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Students promote sustainability in race to generate green energy

Exercise and green initiatives are important to Karla Infazon, a junior and a team leader at both the fitness center and the waterfront. Last week, Infazon participated in Race for the Watts, an energy-generating contest sponsored by SGEF, the Student Green Energy Fund. Students representing various campus organizations used the sustainable cardio equipment on the

(Don’t) rate my professor

The comments include “HORRIBLE teacher. Shouldn’t even call him a teacher because he doesn’t teach. Complete jerk” and “He’s definitely one of the best professors I’ve ever had.” These two evaluations of the same USF St. Petersburg professor can be found on the website RateMyProfessors.com, an open source website where students can anonymously post evaluations

In student body presidential debate, opponents reveal strengths and weaknesses

Over muffled chatter and clanging dishes in the University Student Center, student body presidential candidates Jimmy Richards and Mark Lombardi-Nelson voiced their campaign platforms before a politically divided student audience on Feb. 27. Among the debate’s big ticket items were Sodexo meal plan changes, the potential for Greek life on campus, the preservation of USF

This is, like, a column, you know?

Fighting to stay alert in my four-hour night class last week, I found myself perturbed by one classmate’s repetition of particular filler phrase. In response to our professor, this classmate recited a 30 second monologue in which she followed almost every sentence — and some sentence fragments — with, “You know?” It actually sounded less

Bulls look to make big dance

The University of South Florida’s women’s basketball team played its final home game of the regular season on March 2, taking on the UConn Huskies. The Bulls celebrated Senior Day at the Sun Dome, recognizing eight graduating players during the game. However, the team couldn’t pull off an upset over No. 3 UConn, eventually falling

The fragility of athletes

The hockey micro-verse on Twitter blew up on Wednesday afternoon when a Newsday article about goaltender Rick DiPietro hit the web. My timeline was covered with quotes from New York Islanders’ goalie talking about how much it hurt that the Islanders waived him and sent him to the minors. The really disturbing part of the

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