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RSS FeedIn spring 2012 students will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with presidential campaigns by registering for The Road to the White House course, POS 3931, taught by Professor Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan. The class will offer more than traditional lessons from a textbook. “This is a course about the history and politics of presidential
Holocaust survivor George Lucius Salton lived through ten concentration camps, the deaths of his mother and father to the Nazis and the still unknown fate of his brother—whom he hasn’t heard from since the last time they saw each other in a concentration camp. On Nov. 1, Salton shared his experiences with the USFSP community.
An “anonymous benefactor” has rented a bus and will provide meals for USF students who want to attend the Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 9. The board, which governs the state university system, will vote on whether USF Polytechnic will remain within the USF system or be established as an independent institution. The
A zombie apocalypse has arrived on campus. On Monday, Nov. 7, humans and “zombies” will launch a battle in a game hosted by students. Freshman Scott Mange organized a group to gather and play for seven days to see who will survive. According to humansvszombies.org, the game “Humans vs. Zombies” began at Groucher College in
Earlier this week, I felt like a fantasy football analyst for the first time. A friend asked me a straightforward “this player vs. that player” question for the first time. And I dealt with the anxiety of possibly giving the wrong answer for the first time. It’s not that I doubt my skills—my 7-1 record
Instant news from social media and contextualized news from traditional media were discussed with a group of 16 African journalists who visited in conjunction with the Edward R. Murrow Program on Nov. 3. Monica Ancu and Paul Wang, professors in the Department of Journalism & Media Studies, presented at the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library to
Beyond the table piled high with baked delectables—peach cobbler, coffee cake, whole wheat scones and homemade pumpkin muffins with cream cheese—students were learning to connect the abstract causes from public policy to the concrete effects in the community. Students from Professor Dawn Cecil’s Gender and Crime course organized a bake sale and a clothing drive
Miami artist Xavier Cortada and Kalai Mathee of Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine spoke at the third Festival of the Genome event, “Sequentia: Art and Science Together,” at the Nelson Poynter Memorial library on Nov. 3. Mathee called the 100 trillion cells which make up the building blocks of the human the “magic of life.”
St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster talked about the trials of working with city council and the difficulty of municipal level government to a group of students as guest of Leader Speak Oct. 27 in Davis Hall. “We have to interface with everybody above us because we are the lowest of the low on the totem
