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University Beat
6:18 pm
Tue October 9, 2012

USF Urges Caution Following Two Sexual Assaults

Credit Mark Schreiner / WUSF 89.7 News
Lt. Charlotte Domingo, USF Police; Nanci Newton, director of the USF Center for Victim Advocacy & Violence Prevention; and Ana Hernandez, Dean of housing and residential education, speak at a news conference Tuesday.
  • Ana Hernandez, Dean of USF Housing & Residential Education, talks about some of the safety measures used to keep students in resident halls safe.

Police at the University of South Florida continue investigating a pair of sexual attacks reported in residence halls on the Tampa campus. And while authorities say the incidents are apparently unrelated, they're also encouraging students to be cautious, but not afraid.

University police have yet to file charges in this past Sunday morning's incident in Epsilon Hall, where a woman alleges she was attacked by a man she knows.

They also continue seeking an unknown suspect who reportedly attacked a student in Kappa Hall on Sept. 19. The woman did not know her attacker, who's described as a white male, 18 to 22 years old, about 6 feet tall and 180 pounds with a muscular build and short black or shaggy brown hair.

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Student Protests
5:26 pm
Mon October 8, 2012

SDS Protests War in Afghanistan at USF Campus

Sunday was the 11th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.  Some USF students are using the anniversary to demonstrate against the war.  

The war in Afghanistan has become the longest war in U.S. history.  Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society are saying it's time to bring the troops home.

Only about eight people showed up to demonstrate on the Tampa Campus of USF.  In fact, there were more signs than protesters.  Group leader Matt Hastings says he knows there are limits to what such a protest may accomplish.

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University Beat
12:26 pm
Thu September 27, 2012

USF Ranked 8th Best College for Employees

Credit University of South Florida

Despite a hiring freeze and no pay raises for a number of years, an online jobs website has named the University of South Florida's Tampa campus as the eighth best college in the nation to work for.

Forbes reports that the site, Glassdoor, polled employees at 50 of the country's largest universities to find out how satisfied they were with the schools they work for.

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On This Date in History
8:54 am
Wed September 26, 2012

University of South Florida's First Student

Credit University of South Florida

It was September 26, 1960, when 1,997 freshmen showed up for the very first classes at the University of South Florida.

Among them was Barbara Campbell -- student ID number 00001 -- USF's very first student!

Campbell earned a degree in education in 1963 and spent the next 30 years teaching in Hillsborough County schools.  She retired in 2005.
 

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Education
4:29 pm
Mon September 24, 2012

USF Board of Trustees Approves Unique Partnership

The University of South Florida Board of Trustees voted unanimously today in favor of the new partnership between USF and Lakeland Regional Medical Center.

The unique affiliation between the University of South Florida and Lakeland Regional Medical Center creates a non-profit corporation-- USF Health System Inc.

Lakeland Regional is one of Florida's busiest hospitals and it would be a major teaching hospital for USF.

Trustee member Steve Mitchell says this is a great partnership.

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