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Sunday, May 10, 2026

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Students push for commencement venue change

Lorenza Navarro, a 23-year-old psychology major, started an online petition asking USF St. Petersburg to move the graduation commencement to a larger venue, citing Tropicana Field as one possibility. The petition, created on Feb. 13, has gained 341 signatures so far. Each graduating USFSP student receives five tickets to the ceremony at the Mahaffey Theater.

What’s with the hair?

Do you have to have good hair to be taken seriously? More specifically, is this why African-American women treat their hair so harshly? These are questions USF St. Petersburg student Monica Parkin will answer at her presentation at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference in Denver next month. In her research, Parkin focused on the

Kids make art for a cause

SpongeBob Squarepants, Hello Kitty, the Hulk, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Pikachu were all there for Ryo Perez-Palmer. Ryo was born with a heart defect that required open-heart surgery, leaving his father, graphic design student Esteban Perez-Palmer, with a tough decision. He left school due to the accumulating hospital bills and to give Ryo