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University decides ‘It’s On Us’ Researchers identify two more bodies at Dozier According to the White House Council on Women and Girls, one in five women has been sexually assaulted while in college. GRAPHIC/INFOGR.AM Obama’s unveiling of the cam- accompanied by campaign n paign Sept. 19, USF adminis- slogans. Posters will feature tration received emails invit- student leaders and role moding them to take part in the els promoting the message of campaign. community.

“I think it’s a good message “I think fraternities need to that it is on all of us. I think voice their positions because, that the development of com- on college campuses, a lot of munity at USF is very impor- what you hear is associated

By Brandon Shaik tant,” USF Dean of Students with fraternity and sorority life, A S S T . N E W S E D I T O R Michael Freeman said. “Any and with drinking,” Freeman time there is an opportunity to said. “They get a bad (reputaAmid allegations of universi- underscore that one of our pri- tion) — deservedly or not — ties across the country failing mary goals here is to take care and if it’s not there, then it’s in athletics. I’m looking for ways to manage accusations of sex- of each other is important.”

As part of the campaign, to showcase fraternities as a ual assault and violence, the White House announced the students are encouraged to positive, that there are men of “It’s On Us” campaign to com- take the pledge on ItsOnUs. character that have standards, bat future instances of sexual org. Students can expect to that value women and don’t see campaign posters and vid- degrade others.” assault on campuses.

Greek life and athletics are USF will join over 200 col- eos popping up in residence leges nationwide to bring the halls, department websites not the only groups that will take part in the campaign. campaign to campus with the and buildings on campus.

On Thursday afternoon, Nanci Newton, director of goal of embracing a community that recognizes preventing two students from each Greek the USF Center for Victim and Violence acts of violence as everyone’s council took the pledge and Advocacy posed for posters that will dis- Prevention, said the campaign responsibility.

Following President Barack play members in their letters

USF joins national campaign against sexual assault on college campuses.

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Animal testing complaint filed against USF Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), an Ohio-based animal rights group, has filed a federal complaint against USF for a violation of federal animal testing regulations that resulted in the death of a primate during a university study.

The complaint stems from a diabetes study conducted at the university last year.

According to an article in the Tampa Tribune, the university released a statement citing one in April 2013 and one in December 2013, in which water was withheld from a

number of research primates overnight.

SAEN has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture for an official investigation and is seeking the $10,000 maximum fine per incident of abuse. SAEN has estimated that the fines could total more than $100,000, according to the Tampa Tribune.

The university self-reported the violation to federal authorities in August 2013 and according to the university, federal authorities accepted the corrective steps taken by the uni-

versity following the incident.

USF did not identify the primary researcher in their statement.

“As an institution, USF believes in the respectful and ethical treatment of animals in research projects,” the university told the Tribune. “The university has a vigorous review and training process. USF will continue to abide by all state and federal laws and guidelines.”

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USF researchers identified two additional bodies, including the first black boy buried at the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida.

The remains of Thomas Varnadoe, 13, and Earl Wilson, 12, bring the total number of children identified to three. Both boys were found in an unmarked grave on the north side of the campus and their remains will be returned to their families.

The identifications were made through DNA samples collected

by USF researches and matched at the University of North Texas Health Science Center.

“It’s just remarkable that we were able to find that needle in a haystack so we could find closure for these boys,” State Sen. Kelli Stargel said at the press conference Thursday afternoon.

Despite earlier claims that the cemeteries at the school were segregated, the body of Wilson was found “fairly close” to Owen Smith, the first boy identified by USF researcher Erin Kimmerle and her team last month.

Wilson was admitted to the reform school in 1944 and after only two months, he and eight other boys were moved into the “sweat box” as punishment.

Kimmerle said documents analyzed by researchers show that only black boys at the school were sentenced to be confined to the 7-by-10-foot enclosure.

According to court documents from the time, Wilson was killed by four of the eight students confined to the same sweat box.

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Staff union negotiations suspended as talks get personal

By Wesley Higgins N E W S

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Contract negotiations were suspended between university officials and the staff union Thursday due to frustrations over the clarity of each side’s demands and motivations.

Though Thursday’s negotiations were allotted two more hours than usual, the meeting ended in less than an hour.

Much of the discussion revolved around whether some clauses, already found in university rules and regulations, should also be included in the staff contract.

Hector Ramos, chief negotiator for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), said the contract should be an accessible, primary source for questions staff may have about their rights.

“If someone gets hurt, they should be able to go to the contract to see what their rights are, what’s expected of them and what’s expected of (USF),” he said. “If you say you’re doing it, and you have no problem doing it, put it in the contract.”

John Dickinson, chief nego-

tiator for the university administration, said adding existing clauses from university rules and regulations to the contract would be redundant and unnecessary.

He also said the contract was too long and complicated to be claimed more accessible than university rules and regulations.

“The information can easily be accessed through the Internet,” he said. “They can be pulled up just as easily as anything. It’s there and it’s accessible.”

USF’s AFSCME President Susie Shannon said the university officials must understand that many staff union members do not have readily-available Internet access.

“I’ve looked through policies and procedures, and I’ve only been getting better at it because I’ve been doing it for a while,” she said. “People need to know and they shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to find information that governs their job.”

Dickinson proposed that instead of changing the existing contract, the university would provide a human resources employee who would assist staff in finding requested information.

“People wouldn’t have to go on their own into what is like the Library of Congress to find some-

thing,” he said. “That wouldn’t be fair and we don’t want that to happen.”

Ramos said this would be somewhat acceptable, though he found it needlessly stubborn not to write the language into the contract.

Negotiators mentioned worker’s compensation most in this respect, an issue brought to the negotiation earlier this month when Ramos asked for the staff policy to equal that of the faculty union.

Dickinson also said the staff union shouldn’t expect agreements because they were provided to the faculty union, specifically regarding allowing Shannon eight hours of her 40-hour workweek to focus on union business.

“We’re just asking eight hours a week to resolve conflicts, not union business, not to organize, not to send out literature,” Ramos said.

Dickinson said the university shouldn’t pay Shannon to handle union business on university time.

This makes the universities pay, he said, for what unions typically pay for by using the revenue from union dues.

Furthermore, USF is paying on

New USFSM regional chancellor named USF President Judy Genshaft appointed Sandra Stone as regional chancellor of USF Sarasota-Manatee on Friday.

Stone will begin Nov. 1 and will replace Arthur Guilford, who retired in July.

Previously vice president for academic affairs at Dalton State College in Georgia, Stone will take on the responsibility of the principal leader of USFSM. Stone began her career as a medical social worker, and holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and psychology and a master’s degree in psychology from the University of West Georgia (UWG). She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from Emory University

and received a post-doctoral certification in organizational behavior from Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business.

Stone was director of planning and research at the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice from 1992 to 1996, and then moved to UWG in 1996 to become an assistant professor of sociology. In 2006, as UWG’s associate vice president for academic affairs, her $40 million budget provided leadership to the university’s honors program, distance learning, graduate school and more.

She then served as interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at UWG before moving to Dalton State

in 2010. Stone has also worked as a senior research associate for both Rollins School of Public Health and the Centers for Disease control.

Her work at Dalton State included helping to create the college’s first online degree program, establishing their first Faculty Senate and implementing new programs in psychology and interdisciplinary studies.

“USFSM is clearly a special place with an exciting future,” Stone said in a press release Friday. “I am grateful for the opportunity to help shape that future alongside our talented faculty, students and supporters in Sarasota-Manatee.”

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AFSCME’s behalf, for the union to negotiate.

Dickinson said the university understands if AFSCME cannot afford proper representation, but revenue streams should be transparent to prove it.

“We want to see how much of that revenue stream is going to Washington D.C. to pay for people who drive around in limousines or take charter flights, and are not being spent on this campus,” he said.

Ramos said he disagreed with this characterization as malicious misrepresentation, and that revenue streams were publically available to university administration.

Resentment over the perceived disrespect re-emerged further into negotiations when discussing a clarification that would make it punishable for a supervisor to publicly embarrass an employee and force reprimands to be conducted in private.

In previous negotiations earlier this month Ramos said staff members issued several com-

plaints against supervisors from the Marshall Student Center, Physical Plant and College of Education.

Dickinson said the university is willing to and will look into the complaints.

“This is not us against you,” he said. “In good faith, we don’t want our hard workers to be mistreated in any way.”

However, Ramos said he questioned whether the university did care.

Before the two negotiating teams took a break, Dickinson said the bargaining was becoming too personal for constructive agreements. Nonetheless, he reiterated that the university was willing to soon propose a pay increase.

“We’re going to do our best because we know that is critical to our negotiations,” he said.

Before bargaining could resume, the staff union decided to suspend negotiations until Oct. 6 to prepare counter agreements.

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there’s fire.”

“I’m overwhelmed that we were able to achieve our goals and remove (him) from the atrocityridden ground,” Varnadoe said.

Both the Varnadoe and Wilson families said they will not pursue criminal charges in the deaths of their family members.

When asked whether or not the state would re-inter the bodies of boys who could not be identified, Stargel said her personal belief was that the state has a responsibility to do so.

“Obviously we need to work with local officials … to see what best to do with them,” Stargel said.

Researchers have been granted access to the now-closed Dozier School for Boys until August 2015.

Kimmerle said they plan to go back to the school to do further research and testing next summer.

Antoinette Jackson, a USF anthropology professor and member of the Dozier research team, said she will hold a discussion Nov. 18 to explore the historical context and provide a narrative to what was going on at the school when many of the boys were buried there.

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Medical evidence from the trial suggested the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head.

Kimmerle said researchers were unable to determine a cause of death.

Wilson’s nephew, Wayne, didn’t know that Earl had left the house and never came back, but said he is glad that uncertainty surrounding what exactly happened has come to an end.

“It was a big relief to (my mother), me and my brothers,” Wilson said. “And to think of all the brothers and sisters who passed without ever knowing.”

Varnadoe was sent to the Dozier School for Boys a decade earlier, in September of 1934, along with his older brother, Hubert. According to Varnadoe’s death certificate, he died of pneumonia 48 days later, despite his family’s claims that he was in good health.

Varnadoe’s nephew Glen thanked researchers for their perseverance and quoted what Florida Sen. Bill Nelson told him when he first decided to pursue the truth about what happened to his uncle: “Where there is smoke,

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should feature student groups that are often overlooked as role models, such as international students.

“Most of the problems are being done by a very small number of people that give everyone else in a particular group a bad name,” Newton said. “A way to combat that is to show the good ones, to show good people. That’s part of what the ‘It’s On Us’ campaign does.”

The campaign was introduced in the midst of claims that colleges and universities nationwide are violating Title IX policies.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination in any educational environment that receives federal funding on the basis of sex, including sexual harassment, sexual battery and sexual assault.

Most recently, an alleged Title IX violation occurred at Columbia University when

student Emma Sulkowicz garnered national attention for carrying her dorm mattress around campus in protest of the school’s failure to punish her accused rapist.

Additionally, Obama reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act last year, for the third time in its 20-year existence. It was also strengthened with the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, which protected victims of sexual assault and violence on campus.

“We have a man in the White House who has two teenage daughters who also cares about these issues, so they are in the center of the arena right now,” Newton said. “They’re making this issue a priority, so they’re finding ways to inspire people to come up with ideas.”

The “It’s On Us” campaign is not USF’s first involvement in raising awareness and fighting domestic violence on campus. The USF N.I.T.E. student organization is a student-run group that aims to protect victims of

sexual abuse, domestic violence and human trafficking.

In addition to regular campus-safety inspections and service projects, N.I.T.E. organizes Walk A Mile In Her Shoes, a men’s walk to end violence against women.

USF also hosts bystander education programs that aim to cultivate a more aware and active student body.

Freeman said he feels the “It’s On Us” campaign correlates with the message that USF already embodies.

“Students are here to get an education and set themselves up for success in the future. The reason I work on a college campus is because I care about students and I want to help them get to where they want to go,” he said. “Faculty are here because of their learning and their willingness to share … the degree to which we recognize and reinforce that notion; we really become a community that takes care of each other.”

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usf brings jazz to monday nights

By Alexandra Hollander C O R R E S P O N D E N T

The USF School of Music is bringing world-class jazz musicians to USF through the Monday Night Jazz Series. The concert series will give the community an opportunity to see these performers live, with students playing alongside them.

“USF Monday Night Jazz Series is a guest-artist series where we bring in world-class jazz artists to play with either the student groups or faculty groups,” said Jack Wilkins, director of USF jazz studies.

“Then they also come and work with the students, like a master’s class, or they come in and do rehearsals or they teach.”

The Monday Night Jazz Series began in 1996 and is held on the last Monday of every month, from September to April. The first show will be held tonight at 7:30 in the USF Concert Hall.

“We always had a guest-

artist series and for a little while we were just doing one artist per semester,” Wilkins said. “We thought it would make sense to start a series and tried to find a night that was not being used for other things.”

“The series gives people a chance to hear these world-class jazz artists that come to Tampa when they may not otherwise.”

Jack Wilkins Director of USF jazz studies

In addition to the jazz artists from around the country, each concert features the USF Jazz Ensemble and the USF Jazztet, which played a European Jazz Festival Tour in the United Kingdom during the summer.

“There is no amount of learning you can do in a classroom that is better than experiencing professionals coming in and playing with you,” said Eli Ponder-Twardy, a jazz studies major and Jazztet Member. “… It is nothing that you can put in a textbook.”

Gary Smulyan, a wellknown jazz artist who plays the baritone saxophone, will kick off this year’s series.

He is currently the baritone saxophonist for the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, in addition to having played with the Dave Holland Big Band and Octet, and the Dizzy Gillespie AllStar Big Band.

“The series gives people a chance to hear these worldclass jazz artists that come to Tampa when they may not otherwise,” Wilkins said.

Smulyan is one of the few featured jazz artists set to perform this year, and is certainly not the first wellknown jazz artist to perform in the series. Other artists including Maria Schneider

The first concert of this year’s Monday Night Jazz Series will feature saxophonist Gary Smulyan. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE and Jim Snidero have also performed at USF’s Monday Night Jazz.

“One thing the arts do an outstanding job of is getting people more invested in their communities, and that translates to economic wellbeing and people being more involved where they live,” Ponder-Twardy said.

Whether people have listened to jazz for years or if they have never listened to it before, this series allows the community to get more involved with USF and the School of Music.

“World-class jazz is something that the School of Music and the jazz program can do for the community,” Wilkins said.

The next Monday Night Jazz concert will be a tribute to jazz composer and pianist Horace Silver.

T i c ke t s can be purchased online at boxoffice.arts.usf.edu, or over the phone in advance for $8-12. They can also be purchased at the box office the night of the show for $1015.

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USF adds series with Northern Illinois

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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USF Athletic Director Mark Harlan announced USF has added a home-and-home series with Northern Illinois University for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.

The Bulls will host NIU on Sept. 10, 2016 at Raymond James Stadium in the two teams’ fourth matchup. USF will then travel to Huskie Stadium in DeKalb, Illinois on Sept. 23, 2017 to conclude the series.

NIU has won the MidAmerican Conference championship in two of the last four seasons and has been to six-

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tackles were missed.

“Our guys played with great technique and fundamentals,” Taggart said. “I know in the first half, you saw eight, nine guys on the ball every time the guy was getting tackled. In the second half, you saw a lot of broken tackles.”

Gordon was limited to 50 yards on 17 carries in the first half, but was able to rush for 131 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries to finish the game.

“We played with a lot of passion and effort,” junior safety Jamie Byrd said. “We had the running back a little confused and he was a little frustrated, but in the second half we gave up a couple of big runs.”

straight bowl games.

The Huskies haven’t lost in their home stadium since Sept.

27, 2009, winning 27-straight home games in the meantime.

“We continue to build one of the most competitive non-conference schedules in the nation for our football program in the coming years,” Harlan said in a press release. “Northern Illinois ranks among the winningest programs in college football over the last several seasons and fits well alongside the challenging opponents we have previously announced.”

The Bulls currently lead the Huskies 2-1 in their all-time series, with the Bulls winning the last matchup 27-3 in the International Bowl in 2010.

Those big runs may have had to do with adjustments that the Wisconsin offense made at halftime, which the Bulls couldn’t counter.

“In the first half, I think we were getting great penetration,” sophomore safety Nate Godwin said. “We were filling the gaps, everyone was swarming to the ball. In the second half, I think they adjusted a bit and they picked up some blocks they weren’t getting in the first half.”

Despite the loss, White said he wouldn’t have changed anything about how the Bulls played Saturday.

“I have no regrets in this game,” White said. “We made the plays we needed to make, we didn’t back down, we fought and I’m proud of my boys for that.”

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Letter to the Editor ‘If medicinal marijuana is legalized, it can help people like myself ... ‘ My name is Kayla Berdis. I was diagnosed with ganglioglioma, a brain tumor, at the age of 12. By the age of 15, I had undergone three separate surgeries.

If you were to look at me, I would appear to be a normal person. But my brain is missing a section where the tumor was and this causes many complications. I have postsecondary narcolepsy without cataplexy and I can have a seizure at any time for the rest of my life due to the scar tissue.

I am currently on medication and will be for the rest of my life. I take so much medication that I have a hard time feeling normal. I have issues processing information and it takes me double the average time to study and take tests.

My brain will never be able to process, obtain and hold information, as I have short-term memory loss.

My new normal life is taking medications. If I do not

take my medication, I can sleep all day and may possibly have a seizure. I am currently taking Nuvigil, which allows me to stay awake and process information, Topamax, which is an anti-seizure medication that also causes depression, and Citalopram, an anti-depressant medication to combat the side effects of Topamax.

Seizures can occur without warning and no doctor can know when or if it will happen again. The story of Charlotte Figi is about a woman who had seizures every day that lasted 3 hours or more.

However, once she started taking cannabis oil, her outlook dramatically improved.

Her seizures are now under control, she can eat and drink what she wants and can even sleep through the night and think clearly at all times.

If medicinal marijuana is legalized, it can help people like myself get off medications

that make them feel terrible.

We’ll no longer suffer from depression and won’t have to fear a seizure at any given time. We all want to feel like Charlotte feels.

I know some people are against medical marijuana, but those opposed to this amendment need to look at the people who suffer from conditions and complications and see how incredibly different their lives are. Others can take everyday life for granted, but I cannot. My body will never be the same. I will always be on medication. I will never feel normal.

If this amendment to legalize medical marijuana passes, I will be able to feel like Charlotte does: happy. The one thing in my life I would love to feel is happy and find my own way of being normal.

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USF falls to No. 17 Wisconsin after rough second half

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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Trailing No. 17 Wisconsin 20-10 to open the fourth quarter of USF’s 27-10 loss, sophomore quarterback Mike White hiked the ball and quickly looked roughly 15 yards down the left side of the field where he saw redshirt freshman fullback Kennard Swanson wide open.

Swanson hauled in White’s pass and raced 52 yards down the left sideline until he was met by freshman safety Lubern Figaro at the Wisconsin 17-yard line.

Rather than going out of bounds, Swanson lowered his shoulder and leaned in to take the tackle head on.

Figaro delivered a hit that left Swanson writhing in pain and the ball free on the turf where redshirt freshman Hayden Biegel quickly scooped it up.

Swanson’s fumble, which coach Willie Taggart said broke the team’s back, exemplified a second half that was riddled with mistakes by the Bulls.

“It was a nice play and we

got it down there in the red zone and it could’ve really changed the momentum of that football game,” Taggart said. “We could have punched it in there and have been within three points in that ballgame.”

Swanson’s fumble marked the second turnover by the Bulls in a game where Taggart said the Bulls’ own mistakes did them in.

“You can’t beat a top-25 team with 11 penalties and two turnovers, at their place,” Taggart said. “Hard to beat a team like that.”

After entering halftime with a 3-3 tie with the Badgers, USF was outscored 24-7 and outgained by 122 yards in the second half.

In addition to turnovers, USF limited its offensive production with penalties.

The Bulls incurred 11 penalties for 90 yards compared to the Badgers’ four penalties for 35.

“That’s one of the things we have to learn is how to do as a football team is keep the intensity up and keep matching them,” Taggart said. “We left too many plays out there,

USF had seven more penalties than Wisconsin in the Bulls’ 27-10 loss Saturday. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ ADAM MATHIEU

especially on third down. A lot of penalties came on third down and extended plays for them and I thought it wore us down.”

While the Bulls’ offense struggled to find consistency throughout the game, the defense was able to hold the Badgers without a touchdown

until the third quarter.

The Bulls contained running back Melvin Gordon by bringing several defenders to the ball on each play to ensure no

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Moalosi’s goal gives the Bulls the win in overtime

The Bulls’ 1-0 win marked the second overtime win this season.

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As the ball was punched out by UConn redshirt junior goalkeeper Jacob Wagmeister, USF senior Edwin Moalosi saw a chance to end the game and drilled the ball into the net to give USF a 1-0 win in the second minute of overtime Saturday evening.

The Bulls’ offense was held in check early, only taking two shots compared to UConn’s four, but in the second half the tables turned as the Bulls out-

shot the Huskies 8-2. Though they rifled off eight shots, USF was not able to net a goal.

Early in the overtime period, senior forward Lucas Baldin fired a shot on goal but was denied by Wagmeister. Moalosi was ready for the rebound, sending the ball past the outof-position goalkeeper, giving the Bulls their first conference win of the season.

It was Moalosi’s second goal of the season and seventh of his career. Baldin was awarded the assist.

Junior goalkeeper Spasoje

Stefanovic recorded three saves for the Bulls, bringing his save percentage to .774 and his number of shutouts to two.

Before Saturday’s game, USF had a 0-8-2 record against the Huskies because the Bulls were able to force a tie in both games last season.

The Bulls are now 4-3 (1-0) as the Huskies fall to 2-5-1 (0-1).

USF plays a threegame homestand starting with Georgia Southern on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Corbett Stadium.