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Oct 20, 2024 | 
usforacle.com | Camila Gomez |Hristiana Ivanova |Clara Garcia |Clara García |Noah Vinsky
USF’s Parking and Transportation Services (PATS) department has collected just over $25 million in parking pass sales since 2021. PATS Director Scott Fox said the department has to generate enough revenue to cover its expenses. “We’ve got to be a self-sustaining business,” he said. Related: Got a parking ticket at USF? Here’s how to appeal it – The OracleParking pass salesLeticia Andrade is a campus tour guide at USF.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
usforacle.com | Clara Garcia |Clara García |Hristiana Ivanova
Alexis Gamache said it was “a little negligent” for USF to resume classes five days after Hurricane Milton tore through the Tampa Bay area. Though Gamache is grateful for the resources USF has provided, she was dismayed by the university’s plan. “There are other ways to show you care, including giving your students and faculty a little bit more time to recover from natural disasters,” she said.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
usforacle.com | Michelle Plyam |Hristiana Ivanova |Lily Belcher |Clara Garcia |Clara García
Craig Huegel climbed into his golf cart Wednesday morning at the Botanical Gardens, with coffee in his cup holder and a shovel in his gloved hands. “There’s never been anything like this,” Huegel, the gardens’ lead curator, said as he surveyed the medicinal garden “ruined” by Hurricane Milton. He said the Gardens will stay closed to the public until the first Tuesday of November — but it will not look the same.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
usforacle.com | Lily Belcher |Hristiana Ivanova |Clara Garcia |Clara García
While the wooden shields and blankets laid at April’s encampment protest are long gone from the MLK Plaza, Emmanuel Atmosfera is one of 13 protesters still facing legal consequences. Relate: Pro-Palestine encampment protest at USF broken up by tear gas Atmosfera, who authorities said “willfully and intentionally threw” a tear gas canister back at officers, was charged with felonies and misdemeanors in April, according to an affidavit.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
usforacle.com | Hristiana Ivanova |Clara Garcia |Clara García |Camila Gomez |Noah Vinsky
President Rhea Law said the past weeks challenged USF unlike anything the university has experienced since its founding in 1956. Just 13 days apart from each other, Hurricanes Helene and Milton left their mark on the Tampa Bay area. “The road ahead may be difficult, but our USF Bulls community is incredibly resilient, and we will persevere,” Law said. The hurricanes forced USF to shut down its campuses for several days.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
usforacle.com | Clara Garcia |Clara García |Hristiana Ivanova |Camila Gomez |Noah Vinsky
This year’s hurricane season has brought many challenges to USF campuses, yet a specific issue has caught USF residents’ attention — package delivery delays. Lucy Pham-Simpson, a freshman business major, said she was anxiously awaiting news about her package — it had her Halloween costume. She “finally” got the awaited notification from USF Housing telling her she could pick up her delivery Tuesday morning.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
usforacle.com | Lily Belcher |Ananya Siragavarapu |Joana Riva |Hristiana Ivanova
Against the shaded windows of USF’s Centre Gallery is a piano, but not just any piano. It’s one with a story. Entitled “Mint Condition,” the Japanese-art-inspired painted piano is the sixth public piano donated by Tampa Tunes, Kaylee Ayres, programs coordinator for the Center of Student Involvement, said. Tampa Tunes is a nonprofit public piano partnership that is working to install a dozen permanent pianos that can be played by anyone at any time around the Tampa Bay area.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
usforacle.com | Clara Garcia |Clara García |Ananya Siragavarapu |Joana Riva |Hristiana Ivanova
USF’s Global and National Security Institute (GNSI) will host a two-day on-campus conference to discuss peace in the Middle East. GNSI’s fourth Tampa Summit will be held at the Royal Ballroom on the second floor of the Marshall Student Center from 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday. The conference’s primary goal is to address ongoing security challenges in the Middle East, according to the event description.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
usforacle.com | Clara Garcia |Clara García |Ananya Siragavarapu |Joana Riva |Hristiana Ivanova
Get ready for a new fitness program in tres, dos, uno or três, dois, um. Regardless of their native language, USF students can now join workout classes hosted in Spanish or Portuguese through Fuerza Fit, a new fitness program at the Recreation and Wellness Center (REC). Ana Sayuri, a Brazilian sophomore integrated public relations and advertising major, said the program will give international students a larger sense of community at USF.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
usforacle.com | Joshua Hightower |Ananya Siragavarapu |Joana Riva |Hristiana Ivanova
When USF opens its new on-campus stadium in 2027, students can look forward to their own exclusive section on game day. New renderings released on Wednesday showcase a view of what’s to come inside the new stadium. The stadium will feature a student-only section on its west side with room to accommodate more than 8,000 students. The Bulls’ current home field, Raymond James, holds a capacity of 8,700 for students.
