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Women's conference convenes at USF listen

02/08/08 Arielle Stevenson
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Tags: USF, Florida Consortium for Women's Studies

With Women’s history month being just a few weeks away, the University of South Florida hosted day one of the third annual Florida Consortium for Women’s studies conference in Tampa today. This year’s theme is femininity and masculinity in the global context.

Kim Vaz in the chair of the department of women’s studies at USF, she spoke with WMNF about the Florida Consortium for Women’s Studies and discussed some of the challenges facing professors of women’s studies today.

LaMonda Hort...

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USF, police union agree on new contract listen

01/24/08 Seán Kinane
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After months of negotiations, the University of South Florida reached an agreement Tuesday with the Police Benevolent Association on a contract for the University Police Department. Yesterday, the police ratified the contract by a vote of 24-4.

The University Police had suggested that they were understaffed, in part because their low salary scale; officials said they could not compete with nearby police departments, leading to a high turnover of officers.

Sandy Lovins is associate vice ...

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USF considers budget cuts, layoffs listen

01/18/08 Mitch E. Perry
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The University of South Florida will cut nearly $26-million from its budget this fiscal year, and school officials say they expect more cuts in the next fiscal year.

USF President Judy Genshaft made the comments in a webcast last night. Genshaft says she is implementing immediate measures to cope with the budget crises state and nationwide.

Several state universities have already put caps on incoming students to deal with their funding woes.

St. Petersburg House Democrat Bill Heller ...

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Pinochet war crimes and Universal Jurisdiction

09/13/06 Seán Kinane
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Tags: universal jurisdiction, Spain, Pinochet, Chile, USF, torture

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, experts from three continents gathered at USF to discuss the crimes of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The two-day panel, called Human Rights, State Terrorism, and Universal Jurisdiction was sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean.

On September 11 1973, the democratically elected government of Chile, led by Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a military coup by General Augusto Pinochet. Juan Guzman, a Chilean...

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu at USF in Tampa

01/20/06 Seán Kinane

Tags: Desmond Tutu, Sami Al-Arian, apartheid, South Africa, Palestine, USF

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke last night at the USF SunDome on the topic of "No Future Without Forgiveness."

"There is no way in which we are going to win so-called 'wars against terror.' As long as there are conditions in the world which make people desperate."

Tutu won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize because of his work for racial justice in apartheid South Africa. He still struggles for peace.