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RSS FeedUSF can now add Quidditch to its very active sports community. The sport, popularized by J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” novels, spawned an International Quidditch Association spanning 800 registered teams across the world. Zach Cornett and Lindsay Fussell founded USF Quidditch. “Lindsay heard about it from down at Ringling,” Cornett said. “They helped her start it.
“There’s a great echo in the stadium that makes everything seem louder,” Burt said. “It creates a good atmosphere.” That’s the general positive consensus among many of the players on FCTB. They are ready for a successful second year since the Rowdies name was revived last year after 10 years without professional soccer in Tampa
After 23 years, Dr. George Michael Killenberg, professor and founding director of the Department of Journalism and Media studies, retires. Dr. Killenberg, who has taught thousands of students since he joined the USF St. Petersburg campus in 1988, grew up spending time with his father who edited for a daily newspaper in his hometown. Before
The Nelson Poynter Memorial Library has three decades of Transformers toys on display until May 19. The display, “Transcending the Toy Box: A Visual History of the Transformers,” has over 100 toys in display cases, as well as labels for each toy and a detailed timeline about the history of the toys since 1980. Anthony
Student Government passed the 2011-2012 Activities and Services fee budget on April 6. SG’s budget decreased about $4,000 between the current year and next year, after increasing almost $30,000 from the 2009-2010 school year. In 2009-2010, paid SG members made a combined $30,532. That number increased to $56,250 for the 2010-2011 year. Next year’s budget
I can’t believe that the school year is almost over, it seems like it was yesterday that The Crow’s Nest printed its first issue. Here we are, almost eight months later, with a completely different paper than what we started out with in August. As you have seen throughout the year, The Crow’s Nest took
USF St. Petersburg student Reuben Pressman won Creative Loafing and Creative Tampa Bay’s 10/100/1000 contest for his project “Swings.” “We come together saying ‘how could we highlight some of those little things that get invented by the visionaries here in this market and give them a little more opportunity to get more exposure and get
The summer movie season is shaping to be an exciting one featuring a green superhero, a thunder god, a returning World War II hero, a continuing swashbuckling franchise, a conclusion to an epic saga to an Old West tale with a sci-fi twist, and two “Hangover” movies. May could shape to be the best month
By now, everyone has heard of Mighty Mongo. You haven’t? You’re about to. On May 5, now known as “Cinco de Mongo,” Mighty Mongo will release their very first album, “Let’s Make Serious Life Decisions.” The album is a collection of their original “runk” music, a combination of reggae and punk. “It totally represents what
Robbie Crowley Campus & Beyond Editor The semester is wrapping up at USFSP, and bitter-sweetly, so must the cackles from this hen in The Crow’s Nest. This is my hen song. While most students are cramming to do a semester’s worth of work in two weeks, The Cackling Hen must formulate a proper farewell in
