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UP has ‘High Hopes’ for new CBS lip-sync competition
By Jesse Stokes E D I T O R
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The University Police Department (UP) is used to facing challenges. But this challenge is different. Though it was not called out, UP challenged themselves to participate in the “Lip Sync to the Rescue” trend. Now, they are the last police department in the state still in the competition. When they decided to participate in a viral lip-sync trend earlier this year, officers Hector Torres and Allyson Cravero knew they would be stepping outside of their comfort zones. “The fact that CBS even reached out to us in the first place was a If chosen to be in the top 10, UP will be featured in a national lip-sync competition on CBS which will shock, let alone one of the top 30 chosen,” Cravero said. “We were be hosted by Cedric the Entertainer. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT reaching all of these other videos while we were researching and department was informed that hosted by Cedric the Entertainer. department was challenged by thinking of what to do and there out of the 30 finalists, 10 will be Currently, viewers can vote for engaging with the community and was a lot of other good ones out featured on the CBS special over their favorite of the 30 online and other departments on campus. there, so it was really shocking.” the summer, where the winner will be able to vote live during the “We did our best to have the Audrey Clarke, a university of the competition will then be CBS special from the top 10. community in the video with us spokesperson, said that the announced. The show will be The next way that the — interacting with the students
and staff and Rocky of course — hopefully, they know that we are here for them and hopefully they will be here for us too and vote,” Cravero said. Torres said he hopes the video will help the USF community to know that he and his fellow officers are approachable and that if they see something, they should say something. “We want (the community) to feel safe where they live and where they go to school … sometimes if someone is unapproachable, you may not necessarily say something if you see something,” Torres said. “We want them to know that we are just like them, we just put a uniform on.” Cravero said that the song the department lip synced, High Hopes by Panic! At The Disco, was chosen for a reason. “One of the biggest things with the song that we chose was the
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SG makes cuts to funding for MSC, Campus Rec
By Alyssa Stewart N E W S
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After the Student Government’s (SG) Activity and Service Recommendation Committee (ASRC) finished approving the initial budgets for the 2019-20 fiscal year, it realized major changes would have to be made. ASRC overallocated $1.5
million of the budget to its departments and student organizations. In order to solve this issue, Sen. Yusuf Fattah said ASRC first made the decision to make reductions within their own department. “We were in a hole, quite a big one,” Fattah said. “So we decided that SG and its entities would take a five percent
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reduction from operations (which handles items like payroll), 10 percent cut to programming and a 10 percent travel reduction.” With the help of the Assistant Vice President of Student Success Paul Dosal and the Associate Vice Presidents, the budget was reduced to $600,000. However, that still meant
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ASRC would have to reduce the allocations for its largest departments. The Marshall Student Center’s initial funding would be reduced by $173,000 and Campus Recreation would be reduced by $82,000. On top of that, the funding for student organizations would be cut by two percent. Dean of Students Danielle McDonald could sense that the
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decision to reduce the funding for the departments did not come lightly. “Many people did not agree with those reductions,” McDonald said. “Some were worried about whether there would have to be reduced hours and felt like students would be upset with that.”
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