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RSS FeedWho is Lana Del Rey? It’s a question I found myself asking in a media law class last week after my professor oh-so coolly dropped her name. Remembering an essay in Esquire magazine comparing her to Florence Welch, I figured it was time to investigate. I guess I do get paid to know this stuff.
Breast cancer is expected to cause 39,510 deaths in the U.S. in 2012, with over 200,000 new cases of breast cancer estimated for the year. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, which has invested nearly $2 billion in breast cancer research, awareness, education and health services since its start in 1982, details these specifics
What’s in a name? That which we call a Newt by any other name would smell as amphibian. After coming ashore to cobble together a surprising victory in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich lost both the Florida and Nevada primary elections. Gingrich knows how to slink away when he wants to—just ask his first wife, Jackie
Plans are underway to install additional outdoor lighting to Harborwalk by the end of August 2012 after concerns over nighttime campus safety were addressed. One significantly darker corner of campus is the city-owned Poynter Park between the library and Harbor Hall. While USFSP property along the harbor is lit at night, the park is not,
The USF Sailing Team’s spring season is set to kick off the second week in February. The team qualified for the national competitions this past fall, winning fourth place in Chicago and second place in San Francisco. This season the national sailing competitions will be held in Texas. But to get there, the team has
One by one, they whoosh by. As students scurry to class each day or set up camp in a library study room, small airplanes flying overhead are a familiar sight to the USFSP community. Just across the way on First Street SE at Albert Whitted Airport, pilot and lead mechanic Nathan Van Coops can be
The Saturday Morning Market has brought visitors statewide for 10 years now. Situated in the parking lot of Al Lang Field in Downtown St. Petersburg, the market provides live music as well as fresh produce, potted plants, fresh meats and cheeses, local art, jewelry, clothing and baked goods. There is also a variety of multicultural
About 50 alumni joined the chancellor, administrators and deans to celebrate the university during the first ever USFSP Alumni Society gathering on Feb. 2. The organization is the first of its kind among the USF regional campuses—an alumni group focused on the branch and not the system. It is within the “umbrella” of the USF
Would anyone think twice if this newspaper published an LGBT-friendly editorial on this page? Would hundreds of people raise their pitchforks and torches, alert the mainstream media and call for an immediate apology? How about if we published an anti-LGBT article? That’s the situation the student newspaper at Shawano Community High School is facing after
I discovered Pinterest a few weeks ago. It’s a website, kind of like tumblr, but with more pretty pictures per capita and without all the words muddying up my feed. I’ve got a bunch of virtual boards, and I virtually pin pictures to those boards of things that catch my eye. The idea is to
