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2 weeks ago | 
usforacle.com | Clara Garcia |Clara García |Joana Riva |Isabella Oefelein
USF has assembled a task force to promote “efficiency, transparency and strategic reinvestment” among university departments and staff. The team will be responsible for managing Florida State Department of Governmental Efficiency requests at USF, according to public records obtained by The Oracle. Gov. Ron DeSantis the Florida DOGE in February to “identify and eliminate unnecessary spending, programs, courses, staff and any other inefficiencies” in state universities.
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1 month ago | 
usforacle.com | Hannah Laubach Matson |Clara Garcia |Clara García |Joana Riva
Faculty Senate Vice President Scott Perry said he can’t “get a hold of” USF President Rhea Law to learn her stance on the rumored Sarasota-Manatee and New College of Florida merger. “I’ve always found Rhea Law to make the right statement at the right time, but she’s not being available to talk,” Perry said. “I’m not sure that anybody can really find out what she’s thinking.”Perry said he has a “gorgeous” relationship with Law and has tried to reach her — but heard nothing back.
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1 month ago | 
usforacle.com | Kieran Konopka |Clara Garcia |Clara García |Joana Riva |Camille Grall
USF’s spring music festival, Bullstock, was cut short during the headlining set by indie rock band Grouplove on Friday night. Rain fell sporadically during the band’s performance, but the festival was called off when it started raining consistently — an hour before the originally scheduled 11:15 p.m. end time. This was met with the audience booing and students rushing out of the event to escape the rain and cold combo.
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2 months ago | 
usforacle.com | Clara Garcia |Clara García |Kieran Konopka
USF is deleting some of the university’s webpages, news articles, PDF documents and internal audits with content on diversity, equity and inclusion. USF spokesperson Althea Johnson said the university is “reviewing and updating” its websites “to comply” with “all” state and federal guidance, policies and laws.
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2 months ago | 
usforacle.com | Hannah Laubach Matson |Joana Riva |Clara Garcia |Clara García
Four Tampa campus Student Government (SG) gubernatorial tickets shared their ideas on Wednesday’s debate. They highlighted how they would help fund student organizations and advocate for the student body. Four tickets are running in the Tampa campus gubernatorial election:Emma Goodwin, a biomedical sciences major, is running for governor alongside Ethan Walsh, an industrial engineering major, as prospective lieutenant governor.
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2 months ago | 
usforacle.com | Clara Garcia |Clara García |Joana Riva |Camila Gomez |Lily Belcher
USF President Rhea Law’s resignation announcement sparked mixed reactions among the USF community. Law sent out a universitywide email on Monday saying she will step down from her role after a “national search” for a new leader is run. “The time is right for the next president to lead a new chapter of our university,” Law said in the email. Some are thinking ahead about what qualities USF’s next president should have, while others are reflecting on Law’s impact on the university.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
usforacle.com | Michelle Plyam |Joana Riva |Clara Garcia |Clara García
Ava Porten was “forced” by her parents to take piano lessons when she was five years old, but developed a passion for singing through vocal lessons at age 10. At 20 years old, Porten, a junior business management major, was signed by the record label Distro by Benton and is now managed by Doechii’s father, known as Snatcha Da Boss. This meant Doechii’s Grammy for best rap album on Feb.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
usforacle.com | Joana Riva |Clara Garcia |Clara García
Fernanda Dimbarre has worked for the SAFE Team since January 2023. She has gone from driving golf carts to picking up students’ calls, but she has also made memories with some of her best friends, whom she met while working there. SAFE Team is a USF service funded by Student Government that offers free golf cart rides to students who don’t feel safe enough to walk around campus from 6:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. from Sunday to Thursday.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
usforacle.com | Clara Garcia |Clara García |Joana Riva
Although Tessa Barber is a politics and international affairs doctoral student at USF, she started in college as a biology major. When Barber took general education courses in anthropology, political science and English, she decided to change her career path. “Despite my skepticism, it was those classes, the ones outside my intended discipline, that I was only able to take because of general education requirements, that changed my life,” Barber said.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
usforacle.com | Lily Belcher |Joana Riva |Clara Garcia |Clara García
Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) filed a civil rights complaint against USF in December, accusing the university of a “pattern of discrimination” and a “hostile environment.”The 59-page complaint alleges USF has a history of discrimination, created policies that target SDS and issued “retaliatory disciplinary charges” against the organization’s student leaders.
