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Bill Nye thinks we can change the world

By Wesley Higgins N E W S

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As the music faded out, a familiar chant escalated from an audience of over a thousand strong: “Bill! Bill! Bill!”

Bill Nye pranced onto the Marshall Student Center Ballroom stage, and to the mantra of his own name, he began doing a jig.

Yet the Science Guy, invited Tuesday night as part of the University Lecture Series, was not there for only fun and games.

“I want you to get fired up,” he said. “I want to get you fired up so you can change the world.”

Nye pointed to a picture of Earth taken from the perspective of an astronaut standing on the moon.

“If you showed my father this picture when he was your age, he wouldn’t have thought it was real,” he said. “People perceived the world as looking like a classroom globe … this is when humankind discovered the Earth. People hadn’t grasped that the Earth is a planet like any other planet.”

Before getting into Earth’s history, Nye talked about his family history. He went on about his father, a young scien-

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tist and a World War II prisoner of war.

Nye’s father worked on Wake Island, an important location for travel between Asia and North America. On the same day Pearl Harbor was attacked, Wake Island was also bombed.

Two weeks later, Japan’s navy captured his father.

While in internment, Nye’s father became fascinated with sundials. He eventually came up with the idea of a sundial that could be used on a beach — a beachdial.

“I said, ‘Dad that’s brilliant,” he said. “We’re going to make dozens of dollars on it.”

His father joined a sundial society, which Nye said was basically just a bunch of people standing in a circle while observing a sundial.

“Everything that casts a shadow should be made into a sundial. Everything that sticks up should become a …” Nye said before looking down at his crotch and reconsidering. “Um, OK. Maybe not everything.”

The audience laughed, while Nye regained his composure to continue telling the tale of his father’s inquisitiveness.

“One of my father’s greatest ideas was to turn the Washington Monument into a giant sundial,” Nye said.

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Students question venue choice for Science Guy

By Wesley Higgins N E W S

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How early did students have to get in line to spend an evening with Bill Nye? Sometime before 3:15 p.m., according to the students who didn’t get to see the Science Guy in person.

The line to see Nye started to form around 8 in the morning Tuesday — 12 hours before he was set to take the stage.

Two hours before doors opened,

the line stretched all the way past Student Health Services and nearly reached the sands of Castor Beach.

As somewhere between a thousand and two thousand students waited, many passed the time by playing cards. Some sat in foldable chairs or lay on beach towels. Several stood patiently while clutching Nye’s latest book to their chests.

University employees handed out water to those thirsty from the 85-degree heat.

From time to time, staff from

the University Lecture Series (ULS) would make announcements. ULS staff informed those who hoped to get Nye’s signature that books were sold out, and those who were not expected to make the cut were assured a recording of the lecture would be available in about three weeks.

Finally, about an hour before doors were set to open, it was announced that a live streaming of the Nye’s lecture would be presented in the Marshall Student Center (MSC) Oval Theater.

Alex Beard, a junior majoring in microbiology, was one of the last few people to get a wristband guaranteeing entrance to the MSC Ballroom where the ULS lecture took place.

“I was pretty pissed,” he said.

A number was written on each wristband. Beard’s friend said she got the band with the highest number: 971.

For the next five hours, Beard and his group of friends sat next to the students still hoping there

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The idea was to put markings on the lawn that kept track of time, but there was one problem. Washington Monument’s shadow would get too long during winter and cover the White House. Nye’s father concluded that the president would have to move somewhere else so as not to take away focus from his sundial.

During his story that seemingly wasn’t intended to have a point, Nye made an observation — the shadow that a sundial makes is gray.

“Wow Bill, thanks,” Nye said, mocking the audience. “I never noticed that.”

Nye, nonetheless, continued this observation with momentous enthusiasm.

“If you make a shadow with your finger, or a friend’s head, the shadow is gray,” he said.

“It’s also ever so slightly blue.”

The light blue color comes from the Earth’s sky and the exact tint is unique to Earth.

“Next time you’re on the moon, should you go there, I hope some of you do and I hope you come back … the shadows are sharp dark,” he said. “See on Earth we have an atmosphere. Really? Yes, governor.”

While he was in engineering school during the “disco era,” Nye said he remembered scientists making a big fuss over a picture sent back from Mars. Instead of Mars having a blue sky, as everyone assumed it would, its atmosphere was colored more like an eggshell.

“Somebody said, ‘Hey man I don’t think the sky on Mars is blue,’” Nye said while imagining the conversation at NASA. “’What do you mean? It’s a planet’ … ‘I know, but like dude — it’s a different planet.’”

Decades later, after Nye hosted his PBS show, he said he was invited to a meeting about the Mars Rover.

“I didn’t want to look stupid, or stupider, so I played along,” he said.

Taking inspiration from his father, Nye also had the idea to put a sundial on Mars in order to calculate time on another world.

“It would be like those guys who speak Klingon,” he said.

“Except it will be real, but on

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deniers in the U.S.,” he said before covering his ears and Mars.”

In fact, there were already showing a picture of Sarah Palin spinning circles. “Haha! Can’t hear you!” on the screen. three sundials on Mars.

The biggest problem for peo“Here in Florida, you guys “I was apparently not the first guy to suggest a sundial,” take it up a notch,” he said, ple when considering the age of Nye said. “But I was the first showing a picture of Gov. Rick the universe is wrapping their guy to jump out of his chair and Scott to the roar of the audi- head around 4.5 billion years.

“It’s really hard to imagine ence. wave his arms about it.”

“You shall not speak this that,” he said. “Dude, are you The scientists also discussed the shade of Martian shadows. phrase!” he said, running in high?”

Understanding the length of The shadow seemed to have circles while plugging his ears, a yellow tint instead of a blue mocking Scott for banning the time, he said, is just as hard one. Nye nicknamed a shad- term “climate change” and to contemplate as the size of ow’s colored tint as its xantho- “global warming” in different the universe. Creationists also state government departments. criticize the possibility of aliens descence.

In Minnesota, Nye said its and blame NASA for spending “Come on people, it starts with an X,” Nye said. “X is sexy, state government was worried money on the search.

“If our society stops looking because a lake was melting a X is cool.” up and out, The reason for this difference is “If our society stops looking up and out, what does that say the atmosphere, what does that say about us? about us?” he said. Mars has Nye said. an atmosphere of Our ancestors who didn’t go up the hill “Our ances95 percent carbon tors who dioxide, compared to Earth’s .04 per- and onto the next valley, those aren’t our didn’t go up the hill and cent. Life would ancestors. They couldn’t compete with onto the suffocate instantly next valley, on Mars. those who did go over the hill, those aren’t At this point, our ancesthe lecture took a who did go to the next valley.” tors. They more serious turn. couldn’t Nye explained that Bill Nye compete during our lifeThe Science Guy with those times, the carbon dioxide on Earth went from little faster after winter than who did go over the hill, who did go to the next valley.” .03 to .04 percent of its atmo- usual.

“You guys are in Florida!

Nye talked about working sphere.

“That tiny change, that seem- Your state is going to go away!” recently with Neil Degrasse ingly insignificant change of a Nye said, projecting an image Tyson, who sits on the board fraction, is changing the world,” of South Florida sinking under of directors for the Planetary Society, of which Nye recently he said. “That’s the problem water.

Nye said much of science became the chief executive offiyou guys — the atmosphere is that thin and we have so many denial stems from fundamen- cer.

The organization is sending a people trying to breathe or try- talist religious organizations, which aim to indoctrinate satellite, called a solar sail, into ing to burn it.”

Nye used Venus as an exam- children at their most vulner- space. Nye said it is so shiny ple of what life on a thick able. Nye showed a billboard that people will be able to see atmosphere would be like, and along a Kentucky roadway with it with the naked eye.

Though it doesn’t have a asked the audience to remem- dinosaurs eating coconuts on practical use, it is meant to be a ber being a kid and playing the Noah’s Ark. The advertisement was for celebration of science exploragame where the floor turns into the Creation Museum’s attempt tion and a hope for the future. lava and water into acid.

A future that is threatened, “On Venus, it’s really like at fundraising for a replica of that … it’s very undesirable. We Noah’s Ark, estimated to cost Nye said, by climate change.

“I want you guys to change would all die and we don’t want $73 million. Nye debated the that,” he said. “The Venusian museum’s founder, Ken Ham, the world,” he said. “I am wearatmosphere is very thick … by last year over the issue of teach- ing a watch, but I’ve never wound it in almost 10 years the way, before it was Venusian, ing creationism in school.

When asked what would because it is solar powered.” it was Venereal … we had to change his views on creationNye said his house is entirely change it.”

If people don’t change their ism, Nye said the refutation of solar powered, and he even gets ways, Earth’s atmosphere will abundant proof that the uni- to enjoy hot showers without not stay hospitable to us. Nye verse is over 6,000 years old, destroying the environment.

“When you get an elecsaid the problem is a grow- such as the measurement of ing population, many of whom light from stars that are mil- tric bill every 60 days for five bucks, that’s just fun,” he said. deny scientific fact in favor of lions of light years away.

Ham, on the other hand, said “We can do this, we can get this false beliefs. done. But I want you guys to do “We land things on Mars, but nothing would sway his belief.

“Imagine this guy on a jury. it better. I want you to change we have a substantial amount of people who don’t believe He’s just there saying nothing the world.”

Nye harkened back to his in science. We have a lot of will change his mind,” Nye said

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father’s generation, which he said is the greatest generation when every American joined together in support during World War II. “If you don’t like government regulation now, you just wait until stuff stops happening … in World War II, they rationed tires.”

Nye proposed a fee on carbon, which would make people pay extra for doing things that released carbon into the environment.

Everything running on fossil fuels would cost more, but that money would go to invest in researching better, greener alternatives.

The energy is there, Nye said. There’s enough sunlight in the four corners of the U.S. to power North America three times over. The problem is figuring out a grid that can distribute it and a battery that can store it.

“You guys can figure this out,” he said. “You could get rich — Bill Gates rich, head of IKEA guy rich.”

But is Earth worth saving in the first place, Nye asked the audience. After all, Earth is so unimaginably small in a universe that is unimaginably big.

Nye remembered his third grade teacher telling him that there were more stars in the observable sky than there are grains of sand on all of Earth.

“Mrs. Cochran, are you high?” Nye said. “Are you ever on the beach? There’s a lot of sand.”

Nye recollected sitting on a beach in Delaware and crafting a sundial out of some string and the cardboard from a six-pack of beer. He said he became paralyzed with doubt looking at the sand.

“I’m just a speck, standing on a bunch of specks, on another speck, orbiting around another speck, that isn’t that remarkable of speck, in a whole bunch of specks around,” he said. “I’m a speck on a speck in a speck in a universe of specks.

Ugh!” But, Nye concluded, it is finding joy in a universe of endless discoveries that makes it all worth it to keep that adventure going for generations to come.

“It’s that joy of discovery, that’s what drives us,” he said.

“That’s what make us different from — let’s say — grouper or maybe crabs.”

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USF brings suicide prevention to the forefront today

By Zach Lowie S T A F F

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With the awareness of mental illness becoming more prevalent in modern society, USF’s Alliance and Suicide Prevention Lab is working to educate students about the importance of this national issue.

As part of its new social awareness campaign, the lab will host a self-care event today to help promote personal health and mental wellness among students.

Headed by Dr. Marc Karver, the lab is working with the Florida Council for Community Mental Health to train community members, teachers and others developing relationships with adolescents on how to identify the warning signs of suicide, as well as educate these individuals on how to be suicide gatekeepers for those at risk.

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might be a chance to get in.

“It was awkward,” he said. “We were trying not to make eye contact.”

Eric Loechelt was one person in line away from receiving a band and said he was not happy.

When Loechelt talked to The Oracle, he had just received a ticket for the streaming. Even a front row in the Oval Theater, he said, wouldn’t be the same.

“I guess we get to see him on TV,” he said. “I could have done that at home.”

A group of friends said they were left wondering why the issue couldn’t have been avoided.

“We have 40,000 students,” Loechelt said. “But they only made room for a thousand students? Not even a thousand students.”

Mack Carter, another student who didn’t get a band, said the university should have done something as soon as the lecture’s popularity became apparent on social media. On ULS’s event page on Facebook, 2,472 people RSVPed. Many students in line agreed the event should have been moved to the Sun Dome. There was also outcry on social media, including Reddit, Facebook and Twitter.

The Sun Dome can seat over 10,000. The Ballroom can seat

ed nationwide. Gleason wants students to understand the methods for dealing with stress that comes from exams, and school in general, which can make individuals feel trapped and distant.

“I want students to feel that they are empowered not only with the resources available on campus, but also with the knowledge of things to do every day in a self-care routine to help manage the stress they may experience,” Gleason said.

Gleason said any student afraid that a friend might be experiencing suicidal thoughts should take him or her to one of the resources on campus, such as the Counseling Center or Students of Concern Assistance Team (SOCAT) to help alleviate the negative emotions he or she is experiencing. The biggest challenge with the current USF initiatives is that many students experiencing suicidal thoughts cannot bring themselves to get help from these places but instead

remain silent.

“It can feel intimidating, but these employees have extensive training to help get students through tough times,” Gleason said. “There are compassionate and caring people that just want to help everyone feel better about themselves and what they’re doing.”

The event will take place today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside Beef ‘O’ Brady’s at the weekly Bull Market. This is only the first event in what the lab hopes to turn into many more for students in the upcoming summer and fall terms.

Those experiencing thoughts of suicide are encouraged to call the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) for personal assistance at any time.

Additionally, 211 can be dialed anywhere in Hillsborough County to reach a crisis counselor at the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, which can help those in distress or those in need of resources.

and the Florida Department of Health, 4,878 people from ages 15 to 24 committed suicide nationally in 2013 with 52 occurring in Hillsborough County alone.

LaDonna Gleason is the lab manager of the Alliance and Suicide Prevention Lab, which deals primarily with grants focused on preventing suicide among young, college-aged adults.

Gleason worked on campus as a resident assistant during her undergraduate studies at USF and became fascinated with the work being done within the lab during her time in graduate school. She recognizes that one of the main issues among young people is the lack of education where suicide is concerned.

“It’s really a lot more prevalent than people believe,” Gleason said.

“We still stigmatize mental illnesses in society and suicide is one of those that is probably even more stigmatized than others. I think it’s very important for people to real-

ize that this does happen, there are warning signs and those having suicidal thoughts can get help.”

At the self-care event, the focus will be on explaining the importance of acting as a resource for those in need, as well as making them aware of the campus-wide resources USF has to offer.

Featured activities will be carnival style, highlighting the mental health resources on campus as well as some off-campus resources and activities students can incorporate into their mental wellness and self-care routine.

“We’ve catered this first event to students who are feeling stressed due to finals and end of semester issues,” Gleason said. “We saw that that was a consistent need in our research due to the workload students face as the term comes to a close.”

Though the suicide rates at USF are not as high as other parts of the country, she says the college age group is one of the most affect-

1,100. The Oval Theater can seat 700.

Cece Buckley, a student who also didn’t make it into the Ballroom, said she wondered why the university would give Jane Goodall, who spoke last semester, the Sun Dome and not the Science Guy. “I like Jane Goodall,” she said.

“But she’s no Bill f---ing Nye.” In an email to The Oracle, Director of Communications and Marketing for Student Affairs Renee Hunt said the Center for Student Involvement did consider moving the lecture to the Sun Dome. However, it would have cost up to $25,000, which would have broken ULS’ budget.

This year, ULS received $257,792 from Student Government’s annual Activity and Service Fee. Nye’s lecture cost $52,000. Previous lectures this semester cost $50,000 for Soledad O’Brien, $7,850 for John Bul Dau. Goodall’s lecture last semester cost roughly $60,000, a third of which was provided by ULS funds and the rest paid for by the College of Arts and Sciences.

The Sun Dome costs are due to maintenance and staff, which is privately managed by Global Spectrum.

The Oval Theater was able to seat the 600 remaining students.

By the end, most who left Nye’s lecture — whether streamed or in person — walked away smiling.

Students lined up all day Tuesday for Bill Nye’s lecture, with lines stretching around two floors of the Marshall Student Center (MSC), outside the Bookstore and past Student Health Services. The lecture’s audience, which filled both the MSC Ballroom and Oval Theater, numbered near 1,700.

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LGBT Gala draws advocates from all over campus

By Grace Hoyte M A N A G I N G

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The past decade has seen many strides for the LGBT community, not only has same-sex marriage been widely legalized, but also the fight for equality has lead many young people to experience a kind of self-acceptance that was almost nonexistent in earlier years.

At the 11th Annual USF LGBT Community Gala in the Gibbons Alumni Center, members of the local community gathered to celebrate what the LGBT community had been up to on campus in the past year.

The event is a collaboration of the Committee on Issues of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity (DIEO), the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA), Pride Student Alliance and the USF Alumni Association.

This year, Rep. Kathy Castor,

a staunch proponent of LGBT rights and advocate for LGBT members in Congress, spoke about the progress of the LGBT community in Hillsborough County.

In 2005, she said, H i l l s b o ro u g h County Commissioner Ronda Storms brought forward a county against supporting, sponsoring or funding any LGBT PRIDE event in Tampa Bay. Castor’s was the only vote in opposition.

“My community helped elect me to fight for nondiscrimination and equality,” Castor said. “And from that point forward we were all on a mission together in this community.”

For the next eight years, Castor fought for LGBT rights in Hillsborough County and the nation, until the Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 2013. DOMA allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex

Members of the USF community gathered in the Alumni Center on Tuesday evening to discuss accomplishments made for the LGBT community. ORACLE PHOTO/GRACE HOYTE “No longer do couples have done to combat the fear and marriages granted by other to come up to D.C. to get mar- ignorance of the past. states.

Earlier this year, the nation ried,” she said. And as only The evening included sevmade a breakthrough with 13 states still have bans on eral other speakers, includthe successful overturn of such unions, that is certainly ing Jose Hernandez, Associate Florida’s gay marriage ban. the case.

Vice President and Chief Castor emphasized the fight Diversity Office of DIEO, and Before the ban’s overturning, Castor hosted the wedding of for equal rights is not over, Caitlin Jones, the newly hired a same-sex couple in her D.C. and advocates cannot rest as Coordinator for LGBT Programs there is still much work to be and Services of OMA. office.

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Fight against college binge drinking lacks force

life” and academic rankings from the Princeton Review affect the applications process, the ranking’s “Party Schools” and “StoneCold Sober Schools” lists didn’t statistically impact the number of applicants.

Schools have already made efforts on their own to deal with binge drinking, yet it becomes an issue of effectiveness when many students are of legal drinking age.

Brown University, as the op-ed noted, recently implemented a ban on alcohol in residential events, and Dartmouth College banned liquor that is over 15 percent alcohol from campus.

However, if the ranking system needs to become part of the picture, it would be more effective to address problems such as sexual assault as individual problems. Last year, for instance, the women’s advocacy organization UltraViolet pushed for the Princeton Review to include how schools handle sexual assault on its rankings.

All in all, addressing the drinking problem on campuses with rankings is a roundabout, halfbaked way to deal with it. Rather, colleges strictly enforcing bans or restrictions could have an even bigger punch than rankings could.

Drinking has been associated with college students since before the time the release of “Animal House,” and schools are now being urged to take responsibility for it.

A recent op-ed in the Washington Examiner argues that private college rankings, such as the U.S. News and World Report, should include alcohol abuse and any effort the college takes to fight its occurrence as a way to hold schools accountable for binge drinking that happens on their campuses.

As the op-ed noted, drinking among college students can lead to alcohol-related harm and is often associated with sexual assault. Yet, while singling out the problem of binge drinking with college rankings could be effective in an ideal world, schools still have to grapple with ways to get

students to care.

The idea is that the threat of not reaching the top of the rankings because of a campus bingedrinking problem would motivate schools to try harder to control students’ drinking. As mentioned in the op-ed, last September a Boston Magazine article found that schools are pushed to move their ranking up after seeing that higher-ranked schools have “increased visibility and prestige” and “greater revenue potential.”

Yes, dangling money over schools could encourage them to work out their binge-drinking issues on campus, however, the op-ed addressed the fact that Princeton, the top-ranked college on U.S. News, found that binge drinking actually increased on its campus despite implementing drinking restrictions.

That just goes to show that students are not guaranteed to follow whatever discouragement against binge drinking a university puts in place. Even more problematic, many students are selective with what they want to base their college decisions on.

For instance, though a report from the American Education Research Association found that rankings such as U.S. News and the Princeton Review do affect students’ college choices, according to the Atlantic, it depends on the metric. While “quality of

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Bulls soar into midweek matchup against Eagles

By Zach Lowie S T A F F

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After eight straight conference games, the Bulls are taking a midweek break from AAC play to take on Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers tonight at 6.

The last time USF (31-12, 3-4) played FGCU (20-22, 3-9), they set a school record with 11 runs in a single inning, eventually run-ruling and shutting out the Eagles in five innings at the USF Softball Stadium.

FGCU will be the Bulls’ first nonconference opponents since they faced Canisius on March 17. So far USF is 28-8 against non-AAC teams, compared to FGCU’s 17-13 record out of the Atlantic Sun Conference.

USF is 5-2 all-time against FGCU and 2-0 this season against Atlantic Sun teams overall.

Currently the Bulls lead the AAC in several offensive categories, including batting average, hits, on-base percentage,

stolen bases and triples. The Bulls are 23-0 when they score first and 16-1 after scoring in the first inning.

Senior Karla Claudio has led the charge for USF as of late, batting .438 with seven hits, three home runs and 12 RBIs in her last seven games.

Claudio also leads the NCAA in saves with seven through 43 games. She went 3-for-6 with two runs and an RBI this past weekend against UConn and hopes to carry momentum from that dominating play into the matchup with the Eagles.

On the Eagles’ side of the ball, senior and Atlantic Sun Preseason All-Conference member Kelsey Carpenter has led her team from the plate.

Carpenter is batting .345 with 41 hits, five home runs and 27 RBIs. Additionally, she leads FGCU with a .538 slugging percentage.

USF has outscored non-AAC foes 202-93 this season and are looking to get a confidence-boosting win before their rematch with top-ranked Florida on April 15.

Karla Claudio has been on a hot streak at the plate, batting over .400 with three home runs over her past seven games. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU

Baseball

Borders’ big bat not enough against Panthers

By Tiana Aument C O R R E S P O N D E N T

Levi Borders was a double shy of the cycle and scored twice in the Bulls’ 13-7 loss at FIU. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU

USF catcher Levi Borders nearly hit for the cycle Tuesday night as USF fell 13-7 to FIU in Miami.

Borders was a double shy of hitting for the cycle, but his impressive effort on offense wasn’t enough against the Panthers’ onslaught of runs.

As the offensive leaders for each team, Borders went 4-for5 with a pair of runs and RBIs, and Panthers’ first baseman Edwin Rios went 2-for-2 with three walks, runs and RBIs. Rios’s two-run homer in the first put the Panthers within one, and his RBI double in the

fourth tied the game at five.

The Panthers (15-18) pulled away and scored six more runs in the inning. Left fielder Austin Rodriguez’s two-out, three-run homer fourth capped their seven-run.

USF pitcher Brandon Lawson (0-3) took the loss after surrendering eight runs (four earned) over four innings of relief for starter Tommy Eveld. In his first career start, Eveld allowed four runs (two earned) on five hits through three innings.

Five FIU pitchers faced the Bulls, but Ian Exposito (1-0) earned the win after pitching 2/3 of an inning of no-hit ball.

Both teams sprinkled two runs apiece over the final

innings, but USF (22-11-1) came up short.

USF shortstop Kyle Teaf went 1-for-3 with two walks, a triple and three runs. The senior now has 127 walks, which places him ninth in USF history. Teaf’s record surpasses that of former Bull Johnny Raburn, who played from 1998 to 2000.

USF was outhit 14-7, and the Panthers committed three errors to the Bulls’ two.

The Bulls have the secondmost errors in the AAC behind Houston with 51.

The Bulls resume conference play this weekend as they host East Carolina for a three-game series beginning Friday at 6:30 p.m.