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Opening the season with a 3-2 record was not the way the University of Tampa women's basketball team wanted to start out. Despite a tough overtime loss to Georgia State and College in the second game, the Spartans have not played like the team that was picked to finish second in the Sunshine State Conference before the start of the season.
The stats don't lie. The Spartans are dominating their opponents early in the season. Strong shooting and solid defense led the University of Tampa men's basketball team to five victories as most of the campus went home for Thanksgiving break. As a team, the Spartans are making 43.
The University of Tampa set the Sunshine State Conference record for the highest attendance at a women's athletic event with an announced crowd of 1,145 vs. Florida Southern College. The combined efforts of the Spartan Fan Club, Resident Assistants and Sports Marketing Department drew students, parents and faculty to this game.
On a fateful night in Alabama, the Spartans varsity baseball team mobbed the field after winning the fourth national baseball championship in school history. Six months later, the celebration lingers in the hearts and minds of the team. As the team inches closer to the start of the season, it is now back to work, and head coach Joe Urso has his team on a one-track path.
When Tampa volleyball coach Chris Catanach took over the program in 1984, UT was a fairly unknown school when it came to volleyball. In his 23 years with the team, Catanach has transformed the University of Tampa into one of the top Division II volleyball programs in the country.
I admire the P.E.A.C.E. office for their efforts at educating the UT student body about homelessness. I am dismayed, but not surprised, that many students didn't take it seriously. Even those who did, how can you really know what a homeless person feels when there is the choice of food and shelter but a short walk away? I'd like to take the discussion a step further.
While preparing to come to the University of Oxford, I'll admit, I was less than thrilled. But my fantastic time here has provided me with a valuable life lesson, namely that preconceived notions are not always accurate. You see, I thought that Oxford would be nothing but a bunch of boring intellectuals, always running off to study some banal political issue at the library that they never stop yapping about afterwards, completely incapable of having that good time that we at UT are famous for.
Dear Editor, As members of the Greek community, we find last week's editorial to be an embarrassing misrepresentation of fraternities on the UT campus. Certain statements lead readers to believe that Greeks are looked down upon here, such as "Incidents like this do nothing for students who do not consider Greeks a valuable part of UT.
When did we become so reliant on cellphones? I remember, not too long ago, when cellphones were new and were the size of a laptop computer, and a few people left these bulky devices under their carseats to use in emergencies. Now, cellphones become smaller and more advanced everyday, and people seem to be more and more attached to them.
The status of the Rathskellar is a contentious issue here at the University of Tampa. The establishment, found under Plant Hall, has a long and distinguished history as a social spot on campus. Recent times have seen some renewed interest in the Rat, as the Empire State Grill offers new food options there.
There are some things in the world that are so totally useless that we have to wonder exactly why we put up with them - or we would, if we ever thought about them. For example, the tiny plastic things on the ends of shoelaces, or the Green Party presidential candidate.
