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The largest Commencement ceremony in University of Tampa history takes center stage at the St. Pete Times Forum on Saturday, May 6, at 10 a.m. For the first time, more than 800 new graduates are expected to walk for their diplomas. The figures include more than 700 recipients of undergraduate degrees and more than 100 graduate degree recipients.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement Web site provides long and detailed definitions of the terms "sexual offender" and "sexual predator". The basic definitions are as follows. Sexual Offenders The Florida Department of Law Enforcement Web site defines a sexual offender as a person who has been convicted of committing or attempting to commit any of the following violations of statutes:
04/26/2006 (U-WIRE) DURHAM, N.C. - An attorney defending Duke University sophomore lacrosse player Reade Seligmann against sexual assault charges filed a discovery motion Monday, asking prosecutors in the case to release the accuser's medical, criminal and educational records.
(U-WIRE) DAVENPORT, Iowa - It's amazing what you can find on the Internet. In under five minutes, I was able to find three sex offenders within a two-block radius of St. Ambrose University. Two of them seem mostly interested in children under 13, so the young ladies on campus probably don't need to be too concerned.
03/21/2006 (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES - Since a University of Southern California student was arrested Feb. 19 in Laguna Beach, Calif., on suspicion of attempted lewd acts with a minor, more light has been shed on the method used to arrest him. Benjamin Paul McAlister, a 21-year-old fourth-year architecture student, was caught in a sting operation by Perverted-Justice.
03/22/2006 (U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. - As if the saga of Michigan's online sex-offender registry was not already convoluted enough, a column in the Detroit Free Press last week revealed yet another glaring injustice arising from the registry's overzealous rendering of "sex offenders.
The BG News (Bowling Green State U.) 04/07/2006 (U-WIRE) BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - Close to 200 registered sex offenders live in the Bowling Green State University area, but Klaas Kids Foundation estimates that only 90 percent of offenders actually register in Ohio.
(U-WIRE) PULLMAN, Wash. - Safety is a question we all live with. It's a condition we often take for granted and one which we often don't appreciate until it is gone. It's a condition the university must provide to students living on campus and one that has been jeopardized by carelessness and oversight.
By Katie Backman Daily Nebraskan (U. Nebraska) 04/20/2006 (U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska's sex offender registry list is supposed to help law enforcement and the public know when and where sex offenders live in their areas. But some Nebraska sex offenders claim homes at Interstate rest stops and nonexistent locations, and other legitimate addresses that may not house sex offenders anymore -- if they ever did.
Usually Quilt is comprised of work by students in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, artwork and photography. Students submit their work at the end of the fall semester and beginning of spring semester, and different student committees choose the pieces that are published.
It seems to be the general tradition that when a member of The Minaret's editorial staff graduates from the university, they must write a "farewell column." In this column they typically write out a lengthy letter of thanks to their parents, friends, siblings, aunts, uncles, teachers, mentors, coaches, priests, dogs, cats, hamsters and others who somehow acted as a driving force in getting them through college.
An excited neighborhood huddles around the announce-ment of its newest addition. The new arrival's wallet-size face looks up at his new neighbors, who carefully read his name, birthday, his height and his weight. The block is abuzz, and the whole community, like new parents, will sleep a bit lighter simply because he is there.
Twenty Somethings: Stripped, an Evening of Oral Performances, which took place Wednesday in Reeves Theater, was a success for the Speech 205 class. The class performed speeches on different topics throughout the night.
