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Bullstock ready to rock USF Week Taking

By Wesley Higgins N E W S

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USF students better get ready to throw those bullhorns in the air Friday night for this year’s Bullstock, the annual music festival held at the Sun Dome as part of USF Week.

The annual outdoor concert will feature headliner Young the Giant, as well as Andy Grammer and American Authors.

USF’s Battle of the Band winners, Raquel Cabrera with Aurora and The Western Sons, are set to open the night.

Before the concerts begin, there will be a party at 5 p.m.

Pre-parties in the past have featured bungee jumping, rock walls and a zip line.

Young the Giant is a rock band best known for their first

hit single “My Body” that landed them on the Billboard 100.

Andy Grammer is a pop singer-songwriter known for his feel-good hit “Keep Your Head Up.” American Authors is a pop rock band known for their songs “Believer” and “Best Day of My Life.”

Funding for Bullstock is distributed by Center for Student Involvement from Student Government funding that comes from the Activity and Service Fee. For the cost of $75,000, Young the Giant will perform for a minimum of 60 minutes.

Young the Giant made sure the university took care of their crew with an extensive rider that specified requirements such as food, backstage furniture and hygiene supplies.

The rider indicates Young

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Young the Giant, along with Andy Grammer and American Authors, will play at Bullstock on Friday at the Sun Dome. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

Bringing good health to those without wealth

By Russell Nay S T A F F

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USF medical students provide health services for Tampa’s homeless.

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For those who live on the streets of Tampa, staying healthy and getting proper medical care can be an unrealistic expectation.

The city hosts one of the largest homeless populations in the nation. According to Hillsborough Community Atlas, there are 2,243 homeless living in the area.

Of who, many cannot afford health insurance, qualify for Medicaid or hold regular doctor’s appointments, which forces them to live outside the traditional health care system.

As third-year USF medical student Shawna Foley said, many of Tampa’s homeless often have few options for maintaining their

health.

“There’s definitely this huge problem with homelessness that is right in our backyard,” she said.

“These are people who could really use our help and have nowhere else to turn.”

Foley is the volunteer director and one of the founding members of Tampa Bay Street Medicine (TBSM), a small group of 20 to 30 USF medical students who conduct medical “street runs” and free health clinics to provide Tampa’s homeless community with free preventative health services, which range from handing out simple hygiene supplies to administering wound care.

Since the group’s first street run in April, medical students from the team travel every other Friday to areas around Tampa Heights, Tampa’s oldest neighborhood that lies just west of Ybor City, to directly aid homeless patients.

During each run, Foley said there are typically two teams consisting mostly of lower and upper-

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Tampa Bay Street Medicine is a group of medical students who bring medical care to the streets. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE / ROBERTO ROLDAN

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If you see hundreds of silent students and faculty members marching and holding signs near the Marshall Student Center (MSC) tonight, don’t be alarmed.

Take Back the Night, an annual event sponsored by the student organization NITE (Network.

Improve. Transform. Empower), will include a silent march across campus, a candlelight vigil and speeches given by survivors of sexual violence.

“This event actually changed my life,” said Eileen Dabrowski, a faculty adviser for NITE ¬who has been involved with the group for all of its nine years on campus.

In those nine years, NITE has sponsored a number of events that focus on solutions to and awareness of gender-based and sexual violence, such as Take Back the Night, which originated in the 70s.

“Take Back the Night started as a campaign … from the feminist movement,” Dabrowski said. “At the time, that was geared on the premise of women literally taking back the night.”

Over the years, the event has become an international campaign to encompass any type of violence oppressing a human.

The main event will be the Speak Out that allows survivors to get up and tell their story — in some cases, for the first time.

“It sounds like it should be such a downer — like, here’s a bunch of people talking about really bad things that have happened,” Dabrowski said. “But every person who speaks in their own voice and terms says, ‘This horrible thing happened to me, but I’m here, and I’m strong, and it doesn’t define who I am.’”

The Speak Out, she said, has a way of bringing people together.

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year medical students who participate. The upper-year medical students lead the interactions with patients, while beginning medical students typically act as scribes and record the treatments that are administered.

Each team also has a supply coordinator, who keeps track of the medical supplies and equipment students use to treat their patients.

Abby Pribish, a first-year medical student and one of the team’s supply coordinators, said students are supplied with a variety of medications and equipment to meet their patients’ wide range of needs.

“We bring a lot of different supplies to the street runs because we see a lot of different needs,” Pribish said. “A lot of patients have wounds that we can help take care of, or they have simple medical complaints, things like a cough or a headache or hip pain … (we have) different supplies that you would need for conducting physical exams, like thermometers, blood pressure cuffs, exam gloves, flashlights, things like that.”

Foley said the group’s board members and co-founders also attend street runs and assist with patient care or simply converse with patients about better health care practices. They may also give out contact information of other free health care providers or talk with patients about their lives in general.

“One of the biggest things we do as board members is just connecting with our regular patients and … just seeing if there’s anything we can do that may not be medical,” Foley said. “I think for me as a board member, one of the most enjoyable things is that I get to go connect with these people on a regular basis. They know us, we know them, and we look forward to seeing each other when we go on our street runs.”

Because the street runs allow the group to go out and directly treat homeless patients in the city, many of the students are also given a firsthand look at some of the hardships of living on the street in Tampa.

“One of the most challenging situations we run into is doing street runs when it’s raining,” Pribish said. “There’s not a lot of shelter on the city streets, so a lot of homeless patients congregate

under the I-275 overpass … there are a lot of people there, and it is kind of miserable. It’s cold, and it’s loud because of the road over your head, and it’s wet, but it seems like in that kind of situation we have the biggest opportunity to … make these peoples’ lives a little bit easier.”

Another way TBSM has recently begun providing health care to Tampa’s homeless is through free health clinics hosted at The Well on N. Florida Avenue in Ybor City.

The Well is a microchurch that offers a number of services to the homeless and has partnered with TBSM to host free health clinics at their facility.

Dr. Lucy Guerra, an associate professor at the USF Morsani College of Medicine and one of the team’s faculty advisers, said free health clinics allow students to provide homeless patients with personalized, in-depth health care, as well as continually monitor the health of patients who have been to the group’s street runs.

“We brought each patient in … did wound care, examined them, and we did incision and drainage of abscesses and that kind of thing,” Guerra said. “Some of the patients who are homeless live in that area, and some of the same people that we see on (street runs) are the same people that show up at clinics. They need help for their high blood pressure or they have an infection and want to make sure that they’ve gotten better.”

Guerra said the clinics take place on the first Saturday of each month from about 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the team will have time to see up to 12 patients.

Like the group’s street runs, she said students meet with a number of people with a wide range of backgrounds, as Tampa’s homeless community consists of people from all walks of life.

“The very first clinic that we had at The Well, we had a gentleman come in who had actually been a professor at the University of Minnesota,” Guerra said. “He’d been living on the street for probably about five or six years, but he had … his faculty ID card. This guy had just spiraled downhill. He had a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and eventually ended up in Tampa because he had some family here … he’s one person that could probably get off the street if he could just get back on his medication and have some support.”

TBSM first began when Jason Ricciuti, the group’s president and founding member, attend-

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ed the 2013 International Street Medicine Symposium, a conference hosted by the International Street Medicine Institute on some of the most vital street medicine practices. The institute is the head of a network of over 80 communities practicing street medicine, including TBSM. Ricciuti began recruiting members to join the group, set up some of the team’s basic guidelines and collaborated with another USF student group to receive initial funding. After the group’s original board members were decided, the team spent a lot of its time organizing and planning how it would conduct street runs.

While Foley said TBSM has built a strong relationship with Tampa’s homeless community, it wasn’t always that way.

“On our first run, it was kind of awkward because the homeless didn’t really know who we were, and it was difficult to connect at first,” Foley said. “But the more we showed up and the more that we put ourselves out there and talked to people, the more people started to seek us out, and now everybody out there knows that we’re coming every other Friday and expects us to be there.”

The group plans to continue expanding in the future. Guerra said the team has already planned on adding additional health services to further assist its patients.

These include free HIV screenings and a woman’s health clinic at The Well.

Though TBSM is currently subsisting entirely on a 2014 grant from the Alpha Omega Alpha medical society, the group plans on becoming an official USF student organization to receive additional funding for future street runs and clinics, as well as to attract more medical students to help aid Tampa’s homeless and become more aware of the city’s issues with homelessness.

Students interested in volunteering with TBSM or donating to the group can visit the team’s website at tampabaystreetmed.org.

“I think for the most part, med school is a bubble, and you get really involved in your studying, and you forget about all those real world situations,” Foley said. “(Practicing street medicine) changes your life in a way that I wasn’t really expecting it to. It alters your perception of what’s around you and the people that are suffering and what you can offer to them.”

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By the end, strangers share tissues.

Particularly moving are the statistics they will reveal at the event.

For example, Dabrowski said, one in four young women experience an attempted or completed rape while in college.

As another component of the event, the candlelight vigil will be a way to remember those who have fallen victim to sexual or domestic violence.

In addition to the Speak Out, there will be a silent march across campus. Participants have held signs with messages like “Real Men Get Consent!” and “No Means No!” The march will begin 6:30 p.m. in the MSC Amphitheatre, continue through the trellises leading to the Allen Building, left toward the Leroy Collins Garage, and back to MSC through the Student Services Building (SVC) Breezeway.

“All of our advocates will be there to support anybody who is triggered,” she said. “We’ll have advocates from the USF counseling center.”

The event is also designed to benefit those who take something away from it, whether it’s catharsis

or understanding.

“Sexual violence is an issue that the White House now has a statement about — the It’s On Us campaign,” Dabrowski said. “And universities and colleges, USF being one of them, are stepping up and recognizing that we need to talk about it.”

USF is home to the REAL program, which is a program dedicated to educating all people about ending sexual and gender-based violence. It also strives to educate students on alcohol and consent.

During the event, participants will be asked to take the REAL (Relationship Equality and Antiviolence League) promise. “(The promise is) to be a good human,” Dabrowski said. “It talks about the behaviors that contribute to harming or oppressing others.”

In the past, Dabrowski said, there have been several hundred people in attendance.

“With Title IX … which now makes mandatory reporting a very big reality for victims who may not want things reported, there’s been a lot of challenges,” Dabrowski said. “Take Back the Night creates a safe place for people to know that they’re not alone, that there’s a lot of support out there and that it’s not their fault.”

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Musicians broaden horizons with new compositions

By Ariana Matos L I F E S T Y L E

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Students often associate the USF School of Music with classical and orchestral pieces and large concert halls filled with musicians dressed in tuxedos and elegant black dresses.

USF’s New-Music Consortium (NMC) is interested in turning those associations on their ear.

As the president of NMC and a graduate student in music composition, Tyler Kline is dedicated to seeking out and nurturing newer, younger compositions.

“We are interested in performing music from the past 50 to 100 years. Lately we’ve been doing newer stuff from the last 15 years,” Kline said. “It is music that normally wouldn’t be programmed by any other ensembles or students or faculty at school, so we’ve found our niche in that.”

On Friday, the organization will be holding a free concert, “ALIVE” at Barness Recital Hall.

After sending out an international call for scores, the club was excited to receive over 200 submissions.

“We launched it early this semester — a call for scores from every nationality, and any age composer in two categories: acoustic and electronic.

We rated each piece and basically made a system to narrow it down for us, and we ended up having an hour-long meeting trying to decide,” Kline

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the Giant and its tour staff support “environmentally friendly touring” by requiring the Sun Dome to have sufficient recycling bins backstage. The university also agreed to provide energy efficient light bulbs for the dressing room and production room.

The band’s contract asked the university to supply organic

said. “There were five pieces that we were deliberating and really fighting for, but we could only pick one and a lot of great pieces were excluded.”

Kline said the winning compositions, “Ecosystem” from Nicaraguan-American composer Gabriel Bolanos and “Anthozoa” from Australian composer Daniel Blinkhorn, were chosen because of how well they paired with guest composer David Liptak.

“We chose the ones that we thought would contrast with our guest composer’s pieces, and would also be fresh and exciting and represent what we aim for as an organization,” Kline said. “We could have had a whole concert of just those pieces (we deliberated on), and it would have been a great concert, but that was not possible.”

The music chosen by NMC is commonly called experimental, but Kline doesn’t want to marginalize what is being performed.

“I think there are a lot of misconceptions with that kind of music,” he said. “People don’t like what is different. I think if people listen to it and give it a chance, it is like learning a new language.”

Alex Ravitz, a graduate student in clarinet performance and orchestral conducting and secretary of NMC, is focused on broadening the minds of those who might not normally be exposed to new music.

“I think people should want

to experience this because it is what is happening now. You can go see a symphony orchestra play a piece that is 200 years old and it sounds like its 200 years old, or you can come see this type of concert,” Ravitz said. “This is the music that is happening in our age, right now, in our time. And there is no replacement for that. There is no replacement for seeing it unfold as it happens.”

Liptak composed Ravitz’s performance piece, “Commedia,” which Ravitz said audiences will identify with.

“The piece I’m playing is

interesting because this music is very modern. It’s a sort of musical portrayal of the 16th century ‘comedia del arte,’ which is a genre of plays,” Ravitz said. “Each of the movements takes on the personality of a different character, and (Liptak) does it in such a masterful way that you can really hear what’s going on, and I guess it would be called a character piece. The piece is just so masterfully put together in this way and all three instruments play off of each other. It’s really fascinating because it’s not inaccessible to someone who is not used to this kind of music.”

food, with absolutely no processed food. Some of the food requested is Honey Harvest Coconut Water, a box of berries and variously flavored Kombucha.

The rider requested 12 local beers in the style of IPA or Pale Ale and six Belgian beers. A later clause clarified that they preferred no “BUD/COORS etc.”

Young the Giant’s contract also asked for one bottle of Bulleit whiskey. It was not spec-

ified whether this referred to Bulleit Bourbon or Bulleit Rye. Andy Grammer will also perform for a minimum of 60 minutes, but at the cost of $35,000.

His contract indicated he and his tour staff also wanted some sort of Kombucha. They were content, nonetheless, with a 24-pack of Budweiser, a 12-pack of New Castle and a bottle of Jameson Whiskey.

American Authors will cost $41,500 for an hour of their time. The contract indicat-

ed a very specific flavor of Kombucha, specifically raspberry with chia seeds. The band and their crew also appear to be fans of IPAs and Pale Ales, requesting two six-packs of either style, as well as a two 30-packs of Bud Light and a bottle of Jameson Whiskey.

USF Week will conclude with a men’s baseball conference game between the Bulls and the East Carolina Pirates at 6:30 p.m. in the USF Baseball Stadium.

Brett Copeland, a graduate student in tuba performance and member of NMC’s production board, enjoys seeing more interest in new compositions because he said young people can really identify with their message.

“I think it relates to what is going on today,” he said.

“You can connect more with it because you’re around what created the music, and you’re alive while the composer is alive.”

The concert begins Friday at 7:30 p.m and is free and open to the public.

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American flags should be made in America money on domestic flags might be a better long-term decision.

Flags made in the country are generally more expensive than ones bought overseas, but how much money is being spent on flags may not be the most important issue. The representatives’ argument fails to consider where the money is being spent.

As reported by the FMAA in the same 2013 report, the dollar value of U.S. flags exported to other countries was $781,222, while the U.S. imported about $4 million in flags. This created a difference of over $3 million, which added to the nation’s ever-growing trade deficit.

Instead of spending so much on foreign trade, this money could have been spent buying domestic flags to secure jobs for American flag-making businesses and keeping more money in the nation’s economy.

Hopefully, Florida’s Senate will vote positively on the bill, which will add Florida to a list of states, including Minnesota and Tennessee, helping to preserve the American flag in its role as a great symbol of the nation and keeping American flags made in America.

Russell Nay is a freshman majoring in mass communications.

While it may seem odd to think the American flags flown over government buildings could be made anywhere but the U.S., about $4 million in star-spangled banners were imported from overseas in 2013, according to the Flag Manufacturers Association of America (FMAA).

The figure for American flag imports may soon change, however, as Florida’s House of Representatives recently passed HB 225 that, if also passed by Florida’s Senate, would mandate that flags purchased by the state’s governmental entities would need to be 100 percent domestic.

Under the bill, appropriately named the All-American Flag Act, all U.S. and state flags purchased by state, county or municipality

government bodies must be made in the U.S. with materials that are “grown, produced, and manufactured in the United States.”

While current federal law demands that 50 percent of an American flag’s materials must be made in the U.S., and, according to the Huffington Post, legislation banned flags made in China from the U.S. military in 2014, no federal law has been successfully passed that requires the stars and stripes to be manufactured completely in the U.S. The fact that a flag representing the U.S. or one of its states could be produced in another country is strange for a number of reasons.

Above all else, flying a foreignmade U.S. flag above an institution of the U.S. government, of all places, could be seen as rather unpatriotic and even ironic, especially considering the combination of red, white and blue is arguably one of the most powerful symbols of the nation.

Importing Old Glory from other countries is also an odd decision economically. While the two Florida representatives who voted against the bill argued it was anticapitalistic and a “wasteful spending of tax dollars,” according to a Tampa Bay Times article, spending

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The Rundown NBA forward Chris Copeland of the Pacers was hospitalized early Wednesday after suffering knife wounds to his left elbow and abdomen outside a nightclub in Chelsea, NY. Copeland is in stable condition.

Atlanta Hawks players Thabo Sefolosha and Pero Antic were arrested for obstructing the police investigation.

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After winning 10 of its past 12 matches, the men’s tennis team rose to No. 19 in the ITA poll this week.

The men’s golf team will play in its final regular season match this weekend at the Irish Creek Collegiate.

What to watch Baseball UCF (24-10, 3-3) will host UConn (20-12, 3-3) this weekend as the two teams try to move out of a tie for third place in the AAC. Softball The top two teams in the conference will square off this weekend when UCF (36-6, 8-1) hosts Houston (19-20, 4-1).

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East Carolina (2013, 3-3) at USF (2211-1, 5-1) When: Friday, 6:30 p.m.

Where: USF Baseball Stadium TV/Radio: Bullscast/1010 AM

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Bulls’ pitching delivers shutout at FGCU

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With no outs in the top of the second inning, junior Lee Ann Spivey battled a sevenpitch at-bat before sending a home run over the center-field wall for the first run of the game.

The Bulls’ offense added five more runs while the pitching staff gave up only four hits in their second shutout against the Eagles (20-23, 3-9).

USF earned its 32nd win of the season behind solid production throughout the lineup, with six different players scoring a run for the Bulls.

“That’s us, we don’t have any superstars,” coach Ken Eriksen said. “We’ve got to be able to disperse the ball … we’re that type of team and if we play that way, I think we’ll be all right.”

Sophomore Juli Weber got the scoring rolling in the fourth. Weber reached on a single and scored on a passed ball after groundouts by Spivey

and freshman Lauren Evans advanced her to third.

The Bulls added more runs in the fifth after sophomore Kristen Wyckoff (RBI-triple) and Weber (RBI-single) both knocked hits through the gap to score two.

Senior D’Anna Devine and freshman Astin Donovan both scored in the seventh on a throwing error with Weber reaching on a fielder’s choice.

With her ninth home run of the season, Spivey moved into a tie for sixth all-time at USF with 23 for her career.

Spivey has already driven in 11 more runs at this point than she did in all of 2014.

But good offense is nothing without solid pitching, and the Bulls’ were able to deliver.

Redshirt freshman Susan Wysocki threw four scoreless innings and allowed only three hits before senior Karla Claudio and junior Erika Nunn relieved her.

“To get a win on the road this time of year, I thought it was really good,” Eriksen said.

With her ninth home run of the season, junior Lee Ann Spivey moved into a tie for sixth all-time at USF with 23 for her career.

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“I think it’s real important that they were able to be comfortable being uncomfortable today.”

The Bulls (32-12, 3-4) now move to 21-2 in midweek

games and will look to keep that momentum going as they travel to Gainesville for an instate rematch against the No. 1 Gators.

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First-place USF to host ECU

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

USF will look to remain atop the AAC standings when it resumes conference play this weekend at home against East Carolina.

On paper, the Pirates (20-13, 3-3) have the advantage in multiple categories, including batting average and ERA. Perhaps the biggest discrepancy between the teams is the number of players with exceptional batting averages.

Seven Pirates are batCoach Mark Kingston has led the Bulls to a 22-11-1 record and ting at least .300, while first place in the AAC thus far. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU catcher Levi Borders is

the lone Bull to achieve that mark. Borders is hitting .325 and was just a double shy of hitting for the cycle in USF’s previous outing Tuesday.

Left fielder Luke Lowery leads the Pirates with a .381 batting average, eight home runs and 31 RBIs. ECU has the secondhighest team batting average behind UCF with .296 and the third-lowest ERA at 2.75.

On the other hand, USF (22-11-1, 5-1) is seventh among eight teams with a .249 batting average and sixth with a 3.93 ERA.

The Bulls have won seven of their past 10 games, but are coming off a 13-7 loss to FIU, whereas the Pirates have lost six of their past 10 games, but are fresh off a 7-5 win over Campbell.

ECU has also had an explosive offense this season. In the Pirates’ 20 wins, they’ve outscored their opponents 166-55.

Eleven of those games were won by at least five runs.

The action begins Friday at 6:30 p.m. at the USF Baseball Stadium, continues Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and concludes Sunday at 1 p.m.