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A university is like an island. It’s budding with resources, but the resources are immobile; landlocked. It’s Dr. Amy Kedron’s goal to get her students off the island. Through her course, Community Leadership and Nonprofit Organizations, Kedron connects USF St. Petersburg students with local businesses and organizations, giving them opportunities to lead and promote development
The day after Christmas, two large presents remained neatly wrapped under our tree. Mom would not open hers until Dad came home from the hospital. More days passed. Dead, brittle pine leaves dotted the peppermint patterned wrapping paper. The Christmas decorations should have come down by now. I began wondering if I should take initiative
After 41 years with USF, Sandi Conway, director of Human Resources at USF St. Petersburg, is saying goodbye to bull country. “I think I worked there when Asia was still connected to Africa or something,” Conway said, jokingly. She began working at USF Tampa straight out of high school as a secretary in Student Affairs.
It’s local, it’s indie, it’s green and it’s free. It’s an environmentally concerned, musically aware USF St. Petersburg student’s dream come true. The Student Green Energy Fund, Student Environmental Awareness Society, Gardening Club and the Live Music Collective have teamed up to bring you Greenstock St. Petersburg — a concert showcasing local musical talent and
Eddy D. Vasquez, 27, was shot in the torso near the Publix on Third Street S. around 4 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9. He died from his injuries about two hours later at Bayfront Medical Center. Vasquez lived in Gainesville but graduated from USF St. Petersburg in 2010 with a degree in business administration. According
For his 21st birthday, Mark Lombardi-Nelson always thought he’d throw a party wild enough to “shut down the state.” But when the big day was about a week away, the College of Business senior and student body president decided to do something more fulfilling. When he thought about what he really wanted, the answer came
One hundred and fifty of the world’s greatest shuffleboard players will take to the courts of the St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club this week. The last time St. Petersburg hosted the International Shuffleboard Association Championship was in 1983, when the United States, Canada and Japan were the only competing countries. This year, representatives from 15 countries
Mayor Bill Foster believes St. Petersburg is far above status quo. Challenger Rick Kriseman thinks a “better St. Petersburg” has yet to be achieved. The two mayoral candidates attempted to support their respective claims at the Oct. 14 debate, hosted by USF St. Petersburg. As his tagline of the evening, Foster adopted the phrase, “We’re
Eleven-year-old Journee wants to be a lawyer when she grows up. Ten-year-old Leshawn wants to be a doctor. Kannani, also 10, wants to be a judge. The fifth-graders from Fairmount Park Elementary, a public school on the corner of 41st Street South and Fifth Avenue South, know they’ll have to go to college to reach
Yale University issued a memo last week regarding its policies on sexual misconduct. The memo attempts to distinguish between consensual and nonconsensual sex — a distinction that shouldn’t be too tricky for an Ivy League student … or any functioning adult. The PDF titled “Sexual Misconduct Scenarios,” provides eight examples of sexual encounters Yale administrators
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