Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture

Omar Tyree, Author & 2001 NAACP Image Award Recipient

Special Guests
Reverend Louis Murphy
Mt. Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church Choir

Wednesday, Jan 30 @ 7pm
USFSP Campus Activities Center Second Street & Sixth Ave. So.

Omar Tyree'e books and book reviews are available at Powell's.

Why do 7 rapes near USF Tampa make page one and 10 homicides near USF St. Pete go unreported?

"a string of attacks on seven women in a blighted neighborhood near the University of South Florida" has generated a lot of media attention. The story of the alleged rapist is told on page one of the Local & State section in today's St. Petersburg Times.

Since the killing of Louis Marcel Reedy, the owner of the Hair Experts Beauty Salon on 4th Street South (about a block from the USFSP College of Business) in 2005, more than a dozen violent crimes have occurred within a short walk of the campus. Most recently a young mother was murdered in a home invasion that occurred within 10 blocks of USF.

10/17/07- The school just released campus security report.

USF PROTESTERS WANT TO BEEF UP CAMPUS POLICE

10/19/07- Times Columnist Sue Carlton

Updated on 12/8/07 Many recent homicides occurred in the area just west of USF St. Pete.