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A proposed Student Government bill would make it easier for clubs to obtain money to travel and host events, said Sen. William Nicks, the bill’s sponsor. Clubs were allocated about $33,000 for the year. As of February, about $10,000 had been spent, according to SG Chief Financial Officer Alex Moser. Nicks said the current club
Student Government doesn’t create campus culture, said SG presidential candidate James Scott. Rather, Scott and his vice presidential running mate April Parsons say SG should provide the services students need to create that culture for themselves. “We should provide the services, and provide the voice and the representation,” he said. The SG president should devote
Members of Awake Pinellas captured the voices of students angered with recent plans calling for substantial state cuts to the USF budget, as well as most other Florida public universities, setting up a small video camera by the Harborwalk fountain. Awake Pinellas is the local branch of Awake the State, a Florida group that started
The Student Government Senate passed a bill to create a committee to coordinate displaying art from students and the St. Petersburg community. According to the bill, SG will commit $7,000 as seed money to get the committee and art displays started. Senators Michael Jernigan and James Scott sponsored the bill, and Senators Lauren Reilly and
I discovered Pinterest a few weeks ago. It’s a website, kind of like tumblr, but with more pretty pictures per capita and without all the words muddying up my feed. I’ve got a bunch of virtual boards, and I virtually pin pictures to those boards of things that catch my eye. The idea is to
The article “Battles rage in St. Petersburg over Kerouac legacy” published in the Nov. 9 issue of The Crow’s Nest included text copied directly from several published articles. Whole paragraphs were copied without proper citation or attribution from articles in The St. Petersburg Times (“The fight over all things Kerouac,” Nov. 24, 2002; “Pinellas judge
Members of the Al Downing Tampa Bay Jazz Association played a late-night patio show for students and faculty in the Snell House courtyard. The Oct. 26 show began at dusk with the jazz standard “It Could Happen to You.” The Al Downing Jazz Association is named for jazz musician Al Downing, who came to St.
Gov. Rick Scott announced on Oct. 20 that biotech company IRX Therapeutics, Inc., would be moving from New York to St. Petersburg. He made the announcement in the USFSP Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. The relocation will bring 40 jobs to the area immediately, and 280 jobs in the next five years, with an average salary
I’m 24 years old and I just bought my first car. Well, I half-bought a car, anyway. The significant other bought the other half. He’s generously designated the passenger side as mine. I have a love-hate relationship with ground transportation. The morning after prom, I rolled out of bed, terrible up-do still intact, and took
As people pass him on the sidewalk, James Scott, SG senator, nods and says a quick but clear hello. He asks how they are doing and tells them to have a good day. He’s a little more relaxed than he sometimes appears when he’s on campus, speaking at a General Assembly Senate meeting or leading
