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News Briefs Trump signs two executive orders

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Mere hours after his inauguration Friday, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders. The first sets the stage for the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act by allowing agency heads to waive or defer provisions pending a congressional repeal of the act, according to CBS. The second order he signed was to pull back discounts on fees for a federal mortgage program that helps middleclass homebuyers. According to CBS Money, about 1 in 5 mortgages is backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the program supports homebuyers with less-than-perfect credit scores.

Last week, FHA said these fees would be cut starting Friday, but the order redacted this discount indefinitely.

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New security system designed to keep threats out

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ver winter break, USF Facilities Planning and Management implemented a new safety system across campus to ensure the protection of students, faculty and staff on university grounds.

“We want to improve student safety during active threat events,” Aaron Nichols, assistant director of communications, said.

While faculty and staff might be aware of protective measures, students can be left in the dark.

Each building on campus is assigned a building manager, who is then expected to report to faculty and staff of the building to inform students of safety protocols, according to Nichols.

While safety is the utmost importance for Facilities Planning and Management, procedure can be lost in a moment of crisis.

The emergency door lock systems are an additive protection to the pre-existing building access control system.

Buildings on campus are locked daily with the program — in the event of a hostile situation, the red buttons can be pushed to “override” the scheduled locking and enact the entire building to be put on lockdown. This security measure for a stand-alone lecture hall, like ENA and ULH, will require two or more buttons to be installed.

Already 10 buttons are installed across campus, with an additional 10 projected to be installed within this year.

The funding for the buttons was leftover from

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The new emergency lock buttons are slowly appearing in lecture halls across campus as a step to ensure the safety of students.

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The USF Honors College will be getting a brand new building within the new housing complex, which is replacing the Andros Complex, and leaving its home in the John and Grace Allen building, according to Honors College Dean Charles Adams The Honors LLC, which is currently in Juniper-Poplar Hall, will also be moving to the new Summit Hall, Adams said. The new building, which in its current plans will be four stories, will be right next to Summit Hall. The design was done by Levent Kara, assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Community Design.

“The design responds to the challenge of developing a nontraditional education environment by offering a wide range of possibilities for formal and nonformal social and educational interaction,” Kara said in a statement to The Oracle.

Both the new building and the moving of the LLC are in the planning stages. Adams said the floor plan is still rough and there is still much to be decided, such as the total cost.

The Honors College moved into the Allen building in 2011 and made renovations to the space including new carpeting, furniture and paint in 2015. The move came out of the limitations the building puts on the Honors College. The space is small and so are the classrooms, he said.

“It’s obviously a very historic building … but it was designed for a very different purpose,” Adams said.

The Allen building was the first

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Women’s march just the beginning

EDITORIAL

Embrace the bizarre: Gasparilla Tampa is a unique city.

It is home to art museums and businesses, hipsters and bankers.

It was one of the top sellers of illegal liquor in the country during Prohibition and is widely considered the death metal capital of the world.

However, its most bizarre quality is the fact that each spring, pirates take over the city, kidnap the mayor and hold a raging, booze-filled festival.

The new year has begun, pirate shirts are being pulled from the backs of closets across the Bay and citizens, from retirees to college students, are calling out of work in preparation for the biggest, and strangest party of the year.

Gasparilla.

The pirate ship, Jose Gasparilla, will sail from the south end of the bay at 11:30 a.m. and dock at 1 p.m. at the Convention Center.

It’s a Tampa tradition, taking place Saturday with the pirates invading between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. and despite its oddity and cause of widespread degeneracy, Gasparilla should be cherished.

For a moment, the community comes together, regardless of race, occupation or socio-economic status and unites in a desire to wear bizarre clothes, collect a plethora of beads and down enough alcohol to stumble in mass quantities across the Bay. But students shouldn’t go into the chaos unprepared.

Over 140 units will be in the parade, according to the Tampa Bay Times, so students should hang out around Convention Center for the best treats and beads, as they tend to run out by the end of the parade.

Cell phone service is always non-existent, so it’s imperative you and your “crew” have plans on a meeting location and time in case you’re separated in the madness.

Yes, the booze will be tempting. It will be hot, crowded and smelling strongly of urine and beer. Downing some local brews and margaritas seems like the best way to survive the chaotic experience.

And that’s fine.

Drinking is bound to happen, though hopefully not by those underage, so remember to refrain from posting too much online. Your employer and future employers will be watching, so if you end up hurling into a bush near Curtis Hixon, don’t let your friend post it on Twitter.

Have fun, but be safe. Bring a designated driver or be prepared to pay a heavy upcharge for an Uber. Remember, the police will be on every corner, so try to stay within the means of the law.

Many students are only here for the four years they attend USF. Make the most of your adopted home. Don your pirate hat with its glorious feather, put on those leather boots and go explore the city.

Watching a horde of pirates take over the Bay is a truly remarkable sight. Go, and don’t hesitate to join in the festivities.

Tampa is a city unlike any other, and this weekend is one of its crowning glories.

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Over a million men and women gathered worldwide for women’s marches held the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration with more than 500,000 marching in Washington D.C. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

By Breanne Williams C O L U M N I S T

More than a million men and women across the globe united yesterday in a march advocating for the protection of rights of women and minorities following the inauguration of Donald Trump.

The march let Washington know loud and clear they were being watched and they cannot restrict women, cannot erase the last several decades of progress, not without a fight.

The demands have been heard, now it is imperative we back them up.

Yes, standing with over a million of your fellow brothers and sisters is easy. Getting swept up in a movement offers a high, makes you feel like you’re part of something. We need to make sure that high, that momentum, does not waver.

We must monitor our politicians at the local, state and national level. Learn your representatives’ names and phone numbers. Find out what issues are on the agenda and make sure your congressmen know what you, their constituents, want them to do.

Congress will decide if the Affordable Care Act is fixed or dismantled, if Planned Parenthood continues to receive funding or if they allow the utilization of loopholes to shut down clinics nationwide, if equal pay should be a societal norm or if we continue to allow the wage gap to persist and

if birth control is covered by insurance or if women are forced to pay out of pocket for the necessary protection.

Join the Tampa chapter of the National Organization of Women, who meet the first Thursday of every month at Unitarian Universalist Church. Volunteer with causes you’re passionate about, whether that is ending domestic violence, fighting for minorities’ rights or for a charity for displaced LGBT youth.

Do some self-evaluation.

According to a GenForward poll, only 28 percent of young adults believe our two major political parties do a good job representing the American people.

If you’re one of those who are dissatisfied, fight for better representation. Work your way up in a local chapter of a political party, volunteer for a local politician, or for a campaign you believe in. Or, if you truly believe both parties are crooked and beyond repair, join one that better fits your vision of America, whether that be the Green Party, the Libertarians, the Tea Party or even a group comprised of no party affiliation members.

Most importantly, we have to keep our eyes open. When we see our fellow sisters being oppressed because of their race, religion or sexuality we need to intervene.

The days of complacency are over.

There is power in numbers and together we are a majority.

“Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election,” tweeted Trump. “Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.”

What he fails to realize is these women, these men, these defiant and scared members of society, outnumber those who cast their vote in his favor. Clinton received 65,844,954 votes, with 62,979,879 casting their ballot for Trump. She received approximately 2.9 million more votes.

That’s not to say his win was illegitimate. The way our electoral college is set up did give him the victory. But he would be wise to not assume he always has the majority of the nation in his pocket.

Millions of Americans are now watching his and our Congress’ every move. If they step a toe out of line, they need to be ready to face the opposition of the very people they claim to represent.

After all, our nation was founded on the idea that the people choose the government, the people choose the policies and the people’s rights always come first.

Well we, the people, will be waiting. And our government can rest assured that we will carry this movement through the next four years if necessary to protect the rights we have worked so hard to obtain.

Breanne Williams is a senior majoring in mass communications.

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Common stereotypes of millennials are that they are lazy, narcissistic and apathetic.

They don’t care for politics or much else other than their existences and online presence. However, millennials have made their voices heard over the past several years at numerous demonstrations and protests, such as the women’s march this Saturday.

Due to both the past political season and different social issues that many find problematic, there have been numerous organized demonstrations of political beliefs in which millennials have taken a large part. Students who want to get involved, but have no idea how, can keep these tips in mind as they try to traverse the current political landscape.

Research The first step to any decision, such as becoming more involved in activism, is to do adequate, if not thorough, research. A good starting point is for them to find a couple causes that they are most passionate about, then read about their histories, founders, current leaders and if there are any local organizations for them, to begin with.

One common mistake students shouldn’t make is blindly drinking the Kool-Aid. Don’t take everything at face value.

Question things. Make sure to look at both sides of the argument. If faced with an issue with one or two of the beliefs an organization has, students should not just shrug it off because they think they are too uninformed or new to the movement to have any valid qualms.

Every individual member in a coalition has the responsibility of keeping that group in check and holding them accountable. That’s the only

The Tampa Bay Times reported that over 20,000 people showed up for the women’s march in St. Petersburg on Saturday, making it the largest protest held in the city. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/COURTNEY FERRANTE. way for these associations to evolve.

Social media As most, if not all of this research will be done online, students should check the social media accounts of any organization or movement.

This is the first step in actually getting involved.

Students should follow their causes on Twitter for instant updates, Instagram for a visual representation of what they do and Snapchat just in case there are certain events they can’t make, but want to still feel as if they are there. As most organizations use Facebook as their homepage, this may be the

most important social network to have an alliance on because this is where everything that participants need to know will be posted.

Getting involved online doesn’t stop at liking a few pages. This is where students can introduce themselves to established members of the cause and troubleshoot issues or voice support. This is a good way to get their name out there.

Local community The next phase in getting involved is for students to join a local chapter of an organization that shares their beliefs.

They can start by check-

ing the clubs available at USF on BullSync. The College Democrats and College Republicans clubs are active at USF, if students want to start with political organizations.

Then there are other clubs such as Pause for Paws, a group centered around animal activism; Feeding America, a food bank for the food insecure; and Hope for the Homeless, an association whose goal is to help the displaced in Tampa Bay. There are many more, as USF boasts over 600 student organizations, so students should be able to find what they need on the Bullsync website.

Organize your own

If students cannot find an organization, then they can start their own. They will need an adviser, who has to be a full-time faculty or staff member or a graduate assistant; at least 10 USF students who wish to join, submission of a New Organization Request form, a constitution. They will also need to attend a New Student Organization meeting.

The New Organization Request form, a suggested template for the constitution and the link to RSVP for the New Student Organization meeting can all be found on BullSync under Student Organizations.

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The Honors College is in the planning stages of a new building to be near The Village housing complex currently under construction. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

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Women march in unity On Saturday, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, over 1 million men and women gathered worldwide to join in multiple women’s marches protesting the new president and advocating for women’s and minorities’ rights. Many of the marches broke records as the largest in its corresponding city’s history, like in St. Petersburg where over 20,000 people flooded the streets in a solidarity march. The marches intended to warn the U.S. government that it could not trample women’s rights without the public putting up a fight. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/CINDY VALVERDE

building on campus and originally held the entire school. When the Honors College first started, Adams said, the class was much smaller.

However, the college has since grown to over 2,000 students.

“We’ve outgrown it,” he said.

The new four-story building currently has plans for classrooms, a computer lab, study spaces, an area for 3-D printing, soundproofed music spaces, administrative offices, an auditorium and a coffee shop. Additionally, the current plan includes a common area plaza and green space.

The building will play into Florida architecture, Kara said in the statement, with features that take advantage of natural light and a roof terrace to offer students a view of the cityscape.

“It’s a big improvement,” he

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the Administrative Services budget. Cost of each lock is specific to the environment adherence of the building, according to Nichols.

Most of the buildings on campus on an access control system are timed. Using the same system to operate these locks, faculty offices have a different locking system than larger classrooms and lecture halls, making it impossible to implement the same system, according to Nichols.

The emergency locks should be activated only when there is a threat in the immediate area. Activation of the lock results in the immediate

said. “It’s huge.”

The plans also make room for an amphitheater that could host productions or lectures. Spaces like this in the new building will add room for events with food service to be held within the college as well. “(There are) lots of possibilities for that space,” Adams said.

Currently there is no timeline for the completion of the building.

Planning began about a year ago, with the involvement of USF System President Judy Genshaft and Provost Ralph Wilcox, according to Adams.

The Honors College hopes to use the new building to attract more students to the college, while also giving current students more opportunities.

“This is going to put us on the map in terms of Honors Colleges,” he said. “It will be a transformative addition to Honors College culture.” action of a phone call to 911.

Occupants have the option to exit the room, but the door will be locked from outside.

Doors cannot be unlocked by pressing the button a second time. They must be unlocked remotely by Facilities Planning and Management or University Police.

Lights accurately display the status of the locking system. Green and red LED lights are located directly next to the button — green indicates a normal/unlocked condition, while red indicates that the room has been locked down.

Currently, depending on the budget, it will be decided if more will be administered across campus.

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Fernandez questions team’s toughness in loss to No. 9 Louisville Women’s Basketball

Oregon to fire coach David Reaves for DUI After being hired by Oregon coach Willie Taggart on Tuesday to coach tight ends and serve as a co-offensive coordinator, former USF offensive coordinator David Reaves’ contract with the school will be terminated, David Reaves according to a report by The Oregonian. Reaves was pulled over early Sunday morning shortly after 2 a.m. for “multiple traffic violations,” according to Eugene Police.

Reaves was then determined to be under the influence and charged with DUI and booked at Lane County Jail. Reaves, 38, was in the first week of a two-year contract that paid $300,000 annually, but the deal allows Oregon to fire the coach for “any material violation of local, state, or federal law.”

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Bartow brings coaching pedigree to USF

By Chuck Muller S T A F F

Despite a 15-3 record, coach Jose Fernandez called his team “soft” after the Bulls’ 66-52 loss to No. 9 Louisville on Sunday. ORACLE PHOTO/JACOB HOAG

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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No. 23 USF women’s basketball has had no trouble dispatching unranked competition this season, going 15-1 against such teams.

But the Bulls’ 66-52 loss to No. 9 Louisville at the Sun Dome on Sunday caused USF coach Jose Fernandez to criticize his team’s physicality and toughness.

“Right now that’s our M.O.,” Fernandez said. “South Florida doesn’t like contact, they’re soft and they’re finesse, and that showed today. That’s the one thing we’ve been stressing…here’s the thing, we’re at home and that shouldn’t happen at home, or anywhere.”

USF struggled to keep up with Louisville in the paint all afternoon as the Bulls were out-rebounded by 21 boards.

“The shot goes up and

we have to be individually accountable, and we weren’t,” Fernandez said. “That’s what I told them three guys. I told Pujol, Jespersen and Laksa, ‘We can’t win without you.’

And those first 20 minutes were atrocious.”

By halftime, Louisville held a 38-25 lead as only two Bulls players, Flores and forward Tamara Henshaw, had scored more than one basket.

“The excuses of us being a young team and the four starters, all that is past us, it’s the end of January and we’ve played like 18 games,” Fernandez said. “But this is the type of game you need to win to get to the second weekend in March and we’re not ready yet. This team isn’t ready.”

The Cardinals focused their defensive pressure on USF forwards Kitija Laksa and Maria Jespersen, limiting them to a combined 11 points on 5-of-23 shooting.

Though the Bulls’ leading scorers were contained for most of the game, guard Laia Flores kept USF within striking distance with 12 first-half points. “(Jespersen) and (Laksa) can flat out shoot the basketball,” Cardinals coach Jeff Walz said.

“We’ve had 17 games to go back and watch and when they get going, they change the dynamic of the whole team. I had the opportunity to watch their Memphis game on TV and (Jespersen) was unbelievable. I mean, coming off of flare-screens, knocking 3’s down, so we came into this knowing we had to do whatever we can to limit those two and then see what we could do with the rest.”

USF will return to conference play Wednesday when the Bulls travel to SMU to as they look to move to 5-1 in the AAC.

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Murry Bartow has had coaching in his blood since childhood.

The newly appointed interim coach of USF men’s basketball has yearned to follow in the footsteps of his father Gene Bartow, who was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, for about as long as he can remember.

“Ever since I was 12 or 13 years old, I knew I wanted to go into coaching,” Bartow said.

“It was never really a matter of if I was going to into it. I knew pretty early on I wanted to be a coach.”

Over 40 years later, Bartow comes to the helm of the USF men’s basketball after the firing of former coach Orlando Antigua with ties to some of the greatest names in the history of the game, as well as 30 years of his own coaching experience.

Raised and taught in Birmingham, Alabama, Bartow had the privilege of watching his father create the athletic department at University of Alabama-Birmingham and then go on to play for that team under his father from 1980-85.

Bartow made the most of his time as a Blazer student athlete, playing on UAB’s golf team while on his dad’s basketball roster. Even as a multisport collegiate athlete, however, Bartow was a self-admitted ‘back-up’ under his father during his playing tenure.

While filling that role, Bartow had the vantage point to begin to understand the game from a coach’s perspective.

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was in, I was very much in a role where I could observe,” Bartow said. “I had (my father) and I could study the game. I wasn’t a ‘marquee’ player, but I was still an integral part of the team.”

Graduating from UAB with a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1985, Bartow would continue his student and coaching career in 1985 at Indiana as a graduate assistant under coach Bobby Knight.

Learning under the tutelage of Knight, the third-winningest coach in men’s college basketball history, Bartow would spend two seasons with the Hoosiers from 1985-87.

Along with helping Indiana to a national championship in his second season as an assistant in1987, Bartow still draws from his brief time with the Hoosiers and Knight.

“I’m a very attention to detail oriented guy, and I got a lot of that from coach Knight,” Bartow said. “I try to be very prepared with the players in

terms of game preparation and practice preparation from coach Knight. Just his intensity, his passion, and the way he coached the game.”

Following his stint at Indiana, Bartow served as an assistant for two seasons at William & Mary before returning home to work as an assistant to his father at UAB in 1989.

Bartow work under his father for seven seasons, until his father’s retirement as coach of the Blazers in 1996.

While having conflicting coaching styles, Bartow has taken pieces of both his father and Knight and tied them into his own way to relate and teach his players.

“My father was softer spoken, and would convey his message and deal with his players differently than coach Knight,” Bartow said. “I think in coaching, you’ve got to be who you are and coach to your own personality, whatever that is. You can’t try to be someone you’re not. I think you’re personality and the way you do things is so important.”

With the ability to name his own successor following 17

years as the only coach in UAB history, father Gene named Bartow to his first head coaching position in 1996.

Bartow led the Blazers from 1997-2002, posting a 103-83 record that saw UAB in the NCAA Tournament in 1999.

Departing from Birmingham after his sixth season, Bartow served as the coach at East Tennessee State from 2003-15 where he led the Buccaneers to the NCAA Tournament in 2004, 2005, and 2010.

Hired to be an assistant to Antigua this past summer, Bartow was named the interim coach following Antigua’s release on Jan. 3.

Taking over a team that is currently six games under .500 and still winless in the AAC (6-12, 0-7), Bartow now leads a Bulls squad that is still riddled with issues following the departure of last year’s leading scorer Jahmal McMurray, which leaves USF with only eight players on scholarship.

“Coach Bartow has really bought in,” senior center Ruben Guerrero said. “He really is trying to bring the program up. He’s an extremely hard

worker. People don’t see it, but he’s in here the most time out of the whole team.

“Him being energetic and him being here for us, I think it’s really bringing guys up. It really makes some guys really want to be excited to play for him, and build the program.”

Despite being on track to miss the NCAA Tournament for the fifth-straight season, Bartow said that losing games and players on the court has more to do with what his players do off of it.

“It’s really more behind the curtain than outside, but we have to win today off the floor,” Bartow said. “Whether it’s academics, whether it’s how they conduct their day-to-day business or their apartment and housing and how they live there. It’s their attitude around other students.

“From A-to-Z, I want a winning culture, professionalism, and I want them proud of them being a USF basketball player.”

With passion, optimism and a fresh approach, Murry looks to be the next Bartow to father a basketball resurgence.

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