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UP arrests Clearwater man for sexual battery

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A student-driven upgrade

The new dining area at USF Health will feature a convenience store along side the Rising Roll deli.

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USF Health expands to better serve its students

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and the menu is mostly focused on salads, wraps, sandwiches and soups, with vegan and glutenAfter years of pinching penreduced options. nies, USF Health has saved enough Ford said the atmosphere will be money to finish furnishing the like a cafe, with sofas, lounge chairs Wellness, Engagement, Leadership, and cocktail tables. and Learning (WELL) Student As part of the dining area, Center to complete a student- “You need, we believe, the expanse of land between the based upgrade. and the Health Library is places for students to WELL The expansion includes a new being turned into patio with addidining area for students, study come together. We tional seating space surrounded rooms, a serenity room and a by a garden. believe this is just a lactation room, which is expected “You need, we believe, places to open Aug. 25. In addition, a for students to come together,” reinforcement to our Ford said. “We believe this is just fitness center is in the works and the use for an additional 12,600 commitment to provide a reinforcement to our commitsquare feet of space is still in ment to provide the best educathe best educational tional experience possible for our discussion.

“We believe that the future of students … (including) important health will be based upon the col- experience possible for spaces for them to come together, laborative efforts of doctors, nursto learn from each other, to socialour students.” es, public health scientists and ize with each other, to dine with pharmacists coming together to each other.”

Joe Ford provide health for communities,” The portion of the project Assistant vice president of Joe Ford, assistant vice president focused on fitness is looking at Share Student Services Center of Shared Student Services Center more than just physical fitness.

(SASSC), said.

While a portion of the area will be Market and a deli called Rising Roll.

A survey conducted by Shared used for a fitness center, there will Ford said the name was picked Student Services in the Fall of 2012 also be a serenity room as well as to represent the four schools at USF asked students what they wantHealth and bringing them together. a lactation room for new mothers. ed from the school’s $5.8 milFord wanted to provide an This will be Rising Roll’s fifth lion in savings from the Collective area that can cater to students’ location on a university campus Investment Trust and the responsn See EXPANSION on PAGE 7

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es were fairly simple: food, fitness and study space.

In response to the request for food, the space will include a dining area called The Table at Four Corners — which will include a convenience store called Central

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A Clearwater man was arrested Sunday by University Police (UP) for sexual battery and possession of cocaine.

Sean McDonald, 18, confessed in an interview with UP to sexual battery against a 17-year-old USF student.

He is not associated with USF, according to UP. Sean McDonald, 18 UP reportedly responded to a report at Magnolia Apartments on campus of alleged sexual battery from the victim’s mother, whom the victim had called to inform her of the incident. McDonald was an acquaintance of the victim, according to UP report.

McDonald is a lifeguard at Fort De Soto Park in Pinellas County.

He admitted to assaulting the victim while she was unconscious until she woke up, according to the criminal report. He also admitted to possession an unspecified amount of cocaine.

UP Public Information Officer Renna Reddick said McDonald had been on campus visiting friends, but doesn’t know whether or not he had been on campus before then.

McDonald was identified as the suspect, found, interviewed and arrested, according to Reddick.

He was taken to Orient Road Jail and has since posted his $17,000 bail.

Reddick reported that UP has not followed up with the victim at this time but is still handling the case.

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During her 10 weeks in the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation Everglades internship program, USF graduate student Krista Gutierrez took airboat tours around the Florida habitat. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

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Lake Okeechobee has captivated the attention of Pahokee, FL native USF graduate student Krista Gutierrez since her childhood.

So, when she was accepted into the 2016 Arthur R. Marshall Foundation for the Everglades Krista Gutierrez s u m m e r intern program in May, she was excited to return to the lake of her youth.

Only three interns are selected for the program each year after international and nation applications are reviewed. Given the size of the application pool, Gutierrez was shocked to be selected.

The program offers interns an in-depth look at the Florida Everglades and the restoration projects surrounding the area through field research and lectures from mentors.

Gutierrez found out about it through the USF Geology Club Facebook page and on May 23, she started at the internship.

The ten-week crash course, as Gutierrez described it, has had her out in the Everglades getting a hands-on, immersive feel. During

the program, she has studied ecology of plants and wildlife in the habitat as well as hydrology and the importance of the restoration plan in place for the Everglades.

“It’s not like … I’m getting lectures on top of lectures,” she said.

“I get to meet people in the field, people that are doing these jobs that have a part in restoring the Everglades and on top of that I get to be out there in the Everglades.

These have included professors, professionals, and members of many different organizations associated with the Everglades.

“I think the most rewarding part (of the internship) is getting to meet people with many different opinions (who still) have the same one thing in mind and it is restoring the Everglades,” she said. “… It’s pretty neat to see how everyone agrees on this one thing because that’s just how important it is.”

Gutierrez is a first generation Mexican-American, born to Mexican parents. She said her parents worked hard to provide her the opportunity to pursue her dreams.

“Both never got the chance to graduate high school due to having to work in agriculture,” she said.

Gutierrez majored in geology for her undergraduate and is currently pursuing her master’s in global sustainability with a concentration in water.

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The latest popular culture trend, “Pokemon Go,” is taking over campus. Crowds of people can be seen outside hot spots, like JuniperPoplar (JP) residence hall and the Marshal Student Center, catching, training and battling with the creatures for hours.

According to a survey taken by the Oracle on the USF Class Facebook pages, 127 out of the 194 students polled (65 percent) are actively playing.

“Sometimes, I’m with my friends walking around and trying to get Pokemon,” Onur Oktayer, a sophomore majoring in business, said. “Sometimes I’m really bored and none of my friends want to do it with me, so I go walk around on my own.”

“Pokemon Go” is an interactive app that allows the player to become a Pokemon trainer by bringing the beasts into the real world. As players move around in

the real world, they’ll come across Pokemon within the app that they can capture. Landmarks serve as important spots to collect Pokeballs and other treasures that players can use to attract more Pokemon.

The system is based on one made by Google in 2013 called Ingress which focused on the concept of energy leaking through landmarks that two teams battle to control. However, “Pokemon Go” has proven to be far more popular.

“I think it’s really big with our generation and people a little bit older than us,” Jessica Korray, a junior majoring in nursing, said.

“We grew up playing (Pokemon).

Also, actually getting to walk around and go ‘Oh look, there’s a Pokemon, lets catch it.’ It’s like the addictive aspect of a video game and also outside fun and companionship.”

While some are jumping on the bandwagon and playing occasionally, others take the game far more seriously.

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In memoriam

Over 100 people attended a vigil Monday night in honor of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

As part of the vigil, attendees placed electric candles on the stage of the USF Amphitheater.

Speakers, such as USF System President Judy Genshaft, spoke out about violence and the need for peace. ORACLE FILE/NICOLE CATE

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bright red ice scraper, Robby the Robot and Vichy water. These iconic props are all featured in some of the movies showing at the Tampa Theatre this year as a part of its 25th annual Summer Classics series.

The idea for this series originally came about when the president and CEO of the Tampa Theatre, John Bell, and the theater’s executive board decided that having a classic movie program during this season would be a great way to attract customers looking for something to do that did not involve the summer heat.

While the series is 25 years old, only for the past several years has the classic movie lineup has been set for every Sunday from June to August at 3 p.m.

“We always keep it at that 3 o’clock spot because after 25 years, we really want people to know that even if they don’t know exactly what movie’s playing, they know that if they come to Tampa Theatre at 3 o’clock on a Sunday afternoon, during the summer, that there’s going to be a classic movie playing,” Jill Witecki, Tampa Theatre’s director of marketing & community relations, said.

With the theatre celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, theater officials decided to commemorate this milestone by picking movies for the Summer Classics line up that are also celebrating landmark anniversaries, according to a press release sent out in May. The youngest movie on the list is “Fargo,” which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, while the oldest is “M,” which is 85 years old.

“Our definition of ‘classic’ has changed a little bit because, back in the original days, it was movies like ‘Casablanca’ and ‘Gone with

the Wind,’” Witecki said. “We still show those because of how popular they are, but we realize with every passing year that the people’s definition of classic (changes).”

This change in the lineup has led to a decrease in the average age of the audience, according to Witecki. Every year, younger and younger people show up in addition to the original older crowd.

The theatre usually has a silent movie in its lineup that would attract younger people who have never seen one. However, there is no silent movie scheduled this summer.

A new addition to this year’s Summer Classics is its partnership with the Tampa Theatre’s 15th annual Winefest. The Winefest is always held in September and boasts punny themes like Planet of the Grapes, How the West was Wine, the Grapefather. This year’s theme is Caskablanca.

“Because it’s our 90th birthday as a theatre, and because Casablanca has been just such an important movie for the Summer Classics series and for the theatre, we thought it was the perfect year to do Casablanca as the Winefest theme,” Witecki said.

“Because Winefest is in mid-September, that’s when we decided to extend the Summer Classics series to cover up until Winefest to make Casablanca the finale as part of Winefest weekend.”

After the showing of Casablanca, St Petersburg Times film critic Steve Persall and local film expert Bob Ross will lead a discussion session about the film. Most of the movies on this year’s lineup feature a film talk afterwards. This portion of the program began with retired USF professor Harriet Deer a few years ago and she still currently facilitates several of them.

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July 17 – “The French Connection” (1975) July 24 – “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966) July 31 – “Swing Time” (1936) Aug. 7 – “All the President’s Men” (1976) Aug. 14 – “M” (1931) Aug. 21 – “A Raisin in the Sun” (1961) Aug. 28 – “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) Sept. 4 – “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) Sept. 11 – “Gone with the Wind” (1939) Sept. 18 – “Casablanca” (1942)

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With his collegiate career now in the rearview, O’Neal said he plans to stay in the Tampa area, working in a job related to his degree of management information systems, with which he graduated in the spring.

Bulls make national watch lists Following a turnaround season in 2015, USF football players are garnering national recognition heading into this season.

Junior running back Marlon Mack, who led the Bulls with 1,492 all-purpose yards and nine touchdowns, was nominated for the Maxwell Award watch list, which awards the best overall player in college football.

Joining Mack on the offensive side of the ball is sophomore tight end Elkanah Dillon.

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last season, Dillon will have the opportunity to contribute more with the departure of tight ends Sean Price and Marlon Pope.

The 6-foot-5, 245-pound Dillon was named to the Mackey Award watch list for the upcoming season. He displayed his potential in the 2015 season opener in which he caught four passes for 126 yards, including a 62-yard touchdown catch.

On defense, linebacker Auggie Sanchez (Butkus Award) and Deatrick Nichols (Bednarik and Thorpe Awards) were nominated to their respective watch lists after impressive seasons.

Nichols helped lead the Bulls’ defense in 2015 with 8.5 tackles for loss and also chipped in with four interceptions and two forced fumbles.

The Jim Thorpe Award is given to the best defensive back in college football and the Chuck Bednarik Award is reserved for the best overall defensive player.

Sanchez, who started 12 of the Bulls’ 13 games, also regis-

tered 8.5 tackles for loss.

The Butkus Award is presented annually to the nation’s best linebacker in college football.

USF baseball player makes All-Star team USF baseball sophomore Joe Genord has been fine-tuning his skills in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League (PGCBL) and his play there has been rewarded with an All-Star team selection.

Genord, who hit .270 with six homers in 45 games as a freshman with the Bulls, is currently .288 with a PGCBL-leading five homers over the summer.

Playing for the Amsterdam Mohawks of Amsterdam, New York, Genord has led his team in runs, hits, doubles, homers, RBIs and walks.

The sophomore catcher will start behind the plate for the East Division when the PGCBL All-Star game takes place on July 20 at Bob Bellizzi Field in Albany, New York.

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“Pokemon Go” is taking the nation by storm as millions of people scoure the streets in search of rare Pokemon.

While it’s phenomenal that Americans are actually getting out of the house, it is important not to forgo common sense when “catching ‘em all.”

“Pokemon Go” is an app that allows users to trek across surrounding neighborhoods and the city in search of Pokemon to catch and train. The player uses his or her cellphone to track down the elusive creatures and utilizes virtual Pokeballs to capture them.

However, it appears many players are competing to be the winner of the Darwin Award. When they see a Pokemon appear on their radar, they pursue it regardless of their surroundings.

Police forces across the country have had to remind citizens that parks have closing hours, crosswalks should not be traversed

without looking and visiting isolated areas at 3 a.m. is not a wise decision.

That Snorlax is simply not worth it.

In a Facebook post Monday, Largo police reported around 100 people were walking around Largo Central Park staring at their phones at midnight, two hours after closing hours.

“It looked like a bunch of trendy zombies following a mystical GPS device,” Largo police Lt. Paul Amodeo said.

In Missouri, police have reported armed robbers using the app to set lures drawing victims into isolated areas where they became easy prey.

The Tennessee Highway Safety Office urged drivers to “Wait to Go until you’ve stopped” by showing an image of a driver looking at the Pokemon on their screen while a semi truck barrels straight toward her.

It would seem obvious that driving and hunting virtual creatures is not advisable, yet the internet has been blowing up with people reporting close encounters

with players on the road.

Traveling long distances is the only way to catch every Pokemon, so many are cheating the system by getting behind the wheel rather than walking miles across the city.

Robert Beckett, an incoming freshman majoring in sociology at USF, realized the dangers as well as the business opportunity this phenomenon presented.

“I’m an Uber driver and people have been asking me to drive slower so their eggs have a better chance of hatching, to stop when they encounter a Pokemon and to drive by certain Pokestops and gyms,” stated Beckett.

“People don’t want to walk and are already out there driving and hunting Pokemon at the same time,” stated Beckett. “It’s significantly safer for me to drive them around than it is for them to drive themselves.”

Beckett has flyers posted around campus with his number offering to drive players around town with a discount for those who travel in a group.

Reports of trespassing are being posted on police sites across

the country as people wander into backyards and government property searching for something to catch.

One player, Shayla Wiggins from Wyoming, even stumbled upon a dead body when searching for a Pokemon near a natural water source.

There is no argument the game is getting Americans active in a way health enthusiasts like Michelle Obama could only have dreamed of. However, people need to remember they are not traveling around in a virtual world.

They’re walking the streets of reality and with that comes dangers not broadcasted on their screens.

Police should not have to remind citizens to look both ways when crossing the street or that driving while fiddling on your phone is dangerous. The game has only been out for a week, but at this rate, trainers will be headed to the hospital faster than nurse Joy can admit them.

Breanne Williams is a junior majoring in mass communications.

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spiritualties. As a result, the serenity room looks out on a garden area and mostly relies on natural lighting. It includes prayer spots and a washing station.

The fitness center itself includes a free-weight area, cardio area and locker rooms. The center isn’t expected to open until March 2017.

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She will be wrapping up her internship July 28, and afterwards a paper will be released that will detail what Gutierrez said is the unbiased truth about the Everglades.

Gutierrez said she was surprised to learn how many people are involved in the restoration plan for the Everglades.

“I think a lot of people, when they think about the Everglades restoration, they only think about one group that are going for, which are environmentalists” she said.

“But really, you have so many organizations that have a part in it.

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“For me, I’ve been a fan since I was three, I grew up with it,” Alex Aguirre, a senior majoring in biomedical science, said. “Ever since (we) started watching the show,

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study space for students, the halls will include seating and tables.

Additionally, a multipurpose room is set aside for casual gathers and/ or cram sessions.

Ford said he wanted the area to reflect the SASSC mission of bringing students from the different disciplines together. He also wants this to be reflected within the remaining unallocated space.

There’s been discussion of including classrooms, a resource center

or a counseling center, but the discussion is still underway.

“It’s just an exciting project we’ve been working on for a number of years,” Ford said. “When I think back to starting this conversation … to look where we’ve come in four years, to be opening this beautiful facility designed for students, it’s very exciting … I believe, like most of us, that it’s really going to enhance the quality of the student experience.”

doing it. There are so many different key people and key organizations that have their hands on it.”

She also learned how much politics effect what people are able to do for the environment and encouraged serious consideration about whom they vote for when it comes to picking the governor.

“With the Everglades restoration plan, even though it … has already been signed — that was back in the early 2000s,” she said.

“So right now in 2016 the plan isn’t even halfway completed and a lot of it has to do with our government.

“A lot of people don’t understand that whoever you elect as your governor is going to be the one that helps us do the plan and help us get it out there (and) that

it’s important not only to the ecosystem but to the people.”

The Everglades, she stressed, don’t only effect Florida. In fact, their importance stretches across the globe. The area is World Heritage Site, an International Biosphere Reserve, and a National Park.

According to the Everglades Foundation, 8 million Floridians depend on the Everglades for water.

Damage done to the Everglades through 50 years of draining, canal digging and levees, which changed the ecosystem and the water quality in the area.

“The whole important part of (the Everglades restoration) is that we’re all affected by it,” Gutierrez said.

playing the game, all we’ve ever wanted to do is catch them.”

One of the main motivations behind the game was to get people more active. However, it’s also causing a change in social interaction by serving as a point of conversation for strangers.

“I don’t know if it’s like deep friendships,” Korray said. “It’s made people friendlier on campus.

Friendships are a little more in depth and you have to sit there and be like ‘Hey, do you want to go to JP together?’ and that’s really how you make a friendship with it.”

As part of the app, trainers are able to take pictures of the Pokemon in the real world.

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NBA legend Tim Duncan retires Former NBA player Tim Duncan called it quits Monday, ending his 19-year career. Duncan spent all 19 season with the San Antonio Spurs, winning five championships and two MVP awards along the way.

His former coach, Gregg Popovich, Duncan had high praise for Duncan following his retirement on Tuesday: “He’s irreplaceable. It can’t happen,” Popovich said. “We’re all unique. I guess each one of us is unique. But he’s been so important to so many people, it’s just mind-boggling. To think that he’s going to be gone makes it really difficult to imagine walking into practice, going to a game, getting on the bus, taking him a piece of carrot cake — whatever it might be.”

Stanton crushes competition in Home Run Derby Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton set a Home Run Derby record with 61 homers in Monday night’s contest.

The defending champion, Todd Frazier, would have broken the Stanton previous record by one with his 42 homers, but he was no match for Stanton. After Monday’s showing, Stanton has now hit 20 of the 21 longest homers in Home Run Derby history.

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Marshall University Athletics

USF found replacements for two of its programs this week with the promotion of assistant men’s tennis coach Ashley Fisher (left) and the hiring of Tiffany Prats (right) from Marshall. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

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USF quickly found answers to who would coach the women’s golf team and men’s tennis team this week, hiring Tiffany Prats and promoting Ashley Fisher.

Following the resignation of former men’s tennis coach Matt Hill and the firing of former women’s golf coach Marci Kornegay last week, USF added Prats from Marshall University to replace Kornegay and promoted Fisher to replace Hill.

Fisher joined the Bulls coaching staff as an assistant in January and aided the men’s tennis team on its way to a third-consecutive AAC title.

“Ashley has world-class tennis experience and was a valuable part of one of our most successful men’s tennis seasons in program history last year,” athletic director Mark Harlan said in a release.

“After a national search, it was clear the best person to lead our program forward was right here.

Ashley’s combination of high-level coaching and playing experience and rapport with our student-ath-

letes will make him a tremendous leader for our program.”

During his 14-year career, Fisher won four ATP World Tour doubles titles and was ranked as high as No. 19 in doubles in the world.

Fisher’s biggest accomplishments include reaching the semifinals of the U.S. Open in 2006 and both the quarterfinals of both Wimbledon in 2004 and the Australian Open in 2006.

Since playing professionally, Fisher has coached professional players on the ATP World Tour and locally as a touring tennis professional at the Vinoy Golf and Tennis Club.

Fisher’s experience and success as a doubles player could likely be useful to doubles standouts Sasha Gozun and Vadym Kalyuzhnyy, two seniors who played together in the NCAA Doubles Championships last season.

Going forward, Fisher will face the tall task of living up to expectations set by his predecessor, which include winning the conference title three years in a row, maintaining a top-25 national ranking and

featuring several nationally ranked players.

Unlike Fisher, Prats will face the challenge of rebuilding the women’s golf program from the ground up.

The women’s golf team, which has failed to make the postseason since 2012, will look to change its fortunes under Prats, who led the Thundering Herd to programbest marks in team and individual scoring average at Marshall over the past two seasons.

Prior to her first head-coaching job at Marshall, Prats was an assistant at San Diego State for the 2010-11 season and at Maryland from 2011-14.

As far as her playing career goes, Prats golfed on the University of Miami’s women’s team from 2003-06, serving as team captain and member of the student-athlete council for two of those years.

She followed up her successful collegiate career with two years in professional golf before becoming a coach in 2010.

Prats and the USF women’s golf team will return all but two seniors who graduated this past year.

Matthew O’Neal finished in fifth place, two spots shy of becoming an Olympian.

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Former USF athlete Matthew O’Neal was able to reach the final round of the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon on Thursday, but was unable to qualify for a spot on the 2016 Olympic team.

Beginning with a pool of 24 triple jumpers Thursday, O’Neal took the top qualifying spot for Saturday’s final round on his final attempt.

On Saturday, he finished in fifth place out of the final 12 jumpers with a jump of 55-feet, 6 1/4 inches, falling two places shy of earning a trip to Rio. Beating out O’Neal for the Olympic team were 2012 gold medalist Christian Taylor, 2012 silver medalist Will Claye, and Arizona State alum Chris Bernard.

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