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USF Graduate Assistants United co-presidents Josh Lenes and Megan Flocken (pictured) negotiated with university officials Friday for the latest graduate assistant collective bargaining argeement. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE is a rite of passage.

Megan Flocken, USF-GAU

By Wesley Higgins N E W S E D I T O R On Friday, USF Graduate co-president and graduate Assistants United (USF-GAU) assistant for the philosophy USF graduate assistants said began negotiations with uni- department, said key issues they are exhausted of the age- versity officials for the 2014- were poor wages, costly stuold assumption that living in 17 graduate assistant collec- dent fees and an inflexible poverty during graduate school tive bargaining agreement. n See BARGAIN on PAGE 2

Earlier this month, the current contracted campus security, Allied Barton, lost its contract with USF to U.S. Security Associates.

Under Florida state law, USF could only contract Allied Barton a set number of times before issuing a competitive solicitation. U.S. Security Associates was awarded the contract through this process, according to the USF Office of Administrative Services.

U.S. Security Associates is a security company with over 160 branch offices around the country, trained in threat assessment, parking lot security, student safety awareness, theft prevention, personal student escort and emergency weather response.

The company is also ranked

by G.I. jobs in the Top 100 military employers.

— Staff report

USF to Oxford: Digging for knowledge USF student earns scholarship for master’s degree at Oxford. n

By Quincy J. Walters S T A F F

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A golden idol hidden within an ancient temple, the sound of cracking a whip and a fedora-wearing adventurer are a few things popularly associated with archaeology.

One USF student, however, is setting out on her own archaeological adventure —albeit more academic than Indiana Jones’.

Jessica Goodman will pursue a master’s in archaeological science at the University of Oxford this fall, thanks to a scholarship awarded to 10 students from Florida state

universities.

“In academics, everyone’s heard of Oxford,” she said. “It’s known as one of the world’s best universities.”

Goodman graduated this spring with a dual degree in anthropology and interdisciplinary classical civilizations.

While Goodman was shopping around for Ph.D. programs at top U.S. institutions, including Boston University, Johns Hopkins, University of California Berkeley and University of Chicago, she heard about the Frost scholarship from USF’s Office of National Scholarships.

In March, she received rejection letters from all except University of Chicago’s master’s program.

Goodman said she felt a feeling of “uncertainty” for the next month,

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Jessica Goodman’s interest in archaeology takes her around the world, from Israeli ruins to the University of Oxford. PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

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unpaid leave policy.

“We have administrative figures who are making six figures,” she said. “… And yet our GAs who help this university run are making $9,800 a year.”

Flocken said graduate assistants have duties that include holding office hours, conducting research and helping instruct classes, in addition to taking graduate level courses.

They are both the graders and the graded.

In return, the university covers tuition for nine credit hours during fall and spring semesters and six credit hours during summer semester. As of 2013, 9-month employees also earn a minimum of $9,180 and covered health insurance for those working over 10 hours a week.

In addition, full-time graduate assistants may not pursue outside employment and must maintain a GPA of 3.00 or higher.

Josh Lenes, USF-GAU copresident and graduate assistant for the psychology department, said the balance between employee and student at this base level of pay is near unmanageable.

“How many undergraduates would imagine the teaching assistant or instructor in

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until she received an email from Oxford encouraging her to pursue a research-oriented graduate program.

The scholarship is for students studying subjects in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.

Goodman, who focuses on biblical history and archaeology, said archaeology is a science often misunderstood.

“I get two big questions: ‘Is it like Indiana Jones?’ or ‘Have you found any dinosaurs?’”

Indiana Jones, she says, is the worst example of an archaeologist.

“He’s not even really an archaeologist,” Goodman said. “He’s a crime-fighting antiquarian.”

She said archaeology expresses

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front of the room is earning pay to the university, such near-poverty wages,” he said. as Activity and Service (A&S) “That’s really the case.” fees and lab fees. Flocken said Effective Aug. 1, 9-month nearly $2,000 in fees comgraduate assistants at the mas- prises up to 12 percent of a ter’s level will begin earning graduate assistant’s salary. a minimum of $9,880 and “It’s a backdoor tuition that 9-month graduate assistants at we can’t really anticipate. the doctoral level will earn a You’re almost sucker punched,” minimum of $11,155. she said. “We’re being charged Additionally, Lenes said a fee to work. It seems very graduate unjust.” a s s i s t a n t s “You are unfortunately During want a $700 caught in between the n e g o t i a s t i p e n d tions, Vice increase public now that sees P r o v o s t across the of Human board for education as a luxury, R e s o u r c e s full-time Facilities rather than a social or and graduate Kofi Glover assistants. a capital investment said calling Lenes also student fees said another an employnecessity” key request ment tax or is unpaid a backdoor Kofi Glover leave of Vice Provost of Human Resources and Facilities tuition was absence up misleading. to six weeks, such as in the “All students pay fees, why event of childbirth or serious (call) it an employment tax?” health problems. Currently, he said. graduate assistants are allowed Glover said he identified paid leave for up to five days. with USF-GAU, recalling his “Imagine that you go to the own time as a graduate assishospital to have a baby, let’s tant living in poverty, calling it say, and you’re in the hospital “nothing new.” for five days,” he said. “You “While they are also workcould lose your contract on the ing for the university, they sixth day and lose your health are also getting education,” he insurance, lose your tuition said. “It’s a two-way street.” waiver and lose your whole As of Friday, Glover said entire appointment.” there is a lot to consider and The third important pro- must take time to weigh the posal aims to reduce student demands against the interests fees graduate assistants must and budget of the university

before negotiations continue.

Though Glover sympathized with USF-GAU, he said the poor status of Florida education is to blame.

“You are unfortunately caught in between the public now that sees education as a luxury, rather than a social or a capital investment necessity,” he said. “You have a governor and legislatures who believe that you should be paying for your education rather than the public.”

Combined with the debt from credit cards and unsubsidized loans needed to stay afloat, Flocken said the burdens also discourage pursuit of higher education entirely.

“There’s no incentive,” she said. “There’s actually many people I know in my own department who are wonderful, bright lights of people who make incredible instructors here, but they can’t afford to stay.”

Nevertheless, Flocken said some instructors chose to be “exploited” because they care deeply about all aspects of education.

“We love the research that we’re doing, we love to teach students, we love the disciplines that we work for and we want to promote good scholarship,” she said. “I’d love to overturn the illusion that Florida is not a bastion of intelligent academic work.”

more important narratives than the ones depicted in fiction, with a more powerful connection to culture.

“It’s interesting to see how people interacted, how different kingdoms came into power and how this set up the world in which the monotheistic, Judeo-Christian traditions emerged,” she said.

Looking at the mistakes of ancient civilizations can help determine how to preserve modern ones, she said.

“History shows how interregional dependency led to the collapse of multiple civilizations — when certain economic and geological and environmental conditions have led to the collapse of one civilization, it affected all the others,” Goodman said. “In our current, very interdependent world society, it’s a lesson we need to take into consideration. I feel like a lot of places should try

wants to achieve two goals after studying at Oxford: delve deeper into the realm of academia and inspire others to pursue their academic dreams.

“I hope I’m inspiring other students, including my friends, to apply for the Frost scholarship in future years, because people think, ‘Oh, that’s difficult to get into’ or, ‘That’s really expensive,’” she said.

“This enables a lot of students, who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford or who otherwise would not consider going to Oxford, to have an opportunity to study there.”

After Goodman finishes her studies at Oxford, she “looks forward to reapplying” to Boston University, Johns Hopkins, UC-Berkeley and the University of Chicago.

But this time, with a master’s degree from Oxford listed on her resume.

to become more independent, because of that potential collapse.”

Her interest in archaeology began in high school world history and she started watching the History Channel to supplement her curiosity.

“Back when I was in high school, they still had decent stuff on,” she said. “I saw ‘Egyptian Week,’ where it played entirely Egyptian history and archaeology shows before it started playing ‘Ancient Aliens’ all the time.”

While at USF, she was able to cultivate her archaeological education, taking part in two excavations in Israel. One of these led to her accidentally castrating a fertility statue with a pickaxe.

“It’s a good conversation starter,” she said.

Goodman’s key to success is simple, as she said she just wants to be the best that she can be.

Ultimately, Goodman said she

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Water facts: • 62 percent of the average human body is composed of it.

• All life depends on it.

• 72 percent of surface area of the Earth is covered with it • But 97 percent of the water is salty and not suited for drinking.

• 2.5 percent is fresh water.

• 70 percent of the freshwater is locked in ice caps.

• Less than 1 percent of the world’s fresh water is readily.

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E3 REVEALS NEXT GEN CO-OPS

By Caitlin Lochner C O R R E S P O N D E N T

The annual gaming conference Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) showcased several new and upcoming titles this month at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This year, the revealed games focused on cooperative gameplay as well as refining graphics to match the capabilities of new consoles such as the Xbox One. Time to save up and make some new friends for these upcoming games: “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” The highlight of Microsoft’s press conference was “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,” which won IGN’s People’s Choice Award for the second year in a row. Live gameplay revealed the role-playing game’s (RPG) gorgeous graphics as the main character hunts a griffin. The game is the third installment in the series, based on and taking place after Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels of the same name. The game’s developer, CD Projekt RED, described the world of “Witcher 3” as “20 percent bigger than the current standard, Skyrim,” an impressive feat that will allow for more exploration and options for players.

“Dragon Age: Inquisition” EA opened its press conference with a trailer for the next installment of one of

its most distinguished series, “Dragon Age: Inquisition,” with live theme music performed on cello. The world is at war, and it us up to the Inquisition to set it right again. In this RPG, as in the games before it, every choice made affects the game’s progression as well as the world around you. With, as its website describes, “beautiful vistas” and the ability to “explore hidden caves, defeat truly monumental creatures, and shape the world around you,” this game is one to anticipate.

“Far Cry 4” Ubisoft revealed the opening of the next installment of the popular Far Cry series, “Far Cry 4.” In the preview, the main character is on a bus headed to the Himalayas with a fake passport before it is violently stopped. Previous games in the series have been first-person shooters with an emphasis on world exploration, switching between main characters and settings between each game. Not much information was given on the gameplay or plot of the new installment, though it was announced that players will be able to co-op with friends who don’t own the game.

“Destiny” Sony stole the show with “Destiny,” an expansive first-person shooter game in which you play as a guardian of Earth’s last city. Travel

through the long-abandoned ruins of the galaxy, from Mars to Venus, as you and your allies attempt to defeat Earth’s enemies. This game boasts sharp, beautiful graphics, complete customization of characters and an array of playing modes, including campaign, cooperative, social, public and competitive multiplayer. “Destiny” was designed to be a multiplayer game from the start, according to creators. Public events may be stumbled upon in game, allowing players to join up with one another spontaneously to complete tasks before returning right where they left off in their game.

“Splatoon” Nintendo’s “Splatoon” was revealed as an online fouron-four action game in which players change between squid and human as they shoot to claim the most territory and blast their enemies. Become a squid to move through your team’s ink more quickly and switch to a human to shoot.

You can even move through the playing field vertically by spraying the wall with ink and moving through it as a squid. You can also splatter your enemies in an explosion of ink, which covers more ground for your team.

Fans may be disappointed that all console games presented at E3 were almost exclusively for Xbox One, PS4, or Wii U and are not backward compatible.

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Nevins named to Team USA

Sara Nevins pitched 12 1/3 innings and struck out 14 batters in her first year with the USA Softball Women’s National Team.

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Sara Nevins’ outstanding career at USF ended last season, but she will get another chance to play for coach Ken Eriksen.

Nevins was the only member of the AAC to be selected for the USA Softball Women’s National Team on Sunday. In her first experience with Team USA, Nevins helped win a silver medal at the 2013 World Cup along with a gold medal at the 2013 Mayor’s Cup and Pan Am Games Qualifier.

The team will prepare for the International Softball Federation Women’s World Championships by playing in exhibitions and three tournaments.

The Championships will take place Aug. 15-24 in Haarlem, Netherlands.

Twenty-four players tried out for the team this year, but there were only 17 roster spots for Eriksen’s assistants to choose.

The first tournament the team will compete in is the General Tire World Cup of Softball IX in Irvine, California from July 7-13.

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USF-record she set in 2013.

“That was the most depressed time for me in track, for sure,” Anderson said.

But Anderson used her disappointing finish in New Mexico as a wake-up call. She recovered from her injury and began to take her training more seriously again.

Arthritis isn’t something that can be completely cured, but during the season she learned how to manage it with the aid of medication and rehabilitation exercises.

Anderson said she is glad she had to work through her weaknesses earlier in the season so she could peak at the perfect time.

Anderson was returning to her record-setting form after tying for third in the NCAA East Preliminaries and qualifying for the NCAA Outdoor Championships again.

However, two days before she was set to compete, she hurt her knee again in practice.

“Two days before nationals, I was doing box jumps and I hurt it,” Anderson said. “It crunched a little because it’s bone-on-bone. It was really inflamed.”

After struggling through the arthritis all season, Anderson knew

how to manage her knee so she could be ready to compete. She said she uses lubrication shots to ease the pain and swelling, but for big events she said adrenaline takes over for her.

“When I compete, nothing bothers me,” Anderson said. “I could be hurt, but I won’t feel it.

My legs will get tired before I let myself focus on my knee.”

Anderson has had a full season to learn how to handle expectations, pressure and injury. This week, she will look to use this experience to her advantage when she heads to Sacramento, California for the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

To participate in the event, a woman has to jump at least 6-0 at any event throughout the season. Anderson cleared 6-0 for the first time this season on her way to placing eighth in the NCAA Championships.

Even though this event will be her last of the year, Anderson said she is just living in the moment rather than letting the pressure get to her, as it did earlier this season.

Anderson will get her chance to prove that she is still peaking this week at the USA Championships, which takes place from Wednesday until Saturday.

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US needs clear, federal LGBT Murderers have no place in non-discrimination laws Afghanistan’s vice presidential seat

Though the runoff presidential election earlier this month may result in a United Nations investigation, Afghanistan’s government could finally renew its citizens’ confidence with candidates that inspire hope for the presidency: Abdullah Abdullah, M.D., and Ashraf Ghani, a globally recognized intellectual who led Afghanistan’s post-Taliban economic recovery.

Yet both of the candidates have chosen war criminals as running mates.

Abdul Dostum, condemned as a “known killer” by Ghani and whose appointment by President Hamid Karzai as defense minister was an “unconscionable act” to Ghani, is Ghani’s choice for first vice president. In the custody of Dostum’s army, thousands of Taliban prisoners were starved to death and shot in shipping containers. He continues to

inspire controversy with his war crimes and inflammatory rhetoric, calling those who do not vote for Ghani “traitors.”

Though Mohammad Mohaqiq’s hunger strike in response to Karzai’s indifference to a Pashtun massacre of Hazara civilians in 2008 may seem commendable, it was done to advance ethnic, not humanitarian, interests. After the Taliban’s fall, he led a Hazara political party as it looted villages, raped women, and massacred Pashtun civilians. He has continued to pursue ethnic instead of national interests, calling Karzai an “illegitimate” president over Karzai’s refusal to give his tribe five cabinet posts. Mohaqiq is now Abdullah’s choice for second vice president.

Yet the U.S. refused to condemn any candidate in the wake of Karzai’s demands to keep foreigners out of Afghanistan’s electoral affairs. Security isn’t the only problem the U.S. must address. The government needs the support of its civilians to stem the insurgency, and an election where six of 11 campaigns and both campaigns in the runoff election are led by mass murderers isn’t helping.

The government’s ability to take the moral high ground is what distinguishes it from the Taliban. It has a sense of

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humanity diametrically opposed to the Taliban’s mass murder.

However, this is lost when murderers are the only options for the Afghan vice presidency.

According to a Gallup poll last year, 80 percent of Afghan civilians have confidence in the military, but there is little reason for a civilian to back the government instead of the Taliban when mass murderers are elected to public office. The civilian expects the government to try and punish murderers, not to be governed by them.

The image of the government has become so tarnished that the elections are saturated with negativity, a mirror image of the military — 80 percent have little or no confidence in Afghanistan’s elections, according to a Gallup poll.

The U.S. must take an active role in the electoral process.

Officials must be held accountable for human rights abuses to help forge a lasting government.

A government cannot continue to exist if it fails to choose between a democracy, where officials are accountable, and an autocracy, where all dissent is quashed.

Anhvinh Doanvo is an incoming freshman majoring in biomedical science.

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Since his repeal of the infamous Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy in 2011, which allowed gays, lesbians and bisexuals to openly serve in the military, President Barack Obama made a long-awaited move to protect the LGBT community.

Last Monday, Obama announced a plan to sign an executive order to bar federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating against employees based on sexual orientation and gender identity. According to Politico, the executive order would impact 28 million workers.

Congress has delayed voting on a similar measure, which would make Obama’s executive order unnecessary. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would have had broader protections than the executive order and was passed by the Senate, but has not made it past the Republicandominated House.

Whether Obama decided to issue the order to motivate Congress to move or to quicken the pace himself, explicit protection is needed to promise a nondiscriminatory environment for all workers, no matter the sexuality or gender they identify with.

Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner suggested the protections already exist under other laws and will not take ENDA to a vote. According to an article by Slate addressing this, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against sex discrimination, which some believe already includes antigay and anti-trans discrimination.

Still, crucial protection for 28 million people should be secured by more than an inference. Even though some court rulings have already considered Title VII as a protection against anti-gay discrimination, as the Slate article states, one shouldn’t have to rely on a technicality or an insinuation for protection.

Currently, only 17 states and the District of Columbia have full protection against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimi-

nation, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Only three have protection against sexual orientation discrimination.

The LGBT community cannot afford to lack federal protection in a majority of the country, especially with how widespread discrimination is.

According to a report by UCLA’s Williams Institute, 21 percent of LGBT employees faced discriminations in hiring, promotions and pay last year. A shocking 47 percent of transgender employees have dealt with similar discriminations.

Florida, unfortunately, is among the majority of the country, as it lacks statewide protection from discrimination against both sexual orientation and gender identity.

Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, Florida’s largest civil rights organization for the LGBT community, told the Miami Herald local ordinances are the primary protection against sexual orientation or gender identity discrimination.

A study by Equality Florida and the Equality Federation Institute shows, out of the approximate 536,000 LGBT adults in the state, 62 percent could be fired based on their gender identity and half for their sexual orientation.

According to the study, 38 percent of Floridians are covered by protections against both sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in the city or county they live in. Tampa is among these locations.

Protection against discrimination should extend to workers throughout the entire country and shouldn’t depend on where one lives or an assumption based on existing laws. Transparent discrimination protections would undeniably represent the LGBT community, and with the ENDA frozen in Congress, an executive order would not only be the next best step, but one desperately needed and long overdue.

Isabelle Cavazos is a junior majoring in English and Spanish.

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Track and Field

Anderson fights through lows to excel at high jump

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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Courtney Anderson knew she was a talented track athlete when she first attempted the high jump in seventh grade.

After she found quick success with the high jump, she honed her jumping by practicing with a local high school track team when they would come to her middle school. By the time she moved on to Mariner High School in Cape Coral, she held her middle school high jump record at 4-10.5.

As Anderson leaves USF, she has laid claim to more school records.

The former Bull holds both the indoor and outdoor high jump records for USF. Her outdoor high jump of 6-1.25 at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships was high enough to earn her national runner-up.

Anderson described the experience of becoming national runnerup as the happiest she’s ever been.

But with the success and jubilation of placing second at the biggest collegiate stage come the expectations and pressure of living up to that jump.

At the beginning of her senior season Anderson struggled with injuries and poor performance.

Only six months removed from her success at the championships, Anderson’s jumps were already starting to decline drastically.

“I just went into track this year expecting to be as good as I was last year,” Anderson said. “I didn’t get the training that I had before last year and we didn’t have a coach.”

Her success didn’t carry over from the previous season as she hoped. Anderson’s lack of training and arthritis in her knee caused her results to drop. The low point for her happened in New Mexico at the NCAA Indoor Championships.

She was only able to clear 5-6, which is 7.5 inches lower than the

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Courtney Anderson cleared six feet at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships to qualify for the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

USF confirms times for five football games On Thursday, USF announced specific times and television programming for the first four games of the season as well as the first conference game.

For the Bulls’ home opener against Western Carolina (2-10), kickoff will be at 7 p.m. on Aug. 30 at Raymond James Stadium, broadcast on ESPN3.

In the second home game of the season, the Bulls will host Maryland (7-6) at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 6. This game will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network.

In their third consecutive home game to begin the season, the Bulls will host North Carolina State (3-9) at 3:30 p.m. on Sept.13.

For the fourth game of the season, USF will get a chance to play in a primetime spot, hosting the UConn Huskies (3-9) on Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. This will be USF’s first conference game of the season and broadcast will take place on either ESPN or ESPN2.

USF will travel to Cincinnati to play the Bearcats (9-4) on Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. This game will potentially be broadcast on ESPN or ESPN2.

USF added that time and programming details for remaining games will be released as the season progresses.

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