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News Briefs Florida sees increase in new voters As of Sept. 30, Florida has set an “all-time record for the total number of voters,” according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Hillsborough county saw 22,000 new voters register before the extension, with 38 percent of voters registered as Democrats, 36 percent as Republicans, 24 percent no-party and 2 percent minor party. There are currently over 840,000 registered voters in Hillsborough.

The breakdown of new voters by party or by county is expected to be released next week.

SVC flooding cleanup continues

Flooding in the SVC building Friday and Tuesday caused by paper towels clogged in the pipes is still being cleaned up. Restrooms inside of SVC were temporarily closed while bathrooms in the first and second floor breezeways remained open. Aaron Nichols, assistant director of communications for USF, estimated Wednesday that bathrooms within SVC would be reopened today.

Today, buildup in the pipe will be removed with an auger tool. Nichols said there was no damaged to the sewer lines, making repairs unnecessary.

According to Nichols, Facilities Management doesn’t track how many employees work in the SVC building, so the total number of people affected by the flooding is unknown.

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USF Breast Health fundraising partners share their mission

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Fundraising done by nonprofit organizations Hooked on Hope and Car Shows for Charity raises money for patient care and research at the USF Breast Health Program. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE Florida Hospital, decided to create “Unfortunately, some postBy Chelsea Grosbeck A S S I S T A N T N E W S E D I T O R an annual fishing tournament to surgical needs, like lymphedema engage the Tampa Bay community. sleeves, are not covered by most USF and breast cancer In the second week of October, insurance; that’s how we can fundraising organizations around their eighth annual two-day help. So these available funds Tampa Bay have been collaborating Inshore Fishing Tournament had filter through USF Breast Health. in efforts to help individuals 405 people in attendance.

Having USF’s name backing our diagnosed with breast cancer.

“I’m predicting by the time we organization is a great benefit to be Utilizing the donated funds compute numbers and expenses able to give to these patients.” from organizations like Hooked on for how much money was raised, Stembridge has been with the Hope and Car Shows for Charity, our total will be well over $300,000 organization since its inception surgeons like Dr. Charles Cox, a now,” Lavinia Stembridge, the eight years ago. While volunteering member of the USF Breast Health organization’s co-director along at Coastal Conservation Association Program, have been able to provide with Deaton, said. of Florida, she was asked to score patients with necessary medical The proceeds collected are the Hooked on Hope tournament. accommodations. given to the USF Breast Health It was at that point she got involved.

Dr. Cox could not be reached for Program in order to fund materials Not only does Stembridge score, comment. for research and assistance with her responsibilities extend to other The USF Breast Health Program patients. facets of the organization. is located just off campus and “The grant program is run by “As volunteers, we wear many provides diagnosis and treatment the other co-director, Mary Ostien,” hats,” Stembridge said. “Along with for individuals with breast cancer.

Stembridge said. “She is so closely scoring as the tournament director, With an interdisciplinary staff, associated with patients at the I help with the Pamper Party, getting including surgical oncologists and Florida Hospital and handles the a donations, overseeing the silent plastic surgeons, the Program also post-surgical needs.” auction and getting sponsorships.” conducts breast cancer research.

The delegated monies are First day events include One of the Breast Health distributed for patients who need interactive silent auction raffles and Program’s fundraising partners is assistance in any aspect of their costume contests. the nonprofit organization Hooked lives.

Other aspects of the events on Hope. For the last eight years, “Admitted women can be given include breast cancer survivors Hooked on Hope has raised over grants up to $1,500 to help … sharing their stories and the $250,000 in donations for breast with their copays, prescriptions, Pamper Party event. cancer patients. Founders Lori groceries; even if they need their “We pamper survivors and Deaton, a local fishing captain, and electric bill paid that month, we her sister Mary Ostien, with the n See HEALTH on PAGE 7 help them out,” Stembridge said.

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The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application is now available for students starting Oct. 1 each year, due to changes made by the Obama administration in 2015.

Previously, the application opened up on Jan. 1. This deadline came before students and families were filing their taxes in April, which created some conflict when it came to putting the most recent tax information into the application, according to Dameion Lovett, campus director for financial aid.

“So, the way that it has been working for the last number of years is that the FAFSA, when it came out in January, required the tax information for the prior year,” he said. “But the majority of individuals did not have their taxes completed in January because they were due in April and so what this change allows everyone to do is use the tax information from two years prior.

“So, going forward, right now for (academic year) 2017-18, all of the individuals have their taxes filed already because it was for last year and so they can just go out and complete the application and have it completed for the next year, early.”

In addition to the change of deadline, the FAFSA changes allow students and families to use tax information from two years prior in order to fill out the application.

For example, according to the U.S. Department of Education, those submitting a FAFSA for the 2017-18 school year will use tax information from 2015 for the application. Next year, when submitting the FAFSA for the 201819 school year, tax information from 2016 will be used.

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Comedians have the right to mock politics Breanne Williams COLU M N I ST

Comedians are known for weaving their political and social stances into their routines. However, when Amy Schumer began criticizing presidential nominee Donald Trump during her show in Tampa on Sunday, approximately 200 people walked out.

Last night, while performing at Madison Square Garden, Schumer read an open letter to Tampa, sarcastically apologizing that she dared to think her personal political views could offer a comedic outlook on the current election.

“Dearest Tampa, I’m sorry you didn’t want me — a comedian who talks about what she believes in — to mention the biggest thing going on in our country right now,” Schumer read. “How could I think it was OK to spend five minutes having a peaceful conversation with someone with different views?”

The outrage expressed in a chorus of boos and the eventual walkout was not unique to Schumer’s performance.

Saturday Night Live (SNL) has made humorous critiques of elections, politicians and lawsuits a foundation of the show.

Tina Fey’s impression of Sarah Palin and Larry David’s Bernie Sanders created catch phrases that became renowned throughout the country, like Fey’s iconic reimaging of Palin’s claim that “I can see Russia from my house.”

Despite the biting humor, fans rarely complained, and Palin appeared multiple times

on the show because she was able to recognize a joke.

However, Alec Baldwin’s recent portrayal of Donald Trump has received backlash not only from his supporters but also the candidate himself.

On Sunday, Trump tweeted, “Watched Saturday Night Live hit job on me. Time to retire the boring and unfunny show. Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!”

Apparently his supporters agreed, as many took to the internet to voice their frustrations with the sketch comedy show. However, the rest of the country appears to still have a level head and is able to appreciate a joke for what it is, causing viewership to increase by over 22 percent from last year with more than 7 million viewers tuning in to last week’s broadcast.

On Sunday, Schumer experienced a taste of the tension embodied in this debate when jokes about the candidate caused a chorus of boos to erupt throughout the theater. Schumer called Trump an “orange, sexual-assaulting, fakecollege-starting monster” and brought a Trump supporter up on stage to ask why he was voting for Trump.

“Do you get worried at all with how impulsive he is,” Schumer asked. “That he gets so fired up from Saturday Night Live doing a skit on him … do you worry he’ll be impulsive and get us in a lot of f—ing trouble we can’t get out of?”

The booing began and Schumer told the audience they were welcome to leave if they were that upset. They did just that.

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While Schumer is often a polarizing presence due to her raunchy and often offensive humor, her eclectic fans rarely speak out against her. Those who dislike her — as oh so many do — avoid her.

In Tampa, over 200 people who obviously adored her enough to spend money on tickets chose to leave rather than hear her disparage their favored candidate.

This election has fostered a passion previously absent from politics and has created an unprecedented division among voters.

Liberals believe Trump is the most unqualified, repulsive candidate in U.S. history, and Republicans believe Hillary Clinton a devious liar who will say anything to get a vote. The majority of voters are not voting for a candidate, but rather against their opponent.

A Pew Research Center survey taken in August found 53 percent of Republican voters were voting against Clinton and 46 percent of Democrats were voting against Trump. That number has undoubtedly grown as the candidates continue to reduce themselves to bickering, school-yard-taunting children.

The closer we get to Election Day, the tenser the atmosphere becomes. Obviously, viewers are no longer able to decipher comedy from politics and one can only speculate how they will react to SNL and other comedians critiquing the chaos that was last night’s debate.

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What you said Opinion Editor Breanne Williams asked students if they planned to watch the final presidential debate.

“Yes, I am. We’re all voting so we all need to be politically aware.”

- Abigail Steuer, a freshman majoring in elementary education

“Not tonight; but I’ve watched the last two debates.”

- Amanda Hlavac, a junior majoring in advertising.

“Yes, I am going to try to watch it. It’s important to see the different stances the two candidates hold.”

- Addie McClure, a freshman majoring in public health

“No, I’m not. I’ve already decided who I’m going to vote for and am voting early this weekend.”

- Jacob Hribal, a senior majoring in advertising

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Presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton walked onto the debate stage for the final head to head without greeting each other. Each acknowledged the crowd before assuming their positions.

The discussion began more civil than the first two, Political Analyst and USF political science professor Susan MacManus said. However, it eventually devolved into the same old arguments.

“They both tried to rise above the negativity, but the bottom line is that it did segue into that pretty quickly,” she said. “There was a little bit more control of the debate by the moderator (and) overall it was a more civilized debate, but not a whole lot.”

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a change she attributed this to the moderator, Chris Wallace of Fox News, stating that he had more control and gave each of them some tough issues that haven’t often been discussed until now. These topics included the Democratic candidate’s pay-to-play in the Clinton Foundation money.

The recent release of Clinton’s emails by the online organization WikiLeaks were addressed on several occasions.

When asked about the seven women who have come forward accusing Trump of sexual assault, the Republican candidate dismissed the women as liars before changing the topic to discuss videos that suggested Democratic National Committee two operatives plotted to incite violence at his rallies.

Similarly, Clinton was asked about a leaked speech from which Wallace quoted her as supporting open borders.

“I do want us to have an

electric grid, an energy system that crosses boarders. I think that will be a great benefit for us,” Clinton said in response.

“What’s really important about WikiLeaks is that the Russian government as engaged in espionage against Americans.

They have hacked American websites, American accounts of private people, of institutions (and) they have given that information to WikiLeaks for the purpose of putting it on the internet.”

MacManus said that organizations such as WikiLeaks may have played a role in this election.

“WikiLeaks was a very good line of questioning because … more has been released just today,” she said. “People are interested in that. Whether it really pushes somebody in one direction or the other, we don’t know.”

Additionally, when Wallace posed a question concerning the loss of welfare systems such as Social Security and

Medicare, Trump discussed abolishing The Affordable Care Act. “I’m cutting taxes, we’re going to grow the economy,” Trump said. “It’s going to grow at a record rate. One thing that we have to do (is) repeal and replace the disaster known as Obamacare. It’s destroying our country, it’s destroying our businesses, our small businesses and our big businesses.”

During the debate, MacManus sat with a focus group of undecided voters in the ABC Action News studio.

She said the group arrived needing more concrete details on each candidates’ plan for the economy and how they intend to bring in more jobs, but by the end of the night, their questions hadn’t been answered.

“While there was discussion of the out migration of jobs, there was no discussion by either of them on how to really bring the jobs back

into the country,” MacManus said. “The missing part of tonight’s debate in the mind of undecided voters was ‘How are you going to do it?’ (There were) still a lot of generalities and for undecided (voters), not enough specifics in the end of the evening.”

MacManus said that only one thing really surprised her about the debate while the rest was just a rerun of the last few weeks.

“I was pleasantly surprised at the beginning that it looked like they were going to give the American public, particularly those who hadn’t made up their minds, a reason to vote for them rather than to not vote at all,” MacManus said.

“And some undecided voters … questioned whether they would even vote at all, which is not what either candidate wants to come out of the debate.”

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A staple in the Tampa bay arts and culture community, the Tampa Theatre celebrated its 90th birthday Saturday, a week before its fourth annual A Nightmare on Franklin Street Halloween movie series is set to begin.

To commemorate the landmark anniversary, the theater has decided to play four films for just a quarter each, since a ticket only cost 25 cents when doors first opened in 1926.

Employees at the venue thought a lot about what movies to show. Some options included historically significant movies, such as “Casablanca” or the first movie ever shown at the Tampa Theatre on its opening night in 1926: “The Ace of Cads” starring Adolphe Menjou.

But because they already played the Humphrey Bogart classic flick a few weeks prior, and because there are no surviving prints of the inaugural film, they settled on another theme instead.

“We decided that the theme that would be appropriate would be movies that celebrate the art of the cinema, or movies that celebrate movies,” Jill Witecki, the director of marketing and community relations at the Tampa Theatre, said.

The lineup started with “Hugo,” which celebrates the beginnings of cinema, followed by “The Artist,” which looks at the movie industry’s shift from silent films to ‘talkies’ and how it affected actors. The third movie, “The Cameraman,” a silent film about a moviemaker, gave the theatre a chance to try something unique.

“It gave us the opportunity to showcase our theater organ, which is still original to the building,” Witecki said.

“This is its original home and it’s one of the only theatre organs in the country that is

Mixing beloved classics with modern masterpieces, the Tampa Theatre has opened an doors to its eclectic and passionate audience for 90 years. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/TAMPA THEATRE still in its original home and is still played basically every day before the different films.”

The theater hired a guest organist from Atlantic City who played live music during the movie.

“It gave folks the experience of really what it was like to sit in this theatre in 1926 and watch a silent movie with a live musician,” Witecki said.

The final movie of the day, “Cinema Paradiso,” tells the story of a boy who grows up in a movie theater. It also happens to be a favorite of the theater’s president and CEO, John Bell.

The timing was opportune, as Tampa Theatre’s 25th annu-

al Summer Classics series ended a month ago, and its fourth annual A Nightmare on Franklin Street Halloween series starts tomorrow.

In summer, it played classics that were also celebrating landmark anniversaries such as “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” which celebrated its 35th anniversary; “Forbidden Planet,” which celebrated its 60th; and “M,” which was the oldest movie in the lineup, at 85 years old. This series has been known to sell as many as 10,800 tickets over the course of the summer.

On Friday — the Old-School Opener day — the Halloween series will start with a ghost

tour at 2 p.m. This 90-minute tour will explore the theatre and it aims to teach attendees why it is “known as one of the most haunted buildings in town.”

This will then be followed by a screening of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” at 7:30 p.m. and the night will be capped off with “Friday the 13th” at 10 p.m.

The series will continue until Oct. 31 with a schedule full of diverse Halloween-themed movies. These include comedies such as “Beetlejuice,” family friendly movies such as “Hocus Pocus” and classics like “The Omen.”

There is even Stephen King

Sunday featuring “Carrie,” “Misery” and “Creepshow.”

At 90 years old, the Tampa Theatre does not plan stick to pre-established traditions in order to attract guests. This year, it will be hosting its firstever New Year’s Eve Wrap Party, with an “Animal House” theme.

“There are plenty of (opportunities to) get dressed up and put on your sequined dress and your heels and go out to some hoity toity New Year’s Eve party,” Witecki said. “We want to be the party where it’s OK to dress in costume and put on your toga and come on down to Tampa Theatre.”

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angels with gifts, hair stylists, nail artists, masseuses and an arts program,” Stembridge said.

Another Tampa Bay-based nonprofit organization that fundraises for breast cancer research is Car Shows for Charity.

One hundred percent of the registration and entry fees go to the USF Breast Health Program, according to Suzann Painter, the organization’s founder and director of public relations. Her inspiration for this event was her Grandmother.

“Nine years ago, when my daughter and friend walked in the Susan G. Komen Three Day Walk for the Cure, my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time and didn’t want to battle it,” Painter said. “Our way to encourage her to battle was to walk 60 miles in three days.”

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The federal deadline for the FAFSA, June 30, has not changed, according to the U.S. Department of Education. However, the USF priority deadline for financial aid has shifted from its original March 1 date to Jan. 1, according to Lovett.

He encourages students to apply early in order to get some of the first-come, first-serve financial aid funds the university gives out each year.

“So, for instance, since the application is out now, if a student waits until June, July or even August to file their FAFSA for 2017-18, there is absolutely no guarantee of what they’re going to be able to receive outside of student loans and it costs a lot more money to attend … than student loans will cover,” he said.

The 2017-18 FAFSA requires 2015 tax information, meaning that 2016 tax information cannot be used even if there were significant drops in income, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Lovett thinks the change will be a positive one but will require some slight adjustments for Financial Aid Services at USF to get used to.

The change will also help with the admissions process, Lovett said, because it allows for students applying to USF to be admitted and fill out their FAFSA at the same time.

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Bay, Painter decided to continue the spirit of the initiative and further engage the community in breast cancer awareness events.

Originally known as the first annual Palm Harbor car show, the event evolved into Car Shows for Charity. Last May, the event drew in nearly 300 cars and over 2,500 people.

“At our flagship event, $12,500 was raised,” Painter said. “With participants preregistering and giving $20 before the event and $25 the day of, we calculated each car averaging $49.41. With all of the funds, we wrote a check to Dr. Cox at USF Breast Health to receive the complete donation.

“Our committee chose this organization because with low overhead (and) administrative costs and accountability, USF Breast Health was accounting where all of our funds went.”

Both organizations highly encourage USF students to reach out to volunteer coordinators to assist with events. financial aid award information basically three months earlier than they used to receive it, so there won’t be as big of a gap between when they get admitted to the university and receive an offer of financial aid, and so for the university it makes it a lot better for recruitment purposes if the students know how much money they’re going to be receiving in financial aid funds to be able to attend,” Lovett said.

Lovett mentioned the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, which pre-fills some of the answers on the FAFSA using the family’s tax information from the IRS, which he encouraged students to use as it allows for fewer mistakes when filling out the FAFSA. Lovett said Financial Aid Services at USF is planning to send official communications to students soon.

Currently, Financial Aid Services at USF has promotional materials such as posters outside of its office advertising the change and plans to also send out information to students through its social media platforms.

Students who want to fill out their FAFSA can do so now at fafsa. ed.gov.

“It’s a pretty big change but you know it’s one that we welcome and for students that are applying now they basically will have the peace of mind in knowing that they have their financial aid application done and they don’t have to do it again until this time next year,” Lovett said.

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Junior linebacker Auggie Sanchez (left) had a career-high three sacks in USF’s 15-point win over UConn last Saturday. ORACLE PHOTO/JACOB HOAG

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Shooting the gap and blowing past the running back assigned to protect UConn quarterback Bryant Shirreffs, junior linebacker Auggie Sanchez grabbed the quarterback by the torso, spun him around and threw him down before throwing up his ‘Bull Shark’ horns in celebration.

This is only one of many plays that ended abruptly in the Huskies’ backfield Saturday.

In USF’s first five games this season, the Bulls combined to get to the quarterback 11 times as a team. With the five sacks recorded against the Huskies on Saturday, the Bulls have managed eight sacks over their last two games.

Sophomore defensive back Jaymon Thomas, who recorded his first career sack against UConn, said that increasing the pressure in their opponents’ backfield is as simple as trusting everyone defensively to just do their job.

“You have to have trust if you’re on that field,” said Thomas, who recorded sacks

on back-to-back plays against UConn. “That’s the main thing. If you don’t trust one another, you aren’t going to be efficient. There has to be a lot of trust on that field, and we trust each other.”

The captain of the defense, Sanchez, leads the team with six sacks, including three against UConn. He credits the trust he has in players like Thomas and the rest the Bulls’ secondary to have his back when it’s his turn to bring the heat.

“When the season started, I said the secondary had the most depth out here,” Sanchez said. “You have guys back there like Ronnie (Hoggins), Deatrick (Nichols), Jaymon … guys back there that have played some football, and we trust them.

“They do a good job, and they were really great and efficient for us against UConn.

They were like a well-oiled machine back there.”

Along with Thomas and Nichols, defensive backs Nate Godwin and Tajee Fullwood have all recorded at least one tackle for loss in the last two games.

Even after recording his first

career sack earlier this year in a 48-17 win over Northern Illinois, Sanchez still swings the credit towards the trust he has in the defensive line to do their part on a defense that now averages almost three sacks a game (2.71).

“It’s a hard play to get,” Sanchez said. “It’s probably one of the hardest things to get in college football. (Our) defensive line, they really help too with all that. Just the whole process is really exciting.”

Junior defensive tackle Deadrin Senat, who leads all USF defensive linemen with 33 tackles, credits Sanchez with making the right decisions on the field to put the rest of the ‘Bull Sharks’ in a position to make a big play.

“With our linebackers, especially Auggie Sanchez, he has the ability to check things and put us in the best positions he sees fit,” Senat said.

Challenged with a short week of preparation, USF will look to keep up its defensive intensity against Friday night’s opponent, Temple (4-3, 2-1).

While folding in some new wrinkles to match what they see from the Owls’ offense, Senat trusts what he has

seen from he rest of the ‘Bull Sharks.’

“We’re going to continue doing what we’re doing,” Senat said. “But, we’re going to try different plays, different calls, different schemes because they like to run the ball a lot … but, it’s a short week, we’re not going to do too much.

We’re going to keep it simple for everyone to know their job and execute.”

Even after decisively beating the Owls last year 44-23 in Tampa, the Bulls were still forced to watch Temple play in the AAC Championship game.

With a win Friday, the Bulls have an opportunity to achieve more firsts in program history.

Bulls’ coach Willie Taggart recalled how his team felt at the end of last season, and still covets an opportunity at an AAC Championship as Temple earned last year.

“We just talk about that feeling we all had watching them play for the AAC Championship while we were here practicing for a bowl,” Taggart said.

“I think we we’re all disgusted and ticked off, but we understand we have to do more to get what we want.

Temple earned what they got last year, so we have to earn what we want.”

The Owls’ rushing attack is a double threat, splitting carries between sophomore running back Ryquell Armstead and senior Jahad Thomas.

Armstead and Thomas are tied for second in the AAC in rushing touchdowns with seven alongside USF quarterback Quinton Flowers.

An already opportunistic USF defense will look to feast on Owls senior quarterback Phillip Walker, who has already thrown 10 interceptions this season.

The Bulls will also look to add to their growing sack average as well, going up against a Temple offense line that has given up 17 sacks on the season.

Hungry to cause some more chaos in the opposing backfield, Sanchez will have every opportunity to make more “cool” plays against the Owls on Friday night.

“I just think sacks are cool,” Sanchez said.

“It’s a special moment just to hit the quarterback and just see all your hard work pan out.”

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The Rundown Outside USF

Miller wins ALCS MVP Cleveland Indians pitcher Andrew Miller was selected as the Most Valuable Player of the American League Championship Series after dominant performances across 7 2/3 innings in the 4-gamesto-1 series win Miller for Cleveland.

Miller became the fourth-ever relief pitcher to win the award after striking out 14 of the 26 batters he faced in the four games he pitched in during the series. If Miller wins the World Series MVP, he would be the first since Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees won the award in 1999.

USF Weekend Schedule

Men’s Soccer

Memphis (7-6-1) @ USF (6-6-2) When: Saturday, 7 p.m.

Where: Corbett Soccer Stadium

Women’s Soccer East Carolina (4-9-1) @ USF (10-2-1) When: Today, 7 p.m.

Where: Corbett Soccer Stadium

Volleyball

SMU (14-6) @ USF (14-6) When: Friday, 7 p.m.

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Football will never be the same for USF’s Godwin after the loss of his grandmother

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Ice Bulls to play breast cancer awareness game

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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Nate Godwin began Sept. 10, 2010 like any other morning, walking down the hall to his grandmother’s room to greet her before heading off to school.

However when he went to wake her that Friday, what he found shattered his world: her fight with lung cancer had come to an end.

“I was talking to her the day before and the cancer was going well,” Godwin said. “She was going through chemo and she had lost her hair and things like that, but they were saying she was good.

They thought she had a good chance.”

Godwin tried to wake his grandmother that Friday morning, but she remained still in her bed.

“I was the first person to find her, so I think that was the roughest part was having to deal with that and going to school,” he said.

With his world falling apart around him, Godwin called his high school football coach and his uncle, Ken Capers, to tell them of the news. Within the hour, both men were by his side.

Though she had battled breast cancer before eventually beating the disease, Faye Godwin wasn’t as fortunate in her fight against lung cancer.

His coach told him he didn’t have to play that night, but Godwin said he was going to suit up because that’s what his grandma would want him to do.

Now a senior safety at USF, Godwin honors his grandmother on the field each Saturday, but especially for the Bulls’ Breast

The USF Ice Bulls will wear their unique breast cancer awareness uniforms this weekend.

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Nate Godwin lived with his grandmother until she passed away when he was 15. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/COURTESY OF NATE GODWIN Cancer Awareness game, which “His grandmother loved Nate took place last Saturday. The team more than the world,” Capers dons uniforms with pink highlights said. “She spoiled him, picked up each year. everything, cooked for him and Last Saturday against UConn, brought his food to his room. Nate Godwin posted a picture of his pink was her world and of course, he uniform laid out in his locker with gave that back to her. He loved the caption “RIP Grandma Faye his grandma, so he took her death Godwin.” hard.”

Growing up, Godwin didn’t have While his grandmother had the parental support most kids nothing but love for him, Godwin have. said he remembers she wasn’t shy With his father out of his life at a on discipline. young age and his mother dealing One night when he was 7, he with health issues, his grandma snuck out past his curfew to ride raised him and took care of him bikes with his friends in a nearby primarily by herself. park, but it wasn’t long before he Despite her fight with two was stopped in his tracks by the separate types of cancer, she didn’t voice of his grandma calling out let anything get in the way of for him. taking care of her pride and joy.

“She was sleeping when I snuck From cooking and cleaning, to out to the park with my friends consoling him after a tough game, and it was like two blocks down,” his grandma did everything in her Godwin said. “Well she woke up power to see that Godwin had and grabbed a belt, had no shoes what he needed. n See MISSING on PAGE 11

By Robert Bridenstine C O R R E S P O N D E N T

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and pink is everywhere. From lapel pins and bracelets to jerseys and cleats, pink highlights faithfully appear this month in the name of awareness.

The USF ice hockey team, the Ice Bulls, will be joining the cause to help raise awareness and funding for cancer research. Like many, though, some players on the team don’t need to be reminded of the harsh realities of cancer.

Richard Budd — a junior majoring in biomedical sciences and goalie for the Ice Bulls — knows the pain that cancer causes all too well.

Budd’s mother, Aleda, is a breast cancer survivor.

“When my mother was diagnosed, it was a hard time having to see her go through all of that,” Budd said. “Being able to go out there, even if it’s just for the one night, you get to feel some kind of

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Godwin does his best to honor his grandmother, with homages like his tattoo in her memory (left) and his play on the field. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/ COURTESY OF NATE GODWIN

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on, and walked two blocks to the park. I look and see her and she’s screaming ‘Nathan, Nathan, what are you doing?’ I remember she beat me and grounded me.

“When it happened, I was like ‘Dang, that sucks.’ But now I look back and it’s one of those funny moments. The fact that she didn’t bother to put shoes on shows how protective she was of me.”

When Godwin played youth football as a running back, his grandma was his biggest cheerleader, always on the sideline letting the world know whose grandmother was.

Win or lose, Godwin’s grandmother had nothing but praise for her grandson. Even after a tough game, Godwin said she always thought he was the best player on the field.

“I’d be running for a touchdown and she’d be right along the fence, screaming, going crazy,” Godwin said. “She always had a little blow horn and stuff like that.

“She was one of those who didn’t care what people thought, she loved me. She was proud of me and she didn’t care what people thought, she was going to take care of me and love me.”

She would tell anyone who would listen how good her grandson was at football and that he would one day play college football and maybe even the NFL. Though she didn’t live to see him graduate high school, keeping her dreams alive with his play on the field is something Godwin cares about deeply.

He thinks about her often and tries to honor her on the field, but when Godwin took the

field the night of his grandma’s passing, playing without her on the sidelines was harder than he could have imagined.

“It was terrible, to be honest,” Godwin said. “I went out there and I remember — I’m usually hyped before the game — but I wasn’t talking to anyone,” Godwin said.

“I went out there and missed a couple tackles.

“At one point, I broke down crying on the field. It was rough.

I couldn’t play and nothing was going right, I felt like a part of me was gone. When it first happened, I cried, but it didn’t really hit me until I was out on the field. It hit me hard that I was playing out there

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happen.”

With Godwin’s life in disarray, Capers did his best to fill the role Godwin’s grandmother left when she passed — essentially becoming the father he never had. “(My uncle) was like my Dad, I remember he bought me my first car,” Godwin said. “He pays my phone bill, he does anything for me. Back in high school, he would help me out with back-toschool shopping: clothes, books, whatever. He’s always been there.

“When I played high school football and needed cleats — whatever I needed, he’s always there. It’s like he’s the ‘yes man.’

He doesn’t say ‘no’ to a lot and

She was one of those who didn’t care what people thought, she loved me. She was proud of me and she didn’t care what people thought, she was going to take care of me and love me.

USF safety Nate Godwin, on his late grandmother

and she wasn’t there.”

Godwin found it too difficult to continue living in his grandma’s house, with the constant reminders of her engulfing him on a daily basis.

After roughly six months of enduring the pain of walking past her empty room each morning on the way to school and looking at all the old pictures she had hung up of him around the house, he moved in with Capers and his family.

“Nate needed male guidance and he always looked up to me,” Capers said. “I loved him like my own son, so it was a natural transition. It wasn’t strange, it wasn’t anything to think about.

It was just what was supposed to

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he’s always trying. At first I didn’t understand why, you know it was like I’m not really your son why is this guy taking care of me? But I’ve never questioned him on that, I’ve just respected him and been thankful for what he does.”

The two grew closer than ever before, with Capers taking on the responsibility of getting him to school and practice and ensuring he never had to worry about anything.

Capers has two daughters of his own, but he said it’s hard sometimes to take a step back and remember Godwin is his nephew.

“Nate comes to me for everything; I raised him like my own son,” Capers said. “I see no

difference. I have to make myself tell people he’s my nephew, the word ‘son’ just automatically starts to come out.

“When I would go to his high school games, everyone would just assume I’m his dad and that’s the only way I’ve ever looked at him.”

After starring for Freedom High School, Godwin committed to Minnesota before eventually choosing to stay home and play at USF, near his family.

Entering his fourth year as a starter at USF, he hopes to leave with a conference championship, especially after the Bulls went 6-18 in his first two seasons.

This season, Godwin is one of six defensive players to have played in each of USF’s seven games and is fifth on the team with 33 total tackles.

He prays about his grandma before every game and even sports a tattoo of two hands clasped together in prayer with her name — Faye Godwin — written underneath.

The tattoo was Godwin’s first of many and one that Capers had no issue with him getting, even while he was in high school.

With his family still close by, his mother and uncle come to watch his home games, but there’s always someone missing from the picture each time Godwin looks up to the stands at Raymond James Stadium.

“I remember her smile,” Godwin said. “Every time I think about my grandma, I just picture her running down the sideline at games. That always comes back to me.

“That smile and her attitude — it was tough losing her, but now that I look back, I think it made me stronger because I know she’s still with me and I play for her.”

respect and pay homage to what she went through.”

On Friday, the Ice Bulls will face off against FAU in all-pink jerseys. But this is not the first time the Ice Bulls have donned the pink jerseys. The team wore similar jerseys last year and later auctioned them off to help raise money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

This year, the team will not be auctioning its jerseys away, but will instead be taking donations of any amount to give to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

For the team, the pink jerseys are a fun way to help raise awareness of breast cancer with its fanbase, while also showing its support for the survivors and victims of the disease.

“It’s definitely a cool experience for me to be wearing the pink jersey,” Budd said. “Playing and seeing my mom in the stands, even if it’s just for the one game, I like to think that I’m honoring her in that way.”

According to Budd, last year’s game was one of the team’s better showings of fan support, surrounded by people in pink.

“We usually get a lot of people out for these games, and we encourage people to wear pink,” he said. “It’s definitely different to look into the stands and see pink and not green or gold. It’s cool to see that and see that we have the fans’ support, especially for a game like that where we’re honoring breast cancer survivors and victims.”

While the Bulls wear their all pink jerseys, many other teams support the cause and don the pink in some way.

“Usually when October comes, teams will use pink tape or have their own thing,” Budd said. “Most teams have their own breast cancer awareness nights. For the whole month, they usually have pink ribbons on their helmets or tape.

They’ll be wearing some sort of pink along with us.”

The Ice Bulls hope to make this an annual event they can share with the community and honor all who have been affected by some form of cancer.

“We look forward to doing something that is not only hockey,” Budd said. “We look forward to having some extra meaning to the games and this is one of the times we get to do that.”

The Ice Bulls’ game to build awareness for breast cancer will be at 9:00 p.m. on Friday at the Ellenton Ice and Sports Complex in Ellenton, Florida.

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