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Music and art have redesigned downtown St. Petersburg, giving it a vintage style with a modern twist. USF St. Petersburg senior Kalynd Kryza has embraced the city and opened Blond, a retail store located in the front of Star Booty, a rock-n-roll hair salon. Blond offers affordable vintage apparel, ranging from about $12 to $25,
In each of his three years as USF’s football head coach, Willie Taggart has changed his offensive scheme and, now, he is losing his best quarterback on the roster, Mike White. The Bulls changed to the spread, a more up-tempo system, which will require a more mobile QB. As a result, White fell behind senior
Being a fan of a sports team is a full-time commitment. It is an investment. It can be heart breaking, deceptive and deceitful. It can be cheeky and, yet, as joyous as a wedding day. When fans heard their teams made the NCAA women’s Final Four, they traveled from far and wide, no matter the
Tabatha Hunter goes to work while holding on to the clinching reality that her bills are now past due. Her rent, car insurance and cable bill must all be paid by the end of the week. Hunter is a 26-year-old single mom juggling school and working 40 hours a week at BJ’S Restaurant & Brewhouse.
Would you give a stranger a dollar if you didn’t know how it would be spent? This is the question that Rosie Lee, a USF St. Petersburg digital journalism and design graduate student, is asking on her website, “Would you give a buck?” The website is an applied research project and social experiment in the
To make way for the new building that will house the Kate Tiedemann College of Business, trees will be cut down. But the wood from these trees will become furniture and artwork inside the building. Jim Grant, USF St. Petersburg’s construction project manager, and Project Leader Dan McGarigal came up with the idea to spare
A campus organization seeks to connect students with businesses looking to hire them. USF St. Petersburg’s chapter of the Tampa Bay Technology Forum (TBTF) began in 2012 as a way to bring students together with business and economic leaders in the Tampa Bay area. The TBTF was first created nine years ago and began creating
St. Petersburg is set to live up to its promise of sustainability now that universal recycling is set to begin operations this summer. The program, which will replace the current subscription-based service used by some residents, has been in the works since Mayor Rick Kriseman took his oath of office in 2014. Beginning the first
Note: As the year winds down — and graduation approaches — the editors at The Crow’s Nest want to offer their insight on life at USF St. Petersburg. This is the first in a three-part series. In fall 2013, The Crow’s Nest staff sat around a table at Flipper’s Pizza on Fourth Street, talking about
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