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RSS FeedEarth Day will not go unnoticed this year at USF St. Petersburg. The members of the Student Environmental Awareness Society, SEAS, have planned a three day set of activities this year to make sure the holiday is recognized. The events are scheduled for April 17, 18 and 22, which is Earth Day. Students can expect
There’s no such thing as an easy A. You may think that asking around on Facebook groups, rummaging through sites like ratemyprofessor.com or searching course books for breezy leisure study classes about underwater basket weaving might be good for your transcripts. And you know what? You’re right. An easy course will get you an A,
Amber Heddleson was 11 years old the first time she visited London. She fell in love with the city. “It was only a two-week trip, and we were in London for three days … I told myself, ‘I want to live here!’” Heddleson said. As a USF St. Petersburg student, living in London wasn’t an
When senior Karleigh Chase wrote her honors thesis, she did something few environmental science and policy majors do. She wrote a play. Chase performed a portion of her play, “Memoirs of a Painted Woman,” on April 4 at Studio@620 in downtown. In her one-woman show, she portrayed the women of various famous paintings, giving her
Get the insect repellent ready. Scientists expect giant mosquitoes to hit Florida this summer. The large mosquitoes, known as gallinippers, are believed to have blown in with the wind from Tropical Storm Debby last June. According to Debby Cassill, an associate professor at USF St. Petersburg, gallinipper eggs can lay dormant for years until high
Nearly a year ago, a teenaged girl wrote a “rap” about the evils of homosexuality, recorded it in the forest from “FernGully” and laid it on top of a dramatic piano soundtrack. She uploaded her antigay anthem to YouTube under the name Apologetics and ironically titled it “Rated T for Tolerance.” Apologetics’ video resurfaced a
My friend Sophie and I were discussing life and boys while sitting on the roof of my church a couple weeks ago when I first heard about the craft project of all craft projects. The memory jar. After seeing the idea plastered across Pinterest (where else?), Sophie had decided to make her very own memory
Earlier last week the remaining schools that play Division 1-A football in the Big East Conference announced the name for their new athletic league — the American Athletic Conference.
The Student Government Supreme Court officially ruled that Jimmy Richards and Jordan Iuliucci be certified president and vice president of the student body. The ruling, issued late on April 8, comes after a monthlong debate over the validity of campaign violations. Though Mark Lombardi-Nelson and Christa Hegedus won the majority vote, 233 to 125, they
In a Student Government presidential election so controversial that it received coverage from the Tampa Bay Times, trying to keep up with who’s in and who’s out has been nearly impossible. But where the Times story focuses primarily on a candidate’s absence of undergarments, The Crow’s Nest presents the need-to-know details of the election process.
