The Oracle www.usforacle.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 I VOL. 52 NO. 43 News ................................................................. 1 Lifestyle ...................................................... 4 Opinion ....................................................... 6 classifieds .............................................. 7 Crossword ......................................... 7 sports ............................................................ 8 The Index The coffee shop is the traditional scene for students cramming and professors grading, but it’s always remained an escape from the classroom. But now, Felicitous Coffee and Tea is inviting professors to teach their class in the back- yard of the coffee shop. Rebecca Burns, a professor in the College of Education, said she brought her class to Felicitous as an alternative to a cramped classroom. “It was a beautiful day, the backyard was just the right cli- mate and atmosphere to have an open and honest discus- sion,” she said. “Felicitous is my hidden gem.” Less than a mile away from USF, Felicitous is a hut tucked right off Fowler Avenue that is known for its boutique style. The shop won Best of the Bay for its assorted menu of coffees and teas, such as gun- powder tea, honey bear latte and red-velvet hot chocolate. Britani Farley, manager of Felicitous and a USF graduate, said the idea to invite classes came to her when classes were cancelled during hurricane sea- son a few years ago. “There was a hurricane coming towards us, but this teacher was not in the mood to cancel his first class,” she said. “He emailed his students Pulitzer-prize winner to speak on immigration In 2011, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas disclosed his status as an undocumented immigrant in a written admission in the New York Times. Tonight, Vargas will advocate for immigration reform, talk- ing to students and the greater Tampa Bay community in the Marshall Student Center Oval Theater at 7 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public as part of the College of Arts and Sciences Frontier Forum lecture series. Following the Virginia Tech shooting, Vargas was a part of The Washington Post team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the massacre. Three years later, Vargas used his voice as an esteemed jour- nalist to open dialogue about the immigration system in the U.S. He moved from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1993, at the age of 12. His uncle brought him into the coun- try using a fake name and passport. By Brandon Shaik ASST. NEWS EDITOR Two cases of simple battery were reported to University Police (UP) on campus Tuesday night. In the reports, approximately 20 minutes apart, two separate female victims said the suspect followed them from behind while they walked on campus. The suspect is described as a white male standing around 5 feet 7 inches tall wearing a base- ball cap, jeans and a shirt. The victims described the inci- dents to UP as unwanted touch- ing, though neither incident resulted in injury. Victims reported the suspect made no aggressive effort to kid- nap or engage in sexually violent actions. After inappropriately grabbing the two women, the suspect fled the scene before UP could arrive. The first incident was reported in the parking lot near Castor Hall around 6:50 p.m., and the second incident was reported 20 minutes later on the south side of the John and Grace Allen Building. As part of the ongoing inves- tigation, UP is not ruling out the possibility of two, independent suspects. UP Assistant Chief Chris Daniel said it’s still speculation whether or not the touching had sexual intent. “We don’t know if it was a prank or a practical joke,” he said. “Either way, it was unwant- ed touching.” Cases of simple battery reported on campus By Wesley Higgins NEWS EDITOR n See BATTERY on PAGE 2 n See IMMIGRATION on PAGE 2 n See COFFEE on PAGE 2 n Local coffee shop allows professors to host classes outside. By Wesley Higgins NEWS EDITOR For a preview of what’s to come this basketball season flip to 1B. Class: add cream and sugar
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The coffee shop is the traditional scene for students cramming and professors grading, but it’s always remained an escape from the classroom.
But now, Felicitous Coffee and Tea is inviting professors to teach their class in the back-yard of the coffee shop.
Rebecca Burns, a professor in the College of Education, said she brought her class to Felicitous as an alternative to a
cramped classroom.“It was a beautiful day, the
backyard was just the right cli-mate and atmosphere to have an open and honest discus-sion,” she said. “Felicitous is my hidden gem.”
Less than a mile away from USF, Felicitous is a hut tucked right off Fowler Avenue that is known for its boutique style.
The shop won Best of the Bay for its assorted menu of coffees and teas, such as gun-
powder tea, honey bear latte and red-velvet hot chocolate.
Britani Farley, manager of Felicitous and a USF graduate, said the idea to invite classes came to her when classes were cancelled during hurricane sea-son a few years ago.
“There was a hurricane coming towards us, but this teacher was not in the mood to cancel his first class,” she said. “He emailed his students
Pulitzer-prize winner to speak on immigration
In 2011, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas disclosed his status as an undocumented immigrant in a written admission in the New York Times.
Tonight, Vargas will advocate for immigration reform, talk-ing to students and the greater Tampa Bay community in the Marshall Student Center Oval Theater at 7 p.m.
The lecture is free and open to the public as part of the College of Arts and Sciences
Frontier Forum lecture series.Following the Virginia Tech
shooting, Vargas was a part of The Washington Post team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the massacre.
Three years later, Vargas used his voice as an esteemed jour-nalist to open dialogue about the immigration system in the U.S.
He moved from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1993, at the age of 12. His uncle brought him into the coun-try using a fake name and passport.
By Brandon ShaikA S S T . N E W S E D I T O R
Two cases of simple battery were reported to University Police (UP) on campus Tuesday night.
In the reports, approximately 20 minutes apart, two separate female victims said the suspect followed them from behind while they walked on campus.
The suspect is described as a white male standing around 5 feet 7 inches tall wearing a base-ball cap, jeans and a shirt.
The victims described the inci-dents to UP as unwanted touch-ing, though neither incident resulted in injury.
Victims reported the suspect made no aggressive effort to kid-nap or engage in sexually violent actions.
After inappropriately grabbing the two women, the suspect fled the scene before UP could arrive.
The first incident was reported in the parking lot near Castor Hall around 6:50 p.m., and the second incident was reported 20 minutes later on the south side of the John and Grace Allen Building.
As part of the ongoing inves-tigation, UP is not ruling out the possibility of two, independent suspects.
UP Assistant Chief Chris Daniel said it’s still speculation whether or not the touching had sexual intent.
“We don’t know if it was a prank or a practical joke,” he said. “Either way, it was unwant-ed touching.”
Cases of simple battery reportedon campusBy Wesley Higgins N E W S E D I T O R
n See BATTERY on PAGE 2n See IMMIGRATION on PAGE 2
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n Local coffee shop allows professors to host classes outside.By Wesley HigginsN E W S E D I T O R
For a preview of what’s to come this basketball season flip to 1B.
Class: add cream and sugar
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He lived with his grandpar-ents, both U.S. citizens, and remained unaware that he was in the country illegally until the age of 16 when he tried to apply for a driver’s license and was turned away.
An advocate for immigrant children, Vargas hopes to fight for their right to citizenship. He founded Define American, a non-profit organization that pro-motes awareness of the immi-gration measures used to deter-mine American civilian status.
He is also a proponent of the DREAM Act that, if passed, would provide immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as minors, attended U.S. high schools and maintained residency for at least five years with conditional permanent residency.
Inspired by the events sur-rounding his experience as an undocumented immigrant in the U.S., Vargas created the film “Documented” in 2013. The film chronicles both his struggles and those of other undocumented immigrants in their pursuit of legal status.
Flying out of a Texas airport near the Mexican border in July of last year, immigration author-ities arrested and questioned Vargas. At the time of the arrest, Vargas had lived in the U.S. for 21 years.
“Our daily lives are filled with fear in simple acts such as getting on an airplane to go home to our family,” he said in a statement following the events.
In his lecture, Vargas will talk about his film, analyze the defi-nition of American and describe his work in the immigration reform movement.
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UP encourages anyone with information to contact the USF Police Department at 813-974-2628, or 911 in case of emergency.
Daniel said though the reports are not reason for panic, stu-dents should always remain alert of the available safety measures on campus, including USF Safe Team, Bluelight Phones and the Rave Guardian Campus Safety mobile app.
“Be aware of your surround-ings and your personal safety,” Daniel said. “Try to walk in groups at night and try not to be buried in your phones, texting.”
For anyone who still feels unsafe, Daniel said UP offers self-defense classes for women, taught by certified police officers who teach tactics and techniques.
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and asked if they wanted to meet here.”
Farley said the experiment was fruitful in creating an inspired learning environment.
“Circles are the best way to get free-for-all talking among students,” she said. “It makes it a lot easier to have a discus-sion when you can see every face.”
Despite classes being held outside, Farley said she isn’t concerned with students get-ting distracted.
“Very few students would think to pull out their lap-tops and be on Facebook when you’re professor is walking around,” she said. “It would be so much easier to focus on a teacher talking if you’re out in the middle of a lawn — it’s peaceful.”
Terrence Campbell, a senior majoring in economics and a regular customer, said Felicitous provides the sort of
environment he looked for in liberal education.
“The general atmosphere of acceptance really does foster an interchanging of ideas,” he said. “A lot of discussions hap-pen here between so many dif-ferent people that we end up creating new ideas.”
A stranger once taught him to juggle, Campbell said. In return, he taught his new friend to play chess.
“It’s a community,” said Abby Rupert, a junior major-ing in international business. “Everyone knows everyone — everyone is on the same page.”
The staff treats customers like friends, she said, instead of walking wallet sacrifices for corporate profit.
Farley said students and fac-ulty make up the majority of the community, and that the draw of Felicitous makes sense.
“Caffeine is a staple for almost every college student’s life,” she said. “Students don’t always want to support cor-porations and like to support local business.”
After receiving positive feed-back from her students, Burns said she would like to hold class there again.
“I get more done there than I do anywhere else,” she said. “I think it’s the atmosphere that allows us to step back and really open up those creative juices.”
The offer to hold classes in the backyard has only spread through word of mouth and social media, Farley said. If the idea gets more popular, professors will have to make a request up to two weeks in advance.
“We just want to share this space we have with other people,” she said. “Though we can make it more organized if we hear more interest.”
Farley said the backyard of Felicitous is large enough for privacy and the adjacent wall could be used for projections.
“We love the idea of it,” she said. “I don’t think anyone can refute that studying outside is a good thing, especially when the weather is this lovely.”
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It is a story about two friends in a map store on what doesn’t have to be a lonely planet.
The play “Lonely Planet” opens Friday in Theater Arts Rehearsal building Room 120, and is directed by Carlos Garcia, a senior majoring in theater performance.
The two-character play written by Steven Dietz in 1993 focuses on the AIDS epidemic and how it affects two friends, Jody, played by Evan Causey, and Carl, played by PJ Gentry.
Jody, the owner of a map store, has begun to cut
himself off from the world because of the ongoing epidemic.
“He’s afraid that if he gets tested, what that could mean for his future,” Garcia said. “Obviously, if he gets a positive result that’s the slow succumbing to death, but there’s also the stigma of coming out in a way – going to the clinic – a plethora of things.”
In response to Jody’s intentional seclusion, Carl begins to leave mismatched chairs in Jody’s store.
“Each chair is representative of a friend that’s passed away,” Garcia said. “Every time a friend passes away, he takes a chair from their abode and brings
them in to remind Jody, as he’s secluding himself away from life, people are passing on.”
Although the play is set during the AIDS epidemic, Garcia said that “Lonely Planet” puts a spotlight on friendship more than anything else.
“It’s a play about friendship, and AIDS is kind of the catalyst for some of these events; but the relationship between Carl and Jody as friends is the front and center point,” Garcia said. “It’s more an examination of friendship and how people live on a day-to-day basis.”
“Look at it from it the perspective of friendship,
don’t look at it as your typical homosexual/AIDS drama. I think in media nowadays, there’s this trope that’s sort of the gay victim card, and that’s not what’s being played here at all.”
The play is a production of the Student Theatre Production Board and was created by a cast and crew of eight students.
“All the people in the cast and crew have this great relationship with one another and we bounce ideas off each other and that’s really rare,” Garcia said. “Sometimes you have this hierarchy of director and actor, and the director is always giving rules to the actors. But this is a much
more open-ended process, kind of like the sort of 1960s style of experimental theater and the living theater and open theater. It’s honestly been a bit heartwarming.”
The play is free and open to the public and will run Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m.
“People very seldom go to a movie or a restaurant with just themselves; they take a friend with them,” Garcia said. “I really want people to walk into the audience with their friend … and after the play ends just to look back at them and to really appreciate that they’re still there.”
“LONELY PLANET” SPOTLIGHTS FRIENDSHIP
Evan Causey and PJ Gentry star in “Lonely Planet,” opening Friday. ORACLE PHOTOS / KATELYN MONTAGNA
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EDITOR IN CHIEFAlex Rosenthal
MANAGING EDITOR
Roberto Roldan
SPORTS EDITORVinnie Portell
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
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GRAPHIC ARTS INTERNS
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Expecting the unexpected
No one knows what to expect when USF takes the court Saturday for its first exhibition game, but first-year coach Orlando Antigua says the unexpected can be a huge advantage for his young team.
“People don’t know what they can bring to the table and what their strengths and weaknesses are,” Antigua said. “Our job is to try to maximize, push them to their limits and see what we can get out of them.”
Nine newcomers are eligible to play this season – six of them are freshman. And only three play-ers on the roster played Division 1 basketball last season: Corey Allen Jr., Anthony Collins and Chris Perry.
“It’s been the veteran guys that have assumed that role of lead-ership,” Antigua said. “Corey is doing it by leading by example. Anthony’s doing it by pulling guys aside and explaining what they need to do in certain situations – the kind of effort they need to have – those kinds of things.”
Antigua has been pushing the players since their first workouts in May. Freshman Troy Holston Jr. immediately knew it wasn’t going
to be easy. “The first day I came here on
my workout, I knew it was a very hard workout for me as a fresh-man,” Holston said. “We did ball-handling drills up and down the court – all fast-paced. Basically like conditioning basketball drills. We’d get tired quickly, and that’s what really made it hard.”
Antigua emphasizes having a fast-tempo game with “a team that’s disciplined, that’s physical, that runs, that moves the ball (and) that’s unselfish.”
The team has had 20 official practices so far and Antigua said they’re still continuing fundamen-tal basics.
“I think that’s something we’ll continue throughout the year,” Antigua said. “Our defensive prin-cipals: running, spacing, sharing the ball and helping them identify where they need to get the ball at certain times.”
Last season, the Bulls (12-20) needed shooters. They made just 25.8 percent of their three-point-ers.
“They’re going to be using me to shoot outside the three-point line,” Holston said. “My IQ is pretty high, my shooting ability.”
The 6-foot-4, 200-pound shoot-ing guard averaged 23 points as a senior at Oldsmar Christian High
School, where he helped the team to a 16-9 record.
“Troy’s got his body in great shape,” Antigua said. “(He’s) always been known as a shooter and a scorer, and with him being in better shape, it’s being demon-strated even more.”
The Bulls found another shoot-er in Nehemias Morillo, the 6-foot-5, 180-pound shooting guard from the Dominican Republic.
“(Morillo) is doing a great job in finding his niche in the offense,” Antigua said. “He’s really athletic, really aggressive. He’s shooting the ball extremely well – especial-ly from the 15- to 17-foot range.”
The junior transfer averaged 12.2 points, 4 assists and 6.2 rebounds per game last season at Monroe College in New York.
“My strengths are to shoot the ball, to grab rebounds and run fast,” Morillo said.
Freshman Ruben Guerrero also moves quickly on the court. Originally from Spain, Guerrero played on the 18-U Spanish National Team before moving to Kansas, where he averaged 9.3 points and 8.5 rebounds at Sunrise Christian Academy.
The 6-foot-11 center/forward arrived at USF weighing 199 pounds. He said he’s gained 25 – 30 pounds by “eating five to six
times a day, drinking body shakes, working out and lifting more.”
“One of the things we had to do with (Guerrero) was get him stron-ger, put some weight on him,” Antigua said in an interview with BullsCast. “Now that he’s gotten that weight on him, we have to get him used to playing with that weight.”
The other big-bodied center on the team, Jaleel Cousins, has also gotten in better shape. The 6-foot-11, 261-pounder has lost about five pounds and is still working toward his 250-pound goal.
Cousins, a junior transfer from Alabama, averaged 3.7 points and 2.9 rebounds per game last sea-son at Navarro College in Texas.
Players have been developing individually, and Antigua is look-ing forward to how they develop as a team.
“I’m most excited about how we show growth,” Antigua said. “I know it’s going to be an up and down because of our youth. The process of development and growing is what I’m most excited about and seeing where that takes us.”
USF starts the season with an exhibition game against Indiana University of Pennsylvania on Saturday at 4 p.m. in the Sun Dome.
The 2014 USF men’s basketball team was introduced at halftime of the USF vs ECU football game at Raymond James Stadium. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU
By Tiana AumentC O R R E S P O N D E N T
n USF plans to use its unkown talent to its advantage in the 2014 season.
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No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Year Hometown4 Corey Allen Jr. G 6-1 152 Sr. St. Louis, Mo. 13 Jake Bodway G 6-2 185 RFr. Bloomington, Minn.0 Dre Clayton F 6-6 245 RFr. Orlando, Fla. 11 Anthony Collins G 6-1 175 Jr. Houston, Texas15 Jaleel Cousins C 6-11 265 Jr. Mobile, Ala.14 Justin David G 6-2 180 So. Pittsburgh, Pa.33 Ruben Guerrero C/F 6-11 225 Fr. Marbella, Spain 25 Troy Holston Jr. G 6-4 200 Fr. Queens, N.Y.34 Dinero Mercurius G 6-3 188 Fr. Bronx, N.Y.5 Nehemias Morillo G 6-5 180 Jr. Santiago, D.R.1 Chris Perry F/C 6-8 242 So. Bartow, Fla.3 Roddy Peters G 6-3 192 So. District Heights, Md.35 Bo Zeigler G/F 6-6 202 RFr. Detroit, Mich.
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Play hard, run fast
In five seasons as an assis-tant coach with Kentucky, coach Orlando Antigua helped run one of the most pro-lific offenses in the country, leading them to two national championship berths.
Following last year’s tour-nament, Antigua shed his blue and white in favor of green and gold.
Now he is leading the Bulls into the unknown, with ques-tions abounding.
“A lot of questions are still out there: question marks about the players, ques-tion marks about the staff, and question marks about how we’re going to play,” Antigua said.
At Kentucky, Antigua coached 24 NBA draft picks, and had the best recruiting class in the nation in each of his years there. He received the Top Assistant Coach under-40 award in 2012.
Antigua has a strong back-
ground as an assistant at one of the top programs in the country and the players have taken notice.
“It means a lot,” junior guard Anthony Collins said. “You see players on TV and see how (Antigua) coached them, I think it helps the morale of the team.”
Since coming to USF, Antigua has gained experi-ence as a head coach not only with his collegiate players, but with players from his home country as well.
“Fortunately for me, I have some experience with the Dominican national team and got to make some decisions in games and prepare teams to compete at a high level,” Antigua said. “I’m confident in my own abilities and our staff.”
Antigua has brought over Kentucky coach John Calipari’s play style and coaching strat-egy: play hard and run fast.
“They do want to run because it’s fun and it’s an exciting way to play the game
and it’s the way the game is meant to be played, but you have to push through some comfort levels to get to that point,” Antigua said.
Once at USF in the sum-mer, Antigua implemented his play style, which included a summer full of running.
“(The first workouts) were very painful,” sophomore for-ward Chris Perry said. “They pushed us harder than we’ve ever been pushed before. We were just running, but the volume in which we did run was just turned up to another level.”
Antigua said the staff did individual workouts to help the players break through per-sonal barriers and bring them to a level they had no idea they could reach.
“We want to help them push through comfort levels, make small breakthroughs and get past certain points in their lives where they thought they couldn’t give anymore,” Antigua said. “When you do
Senior guard Corey Allen Jr. (left), redshirt junior guard Anthony Collins (middle) and sophomore for-ward Chris Perry are the only remaining starters from last year’s roster. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU
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n See FAST on PAGE 5B
n Coach Orlando Antigua brings up-tempo play style to USF.
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that incrementally every day, you hope to have a better outcome than anyone could anticipate.”
For Collins, who is com-ing off a season-ending knee injury, these early workouts took a toll.
“Early on, it was very hard for me because it was the most I had ever ran since coming back,” Collins said. “But after about four or five weeks, I started getting used to it.”
Antigua took more than just his play style from his days at Kentucky; he also had experi-ence with having new players and having to adjust to a new crop of talent each year.
“I learned it from (Calipari),” Antigua said. “Every year we adjusted to our talent, skill set and our strengths and you have to evaluate that. You start with the foundation and the basis of being aggressive and being in great shape and then you start fine tuning and say-ing ‘where are our advantages? Then, how do we adjust to take advantage of those opportuni-ties?’”
With a practically new team
– Perry, Collins and senior guard Corey Allen Jr. are all that remain from last season’s starters – Antigua said he had to find out who could do what and how to utilize each player in the best way.
With a young team comes a lack of experience. For USF, that might be an understate-ment.
Of the 13 players on the ros-ter, only three have played in a game at the Division I level. As such, Antigua has leant heavily on his veterans.
“I would have to say our strength right now would be our guard play,” Antigua said. “We have two veteran guys in (Collins) and (Allen Jr.) who fortunately have had a lot of minutes, but no one else does. But at least those guys can stabilize what we’re trying to do until everybody else gets caught up to speed.”
In the preseason basket-ball press conference, Perry referred to last season as “a joke.”
With his new coach and team, he has a new mindset.
“As freshmen, we didn’t know what to expect and were basically like little kids,” Perry said. “But this year, we have to
take on the roles of grown men and be better, mentally.”
There are mild expectations for this team – no one knows exactly what they can do – but all Antigua needs are effort and fight.
“You see that they’re giving you effort and learning and if they do that, the rest will come and we will have an opportu-nity to be in games and com-pete,” Antigua said.
Coach Antigua made it to two National Championships and coached 24 NBA draftees in his five years at Kentucky.. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU
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DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME
Sat, Nov 15 Villanova Chattanooga, Tenn. 4:00 PM
Sun, Nov 16 UT Chattanooga Chattanooga, Tenn. 2:00 PM
Wed, Nov 19 Maryland College Park, Md. 7:00 PM
Sat, Nov 22 UNC Asheville Tampa, Fla. 2:00 PM
Thu, Nov 27 Oklahoma Virgin Islands 8:15 PM
Fri, Nov 28 Illinois Virgin Islands 8:15 PM
Sat, Nov 29 Kentucky Virgin Islands 8:15 PM
Wed, Dec 03 Stetson Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Sun, Dec 07 St. John’s (NY) Tampa, Fla. 2:00 PM
Sun, Dec 14 Charleston Tampa, Fla. 2:00 PM
Wed, Dec 17 Northern Colorado Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Sun, Dec 21 Penn State State College, Pa. 2:00 PM
Sun, Dec 28 East Carolina * Tampa, Fla. 12:00 PM
Wed, Dec 31 Memphis * Tampa, Fla. 3:00 PM
Sun, Jan 04 Tulane* New Orleans, La 5:30 PM
DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME
Sun, Jan 11 Temple* Philadelphia, Pa. 12:00PM
Wed, Jan 14 SMU * Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Sun, Jan 18 UConn * Storrs, Conn. 1:00 PM
Wed, Jan 21 Houston * Houston, Texas 7:00 PM
Sun, Jan 25 Tulane * Tampa, Fla. 4:00 PM
Sat, Jan 31 Memphis * Memphis, Tenn. 3:00 PM
Tue, Feb 03 UCF * Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Sat, Feb 07 Cincinnati * Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Tue, Feb 10 SMU * Dallas, Texas 8:00 PM
Sun, Feb 15 ECU * Greenville, N.C. 2:00 PM
Wed, Feb 18 Tulsa * Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Sun, Feb 22 Temple * Tampa, Fla. 12:00PM
Tue, Feb 24 Cincinnati * Cincinnati, Ohio 7:00 PM
Sat, Feb 28 UCF * Orlando, Fla. 4:00 PM
Mon, Mar 2 UConn * Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
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Perry primed for breakout season in 2014 When coach Orlando Antigua
came in to meet the few play-ers that remained on the roster after former coach Stan Heath left, he knew he had found a special player in sophomore forward Chris Perry.
“Once we got here and had a chance to work with him, I was really impressed with his abil-ity and skill set,” Antigua said.
In his freshman season, the 6-foot-8-inch forward played at 266 pounds and said he was too slow to keep up with some of the quicker players, but is now ready to compete after losing 24 pounds.
He said he lost the weight by watching the quantity of what he ate and changing how he ate. Perry said Antigua’s workouts also helped expedite the process.
“If I would go to the cafe or something, I would go three times,” Perry said. “Now when I go, I can eat enough once and I have better eating habits,
adding vegetables and fruit to my diet more.”
The slimmed-down sopho-more said his new physique will change how he plays the game, especially by making him more effective on defense.
“I think it will allow me to play more and I definitely won’t foul as much,” Perry said. “Last year, I was a lot slower; I couldn’t get into the right position. I’m more mobile now.”
The motivation to lose weight came from Antigua, who told him that in order for Perry to be an effective player, he would have to be able to keep up with the rest of the team.
The decision for Perry to slim down was aided by the sophomore’s motivation to expand on his game and be able to be quick enough to move out of the post.
“Meeting with him and ask-ing him what he wanted out of this experience, and him want-ing to extend his game, we put the challenge to him about
changing his body,” Antigua said.
Senior guard Corey Allen Jr., one of the three remaining starters from last season, said Perry’s new build is exactly what the Bulls’ new up-tempo play style calls for.
“When we’re playing fast, we’re going to need a big that can run the floor with us to contest shots,” senior guard Corey Allen Jr. said. “So him slimming down is going to fit in real well with how we’re going to play this year.”
Part of being out of shape for his freshman season came from not knowing what to expect at the collegiate level. Perry said while he was expect-ing to play against top-tier talent in college, he wasn’t physically ready for the game because of how easy it was for him to dominate in high school.
“(Was it easy to dominate) in Polk County? Of course,” Perry said. “We didn’t have a
Sophomore forward Chris Perry went from 266 pounds to 242 during the offseason. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU
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lot of competition, but I like the training we’re getting now because it’s preparing me for what’s coming this season.”
Last season, Perry hit a freshman slump in mid-Febru-ary. The forward scored eight points or fewer for three weeks after scoring at least 10 points in 17 of 24 games.
“It was harder than what I expected, but at the same time, I knew going into col-lege that I was going to have to go against A1 players every game,” Perry said. “So that freshman slump kind of hit me. It all comes from learning the game and experience.”
Perry said the frustration of going through a slump has only given him more motiva-tion to become a more versa-tile player. This new mobility and versatility is leading Perry to extend his game beyond the post.
“I’ve been focusing on drib-bling and being able to work from the perimeter so now I won’t be limited in the post,” Perry said.
Allen said that from what he’s seen in practice, Perry’s added outside shot will be a reliable weapon that can open up the offense.
“The bigs will have to come out and guard him so it will give more space for the guards to drive,” Allen said.
But adding an outside shot didn’t come easy to the for-ward. Perry said he will come to the practice facilities at least two to three times per week around midnight to put up 500 shots.
“It all comes down to con-fidence and putting in work after hours,” Perry said. “But I know I have to put in that work if I want (junior guard Anthony Collins) to pass me the ball.”
Perry’s transformation as a player has already garnered national attention. Sports Illustrated ranked the for-ward as a top-five candidate to breakout in his sophomore season.
“My whole mindset is just to get better as a team and the individual accolades always just seem to fall into place when your team does well,” Perry said.
But USF faces a difficult chal-lenge in turning around a team that went 12-20 last season and lost all but three players who saw the court.
The Bulls were ranked eighth in the preseason coaches’ poll for the AAC and Perry said that’s only added motivation.
“I didn’t like that too much,” Perry said. “Seeing that people think of us as number eight, it gives us a drive because we have something to prove this year.”
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No. Name Pos. Ht. Year Hometown20 Laura Ferreira F 5-11 Fr. Lisboa, Portugal22 Laia Flores PG 5-7 Fr. Mataro, Spain12 Bre Brooks PG 5-5 Jr. Tyler, Texas14 Paige Cashin F 6-4 So. Newark, Ohio24 Alisia Jenkins F 6-1 Jr. Statesboro, Ga.32 Maria Jespersen F 6-0 Fr. Arhus, Denmark2 Micah Kroll G 5-8 Jr. Tampa, Fla.13 Laura Marcos Canedo PG 5-8 So. Salamanca, Spain5 Trimaine McCullough G 5-8 So. Orlando, Fla. 15 Shavontae Naylor F 5-9 Jr. Ocala, Fla. 4 Neena Pacholke G 5-7 So. Tampa, Fla.11 Ariadna Pujol G/F 6-1 So. Mataro, Spain23 Shalethia Stringfield PG 5-6 Jr. Jacksonville, Fla. 3 Tamara Taylor G 5-10 Sr. St. Petersburg, Fla.1 Ivana Vuletic C 6-3 Sr. Norrkoping, Sweden 45 Katelyn Weber C 6-5 So. Little Rock, Ark. 10 Courtney Williams G 5-8 Jr. Folkston, Ga.
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Experienced Bulls expect tournament After losing to Rutgers in
the WNIT Semifinal, USF wom-en’s basketball coach Jose Fernandez made a promise to fans.
As what some AAC officials considered the up-and-com-ing team in the conference, the Bulls missed the NCAA Tournament by the slimmest of margins, noted as one of the “last four teams out,” according to ESPN.
Grabbing a microphone, as the fans stayed to cheer their team on even after the final buzzer sounded, Fernandez made it clear that the team would be a part of the coveted “March Madness” this season.
“When I said that, I thought that last year’s team deserved to go,” Fernandez said in a
recent interview. “There’s no reason that this year’s team shouldn’t with who we have returning and with who we’ve added.”
For junior forward Alisia Jenkins, the journey has been long and hard fought. Early on in her USF career, Jenkins knew she would have to step up if she wanted to make an impact.
Getting minutes as an under-classman was already a trying task, so her presence quickly became known after she began to stand out with her high level of play and a mid-range shot that fooled some of the best defenses in the country.
She recalls that even in her freshman year, she had to think like a sophomore or junior to make others know how poignant her play would be.
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Coach Fernandez (left), junior forward Alicia Jenkins (Middle) and junior guard Courtney Williams (right) look to make a push for an NCAA bid. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU
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“Now that I am an upper-classman, I try to put myself in a leadership position for the team so we can keep getting better,” Jenkins said.
She has continued to improve, averaging 9.6 points per game and 10.3 rebounds this past season, and was also named to the AAC All-Conference Second Team.
Her career-making night came last season against Memphis, with 21 points and 18 rebounds. Hoping to have games with similar per-formance more frequently this season, Jenkins made an offseason mindset adjustment.
“I’ve got to have that same attack mentality that I had in the [Memphis] game,” Jenkins said.
Veteran junior guard Courtney Williams is also returning. With 16.3 points per game and 7.5 rebounds, Williams is consid-ered one of the top guards in all of women’s basketball.
Ranking in the top 10 among returning guards across the nation in rebounds, blocks and field goal percentage, she has received an abundance of acco-lades, including All-American Honorable Mention and AAC All-Conference First Team.
Williams will also likely sur-pass 1,000 career points this season, coming in only 169 shy of the milestone. Even though these honors mean a lot to the young talent, she has much big-ger aspirations.
“We have a goal this year of
making it to the NCAA tourna-ment, so if the accolades come along with that, then so be it,” Williams said.
Preseason AAC standings have USF finishing the season second in the conference, only behind Connecticut, who has won the national championship three of the last five years.
With 13 previous members returning and various new-comers ranked in ESPN’s list of Top 50 recruits, it’s hard to ignore the success of this program. Last season, the Bulls lost just five regular sea-son conference games; all against the top three teams in the AAC.
This year, the team hope to use last season’s as motiva-tion to fuel the fire in its quest for an NCAA Tournament run. The frustration that plagued an overall successful year ended on a sour note for the Bulls in 2013.
Experience could bring suc-cess if the team is able to chan-nel its best play and remain focused on the ultimate goal of not only a trip to the post-season, but a deep run into the latter part of the “Big Dance.”
Fernandez has stressed that a crucial part in winning in the Sun Dome is the home crowd.
“I think this program has done really well here on cam-pus and the fans can add so much to a home court advan-tage, especially with women’s basketball,” Fernandez said.
The Bulls play its first regu-lar season home game Nov. 22 against UNC Asheville at 2 p.m.
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DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME
Sat, Jan 03 East Carolina * Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Tue, Jan 06 UConn * Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Sun, Jan 11 Tulane * New Orleans, La. 3:00 PM
Sat, Jan 17 Tulsa * Tampa, Fla. 11:00 AM
Thu, Jan 22 Temple * Philadelphia, Pa. 6:30 PM
Sun, Jan 25 UConn * TBD 12:00 PM
Wed, Jan 28 SMU * Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Sat, Jan 31 Tulsa * Tulsa, Okla. 1:00 PM
Wed, Feb 04 Temple * Tampa, Fla. 6:30 PM
Sat, Feb 07 Cincinnati * Cincinnati, Ohio 8:00 PM
Wed, Feb 11 UCF * Orlando, Fla. 7:00 PM
Sat, Feb 14 Memphis * Tampa, Fla. 12:00 PM
Tue, Feb 17 Houston * Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Sat, Feb 21 East Carolina * Greenville, N.C. 11 : 0 0 A M
DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME Sat, Nov 08 IU-Pennsylvania (Exh.) Tampa, Fla. 4:00 PM
Fri, Nov 14 Flagler College Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Sun, Nov 16 Jackson State Tampa, Fla. 2:00 PM
Thu, Nov 20 UAB Birmingham, Ala. 7:00 PM
Sun, Nov 23 NC State Raleigh, N.C. 4:00 PM
Tue, Nov 25 Hofstra Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Sat, Nov 29 Jacksonville Tampa, Fla. 2:00 PM
Tue, Dec 02 Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala. 9:00 PM
Sat, Dec 06 Detroit Detroit, Mich. 3:00 PM
Mon, Dec 15 Georgia Southern Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Thu, Dec 18 Seton Hall Tampa, Fla. 7:00 PM
Sat, Dec 20 Florida State Sunrise, Fla. 2:00 PM
Tue, Dec 23 Southeastern Louisiana Tampa, Fla. 1:00 PM
Sun, Dec 28 Bowling Green Tampa, Fla. 3:00 PM
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lems.“We’ll go one on one ‘bo
drill’ again, which is a ver-sion of ‘Oklahoma,’ but in three levels,” Bresnahan said. “We’ve started every prac-tice for the past couple weeks with open-field-tackling drills, which we’ve gotten better at it, but we aren’t where we need to be.”
Close, but not close enough
USF’s defense has had a roll-er coaster season, along with the offense. The same defense that forced six turnovers in a game against Maryland let Cincinnati run for over 270 yards.
Frustration is accumulating throughout the team.
“I think it’s frustrating for everybody from coach Taggart all the way down to the train-ers,” Bresnahan said. “To see them play very well at times and then all of the sudden you give up something and it cre-ates an explosive play.”
Within the 3-4 scheme that USF runs, Sanchez said the defense has to play their gaps, which sometimes doesn’t happen.
“We put in the new stuff and I think, for most of the game, we were pretty good with it. But there were those few times, since it was brand new, that we just had a mental lapse,” Sanchez said. “There was one play on the goal line where the D-line was on one side and I was on the other and there were two gaps wide open for them. We weren’t on the same page.”
USF has had problems stop-ping the run lately, giving up an average of 237.8 yards on the ground in its past five games.
“It’s frustrating is what it is … We are close, but we’re not close enough,” Bresnahan said. “We haven’t stopped the run in any of the last four games by any stretch of the imagination.”
The Bulls are on a bye week this week, but they head to Texas on Nov. 15 to take on win-less SMU. Kickoff is at 8 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network.
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The Claw adds FootGolf as alternative to golf
The Claw has been USF’s golf course for 47 years and now offers a new sport to play. FootGolf, which is essentially golf played with a soccer ball, picked up popularity in Europe before coming to the United States.
Spencer McIntosh, general manager of The Claw, said that offering FootGolf on the course is a way to attract people to the golf course who normal-ly wouldn’t feel comfortable there.
“A key thing right now is trying to get people who might not be exposed to the game,, providing them an avenue that is more comfortable for them to get them to the golf course,” McIntosh said.
The sport is played on the golf course at the same time people are playing golf. The holes are set up in the rough, off to the side of the fairway.
To ensure that FootGolf play-ers don’t hold up golfers, each normal hole has two FootGolf holes on it.
McIntosh said that adding this unique sport to the course was targeted at attracting people who enjoy alternative sports and therefore would likely never come to The Claw.
“(We’re targeting) anyone who likes to do physical activi-ties,” McIntosh said. “Ideally, we’d like to cater to people involved in Ultimate Frisbee, alternative sports like that. Also, young kids that play soccer.”
McIntosh said that FootGolf offers a solution to common reasons that people choose not to golf
“I think there’s a miscon-ception in the golf industry that golf is too expensive and time consuming,” McIntosh said. “This is a way for them to come out to the golf course and get around really fast. FootGolf takes about half the time as golf and you don’t have to buy clubs.”
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Mental health issues should be treated, not ignored
The Roanoke, Virginia County Planning Commission chose not to recommend the development of a mental health facility Wednesday, which would have served vulner-able youth with mental illness in the community.
Intercept Youth Services, the group that requested to run the facility, was told it could not occupy an unused building on industrial-zoned land, although the area is significantly lacking in such facili-ties.
Many in the community expressed concerns about having a mental health facility so close to their homes and children. However, the facility would have provided only 60 beds, according to Intercept Youth Services.
This is just one example of the poor state of mental health care in the U.S. Much of this prob-lem stems from misconceptions of mental illnesses and those who suffer from them.
It would be incorrect to say mentally ill people are generally violent. In fact, according to a study by the World Health Organization, mentally ill people are more likely than the general population to be
subjected to violence. At the same time, it is impos-
sible to deny that violent behav-ior can develop within a group of people who go unnoticed and untreated.
Consider the story of Gus Deeds, as reported on CBS’ “60 Minutes” in January. Deeds, for-merly an excellent student at the College of William & Mary and the son of a Virginia senator, began to experience the symptoms of Bipolar disorder after his father’s campaign.
Eventually, Deeds attacked his father and mother after being denied hospital care and skipping his medication. He then took his own life.
If he had a medical problem, such as lung disease or cancer, nearly everyone would agree that this was a case of outrageous neglect by the health care system.
Instead, according to “60 Minutes,” there are fewer than 100,000 beds for mentally ill patients in the entire U.S., in addi-tion to an overall scarcity of psy-chiatrists across the nation.
Thankfully, Deeds’ father used his position of power and his traumatic experience to push for mental health legislation, resulting in a bill that passed the Virginia state Senate in February.
USF has, in a spirit similar to Senator Deeds’, taken a positive
and active stance on mental health. There are signs from Wellness
USF in the USF Recreation Center and in the Student Health Services building with phrases like “Equal Rights for Brains.”
This is an edifying step in the right direction. USF also offers mental health services at Student Health Services and the Counseling Center, both of which are funded by student fees.
If only this universal acceptance of people with mental health issues extended to the rest of the state.
According to the Treatment Advocacy Center, Florida has a severe shortage of beds for psychi-atric patients, with only 12 beds per 100,000 citizens.
With this contrast, it is easy to see how the idea of a mental health facility as a bad mark on the neighborhood means that society must still see mental health facili-ties as some kind of extension of a prison rather than of the health care system.
Mentally ill people are hardly natural criminals.
However, leaving this group untreated and invisible can easily develop into a serious problem for society – one that is, in the long run, more important than mis-placed fears.
Chelsea Mulligan is a freshman majoring in international studies.
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What you said Assistant multimedia editor Sebastian Contento asked
students how they felt about the results of the 2014 midterm elections.
“I was disappointed that Rick Scott won. I think he
acted unprofessionally throughout his campaign,
even to the point that he did not show up for a debate.”
— Charissa Hicks, a graduate student in
audiology
“I was disappointed with the overall low voter turnout
these elections had, and furthermore that some sup-ported candidates without
even doing research on their platforms.”
— Antonyia McCray, a junior majoring in education
“Regarding Amendment 2, I think the wording of
the bill was not clear, and that even though it did not pass this year, it has a good
chance next election”
— Vince Paterson, a senior majoring in business
administration
“I do not understand why Amendment 2 did not pass. Why would a person deny this from a sick individual? In what way does it affect those who voted ‘No’?”
— Deja Johnson, a freshman majoring in
education
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There are two notable quarterback changes in the NFL this week. The Houston Texans are going to let Ryan Mallet take the reigns this week. The Bucs are leaning in favor of Week 1 starter, Josh McCown
Quick Facts
What to watch for
Two teams at the top of the AAC will meet when Temple (5-3, 3-2) hosts Memphis (5-3, 3-1) at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
The USF men’s soccer team is hosting Memphis in the quarterfinals of the AAC tour-nament Saturday at 7 p.m.
FOOTBALL
• USF football has allowed a 100-yard rusher in five consecutive games.
• USF women’s soccer hosts the semifinals for the AAC tournament on Friday.
• Men’s basketball coach Orlando Antigua coached 24 NBA draftees in his six seasons as an assistant coach.
Bulls lean on young talent
USF has key veteran players that are continuing to make plays for the Bulls, but each week more underclassmen rise to the challenge and make their names known.
Seven of the top nine tack-lers for USF will be returning next season, which is a reassur-ing sign for defensive coordina-tor Chuck Bresnahan.
“All of those guys just bring youth and energy to the team to compliment our vet-erans. It’s exciting to know we have them for a while,” Bresnahan said.
One of these young tal-ents, redshirt freshman Auggie Sanchez, embraces the role he has on the defense, but knows he must raise his game as he gains experience.
“It’ll be nice to have guys that have been in the system
and know what to expect,” Sanchez said. “Next year we’re not going to have the excuse that we’re young and don’t have that experience. We’re going to have to prove our-selves.”
In his short tenure with the Bulls, coach Willie Taggart has put many freshmen and sopho-mores in starting roles, not let-ting age affect his decision.
“The Nate Godwins, the Johnny Wards, Hassan Childs — Auggie Sanchez just moved to defense, Jamie Byrd just came over — we’ve got a lot of those (young) guys,” Bresnahan said. “People talk to Nigel Harris like he’s a vet, which he is because of the number of plays he played last year for us.”
Back to the basics
The Bulls have been able to find success as a defense, forcing 17 turnovers, but have given up many big plays.
“There was a little confusion out there towards the end of the game,” Sanchez said. “We put in some new things and a couple times, we were hitting the wrong gaps as a defense and you can’t do that … In our defense, you have to play gaps and that one gap that’s left open, they’ll find it and they’ll gash you.”
With the bye week, the coaches have emphasized getting back to the fundamen-tals and figuring out the small details of the game.
“It’s all about being detailed and not just telling what to do, but explaining how and why we’re doing it and then they’ll understand better and be able to take it to the field,” Bresnahan said.
He said Taggart has allowed them 15 minutes prior to prac-tice to go over individual drills to better dissect these prob-
Sophomore Nigel Harris (left) leads the nation in forced fumbles. Redshirt freshman Auggie Sanchez (right) is fifth on the team in tackles. ORACLE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU
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Men’s soccer looks to defend AAC title
Though the Bulls’ men’s soccer team is on a three-game losing streak, it is hoping for a repeat of last year, attempting to win back-to-back AAC tourna-ments.
The quarterfinals of the tour-nament start Saturday with USF hosting Memphis.
The Bulls’ losing streak began with a 2-1 loss to Memphis on Oct. 25, and since then, they have not been able to find the back of the net.
In this three-game span, USF’s struggles haven’t been a lack of opportunity, as the team has 37 shots compared to its opponents’ 20 shots. The problem is getting the shots on target.
The opposing goalkeepers during this losing streak had to make seven saves and conceded just one goal. The bulls have only shot eight of 37 shots on target.
The Bulls’ corner sets have also been ineffective in this three-game span, even though they outgain their opponents in corners 21 to six.
The Bulls will be looking to defend the AAC title this year, this time starting off in the No. 4 seed. The Bulls will play the Memphis Tigers, who are entering the tournament in the No. 5 seed.
The winner of Saturday’s matchup will play the winner of the game between No. 1 seed UConn and No. 8 seed Temple.
USF will face off against Memphis this Saturday at 7 p.m. in Corbett Stadium.
