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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

UP looks to improve image USF to host

straw poll on upcoming election

LI F E STYLE

“Gone Girl” goes from book to the silver screen.

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By Wesley Higgins N E W S

S PORTS USF defeats Temple with hat trick.

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By being more community oriented and transparent, Assistant Chief Christopher Daniel said UP is looking to change its perception on campus. ORACLE PHOTO / ADAM MATHIEU transparent and progressive in agency operations from Chief

By Roberto Roldan M A N A G I N G E D I T O R their operations within the USF JD Withrow. Since then, Daniel community. has been working with officers Daniel, who has been with to emphasize community-based With changes in University Police (UP) management, newly UP since 1988, was promot- policing and inform the public appointed Assistant Chief ed from lieutenant to assis- about UP expertise and activiChristopher Daniel is looking to tant chief in January and was ties. n See UP on PAGE 2 make the police agency more given the responsibility of all

Class learns from an ocean away

By McKenna Skope C O R R E S P O N D E N T

The JOIDES Resolution, a scientific drilling ship, has sailed off the coast of Japan since August. Special to the Oracle

It’s ordinary for a geology professor to lecture about the finer points of volcanic rock, but not when the students sit in class and the professor sails over volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean.

Since Aug. 4, Chair of the School of Geosciences Jeff Ryan has sailed off the coast of Japan on the JOIDES Resolution, a scientific drilling ship. While aboard the ship, Ryan taught students in the Solid Earth geology class through videoconference.

The boat docked in Taiwan on Sept. 29. Ryan said he will return to Tampa soon.

His research team was studying the earth’s tectonic plates in areas called subduction zones, where volcanoes form after

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A straw poll to evaluate how USF students, staff and faculty will likely vote in the upcoming elections will be held at stations across campus Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Students who vote in the simulated election will fill out a ballot that mirrors the options that voters will likely see on official ballots in November.

At the top of the poll will be the Florida gubernatorial candidates, including Rick Scott, Charlie Crist and Adrian Wyllie.

The mock ballot will also represent the three amendments voters will decide on next month. These include whether to fund the Land Acquisition Trust Fund, to allow the governor to fill judicial vacancies, and to legalize medical marijuana.

Tuesday’s participants may also select candidates running for positions on the Florida Cabinet, such as for the chief financial officer, attorney general and commissioner of agriculture.

At the end of polling, participants will fill out their age, sex, race and political affiliation. Susan MacManus, a USF political science professor and a political analyst, will use this demographic data to better predict how elections could play out in November.

Pi Sigma Alpha national political science honor society chapter president Masiel Pelegrino, who organized the

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Students painted the windows of the Marshall Student Center on Sunday to get the campus ready for Homecoming week. ORACLE PHOTO / ADAM MATHIEU

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“It’s not necessarily a rebranding, but just enhancing the image of the officers that we have,” Daniel said. “With the recent changes in January, we are trying to change some of the perceptions and things that have been in place over the years. There’s no reason why we can’t be progressive and still provide great service to the community. Both of those things go hand in hand.”

One of Daniel’s main projects is getting the word out about the expertise of the professional staff within the department.

Though Daniel admits the perception of UP as a professional police agency might not cross the minds of many students at USF, the agency has hired talent from much bigger law enforcement agencies, including officers with military backgrounds.

“We have officers who have been full-time paramedics and now serve as our tactical medical people,” Daniel said.

“There’s just a lot of unknowns and a lot of hidden talent within the agency and I think it’s important for the community to know we are very selective in who we pick.”

One such officer is Magali Santiago. Before being hired on with UP, she was a narcotics detective with Newark Police Department for three years, working with patrol officers and the community members to target areas of high-level narcotics trade.

Santiago left UP in 2011 after four years with the agency to relocate with her husband who is in the military. She came back to the agency in early September.

Santiago said she has chosen to stick with UP because the community-oriented approach of the agency allows her to focus on giving students, faculty and staff a higher level of customer service.

“Most officers initially become law enforcement officers because there is a sense of pride that comes with the job; there’s a sense of helping the

community,” she said. “When you go into an agency where there is a high volume of calls, you lose sight of that.”

Santiago, along with Officer Richard Curry, who comes from a military background, will start heading out to local police academies and other agencies to recruit for UP. “We want to make them aware that USF does have a fully accredited state law enforcement agency here,” Santiago said.

The agency has also been working to fill eight additional officer positions they were given in March. Daniel said UP has been attempting to fill those positions with officers who subscribe to the same mentality of community service that he is trying to push the agency toward.

“Don’t get me wrong, we put people in jail if they need it,” Daniel said. “But we also realize through that process we have some other ripple effects that we need to be cognizant of.

This community requires more sensitive handling of certain

things and that’s where these officers key in.”

By way of transparency, Daniel recently placed all new lieutenants in public information officer training in order to step up the agency’s efforts to be more visible and available to the media and the local community.

UP also updated its data suite for their online police logs that now have up-to-date crime reports with mapped locations of where incidents occurred.

Daniel said the switch allows UP to better report crime statistics and sexual assaults in compliance with the Clery Act. “If we are putting out ‘Hey, we arrested guys with bikes, we did this, we arrested people for credit card fraud,’ now people are starting to get it that we are effective; we’re helping to educate you and it’s all coming full circle,” he said.

In October, or early November, UP will host an open house where members of the community can take a guided tour of the facility to see the new renovations and how their

dispatch center operates.

“We want to let people see who we are, we want people to see what we have,” Daniel said.

“The equipment we will have at the open house will have static displays, we’ll have the tactical truck, the Humvee, the detectives will have a presentation with what they have, our special deployment will have their bikes out there.”

Daniel said they will use the open house to make more students and community members aware of their programs, such as bike theft registration and property registration for electronics.

The agency also began clearing an area in front the main office where they will erect a fallen officer memorial with the help of Physical Plant and Bay Monument Company. Once complete, Officer George Mann, the first and only UP officer to be killed in the line of duty, will be the first name engraved on the memorial.

Daniel said UP hopes to have the monument in place by the end of the fall semester.

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plates slide beneath one another, to better understand the process of volcanic eruptions.

“All of the really nasty stuff the Earth does to us tends to happen there,” he said. “The big volcanic eruptions that explode and cause devastation, the giant earthquakes, are all subduction zone phenomena.”

Through videoconference, Ryan lectured the class three times throughout the semester.

Zachary Atlas, a research assistant professor and the primary instructor for the class, said the students have taken a virtual tour of the boat and watched a real-time analysis of unclassified rocks. “(Students) get to see how this really works on a professional level,” Atlas said. “Here (Ryan) is doing what we’re teaching them to do, on a real project for a real purpose and for real science.

This is the real deal.”

Despite over 30 years of experience in the field of geology, Ryan said he still encountered some surprises and new adventures on the ship.

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“The sheer scale of it was something I was not expecting.

It’s a big-time operation. It’s like a dance,” he said. “Every time a new core (from beneath the seafloor) comes up, there’s a shout on deck, ‘Core on deck,’ and everybody heads to where the core is brought up to see what the heck it is, because everything we bring up is brand new.”

Though theirs was not a particularly dangerous mission, the team still narrowly avoided a hurricane that followed them throughout most of the trip.

Repurposing a piece of mining technology already on the boat, Ryan created a new methodology for studying never-beforeseen pieces of earth that he gathered over 4,000 observations.

“It’s kind of like space science because you have to come up with new and innovative ways to solve these problems,” he said.

And for those not concerned with the nuisances of geology, Ryan said understanding how the earth’s crust is composed can help people better predict its chaotic nature.

“We can predict these kinds of catastrophic events and get ahead of them,” he said.

Ryan and Atlas both said they

hope students will take part in future work.

Some of the samples Ryan brings back will be used in class labs and students will analyze thin sections of rock using microscopes.

Because the samples are new to the scientific community, Atlas said it’s not unheard of for a student to make a discovery that they could then use for a thesis.

Students who watched Ryan said they enjoyed the applied, hands-on approach to learning in class.

“I find, on a small level, analyzing things is very cool,” said Danielle Kaminzky, a senior majoring in environmental science.

Students also said they appreciated the opportunity to catch a glimpse of their potential career futures.

“I’m really jealous, I wish I was out in the field with him,” said Robert Hunter, a senior majoring in interdisciplinary sciences.

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poll, said USF is a decent representation of Florida’s population, in terms of ethnicity and gender.

“We can get a pretty accurate result of how Florida will vote in November,” she said.

The last time the straw poll was conducted was in 2012 during the presidential election. It accurately predicted that Barack Obama would win reelection.

While the main point is to measure the students’ opinions of the upcoming gubernatorial elections, Pelegrino said she hopes the poll will also politically engage the USF community to go out and vote during the actual election.

Detailed information packets regarding the gubernatorial candidates and the amendments will be available at polling stations located

at the Library, the Marshall Student Center, the Business Administration Building and Cooper Hall.

Pollsters, who include students from MacManus’s Florida Politics class and volunteers from Pi Sigma Alpha, the Honors College and Student Government, will also visit large classes to administer the straw poll.

Pelegrino said everyone, staff and faculty included, is encouraged to vote.

Participants do not need to be registered to vote to take the poll.

Pollsters expect to know the results by the end of the day. MacManus will then send the results and corresponding analysis to Florida media outlets.

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GONE GIRL THRILLS AUDIENCES “Gone Girl” Movie Review It is rare for a movie to follow the exact storyline of its corresponding book, but David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” kept the book’s fans satisfied and stayed true to author Gillian Flynn’s thriller.

Fincher, best known for directing “Fight Club,” brings the story of Amy Dunne’s suspicious disappearance to life. Just as in the novel, Nick Dunne is trapped in a media circus while attempting to prove his innocence.

Ben Affleck stars as Nick Dunne. An unlikeable character from the first scene, Affleck brings the shy and

dissociative Nick to life. In one particular scene, Nick is caught smiling at a press conference for his missing wife, and Affleck gives the same strange “Is he guilty?” look that characterizes Nick in the novel.

Rosamund Pike plays Amy, one who is not nearly the helpless victim she seems, and the performance is already catching the Oscar buzz. She takes on this psychological role with brilliance and vigor.

Another actor worth noting is Neil Patrick Harris.

He plays Amy’s ex-lover/exstalker, Desi. A turn from his playboy persona as Barney Stinson on “How I Met Your

Mother,” Harris shows the wide range of his acting ability and is perfect as a creepy old flame of Amy’s.

One element that helped this film’s cinematic flow was the soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails. They create hauntingly beautiful music with an edge that kept viewers on the edge of their seats, desperate to know what happens next.

With a talented cast and crew, “Gone Girl” brings the twisted novel to life and remains one of the must-see movies of the fall.

— Commentary by Allison Buckner “Gone Girl” was released Friday. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

“Gone Girl” Book Review

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“This man of mine may kill me,” Amy Dunne wrote in her diary. Her husband Nick steps out of the house for a while to check on his bar.

A concerned neighbor calls him home. The door is ajar — the couch is overturned, and their glass table has been shattered — Amy is gone.

The New York Times called “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn “icepick sharp,” and that statement could not be more accurate.

In her 2012 novel, Flynn explores the disappearance

of Amy Dunne on her fifth wedding anniversary. Nick soon becomes the prime suspect and the center of a media frenzy that raises the question: who’s actually the victim in this whole mess?

Flynn constantly complicates the plot and throws her audience for multiple loops.

Amy, the daughter of two psychologists who wrote the “Amazing Amy” book series throughout her adolescence, is pulled away from the fast paced glamour of New York City by her husband Nick to a small town in Missouri. The community is split down the middle on believing or doubt-

ing Nick. Flynn throws readers by using a double narration of Amy’s diary entries and Nick in present time.

Halfway through, at the end of book one, Flynn jars her audience and changes the way we see Nick and Amy. The story itself has many layers, and Flynn takes two unlikable characters and changes the readers’ perceptions of how people portray themselves and how they really are on the inside. This psychological thriller keeps readers turning pages, begging to know how it ends.

— Commentary by Allison Buckner

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Volleyball

Bulls’ 14 blocks lead to win over UConn

Football

AAC update: Week 6

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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USF played its last non-conference game of the season Sept. 27 in a 27-10 loss at Wisconsin.

With the Bulls in a bye week, they couldn’t move in the conference standings, but three AAC games took place this weekend with the schedule moving primarily into only conference games.

UCF began the week Thursday when it won its first conference game of the season 17-12 against Houston.

The win was made possible when senior defensive back Brandon Alexander forced a fumble on what was nearly a 19-yard touchdown run for Greg Ward Jr. with 24 seconds remaining.

Neither team had much success on offense throughout the game, with no quarterback throwing for over 116 yards and no player rushing for more

USF blocked five more shots than UConn in its four set win Friday night at the USF Corral. ORACLE PHOTO/SEBASTIAN CONTENTO

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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USF began its two-game weekend Friday in front of 733 fans at the USF Corral when it hosted UConn in its first home conference game of the season.

The Bulls won the first two sets and after stumbling in the third, were able to dominate the Huskies in the final set.

USF padded its standing as the AAC leader in blocks Friday night when it blocked five more shots than UConn.

Senior middle blocker Jennica Mullins and freshman middle blocker Joli Holland combined for 14 blocks, holding UConn to a .119 hitting percentage for the match.

USF took advantage of its strong blocking, never trailing in the final set that it won 25-16.

AAC Conference Player of the Year Erin Fairs gave a strong performance for USF (8-8, 2-2) once again with a 19-kill, 24-dig night.

Fairs paced the Bulls in both categories, with 10 more kills and 12 more digs than any of her teammates.

Despite the Bulls strong play against UConn, they couldn’t carry over their momentum from Friday into Sunday when they fell to Temple in three straight sets.

USF will finish its threegame homestand Wednesday when it hosts UCF at 7 p.m. in the USF Corral.

than 53.

Houston quarterback John O’Korn’s ineffectiveness (98 yards, no touchdowns, two interceptions) resulted in his being pulled from the game.

Backup Greg Ward Jr. finished the game for the Cougars, throwing for 116 yards and no touchdowns.

USF will host Houston (2-3, 0-1) on Nov. 1 and UCF (2-2, 1-0) on Nov. 28.

No. 19 East Carolina (4-1, 1-0) continued its dominance this season in a 45-24 win against SMU (0-5, 0-1) in its AAC debut.

ECU quarterback Shane Carden became the passing leader after throwing for 410 yards and four touchdowns on 31-for-41 passing.

Carden’s two top targets were Isaiah Jones and Justin Hardy. The two wide receivers combined for 250 receiving yards and all four of Carden’s touchdowns.

SMU scored the most points

of its entire season as it was playing from behind nearly the entire game with ECU taking and holding the lead with six minutes remaining in the first quarter.

The SMU offense was led by quarterback Garrett Krstich, who threw for 339 yards, two touchdowns and one interception on 42-for-67 passing in the loss.

USF will host ECU on Saturday and will play at SMU on Nov. 15.

The final AAC matchup of the week was played between Memphis and Cincinnati (2-2, 0-1). After scoring the opening touchdown on an 80-yard pass, the Bearcats gave up 27 unanswered points to the Tigers.

Memphis (3-2, 1-0) would go on to win 41-14 with running back Sam Craft leading the offensive attack with 170 rushing yards and one touchdown.

USF will play at Cincinnati on Oct. 24 and at Memphis on Nov. 22.

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Germany’s free education raises questions about US student debt

As Homecoming week approaches, students will be reminded exactly why they took out loans worth more than their parents’ cars as they are showered with free T-shirts, carnivals and the always reassuring air of school pride.

But students who are too bogged down by more and more student debt while they live on ramen and the occasional Red Bull might want to consider trading in their green and gold for black, red and yellow.

Last week, Lower Saxony became the last state in Germany to scrap tuition fees at public universities.

Dorothee Stapelfeldt, president of the Hamburg Parliament, told the European newspaper The Times, following the vote, that

charging for education is socially unjust and discourages young people who don’t come from an academic background.

Germany’s move to remove students from the crippling publicand private-loan system raises the question: What has the American way of doing things done for students lately?

Universal free education is a far cry from the U.S. system wherein students have racked up $1.2 trillion in outstanding Federal loans, with 71 percent of college seniors graduating with student loan debt. What’s more, the most recent graduating class has been given the honorary title of “Most Indebted Ever.”

Given these statistics, the answer seems to be that the American way hasn’t done very much for students.

The root of the problem lies in tradition. In Germany, higher education has historically been seen as an investment in the country’s future and in the best interest of the public. In the U.S., home of the ‘me versus you’ and race-tothe-top mentalities, higher education is considered only a personal investment.

As always, the American way is the unequivocally right (and only) way, except when it gets in the way of everything Americans cher-

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According to researchers, student debt is affecting free enterprise and home ownership: two of the largest tenets of the American manifesto.

Preliminary research, coauthored by Penn State professor Brent W. Ambrose and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, has shown that in places where students have higher levels of loan debt, they are less likely to start a small business. This makes sense, given that many students are graduating with an average of $29,000 in debt.

Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has also shown that 30-somethings with a history of student loan debt are buying fewer homes than other 30-somethings.

While fundamental differences in governance will probably keep American students from ever enjoying the luxuries of an entirely free education, the bottom line is that something needs to be done about the overburdening student loan scheme before countries such as Germany become better at being American than Americans themselves.

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What you said Multimedia editor Adam Mathieu asked students if they feel University Police (UP) is effective at informing students when crimes occur on campus.

“I feel like they could communicate better with students, specifically commuter students. The students who live off campus are not as well connected to what’s happening on campus as those who live here.”

— Cameron Fernandez, a senior majoring in international studies “I feel we have an efficient system. We get texts when crimes happen and UP is taking positive steps.” ­— Areeg Hussein, a senior majoring in biomedical science

“I think commuter students have way less info than students on campus.

We pay a lot to go here and we are entitled to know what is happening here on campus.”

Roberto Roldan is a junior majoring in mass communications.

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Blackwood’s hat trick leads Bulls to 3-0 win

By Chris Villar C O R R E S P O N D E N T

Senior forward Tyler Blackwood was the only player to score in No. 22 USF’s 3-0 win against the Temple Owls, scoring three goals in the first half.

He is the first USF player to score a hat trick since Sept.

15, 2007, when the Bulls beat American University 6-1.

Blackwood began his hat trick in the 21st minute of the first half by stealing the ball away from pressured Temple defender Robert Sagel and immediately shooting toward goalkeeper Dan Scheck’s first post.

Scheck had a touch on the ball but the shot was too powerful for him to save, as it soared into the back of the net.

“I think Lindo Mfeka’s work to get the ball away from the defender was what gave me the chance to take away the ball, and I just capitalized on the players’ mistakes,” Blackwood said.

Coach George Kiefer said the Bulls’ effort Saturday is what he looks for in an offen-

sive attack.

“I love to see goals like that because it comes from hard work and just staying on it and putting Temple on their heels and just getting after it,” Kiefer said. “The shot was a laser; I was just pleased with the effort for that goal.”

The next two goals came back-to-back for the Bulls.

Eight minutes after the opening goal, USF was able to stretch its lead to three, with 23 seconds between each goal in the 29th minute.

The goals were from crosses by Wesley Charpie and Eduardo Maceira, respectively.

“The team today was incredible,” Blackwood said. “It’s easy for a striker to score when you have passes like that.”

The Bulls’ high-pressure defense also kept the Owls at bay, not allowing a single shot on goal throughout the entire game.

This constant pressure transitioned into easy counterattacks for the USF forwards.

“I think it’s all 11 guys involved, as far as defensive work-rate,” Kiefer said. “We really pride ourselves in play-

Senior forward Tyler Blackwood scored every goal in Saturday’s match, helping No. 22 USF defeat Temple in the Bulls’ second conference game of the season. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU ing defensively. The guy for me who has gone unnoticed is (Nikola) Paunic in the back.

He’s organizing everything in the back, and a good center back gets everybody to do

their work correctly and he’s really doing a great job doing that.”

USF finished the match with a total of 21 shots with six on goal, compared to five shots

by Temple.

USF (6-3) will look to extend its winning streak to four games when it hosts Tulsa (5-4-1) on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Corbett Stadium.

Football

Stanford player transfers to USF

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

USF bolstered its depth at offensive line for 2015 with the addition of Reilly Gibbons from Stanford.

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USF added four-star offensive lineman Reilly Gibbons to next year’s roster Friday after the freshman decided to transfer due to homesickness.

Gibbons took classes at Stanford over the summer, but did not enroll for the fall term and will likely not have to sit out the 2015 season because he did not register for a class during the football season.

The 6-foot-6, 292-pound

tackle is the 10th member of the 2014 USF recruiting class to have been ranked as a fourstar recruit.

He earned Class 3A all-state honors as a senior at St. Petersburg Catholic and was selected to play on the 2014 Team USA Under-19 National Team.

Gibbons’ stellar play in high school earned him 47 scholarship offers from schools such as Auburn, Florida State, Oklahoma and Mississippi State. He was rated as the

15th best offensive tackle in his class by ESPN.com.

“Reilly is a big, strong, athletic and very intelligent offensive lineman who fits the mold of our program and the kind of power offense we want to run perfectly,” coach Willie Taggart said in a press release. “He is very bright young man and another great Bay Area talent that we are thrilled to welcome to our program. We are excited to see what he can do when he joins our program in January.”