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We have administrators who value students’ freedom of speech. But our current speech codes, if put into the wrong hands, could threaten students’ freedoms. Freedom of speech is one of the most precious things about being American. We’re not just saying this because we’re journalists. Freedom of speech goes beyond the glamorous portrayal you see
Here are highlights of an interview with Aman Sisay, executive editor of the Ethiopian Business Review and one of 12 African journalists getting three days of training at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Did you enjoy the first day of your program at Poynter? It was very exciting, educative and informative. It showed me
I walked into the haunted house confidently and without fear. That didn’t last long, since I was set to jump up and cringe roughly two seconds into the haunted house. The USF St. Petersburg haunted house, called The Virus, was held in Harbor Hall; it featured an array of spooky sights and gruesome surprises. On
When it comes to movies, it’s safe to say that World War II is the most popular “just” war the world has experienced. There were reasons, the heroes, the villains and sentiments. Countless stories, books and movies have documented the history. The legacy of cinema’s take on WWII continues with latest attempt movie Fury, starring
At a university in Oklahoma, student government senators paused their senate meeting because they wanted ice cream. We aren’t kidding. All the senators got up, walked to their cafeteria and got the ice cream. Then they reconvened the meeting. But then they realized they forgot the spoons. So every single senator in the room got
What’s better than an all-day event of feel-good music, art vendors, delicious food trucks and quality solitude time? Nothing, really. The ability and freedom one experiences by venturing out on their own to explore would normally be an introvert’s worst nightmare; however, in my case, it was everything but. Attending the Coral Skies Music Festival
Ah, the internet. It’s revolutionized the way we receive our news, and the speed at which our news is reported to us. Yet, it complicates the process at times. Anyone can start their own website and post updates. And some Internet developers are talented at making fake news sites look real. In our browsers, our
On a late night 80 years ago, David Himmelfarb Sr. was riding the train home with his prized doctoral dissertation tucked in a bag beside him. He succumbed to his fatigue and dozed off. He awoke to find a thief had stolen the dissertation. He had worked tirelessly for years organizing material, revising his ideas
The latest American overreaction is over ice cream, of all things. Anti-hazing activists complained to ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s because of the name of their chocolate and hazelnut concoction “Hazed & Confused.” The name had nothing to do with risky behavior of college students, Ben & Jerry’s spokesman Sean Greenwood told Bloomberg News.
The road now known as 22nd Street S was once a sprawling dirt trail on the edge of a fledgling St. Petersburg. This road and Ninth Avenue S became the home and eventual nerve center for St. Petersburg’s Civil Rights movement. After the Civil War, African-Americans were enticed to journey to St. Petersburg with hope
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