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News Briefs One dead, 15 wounded in Cincinnati club shooting One person is dead and 15 others are wounded after a shooting in a popular Cincinnati nightclub.

Shortly after 1 a.m., police believe multiple shooters opened fire inside the Cameo Night Club. O’Bryan Spikes, 27, was the lone fatality, but one of the wounded victims is currently in “extremely critical” condition, according to multiple reports. No arrests have been made.

“Several local men got into some type of a dispute inside the bar, and it escalated into shots being fired from several individuals,” Cincinnati police Chief Eliot Isaac said.

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By Jacob Hoag E D I T O R

China sees rise in killer whale shows

Just months after SeaWorld announced it would be shutting down its killer whale shows that have been polarizing since their inception, China is seeing a much different trend.

In the past two years, China has had a 20 percent increase in these shows. The country now has 44 ocean theme parks, with 18 more set to open.

“The Chinese treat mammals like commodities that they can throw away,” Mitchel Kalmanson, whose consulting firm in Florida has overseen deliveries of marine mammals to China, told USA Today. “They figure they can buy more if they can’t keep them alive.”

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Award-winning actress Viola Davis will be on campus for the University Lecture Series on April 4. Tickets are available today, starting at noon. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

By Miki Shine M A N A G I N G

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From “The Help” and “Fences” to “How to Get Away with Murder” and “Suicide Squad,” Viola Davis has been making screen appearances since 1996.

Soon, a speech at USF can be included in her list of appearances.

Davis will be coming to campus for the University Lecture Series (ULS) during USF Week on April 4 to speak on her experiences as an actress and activist. Students can start reserving tickets at

noon at usf.edu/ulsreg.

Over the years, Davis has worked as an actress and producer, including her show “How to Get Away With Murder.”

In 2015, she was the first black woman to win an Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a drama series. The series follows defense lawyer and professor Annalise Keating, who gets involved in the complex cases of her students’ and clients’ lives. Davis won her first Academy Award this past year for “Fences,” and is an Oscar- and Tony-winner.

Davis grew up impoverished

in Rhode Island with the goal of making a better life for herself and her family. She started with theater, doing performances both on and off Broadway before transitioning to TV. Davis said a scene from “The Exorcist” serves as a good metaphor for life. In 2012, when she gave the commencement speech at Providence College in Rhode Island, she emphasized the scene where the main character, Reagan, has the words “Help me” scratched into her stomach.

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USF senior safety Hassan Childs is in stable condition after being injured in a shooting Saturday night at a Tampa apartment complex, according to Tampa police.

At around 11:15 p.m.

Saturday, Tampa police received a call from Jovanni Jimenez, 26, saying that a man, later identified as Childs, pulled a gun on him, his wife and HASSAN CHILDS child at the Eagles Point Apartments at Tampa Palms, 14551 N 46th St. According to police, the incident began as a road rage incident, which then escalated to Jimenez pulling his own gun and firing at Childs, hitting him three times, in the upper arm and torso.

Jimenez told police the shooting was in self-defense.

“Thankfully Hassan is in stable condition and being well cared for, and no one else was injured,” coach Charlie Strong said in a statement. “There is an ongoing investigation of the incident and we are in the process of gathering further

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100-word rant There are many things that happen daily at USF that incite frustration and anger with students and faculty.

The Starbucks line is out the door, pedestrians greet friends in the middle of crosswalks, Chick-fil-A is out of Chick-fil-A sauce, teachers upload study guides four hours before exams, preachers condemn homosexuals outside Cooper, Hall the list goes on.

Instead of firing off a bitter tweet, email us a 100-word rant, obscenity free, on the topic and let your fellow Bulls know about your plight.

Include your name, year and major with your submission. The best rant will be chosen for print, and your frustrations can be shared with the world.

Campus Tours: The invasion

By Miki Shine Junior/Mass communications

We’ve all been on the other side of the problem, coming to tour the campus as a senior in high school, excited for the possibility of the future and our newfound independence.

But we never seem to gain independence from the tours as they roam the sidewalks, stand outside of buildings and congregate in the atrium of the MSC. These bright-eyed, hopeful youth of America have every right and reason to be so. But some of us are running late for class and haven’t eaten all day. That’s just a part of being a college student, as is being stuck behind tours, apparently.

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United Airlines uses archaic dress code to prevent girls from boarding flight

United Airlines refused to allow two girls wearing leggings to board a flight due to their attire being “inapropriate.” SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

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

Apparently girls wearing leggings is so inappropriate it warrants them being removed from a plane, according to United Airlines.

An agent at the Denver National Airport barred two young women on Sunday from boarding a United Airlines flight. Another passenger, who was also in leggings, put a dress on over her outfit and was permitted on while the other two were turned away.

The airline defended this utterly inexcusable behavior by claiming it was simply forbidding those in inappropriate clothing from boarding the flight.

Shannon Watts, the founder of the Moms Demand Action campaign, was sitting outside the gate when she saw the commotion, and immediately began tweeting the airline for clarification on the issue.

“She’s forcing them to change or put dresses on over leggings or they can’t board,” Watts tweeted. “Since when does @united police women’s clothing?”

United Airlines replied, explaining the airline had the right to bar passengers if they were shoeless or wearing improper garb via its Contract of Carriage.

The discretion of what is appropriate and what is immoral is left up to the agent at the gates. This heavily biased agent should be reprimanded, not defended.

“I have five kids: four of them are women,” said Watts in an email to the New York Times. “They wear yoga pants all of the time when flying. I think this policy is arbitrary and sexist. It singles out women for their clothing and sexualizes little girls.”

The airline also stated causal clothing is fine for normal passengers; however, the girls in question were United pass travelers, which is reserved for company employees and family members of employees.

Technically, the girls represented the airline, and thus were held to a higher standard than normal ticketed customers.

But even if they were wearing United Airline jackets and waving flags with its logo on it, they should have been allowed on in leggings.

Athletic wear is comfortable and if the sight of a young girl in leggings makes you uncomfortable, the issue is entirely with you, not with that poor kid.

The tweets immediately gained traction on social media as people across the world began admonishing the airline for its idiotic policies, which humorously, many began to state are being enforced randomly.

Several women began tweeting they had frequently worn leggings on United flights and had never had an issue, while others focused on the outrageousness of the children being turned away.

Pictures of young women in prairie girl dresses and nun’s habits and robes began

circulating the internet tagged as United’s new passenger requirements.

And the utter ridiculousness of the issue has caused many to laugh, while also vowing to take their business elsewhere.

United’s defense of its archaic dress code is costing it passengers.

When companies perform nonsensical actions, the best way to ensure they apologize and change their stance is to hit them the only place it hurts, their pocketbooks.

When people stop supporting their companies, those companies will be forced to concede, or else they will go out of business.

United Airlines has no right to police women’s clothing. Those girls did not walk on in lingerie, their legs were completely covered in comfortable leggings.

To cherry pick when a policy is enforced is outrageous, and the vague wording of the Contract of Carriage means an agent could essentially bar anyone they wished from boarding by simply saying their outfit was “improper.”

United needs to offer a formal apology, not defend the misogynistic actions of its employee, or there will soon be economic repercussions when its sensible customers begin to take their business to Southwest or American Airlines.

Breanne Williams is a majoring in mass communications.

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“You know, your authentic self is constantly trapped under the weight of the most negative forces in this world.

And it will be an everyday battle,” she said. “You know, sometimes I felt, and you will feel, that who you are is hidden away like a piece of really great jewelry that you keep in a box, and you only take it out during special occasions.

“Yet your everyday persona is a type of demonic possession.

But the demons aren’t gargoyles or red-faced men with horns, but everyone else’s dreams, desires, definitions of success, greed, the pursuit of personality instead of character, the exchange of love and family, for money and possessions, entitlement with no sense of responsibility, and the most frightening demon of all, lack of purpose.”

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Davis said she now has the luxury of being picky about what projects she’s doing, both as an actress and as a director, according to variety.com. She’s been working toward taking on complex roles both as a woman and as an AfricanAmerican. These are not only complex roles, but also roles that push her outside of her comfort zone.

The university is already expecting her lecture to fill the Marshall Student Center Ballroom, and is planning to set up overflow seating and a live-stream in the Oval Theater.

The lecture is free and open to the public, with preference seating going to USF students.

The last time ULS needed an overflow room was spring 2016 when Humans of New York founder Brandon Stanton came to campus.

Davis will receive $70,000 for her lecture. This is the most USF has spent this school year on a ULS speaker.

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“Out of respect for the integrity of the investigation, we cannot comment further at this time.”

The case has been forwarded to the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office to determine whether charges should be filed.

According to Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office records, Jimenez was charged, but not prosecuted, for misdemeanor domestic violence two years ago. Jimenez also pled no-contest after an arrest in February 2012 for misdemeanor charges of opposing an officer without violence.

Childs has no criminal record in Florida.

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fanning four while allowing no walks and two hits.

The Golden Hurricane opened the scoring in the second inning with RBI hits from sophomores Haley Meinen and Julia Hollingsworth, giving Tulsa an early 2-0 lead.

Tulsa (23-10) would score three more in the fourth inning, enabled by fielding and throwing errors by USF. USF has now lost six of its last seven games. It looks to rebound in its series against UConn in Storrs, Connecticut, beginning Friday.

Wagers named men’s basketball assistant

Newly hired men’s basketball coach Brian Gregory’s main talking point in Wednesday’s induction was in-state

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On Saturday, Gregory added someone to his staff who may help him achieve that goal in Scott Wagers.

Wagers spent the past three years as an assistant at Jacksonville University (201417), helping the Dolphins post back-to-back winning seasons.

Wagers also spent five years as the head coach at Robinson High School in Tampa (199499), leading the Knights to four district and two regional titles. Wagers was also named Tampa Bay Basketball Coaches’ Association Coach of the Year in 1997-98.

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Wagers got his collegiate coaching start at East Tennessee State where he helped lead the program to six postseason berths, including four NCAA Tournament appearances, and five regular season conference titles.

Women’s tennis earns first conference win While celebrating senior night at the USF Varsiy Tennis Complex, the USF women’s tennis team secured its first conference win of the season 6-1 over Temple.

After USF secured the doubles point, Vanja Klaric scored first with a pair of 6-1 wins.

USF’s Nicole Dzenga finished off the owls winning 6-3,6-2 over Temple’s Dina Karina.

Next up for the Bulls is a three-game road trip to Texas to face Rice, Marshall and Houston on April 7-9.

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Outside USF

Kobe Bryant takes on storytelling With his NBA career now behind him, former Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant is tackling his next career — storytelling. The NBA legend debuted the second episode of his project titled Canvas City on Sunday. According to Bryant, the show Kobe Bryant is a way for him to analyze basketball in a friendly and easily digestible method.

“Canvas City: Musecage helps others better their best by delivering complex basketball insights in a light-hearted, easy-to-digest way,” Bryant said in an ESPN release. “The show helps others understand the game at a higher level and offers a new voice to sports storytelling that will hopefully captivate the whole family.”

USF weekend scoreboard Baseball

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Due to the refusal to make players available to The Oracle and a lack of cooperation by coach Ken Eriksen, The Oracle will no longer be covering USF softball going forward.

Notebook

Softball swept to begin AAC play

Despite allowing 10 batters to reach base, senior pitcher Ryan Valdes held Florida A&M to one run over five innings in the Bulls’ 7-1 win on Sunday. ORACLE PHOTO/JACKIE BENITEZ

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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The USF baseball team found itself in an unfamiliar position this week after over a month straight of wins.

The Bulls dropped two games — a 2-1 loss at No. 15 FGCU on Wednesday and an 11th inning 3-2 loss to Florida A&M on Saturday — which ended their 19 game winning streak one game short of the program record.

Though it was the first twoloss week for the Bulls (223) in 2017, they wrapped up the weekend by taking the series against the Rattlers with a 7-1 win at the USF Baseball Stadium on Sunday.

“That’s a good team that will probably be in an NCAA regional,” USF coach Mark Kingston said. “Wish we would

have swept it, had the tough luck on Saturday night, but we came out with the series win.”

Kingston began the weekend with pitchers Phoenix Sanders on Friday and Shane McClanahan on Saturday, but decided to shake up the rotation Sunday. Rather than throwing typical Sunday starter Peter Strzelecki, he instead chose senior Ryan Valdes.

In five starts, Strzelecki has held the opposition to just four earned runs, but has had difficulty lasting deep into games.

Limited to a pitch count to begin the season because of Tommy John surgery in 2016, the junior has averaged just over four innings per start.

“We’re looking at different guys for different roles, and we want to see if (Valdes) is one of the guys we’ll consider as a starter,” Kingston said.

Valdes ran into trouble to begin the game, allowing a run

in the opening frame when he allowed a one-out RBI double.

He went on to limit the Rattlers to no runs over the next four innings, despite allowing runners to reach scoring position in four of his five innings pitched.

“He just settled in, that seems to be his pattern,” Kingston said. “He gets himself into a little bit of trouble, but he finds a way to get out of it, he did that again today. He’s got composure, he’s got some out-pitches.”

USF scored 20 runs over the weekend even without leading hitter Kevin Merrell. The starting shortstop, who is hitting .430, was held out with the flu and Kingston said he hopes to have him back this week.

The Bulls will host Stetson on Tuesday before beginning conference play this weekend with a three-game series at Tulane.

USF softball is 3-7 over its past 10 games after getting swept by Tulsa this weekend.

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The USF softball team opened conference play with a thud this past weekend, as it was outscored 17-3 in a threegame sweep at the hands of Tulsa.

USF (20-18), who was shut out twice during the series, managed just two hits in a 5-0 loss Sunday at the USF Softball Stadium.

Tulsa’s Lexi Blevins pitched the complete game shutout,

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