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Sami Al-Arian to go on trial on contempt charges listen
01/16/09 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Sami Al-Arian, civil liberties, Race, racism, immigration, ICE, Muslims, USF, human rights, terrorism
A federal judge in Virginia ruled today that Sami Al-Arian should stand trial in March for criminal contempt.
The ruling was a blow to the former USF professor, who was released on bail by Judge Leonie Brinkema back in September after being incarcerated in numerous prisons and jails since his arrest in February 2003 on federal terrorism charges.
Mel Underbakke is with the group Friends of Human Rights. She says she was one of nearly two dozen supporters of Al-Arian from Tampa in the ...
Be the first to commentStudent dining choices at USF questioned
12/22/08 Sadia AhmedWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, Healthy food choice, Organic
University of South Florida offers education to more than 40,000 students on its Tampa campus. As a result, USF student dining carries great importance for such a large body of students. Some say the school fails to meet its student and staff needs when it comes to the number of food vendors and healthy food choices. The Tampa campus offers only a handful of vendors such as Burger King, Beef O'Brady's, Chick-Fil-A in the fast food category, and Subway and Einstein bagel in the relatively heal...
Be the first to commentUSF Trustees agree to contract with faculty and ponder tuition hike listen
12/11/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, UFF, Ray Sansom, labor
This morning the University of South Florida Board Of Trustees approved a new contract with its faculty union for the current academic year. The contract was ratified by the union on Wednesday.
Sherman Dorn is an associate professor of education and the president of USF’s chapter of United Faculty of Florida, or UFF. He said 98 percent of employees who voted were in favor of the contract; all members of the bargaining unit were e...
1 commentsLGBT Scholarship Fundraiser held at USF listen
12/09/08 Lisa MarzilliWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
As the cost of college education continues to soar, lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgendered youth are particularly vulnerable. As a result, more organizations are establishing scholarship programs aimed specifically at helping LGBT students.
One of those groups is the University of South Florida Alumni Association’s LGBT Society. It held its first fundraising event at USF’s Marshall Center on Friday night (Dec. 5th).
Dr. Karen Berkman is director of the USF Center for Autism and Relat...
1 commentsGreen building at the USF St. Petersburg Campus listen
12/09/08 Colleen Krepstekies and Andrea LypkaWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: LEED, St. Petersburg, USF
The USF green building project began in 2002 and it will open in fall 2009. The new facility will be two colleges, the arts & sciences and the college of marine science with eight research labs.
The construction company, Creative Contractors, hosted a tour of its building project at the USF St. Pete Campus on Dec. 9. The hosts provided an overview of USF’s first LEED certified building. LEED is Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a program that was started by the U.S. ...
Be the first to commentDiscussion on expectations of the Obama presidency listen
12/04/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Politics, USF, Barack Obama
How will President-elect Barack Obama tackle the critical issues facing America? The University of South Florida’s Department of Africana Studies and Institute on Black Life attempted to answer that question today in a roundtable discussion called “A Change Has Come.”
Rhetoric doctoral student Kendra Bryant read her work, “We Be Theorizing,” that catalogs accomplishments of people ...
Be the first to commentWorld AIDS Day 20th anniversary recognized at USF listen
12/01/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: HIV, AIDS, USF, healthcare, medical research
For the past 20 years, the World Health Organization has designated Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day. It was observed in several locations around the Tampa Bay area today, including at the University of South Florida’s Tampa campus where researchers are studying a microbicide that could be used to battle HIV infection.
Patricia Emmanuel is professor of Pediatrics at USF. Along with investigat...
Be the first to commentA discussion of abortion and life
11/15/08 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Jennifer Baumgardner, abortion rights, pro-choice, USF
Jennifer Baumgardner, Author, Activist. In Abortion & Life, Jennifer Baumgardner reveals how the most controversial and stigmatized Supreme Court decision of our time cuts across eras, classes and race.
In this bold new work, Baumgardner explores some of the thorniest issues around terminating a pregnancy, including the ones that the pro-choice establishment has been the least sensitive or effective in confronting.
Jennifer will speak at USF Tampa on Monday, Nov. 17 at 3 p.m. in th...
Be the first to commentFlorida faces critical nursing shortage listen
10/27/08 Lisa MarzilliWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, nursing, nursing shortage
The United States is in the midst of a nursing shortage that is only expected to intensify as baby boomers age and the demand for health care grows. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), the shortage in the U.S. could reach as high as a half million by 2025.
Florida is especially hard hit with a current shortfall of 13,000, according to the state-funded Florida Center for Nursing. Two contributing factors have created a kind of Catch 22. On one hand, enroll...
Be the first to commentDiscussion on role of women in politics listen
10/03/08 Arielle StevensonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Arthenia Joyner, Mary Anne Stiles, Pam Iorio, Sandra Murman, Women in Leadership and Philanthropy, USF
Today in Tampa, USF held its third annual Women in Leadership and Philanthropy Conference. The forum on the role of women in politics featured four prominent women experienced in the field of politics: Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio, Florida Sen. Arthenia Joyner, attorney Mary Anne Stiles and former state House representative Sandra Murman.
The four used brutal honesty in all their answers and didn’t sugar coat any of the realities of being a woman in the political area. Attorney and lobbyist Mar...
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