Verna Glenn went to the doctor in April 2008 for what should have been a routine procedure. Instead, Glenn, an administrative specialist in the USF Registrar’s Office, was put on dialysis and told her kid- neys were shutting down. Glenn left work on sick leave after test results found she had a form of cancer known as multiple myeloma. She used all of her accrued and pooled sick leave while undergoing dialysis three days a week and chemotherapy two days a week. Employees from across the university lined up to donate some of their accrued sick leave to Glenn, which she used until she was able to return to work in April 2009. “All I could say was ‘thank you,’” Glenn said. “That kept my lights on, that kept my mortgage paid, that kept my water going and it allowed me to maintain my insurance that covered my visits to Moffitt and the medications I had to get.” Last week, the university informed staff that the sick leave donation program that Glenn credits for saving her livelihood will soon be termi- nated. While there is a sick leave pool where employees may contribute accrued hours to a central pool that members can draw from, donated sick leave is given to those who have already used the 340 hours provided by the central pool. Susie Shannon, president of the staff union, said dissolu- tion of this policy was unex- pected and unexamined dur- ing negotiations for the 2014- 15 staff contract. “None of us on the staff side of the table had any idea that this was being planned,” she said. “The university seems to have lost all of its integrity.” The staff union is claim- The Oracle www.usforacle.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2014 I VOL. 52 NO. 53 I NSIDE THIS I SSUE MONTAGE SPORTS Bulls finish season with war on I-4. BACK LIFESTYLE How to get the most out of Thanksgiving leftovers. Page 4 News ................................................................. 1 Lifestyle ...................................................... 4 Opinion ....................................................... 6 classifieds .............................................. 7 Crossword ......................................... 7 sports ............................................................ 8 The Index Donated sick leave terminated for staff By Wesley Higgins NEWS EDITOR Students from the USF chapter of Students for a Democratic Society joined a number of Tampa activists outside the Hillsborough County Courthouse in downtown Tampa on Tuesday morn- ing to protest the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri. A grand jury decided not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown. The decision sparked rioting in Ferguson, which resulted in the burning and looting of several stores Monday night. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/MARISOL MARQUEZ Activists seek justice for Michael Brown n See STAFF on PAGE 3 Throughout the week leading up to Friday’s game against UCF, the televisions in the USF locker room have been flickering continuously with images of past games the Bulls have played against the Knights. Because the two teams began to play each other again just last year after taking a five-year break, many players don’t have much experience with the rivalry. Coach Willie Taggart said he decided to show the players these games to help them realize the mag- nitude of this week’s game. “We have a lot of young guys here who don’t under- stand the rivalry and the young tradition that we have here and we think it is impor- tant for learning about the history and tradition at USF,” Taggart said. With a loss to Memphis on Saturday, USF (4-7, 2-5) is no longer bowl eligible, but still has an important game remaining on the schedule. This week marks only the second conference matchup between USF and UCF in what has been nicknamed the “war on I-4.” Before the tough loss against now-NFL quarterback Blake Bortles and the Knights in 2013, the Bulls owned the all- time series against UCF, 4-0, including a 64-12 beatdown in 2007 when the Bulls were ranked fifth in the nation. The Bulls hope to salvage their season and earn their victory against a team with a winning record. Although the Bulls lead the By Amar Rele CORRESPONDENT Bulls ready for UCF rivals n See RIVALS on PAGE 8
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Verna Glenn went to the doctor in April 2008 for what should have been a routine procedure. Instead, Glenn, an administrative specialist in the USF Registrar’s Office, was put on dialysis and told her kid-neys were shutting down.
Glenn left work on sick leave after test results found she had a form of cancer known as multiple myeloma. She used all of her accrued and pooled sick leave while undergoing dialysis three days a week and chemotherapy two days a week.
Employees from across the university lined up to donate some of their accrued sick leave to Glenn, which she used until she was able to return to work in April 2009.
“All I could say was ‘thank you,’” Glenn said. “That kept my lights on, that kept my mortgage paid, that kept my water going and it allowed me to maintain my insurance that covered my visits to Moffitt and the medications I had to get.”
Last week, the university informed staff that the sick leave donation program that Glenn credits for saving her livelihood will soon be termi-nated.
While there is a sick leave pool where employees may contribute accrued hours to a central pool that members can draw from, donated sick leave is given to those who have already used the 340 hours provided by the central pool.
Susie Shannon, president of the staff union, said dissolu-tion of this policy was unex-pected and unexamined dur-ing negotiations for the 2014-15 staff contract.
“None of us on the staff side of the table had any idea that this was being planned,” she said. “The university seems to have lost all of its integrity.”
The staff union is claim-
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Students from the USF chapter of Students for a Democratic Society joined a number of Tampa activists outside the Hillsborough County Courthouse in downtown Tampa on Tuesday morn-ing to protest the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri. A grand jury decided not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown. The decision sparked rioting in Ferguson, which resulted in the burning and looting of several stores Monday night. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/MARISOL MARQUEZ
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Throughout the week leading up to Friday’s game against UCF, the televisions in the USF locker room have been flickering continuously with images of past games the Bulls have played against the Knights.
Because the two teams began to play each other again just last year after taking a five-year break, many players don’t have much experience with the rivalry. Coach Willie Taggart said he decided to show the players these games to help them realize the mag-nitude of this week’s game.
“We have a lot of young guys here who don’t under-stand the rivalry and the young tradition that we have here and we think it is impor-tant for learning about the history and tradition at USF,” Taggart said.
With a loss to Memphis on Saturday, USF (4-7, 2-5) is no longer bowl eligible, but still has an important game remaining on the schedule.
This week marks only the second conference matchup between USF and UCF in what has been nicknamed the “war on I-4.”
Before the tough loss against now-NFL quarterback Blake Bortles and the Knights in 2013, the Bulls owned the all-time series against UCF, 4-0, including a 64-12 beatdown in 2007 when the Bulls were ranked fifth in the nation.
The Bulls hope to salvage their season and earn their victory against a team with a winning record.
Although the Bulls lead the
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It takes a few pounds of pressure on the throat before a person is rendered uncon-scious. Once the pressure is remove, the victim wakes up with a raspy voice and pos-sible brain damage, but no physical marks to show an officer.
After years of research and studies on reported cases of strangulation in romantic relationships, Manisha Joshi, an assistant professor in the USF College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, wrote a paper on the role of stran-gulation in intimate partner violence (IPV) that was pub-lished in October’s issue of American Journal of Public Health.
In the paper, Joshi and col-leagues discuss strangulation, reduced blood flow to and from the brain via the exter-nal compression of blood ves-sels in the neck and as a human rights and health con-cern with the main victims being women.
“A person could have been strangled and you would never know,” she said.
Joshi said she was first intrigued by the idea of strangulation in IPV as a doctoral student of Susan Sorenson at the University of Pennsylvania.
After a lecture by a medical examiner about the effects of strangulation and the lack of evidence in IPV cases, Joshi could not get the thought out of her mind that external evi-dence such as bruises were undetectable for a few days after the event.
Manual strangulation, grip-ping the throat with one’s hands, appears to be the most common method of strangu-lation in IPV, according to the publication, although liga-tures, belts and scarves, are
also used. “It is a very unique type
of violence in that it doesn’t immediately leave marks,” said Sorenson, the paper’s co-author.
Victims of strangulation can suffer minor brain damage, affecting things like memo-ry and cognition, along with other physical and psycho-logical implications, Sorenson said.
About one of every 100 women in the general popu-lation, in the studied areas, reported their intimate part-ner had strangled them, Sorenson said.
“A person might be walk-ing in front of you, you might be talking to that person and you may never know that this person was strangled,” Joshi said.
To help prevent intimate partner violence, Joshi uses her research in teaching her USF students in School of Social Work.
Joshi also uses her knowl-edge to train 911 dispatch-ers, hotline operators, police officers and others on how to better collect evidence from a victim.
The training ranges from assessing how a person’s voice sounds to asking about their symptoms and how to correctly ask a question so that the victim fully under-stands what the interviewer is asking.
“I am committed to mak-ing the world a safer place for women,” Sorenson said.
Sorenson has been an advocate fighting violence against women for about 25 years, working with commu-nity-based organizations and teaching classes on violence prevention.
For victims of this or simi-lar violence, Joshi said the National Domestic Violence Hotline is a 24/7 confidential hotline with trained advocates to help victims, available at 1-800-799-SAFE.
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ing the university flipped the tables at the eleventh hour by threatening to withhold the staff contract’s ratification.
However, USF spokeswom-an Lara Wade said the change in sick leave was fully present-ed, discussed and agreed upon during contract negotiations.
“This should really be a sur-prise to no one,” she said.“… I’m not quite sure how any-one didn’t understand what was happening when they agreed upon this mutually at the table.”
If the staff union had decid-ed to renegotiate, Shannon said the university threat-ened to start bargaining from scratch. This would delay and possibly risk the 3 percent raise for staff the university had agreed to.
“There’s no guarantee that we would get the same things we got, and the things that we got were so important,” Shannon said.
As to why the university no longer wishes to stop dona-tions, Shannon said she met with Vice President of Human Resources Trudie Frecker, who said the program was misman-aged from the start because its fund wasn’t properly set up and the costs ended up com-ing from department budgets.
The university’s legal basis for discontinuing sick leave is a document from March of 2014. Both chief negotia-tors of the university and the staff union initialed striking the chief accounting officer’s control over donated sick leave on this document.
On the page prior, however, the initials of the staff union chief negotiator are absent while the initials of the uni-versity’s chief negotiator are next to the striking out of the paragraph allowing sick leave to be donated.
The 2014-15 contract that the staff union signed included changes to the donated sick leave program, but Shannon said the union was not made verbally aware during negotia-tions.
Notes of the bargaining meetings were taken by hand for both sides.
The Oracle did not receive the requested transcripts from
the university by the time of print.
Shannon said she could not provide her copies because the union agreed not to share their notes as part of the ground rules set by the university.
In an email to the staff union, Shannon stated the only related discussion was ending the sick leave dona-tions to new hires.
She said a worker discussed the possibility of termination for the entire program with her before the contract was voted on, however.
After bargaining concluded and Shannon said she became aware of the termination, the staff union negotiator sent a cease-and-desist email to uni-versity officials.
“We got emails … going ‘Don’t you remember agreeing to this last year?’” Shannon said. “Well, heck no, we didn’t remember having agreed to that last year.”
Wade said it’s improbable the policy change was over-looked, as the union displays all the staff contract changes before voting internally.
“I would imagine that’s what happened here,” she said.
The staff union collected votes and agreed to the con-tract Friday.
Shannon said staff employ-ees are nonetheless “over-whelmingly” excited about the rest of the contract.
“We got some things we can really use to defend people against some of the work man-agement practices,” she said. “The raise was, of course, very important.”
This year’s negotiations were for a three-year contract. Aside from the raise, the staff union will receive protection against public reprimanding from supervisors and a more affordable grievance proce-dure.
For the next three years, the staff union may only request two articles and a wage increase each year. Shannon said brining the donated sick leave program back to the table would cost the union a chance for another demand.
“I hope that we can do some-thing to change the situation. I don’t know that we can,” she said. “I certainly want to reach out to the university for some more conversation, but there’s no telling.”
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Thanksgiving is about showing our gratitude for all of the things that we are thankful for in our lives.
One of those things is probably the multitude of decadent dishes shared with family. After a long day of stuffing yourself, eating more may not be the first thing on your mind.
However, odds are good that you’ll be stuck with a refrigerator full of enough food for a second Thanksgiving.
Turkey sandwich
A leftover staple is the classic turkey sandwich. While it’s hard to beat the classic, plain turkey with mayonnaise on white bread, there are lots of ways to dress it up with a few of your favorite sides.
One favorite combination is the turkey and cranberry sauce sandwich. This sandwich tastes delectable hot or cold. Popular additions to compliment the cranberry sauce include Brie or goat cheese.
Make your own unique combinations by adding items such as avocado, bacon, dried cranberries or caramelized onions. Pressed or straight out of the refrigerator, this is a Thanksgiving leftover masterpiece that will keep the holiday spirit going for days, or even weeks.
Soup and casserole There are many ways to get
creative with leftovers beside
the turkey and cranberry sauce sandwich. A quick search online will provide many interesting dishes that are less common but just as delicious.
Soup dishes are an easy ways to use many leftover items. Turkey noodle soup makes for a great day-after-Thanksgiving dinner that’s not as heavy but just as delicious. Turkey, roasted sweet potatoes, butternut squash and even mashed potatoes can be combined for a great soup.
Get creative
Plan for leftovers by keeping the turkey bones soaked to make broth. Add any veggies and meat you desire to make an assortment of dishes. Turkey, stuffing and veggies can also be used to make a pot pie or a casserole.
Part of the fun in toying with new dishes is creating some crazy combinations. Turn up the heat and try making turkey enchiladas, burritos or tacos. Add hot sauce, beans and Mexican cheese for a new combination of a holiday classic.
For a post-Black-Friday-shopping breakfast, try a turkey and avocado omelet. For those looking for something a bit lighter after gorging Thursday, toss some cold turkey onto a mixed green salad and add your favorite dressing.
Leftovers are just one more thing to be thankful for. Seeing family and friends, welcoming the holiday season, football and parades wouldn’t be the same without the gluttonous amount of food consumed.
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sophomore. “Finally, I looked at him
and he gave me the look like he was ready so I said, ‘All right Chris, let’s go. You’re going to make this play,’” Antigua said.
USF (4-1) was able to come back in the final minutes due to the shooting of senior guard Corey Allen Jr.
Allen had 11 of his team-leading 18 points in the final four minutes, including three 3-pointers, which ignited the otherwise quiet crowd.
“I was trying to be locked and loaded every time the ball came to me and just shoot it with confidence any time I touched it,” Allen said.
USF struggled with fouls in the second half, just as it did against NC State on Sunday. The Bulls’ fouls resulted in 28 free throw attempts for Hofstra, compared to only eight from the Bulls.
Antigua said the foul trou-ble is an issue the team is struggling with, but it’s a top priority to fix going forward.
“We’re a team that’s not taking a lot of threes and we’re being aggressive,” Antigua said. “We want to try
to get to the line as much as we can. It just isn’t happening right now, so we’ll go to the drawing board.”
USF will host Jacksonville in the Sun Dome on Saturday at 2 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN3.
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Corey Allen Jr. led the Bulls with 18 points and made three 3-point-ers in the final minutes Tuesday. ORACLE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU
Bulls Blitz to Raymond James canceled for UCF football game
USF will not have the Bulls Blitz buses for students to ride to Raymond James Stadium for Friday’s football game against UCF, accord-ing to an announcement by Student Government’s via Facebook on Tuesday.
SG Chief of Staff Greg Berkowitz said the decision to cancel the transporta-
tion was made after SG con-ducted a survey on social media and found a majority of those polled were going to be away from the stadium for Thanksgiving or were going to the UCF game but would not take the Bulls Blitz.
Berkowitz said over 100 students took the survey.
Based on the survey
results, Berkowitz said SG did not want to waste stu-dent money to operate the shuttles.
For those wishing to view the game from campus, the game will be broadcast on ESPN2 with a noon kickoff.
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all-time series, UCF won in their first conference matchup last year, 23-20. The two-win Bulls almost upset No. 19 UCF and forced three turnovers from Bortles.
The Bulls who played in last year’s game against UCF, such as sophomore safety Nate Godwin, remember the pain of losing.
“I was upset – everybody was upset – people were cry-ing and it was a hard loss to take,” Godwin said.
The players haven’t been shy about expressing their feelings toward UCF, and seniors such as Todd Chandler are trying to make it clear to the younger players in the clubhouse.
“You inherit that hate when you sign that letter at South Florida and coach Taggart has been playing the old-school games against UCF to let the younger guys know what we are fighting for,” Chandler said. “It’ll be nothing better to leave as a senior to know that my last chance in playing (UCF) was a loss for them.”
UCF hasn’t been as success-ful as they were last year, but the Knights are having another winning season. Quarterback Justin Holman has thrown for over 2,000 yards and 18 touchdowns while running-
back William Stanback has rushed for eight touchdowns. The Knights also rank 12th in the FBS in points allowed per game, with 18.5.
Despite his success, Holman is prone to turnovers, with 12 interceptions this season, including four in a loss to Connecticut. Coincidentally, the Bulls forced five turnovers against the Knights in last sea-son’s game and nearly won.
“They’re a veteran football team and a senior-dominant football team that knows how to win,” Taggart said. “We don’t have the luxury of expe-rience with our team right now, but we played this year together so we are prepared for a good and sound game.”
USF will play UCF (7-3, 5-1) at Raymond James Stadium at noon Friday. The game will be broadcast on ESPN2.
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Outside USFThe Boston Red Sox made the biggest splash thus far in free agency Monday, signing Hanley Ramirez for five years and $88 million and Pablo Sandoval for five years and $95 million.
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A win over UConn (2-8, 1-5) for Memphis (8-3, 6-1) on Saturday would secure the Tigers with the AAC Championship for 2014. UConn has yet to be a conference opponent outside of SMU.
Cincinnati (7-3, 5-1) will play at Temple (5-5, 3-3) on Saturday, only trailing Memphis by one win in the conference.
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• USF men’s basketball made 14 fewer free throws than Hofstra on Tuesday night, but won 71-70 behind efficient shooting down the stretch.
• In five meetings, USF football has outscored UCF 170-90 and has won four of the matchups.
Nate Godwin caught his first interception as a Bull last season against UCF. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU
Men’s Basketball
Perry layup secures Bulls’ comeback
After coming back from an 11-point deficit against Hofstra (3-2), USF called a timeout Tuesday night, trailing 70-69 with 22 seconds remaining.
Afterward, junior guard Anthony Collins dribbled near half court before driving toward the middle of the floor where he was set up with a screen.
The screen caused the Hofstra defenders to switch who they were guarding, set-ting up an easy layup for soph-omore forward Chris Perry to give the Bulls a 71-70 win in front of 3,228 fans at the Sun Dome.
“It’s their bread and butter just to set that ball screen in the middle of the floor with (Collins) and the idea was to go under the screen and we just got caught up and we had to switch, which we didn’t want to do, and then it was a complete mismatch,” Hofstra coach Joe Mihalich said.
USF coach Orlando Antigua said the game-winning play is what the team practices, but Perry wouldn’t have been the player set up for the final shot if not for the expression on his face before the play.
“I have to give coach (Sergio) Rouco credit because he kept in my ear: ‘Get Chris back in, get Chris back in,’” Antigua said.
But Antigua had to see that Perry wanted to take the game into his own hands rather than thrusting it upon him.
“And I’m looking at him, ‘No, he hasn’t given me that look that I need. I need to have that look,’” Antigua said.
But as the team called its final timeout, Antigua said he saw what he needed from the
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Women’s Basketball
Bulls look to regain top-25 ranking
While most students will be enjoying a Thanksgiving meal Thursday, the women’s bas-ketball team (3-1) will be in the U.S. Virgin Islands playing in the Paradise Jam Basketball Tournament.
Coming off a dominant win at home against UNC-Asheville, USF will now take on three undefeated teams in a three-day span.
“There’s an opportunity for us to play some great bas-ketball down there and con-
tinue to get better,” coach Jose Fernandez said.
The Bulls will face No. 9 Kentucky (4-0), Oklahoma (4-0) and Illinois (4-0) in the tournament, hoping to show skeptics that this team is the real deal.
With the loss to No. 8 Maryland last week, the Bulls dropped out of the USA Today Coaches Poll that they had recently been added to for the first time in program history. Coming away from this tour-nament without a loss would almost guarantee them a spot back in the rankings.
“That’s just a credit to the schedule that we play,” Fernandez said. “For us to stay in the poll, we’ve got to go to the Virgin Islands and prove we’re a top-25 team.”
No. 9 Kentucky already beat a top-10 opponent this year when it defeated Baylor last week, 74-64. A win against the Wildcats would give Fernandez and the Bulls what they lacked last season: a victory over a top-ranked team.
Following the tournament, the Bulls will be back in action at the Sun Dome on Dec. 3 to take on Stetson at 7 p.m.
