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EBONE AIKENS
Nearly 5,000 To Receive Degrees From University Of South Florida
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TOKYO
This week’s Spotlight feature, Tokyo, hopes to turn heads wherever she goes, and is confident her energy and desire will ride her to success. This young lady manages to keep herself prepared at all times for that next opportu- nity, and has dedicated her life to reach the goal of com- plete success. Congratulations to Tokyo as this week’s Spotlight feature.
With the love and support family and friends, Ebone’ Aikens will be grad- uating from University of South Florida on Satur- day, December 9, 2017, earn- ing a Bachelor of Science
degree.
Ebone is also an entre-
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Nearly 5,000 University of South Florida System stu- dents will be awarded degrees during fall commencement ceremonies Dec. 8-11. USF System President Judy Gen- shaft will preside over seven ceremonies, marking the uni- versity’s 113th commencement convocation.
The USF Alumni Associa- tion’s Outstanding Graduate Award will be presented to a student at each USF System institution. The USF Tampa recipient is Alexis Drees, who will earn a Bachelor’s Degree in International Busi- ness, with a concentration in Finance and a minor in Chi- nese. Commencement cere- monies will be held at 9 a. m., 1:30p.m.and6p.m.atthe USF Sun Dome.
The USF St. Petersburg award winner is Jared Bolton, who is earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychol- ogy, with minors in Business and Entrepreneurship. Com- mencement ceremonies will be held Sunday, December 10,1and5p.m.attheMa- haffey Theater.
USF Sarasota-Manatee’s recipient is Jaime Hernan- dez Carranza, who is grad- uating with a Bachelor’s in Biology. The Commencement ceremony will be held on Monday, Dec. 11, 6:30 p m. at the Bradenton Area Conven- tion Center.
The ceremony on Friday, December 8th at the USF Sun Dome will include Bachelor’s degree recipients from the College of Arts and Science.
Andrew Hamilton,
president of New York Uni- versity, will receive an hon- orary doctorate of science during the 9 a. m. ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 9.
Patricia Flatley-Bren- nan, director of the National Library of Medicine, will re- ceive an honorary doctorate of Engineering and Nursing during the 6 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 9.
The total number of de- grees to be presented are 4,715, with 4,028 issued on the Tampa campus. The youngest graduate is 19 years old and the oldest is 71 years old.
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Just Say NO! Facebook Has New App For Kids Under 13
Facebook now has a messaging app for kids, its first product aimed at young children, putting the social network at the heart of the debate about how and when children should start their online lives.
The app, called Messenger Kids, allows users under the age of 13 to send texts, videos and pho- tos; they can draw on the pictures they send and add stickers.
The app, which launches Monday in the United States, gives the company access to a new market whose age prohibits them from using the firm's main social network. Unlike with its full so- cial network, the data collection will be limited, Facebook said, and children will need their par- ents' permission to use it.
Messenger Kids was designed after consulta- tion with hundreds of parents and several chil- dren's advocates, such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the social net- work said.
The company took many cues from these con- versations, said Antigone Davis, Facebook's head of global safety. Parental permission is re- quired to sign up for the app, she said. If two chil- dren want to be friends with each other, each will have to get parental approval for contact. “It's just like setting up a play date,” Davis said.
The Women Of #MeToo Movement Are Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year
Time magazine has named “the silence breakers” behind the sexual harassment and assault by powerful men movement its person of the year for 2017, referring to those women, and the global conversation they have started.
The magazine’s editor in chief, Ed- ward Felsenthal, said in an interview on the “Today” show on Wednesday that the #MeToo movement represented the “fastest-moving social change we’ve seen in decades, and it began with individual acts of courage by women and some men too.”
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