At the age of 51, my dad decided to go back to school, joining me at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Now 54, my dad has stunned me by achieving great things in a short amount of time. He finished his associate degree and is well into his bachelor’s degree for mass communications.

California-based foster care agency Little People’s World made headlines last month after directors were caught embezzling more than $460,00. The agency is a non-profit funded by tax dollars. The news is a slap in the face to taxpayers, who shouldn’t have to give up their hard-earned dollars to fund a dishonest family’s vacation. But it

This week, people stood in lines for hours to get their hands on the latest smartphone, the iPhone 6. The iPhone craze just proves our modern obsession with connectedness. But that connectedness comes at a cost. How much of the data we enter into our smart phones is really private? It’s really never been clear.

The American public university system feverishly strives to promote diversity. The principle behind it may be noble, but sometimes they take it a bit too far. Sometimes, their drive to be diverse leads them to be exactly opposite. Such was the case this month when California State University de-recognized InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a nation-wide Christian

I’m writing this article from a place I’m quite familiar with – a seat on an airplane. Though this trip to Miami is certainly much shorter than the trans-Atlantic voyage I took eight years ago–and still take almost annually. I, like 819,644 other students in this country, am an international student. I initially moved to

This past weekend I got the privilege of attending Tampa’s First Annual Tattoo Arts Conventions held at the Tampa Convention Center. The three day event boasted more than 300 world renowned artists from 150 different tattoo shops. The convention featured some amazing performances such as Burlesque and Suspension shows. Various vendors came out to sell

With the close of the senate impeachment committee this week, it’s no secret that things are tense in student government. Since the impeachment proceedings bubbled over, sides have been taken within SG. As the proceedings progress, the division seems to be getting worse. It seems eerily close to politics in our nation. When George Washington,

Why does God hate kids? Why me? Who are my parents? Do they love me? Imagine a child asking those questions. Many foster kids in our society ask these questions. I asked some of these questions. And as I write this, I can see the tears that are dropping on my keyboard. It was never

Years before the world knew of the existence of the violent terrorist group called the Islamic State, Steven Sotloff was a student journalist. Before Sotloff covered conflict in Egypt and Syria for Time magazine, the Christian Science Monitor and Foreign Policy, he was a senior staff writer at University of Central Florida’s Central Florida Future.