Archives for April 2012
From the news desk A Student Government bill that set aside $7,000 for the purchase and display of art on campus has been rejected by administration. Noreen Noonan, the regional vice chancellor for academic affairs, felt uncomfortable taking the money from the student legislature, said SG President Courtney Parish. The major provision of the arts
Harbordside Activities Board President Jamie Kennedy recently announced during a meeting the decision for next year’s HAB executive board. Junior Lauren Dakers will serve as president, with sophomore Solange Gorleku as vice president for the 2012-2013 year. “I have been in HAB three years now,” said Dakers, who is the organization’s current director of film.
Please forgive me. I’m a little high right now. I’ve gone six weeks without a fix—possibly the longest I’ve ever abstained—and this dose seems strong to my cleansed and purified body. I can feel the substance spoiling it, twisting and turning through my bloodstream, rushing to my head and the tips of my limbs. And
Workers put in place the glass windows for the front stairwell of the new student center toward the end of last week. The front page of the USF St. Petersburg website boasts the building is now 75 percent complete. It is scheduled to open in the fall, brining with it the dining services USFSP has
On April 6, a 12-ton FA-18 NAVY fighter jet holding tons of fuel crash landed into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach, Va. Forty units in the complex were destroyed in the crash and the massive fireball it caused. Five were hospitalized, none seriously hurt, and nobody died. Virginia Beach’s mayor called it a “good
On April 6, the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays squared off against the New York Yankees on Opening Day. (The first Major League game I remember that I attended was when the D-Rays played against the Seattle Mariners, back when Tampa Bay still wore purple. Plus I played on the D-Rays in Babe Ruth—they will always
Sitting in front of a mirror surrounded by her costume and jewelry, drag queen Beverly Baltimore applied her make up as she prepared for USF St. Petersburg’s third annual amateur drag show. The drag show was sponsored by the Gay Straight Alliance, along with co-sponsors the Black Student Association and the French Club. The show
USF St. Petersburg’s latest initiative in its effort to attain sustainability and reduce its ecological footprint was unveiled on March 21 when two electric vehicle charging stations were opened near the Tavern. The 240-watt stations charge cars such as the Chevy Volt much faster than standard outlets. USFSP’s stations are open to the public and
They are almost too beautiful to eat. They sit in neatly lined rows along a marble countertop—thick pink and blue swirls of vanilla frosting, some with ruby red raspberries atop, others with drizzles of chocolate. But one whiff of these creamy confections will have taste buds reconsidering not taking a bite. At St. Petersburg’s Sweet!,
When death looked Ryan Mitchell in the eye during his three-year jaunt across four of the world’s continents, he turned around and ran away. Mitchell was in Argentina participating in a field study through USF St. Petersburg’s department of archeology. He took a break from helping a researcher record prehistoric carvings and hiked up a
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