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RSS FeedWith $30,000 left over from last year, Student Government President Mark Lombardi-Nelson said he could have purchased new golf carts, a printer or furniture for his new offices. Instead, he plans to leave its spending at the discretion of students—if their ideas are good enough. With the Presidential Initiative Fund, Lombardi-Nelson put his faith in
After walking across the stage during commencement at Mahaffey Theater, two recent graduates found something a majority of their cohort will not—jobs. Both were serious students, but they don’t credit their unlikely success to the classroom. Instead, involvement, networking and being prepared when opportunity arrived were the keys to transitioning from an academic track to
For the first time since the university was founded in 1965, USF St. Petersburg will have a dining hall. The university signed a five-year, once-renewable contract with food service giant Sodexo in April, and has been making the pitch to incoming and returning students and their parents over the summer. The most controversial aspect of
After almost two months of hard work, the Entrepreneurship Club won first place at the 2012 Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization Startup Simulation Challenge. The team that participated and won was comprised of students Michael Anadiotis, Chris Carpenter, Brown Charite, Lazar Anderson, and Mark Lombardi-Nelson. The club, which is focused on learning in entrepreneurship, helps students to
USF St. Petersburg sophomore Solange Gorleku won the Miss People’s Choice Award during the Mr. and Miss USF Pageant at USF Tampa on April 10. Gorleku wanted to participate in the pageant “mostly because I wanted to prove, or remind everyone, that we are all the USF system,” she said. “I wanted to represent USF
USF St. Petersburg students have a new way to get informed through Facebook. Aside from the USFSP The Know It All’s Guide To Knowing It All, a page that allows students to post questions and information about anything campus related, there is now a Facebook page that has the same open forum with a more
Ryan Carver stood in front of the room in Davis 244, leaning on a table that was covered by pizza boxes. He wrote on the board, “How do you know God is good?” and beside that, “Why is there so much evil in the world?” To the five students in attendance at the April 10
Sitting in front of a mirror surrounded by her costume and jewelry, drag queen Beverly Baltimore applied her make up as she prepared for USF St. Petersburg’s third annual amateur drag show. The drag show was sponsored by the Gay Straight Alliance, along with co-sponsors the Black Student Association and the French Club. The show
They are almost too beautiful to eat. They sit in neatly lined rows along a marble countertop—thick pink and blue swirls of vanilla frosting, some with ruby red raspberries atop, others with drizzles of chocolate. But one whiff of these creamy confections will have taste buds reconsidering not taking a bite. At St. Petersburg’s Sweet!,
Stories and tears were part of the journey when two USF St. Petersburg ROTC cadets escorted WWII veterans on an Honor Flight bound for Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, April 3, the cadets and veterans departed from the St. Petersburg/Clearwater International Airport, giving the veterans an opportunity to see the WWII memorial that they bravely earned.
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