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USFSP is now in voting season with the upcoming midterm elections for Student Government. Students that have sought to be involved in representing the USFSP student body submitted their campaign paperwork on Oct. 14. Positions to be filled include 20 Senate seats, as well as positions in the executive branch and a judicial seat. Voting
Boobies, ta-tas, cans and bonkers, gazongas, hooters, melons and knockers. It doesn’t matter what you call them, as long as you donate to an organization that actually uses your money to fight breast cancer. Keep A Breast’s “I Love Boobies!” campaign and the Save the Ta-Tas Foundation have gotten significant press for the unconventional methods
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn wants students to stay in the area after they graduate. He wants to stop the “brain drain” and see the city compete with Austin, Texas and Raleigh-Durham, N.C. in terms of educated minds. The city can be hip and progressive, he said, and USF students should stick around after graduating to
One quarter. Twenty-five cents. In 1806, hungry restaurant-goers could trade one for a full meal of meat and a pint of cold beer or cider. The same amount could buy a 12 oz box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes in 1966. As soon ago as the ’80s, children meekly handed 25 cents to cashiers to pay
Those semi-conspiratorial all-caps messages from mom sprawled all over your news feed might not be as crazy as they seem. Facebook is once again warring with its users over privacy issues—and this time it may actually have taken a step too close to Big Brother’s dominion. At the center of the issue is the new
Protesters gathered in Tampa on Oct. 1 as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City. [fbphotos id=10150302139437483 limit=20] To see more, please visit our Facebook album. Photos by Daniel Mutter
Come hone your craft at one of our special seminars. You’ll have the opportunity to work one-on-one with Crow’s Nest staff to learn some tricks of the trade. We’re also going to be teaching special lessons on topics like ledes, interviewing, how to structure a news story, how to get good quotes, cliches (there are
World Contraception Day might have come and gone on Sept. 26, but it’s never too late to think about sexual health. Between midterms, textbooks, parties and tuition costs, college students have enough to worry about. A baby or a painful disease in a private place can be too much to handle. Contraceptive use can prevent
No. 36. For USF St. Petersburg, the number marks a milestone. It is the number at which the school made its debut in the U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges report. The rankings are highly influential—a one-rank improvement on the list leads to a 0.9 percent increase in applications, one study showed. Millions
In a time of great economic duress, many have turned to higher education as a way out of poverty. But that has become increasingly less feasible. Dwindling Bright Future dollars, increases in tuition and budget cuts from the state are forcing students to foot the bill for their own education. Sometimes it seems like students
