For the first time, teacher evaluations will be conducted entirely online this semester, using an application called Blue by eXplorance.

Wendy Nembhard, an associate professor of epidemiology and chair of the committee that investigated the benefits of switching to an online system, sent students the initial email about the new evaluation system on March 28. She said the switch from pencil and paper to online evaluations has been in the works for awhile.

Emily Turner, a sophomore accounting and economics dual major, is not a stranger to cancer. Her grandfather just passed away from cancer in November 2012, her grandmother died of cancer in 2010 and her aunt is a breast cancer survivor.

This is why Turner is so passionate about her Relay for Life team, the Bulls Business Community. As the advertising chair on the Business Living Learning Community’s community service committee, Turner and her team have raised $2,014.35 so far, putting the team in fourth place among all 87 USF Relay for Life teams. The team’s total fundraising goal is $10,000.

Student activists across campus began protesting April 8 and will until April 12 in an “Empty Holster” demonstration, lobbying for the right of those with concealed weapons permits to carry their weapons on campus, or “concealed-carry.”

Students involved in an “empty holster” protest typically wear an empty gun holster on their person to symbolize a weapon they would otherwise not have to defend themselves. They are also invited to hand out fliers and literature to interested students and speak with them about the issue.

Student protester Eric Blake stood next to the movement’s display table at the April 10 Bull Market, along with numerous other supporters, sporting an empty firearm holster on his waist.

Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), spoke to students April 3 in the Marshall Student Center Oval Theater about his advocacy works and the current state of animal rights.

Pacelle, a Yale alumnus, took office in 2004 and has been heavily involved in state legislature, extending hundreds of protective laws to animals. He is also HSUS’s first vegan president.

The Magnolia Fitness Center opened on March 1, but Campus Recreation began advertising the new facility during the week after spring break.

Directly behind the Magnolia Pool in the MAH building, the small fitness center contains six cardiovascular machines and four weight machines, along with a small selection of free weights.

The deadline is here for USF’s first poetry contest, the 2013 Florida Poetry Competition, with entries due today, March 4. This deadline is an extension of the original Feb. 15 deadline.

The competition is organized as a celebration of National Poetry Month at USF, which will bring guest poets and lectures throughout April. A complete list of guest poets can be found here.

Complete with a red carpet and award ceremony, USF’s sixth annual Campus MovieFest (CMF) finale showcased the top 16 student-made films on Feb. 26 in the Marshall Student Center Oval Theater.

The finale exhibited the finest of USF’s film, editing and acting talent, with student takes on seemingly all film genres, from horror to romance and comedy to animation.

Below are this year’s winners, along with winners of the Audience Choice Award (film with most audience attendance) and Silver Tripod Awards.

Complete with a red carpet and award ceremony, USF’s sixth annual Campus MovieFest (CMF) finale showcased the top 16 student-made films on Feb. 26 in the Marshall Student Center Oval Theater.

The finale exhibited the finest of USF’s film, editing and acting talent, with student takes on seemingly all film genres, from horror to romance and comedy to animation.

Below are this year’s winners, along with winners of the Audience Choice Award (film with most audience attendance) and Silver Tripod Awards.

Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and professor at Rutgers University, revealed why and how men and women think differently in “She Thinks, He Thinks: Biology of Mind” in the Marshall Student Center Oval Theater on Feb. 21. The lecture was part of the Frontier Forum Lecture Series, which started in 2010 by the USF College of Arts and Sciences.

The dating site Match.com asked Fisher to help create a new website, Chemistry.com, which matches its users based on how they identify with one of four personality types. In creating the website, Fisher made a questionnaire to see how people are drawn toward each type. The four types are: estrogen (the negotiator), testosterone (the director), serotonin (the builder) and dopamine (the explorer).

USF students gathered at the Marshall Student Center on Feb. 20 to perform another “Harlem Shake,” the latest YouTube video craze.

The “Harlem Shake” begins with one person dancing among people going about their normal lives to the beat of the 2012 song “Harlem Shake” by Baaur.

When the song’s beat changes, the scene cuts to a multitude of people dressed in a wide range of outfits and costumes dancing in whatever style they please around the original dancer.  These videos are usually about 30 seconds long.

The Facebook event page, “Harlem Shake USF V2!,” listed 550 people as attending out of more than 9,000 people invited. About 200 people participated in the video at 12 p.m., including Rocky the Bull.