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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

Security lapse investigation lacks detail

By Wesley Higgins N E W S

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Uncertainty looms over the security lapse in the condemned Life Sciences Building last week.

On Friday, ABC Action News aired a video of a person entering an unlocked room in the building and rummaging through files that they claimed contained sensitive student paperwork, such as social security numbers and banking information.

When the news agency investigated the lapse, the television crew found the room containing the information was still unlocked.

However, the timeline presented by ABC Action News conflicts with a statement

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University Police are investigating a potential security breach in the Life Sciences Building in which boxes containing sensitive student information were left inside an unlocked room. ORACLE PHOTO / ADAM MATHIEU

Students may pay for athlete scholarships

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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USF Athletics has requested an additional 62-cent per credit hour increase in student Athletic fees that would allow the department to pay for the full cost of attendance for student-athletes.

The proposed increase in student fees amounts to an extra $9.30 per 15 credit hour semester per student.

Due to an NCAA rule change, universities are now able to pay for the full cost of attendance for student-athletes. This rule enables universities with the appropriate funds to pay for everything a student-athlete needs, including tuition, room and board, meals and textbooks.

NCAA rule changes also allow universities to pay athletes a $2,000 to $5,000 stipend in addition to the full cost of attendance, though Athletics has not shown interest in the

stipend.

For USF, the money to pay the full cost of attendance for all student-athletes on scholarships will come from student fees, even though some students may not agree with the proposal.

“I don’t approve of it,” Austin Mount, a student majoring in cellular biology said. “It’s an academic institution and not an athletic institution. I don’t come here for sports.”

Other students said they would rather see the money go elsewhere.

“That would suck because not everyone is involved with athletics and what if there’s other things they would prefer the money to go to,” said Alicia Vachon, a student majoring in psychology.

But not all students are opposed to the increase in tuition if it means Athletics will be able to succeed.

“I think our athletics is a huge part of our university,” said

Morgan Boykin, a student majoring in respiratory care work. “I think that everyone should take pride in our athletics and stand behind them. I would say that I do support the increase.”

USF Associate Athletic Director for Communications Brian Siegrist said the university needs to explore all options in order to remain competitive with schools that have the money to offer student-athletes the full cost of attendance and other benefits.

“Recent NCAA legislation has brought about significant changes in providing full cost of attendance and meals for studentathletes that, when coupled with inflationary rises in other costs, project the need for incremental increases in all revenue sources,” Siegrist said.

According to USF’s 2013 financial statement, student fees already accounted for $16,248,285 of USF Athletics’ revenue, compared

to $1,455,486 that comes from institutional support from the state and the university.

The money Athletics would receive from students would go to all student-athletes already receiving scholarships. The amount of scholarships offered will not change at this time, Siegrist said.

Along with paying the full cost of attendance, some universities are also offering guaranteed four-year scholarships, but USF has not decided to change the structure of its scholarships yet.

The proposal has yet to be approved by the Local Fees Committee, which is comprised of both students appointed by Student Government President Jean Cocco and faculty. Once approved, the proposal will go before President Judy Genshaft and the USF Board of Trustees for final approval.

The proposed changes will take effect starting in the 201516 academic year.

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Midterm election voting begins

By Wesley Higgins N E W S

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Voting begins today for Student Government (SG) Senate midterm elections.

Students can vote for SG Senators using the MyUSF mobile application or visiting voting stations set up at the Marshall Student Center, the Library and Juniper-Poplar Hall.

The stations are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Wednesday. They will provide students with iPads to cast their vote.

Students may vote for a representative from their respective college, such as College of Education or College of Nursing.

There are also new campus-wide seats, called at-large seats, which students vote on independent of the seats available for their college.

Last month, SG reformed the elections to create at-large seats for when there are more vacant seats than there are applications for a particular college during a midterm election.

“It was changed to get more representation in the Senate and to get a higher attendance

rate,” said SG Supervisor of Elections John Quiroz. “We thought it was best for the student body to have at-large seats.”

The SG Senate is responsible for paying for clubs, activities and service projects from money collected through student fees.

“Senate allocates 14 million dollars,” Quiroz said. “If you want something to change on campus, you should vote.”

There are nine people running for at-large seats.

For college seats, there are five running for four Arts and Sciences seats, seven running for four College of Education seats, six running for two USF Muma College of Business seats, one running unopposed for a College of Medicine seat, one running unopposed for a Patel College of Global Sustainability seat, one running unopposed for a College of Nursing seat, and one running unopposed for a College of Public Health seat.

“Voices that go unheard are the people who don’t vote,” Quiroz said. “Students who don’t vote allow a small minority of the USF population to make decisions for 40,000 students.”

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from university officials.

In response to the news report, the university released a statement stating officials did not know how the person gained access to the secured facility or how anyone obtained entry to the locked room on the second floor where the files were stored.

According to the university, security routinely checked the building and confirmed the doors were locked at 11 p.m. on Thursday and 7 a.m. on Friday.

However, according to ABC Action News, the anonymous source filmed the video on Monday and the film crew found the room still unlocked during the day on Friday.

“We don’t know if the building was open when (the person who shot the video) got in there,” said University Police (UP) Assistant Chief Chris Daniel. “All we can go on is the information provided to the media outlet.”

USF Media and Public Affairs Coordinator Adam Freeman said ABC Action News is protecting the name of the individual who sent the video from university officials and police.

Daniel confirmed that UP has not had contact with the individual who alerted the media.

“The key point here is no one should have had access to that facility or tried to get

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in there,” Freeman said. “We don’t know how this person or these people did so. We don’t know why they were there.”

Daniel said UP is hoping that if they can speak with the individual who found the unlocked room, that person could shed more light on the circumstances surrounding the security lapse.

“Unfortunately, they opted not to follow, what we call, the proper protocol by contacting the university instead of going straight to the media with it,” he said.

UP will continue to investigate whether the tipster broke into the building or whether the door was previously unlocked.

“It would be good to talk to them to get those details,” Daniel said. “Otherwise, we have to go through an elaborate investigative process.”

According to ABC Action News, their team confirmed the documents in the unlocked room contained personal information.

The exact nature of the contents and what will be done with that material is part of the ongoing investigation.

“I didn’t get to see all the documents, but there were a couple that had some personal information on them,” he said.

“It has been minimized to the best of our ability.”

Daniel said the documents were taken to another location and secured. The university will notify any students affected by the breach.

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Bloody good books for Halloween

By Courtney Combs L I F E S T Y L E

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“The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren”

by Gerald Brittle: Ed and Lorraine Warren were known for being America’s go-to experts in demonology and exorcism and were involved in the paranormal investigations behind “The Amityville Horror” and “Annabelle.”

“The Demonologist” is part biography, part reference; it contains the stories of the Warrens’ most notable cases, as well as the ghost-hunting

couple’s tips on what to do, should you find your house haunted. The two were also the subject of the 2013 film “The Conjuring.”

“Afterlife With Archie: Escape from Riverdale”

by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla: All is not well in Riverdale.

A minor tragedy sparks the apocalypse and Archie has to fight to keep those he cares about from being claimed by the undead. Never in its 75-year history has the Archie franchise included so much gore in one of its comics. The first volume of the graphic

novel series follows the gang as they struggle to escape the bloody husk of their beloved hometown, alive.

“Pet Sematary”

by Stephen King: Stephen King has cranked out hundreds of bloody classics about everything from demonic clowns to haunted hotels. When Louis Creed’s daughter’s cat dies, he buries it in the town’s pet cemetery, misspelled as “sematary,” and, much to his relief, it comes back to life. After Louis’s three-year-old son tragically dies, he buries him in the cemetary, as well, and the boy Special to the Oracle

comes back to life, but not as the same sweet boy he was.

It’s a nightmare-provoking story filled with death and demons, perfect to read alone in the dead of night.

“The Graveyard Book”

by Neil Gaiman: This spooky reimagining of The Jungle Book centers around Nobody Owens, a young boy who grew up in a graveyard, raised and cared for by its permanent inhabitants. “The Graveyard Book” is made up of short stories from Nobody’s childhood in the graveyard.

The story is fantastical and whimsical but just creepy enough to warrant a spot on any Halloween reading list.

“The Turn of the Screw”

by Henry James: This classic is a story within a story and has everything from ghastly figures at the

window, to demonic little girls – or does it? A governess takes a job at a gloomy estate in Essex and slowly begins to unravel as she sees things that apparently no one else can. It’s a creepy psychological thriller that may leave its readers with more questions than answers, but it’s entertaining and perfect for Halloween nevertheless.

“Scary Stories to Read in the Dark”

by Alvin Schwartz: Maybe it’s just the drawings, but something about this book is very unsettling. The anthology, written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell, collects creepy legends and folklore that have been scaring kids and adults alike since the 80s.

The short stories are brief and scary, and just disturbing enough to warrant reading with an extra light on.

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Married couple upset over sperm donation mix-up propagates hate The couple lives in Uniontown, Ohio, a city that is 98.1 percent white. While the couple insists they love their child, they also said they wanted a white baby because they live in a primarily white, conservative, racist environment.

No matter how much they claim they love their child, putting so much emphasis on the skin color of their daughter is essentially telling her that it is not okay for her to be who she is because of what other people will think and say.

As a lesbian couple, Cramblett and Zinkon should be used to facing adversity and encountering insensitivity in their daily lives.

Meanwhile in the 21st century, two people who are fighting for their own civil rights are amplifying an issue that seems like it should have existed 50 years ago, not now.

Although the civil rights movement has come a long way since the 1960s, a national survey released by the Episcopal Church found

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Jennifer Cramblett and her partner Amanda Zinkon purchased two vials of sperm from an Illinois sperm bank under the impression that the donor had “similar genetic traits” to theirs, that is, a white man.

Mistakenly, the sperm bank artificially inseminated Cremblett with sperm from donor No. 330, a black donor, instead of No. 380, which resulted in her giving birth to a biracial child.

Subsequently, Cramblett filed a $50,000 lawsuit against the sperm bank, citing “pain, suffering and emotional distress,” among other things, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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98 percent of Americans feel that racial discrimination is present in the U.S. today, and black respondents were three times more likely than white and Hispanic respondents to report feeling a great deal of discrimination.

The lawsuit against the sperm bank was filed in the midst of rising racial conflict occurring across the nation in instances like the Ferguson riots, the Trayvon Martin case, and recently, Jamal Jones, who was dragged out of a vehicle and shocked with a stun gun after refusing to exit the vehicle during a traffic stop.

For a minority couple to not only be so closed minded about having a biracial child, but to file a lawsuit and claim emotional distress because of the subconscious racism of their family and friends does nothing more than propagate hatred and promote injustice in their marginalized environment.

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What you said Multimedia editor Adam Mathieu asked students if they think the media’s response to Ebola in the U.S. is an overreaction or justified.

“It’s not something to be ignored, so it seems right to pay close attention to it.”

— Richard Han, a junior majoring in computer sciences

“Media in America generally blows up news so they’ll make it a big deal now, but soon there will be another issue all over the news.” ­— Sabrina Lour, a freshman majoring in business administration

“I think it’s important. We need to be aware of Ebola and how it can affect us.”

Brandon Shaik is a senior majoring in psychology.

— Cassandra Castro, a senior majoring in social work

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Stokes finds new home at USF

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

USF senior forward Demi Stokes always dreamed of coming to America. After leaving her family in South Shields, England, she quickly found a home at USF. Stokes has become an important part of the USF Women’s soccer team, playing in all 13 games this season for USF and scoring two goals.

Stokes immediately connected with coach Denise Schilte-Brown and the rest of the soccer team when she visited the school four years ago.

“It was probably the fastest I ever connected with a kid, and I had never even seen her kick a soccer ball,” Schilte-Brown said.

“She really embraced our team right away and loved USF. She actually didn’t take her other visits after she came here.”

Shortly after that first encounter, Schilte-Brown flew to England to visit Stokes’ family. When Schilte-Brown first arrived, she was overwhelmed.

“I had landed in another country. I had to drive three hours in sleet and snow in this car that I didn’t know how to drive,” SchilteBrown said. “It’s driving on the wrong side of the road, and I was in a Mercedes SLK. I was really out of sorts because the roads were too narrow, and I didn’t understand the roundabouts.”

Schilte-Brown’s trip took a turn for the better when she arrived at Stokes’ family home.

“The first time I met her nan (grandmother) was with a hug, and her mom – the same thing,” Schilte-Brown said. “They welcomed me into the house. They had roast beef – a traditional English meal – waiting when I got there. Her brother helped cook it.

You can see where she gets her warmth from when you meet her family.”

Stokes is one of five children, having three brothers and one sister. Demi, however, is the only one involved in sports.

Growing up in the English soccer culture, Stokes has been playing the game since she was

five years old.

“I hung out with boys from a young age, and they played soccer, so I got playing with them,” Stokes said. “We were out – day and night – playing soccer. After school, I would be out all night, and my mom would be dragging me in for bed.”

In high school, Stokes was captain of the all-boys county team.

She’s a member of the English Full National Team and has played on the Under-17, -19 and -20 teams.

Despite the nearly 4,500 miles between England and Florida, Stokes easily transitioned to life at USF. “Even when I was home (in England), I wasn’t home,” Stokes said. “I was always out at college or playing soccer or traveling somewhere for soccer. It’s school, soccer, school, soccer, and you just repeat that.”

With the help of technology, Stokes rarely gets homesick. She knows her family is just a phone call away.

She does, however, miss the fresh food from her country.

“It’s a bit easier to get fresh food over there,” Stokes said. “There are more farmer’s markets. I feel like a lot of stuff here is fast food.”

Stokes said families in England traditionally gather every weekend to share a grand Sunday roast.

“It’s kind of like your version of a Thanksgiving dinner,” Stokes said.

Stokes brought her food expertise to the states. The senior has shared tips and tricks for maintaining a balanced diet with her teammates. “(Stokes) recently went shopping with one of our freshman to help her pick out different meals,” Schilte-Brown said. “She sleeps right, she eats right and she trains hard. I think a lot of the girls look at her and see that example and have asked her, ‘Can you help me with strength and conditioning?

Can I lift with you?’ A lot of them go to her for nutrition.”

Stokes goes out of her way to help anyone who needs it, from coaches and trainers to teammates, Schilte-Brown said.

“There’s always a selfless air

about her,” senior forward Sarah Miller said. “It just encourages everyone else to be selfless.”

Stokes leads by example, earning the respect of her teammates and coaches.

“A team is a different kind of family, and you want your players to behave that way,” SchilteBrown said. “I think she’s the best role model that we have for that.”

Stokes played in her final regular season game as a Bull on Friday, in which USF lost 3-0 to UCF. She is currently preparing for the 2015 World Cup, which kicks off in June. She’s been involved with the squad since January and has been training in camps. She will find out if she made the roster around May. “Until then, it’s just hard work and grind,” Stokes said. “Hopefully I see my name on that squad list.”

Stokes will return to England to train with the Full National Team before returning to the states for the AAC Conference Tournament.

Senior forward Demi Stokes has scored 15 goals in her four-year career at USF. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/TONY GORDON

Four-star recruit decommits from USF

By Jacob Hoag A S S T .

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Karan Higdon, a four-star running back from Sarasota, decommitted from USF this morning, according to 247sports.com. Higdon has narrowed his sights to four schools — Iowa, Kentucky, Arkansas and Arizona — but no timetable for his decision has been set.

Higdon is the 28thranked running back and the 61st-ranked overall player in the state of Florida, according to the 247sports Composite Rankings.

Injury Report Sophomore linebacker Nigel

Harris was held out of Saturday’s game against East Carolina, and coach Willie Taggart announced Monday that it was due to an ankle injury.

“Nigel had an ankle injury in practice and we tried to see if it would hold up, and on Saturday, he didn’t feel comfortable playing on it, so we didn’t play him,” coach Willie Taggart said.

Senior cornerback Chris Dunkley and senior linebacker Reshard Cliett both left Saturday’s game with shoulder injuries, but their statuses have yet to be updated.

“Both of them have a shoulder injury and we’re getting the MRI on them (Monday), so we’ll know something on them later,” Taggart said.

Men’s soccer honors Three USF men’s soccer players were awarded weekly AAC honors for the third consecutive week.

Sophomore Lindo Mfeka received Offensive Player of the Week for the AAC after scoring three goals and six points.

Senior Edwin Moalosi was named to the conference honor roll for the second time after scoring his fourth goal of the season in the Bulls’ 4-3 loss to Tulsa.

Senior defender Nikola Paunic was also named to the conference honor roll for the second straight week after being named Defensive Player of the Week last Monday.