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USF students now have another tool to use in their search for housing off campus at the new website, offcampushousing.usf.edu.

According to recent graduate and former Student Government (SG) Chief of Staff Gregory Berkowitz, the website will feature that can search a database of housing options based on apartment style, pet policy, security and other amenities.

“Making it easier to find apartments, it gives us a little more control over what the students are looking at,” Berkowitz said.

As of Wednesday evening, the website listed 38 locations to choose from since its start at the end of the spring semester.

Off Campus Partners, LLC

is the company that owns the website, offering technology for property managers and USF students to post housing options rather than have postings scattered in other traditional methods of leasing apartments near campus.

Safety is always a concern for collegiate housing, and according to the website, there are several safety parameters that a user is able to search under.

Properties can be filtered for dead-bolt locks, security systems, even whether the doorman works part time or full time.

Berkowitz noted it is this feature that made the website alluring when the company approached SG with the service at the beginning of the school year, adding that since SG can act as a webmaster for the site, it can also act as a gatekeeper in the housing search by preventing posts being added in areas

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Chick-fil-A is getting a face lift and will be closed throughout Summer A. ORACLE PHOTO/RUSSELL NAY Chick-fil-A is closed, and it’s uled to reopen for the start not even Sunday. of Summer B classes, students Since Monday, students may can look forward to an updathave seen the walled-off Chick- ed menu, including the Classic fil-A location in the Marshall Spicy Chicken Sandwich, said Student Center food court is USF Dining and Aramark undergoing renovations, which Director of Marketing Ashley includes cosmetic and equip- Horowitz in a statement to The ment updates.

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Researchers study why mosquitoes excel at sucking

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For most people, the key to keeping mosquitoes away during the summer lies in a can of bug spray. However, there may come a day when a generous amount of DEET is not enough to protect a backyard barbecue.

Aparna Telang, an assistant biology professor at USF SarasotaManatee, began working with student researchers this month to develop a natural, more effective way of quelling Florida’s mosquito population, which consists of more than 80 species.

Mosquito control is a costly endeavor in Florida, and Tom Unnasch said in a USF Health article published in April that the state spends about $75 million to $100

million each year on mosquito control. This is largely due to the potentially life-threatening diseases spread by mosquitoes, like West Nile virus and malaria.

“Overall, when you’re a researcher in a mosquito area, your primary goal is to figure out safer, better ways to control their population,” Telang said.

According to Telang, these new biological methods of mosquito population control are important because of how easy it is for mosquitoes to gain resistance to conventional repellents and chemicals.

“Most researchers, not just me, are looking for better bio-control methods,” Telang said. “We’ve seen that throughout history, mosquitoes have gained resistance to chemicals.”

In order to determine what can be done to control mosquitoes

from the inside out, Telang and four USF biology undergrads — Ruby Ramos, Zach Nemitz, Carissa Santiago and Nicole Carswell — will investigate how parasites live inside mosquitoes and why mosquitoes are able to live despite containing viral diseases.

The team’s most important tools include two refrigerator-sized, light and temperature programmable mosquito incubators where hundreds of mosquito eggs will be reared for testing, a micro-injector for collecting mosquito immune cells and high-powered microscopes used for dissecting the mosquitoes and inspecting their stomachs and reproductive organs.

“I train (the students) on the… different tools we use to (examine) the inside of the mosquito,” Telang said. “Once you have the mosquito open, you can then target particu-

lar organs. Like all animals, they have very specific organs inside of the overall body that we see. … We focus on tissues, organs and cells for pretty much all my work.”

Each of the four student researchers will also have their own tasks to perform within the study. Ramos, for example, will be feeding dog blood infected with malaria worms to mosquitoes in order to observe how the insect’s immune system responds to parasites.

Ramos said she joined the research project to learn more about the immune responses of mosquitoes, as well as seize an opportunity for hands-on lab experience.

Nemitz and Santiago will collaborate with Kim Ritchie, a micro-

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Zach Nemitz and Ruby Ramos examine bacteria as part of mosquito research at USF Sarasota-Manatee. PHOTO PROVIDED BY KRISTA SCHROCK

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biologist at the Mote Aquaculture Research Park in eastern Sarasota County, in order to closely examine the microbial population naturally residing in mosquitoes.

Nemitz, who is going into his senior year, said he is interested in the project not only to gain lab experience but also because he feels this topic hasn’t been investigated to death by previous researchers.

“There’s a lot of information out there that hasn’t really been seen,” Nemitz said. “I really hope to (find) some kind of neat, undiscovered information there.”

Carswell will work with Manatee and Sarasota mosquito control offices to better understand how

the West Nile virus, as well as the lesser-known St. Louis encephalitis virus, are transmitted by birds.

Telang said since the ultimate goal of this study is to figure out a safer, more effective method of keeping mosquitoes’ numbers in check, discovering a reliance the insect has on a certain strain of bacteria could lead to the natural solution the researchers are looking for.

She said the question that would then follow is if the team can figure out which bacteria mosquitoes rely upon for their superhuman disease resistances, can researchers utilize that knowledge to make it harder for them to survive in a population?

This question may have to wait until the research project is well past its first few years, as Telang said while she hopes to have find-

ings published from this study over the next year or two, she considers the project to be a long-term endeavor and plans on taking in more student researchers throughout the years of the study’s existence.

“As a scientist, I don’t really see anything as final, so I am hoping that we get enough work done over the next year or two to publish what we know so far, but … when you find some answers, you usually come up with more interesting questions, and that keeps your research moving forward,” Telang said.

“I anticipate taking students on year after year…which is good because that means there’s never a shortage of ideas that students can get into the lab and join in on that effort.”

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that are deemed unsafe for students by the university.

Alexandra Grzybowski, a psychology and biomedical science major, said the new website could help her to find better options, as she has faced issues with housing in the past that range from noisy neighbors to difficult roommates.

“I’m tired of searching Craigslist for an hour every day,” she said.

Grzybowski said she normally has a hard time finding a place she likes, and like many students, has faced difficulties finding housing in the summer months, when many students leave the university area and must find people to sublease their apartments or be forced to pay rent while away for the summer.

The website is free to USF students who make an account with the service. Once the student inputs their information, they can search for roommates and properties as well as post ads for roommates. Others who

At offcampushousing.usf.edu, off-campus housing searches are made easier for students. ORACLE PHOTO/ROBERTO ROLDAN wish to post a property on the service must pay a $75 registration fee.

Books, tutoring and employment opportunities are another feature of the website that helps students with collegiate life.

Students are also able to rent places to stay just for the sum-

mer semesters.

USF is one of the last major Florida state schools to adopt the service. University of Florida, Florida State and University of Central Florida have been among the larger universities using the service.

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Public art displays brightens up campus

Photo Essay by Adam Mathieu

Summers at USF are a time of joy when the sidewalks are less cluttered with students rushing from one class to another

and when being a full-time student only takes nine credits. These conditions make the summer semester an excellent time for students to make a scavenger hunt out of

the public art that is scattered across the expansive campus.

For a full gallery of the art around campus, check out USF Oracle on Facebook or visit usforacle.com.

Above: Harrison Covington’s “Concentric Figures” in Simmons Park.

Left: Alice Aycock’s “Maze 2000” by the PCD building.

Above: Stacey Levy’s “Tampa Wind” on NES building.

Below: Andy Yoder’s “Path” outside the engineering building.

Elyn Zimmerman’s “Sanctuary” outside the Moffitt Cancer Center

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AAC men’s basketball schedule announced Coach Orlando Antigua and the USF men’s basketball team caught a slight break when the conference schedule was released Wednesday.

Two of the top teams in the AAC, Tulsa and UConn, will both only play USF once this season.

Because the conference is comprised of 11 teams, each team plays only eight of the teams twice.

The Bulls will avoid playing in the XL Center in the regular season by hosting the Huskies, but will play at Tulsa.

The AAC Championship is scheduled to begin March 10, 2016 at the Amway Center in Orlando.

Bulls receive high APR marks Four USF teams were given Public Recognition Awards by the NCAA for earning high scores in the Academic Progress Rating (APR) report for the 2014-15 school year.

The men’s and women’s tennis teams, the women’s golf team and the softball team all scored within the top 10 percent of teams in their respective sports.

The APR gauges academic success of teams by measuring the progress of student athletes which focuses on eligibility,

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the momentum there. For him to hit that home run and put us back up three, I thought that was one of the pivotal points in the entire game.”

Maglich went 3-for-4 with four RBIs and two runs.

Jimmy Herget (9-3) earned the win despite allowing six runs (five earned) over six innings. The junior struck out eight and walked one.

“Jimmy has really carried us all year,” Current said. “I can’t tell you how many times we’ve won 1-0 or 2-1 when he’s been on the mound. Today, he didn’t have his best stuff, but he went out and competed, and the offense really picked him up.”

Herget earned first-team honors for the second consecutive year, which makes him and Borders the only first-team battery in the conference.

Junior Ryan Valdes will take the mound for the fourth-seeded Bulls (33-22-1) when they face top-seeded Houston (4017) at Bright House Field in Clearwater today at 3 p.m.

“Our goal is to make a region-

al,” Maglich said. “We keep upto-date with what’s going on, but coach tells us to play pitchby-pitch and everything else will take care of itself.”

Andrew Lantrip (7-3, 2.40 ERA), who earned second-team all-conference honors, will pitch for the Cougars. Houston led the AAC with seven players chosen to the all-conference first or second team.

This season, the Bulls are 1-2 against the defending champion Cougars, who beat the eighthseeded Cincinnati Bearcats, 8-4, on Tuesday.

In conference play, Houston has a conference-leading 2.60 ERA, compared to USF’s 3.71.

Four Cougars are batting at least .300 and will go against the three Bulls boasting batting averages over .300: junior Josh Vidales (.310). Kevin Merrell (.353), Maglich (.309) and Borders (.303) USF and Houston will participate in the winner’s bracket.

The team that advances will play Saturday at 10 a.m, while the loser will face Memphis on Friday at 11 a.m. in this year’s double-elimination tournament.

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While bees are not typically the first insects people feel sympathetic toward, the public should take a comb through its environmental concerns and be a little nicer to them.

As CNN reported, the White House announced new goals to protect the falling bee and monarch butterfly populations as part of President Barack Obama’s “pollinator” task force efforts, which began last June. The proposed steps involve limiting pesticide use, making federal land more habitable for pollinators and putting more money toward research, as noted by the Associated Press.

These steps are commendable for creating a buzz around an issue that should receive more attention, especially since in the past five years a third of bee colonies disappeared and the overall bee population in the U.S. dropped by 30 percent, according to the Centre for Research on Globalization.

What has been labeled colony collapse disorder directly impacts the world’s food supply and should be recognized on a larger scale.

As reported by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, bees and other pollinators help produce about a third of the world’s crops. In a CNN column, Marla Spivak, a University of Minnesota entomology professor, noted that of 100 crop species producing 90 percent of the world’s food, 71 percent depend on bees.

People clearly have an incentive to care.

However, as mentioned in CNN, the budget for protecting the bees might not win everyone over, as the Obama administration is requesting $82 million in the budget for the 2016 year to go toward its efforts, an increase from last year’s $34 million request.

Still, as CNN reported, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy indicates that honeybee pollination brings in $15

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What you said In light of Business Insider reporting that President Barack Obama broke a Guinness World Record by gaining 1 million Twitter followers in less than five hours after creating an account on Monday, editors Isabelle Cavazos and Adam Mathieu asked students their thoughts on politicians using Twitter and other social media.

billion to crop value annually. As bee populations dwindle, as Spivak addressed, the cost of fruits and vegetables could climb.

This is a domino effect waiting to threaten food sources and prevent people from getting, let alone affording, the nutrition they need.

In addition to the danger toward the food supply, the potential causes of the decline in the bee population are well worth the efforts the White House brings forth.

As mentioned in CNN, the loss of bees could be a result of environmental problems, less pollen “It’s a good way to and bacteria. Also, according to communicate with the a U.S. Department of Agriculture and Environmental Protection public in a more informal society.”

Agency study, the leading issue is an insecticide-resistant parasite living in beehives. ­— Karina Martinez, a junior Other problems include the use majoring in gerontology of dangerous pesticides and transforming landscapes into lawns and corn fields that lack adequate foraging space, as addressed by NBC News.

While the White House’s plan will likely raise awareness and reduce the damage, there are small steps people can make that are realistic for many college students. For instance, as Spivak noted, growing flowering plants and advocating for local areas, particularly roadsides and city lawns, to have more varied plants.

From University of Sussex research that found flower strips in farmlands increase bee populations, to the University of New Hampshire’s bee hotel used “To have one for a to examine local bee species to learn about their preferred habi- campaign is OK. A personal tats, universities have found ways one is inappropriate for the to halt population decline. Since president to have.” this remains an ongoing problem, research universities should take — Marisa Trant, a the opportunity to chime in on solutions. sophomore majoring in Isabelle Cavazos is a senior majoring in English and Spanish.

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“It turns it into a popularity contest. If people really care about politics, they’ll seek it out.

Having a Twitter won’t help with fixing any problems.”

— Angela Banks, a senior majoring in international studies and psychology

“That’s where people spend their time. Everyone uses social media more than they look at Time Magazine or CNN.” — Brandon Pham, a senior majoring in health science

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NHL coach Mike Babcock became the highest paid coach in the sport Wednesday when he accepted an eight-year, $50 million contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Babcock, 52, previously coached the Detroit Red Wings since 2005, winning the Stanley Cup in 2009.

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Borders gains national attention amid tourney

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Just one game into the AAC tournament at Bright House Field in Clearwater, USF catcher Levi Borders has already gained national attention.

The junior, who was selected to the AAC All-Conference First Team for the second consecutive year, sparked the Bulls at the plate — and more significantly, he dazzled behind it.

The latter landed him the No. 2 spot on the SportsCenter Top 10.

With no outs in the fourth inning of USF’s 10-6 victory Tuesday, Memphis right fielder Jake Little fouled off the first pitch.

Borders popped up, threw back his mask and hustled about five steps before making the diving catch in USF’s ondeck circle.

He was also pivotal with two outs in the first inning when he drove in the first run and later scored the second to give USF a 2-0 advantage over fifth-seeded Memphis (35-20).

Levi Borders got the scoring started for the Bulls when he drove in the first run and provided highlightworthy defense behind the plate in USF’s win over Memphis. ORACLE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU “We scored two runs in the first, USF would go on to score second.

“That home run that (Maglich) and then we gave it back to (the six of its next eight runs with two outs, beginning with a Luke hit, I thought was huge,” assis- Tigers). They had a little bit of Maglich three-run homer in the tant coach Mike Current said. n See BORDERS on PAGE 5

Notebook

Cid falls in first round of NCAAs

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

Senior Oliver Pramming and freshman Justin Roberts will compete in the NCAA Doubles Championship today against Denis Nguyen and Brian Yeung of Harvard. The USF duo is ranked as the No. 28 doubles team in the country.

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Roberto Cid finished 25-10 in singles play after losing in the first round of the NCAA Singles Championships. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

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Roberto Cid’s run in the 2014 NCAA Singles Championships lasted longer than most thought it would, ending in the quarterfinals.

The two-time AAC Player of the Year award winner took to the court in Waco, Texas on Wednesday in the first round of the NCAA Singles Championship with high expectations following his impressive sophomore campaign.

But Cid, ranked 21st in the nation, fell in two sets, 6-2, 7-6 (1), to No. 30 Austin Smith of Georgia.

“It came down to a couple of key points in the second set and I wasn’t able to end those and it’s just what happens,” Cid said.

“He was a better player in the key points.”

With the loss, the junior’s record moves to 25-10 for the season.

Even though he exited much earlier than he would have liked, Cid remained optimistic Wednesday.

“We had a great season, so there’s not much disappointment to be had,” Cid said. “I’m just looking forward to next season.”

With his sights set on the professional level, Cid said he is planning on getting right back to improving his game.

“I don’t just plan to do well in college, but I plan to do well professionally,” he said. “I’m planning on playing in some tournaments over the summer and I’m looking forward to getting back on the practice court.”

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