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The search for the next system president heats up

After serving nearly two decades in her role as System President, Judy Genshaft will retire July 1. The search to find the seventh president in USF’s history is now on the fast track to completion. ORACLE FILE PHOTO

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During We d n e s d ay ’s interviews with the four finalists vying to replace

President Judy Genshaft, the looming consolidation took center stage.

Each candidate was given about an hour to answer a series of interview questions. They

received a roughly 400-page report consisting of notable USF-related information to review beforehand.

On Thursday, each finalist will participate in “candidate conversations” across USF’s three campuses — Tampa, St. Pete and Sarasota-Manatee.

The finalists will then be interviewed again on Friday by the Board of Trustees (BOT). Les Muma, head of the Presidential Search Committee, is also a member of BOT. Directly after the interviews, the BOT will have a meeting and is expected pick the next USF president.

Genshaft will retire July 1.

For the most part, the questions asked on Wednesday were consistent among the candidates.

The open-ended question of why each presidential hopeful was interested in the opportunity and how

their experiences make them valuable candidates was asked of each.

“To me, I see the university as poised to go to that next level of achievement,” finalist Jeffrey Vitter said.

Similar to Vitter, finalist Steven Currall highlighted the success USF has had and what he considers to be its upward trajectory.

Jeffrey Vitter. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/USF

“It’s really a public research university like no other in

terms of its position,” Currall said.

Finalist Debasish Dutta took time to talk about his many leadership roles within faculty and administration at the University of Michigan, Purdue, the University of Illinois and Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick.

Dutta said that though he has served as both an educator and administrator in the past, he believes that he is ready to take on the role of system president with a wider view of a university system.

“Now is the opportunity to look at the institution as a whole,” Dutta said.

During his interview, Dutta also explained an apparent controversy that resulted in him leaving chancellor role at Rutgers-New Brunswick after less than a year.

He said he stepped down in

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Gabby Douglas addresses Olympic training, cyberbullying at ULS event

By Sam Newlon A S S O C I A T E

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When the 23-year-old, threetime Olympic gold medalist listed off celebrities she had met since she vaulted, swung, balanced and flipped her way through the 2012 and 2016 Olympic games, she casually glazed over several names.

“Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Michael Phelps, Serena Williams, Dwayne Wade,” she paused. “He was pretty cool. And of course,

Beyoncé…and Jay-Z was there too.

“There were bodyguards all around her and I’m thinking ‘great, how am I going to get in?’ Then she sees me and yells: ‘Gabby!’”

The crowd of about 300 erupted in laughter at Wednesday’s University Lecture Series (ULS) in the Marshall Student Center Oval Theater.

Gymnast Gabby Douglas is a star and has been since her historic performance in the 2012 London

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Olympic games where she became the first woman of color to win the gold medal in the all-around competition.

She was a phenom by the age of 16, but it wasn’t always that way.

Despite her incredible success early in life, becoming an accomplished gymnast on the Olympic level before most Americans her age could legally drive, Douglas faced what she called “haters” — people who try to take

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away from the accomplishments of others.

“I never really believed in myself and I had so many negative voices, so many naysayers telling me I couldn’t do it,” Douglas said. “They said I was a mediocre gymnast and I always believed them. That I’m not good enough, maybe I should stick to level 10 instead of going the professional, elite route.”

Douglas kept these thoughts in the back of her head while she

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was training for the Olympics. Her tipping point came in 2012, just before the London Olympic games, at the American Cup in New York.

“I was an alternate, but I competed because my coach wanted me to get experience,” Douglas said. “I actually ended up winning the meet but my scores didn’t count. At that moment, I was like ‘Wow, I really do have a shot at doing this.’”

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2018 after being hired the year prior due to a disagreement with the president of the university about the responsibilities included in his position. He said he had less autonomy than he understood he would have.

“It foreclosed the opportunity for me to make the kind of impact I wanted to make there,” Dutta said. “My vision for the chancellorship was not in alignment with the institution.”

Blanchett, along with the other three candidates, had the time to ask her own questions during their respective interview. She elicited a strong emotional response from trustee Byron Shinn, a member of the Presidential Search Committee, representing the Sarasota-Manatee campus.

She asked the committee what was necessary in order for each campus to keep its individual mission while undergoing consolidation of the three campuses.

Shinn, while choking up and appearing to hold back tears, said, “You’ve shown a great sensitivity and it’s hard to move a big machine like this.”

Blanchett went on to talk more about consolidation after this to describe how the challenges will continue even after the required 2020 deadline to have the universities merged.

Debasish Dutta. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/USF

On the other hand, finalist Wanda Blanchett took the time to talk about her background and the fact that her parents never had the opportunity to graduate high school.

“I exemplify what we hope society would do in terms of reaching students and providing access, so part of my interest in this position stems from my own personal experience,” Blanchett said.

Blanchett currently serves as the interim provost and executive vice president of Academic Affairs at Dutta’s former institution, RutgersNew Brunswick.

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“It’s important for people to feel heard and really listened to,” she said.

During his interview, Currall made a point to say that, if hired by USF, this would be his third time being a leader at a university with three

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campuses. Southern Methodist University, where he serves as the provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, is his most recent experience with a multi-campus school.

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“I’ve really been fascinated with how those campuses can work synergistically and can complement each other in terms of areas of expertise,” Currall said.

In a tweet Tuesday, university spokesperson Adam Freeman said the choice of the four candidates did not come about by coincidence. “ I m p o r t a n t l y, each finalist has experience at institutions that belong to the prestigious AAU, a group of top universities in the U.S. and Canada,” Freeman tweeted. “@USouthFlorida has a well-established goal of positioning itself for future AAU membership.”

In a message relating to consolidation in general, Muma explained the amount of work that has already been done and is yet to be completed.

“If you end up the president of this university, you’ve got one busy year ahead of you,” Muma said.

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Even while she was making history in London in 2012, Douglas was the target of cyberbullying.

Internet attacks on chatrooms and social media posts criticized Douglas’ hair.

When Douglas returned to the Olympics in 2016, the bullying increased — people weren’t just criticizing her hair anymore.

“It was everything that I did,” she said. “When I got back home, it was still happening.”

Online critics lambasted Douglas for her perceived lack of patriotism when she didn’t place her hand over her heart in 2016 during the playing of the national anthem.

Others started #CrabbyGabby on Twitter, claiming Douglas was unsupportive of her teammates Aly Raisman and Simone Biles in the individual all-around, which Douglas missed out on by a few points.

Douglas decided she wanted to do something to combat cyberbullying. She called upon the wisdom of her mother.

“My mom always told me to not prove them wrong, but prove myself right,” Douglas said. “To prove that I can do this and not to let anyone tell you or dictate what you can and what you can’t do.”

Douglas has since partnered with Hack Harassment, an organization that is dedicated to putting an end to cyberbullying.

Training to be an Olympic athlete, Douglas said, was a full-time job she had as a child.

Now, she’s finding out what else she wants to do with her life as someone who has already achieved so much at such a young age.

“I spent my life in the gym. 14 years,” Douglas said. “People had been telling me what to wear, how to do things, where to be and everything was pretty much dictated for us. Now that I’m not training at the moment, I get to come into my own and grow as a woman and an individual.

“I really get to find out who I am.

Who Gabby Douglas is without gymnastics and without anyone telling me what to do and how to do it.”

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The USF community needs to embrace the new academic logo

The academic logo is here to stay and that is not a bad thing. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING

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USF recently reworked its new academic logo.

The bull statue’s tail is shorter and the back hoof is now planted instead of arched.

The differences are minuscule.

But the reworking cost the university $8,000, which is honestly amazing when you think about it. $8,000 to draw basically the same thing, just with a shorter tail?

That’s a pretty good return for a graphic designer.

Not surprisingly, the reworking brought out another wave of anger toward the logo on social media — from Twitter to Reddit, everyone is complaining again.

In addition to the revision, the logo initially cost USF $47,000 to have created. At this point, the logo’s cost is bordering on $60,000.

Considering the cost, it is time for the complaining to stop and the community to finally embrace USF’s new, unique logo, because it’s not going anywhere.

It’s also not that bad.

The bull-statue emblem is a great logo because it incorporates features of statues on all three USF campuses — Tampa, St. Pete and Sarasota-Manatee — into one mark that’s meant to represent the unification of three distinct universities into one through USF system consolidation.

Whether you like the idea of system consolidation or not, it’s law. All three campuses are going to have to learn how to play nice with each other and sharing one combined brand will help that.

Now, is it the best logo ever?

Far from it.

But it’s also not the Merrill Lynch knockoff that it continues to be accused of.

If Merrill Lynch had a copyright on bull statues, that may be a valid argument. But this logo is based off actual statues at USF, not the Charging Bull on Wall Street.

The font is a fair argument, at least when the initials USF are used.

But when the full university name is spelled out, it’s clean and feels

modern.

The bright yellow, or “Horizon,” as USF is calling it, feels like it’s either meant to play off USF Athletics’ popular SoFlo line of apparel or is meant to call back to the logo prior to the outgoing, circa 2003.

Either way, there’s a precedent for that particular color at USF. Although, the logo looks much better when it’s green on a white background, as it is primarily used on usf.edu.

Change can be scary. Radical change is even scarier.

This logo looks nothing like the previous academic logo nor the academic logos of other Florida universities.

But USF is a different university, and that’s what’s great about it.

Why not embrace USF’s uniqueness through a unique logo?

Brian Hattab is a graduate student seeking a degree in mass communications.

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Unpaid internships breed a lack of opportunity in the workforce

By Jared Sellick C O L U M N I S T

Just about every day, college students seek out new experiences and job opportunities to further their knowledge and career.

Too often, students are met with opportunities that would better themselves but offer no monetary compensation.

Student loan debt reached $1.5 trillion in the U.S. in 2018 and 70 percent of college students work a part-time or full-time job while in school, according to a study from GeorgeTown University in 2015.

The burden of work in addition to their class schedule often makes it difficult to offer their labor for free.

What kind of workforce does a system with unpaid internships incentivize?

By not supplying paid internships to hardworking students, businesses and nonprofit organizations are not only missing out on talented members of the workforce but they are also denying opportunity to those who are already economically disadvantaged.

It is clear that internships have a tangible economic value.

The benefit of having an internship in college increases a student ’s earning potential by about $2,000 once they enter the job market, according to a study by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).

The same study found that students who received unpaid internships received over $3,000 less in their starting salary when

compared to students who had received a paid internship.

Organizations that offer valuable experience need to consider whether their programs are accessible to the poor and middle class.

Students who have a difficult time paying the bills are often excluded from the process, leaving only students who have the financial backing to give their time for free.

This system is yet another way in which the upper class gets a step up above working people.

In a time where we are evaluating the disparity in terms of education between the rich and the poor, we should also examine the disparity found in prospective workplaces.

Business and non-profit organizations need to make it a priority to continue to offer both stipends and paid internships.

There has been improvement, with the number of unpaid internships dropping to 43 percent of the total amount of internships in the the year 2017, according to the NACE. Increasing the number of paid opportunities will help students of all economic backgrounds improve their future career prospects.

Offering valuable work experience in a fair and equitable way will give every student a step up in their future career and will lead to a more experienced and more content workforce.

Jared Sellick is a junior majoring in political science.

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Despite living in the U.S. since she was 3 months old, Georgina Corrick plays for Team Great Britain internationally. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/GOUSFBULLS

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“Obviously I feel so much pride for USF, but when I play on my international team, I feel connected to the girls there, I feel connected to my family and kind of my culture,” Corrick said. “It’s that nice dichotomy of being from here, but still feeling pride for both places.”

While she has already represented her homeland on the international stage numerous times, there’s the potential for something even bigger looming next summer.

Representing her country on the grandest stage of them all — the Olympics.

After a two-Olympic hiatus, softball is returning next summer for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Great Britain has not yet qualified for the Olympics and will need to win the Africa/Europe slot later this summer in order to participate next year.

But the door is open for Corrick to fulfill a childhood dream, and perhaps even, her destiny.

“That’s been a dream of mine ever since I was a little kid watching Jennie Finch,” Corrick said. “To see that I joined a program and to have been a part of that program as it built and built into what it’s become now, it still fills me with so much excitement

and joy that I could be them. I could be someone that people look up to. I could kind of fulfill that role of mine where it’s like I take my game to the highest stakes there’s ever been.”

It’s not like people don’t recognize her now, though.

A visit to her Twitter account will show a pinned tweet from last summer’s Women’s Softball World Championship in Chiba, Japan, where Corrick is posing for pictures with numerous Japanese fans.

Two of the pictures even include a sign with her name and number.

“I really can’t comprehend it,” Corrick said. “Going over there and have someone be like, ‘Hey, I watched your season. I saw you had a really good season.’ I’m from nowhere.

Sanford’s like a nowhere town and I felt like I was kind of a nobody that came out here and I’m just going to do what I do best. And to see that other people recognize that is — it’s really humbling and really exciting for me.”

It’s not that she doesn’t like Sanford or even the U.S. But, despite living her entire life here, she’s never felt truly American.

“People always ask me, ‘Will you get your [American] citizenship?’

And I’m always kind of on the fence,” Corrick said. “Because as much as I feel that I’ve grown up here and I love being here, I still kind of feel that pull to go back to Europe and to travel

and to explore and see all the places I never really had a chance to.”

Corrick’s parents are big “hounders” of English culture, which is likely no small factor in her feelings about England.

They’re also the reason she was so emotionally mature in her transition to college, both academically and on the field.

“When you come to college … there’s so many different things.

There’s a new environment, there’s a new speed of the game in the classroom and a new speed of the game on the field, and then all the factors socially about trying to fit in with a lot of things,” USF coach Ken Eriksen said. “So she did it really right off the bat. When you see things like that happen … it’s good parenting.

Her parents prepared her well for the transition to college.”

Although she’s a pitcher at USF now, make no mistake. Georgina Corrick is from England.

She may not have grown up there.

She may not get to visit often.

But it’s her homeland.

“It’s really hard to ignore where you come from no matter where you end up,” Corrick said. “You still started in the same place.

“I’ve never really felt, no matter where I went, that I would forget where I came from.”

raises questions, especially if the USWNT is more successful on the pitch.

With three Women’s World Cup titles and four Olympic gold medals to its name, it is beyond time the USWNT players receive the financial compensation they deserve.

The women’s team has built a name for itself and with its dominance at the No. 1 spot on the FIFA Women’s World Rankings, household names like Alex Morgan and Tobin Heath have been elevated to legendary status.

Still, there are those that still discredit women’s soccer, which hurts the pay of USWNT players.

“I just think that there’s room in our world for both men and women to play professional sports and to make a living off of it,” said USF women’s soccer coach Denise Schilte-Brown.

Other sports, such as softball compare to women’s soccer in their search for adequate wages. While it isn’t a direct counterpart to baseball, softball is often compared to America’s Pastime.

Earlier this month, MLB right fielder Bryce Harper signed a 13-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies worth $330 million. On Tuesday, center fielder for the Los Angeles Angels, Mike Trout, signed a 12-year deal worth $430 million, the largest contract in professional sports history.

The highest paid player in National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) is arguably the best pitcher in the league, Monica Abbott, who signed a six-year, $1 million contract in 2016, according to ESPN. Abbott’s deal was the first million-dollar contract in league history. Due to the NPF’s salary cap restrictions, her base salary is $20,000 each season and the rest of her pay comes from attendance bonuses — she still gets paid the amount on her contract, but that amount is not entirely from her base salary.

Now, comparing Harper, Trout and Abbott’s wages is like comparing apples to oranges. It seems ridiculous to compare them, considering the revenue brought in by MLB clubs compared to NPF’s Scrap Yard Dawgs.

But $20,000 a year is not enough to live on, which discourages college athletes from going pro.

“It’s very frustrating because it’s kinda set up for defeat before we can even start,” USF pitcher Georgina Corrick said. “I do have friends who come from pro softball … they can’t make a living by themselves, just being a pro softball player.”

The level of skill of pro softball athletes may even match the biggest names in MLB, according to Corrick.

“I know a couple of big softball names who have chimed in on this, definitely with the Bryce Harper deal,” said Corrick. “They’d be like: ‘I feel like I’m as good as him in our quality of skill, we’re equal but our pay is nowhere represented’.”

Corrick thinks events such as the Olympics will showcase the individual talent of players and then, hopefully, attention will be drawn fast-pitch softball.

“A lot of other women’s sports have been given a lot of good attention,” said Corrick. “I guess recognition is just a huge first step.”

Like the USWNT did with the USSF, it remains to be seen if softball players would ever take a similar approach to ensure they’re paid adequately for the work they put in.

“It’s the balance of how hard can I shake the cage before it breaks and what are my repercussions if I do so,” said Corrick. “Obviously, if they did [take legal action] and they won, it would change the entire sport for everyone. If they didn’t it would almost push us back … it is a little bit of a gamble.

“How much are you willing to risk for it?”

At the end of the day, that gamble shouldn’t be a threat to men’s sports. The goal is coexistence.

“I absolutely want nothing more than equality,” Schilte-Brown said.

“I don’t want to see the men’s game suffer, I don’t want the men to make less [and] I don’t want to see the male stage be diminished because the women have the opportunity.”

The USWNT’s latest lawsuit against the USSF has done more than put women’s soccer in the spotlight. It’s opened the door for all women’s sports to push for something that’s been past due.

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Then, USF left the court and went to their locker room.

“I was walking through the tunnel at halftime and a fan said, ‘Hey, coach. That’s embarrassing,’” coach Brian Gregory said. “And you know what? He’s right.

“All those games last year, no one ever said that to me.”

The Seawolves did not score again until the 14:20 mark of the second half.

By that point, including the 7-0 run to end the first half, USF had gone on a 13-0 run to significantly cut into the lead.

And then the run continued.

The Bulls forced 12 Stony Brook turnovers in the second half, directly leading to 12 USF points.

Alexis Yetna, who finished with 12th double-double of the season with 15 points and 12 rebounds, almost put up a double-double in the second half alone with nine points and

eight rebounds.

Michael Durr scored 13 points, including a jump shot with 6:24 left in the second half that tied the game up for the first time since 10:16 of the first half.

“That’s what we do — we always respond,” Durr said.

“That’s [Gregory]’s key message — responding. We never feel like we’re out of the game — if there’s time left on the clock, we feel like we can win.”

USF ultimately outscored the Seawolves 36-18 in the second half to force overtime.

“If you’re gonna get it — it’s a heck of a way to get the 20th win [of the season] and the first win in the postseason,” Gregory said.

After one of the greatest comebacks in program history, USF lives to see the second round of the CBI. The Bulls face Utah Valley on Monday at 7 p.m. at the Yuengling Center.

“It’s a great opportunity,” Gregory said. “And it speaks

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Bulls complete 25-point comeback to win first postseason game in seven years

In USF’s first postseason game in seven years, it erased an 18-point halftime and what was as large as a 25-point deficit to defeat Stony Brook 82-79 in overtime at the Yuengling Center on Wednesday.

“This is an up-and-coming program,” sophomore guard David Collins said. “Just to get that first postseason win — to even be in the postseason is a great feeling. I’m just glad I got to share it with this team.”

Collins set a new career high with 31 points, leading all scorers.

The tide started to turn toward the end of the first half.

Stony Brook had just gone up by 25 with under two minutes to play before the break. USF ended the half on a 7-0 run, but things were looking pretty bleak for the Bulls.

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At 6-foot tall, she’s an intimidating presence in the circle.

Last season, she was the AAC Co-Pitcher of the Year — no small feat in the No. 4 conference by RPI. Through 77.1 innings this season, she has already struck out 100.

By all metrics, Georgina Corrick is really good at softball.

Which may be surprising considering she’s from a country not known for the sport.

Corrick was born in Basingstoke,

England, and was only 3 months old when her family moved to the U.S. After moving around Georgia and Florida, the Corricks finally settled in Sanford, just outside of Orlando.

Because of her full schedule with softball and college, it’s not easy for Corrick to travel to England to see extended family these days.

But that’s where softball comes in.

For the last five years, Corrick, who is still a full English citizen, has played internationally for Team Great Britain.

Not only is she able to see her

relatives when she trains with her national team, but it’s also a great way for her to keep in touch with her British heritage.

“It’s really nice to not only be able to go over there and see them when I’m playing, but also to kind of represent my country in a sense,” Corrick said. “It’s super exciting and it’s so humbling for me to kind of remind me where I came from.”

There’s just something special for Corrick when she plays for her homeland.

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USF was down by 25 points to Stony Brook on Wednesday night before making a comeback. ORACLE PHOTO/BRIAN HATTAB volume for the support that our program has through the administration and through the university in terms of, ‘If we’re

in play, let’s play to win and if playing at home gives us a little better chance, then let’s do it.’”

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What the U.S. women’s national team lawsuit means for women’s sports

By Nolan Borwn C O R R E S P O N D E N T

The United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) filed a lawsuit on March 8 against the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) on claims of gender discrimination and violations of equal pay.

The USWNT alleged that the USSF has failed to provide adequate pay for its accomplishments and has neglected the women’s team in favor of the men’s.

The question of adequate pay

has been a recurring issue in women’s sports, especially for the USWNT, who has arguably been better than its male counterpart in recent years.

The New York Times reported that USWNT players make about $3,600 a game, with a $1,350 bonus if they win the game. The men’s team makes $5,000 a game and over $8,000 in winning bonuses.

Despite claims that the men’s team is more popular, the stark difference in pay-per-game

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