Clubs waiting on funding for campus events and activities final-ly received confirmation during the last week of September. However, a lapse of communication has put stress on Senate relations.

SG started accepting club bud-gets at the beginning of August, with a cutoff date on Aug. 15, but Alex Moser, SG chief financial of-ficer, said they did not exclude any clubs’ requests.

“We definitely got a huge over-flow during the first and second week of classes, more than over the summer,” he said.

“Last year, everyone had worked together for three or four

years,” said April Parsons, Senate president. “That definitely reflect-ed in the Senate.”

With the “huge influx of new people” this school year, relation-ships and experience levels were not the same compared to the pre-vious school year.

“We don’t have very many se-nior members. It’s like the entire organization switched leadership after four years,” Parsons said. “Experience is half of the knowl-edge and we didn’t have the expe-rience they had.”

With new leadership, the view of the constitution and the statutes turned from an “intended” perspec-tive to a more “literal” perspective.

“There was definitely a switch when the leadership switched, on

how they viewed the statutes,” Parsons said.

Moser is in his second year in office. He saw the changes in the Senate over the summer and no-ticed a difficulty in communica-tion. “They missed out on a lot of planning time,” he said.

“A little bit of that played into the chaos that happened this fall with the budget process,” he said.

In fall 2010, clubs were not as quick to submit budget requests, but an appropriations committee had al-ready been created during the sum-mer, and they were meeting.

Moser said there was “miscom-munication and mistiming” be-tween the Senate this past summer. Evan Garrett, the appropriations

Discontent that had been growing for weeks in Student Government’s legislative branch culminated in an email from Sen. Jericka Knox to the Senate on Wednesday afternoon, call-ing for Senate President Cory Hebert to resign from his posi-tion or face a vote of confidence.

“Not until now have I felt that leadership (specifically your position) has been lacking, and I am quite disappointed by this. You have not done your part to create an environment conducive to success,” Knox wrote in the open letter ad-dressed to Hebert. “I no longer feel as I have the ability to serve

During a recent interview in Daytona Beach, Fla., Gov. Rick Scott made it clear to students studying anthropology or those planning to study it that they weren’t going to bring any jobs to the state.

“How many more jobs do you think there are for anthropology in the state? Do you want to use your tax dollars to educate more people that can’t get jobs in anthropology? I don’t,” Scott said in the interview. “I want to make sure we spend our money where people can get jobs when they get out.”

Scott is openly discussing shift-ing taxpayer dollars to public insti-tutions from social science degrees to science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM.

“I want to spend our money getting people science, technology, engineering and math degrees,” Scott said. “That’s what our kids need to focus all of their time and attention on, those type of degrees that when they get out of school, they can get a job.”

It isn’t clear if Scott did his homework before singling out an-thropology degrees. The Ameri-can Anthropological Association found that 64 percent of master’s graduates were employed within a year of graduating in 2009. US-FSP found that overall, 72 percent

of bachelor’s degree students were employed within six months of graduating in 2008.

“Smart engineers will tell you that in order to build bridges in com-munities where humans are, it can’t be done without an understanding of the culture those humans func-tion in,” said Jay Sokolovsky, a US-FSP anthropology professor.

USFSP had 30 percent cut from its budget this year. Next year, it expects another 10 percent.

“This is a conscious effort to shift important functions of the state from the public sector to pri-vate corporations with issues that deal with the lives of humans,” Sokolovsky said.

Scott’s daughter Jordan Kan-

dah received her degree in anthro-pology from Virginia’s College of William & Mary, but she didn’t go into the field. The statements are less aimed just at anthropology. The American Anthropological As-sociation wrote a letter to Scott in response to the comments.

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The Oct. 22 Festival of Reading features USFSP professors’ latest books.

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USFSP crowns this year’s Homecoming Duke and Duchess.

Anthropology professors respond to Gov. ScottBy ARIELLE STEVENSONNews Editor

Professor Jay Sokolovsky displays his degree in Anthropology received from Penn State in 1974.

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SG votes to change Senate presidentBy CHRISTOPHER GUINNContributing Writer

Lack of communication prevents timely club fundingBy TAYLOR GAUDENSLife Editor

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Clubs on campus have waited nearly six weeks for funding from Student Government and Senate.

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anthropologists are leaders in our nation’s top science fields, making groundbreaking discov-eries in areas as varied as pub-lic health, human genetics, legal history, bilingualism, the African American heritage and infant learning,” the letter stated.

Anthropology professors from seven of the state’s public univer-sities finished a letter to the Gov-ernor outlining four points on why anthropology is an important field and degree. The letter cites new employment opportunities, the use of STEM in the field, continu-ing education, and the importance of the study to Florida overall.

“With the industrialization of the economy in foreign markets, there are more foreign workers in everything from software to food,” Sokolovsky said. “An-thropologists help corporations understand how to effectively in-corporate these populations.”

Sokolovsky also cited the growing need in the field of forensic anthropology and those in law enforcement with anthropology backgrounds.

“Ask any police chief in a me-dium city like Clearwater, which is primarily Hispanic, there are desperate needs for police offi-cers with strong cultural under-standing,” Sokolovsky said.

But the issue isn’t as simple as whether anthropology de-grees create jobs. It’s part of a larger scope of university opera-tions statewide. Funding is be-ing shifted from certain degrees to others. The state is looking to weed out “unproductive” pro-fessors. The biggest could be an overhaul on a system that has traditionally offered faculty job security.

Following Scott’s comments this week, he issued university pres-idents across the state a question-naire with 17 queries with questions like “How do you measure the uni-versity’s cost and revenue per pro-gram? If so, send me reports from the last five to 10 years. Addition-ally, please send me your individual measurable goals and tracking of your success during your term as university president.”

“This is overall, a smoke screen to deflect attention from the budget cuts to public edu-cation in K-12 and universi-ties,” Sokolovsky said. “It’s a bad deal for the universi-ties and it’s the worst deal for the state.”

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my constituents because of your lack of leadership.”

Less than four hours later, at SG’s scheduled Wednesday meeting, Hebert was removed from the presidency after a 7-to-2 vote, more than the two-thirds majority required.

Sen. Emily Gormon called for the opening of debate and Sen-ate President Pro Tempore April Parsons stepped in to officiate in place of Hebert.

Sen. Evan Garrett then broke several moments of awkward si-lence when he said that the vote should be called if there is con-cern, but that he had faith in He-bert’s ability to lead the Senate. Garrett later voted for removal.

“From what I see, [Knox] never came and approached [He-bert] with her concerns. I do not think we should do this with him not being informed. I feel there is no ground for this,” said Sen. Walter Shelmet.

Shelmet said there were prob-lems with the Senate’s productiv-ity, but attributed that issue to the members, rather than the leader-ship. “You can’t put this all on [Hebert] alone,” he said.

“We do not need to be debat-ing with who our leadership is. I do not think we should throw him out, and if you do not think that he is doing his job then tell him,” said Sen. Brian Bauroth. He also said that the impeachment pro-ceedings against Parsons on Aug. 31 led to the Senate coming to-gether to help her become a bet-ter, more assertive leader.

“[Hebert’s] roommate,” then-Attorney General T.J. Ewin, “was the one who brought up [Par-sons’] impeachment,” said Sen. James Scott. “We are not doing what was done against [her]. This is a vote of confidence. I am not confident.”

“It’s not about personality,” he said.

Much of the debate focused around the creation of an ad hoc committee to clarify budget and grant procedures. Gormon had previously brought a resolution to establish a committee, but Hebert asserted his power to establish it directly, without opening up the issue to the Senate floor.

“I appointed the chair of the appropriations committee and I picked people who were in tune with funds and money,” Hebert said.

Sen. Lauren Reilly said He-bert mismanaged the commit-tee by appointing members who were not interested in participat-ing, while leaving out those who were interested. But Shelmet ar-gued that Hebert was trying to save time.

Hebert said he has been work-ing behind the scenes, specifical-ly on improving student advising services and putting picnic tables along the waterfront. “I cannot force senators to write legisla-tion,” he said.

“If we should call a vote of confidence, it should be on all of us,” said Shelmet, citing a lack of legislation proposed by the body. “How can he fix problems if no one brings them to his attention?”

“Obviously there is a prob-lem since we are doing this,” Scott said. “We are five months in and have nothing to show for it. I think all of us could have en-gaged him but I think we need a strong leader and [Hebert] hasn’t been a strong enough leader.”

“He is a strong leader now,” Shelmet said, and he will get stronger.

“The oil that drives a machine like this is enthusiasm,” Gor-mon said. “And I haven’t seen it from [Hebert].”

She described the Senate as “dichotomous” and “dysfunc-tional” and said that she would resign her position if Hebert re-

mained president. “I can no lon-ger stand this emotional drain. If this senate does not remove him, I will resign,” she said. “I can’t continue to work like this.”

Scott made a case for Parsons being a strong replacement, say-ing that she improved greatly since her brush with impeach-ment. Rather than resign, as she was pressured to do, Parsons faced the impeachment proceed-ings and won.

Hebert questioned Scott’s objectivity in the matter, say-ing that Parsons is one of his closest friends.

After an hour of debate, He-bert said he would work on being a better, more approachable lead-er. “I apologize to anyone who said they cannot come speak to me,” he said. He added that, un-der his continued leadership, “the Senate can do better.”

All but two senators, Shel-met and Bauroth, voted to re-move Hebert from the position. He was succeeded by Parsons, who nominated Sen. Eliana Aguilar to the pro tempore posi-tion. Aguilar was affirmed with a unanimous vote.

Knox was not able to at-tend the meeting and voted by proxy, a new procedure that al-lows SG members to vote despite scheduling conflicts.

“One of the biggest problems we had was bad communication,” said Parsons at a later interview, “and that reflected on the view of SG across campus.” As Sen-ate president, her main priority is to create relationships and con-sensus within the Senate, and to address formerly-funded projects that have fallen by the wayside.

“I really hope we can move on from this … and be productive for the students,” she said.

"The inspiration is not there," Sen. Eliana Agulair says of Senate President Cory Hebert. "We are losing energy." Aguilar was later elected president pro tempore, taking over for Sen. April Parsons, who ascended to the presidency.

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Author and journalist to speak on oil dependency

Edwin Black, a Washington D.C. based author and journalist, will speak Oct. 19 on oil depen-dency and the history of oil as a commodity. Black’s work has been published in The Washing-ton Post, The L.A. Times and The Huffington Post. His latest book, “British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement,” came out this year and discusses the his-tory of BP.

“I thought that because this history is largely unknown, it would put the company into per-spective,” Black said.

USFSP is a school very famil-iar with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, involving BP. USF was noted early in the af-termath for its research on the oil spill and the effects on the envi-ronment. Last month, the College of Marine Science was awarded an $11 million grant for research on the post-oil spill Gulf.

“Because BP’s history is left out of BP’s contemporary public relations program, the Gulf was just another notch in the belt of a company who has been able to do whatever is necessary to who-ever necessary in order to get the oil,” Black said.

Black said that the electric car and the hydrogen fuel cell were both invented in the 1830s.

“We never needed to be ad-dicted to oil,” Black said. “It’s important to understand that the company known as BP, which is casting itself as a company that cares about the little guy, has ac-tually been a company steeped in war and massacre since its inception.”

Black will speak at USFSP on Monday, Oct.19 from noon to 1 p.m. in Davis 130.

By ARIELLE STEVENSON News Editor

USFSP is now in voting season with the upcoming midterm elections for Stu-dent Government. Students that have sought to be in-volved in representing the USFSP student body submit-ted their campaign paper-work on Oct. 14. Positions to be filled include 20 Senate seats, as well as positions in the executive branch and a judicial seat. Voting this year will take place online, which can be accessed through Blackboard. The Election Rules Commission will hold events during the week of the elections to remind students to vote. Voting begins Oct. 25 and ends at 5 p.m. on Oct. 26.

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committee chair, resigned and at the time of Garrett’s resignation, “there was about a month time period where there was no chair,” Moser said.

The appropriations committee chair was not assigned until the second week of school.

“They had a lot to do in a short amount of time,” Moser said.

The Senate is supposed to meet biweekly during the summer, and with the chance for two meetings and time to name an appropria-tions chair before the fall semes-ter began, Senate could not reach quorum—a specific number of senators present in order to vote—and therefore a chair could not be appointed.

Parsons said Moser slowly re-ceived the budgets over the sum-mer and his plan was to hold them until he could “give them to the Senate all at once.”

“All the budgets I had re-ceived, I couldn’t pass to the chair, because there was no chair,” Moser said.

Parsons was hesitant to make any major decisions without com-municating with Cory Hebert, then-Senate president, who was out of town for the summer. She was the acting Senate president while he was away. The lack of communication made it diffi-cult for the Senate to even hold a meeting.

“It was hard because it was his position I was holding,” Parsons said.

Parsons said she and Hebert should have done the general as-sembly meeting agendas together on a weekly basis.

Aside from the slow start to al-locate funding to clubs, an issue with the process Senate was fol-lowing was not correct according to the statutes.

Last year, the SG leader-ship changed the statutes to a new process.

Moser said it was brought to his attention by one of his as-sistants. It was brought to the at-tention of the Senate, which hap-pened right after the majority of the club budgets had passed.

“We were not going to let the current process continue on, knowing it was not the proper way,” Moser said.

Parsons said the Senate passed the majority of the budgets and were blindsided at the next week’s meeting, the sixth week of school.

“The CFO gave us bills that nobody had seen before, five min-utes before the meeting started,” she said.

But it’s not the reason why things were held up.

“We wanted budgets to be sub-mitted in bill form, so it was clear when [Courtney Parrish, the SG President] was passing or vetoing budgets. That’s how it reads it the statutes,” Moser said.

He wants to put the process back to the way it used to be, where Senate doesn’t see club budgets, because as of now, there

is no club budget process, he said.“Clubs would receive their

funding through a budget com-mittee made up of the CFO and a collective body of students who had no affiliation with SG whatso-ever,” Moser said.

The only budget Senate used to see was the yearly $1.5 million that funds everyone.

Parsons agreed and said that reviewing club budgets and the entire A&S fees budget “isn’t the same thing.”

When the statutes were changed in 2009-2010 academic year, the new process came about.

“I believe that it needs to be a process that clubs receive their funding in a timely manner and not be scrutinized on the events or activities they want to partake in,” Moser said.

He also thinks Senate should not deal with club budgets.

“I don’t think the Senate should have a say in what events or what projects they do, as long as the funds are being spent ap-propriately, according to state and university policies and that there is students support behind it,” Moser said. “A&S are accumulat-ed from all students and the fees should benefit as many students as possible.”

Parsons said the Senate is taking “active steps to fix the shortcomings.”

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Occupying St. Petersburg

Over 300 people protested in South Straub Park on Oct. 16, according to The St. Pe-tersburg Times. Occupy St. Petersburg came a few weeks after protesters began occu-pying Lykes Gaslight Square Park in Tampa.

CORRECTIONSIn last week’s Red Bull

Flugtag article, we wrote that hundreds of people at-tended. It should have read over 100,000 people. Also, the uppermost photo identi-fied Gabe Windschaue as the man dressed as Ron Burgandy. The man was actually Adam Hopkins.

The Occupy Tampa photo on pg. 2 was credited to Chris-topher Guinn. The photo was actually taken by Daniel Mutter.

In the article about the film “Married in Spandex,” Amanda Kole was incorrectly labeled as a maker of the film. Allison Kole was the filmmaker.

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Students looking for ways to quell anxiety before midterm ex-ams got tips to fight test anxiety from a Center for Counseling, Health and Wellness workshop.

Daniela Venosa, practicum therapist for the center, led the workshop in Coquina Hall on Oct. 13

“There are things you can do before, during, and after a test to reduce anxiety,” Venosa said.

She provided general tips for successful study techniques and gave examples of different ways to study with the VAK system: vi-sual, auditory and kinesthetic. Ve-nosa said students could learn in all three of these ways. The sooner students discover which system works best for them, the sooner their test anxiety will improve.

“Get to know yourself,” Ve-nosa said. “Pay attention to when, where and how you learn better.”

Preparation for exams is key. Venosa recommended students avoid getting psyched up when the test arrives.

Other tips included:Stay up-to-date with the

course. This will prevent study-ing multiple chapters the night before, which can lead to being overwhelmed.

Create a schedule and study in sections—one chapter today, another chapter tomorrow, and then whatever is left to review the night before the test.

Arrive 10 to 15 minutes early on the day of the test. Al-lowing time to get comfortable in the testing space, along with a few deep breaths, will calm any nervous feelings.

Briefly review the test once it is passed out and answer the easiest questions first, in order to manage time efficiently.

After receiving the graded test back, go over it to determine any weak areas and work on those first. Instead of giving up, take the time to understand the wrong answers and focus on that for the next test.

Kevon Bremmer, senior ISS major, found the workshop helpful.

“I get so anxious before and during tests, and breathing exer-cises really help me,” he said.

Beating stress to make the grade

Marking the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, La Casa Hispana, USFSP’s Spanish club, co-hosted its first event for the new society, culture and language department.

The event, which took place at the Campus Grind, offered home-made Hispanic food, a few words by professors and fellowship among club members.

The documentary “Breaking the Maya Code” was featured and pro-vided by Maya script expert Gabrielle Vail, adjunct professor at USFSP.

“The intensity of the Mayan lan-guage was so unexpected, and really quite mind-blowing,” said Audra Hearne, junior anthropology major.

The society, culture and lan-guage department now combines the programs of anthropology, world languages, criminology and interdisciplinary social sciences. As one of the first events to encom-pass the new department, La Casa Hispana members represented a variety of majors at the event.

“There is a lot of overlap in stu-dent interests and you really can’t separate language and culture,” said Nora Gaunt, president of La Casa Hispana.

Although the club admits has been slightly disorganized in the past, this semester it is working to create an environment that will bring more people to its events, with hopes to be more involved in the community.

“We try to make our events re-laxed and social with real substance so people have fun and get good information. Hispanic culture is im-mensely diverse and consists of a plethora of different subgroups and languages,” Gaunt said.

Future plans for events include playing board games in Spanish and holding a workshop with Vail for stu-dents to interactively work on decod-ing Mayan hieroglyphs on their own.

“We want to foster and peak interest in the students,” said Dana Parkinson, vice president of La Casa Hispana.

The club believes that taking learning outside the classroom re-

laxes students and opens up more opportunities for them to improve their knowledge of language. Jay So-kolovsky, anthropology professor and department chair, offered extra credit to his students for attending the event and watching the documentary.

“For getting jobs, one of the best things undergraduates can do is learn another language,” Sokolovsky said.

Students also want learning a language to be something that will translate into their everyday lives.

“Learning previous knowledge is important to sustain culture and a way of life,” said William Nicks, political science and psychology major.

Club explores Mayan cultureBy MEGHAN HOODHOODContributing Writer

Campus Grind barista Courtney Kent serves Spanish fare to students and faculty at-tending the event.

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Fall Wellness WeekTuesday, Oct. 25

Wellness screeningsBoot camp for beginners

Flu vaccination clinic

Wednesday, Oct. 26Clothesline project

Thursday, Oct. 27Make your own stress balls

Wellness screeningsFree HIV screening

Visit www.usfsp.edu/cchw for more information.

Dr. V. Mark Durand has always been intrigued with human behav-ior. “That’s why I got into psychol-ogy,” Durand said. “I like to try to understand behavior. Whether it’s at the supermarket, the mall, the movie theater or on television, I am always fascinated.”

His latest book: "Optimistic Parenting: Hope and Help for Your Challenging Child" was written as a result of a successful five-year multi-site research study on the effects of optimism and parent-ing challenging children. Durand, who is a festival author at the Oct. 22 Times Festival of Reading, wanted to share his findings as a way to offer hope to parents who needed help.

“We were able to get these very pessimistic parents with very dif-ficult children to be more optimis-tic and, not only were they able to make things better, but they were able to implement the procedures,” Durand said.

The study examined two re-search groups. The first group received traditional behavior therapy and learned how to pre-vent problems and reinforce their child’s behavior.

The second group was a cogni-tive behavior therapy group. They were given traditional behavior ther-

apy plus the optimistic parenting.Durand, who obtained his doc-

toral degree from Stony Brook University, discovered that par-ents who were able to change their thought processes in the cognitive behavior therapy group became more aware of ruminating themes and achieved the most success.

He explained some of the themes were things like giving up. “If you believe that, then no tech-niques are going to work because you give up,” he said. Another common theme was self-efficacy. “If a parent is feeling inadequate, not confidant, if they walk into a situation thinking it’s going to be a

disaster—‘here we go again’—then the idea was, can we make the pes-simistic parents more optimistic?”

Following up a year later, Du-rand found both kids’ groups had improved but after viewing video tapes of what the parents were do-ing with their child, “in the behav-ior training only, they were avoid-ing problems,” Durand said.

“For example, one child had difficulty going to bed. The mother learned that if she put the television on, he would fall asleep,” he said. “Well, that’s not what we wanted. We wanted her to say ‘goodnight, you are going to bed now.’ ”

The cognitive behavior therapy group actually pushed their kids and had more success. “They re-ported being more comfortable going out in the community, being around kids, so on the surface, we looked at all of these trainings and said kids get better,” Durand said. “What we found in our studies was they behaved better but it was be-cause the parents were avoiding the problem.”

Durand describes this as the “concessions process,” and it can backfire on parents. “When the kid gets to be 13, 15, now they start to run the house,” Durand said.

Durand said optimism could have an enormous impact on qual-ity of life. “[Parents] felt more likely their child could participate in sports and community activities,” he said.

“The ones who were more optimis-tic said ‘yes, we can go to friends’ houses, we can go to the supermar-ket, and I don’t have to feel like we are going to have a problem.’ ”

Pessimistic parents, in stark contrast, become very isolated.

“It gets to the point, sometimes, where they can’t even get a babysit-ter because babysitters can’t handle that kid,” Durand said. “The down-side is your child begins to run the house. And in the extreme, they can’t go out, they can’t have friends.”

Durand said the difference be-tween optimists’ and pessimists’ ways are “an optimist would say I am smart. That’s why I get A’s. But a pessimist would say the opposite. I am stupid. I should have done this or that. I am a failure. And if I get an A, then I was lucky.”

“And that’s what happens in parenting,” Durand said. “They [parents] start to look at these things and they don’t take credit for it when it goes well. And they always blame themselves when it doesn’t go well.”

“But the optimistic part of me says you can change that,” he said. “And that’s what the book is about: hope and help. I give you hope that you can do this, and that your child can change, and I teach you the skills to help you do it.”

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The USF Homecoming kick-off Party at the Docks featured live music, carnival games and the crowning of USFSP’s Duke and Duchess. Harborside Activities Board and Student Government hosted the event, and SG Vice President Mark Lombardi-Nelson and HAB President Jamie Ken-nedy announced the winners.

Though the Oct. 13 party got off to a late start, the royalty was crowned at the beginning of the event. Anthony Patterson, junior mass communications major, won Duke.

Patterson commented about his runny nose and thanked the crowd upon receiving his sash and crown.

Lauren Dakers, junior environ-mental science and policy major, won Duchess.

“I am super excited,” Dakers said. “I worked really hard.”

Sam Howard, sophomore el-ementary education major, said the event was “so much fun.” Howard said she usually attends school events because “I always get the free food.”

She said the best part of the event was the cotton candy.

Activities at the event included balloon hats and animals, cornhole and live music from local bands Be-tween Bluffs and Mighty Mongo.

Scott Moser, freshman crimi-nology major, saw the “moon bounce thing” when he got out of class and decided to attend the event. He is not going to the home-coming game because of work, but he plans to “catch the highlights” of the game.

Anthony Wapshott, freshman environmental science and policy major, enjoyed the music from Between Bluffs because he likes bluegrass.

“I love country, I’m from Ala-bama,” Wapshott said.

This week’s Homecoming ac-tivities include a Caribbean festival on Monday, an obstacle course on Tuesday and Viva España Trivia at night, The Big Boot, a pass/punt/kick game, on Wednesday and a lip synch contest at night, a foam party on Thursday, and an awards ceremony on Friday. HAB and SG are hosting all events.

The remaining USF royalty will make an appearance at the homecoming game vs. Cincinnati on Oct. 12 at Raymond James Sta-dium at noon.

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With the lag in the current job market, the USFSP Career Center offers students ways to explore em-ployment options before graduating.

“The beginning of senior year is when the job search process really kicks in,” said Barbra Higel, assis-tant director of the Career Center. “Communicate to your network about your career interests so they can forward any potential opportu-nities. Seek out events to meet em-ployers and alumni such as career fairs and information sessions.”

Higel said it’s never too early to look up jobs on career search-ing websites such as Indeed.com or Monster.com to help better the chances of a guaranteed job after graduation.

But even though many stu-dents are majoring in the field of their interest, they’re not quite sure what to do with their major.

“Knowing your area of inter-est and the type of opportunity you want to pursue is key. The objective is what drives the process,” Hi-gel said. “If you don’t know what you want to do, then it’s difficult to write a resume, target employers, and to effectively network.”

Higel suggested resources to learn about employers in the area, like The Book of Lists, published annually by the Tampa Bay Busi-ness Journal, or LinkedIn, which allows users to create a profile and research companies and ca-reer openings, and network with professionals and alumni.

Once an area of interest emerges, it’s time to start explor-ing. Internships or campus jobs can help students gain experience in a particular field.

Creating a resume is also a

top priority.“The goal of the resume is to

secure an interview. Since a re-sume is a summary, the details should reflect your skills and experiences and how they relate to your objective,” Higel said. “The position, company or indus-try should be taken into account when determining key words.”

Employers can sometimes decide to hire a future employee within seconds. The Career Cen-ter can help tailor a resume to give students the best possible chance of securing a job. It’s best to limit resumes to one page, and create a separate reference page to allow more free space on the document.

The Career Center also has a new walk-in service, CareerNow, when students can come in without an appointment and meet with a career assistant, who can help with researching careers and writing re-sumes, Higel said. The center also has books with ideas to help with the job searching process.

Once students have pinpointed an area of interest and created a resume, reaching out to employers is next. Networking and attending job fairs are also beneficial for students about to graduate.

The Career Center will host a Career Exploration day on Nov. 2 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Harbor Hall, showcasing USFSP majors and career options, student organi-zations, and professional associa-tions. Alumni will be at the event to discuss their career experiences.

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For USFSP history professor Ray Arsenault, 2011 has had its ups and its major ups. He’s been on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” and not just any episode. Oprah did a 50th Anniversary special on the Freedom Riders as one of her final episodes. He flew to the White House on Oct. 16.

His book “Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Ra-cial Justice (Pivotal Moments in American History)” came out in its abridged form and is being used nationwide by teachers.

His book was made into a PBS American Experience documen-tary. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, forging a path all the way to the Emmys. The film won all three categories in which it was nominated.

“It was like prom on steroids,” Arsenault said of the gala at the Emmy Awards.

Arsenault was seated with PBS, whose difficulties with fund-ing came under attack by conser-vatives. Funding for public broad-casting has been overwhelmingly slashed throughout the nation. In Florida, Gov. Rick Scott cut all $4.8 million in public broadcast-ing from the budget.

“It was a rough year for PBS, with their funding under attack

by the conservatives, but they managed to win 10 Emmys still,” Arsenault said.

The Freedom Rides were a movement fueled by young people and direct-action non-violence. They tested interstate integration laws established by the Supreme Court and put the laws into ac-tion by riding buses throughout the South. Fourteen students at Tennessee State University in Nashville were expelled for their participation.

“This reawakening of interest is great—some are getting honor-ary degrees, some have been in-volved in the Occupy Wall Street movement,” Arsenault said. Free-dom Riders are doing speaking engagements, sharing their stories of civil disobedience sometimes after years of silence. This sum-mer, 40 college students from across the country were selected to recreate the Freedom Rides on a bus across the south. It isn’t just the book or the film. The story is being told on multiple platforms.

“It is a phenomena—the muse-um exhibit, the book, the website, the film, curriculum packets for classrooms,” Arsenault said. “It is a three-ring circus of informa-tion and you reach people any way you can.”

The story of college students that get on a bus to integrate bus stations and bathrooms has had

an impact. They were beaten and mobbed, but no one was killed and they actually made the changes they wanted.

“Contemporary American de-mocracy can be, and should be, in citizen politics,” Arsenault said.

In the midst of all the excite-ment, one of the fathers of the Freedom Riders movement passed away. Birmingham-based Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was at the forefront of the movement from the start, organizing his commu-nity and eventually having a hand in changing civil rights history in the country. He was 89. Arsenault says there is talk that President Barack Obama may attend the fu-neral of the civil rights activist in Birmingham.

Arsenault is currently working on his next book, a biography of the African-American tennis star Arthur Ashe.

“I am deep in the information tunnel,” he said.

Arsenault will be speaking about his book on Oct. 22 at the Times Festival of Reading. Flor-ida’s own Freedom Riders David and Winonah Myers and Freedom Rider Kredelle Petway will be part of the event as well. The talk is at the USFSP Campus Activities Center and begins at noon.

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Arsenault and his colleagues won Emmys for their work on “Freedom Riders.” From left to right: American Experience Execu-tive Producer Mark Samels, author and historian Ray Arsenault, Freedom Riders film producer Laurens Grant, film editor Louis Erskine and film director Stanley Nelson.

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St. Petersburg Times Festival of ReadingFeatured USFSP Professors:

Saturday, Oct. 2210 a.m. to 4 p.m.USF St. PetersburgFree Admission

Ray Arsenault “Freedom Riders”

Julie Buckner Armstrong“Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching”

V. Mark Durand“Optimistic Parenting: Hope and Help for Your Challenging Child”

Tony Silvia, “Power Performance: Multimedia Storytelling for Jour-nalism and Public Relations”

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Tampa mayor asks USF students to stay in the BayTampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn

wants students to stay in the area after they graduate.

He wants to stop the “brain drain” and see the city compete with Austin, Texas and Raleigh-Durham, N.C. in terms of edu-cated minds. The city can be hip and progressive, he said, and USF students should stick around after graduating to make it so.

We say, OK, Mr. Mayor, just as long as you give us something to stay for.

Tampa Bay isn’t a place that a lot of people think about when they want to settle down and start a career and a family. There are the obvious reasons: heat, retirees, tourists, the ever-present threat of a cockroach infestation. But the details say more than the tropes.

Unemployment in the bay area is still at a stagnant 11 percent, down from a peak of 12.6 percent in November 2010, but relatively unchanged since mid-2009. Cities like St. Paul, Minn.; Austin, Texas

and Boston are more attractive to graduates. They simply offer low-er unemployment rates—6.7 per-cent, 7.3 percent and 6.4 percent, respectively—and have a diverse range of industries with a rela-tively low cost of living. Even De-troit, Mich., the place where once thriving industries go to die, made a list as the fourth easiest city to find a job in the United States.

And then there’s the matter of Florida’s education system. The state desperately needs to over-haul its comprehensive testing program. Schools that perform well on these tests get more state money, while schools that per-form poorly might see funding decreases. It’s a broken system, and it shows. Only 17 percent of Florida high school graduates are ready for higher education, ac-cording to ACT scores.

Why would we want to live in a place where our children have such poor odds?

It’s not that bay area unem-

ployment, or its shoddy education system, is Buckhorn’s fault. The Tampa mayor inherited an ugly situation, and has made some ma-jor moves to fix it. Appointing a Deputy Mayor for Economic Op-portunity, creating incentive pack-ages to bring high tech industries to the area, and calling for the de-velopment of “New Urbanism”—walkable, compact, mixed-use cities—are all great moves that could pay big dividends for the city in the future.

And the state is getting tougher with its education system with the implementation of a set of nation-wide standards that aim to bring the U.S. in line with better systems in places like Finland and China.

But really, neither of these concerns are Tampa Bay’s biggest problem. You can find a bad edu-cation system and a high unem-ployment rate in 100 other cities in the United States. There’s noth-ing really that wrong with Tampa Bay. But there’s nothing really

right with it either. And therein lies the problem.

What is Tampa known for? Conan O’Brien may have inad-vertently summed it up when the Rays beat his beloved Red Sox to take the wild card spot in the MLB last month. “I’m sure Tam-pa is a fine place to live, if you’re a mosquito,” he said. And that’s the crux of the issue.

Tampa is known for tourists, retirees and 100 percent humidity. As Buckhorn and other state lead-ers work to fix the economy and the education system, they should keep in mind that most people see Florida as a place where old people go to die in the warmth, and work to update that image. As graduates, we’re looking for other educated youth and the birth of opportunities, not retirement homes and bereavement.

Give us something to believe in, Mayor Buckhorn, and we’ll stay.

Life in the slow lane

I’m 24 years old and I just bought my first car. Well, I half-bought a car, anyway. The significant other bought the other half.

He’s generously designated the pas-senger side as mine.

I have a love-hate relationship with ground transportation. The morning after prom, I rolled out of bed, terrible up-do still intact, and took my road test. I celebrated getting my license by getting my diploma the next afternoon.

After a summer away from home, re-learning the art of the right-of-way was a little tricky, but I got through it unscathed, mostly by depending on friends with both licenses and cars. I just had the little piece of plastic that didn’t get me into the good nightclubs.

Commuting to school was an intri-cate dance of sharing. I hadn’t worked much during high school, with par-ents that encouraged extracurriculars over part-time employment for the sake of college and scholarship ap-plications. My graduation gift savings went directly from my aunts and un-cles’ hands to the university cashier’s office, and $7.50 an hour from a gro-cery store doesn’t add up that quickly. Could I have gotten one of those new fangled car loans? I don’t know. I didn’t bother to even think about it.

I would wake up early on a school day, drive my mother to work, then drive to school in her big, white min-ivan. It was all very sexy and lots of attractive college juniors and seniors wanted to date me.

But then I took public transporta-tion for a semester, and there went that dream. If anything, taking the bus was awkward. I was awkward, fumbling for exact change was awkward, and the other girl on the bus who went to the same college as me was awkward. We’d awkwardly nod to each other, maybe exchange a few awkward hel-los, and then awkwardly avoid eye contact if we saw each other on cam-pus, I assume because we each knew the other’s dirty little secret.

Why, you ask, in all those years of undergraduate education, did I not once invest in my own set of wheels? Well, because after graduation, I was going to move to New York City for graduate school, hang out at a coffee shop all the time like on “Friends,” be-come best pals with a real-life Serena Van der Woodsen, and then spend my commuting hours either in town cars or glamorously riding the subway.

I moved to Florida instead. Flor-ida, with its slow left-lane drivers, and its general inability to get out of the way of on-coming emergency vehicles, and its general confusion about the purpose of turn signals.

I guess the half-a-first-car thing was necessary—an overdue right of passage, if you will. It’s red, it’s fine, it gets me from A to B. Well, it gets him from A to B. I only own the passenger side, after all.

By KEELEY SHEEHANEditor-in-Chief

Controversial ‘boobies’ bracelets resonate with youth

Boobies, ta-tas, cans and bon-kers, gazongas, hooters, melons and knockers.

It doesn’t matter what you call them, as long as you donate to an organization that actually uses your money to fight breast cancer.

Keep A Breast’s “I Love Boo-bies!” campaign and the Save the Ta-Tas Foundation have gotten significant press for the unconven-tional methods they use to promote breast cancer awareness. Keep A Breast sells small rubber wrist-bands with the phrase “i ♥ boo-bies” for $4, while Save the Ta-Tas sells shirts with various slogans on them, including their namesake.

Their unusual products have been banned in schools across the country for being inappropriate, using slang or disrespectful lan-guage. In some cases, the American Civil Liberties Union has gotten in-volved, and in Pennsylvania, a fed-eral judge ordered one high school to allow students to wear the brace-lets after two girls filed a lawsuit.

Keep A Breast argues that its

bracelets “speak to young people in their own voice about a sub-ject that is often scary and taboo.” Pink ribbons don’t always reso-nate with some youths, they say, but they think that their product and the festivals, art shows and surf and skate contests they hold with the earnings are capable of getting young peoples’ attentions.

The shirts and bracelets are tacky, and make light of a serious issue, but it makes kids consider a topic they might otherwise not have thought about. That’s impor-tant, as young women should begin self-screening at a young age and have a clinical breast exam every three years starting at age 20. But do they use the money they earn to further prevent breast cancer?

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem so. The organization nets about $10 million per year just by sell-ing bracelets and T-shirts with its slogans on them. Of that, it donated about $100,000, or 1 percent. Admi-rably, this money went to research and environmental programs like

the University of California San Di-ego and California State University Fresno, but at such a small percent, donors should look elsewhere to get the most cure for their buck.

Save The Ta-Tas donates 5 percent of its gross sales to fight breast cancer, meaning they do-nate money even if they have to take it from their operating bud-get. To date, the foundation has donated over half a million dol-lars. But with shirts at $30 a pop, that’s only $1.50 per shirt. People who can find it in their hearts to donate money without receiving some trinket or sign that they’ve donated have better options.

Finding the right breast cancer organization to donate to can be tricky. Breasts are the most visible and obvious symbol of female sex-uality, and sex sells. Billions of do-nated dollars have been used to dye America pink—from NFL jerseys to cans of soup—to negligible ef-fect. Perhaps breast cancer aware-ness was necessary over 20 years ago, when the pink ribbon was

wrought to make people mindful of the disease, but everybody knows what it is now. Money should in-stead be funneled to research.

But what charities will do that? With its name plastered on food products across the country, Su-san G. Komen for the Cure is the most high-profile breast cancer foundation. Since 1982, it has in-vested almost $2 billion for breast cancer research and advocacy. But it also spent some of that money to keep its high profile position. The foundation has sued over 100 other charities for using the term “for the cure,” often running them out of business. That’s not an ef-fective use of donor money.

Consider instead the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. It doesn’t have a sexy name or slo-gan, and it doesn’t put its name on yogurt containers, but it do-nates 90 percent of all funding, and holds an A+ rating from the American Institute of Philanthro-py (Komen has a B+).

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Quote of the week“The extremists threatening Ameri-can values are what F.D.R. called ‘economic royalists,’ not the people camping in Zuccotti Park.” – Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, support-ing the Occupy Wall Street move-ment

ThrowbackForty-three years ago, on Oct. 17, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in the black power salute at the Olympics, later costing them their medals. On Oct. 18, 1985, 26 years ago, the Nintendo Enter-tainment System was released.

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We’re almost halfway through the fantasy season and I’m guess-ing your team’s weak links are be-coming more apparent. Although there is always the option of pick-ing up a free agent, it’s likely you will have to trade for a player who can really make an impact.

When it comes to trades, I’ve always been a fantasy owner who shies away from dealing with my opponents. I like to stay loyal to the team I drafted or try to find an undrafted breakout rookie (hello Mike Wallace in 2009). But this year I’ve been trying some new ap-proaches and so far they have paid off—I’m leading my league 4-1. Hopefully it’ll be 5-1 by the time this prints… but I digress.

Not only did I initiate a trade, I switched up one of the most sig-nificant players on my team: my QB. Luckily the rest of my team carried me to victories while QB Ben Roethlisberger looked like he forgot which sport he played, but I knew I couldn’t always rely on my stellar lineup to make up for my QB shortcomings. And yes, Ben showed much more promise in week five, but at this point I just don’t trust him.

In order to make the best trade possible, I identified a few key factors. First, which other owners had QB talent to spare. Second, the weaknesses in those other teams. Third, which players I was willing to give up (the hardest part by far).

I ended up trading WR Roddy White for QB Cam Newton and I am enthusiastically looking for-ward to seeing how this affects my team in week six. If you are look-ing for a trade, I suggest remem-bering the factors I considered in mine.

If you’re feeling morally ambig-uous, you can also consider which opponents might underestimate a player you’re eyeing. Not that I personally endorse moves like that—I prefer to bask in the un-tainted glory of pure domination.

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Visiting USF (4-2, 0-2 Big East) continued its Big East Con-ference struggles losing to the Connecticut Huskies (3-4, 1-1 Big East) 16-10 in a defensive battle on Saturday. One thing the Bulls can take with them in this game is tying the school record with seven sacks.

The Bulls failed to convert on fourth down with under 2-and-a-half minutes to play and the Hus-kies ran out the clock.

USF quarterback B. J. Dan-

iels scored the only offensive touchdown in the game running for a 22-yard score at the first drive of the second half. Daniels completed 15 passes out of 27 at-tempts for 164 yards. He was also responsible for three of the four Bulls turnovers throwing for two interceptions and fumbling a po-tential scoring drive away at the start of the second quarter. Dan-iels was the leading rusher run-ning for 64 yards from 10 carries.

Running back Darrell Scott ran for a meager 58 yards on 13 car-ries. Scott fumbled the ball at the USF 10 where UConn cornerback

Byron Jones would return the ball in what turned out to be the go-ahead score with seven minutes to play at the third quarter.

USF receiver Sterling Griffin led all Bulls receivers with five catches for 63 yards while kick-er Maikon Bonani only made 1 out of 3 field goals. He made his first field goal from 23 yards, but missed his remainder kicks from 46 and 44 yards respectively. The Bulls offense combined for only 339 yards (164 passing and 175 rushing).

The Huskies produced less of-fense, producing only 253 overall

yards (135 passing and 118 rush-ing). UConn freshman running back Lyle McCombs lead the way running for 130 yards on 32 car-ries. The UConn kicker was a per-fect 3-for-3 on field goals com-plementing on an opportunistic Husky defense.

Things do not get any easier for the Bulls as they try to salvage any sort of standing in the Big East against conference-leading Cincinnati Bearcats (5-1, 1-0 Big East), who visit Raymond James Stadium on Oct. 22.

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Zicke, zacke, zicke, zacke, hoi hoi hoi!

The Grand Central District hosted the second annual St. Pete Oktoberfest on Oct. 15, offer-ing unlimited beer and wine tast-ings for $30. Dozens of beer ven-dors from across the world set up taps under tasting tents to sample their brews.

Oktoberfest is traditionally a 16 to 18 day beer festival held in Munich, Germany that runs from late September to the first weekend in October. It began as a festival to celebrate a German royal family’s wedding, but it eventually became a major annual event. Over 5 mil-

lion people attend the festivities in Munich every year. Similar events using the Oktoberfest name occur all over the world, often founded by German immigrants or their descendants.

Unlike Munich’s Oktoberfest, which dispenses beer by the liter, the St. Pete Oktoberfest distributed beer in paper Dixie cups—small-er even than the plastic cups at last year’s inaugural festival. The event was scheduled to run from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., but many ven-dors were out of beer hours before closing time.

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Festival attendees sample beer from as a man in a traditional Bavarian alpine hat walks by.

Workers pour Florida Avenue Ale from a beer tap. Florida Avenue is brewed in Tampa.

Two women dish out beer samples to thirsty festival-goers. Many booths ran out of beer well before closing time.

Two festival attendees chat as they juggle paper cups filled with beer.

Central Avenue was shut down to traffic between 20th and 22nd Streets.

St. Petersburg Police officers were on hand to maintain order.

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