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Hidden on-campus cafe offers colorful cuisine.

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Montage

Schools to implement tuition freeze

By Grace Hoyte N E W S

S PORTS USF golf heads to NCAA Championship.

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The USF Federal Credit Union location in the Marshall Student Center reopened after months of renovation. ORACLE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU

Registrar to be removed amid lawsuit

By Grace Hoyte N E W S

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After months of ongoing litigation with the university, with claims of discrimination and a requested restraining order, USF Registrar Angela DeBose will no longer be in her position come fall.

On May 19, DeBose was sent a letter of non-reappointment from the university, which states her employment at USF will end Aug. 19.

In a motion filed in February to the Tampa Division of the U.S. District Court, DeBose stated USF Vice Provost for Student Success Paul Dosal discriminated against her based on her race, stating the behavior was the result of “institutional racism.”

This motion for a restrain-

ing order to prevent retaliation from USF was filed against the USF Board of Trustees, Academic Affairs and Dosal.

The motion was denied.

In one motion, DeBose also stated Dosal threatened to fire her based on discrimination against her gender as well.

According to the letter of non-reappointment, the notice does not constitute a dismissal or disciplinary action, but it is the university’s “prerogative to discontinue” her appointment.

DeBose did not return calls for comment from The Oracle.

On May 8, the university contracted a consultant from Ellucian, the company that hosts Degree Works. In the report, the consultant said USF “managed to create an atmosphere of working together for the good of the institution” but reported an “area of risk” was the registrar’s office “not willing to encompass change”

and lacked an “atmosphere of working together for the good of the institution, staff and most importantly students.”

The report stated the registrar’s office is responsible for the majority of the data that Degree Works utilizes, but did not outline any specific changes for the office.

The consultant wrote in the report that such unwillingness could “ultimately hold (USF) back from (its) future goals.”

USF Media and Public Affairs Coordinator Adam Freeman declined to comment on behalf of the university and Dosal, stating the university does not comment on personnel issues.

While the university will launch a national search for a new registrar, Freeman said the new interim registrar is Carrie Garcia, a current director for the USF Information Technology department.

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Good news for Florida students: tuition isn’t going to go up this year or next.

In this month’s workgroup meeting, the Florida Board of Governors (BOG) discussed a proposal to keep the price of in-state tuition constant for the next school year for students at the state’s public universities.

Undergraduate tuition for in-state students had risen steadily until the 2013-14 school year, as much as 11 percent from 2011-12 year to the next.

Base tuition is projected to remain the same until 201617. In other words, in-state members of the class of 2017 will pay the same rate for tuition for all four years of undergraduate education.

In addition to tuition, the university is planning to freeze the increase in tuition differential fees and required fees.

USF is continuing in a statewide trend in capping tuition.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, UCF, UF and FSU are doing the same.

As reported in the Sentinel, the cost of attendance for an in-state student at UCF who is taking 15 credits per semester and living on campus will be $21,834. This includes tuition, room and board, and other costs predicted by the school.

For USF students, the cost for the same student is estimated to be $20,910.

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USFSP solar-powered garage turned on, largest in Florida

By Christopher Collier A S S T .

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One of the largest solar panel arrays in Florida was turned on for the first time Wednesday at the USF St. Pete campus.

Activated at 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, the new solar panel array on top of the 5th Avenue south parking garage will be the first of its kind in the state, storing energy in a battery developed by Tesla Motors.

The project has been in the works for just under a year, and includes roughly 7,100 square feet of 318 panels, which now supplies power to the garage, including its elevators, lighting and two electric car charging stations. Any extra power will be stored and added to the power grid.

Last September, $1 million was awarded to the project’s research by Duke Energy through the SunSense grant.

As part of the grant, Duke Energy installed a 100-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system.

Duke Energy and the researchers at USFSP are hoping to discover different ways

leftover energy can be stored for later use and study how long that energy will keep.

According to NASA, photovoltaic systems are composed of three parts: cells, modules and arrays. The cell is constructed of a semiconductor, like silicon, that has been formed into a thin slide and treated to have a positive electric charge on one side and a negative charge on the other.

Sunlight shining on the cell excites electrons in the semiconductor material which in turn creates an electrical circuit that can be captured and stored for use. Cells are wired together to form a module and multiple modules form an array.

Although Florida’s nickname is the sunshine state, Florida ranks only 10th in utility-level solar power use. This may change after Duke Energy completes its 10-year plan to install 500 megawatts of utility-level solar arrays. According to WUSF, five megawatts of solar power will be added to the power grid by the end of this year and 30 more megawatts will be added by the end of 2018.

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Tarek’s Cafe feeds USF’s eclectic tastes

By Russell Nay A S S T .

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Most USF students know where they can get a sub next to Cooper Hall or Chinese food in the Marshall Student Center.

However, many students are likely unaware of one on-campus cafe where they can satisfy their taste for something more exotic — like a traditional Greek-style gyro or a falafel sandwich.

At the edge of the USF Health side of campus, tucked away behind the College of Public Health and within one of the courtyards at the Continuing Education building lies Tarek’s Cafe. The cafe is an independently owned restaurant that serves a number of breakfast and lunch dishes, desserts and daily specials to students, faculty and the general public.

The cafe consists of a small dining area, a front counter and a kitchen in the back, run by a cooking staff of three chefs led by Tarek Elsayed. Elsayed, both the owner and head chef of Tarek’s, said his restaurant first came to campus at the bequest of his customers in 1993.

“I had a restaurant across the street, and staff from USF used to come to that restaurant all the

time,” Elsayed said. “They wanted me to come here for months and months, and finally I made the decision to come in. I’ve remained ever since.”

While Elsayed was born in Cairo, Egypt, he got his start in the restaurant business in 1976 while working in restaurants in London and Holland while in high school.

In 1980 he moved to New York City, where he began working in French restaurants and later managing Italian restaurants before wanting to open his place.

While Elsayed has been in the restaurant business for more than 37 years, he said becoming a chef and owning his own restaurant was not his first dream. Originally, he wanted to become a marine biologist due to a passion for the ocean, fishing and biology.

However, he said he soon fell in love with being a chef and would not have wanted it to turn out any other way.

“When I was younger, all I was thinking about was the sea and biology, but the journey of life changes your headings,” he said. “It’s just love for … quality food, and that’s all I’ve done all my life. It just grew on me, and I want to do nothing else but cooking and staying in the restaurant

business … It was far away from my dreams, but I’m glad it did happen, and I would do it all over again.”

While the number of customers visiting his cafe fluctuates throughout the years, Elsayed has noticed a definite change in the appetites of his customers since his restaurant opened at USF — specifically, a recently growing taste for exotic foods.

“With the advertisements and TV and Food Network, things definitely changed, and everybody wants to try different kinds of cuisines,” Elsayed said. “I think the restaurant business now has become an experience and not a necessity. The entertainment aspect of going out to eat probably plays 90 percent of the role.”

This newfound desire for something different is reflected in the menu at Tarek’s Cafe, which contains American lunch staples such as burgers and chicken tenders alongside lesser-featured dishes like a blackened tilapia sandwich and a couscous and quinoa salad served with tomato, fresh mozzarella and pita wedges.

“I try to cover all the avenues,” he said. “I carry different specials sometimes like … salmon, shrimp, pastas (and) a lot of dif-

ferent specials. My menu actually covers everything — sandwiches, vegetarian salads, burgers, Philly steaks, French fries — you name it, I have it.”

Lani Boothman-Carpenter, a USF alumna and the resource manager for the digital innovations group at USF Health’s Information Systems, said she has been eating breakfast at Tarek’s since Elsayed introduced breakfast to the cafe’s menu about four years ago.

Her favorite dishes include pancakes and turkey bacon, Cuban toast with cheese and bacon, gyro wraps and the sizeable Tony’s Breakfast Sandwich — two eggs with cheese on toasted Cuban bread, with a choice of ham, sausage or bacon.

She said she was first introduced to Tarek’s through a classmate while she was still a student at USF and was surprised to learn there was a cafe behind the College of Public Health.

“All I knew were the regular student dining (spots),” she said.

“When I went there, I saw some other friends … and I was like, ‘Why didn’t you share this with me before? I’ve been eating campus food the entire time.’”

Now, Boothman-Carpenter said

Tarek Elsayed of Tarek’s Cafe.

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she keeps coming back to the restaurant because of the quality of the food and the care Elsayed places into his cooking.

“I’m kind of tired of the fast food, quickly processed, everything-tastes-the-same type of food,” she said. “You can tell when food is cooked with love, and Tarek’s food is cooked with love.

“You can see that he loves what he does (and) loves feeding people … You can see … this isn’t just another job for him to get by or get funds for food; this is what he’s passionate about.”

While Elsayed said he has no major plans for his cafe in the near future, he will continue to cook at his restaurant as he always has, and there is always something new on the menu.

“Lots of different people have pushed me to open a different business somewhere else … (but) I love my schedule at USF,” he said. “You’ll see in the fall … lots of vegetarian (dishes), a lot of Mediterranean dishes (and) maybe some extra seafood.”

For the summer, Tarek’s Cafe is open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Monday - Thursday and 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Friday.

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“There’s a little bit more certainty going into this event instead of going to a golf course and having to read a course that we’ve never seen before,” Bradley said. “It adds a little bit of a comfort level.”

The No. 14 Bulls continue their historic run on Friday when they tee off at 2 p.m. and again Saturday and Sunday at 8:40 a.m. for a total

FAU

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another dominant season. The junior right-handed pitcher was the only USF starter with an ERA under three (2.95) and he struck out 109 batters in only 94 2/3 innings.

While Herget had little trouble with opponents this season, FAU (40-17) leans on its potent lineup to carry it to victory.

The Bulls’ lineup is anchored by juniors Luke Maglich and Levi Borders. Both hitters are

of 54 holes of stroke-play to determine the top 15 teams that will continue to Monday’s round, which will then cut the field to eight.

From there, the top teams will compete in two rounds of match-play to determine the national champion. In each round, the top individuals from the non-advancing teams will compete for the individual title.

The tournament will be broadcast on Golf Channel and live updates will be available

on NCAA.com.

Though Koepka said USF has exceeded all of his expectations from three years ago, the Bulls aren’t close to being done yet.

“We have nothing to lose,” Koepka said. “We’re just excited. It’s my first (national championship appearance) and the team’s first and it’s such a big thing for our school.

Our goal is to make it to match play and once we’re there, we’ll see where it goes.”

in the top three players on the team in batting average and home runs.

Freshman Kevin Merrell also had an impressive first season for USF, as he led the team in batting average while hitting at the top of the lineup all season.

The Owls have averaged 6.96 runs per game and have scored 10 runs or more 15 times. But despite their highoctane offense, the Owls struggled down the final stretch of their season.

They’ve lost six of the past 10, including a four-game los-

ing streak over which they scored only nine combined runs.

Even with the added power, USF averaged just over five runs per game, but has a dangerous lineup that features four players with at least five homers.

The rest of the Gainesville region is made up of Florida and FAMU, which will play Friday night at 7.

Behind the arm of Herget and a powerful lineup, the Bulls are hoping they’ll have much more to celebrate than a regional berth this season.

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EDITORIAL

Scott needs to rethink stance on body cameras Though body cameras seem like a surefire way to catch what happens between the police and the public, Florida lawmakers recently agreed to limit how much can be seen.

As reported by the Tampa Bay Times, Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill last week to exempt body-camera footage taken inside a home, hospital, mental health institution or any location where privacy is “reasonably expected” from public record laws, allowing only law enforcement or those in the video to release the footage.

While privacy is certainly an issue with the widespread use of body cameras, this approach provides officers too much license to hide information when the purpose of body cameras is to make police relations more transparent.

This seems like a small change in comparison to the larger criticisms against body cameras. They aren’t backed by everyone simply because of the limited evidence to show they do improve transparency. For instance, when there was video evidence taken by a bystander to prove NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold, a grand jury still decided not to indict him. This was an example of officer accountability at its worst.

Yet, body cameras do have their place.

As found in a University of Cambridge study on the Rialto Police Department in California last year, reports on officers’ use of force dropped by 60 percent. On top of that, the department received 88 percent less citizen complaints against officers in the year the study was conducted.

Despite being the only leading study on body cameras, along with the lack of sufficient

evidence to show they provide a “net benefit” to policing, as mentioned in the Atlantic, this study does show the odds of body cameras actually working.

Though body cameras do not fix the problem of police brutality, one argument, as noted by Slate, suggests their value doesn’t necessarily lay in what is recorded, but in what is not recorded, since they play a role in the prevention of the use of force.

The question then becomes the role privacy plays in all of this. While the recently-signed bill states the need for privacy outweighs public benefit, there are ways to provide both privacy and full disclosure.

As noted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), continuous recording, as opposed to recording that would give officers license to turn cameras on and off, would subject anyone to mass surveillance, especially in areas with highly-populated public streets. Hence, the Legislature could argue that any recording is an invasion of privacy.

While privacy is a valid concern, the new law provides law enforcement too much control in sharing videos.

Instead, as the ACLU noted, parts of a video could be blurred or the audio distorted to maintain privacy. Or, before entering private properties, officers could give notice that they are recording.

The policies and expectations for body cameras are anything but uniform throughout the country, and there’s still a long way to go in figuring out the best way to use them and how much control law enforcement should have over their footage. But with this new law, it’s clear Florida still has work to do.

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What you said In light of a new Center for Community Alternatives survey that found 89 percent of colleges request high school disciplinary records in the admissions process, editors Isabelle Cavazos and Adam Mathieu asked students if they think colleges should consider these records.

“Yes, because there’s no significant amount of time to change between high school and college.”

— Francesca Lagares, an undeclared freshman

“They should look at it, but not for a final decision.

High school is a time when people go through life-changing experiences.” ­ Joycelyn Alleyne, — a senior majoring in management and marketing “If it shows they have poor attendance, it’ll probably carry over. It should be taken into consideration, but it shouldn’t be a deciding factor.”

— Lynn Fischer, a senior majoring in biology and chemistry “They should look at what they were in trouble for.

Not for dress code, but if it’s something about attendance or weapons, it’s different.”

— Kaitlyn Campo, a senior majoring in integrative animal biology

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The Rundown An investigation of FIFA by the U.S. and Switzerland has uncovered schemes by FIFA officials, some of which involved awarding the 2010 World Cup to South Africa.

Fourteen people, including nine former or current FIFA officials, were charged with soliciting bribes and corruption.

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Eight USF Track and Field athletes will compete at the NCAA Preliminaries, which takes place Thursday through Saturday in Jacksonville.

11 USF teams exceeded the national average for APR score, including football which ranks third in the AAC. The Bulls on Parade - USF Coaches’ Tour will kick off Saturday in Miami and will feature nearly every USF head coach. Admission is free for fans who register in advance.

AAC Update Four AAC teams qualified for the NCAA tournament, which will begin Friday. USF, Houston, Tulane and East Carolina were all deemed worthy of playing in a regional game. Houston, the champion of the conference, will be the lone AAC team to play as a one-seed.

BASEBALL

USF (33-24-1) at FAU (40-17)

When: Friday, 1 p.m.

Where: Gainesville, Florida TV: ESPN3

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Men’s Golf

Bulls red hot into NCAA Championship

By Jacob Hoag C O R R E S P O N D E N T

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When Chase Koepka committed to play for the USF men’s golf team, it had only two top-five finishes the prior year and was ranked 205th in the country. The team had no clubhouse and had to meet at the Lee Roy Selmon Athletics Center, where the locker room was housed.

Now with fresh, young talent behind him, Koepka is closing out his junior season with the team on the cusp of bringing USF its first national championship in school history.

Heading into the program’s first championship berth, the Bulls are riding one of the hottest streaks in the country, with a win at Irish Creek on April 12 to wrap up the regular season as well as taking home first in the AAC Tournament and NCAA Regionals.

These three consecutive wins have put USF, a program once at the bottom of the golf food chain, in the national spotlight with a target on its back.

“It’s an unbelievable turnaround,” Koepka said. “Four or five years ago, I don’t think anyone would’ve said we’d be in this spot, but with a lot of

hard work from a bunch of different people, we’ve wanted it really bad and all of hard work is finally paying off.”

The 2014 Ping All-American began the season by edging out Western Carolina’s Bright Julamool for the individual tournament win in the opening fall tournament at the Invitation at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island.

This was the first of five wins for USF, which placed in the top five in nine of its 11 events. This success led to the program’s highest-ever ranking, coming in at No. 9 in the Golfstat top 25.

“We’ve taken baby steps each year to try and get better and better, but this year was just a big leap with the amount of talent we have on the team; it’s something special we have here,” Koepka said.

The talent has spoken for itself over the course of the season, with freshman Claudio Correa, sophomore Rigel Fernandes and senior Ryan Fricker all joining Koepka with individual wins.

“They’re a pretty confident bunch,” first-year coach Steve Bradley said of his new team.

Confidence is key in finding success in the postseason.

After watching their season end early with a 10th-place

Chase Koepka won his first event of the season and now finds himself and his team on the brink of bringing a championship to USF. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE finish in last year’s regional, Koepka said the Bulls began preparing to ensure that didn’t happen again.

Helping the Bulls’ cause, they will be playing on the

nation’s biggest stage at The Concession golf course in Bradenton — a course the team regularly practices at throughout the year.

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Baseball

Quest for championship starts with FAU

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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The USF baseball team erupted with jubilation Monday when the players heard the Bulls’ name called for an NCAA regional game for the first time since 2002.

USF (33-24-1) will play Florida Atlantic University on Friday at 1 p.m. in Gainesville as it begins the road to Omaha.

The Bulls finished with a sub-.500 record last season (27-31) under former coach

Lelo Prado, but with the help of added strength at the plate and depth to the pitching staff, USF was able to earn another shot at the NCAA tournament.

“When it takes this long for you to get something you really want, I think you appreciate it that much more,” coach Mark Kingston said. “When I look at our guys who have been here a long time, for them to finally get over the hump and get to the NCAA tournament and break this 13-year curse, if you want to call it that, it’s tremen-

dous. I’m really happy for our guys. They’ve worked really hard and when you see guys rewarded for working hard, that’s what it’s all about.”

After defeating Memphis 10-6 in the opening game of the AAC tournament, the Bulls fell to eventual-champion Houston, 7-3.

Pitcher Ryan Valdes kept USF in contention with the Cougars, but reliever Michael Farley gave up four unearned runs, which would be too much for USF to overcome. In

a rematch against Memphis in what would be the Bulls’ final game in the tournament, the Tigers had their revenge, winning 4-1.

The Bulls, who hit 32 homers this year compared to only nine last year, will hope to add to that growing total in support of ace Jimmy Herget (9-3) in the first game of the doubleelimination tournament.

Herget followed up his stellar sophomore season in which he had a 1.26 ERA with

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