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After hours of debate on what to do in the event of a tie, newly confirmed Tampa campus student body president Chris Griffin was elected to serve as the student representative for the USF Board of Trustees (BOT) — there was no tie.

Griffin will sit on the Academic and Community Engagement (ACE) work group of the BOT as the single student representative for students across all USF campuses. The ACE committee focuses on what impacts students on campus.

To get the position, Griffin ran against the student

body presidents from the St. Petersburg and SarasotaManatee campuses. He said that while the election meeting was long, it went well.

one for Griffin, who said he’s eager to begin his work. “(I’m) excited to continue to work and really move forward with this additional position

“Knowing that I am the voice, I am the person that everyone is going to look to … there’s a bit of pressure, but it’s not bad. I like being that representative.”

Chris Griffin Newly confirmed Tampa campus student body president

In his new role, he will facilitate any questions or concerns that come up that relate to anything the BOT is going over, he will bring up and address. The position is a big

and see how this can help move our platform forward and move our university forward,” Griffin said.

Large university decisions are made at the BOT level,

which is why Griffin feels his appointment to student representative is such an important one. He feels his role has a lot of weight and bargaining power.

“Obviously, the (BOT) is where huge change happens,” Griffin said.

In order to train for his new position, Griffin is meeting with the current student representative and getting caught up over the next few weeks.

He will also be looking at what the BOT has been looking to improve and what areas he specifically will be working on. Griffin wants an understanding of the past and future of the BOT. He isn’t walking in unprepared.

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Decked in green and gold

USF Week starts today with the Kickoff in the Marshall Student Center (MSC) Amphitheater at 5:30 p.m. The MSC will be decked out in school colors for the celebration. This week’s events include the Ultimate Bull Talent Show, Bullstock and Rocky’s Birthday Bash.

This year’s theme is Today, Tomorrow, Forever Bulls. The main organizers, the Center for Student Involvement, hope the celebration will help students embrace the school’s history, celebrate accomplishments and work toward the future. ORACLE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU

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Griffin feels the position Continued from PAGE 1 comes with a fair amount of pressure, but said he knew “I have been caught up to what he was signing up for everybody else who has been when he ran.

“Knowing that I am the voice, serving on the board for quite I am the person that everyone a few years,” Griffin said.

As far as his platform, he is going to look to … there’s a bit of isn’t going “I absolutely enjoy the pressure, to the BOT it’s to try and fact that all of these stu- but not bad,” push any of his ini- dents believe in me, and he said. “... I like tiatives being that I think that just makes unless the represenneed arises. my position so much tative. I He feels a n y t h i n g greater. ... I can definitely absolutely enjoy relating to the plat- do it if everyone else is the fact that all form can standing there behind of these be done at lower lev- me supporting me all the s t u d e n t s believe in els, leaving me, and the Board way.”

I think as almost a that just last resort.

Chris Griffin m a k e s Bringing Newly confirmed Tampa campus my posithings up student body president tion so at the BOT m u c h meetings isn’t as advantageous to Griffin as the con- greater. ... I can definitely do nections he will make with it if everyone else is standing university higher-ups through there behind me supporting his new representative posi- me all the way.”

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perfect conference record. The Bulls, now 4-1 in conference play, have already exceeded last year’s win total of 28 games, but still trail the program record of 60 wins in a single season set in 2004.

Senior pitcher Erica Nunn (16-6), who had USF’s first RBI of the game, lost only her sixth game of the season. She has already eclipsed her career high in wins.

Despite the loss, Eriksen doesn’t foresee any lingering effects from the ended streak.

“I don’t think it’s like drinking a bottle of whiskey where you’re drunk and then tomorrow you’re hungover,” Eriksen joked. “To some people that sit in the stands, they don’t realize how hard it is to come out here every single day and maintain that level that we maintained.”

USF plays a doubleheader against Bethune-Cookman starting at 5 p.m. on Wednesday at the USF Softball Stadium.

USF baseball drops series to Cincinnati With a six-series winning streak hanging in the balance Sunday, what began as a slow start for USF (15-13, 1-2) turned into a 14-inning marathon with USF falling 4-3 to Cincinnati (14-13, 2-1) in its first conference series of the season.

This brought USF’s streak to a halt after also dropping Saturday’s game 3-2.

The Bearcats got on the board early with two runs in the first three innings, but a home run from USF freshman outfielder Chris Chatfield – his team-leading seventh of the season – cut the lead to one.

Following an RBI single in the top of the fourth, the Bulls struggled to fight back until they had no choice.

Down to their final strike with a base-runner on second, freshman Cameron Montgomery sent a gametying, two-run shot over the fence. The homer, which was the first of Montgomery’s career, triggered five innings of back-and-forth drama between the teams.

Bulls’ reliever Tommy Eveld, who entered the game in the eighth inning, held the Bearcats scoreless through the 13th, but with no offense generated by USF, the game was put back in the hands of Cincinnati heading to the bottom of the 14th.

Cincinnati’s Joey Thomas brought in the winning run with a walk-off double, scoring Kyle Mottice from first.

USF sophomore Joe Cavallaro, who received the no-decision, gave up three runs, but retired the final 11 batters he faced. Eveld pitched five innings and only allowed two hits.

Women’s tennis’ has 11-match streak snapped The USF women’s tennis team had not lost a match since its Feb. 28 match against Tulane. Their 11-match streak ended with a 4-0 sweep at the hands of Rice in its final home match of the season.

The streak was the longest since the 2013-14 season when the Bulls won 14 straight.

The Bulls (13-6) travel to the University of North Florida on Saturday at noon.

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USF ArtHouse makes its mark

By Jasmin Faisal L I F E S T Y L E

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The USF School of Art and Art History held its 18thannual ArtHouse on Friday, an event where students, faculty and family can view student works in an open house-style setting.

The event began with the exhibition, “Only the Tip”, where works from third-year master’s candidates were put up for public viewing in the USF Contemporary Art Museum.

ArtHouse opened with classrooms full of student works being exhibited in the Fine Arts Hall.

The concepts and practices class debuted student work from their Shockwave curriculum, in which students created

their own countries. Both flags and portraits of the country leaders were put up for display.

Electronic medium projects were also shown including animated walk-cycles, kinetic typography set to music and interactive video games.

In the Salon de Refuses exhibit, patrons were given the option to vote for their favorite work. The works included drawings, photographs, performance art and sculptures.

Students also submitted work independent of their class, which were part of the “40th Annual Juried” student exhibition displayed in the Oliver Gallery.

“My favorite group of projects was, probably the ones currently in the Oliver Gallery.

There were a lot of ones I liked in there,” Charlotte Preston,

a junior studying studio art, said. “I really like the light up floor panels that were in the Oliver Gallery.”

An interesting collection on display was the inflatable installations, also made by students of the concepts and practices course. The class’ objective was to provide a utopia-like structure made to shield someone from a fear or phobia.

Some of these structures included a greenhouse to combat world hunger and a safe refuse from media bias.

“It feels amazing (to have your work displayed), and really almost enabling,” Threnody Gawron, a senior doubling in psychology and studio art, said. “When you are an art student you want people to see your work, but it’s kind of hard to find an audience.

Gawron had a walk cycle, lip sync, kinetic typography, as well as a video game from the Sandbox experimental theme course displayed during ArtHouse in the Electronic Media exhibit.

“The fact that your peers can see you, and the fact that they can see how diverse your skill set is, it can really help you feel like it pays off to do all this work,” Gawron said.

The ArtHouse event hosts pieces of art of different media created by students for public viewing. ORACLE PHOTO/ JASMIN FAISAL

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No one will benefit from this law, and the state may face serious economic blows for its callousness.

Regardless of the damaging effects of the bill, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed the bill late Wednesday night.

According to the New York Times, the state bill was “put together so quickly that many lawmakers had not seen it before it was introduced Wednesday morning.”

Obama has often declared the fight for gay and transgender rights to be the continuation of the civil rights era, and it is clear the country is not going to stand for discrimination to continue.

Many corporations have strongly urged McCrory to repeal the law and put a stop to such unconstitutional discrimination.

Those who have reached out in opposition include Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; Chad Hurley, Co-founder of YouTube; David Karp, Founder and CEO of Tumblr; Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook and many more.

After the bill passed, many departments announced they would be reviewing federal funding to make sure citizens’ rights were not being violated.

If North Carolina refuses to repeal the law, it will face reviews from the Department of Transportation, the Department of Education and the Department of Housing, to name a few.

Obviously, a country that seeks to protect every citizen’s rights will not support a state that seeks to discriminate. Lawmakers need to leave their prejudice opinions at home when they enter the courtroom and come up with policies that will benefit their state and all of their citizens, not single out a large group of people and set them up for biased behavior.

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What you said Opinion Editor Breanne Williams asked students which USF Week event they are most looking forward to.

“Brandon Stanton from Humans of New York and Bullstock. Mayday Parade has been my favorite band since middle school.”

- Renee Perez, a freshman majoring in mechanical engineering

“Bullstock. I like Mayday Parade.”

- Hamza Alnour, a freshman majoring in medical technology

“(ULS). I really like Humans of New York and what he did with the refugees.”

- Misha Gianchandani, a recent graduate majoring in psychology

“Bullstock. I have to write an essay on a concert, so why not.”

- Tabitha Arroyo, a freshman majoring in marine biology

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Wambach arrested Sunday for DUI Following a dinner at her friend’s house, former striker for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Abby Wambach was arrested for DUI in Portland early Sunday mornWAMBACH ing. Wambach was booked at 2:02 am and charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants.

Wambach, who recently spoke at USF as part of the University Lecture Series, apologized on Facebook saying, “Those that know me, know that I have always demanded excellence from myself. I have let myself and others down. I take full responsibility for my actions.”

Quote of the day “I think it’s a fluke. Every team has Canadian players, so I don’t think it has anything to do with Canadian teams.” — Montreal defenseman Nathan Beaulieu said after being asked a question regarding Canadian teams’ lack of success this season.

No canadian team will appear in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs this season as all were eliminated with more than two weeks to play.

Beaulieu was six months old the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup (Montreal in 1993).

USF softball coach Ken Eriksen doesn’t expect any lingering effects of USF losing its 23-game winning streak saying it will be, “business as usual.” ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU

Coming to an end Three USF streaks snapped Sunday

By Jacob Hoag S P O R T S

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With one out in the bottom of the fifth inning Sunday, the Bulls had a fighting chance.

The excited faces that watched USF’s strongest and, in most situations, timeliest hitter senior Lee Ann Spivey belt a home run to bring the game within one, quickly turned to disappointment as USF fell to Houston 5-2.

This snapped college softball’s longest-active winning streak, which spanned 23 games since March 5. “(We) played at a very, very high level for five weeks,” head coach Ken Eriksen said. “(Show) me any team in the country that’s done that this

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“(We) played at a very, very high level for five weeks. (Show) me any team in the country that’s done that this year – not many.”

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year – not many.”

After trailing 3-1 early off defensive miscues, Spivey brought the crowd of 436 strong to its feet with her ninth

home run of the season, closing the gap to a single run.

But what seemed like momentum was soon deflated as USF (31-10, 5-1) gave up two more runs in the sixth.

From there, Houston eliminated any chance of a rally, retiring USF’s final six batters.

“Any team that you play that you give extra batters, walks and errors to, it makes it tough on your defense and tough on your team,” Eriksen said. “We left a lot of people on base and we did a pretty good job of getting them out there.”

USF stranded seven batters against the Cougars, including three in a scoreless first inning.

The loss also tarnished USF’s

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USF senior guard Courtney Williams became the first Bulls to be selected as an All-American.

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USF senior guard Courtney Williams, who played a major role in propelling the women’s basketball program into the national spotlight, has been selected as part of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s 10-member All-America team.

Williams, who averaged 22.4 points per game in her career, was USF’s first player to receive the prestigious honor.

USF advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year, with Williams averaging 30 points in two games.

Williams ended her USF career as the only player in program history to reach 2,000 points (2,304), 900 rebounds (931) and 300 assists (318). Williams scored in doubledigits in all but one game this season, recording 23 20-point and five 30-point games.

Williams hopes to become the fifth Bull selected in the WNBA draft, which is scheduled for April 14.

-Staff report