said, at the annual HospitaBull, founded in 2011 for USFSM students in the Restaurant Management, Event Management and Food Prep courses.

Kyle Bailey, a USFSM student majoring in hospitality management, was charged with managing student volunteers in set up, execution and cleanup.

“It’s full involvement from start to finish,” he said. “From the front to the back of the house.”

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gram on time, with honors, and has since become a philanthropist who, since her first gift in 1986, has donated more than $22 million to the university.

Pippenger started as a payroll clerk and quickly moved into an accounting position in 1969 at what she described as an unknown brokerage firm, Raymond James Financial.

Though she would stay with the firm for many years, she described it as a “whatever comes my way job.” At the time, she wanted to be a teacher, an accountant, a stockbroker, an architect, and even wanted to get involved in computer technology.

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Outside the dining room, before the event began, sizes of plates and measurements of the tablecloth were scrutinized by future restaurant managers to maintain the decor of perfection for guests.

“We have to polish everything, make sure everything is golden,” Bailey said. “Everything is almost measured to the tee.”

Students gathered around as instructors reminded them of the proper order of silverware, the polite distance to maintain from guests and how to skillfully pivot while filling a glass of water.

Glasses, they were reminded, which must be attended to.

“When someone sits down, they just want to feel comfortable,” Bailey said. “The more consistent things are, the most comfortable people feel.”

Inside the kitchen, however, students were less concerned with maintaining the appearance of tranquility. Instructors ran around from station to station, where students were charged with different tasks. Some sliced red peppers, some prepared salads and some flipped meat on the grill.

Timing was crucial, Bailey said.

Every student had to man his or her station and trust everyone to do their jobs so the meal could all come together when served in the dining room.

“Once service starts, there’s greeting, smiling and being happy,” Bailey said. “We’re here to make to sure everyone is happy — that’s the whole point.”

When dining began, guests ate the food made by students under the leadership of head-chef Yaron Azoulay, who has been praised by many international and Israeli to make her job include roles as part all five of those careers by expanding the once small company. Back then, she said, she was skeptical about being partially paid in stocks in the company.

When she said this in the Muma College of Business Atrium on Tuesday morning, she turned around and laughed to her longtime colleague Tom James, CEO of Raymond James Financial.

Today, Raymond James Financial and its subsidiaries employ more than 6,200 financial advisors and serve an estimated 2.6 million accounts worldwide, with client assets totaling approximately $483 billion.

She said she still owns stocks in the company.

Working along with Tom James and his father to build the small company into what it is today,

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Students in USFSM’s hospitality program prepared in the kitchens for Tuesday’s annual Hospitalbull Evening fundraiser. ORACLE PHOTO/WESLEY HIGGINS food critics.

Cobanoglu said he wants students to get experience working with chefs from all corners of the world, as well as treat guests to international cuisine.

“This year is a taste of Israel, last year it was a taste of Taiwan,” he said. “Next year, maybe it could be Italy or Vietnam. We want to bring in different experiences for students in a globalized world.”

Guests were presented with Mediterranean salads, a spicy garlic spread and hummus for the appetizer. Roasted chicken, couscous and dates were the main course. And for desert — baklava.

All the money raised by the end of the night went back to the College of Hospitality and Technology Leadership.

Education in hospitality shouldn’t be ignored, Cobanoglu said, because there is so much

demand for it in Florida, one of the busiest tourist states in the U.S. There are currently up to 60 students who completed a preculinary degree in Tampa who are expected to join the college at USF Tampa in fall. Cobanoglu said he expects it will grow to 500 students over the next five years.

The faculty would be brought over from USFSM to Tampa for this coming fall.

The program would alternate from the two campuses depending on the semester. Depending on its success, Cobanoglu said he would look into hiring faculty solely for Tampa’s program.

It’s not unheard of for a public university to have a separate hospitality program. UCF’s Rosen College of Hospitality Management has around 3,000 students enrolled.

But Cobanoglu said he expects

USF’s hospitality program to stand out by being more selective in how many students it admits. Students would therefore get more handson experience in smaller kitchens and classrooms.

Employers, Cobanoglu said, would also know they are hiring a graduate who is the cream of the crop.

Bailey said there’s a misconception that an education in hospitality is only about cooking or setting tables. It’s a degree that offers a broad future for cooking, management or owning a business, she said.

“I’m doing a law class right now, I’ve done all the accounting classes, all the finances,” he said. “It’s like a business degree, but instead of dealing with numbers on a daily basis, I deal with people.”

Pippenger served as the chief financial officer and treasure and created the firm’s human resources department, as well as an educational program called “Raymond James University.” Taking on a variety of special projects, Pippenger also played a significant role in building the company’s information technology department.

In this way, she achieved her dream of becoming an accountant, a stock broker, a teacher, an architect and working in computer technology.

Having grown up with brothers and both parents leading a troupe of 20 boy scouts, Pippenger joked about that she was raised for the competitive field.

“With this background, it never really bothered me to work in the male-dominated brokerage industry,” she said.

Despite Pippenger’s history of philanthropy with donations to the Greater Largo Library Foundation, creating study abroad scholarships and other donations to the College of Business, she said it was the Mumas’ $25 million gift that inspired her to make the gift that would establish the School of Accountancy with her name on it.

“Their naming the college of business was awesome, inspiring, and told me that if I wanted to do something, I better get with it,” she said. *** According to Limayem, Pippenger’s gift will establish a preparation program called Certification for Success to help students achieve CPA, CMA and CIA credentials.

“I can assure you that our students will win; not only through

the Certifying for Success, but they will have more scholarships to study abroad, they will have the infrastructure that guarantee one internship for every student,” Limayem said.

Pippenger’s gift is only the latest in a string of donations to the USF Foundation’s $1 billion Unstoppable campaign.

“Gifts like the one announced today are at the heart of what donors to the USF Foundation are doing through this campaign,” said USF Foundation CEO Joel Momberg. “We’re grateful to Lynn for her longstanding generosity.

Over the life of our Unstoppable campaign, Lynn has given more than $22 million to USF, of which $21 million has been to the Muma College of Business. We know the faculty and students of the school share our gratitude.”

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Reporting students’ suicidal tendencies to parents goes too far whether a student’s parents should know about their mental state further infringes upon the student’s right to confidentiality.

Granted, exceptions do exist.

In Florida, for instance, one of these includes if one is at “immediate risk” of causing harm to himself or others. Still, this doesn’t mean a roommate or even a professor should be able to make that call.

Some college students may even prefer their parents not to know if they are experiencing mental illness. College, probably to the dismay of some, is not like childhood, during which time, parents are called when students are sick; and mental illnesses are far more complex than a case of an upset stomach in the school’s clinic.

As mentioned in the Chronicle, some students attending counseling appointments don’t want their parents to know. On top of that, they might not even go in the first place if their parents had to know.

Making the decision to address one’s own mental health struggles is already big, but it shouldn’t be made any more difficult by having to involuntarily share these struggles with people you may not want to know about them.

However, as reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, two newly proposed bills in Virginia would require colleges to report to a student’s parents if he shows “suicidal tendencies” or is a threat to himself or others, even if the suspicion is from someone who isn’t a mental health professional, and would require reports to go to a threat assessment team. While such an idea might seem like a good way to build a support system for students, it isn’t in the best interest of students during such a fragile time.

Virginia public colleges are already required to have a policy on sharing such information with a student’s parents if the student goes to the campus’ counseling center, according to the Chronicle. However, allowing just anyone to decide

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What you said With a recent Virginia bill that would require colleges to report students showing “suicidal tendencies” to their parents, even if the suspicion isn’t from a professional, editor Adam Mathieu asked students if they think colleges should be required to make such a notification.

“I think it’s a good idea because they could be saving someone’s life. I think it should be a given, because if I had a kid, I would want to know.”

— William Miller, a sophomore majoring in management

“I agree with it. If someone thinks there is a problem with a student, then the parents should know so that they can help.” ­— Jacob Boney, a junior majoring in geology

“In a lot of cases, it would be helpful, but sometimes just because a kid is thought to be suicidal doesn’t mean that they are actually going to do anything.”

— Mason Fish, a sophomore majoring in biomedical sciences

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If college-age students are old enough to independently decide to seek help for their mental health, then it should be up to them to choose whether their parents need to know about “suicidal tendencies,” if they arise.

The bill’s sentiment, which is suicide prevention, is quite valid. A survey conducted by the American College Health Association found that approximately 30 percent of students experience depression severe enough to interfere with functioning. Suicide.org reports the second leading cause of death among college students is suicide.

Yet, while suicide prevention should be a priority, a student may not feel comfortable talking to anyone about their problems if they fear their parents will find out, and the risk isn’t worth a student not seeking medical attention if they need it. Voting for the bills could begin as early as next week, according to the Chronicle, but hopefully the idea will end there.

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“There should be strict criteria just so nobody is going off on a hunch, but it would be a good way for parents to intervene.”

— Meghan Harbaugh, a junior majoring in environmental biology

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Jack Kerouac may have died in St. Petersburg, but his beatnik spirit is alive and well in Tampa Bay, as an awardwinning author will discuss her new book, discovering stories and the famous “Beat Generation” author.

“Looking for Jack Kerouac” is a book about two boys who hitchhike from Chicago to St. Petersburg to search for the accomplished writer alluded to in the title. USF students won’t have to travel nearly as far to meet author Barbara Shoup on Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Library’s Grace Allen Room.

“This is an idea I got from a friend a long time ago,” Shoup said. “He told me he had this idea called ‘Looking for Jack Kerouac,’ where a boy searches for Kerouac and finds what a mess he is. Later, he said, ‘if you want that idea you can have it, cause I won’t use it.’”

She immediately embraced the idea for the story, but it wasn’t until she was struck by tragedy and grief that she began to understand the real story she was trying to tell.

“Kerouac is such a compelling person, but I couldn’t make it work,” Shoup said.

“And then a really sad thing happened. One of my sisters was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died; she had two kids in high school.”

Her nephew’s experience became the life-altering event affecting her main character — the young, soul-searching Paul Carpetti. Paul’s mother also dies from a brain tumor.

In the book, the reader is first introduced to Paul as he roams the streets of New York City alone, reassessing his life with his girlfriend in Chicago.

He feels like he has reached the end of the line, but his life has only just begun.

Paul stumbles across

Kerouac’s famous novel, “On the Road,” becoming enthralled with the beatnik lifestyle and convincing himself that there is more out there in the world than his humble life in Chicago.

When he meets Duke Walczak, a fellow mill worker and “On the Road” enthusiast, the two decide to find the author after reading a newspaper article about Kerouac’s sister passing away in St. Petersburg.

“It became a book about grief and trying to figure out what you do with that grief,” Shoup said. “The death of a mother, the company of a girl you aren’t ready to commit to … the journey was fueled by grief.”

Shoup said the next step was figuring out what the role of Kerouac would be.

“He had to do more than disappoint Paul,” Shoup said.

“The more I researched him, the more I was interested in him as a human being.”

While Shoup admits she isn’t a huge fan of Kerouac’s writing, she was intrigued by one of Kerouac’s lesser-known works, “Visions of Gerard.”

Kerouac’s brother died at the age of 9. His mother was obsessed with Jack. She even thought he saw angels.

Shoup said she began to see Kerouac in a different light.

“It’s what I needed to hear myself … Writing is a way of working through some question I don’t understand,” Shoup said. “There’s the saying time heals all wounds, but it doesn’t, and you don’t forget that. “ Shoup said when a book “takes,” the book almost writes itself as she addresses her own questions sideways, finding a new way to look at them.

“In a lot of ways, it’s like having a kid,” Shoup said. “I’d love to have a football player, but maybe you have a ballet dancer instead. You pick

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through the material you have and make it do what it needs to do and wants to do itself. It has a life of its own.”

Her career has resulted in eight published novels and she is the executive director of the Indiana Writers Center.

Although she is generally recognized as a young adult fiction author, “Looking for Jack Kerouac” is decidedly more mature than the average young-adult offering.

The truth is her notoriety for young-adult fiction happened by chance.

“I started writing youngadult novels by accident,” Shoup said. “I was writing a novel and that’s where it sold.

I don’t think about audience.

The difference between adult and young adult is the coming Drawing from real-life experience, Shoup’s eighth novel, “Looking for of age thing.”

Shoup said young adult Jack Kerouac,” explores grief and healing. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE novels are more immediate and raw than adult novels, which often reflect on past experiences with new perspectives.

She gained a new perspective when she mimicked Paul’s journey while traveling to St. Petersburg on a grant from the Indiana Arts Council.

“I spent a week,” Shoup said. “I stayed at a little place in St. Petersburg … went to Haslam’s Book Store …

(Kerouac) would go there and put his books on the upper shelves so people would see them.”

Kerouac died in 1969, a gaunt shadow of his former self. The author lives on in his books of “spontaneous prose” and American traversal, inspiring authors today. The life of a writer can be testing, but according to Shoup, the rewards are ultimately satisfying.

“The only thing you control is whether you write and how open you are to criticism,” she said. “You can’t control the publication process. It can be dispiriting. I can’t imagine not writing, though. I need it.”

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Guest lecture addresses Black Power: then and now

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At a mass rally in October of 1966, civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael urged the crowd not to “compromise with racist arrogance,” but instead demand “Black Power.”

The crowd began chanting the now infamous term and a movement was born.

Hosted by the USF Humanities Institute, Leslie Brown gave a lecture titled “To Demand these God-Given Rights is to Seek Black Power: Power Politics and Civil Rights Activism” Tuesday night at C.W. Bill Young Hall.

Brown, an associate professor of history and Africana studies at Williams College in Massachusetts, addressed the civil rights movement, particularly black power, and how it has been misrepresented and misunderstood.

“What started out as a chant at a march blew into a whole political and social movement,” said Brown of the rapid spread of the term black power following Carmichael’s speech.

Brown mentioned that while in the moment it was empowering, it left some holding their breath.

“Among African-Americans in the crowd, it was a trembling of excitement. For African-Americans in other places, it was a tremble of anticipation,” Brown said. “For whites, the idea of power was a very frightening one.”

The term was frightening to a nation ruled by white people and was widely misunderstood as black individuals wanting to take over. In reality, black people were simply trying to earn what they described as “God-given rights.”

“The fear was that whites would literally be crushed under the boot heal of black people. This is what black power meant to them,” Brown said.

To emphasize her point, Brown displayed two lists of words interpreted as the meaning of black power.

The white interpretation included words such as “control, supremacy, rule, command dominance, reign and dominion,” while the black interpretation included words such

as “capacity, strength, skill, measure, energy, influence and clout.”

“Black power was a new way to talk about human rights instead of civil rights,” Brown said.

Brown also discussed the origins of the Black Panther Party, the socialist organization that began in Oakland, California in 1966.

The Black Panther Party organized community programs to create what they wanted and needed, including free dental coverage, employment, alcohol and drug counseling, GED classes, and geriatric health care.

These are all things that were denied to them, but that they created independent of the white community.

“Black power had become a growing political consciousness that expressed how African-Americans could and intended to exercise their right to vote … we’re talking about influence, shaping politics with other people,” Brown said.

Although the Black Power movement and the civil rights movement shared a common thread of equality, Martin Luther King Jr. felt that it was unfortunate because the term scared

people.

“The image of the black panther, the words black power just didn’t fit with the image that the civil rights (movement) had created for itself,” Brown said.

Throughout the movement, Carmichael was questioned why he used the term black power, to which he responded that the word black scared people and those at the forefront of the movement felt it would be advantageous in furthering their

objective.

Mirroring the opposition of the nation to black rights during the civil rights movement, Brown discussed a similar opposition that occurred when President Barack Obama was elected into office, denoting the necessity for black power in modern day.

In reference to the rigid opposition of Obama, Brown closed her lecture with one question: “Are we living in fear again of black power?”

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Cooks and running backs coach Tony Alford leaving the school earlier this month.

Taggart will likely oversee the running game — a job he saw success with at Stanford from 2007-09 — when the team hits the practice fields next week.

Team of the Week USF men’s golf was named Golfweek Team of the Week after winning the SunTrust Gator Invitational last weekend to open the spring season.

USF carried an eight-stroke lead through Sunday, beating out an impressive field of 14 teams, including No. 3 FSU and No. 6 Vanderbilt.

USF shot six shots better than any other team on par-5 holes throughout the tournament and finished in the top three in pars, birdies and eagles.

Freshman Claudio Correa took home his first individual win as a Bull on his way to being named Golfweek Player of the Week.

USF jumped nine spots to No. 14 in the rankings and head to Los Cabos, Mexico March 1-3 for the Querencia Cabo Collegiate.

O’Neal’s AAC honors Senior Matthew O’Neal was named the AAC Men’s Field Athlete of the Week on Tuesday for his triple jump win Saturday at the Hoosier Hills Invitational in Bloomington, Indiana.

O’Neal jumped 51 feet, 7.25 inches, which, although not his best mark of the season, is better than any other conference jump this season.

The Mississippi native broke the USF triple jump record Jan. 23 with a jump of 53 feet, 11 inches at the Vulcan Invite at UAB.

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Bulls look to rebound from close loss

By Zach Lowie S T A F F

Junior guard Courtney Williams (right) looks to continue her 11-game streak with 20-points or more.

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way that was going in,” Holston said.

USF (8-19, 2-12) held Houston to 26 points and 16 rebounds in the second half to complete only its second win in 2015. “(It feels) great. We’ve been going in practice real, real hard and it just feels good to finally get a W,” redshirt freshman forward Bo Zeigler said.

After surrendering 41 firsthalf points and allowing 11 firsthalf offensive rebounds, coach Orlando Antigua was able to make the necessary secondhalf adjustments to turn the game in the Bulls’ favor.

“Our issue was that we were going in, crashing into the boards and the balls were rebounding out because they were taking long shots,” Antigua said. “So once we were able to

correct that in the second half, I thought we were able to limit those second opportunities.”

Holston gave the Bulls life on offense, scoring a career-high 18 points on 5-of-8 shooting.

The freshman also made all six of his free-throw attempts.

“We keep challenging (Holston) not to be one dimensional,” Antigua said. “Be aggressive. You’re doing all this ball-handling work, in the weight room lifting. Don’t be just a three-point shooter, be a basketball player. Those are the guys that are really difficult to defend, guys that can score at each level.”

Junior guard Anthony Collins facilitated the offense throughout the night, finishing with six assists and moving into second in USF history for career assists with 537.

USF will travel to play ECU on Saturday before playing Houston (9-16, 1-12) again March 1.

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After a devastating one-point loss against East Carolina over the weekend, the Bulls are hoping to regain momentum before the start of the NCAA Tournament.

USF (20-5, 11-2) only faces two teams with winning records before the start of postseason play: Tulsa (14-10, 9-4) and No. 1 UConn (24-1, 13-0).

Tonight’s game at the Sun Dome will be the first time the Bulls play the Golden Hurricane this season.

Junior guard Courtney Williams will attempt her 11thstraight game with 20 or more points, with 34 coming in her latest outing. Williams’ prolific shooting has helped the Bulls go 8-2 during the scoring streak.

Serving as the threat down low, junior forward Alisia Jenkins continues to be redhot, notching her 17th doubledouble Sunday. The Bulls are 16-1 when Jenkins reaches this achievement.

Redshirt junior guard Anthony Collins passed Radenko Dobras tonight for second place on USF’s all-time assist list with 537.

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With only five games left in the regular season, USF will soon be gearing up for AAC Tournament and NCAA tournament play. Although head coach Jose Fernandez’s philosophy is to take the season one game at a time, the intensity and extra practice time that has taken place over the past few days indicates his recognition in prioritizing lessons from a loss above those of a win.

Tulsa has talent of their own in junior guard Ashley Clark, who is averaging a team-high 14 points per game. Another star for the Golden Hurricane is senior forward Mariah Turner, scoring almost 13 points with 7.4 rebounds a game and 12 blocks in the season.

The match-ups of Clark against Williams and Jenkins against Turner could prove to be overwhelming for USF, a team that has not lost back-toback games this entire season.

The Bulls face Tulsa tonight at 7, before taking on Temple (12-14, 8-5) for the second time this season Sunday at noon.

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Denson likely to bolt to South Bend

USF’s running backs coach Autry Denson is expected to leave the Bulls to take his fourth coaching job in 13 months. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/GOUSFBULLS.COM

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Freshman guard Troy Holston Jr. scored a career-high 18 points in Tuesday night’s win. ORACLE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU

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Leading 69-67 with 4.4 seconds left on the clock Tuesday night, Houston broke through the USF defense and shot a long pass down the right sideline to freshman guard Wes Vanbeck.

As Vanbeck jumped into the air to launch a potential gamewinning shot, the crowd of 3,128 in the Sun Dome collectively held their breath. To the Bulls’ relief, the shot clanked off the rim as the buzzer sounded and USF secured its second conference win of the season.

Watching from the bench after fouling out, guard Troy Holston Jr. was in denial that Vanbeck’s shot had a chance.

“I was like, there ain’t no

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Sophomores Brandon Lawson (left), Brandon Murray (center) and Michael Farley (right) combined for 16 starts last season with a 4-5 record. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU

By Amar Rele C O R R E S P O N D E N T

Coming off a 2-1 start in their first weekend under new coach Mark Kingston, the Bulls are set for another tough matchup with No. 5 Florida and its dynamic offense tonight.

USF comes into tonight’s game with wins against No. 17 Cal State Fullerton and Alabama State, but a loss to No. 7 Louisville.

USF sophomore pitcher Tommy Peterson is slated for his first start of the season against Florida, which has started the season by sweeping Rhode Island in a threegame series, including a dominant 22-3 win.

The 6-foot-1 right-hander

pitched in relief against Cal State, striking out four batters in two innings and earning the save.

“Before I set personal goals as a pitcher, my most important job is to put myself and my team in position to win every time I go out there, whether I am starting or relieving,” Peterson said. “Since it’s my first start of the season and the first home game, there’s a little added intensity.”

In addition to quality pitching, USF will hope to keep its bats hot against the highscoring Gators, who have combined for 37 runs in three games.

USF pitchers had success with fooling batters in their first weekend of play, throwing 15 strikeouts against Cal State and 37 over the three-game

span.

Nine of those strikeouts came from junior Jimmy Herget, who was named to the AAC honor roll this week for his performance against Cal State on Friday.

Herget and Peterson work closely with each other daily to help push one another to new pitching heights.

“Jimmy and I have been close since freshman year, and we feed off of each other and work out together every day, and we pick part of each other’s game that we can improve on,” Peterson said. “He’s successful, so it’s important for me to learn from him to improve my game also.”

The Bulls take on the Gators at the USF baseball stadium at 6:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on BullsCast.

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Notre Dame alumnus and current USF running backs coach Autry Denson is rumored to leave the school to take the same job at his alma mater just six days before the opening of spring practice, according to 247Sports.

Denson played at Notre Dame from 1995-98, becoming the Irish’s all-time leading rusher with 4,138 yards.

According to SI.com, Denson traveled to South Bend on Tuesday.

Denson, who was added to Taggart’s staff Jan. 12, spent only five weeks with the team before bolting for South Bend, which would be his fourth coaching job in 13 months.

Prior to being hired by USF, the Florida native coached the running backs at Miami (Ohio) last season and BethuneCookman from 2011-13.

Denson will be at least the third new face for the Irish with defensive backs coach Kerry

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