Articles by: Crow's Nest Staff

Remember the days before Facebook

April 29, 2013 4:39 pm0 comments

My best friend from high school had a baby last month. I didn’t even know that she was pregnant. Out of touch? No. I’m not on Facebook. A social media outlet that I’ve avoided like the plague has wormed its way into my day-to-day against my best efforts. Friends are [...]

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Briefs

April 22, 2013 12:41 pm0 comments
Briefs

The University of South Florida has added home-and-home football series against Wisconsin and Maryland for upcoming seasons, Director of Athletics Doug Woolard announced on Friday. USF will visit Wisconsin on Sept. 27, 2014 with the Badgers coming to Tampa on Sept. 16, 2017. The Bulls will also host Maryland on [...]

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After deciding election, SG Supreme Court justices face impeachment

April 15, 2013 3:16 pm0 comments

Three Student Government Supreme Court justices are in danger of being impeached for “willful disregard of statutes,” after issuing a ruling that disqualified Mark Lombardi-Nelson from the presidential race. Sen. Jozef Gherman drafted a memo to impeach Russell Heller, Graham Reybitz and Kendel Mott. The memo accuses the justices of [...]

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Briefs

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Briefs

“I just felt like this was the best opportunity for me. It’s an opportunity that I’ve always wanted.” Michigan guard Trey Burke on leaving the Wolverines to enter the NBA draft. The decision comes after Burke was voted The Associated Press national player of the year and lead his Michigan [...]

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Make your degree valuable and avoid debt

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Outside of the welcoming arms of orientation leaders and the four-year bubble that follows, most of the country is freaking out about higher education. The degree you will be handed as you walk across the stage will be worth less than the one your mom and dad earned 30 years [...]

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The Margin: Survival Guide for the final weeks of class

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The end of the semester hangs heavy in the air, but it doesn’t have to spell doom. Here is a healthy procrastinator’s guide to getting through the last couple weeks of class, relatively unscathed.   Do: -Eat a lot of mint, as it stimulates the mind. Even better, it could [...]

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There’s no such thing as an ‘easy’ class

April 12, 2013 2:18 am0 comments

There’s no such thing as an easy A. You may think that asking around on Facebook groups, rummaging through sites like ratemyprofessor.com or searching course books for breezy leisure study classes about underwater basket weaving might be good for your transcripts. And you know what? You’re right. An easy course [...]

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Senior honors student brings famous muses to life

April 10, 2013 1:08 am0 comments

When senior Karleigh Chase wrote her honors thesis, she did something few environmental science and policy majors do. She wrote a play. Chase performed a portion of her play, “Memoirs of a Painted Woman,” on April 4 at Studio@620 in downtown. In her one-woman show, she portrayed the women of [...]

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2013-2014 SG ELECTION BREAKDOWN

April 8, 2013 3:20 pm0 comments

In a Student Government presidential election so controversial that it received coverage from the Tampa Bay Times, trying to keep up with who’s in and who’s out has been nearly impossible. But where the Times story focuses primarily on a candidate’s absence of undergarments, The Crow’s Nest presents the need-to-know [...]

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The Margin: Movie title rewrites

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Some movie titles are just so blatantly obvious and without thought that they can be disheartening to the frequent moviegoer. Is it even worth your time and money when they’re slapping any old name on the thing? Maybe we want something that inspires some thought, or is at least colorfully [...]

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