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About Jared
Based in Tampa, Florida. This is Jared Sellick’s Work Portfolio. He is a writer with experience in graphic design. He is currently majoring in Political Science at the University of South Florida with a minor in Mass Communications from the Zimmerman School of Mass Communications.




MARIJUANA MAY HEIGHTEN PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCES
What happens when you mix psychedelics with cannabis? How do these psychoactive drugs interact with one another in the human body? These...

Students should not pay for application mistakes
A USF student was recently charged for on-campus housing despite never living in a dorm on campus this semester. Melissa Moreno, a...

Impeachment of UF SG president is justified
Michael Murphy, the student body president of UF, is currently facing impeachment because of alleged coordination with President Trump’s...

Supreme Court should protect DACA program, not rescind it
This past Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether to allow the Trump administration to take away protections for...

U.S. Education Secretary sets bad example
On Oct. 25 the U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was fined $100,000 by a federal judge for contempt of court because of the Department...

Vaping investigations are wrong path to reform
On Oct. 16, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced that Florida would begin investigating 22 different companies under suspicion...

Microplastic in Tampa highlight global crisis
Researchers found over four billion pieces of microplastic in the Tampa Bay in a July 2019 study from USF St. Pete and Eckerd College....

USF doing the right thing with student loans
In 2016, USF was found to have the lowest rate of defaulted loans among universities and colleges in Tampa Bay, according to a study from...

Florida leading in sustainability
The Tampa Electric Company (TECO) is set to begin production on two solar energy projects that are expected to finish sometime next year....

‘Medicare for All’ gives graduates financial freedom
On CNN Tuesday night, 12 of the 19 democratic presidential candidates convened in Westerville, Ohio for their fourth presidential debate...

LGBT workers deserve protection
The Supreme Court will be deciding in the coming months whether or not the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a law prohibiting employment...

DeSantis raising teacher pay is a repeat of past efforts
On Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) proposed raising the starting pay for teachers in Florida nearly $10,000 in his proposed 2020 budget....

Tampa police take steps toward transparency
Tampa will be receiving $1.2 million from the U.S. Department of Justice in order to expand the city’s program to outfit police officers...

The fight for a $15 minimum wage
Floridians who work for a job that pays the state minimum wage currently have to live off of $8.46 an hour. Luckily, that might change,...

Fighting the stigma with affordability in mental health care
Dealing with mental illness can often be a battle fought on two fronts. Those suffering still have to deal with all the problems...