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RSS Feed“Today, women are more likely than men to start a business. They need a president who respects and understands what they do.” —Mitt Romney, accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for President of the United States “If we were in New York, there were plenty of moments we would have been arrested,” Brendon Hunt, an
Those who arrived early to Michael Grunwald’s talk in Harbor Hall last Tuesday may have spotted the journalist in the entrance, doing what journalists do—filing a story. Dressed in a crisp navy suit, with a Republican National Convention press pass hanging from his neck, Grunwald stood in front of his MacBook Pro, trying to find
Florida students have long been the soft underbelly of public university funding. The price of an education continues to increase at unprecedented rates as political and academic leadership, people who graduated in an era when a college degree was considered a public good and not a personal investment, offload their responsibilities to a generation of
Head coach Skip Holtz loved the way his special teams and defense played on Saturday night. But despite some miscues and a couple turnovers the University of South Florida Bulls defeated the talented University of Tennessee Chattanooga Moccasins 34-13. The first game of the season is the closest a lot of teams in the Big
Whenever I talk sports with friends from back home in Boston they bring up Tampa’s reputation as a poor sports town. I quietly laugh with them and nod. But it is not because they are right. It is because their mocking reminds me why I love to live here. You see, in Boston, the sports
Many students hesitate to seek out clubs or events on campus, staying under the radar until they quietly graduate. This usually wards off the disconcerting feeling of being out of your comfort zone, but it also wards off personal growth. My first semester at USF St. Petersburg was fall 2010. I felt a little
After a long, sweaty day of move-in to Residence Hall One, packed with work and topped off with some brews downtown, I return to campus at 11:30 in the evening and decide to go to the dining hall to grab some grub before heading off to my room. To my surprise, the dining hall in
American Style Magazine bestowed St. Petersburg the title of No. 1 mid-sized art destination in America for the third year in a row in May. The high-budgets of the Salvador Dali museum and Chihuly Collection certainly helped the city earn that distinction, but smaller, less visible art initiatives were also cited. Two such initiatives are
Most people have heard the phrase ”once in a blue moon” used at some point to denote a rare event, falling somewhere between pigs flying and hell freezing over on the scale of likelihoods. But blue moons, like the one that occurred on Aug. 31, are not as rare as most might guess. The modern
Consistency. It was the word of the night for head coach Skip Holtz and something that the USF Bulls seem to struggle to maintain at times, both on the field and in their conference. The Big East will soon become the conference of Big Changes, with six new teams poised to join the Bulls’ little
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