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RSS FeedFor as long as most college football fans in Florida can remember, it’s always been about The Big Three: the Florida Gators, the Miami Hurricanes and the Florida State Seminoles. Since 1997, though, South Florida Bulls fans have dreamed of turning The Big Three into The Big Four. USF’s football program hasn’t been around as
They’re die-hard. They drink hard. It’s impossible to miss them. They’re Ralph’s Mob, and The Tampa Bay Rowdies couldn’t ask for a better bunch of fans. On Wednesday, Sept. 19, the support group showed up to the team’s last home game of the regular season in full regalia and high spirits. Rowdies’ green and gold
With USF St. Petersburg approaching 4,000 students, a parking space can be hard to find. The parking garage has 1,156 spaces, with levels two through five designated for commuters with green permits. The top two levels of the garage are for residents with red permits, and parking in the wrong zone will land you a
A group of USF St. Petersburg students are teaming up with a local grassroots campaign called I Am Choice to defeat Florida’s Amendment 6 this November. The state constitutional amendment considers abortion “manslaughter,” and challenges a woman’s health and privacy rights, activists say. Founded by St. Petersburg native Ayele Hunt, I Am Choice is a
Professor Francis Tobienne Jr., or Prof T. as he is known to his students, is on a scholarly quest for knowledge, self and a better understanding of a personal inspiration, Salvador Dalí. A native of the Carribean island St. Croix, Prof. T. grew up with easy access to a spread of cultures and languages. These
Last year, a 22 year-old college graduate was notified that she would be charged $5 a month for using her own debit card. She thought it was absurd. She wasn’t the only one. Molly Katchpole went online to change.org and created a petition against the fee brought on by the billion-dollar multinational banking corporation. “The
Just a few short months ago, millions watched as a man in a mohawk and several dozen others in headsets and matching uniforms excitedly stared at computer screens. But the viewers didn’t tune in to see the people—they tuned in to see what those people were working on. Because about 35 million miles away, a
Growing up in a southern state full of Yankees and Midwesterners sometimes leads practical expectations adrift in day-to-day living. Florida isn’t part of the south that’s the Carolinas, Tennessee or Virginia. Florida isn’t really Dixie. It isn’t really tropical. It’s a boiling crock-pot of Latin fare, meat and potatoes brought down from the northeast; seasoned
At first it seemed like good news from the university. But after a double take on the electronic mail I received from them, I am more pissed than ever before. Great, dining hours will be extended from 8:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. (for a month-long trial). But you will not be able to use
Mike Rembis, the founder of Tampa Bay International Film Festival, is the first to admit that independent films are facing hard times. Nevertheless, he is on the verge of pioneering the first-ever large-scale film festival in the bay area. “It’s what you’d call a grassroots movement,” he said, laughing. Mike’s first festival organizing experience was
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