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USF students demand no more tuition hikes, they sit in for the 4th Friday in a row listen
04/12/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, tuition, budget cuts, education, Indiana University, strike, Judy Genshaft, SDS
Some USF students have been staging sit-ins at the University of South Florida in Tampa for four Fridays in a row. Even though the group today was small, they were still demanding that the USF president start working with them to meet their list of demands.
The group piles into the Patel Center lobby every Friday at lunchtime. They stay until the building is about to close and the last employees are going home. But Students like Matthew Hastings most want to talk to is president Judy Ge...
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04/05/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, SDS, students, tuition
Friday on the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida several students held what they’re calling a weekly occupation of the Patel Center.
That building houses the offices of university president Judy Genshaft and other administrators.
We spoke live on the phone by Danielle Leppo with Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society.
Be the first to commentUSF students ask school to take steps to end rape culture listen
11/30/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: rape culture, USF, Students for a Democratic Society, rape, women's rights, SDS, SDS at USF
Two rapes were reported on the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida last month and still have not been solved. A group of students is asking the school to incorporate a program that would rein in what they call rape culture.
The students rallied for the first time yesterday afternoon in front of the busy Marshall Student Services Center. As people passed, members of Students for a Democratic Society including President Dani Leppo, gathered petition si...
Be the first to commentTampa Bay area college students march for peace on anniversary of invasion of Afghanistan listen
10/08/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: 9/11, terrorism, peace, USF, Students for a Democratic Society, Afghanistan, SDS
The war in Afghanistan is now in its twelfth year and some students in the Tampa Bay area have had enough. Ten members of Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, rallied at USF Tampa today to speak out against the continued occupation of Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern countries. Matthew Hastings said the military spending can be better used to fund public education.
Be the first to comment“Well, if we’re spending trillions of dollars to maintain a military that is fighting overseas, we’re not going t...
USF students stand in solidarity with the Trayvon Martin family and rally against racism listen
04/05/12 Liz McKibbonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Trayvon Martin, USF, Muslim-Americans, SDS
Public outcry continues as a result of the shooting of Trayvon Martin earlier this year. Yesterday, a group of USF students rallied together in solidarity with the family. They focused on broader issues of race, still prevalent in American society.
Twelve students gathered on the USF Martin Luther King Plaza, on the 44th anniversary of his assassination. The students held signs reading, “Just...
Be the first to commentUSF students protest budget cuts on both sides of the Bay listen
03/01/12 Janelle Irwin & Samuel JohnsonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, USF St. Petersburg, education, education funding, education cuts, activism, protests, JD Alexander, Occupy Movement, Occupy Tampa, SDS
Occupy Education, an off-shoot of the Occupy Movement, called for a national day of action today demanding legislation that would increase educational spending instead of cutting budgets. At the University of California, Santa Cruz, student protesters shut down most of the campus. Students at USF campuses in Tampa and St. Pete held events today in solidarity with that effort. Students at both campu...
Be the first to commentThe Republican Presidential candidates meet opposition at USF debate listen
01/24/12 Atecia RobinsonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: GOP, USF Tampa, Students for a Democratic Society, Occupy Tampa, PUSH, Student Labor Action Project, Awake Pinellas, Fight Back Florida, Barack Obama, protests, SDS, Florida primary election, 2012 Election
The Republican Presidential debate at the University of South Florida was crucial for those four candidates, but many groups oppose their agenda. Hundreds flooded the campus to fight back against the positions of candidates on immigration, LGBT issues and tuition hikes.
Outside USF’s administration building more than 200 people held up signs. Some shouted speeches through bullhorns before marching to the site of the debate. The groups were greeted and riled up by Dus...
Be the first to commentSDS formally demands tuition freeze from USF administration listen
11/19/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday
Tags: USF, tuition hike, tuition increase, SDS, Occupy USF
Members of the University of South Florida administration say they were relieved to see that only five people from Students for a Democratic Society attended a meeting in the Marshall Center this morning. SDS at USF said they want a more diplomatic approach in their ongoing demands for a tuition freeze.
Last week about fifty members of [Occupy USF](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occ...
Be the first to commentOccupy USF organizers demand tuition freeze listen
11/10/11 Andrea LypkaWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy USF, Tampa, USF, Occupy Tampa, SDS
University of South Florida students are continuing to protest against 15 percent tuition hikes. A crowd of fifty Occupy USF protesters marched across campus to demand a tuition freeze on November 9. Students gathered in front of Cooper Hall and then marched to Patel Center to meet with university officials and administration. Some demonstrators demanded the resignation of USF President Judy Genshaft. Students chanted “Judy got paid off, we got ripped off,” “Hey, ho, tuition hikes have got to...
Be the first to commentUSF forms its own Occupy group. Its focus? Tuition listen
11/03/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Tampa, Occupy USF, USF, Judy Genshaft, SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, tuition increase, tuition hike
Occupy Tampa now has an ally at the area’s largest university. Occupy USF, which is partnering with the school’s newly-formed chapter of Students for a Democratic Society.
Dozens of USF students used the human microphone during a teach-in promoting the nascent Occupy USF movement. Dani Leppo, an SDS organizer, said there are a lot of parallels between college students and the general public as the job market remains stagnant.
She said a key driver for the movement is the 15 percent tuit...
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