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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
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
Humans have been active pedestrians for centuries-why stop now? The first humans walked out of the cradle of civilization somewhere in Africa about 60,000 years ago. They walked to Europe and Asia. They walked across long-gone land bridges of ice and sand to reach tiny Pacific islands and the Americas. They walked and ran to
The University of South Florida ranks No. 584 on degree program return on investment, out of 1,248 colleges and universities polled, according to survey results recently released by PayScale.com. PayScale.com describes itself as “a market leader in global online compensation data.” It compiles information from employers to “provide an immediate and precise snapshot of the
From the news desk A Student Government bill that set aside $7,000 for the purchase and display of art on campus has been rejected by administration. Noreen Noonan, the regional vice chancellor for academic affairs, felt uncomfortable taking the money from the student legislature, said SG President Courtney Parish. The major provision of the arts
Workers put in place the glass windows for the front stairwell of the new student center toward the end of last week. The front page of the USF St. Petersburg website boasts the building is now 75 percent complete. It is scheduled to open in the fall, brining with it the dining services USFSP has
On April 6, a 12-ton FA-18 NAVY fighter jet holding tons of fuel crash landed into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach, Va. Forty units in the complex were destroyed in the crash and the massive fireball it caused. Five were hospitalized, none seriously hurt, and nobody died. Virginia Beach’s mayor called it a “good
Amsterdam has created a school specifically for people who can make really cool things. Earlier this year, Lava, an Amsterdam-based design agency, opened THNK: The Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership. The public/private-funded institution has an inaugural class of 30, who attend classes in a facility in Amsterdam and also online. But this inaugural class is
Get this. Next year’s batch of freshmen were mostly born in 1994. That’s the same year Kurt Cobain killed himself, and O.J. Simpson sped away from police in his white Bronco. They were only 5 years old when “Family Guy” first premiered on Fox and when Napster popped up on the Internet to change the
The release of USF St. Petersburg’s new website has been put on hold until after the end of the semester. According to Michel Fougeres, USFSP’s Strategic Web Developer & Project Leader, “design revisions” are the cause of the delay. The site will eventually see a massive redesign, on the front end and back, to emphasize
