The pool at the USF St. Petersburg Waterfront closes every year for the winter season. But this year, when the pool closes on Nov. 27, it will not reopen in the spring. Plumbing problems have plagued the pool since a leak was detected five years ago. Water from the pool has been spilling into the

Negotiations for USF St. Petersburg’s purchase of the Gulfcoast Legal Services property at 641 First St. S. are underway. USF announced its intention to buy the property at a Board of Trustees Finance and Audit Workgroup on Nov. 7. No agreement has been settled yet, Kathleen Mullin, executive director at Gulfcoast Legal Services, clarified in

Daniel James Scott’s eyes filled with tears when Reuben Pressman was named the Rising Star at the Tampa Bay Technology Forum’s Industry Awards gala last month. Although Scott, associate director of the USF St. Petersburg Entrepreneurship Program, was named Technology Leader of the Year, it was Pressman’s award that made him emotional. Pressman graduated from

Twenty-four sandwiches a week, a 200-pound weight loss and a feature story in Indiana University’s student newspaper transformed the overweight Jared Fogle into Jared the Subway Guy. Fogle’s story began in the spring of 1998, when he was a student at Indiana University. He weighed more than 400 pounds. “I was sick and tired of

On a summer evening, environmental science and policy senior Daniel McGarigal walked across campus and noticed a sprinkler was spewing water into the street and that a few street lights had burnt-out bulbs. Thus, the idea for Watchbull, an application that allows students to report maintenance issues after hours, was born. McGarigal, the director of

In the fourth act of on-campus bike theft this month, university police arrested two minors for stealing two bicycles from the south peninsula of campus on Wednesday, Oct. 23. The incident makes 18 bikes stolen on campus since January. The theft took place near the Knight Oceanographic Research Center. Suspects were arrested at 1:54 p.m.,

One on-campus robbery, one on-campus theft attempt and one theft near campus — all within two weeks — have led to two stolen bicycles and weary riders. According to a news release sent via email from University Police Services, three men stole a bicycle from the bicycle rack on the north side of the Science

Last basketball season, a USF St. Petersburg bus to the game was vacant, except for a Student Government representative manning the bus and a Crow’s Nest photographer. On Saturday, Oct. 5, more than 20 students showed up to ride the bus to the football game. This time, a representative from SG failed to show. Sophia

Nearly five years after a leak was detected in the USF St. Petersburg pool, a solution remains unmet. According to Zac Oppenheim, assistant director of Campus Recreation, the surface of the pool water runs into gutters, which direct it into the pool’s filter. Though there is no specific point of leakage, some of the water