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RSS FeedA university is like an island. It’s budding with resources, but the resources are immobile; landlocked. It’s Dr. Amy Kedron’s goal to get her students off the island. Through her course, Community Leadership and Nonprofit Organizations, Kedron connects USF St. Petersburg students with local businesses and organizations, giving them opportunities to lead and promote development
For this editorial, we borrow an idea from the wise woman quoted on Page 1. In an interview last week, Amy Kedron told the Crow’s Nest, “If you treat a university like an island, you have to spend all your energy getting off the island … and it’s hard to get off the freakin’ island.”
USF St. Petersburg is the only college I applied to during high school, because it was the only college I wanted to attend. USF first came onto my college radar because of, all things, journalism. My newspaper class made a pilgrimage to the Tampa campus to attend the Florida Scholastic Press Association one year, and
“Did you see that s— awesome car?” I overheard one student tell another while walking from the USF St. Petersburg parking garage. “It’s amazing as f—.” As the students continued their conversation, I realized I still didn’t know what the car looked like based on their description. That afternoon, I considered the limits of profanity.
Lacking an official math department, students and faculty are working to enhance teaching styles and increase passing rates It took Caitlin Greene, a senior majoring in marketing, five attempts to pass two USF St. Petersburg math courses — three at college algebra and two at business calculus. The struggle set her back a year
Do you have a question about sex, alcohol, nutrition, stress or anything else health and wellness related? USF St. Petersburg Health Educator Victoria M. Beltran has the answers! Every month, Student Health 101 will feature the new column, “Ask the Health Educator.” To submit questions, send an email to usfspwellness@gmail.com and include “Ask the Health
Valerie Nyitray, a senior in interdisciplinary social sciences at USF St. Petersburg, bounces a tennis ball off cement walls at Jack Puryear Park in St. Petersburg. She runs agility and blocking drills for 45 minutes. “I do it to test my reflexes, the quick reactions I need as a lineman,” Nyitray said, bouncing the green
2013 was a year that provided some great movies, but it also had its share of clunkers, as well as movies that were just okay. Since it’s January, a dumping ground for new movies, let’s take a look some of the best stuff that came out in 2013 to watch at home, or if you’re
The day after Christmas, two large presents remained neatly wrapped under our tree. Mom would not open hers until Dad came home from the hospital. More days passed. Dead, brittle pine leaves dotted the peppermint patterned wrapping paper. The Christmas decorations should have come down by now. I began wondering if I should take initiative
Most of us who attend USF St. Petersburg and regularly hang out in downtown have been approached by the curly-haired, glossy-eyed kid with a skateboard in one hand and a petition to legalize marijuana in other. For a stoner, he’s quite persistent. And considering the nearly 1 million signatures that Florida petitioners have collected, he’s
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