8:02 a.m.
The traffic off Fowler Avenue already is congested. But I enter the USF campus and slip into a parking spot easily. I feel a little guilty because this will not be possible in about two hours.
The campus is quiet. I can hear a weed trimmer in the distance as I walk past the library. The sun is just visible over the College of Arts and Sciences, and the grass is a little wet. A few students are walking to and from the library, lazily shuffling their flip-flops. Three office workers are walking to the College of Arts and Sciences, carrying Starbucks coffee and chatting about a birthday party they attended last night.?
Rhaissa Rodriquez, 22, is sitting outside the Arts and Sciences building, text-messaging a friend while waiting for her 9 a.m. Latin class.
Latin?
“I need a language class,” Rodriguez said. “I wanted to do Spanish, but when my adviser heard I wanted to go to law school, he said I should take Latin.”

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