Beginning last Thursday, the new recreation field is now open to USF St. Petersburg students, sports clubs and the Tampa Bay Rowdies during open recreation and practice hours. Students must bring their USFSP ID to gain entry. “The rec field is expected to be fully completed by this fall,” said Greg Haverlock, fitness and intramural

The campus is holding its second annual Rec Fest on April 12 to conclude USFSP Week celebrations. It will run from 3-8 p.m on the Harbor Lawn. The Rec Fest is a recreational event created by students who participate in USF St. Petersburg Campus Recreation. Some volunteer their time to brainstorm activity ideas and organize

USF Tampa has been hosting annual pageants since 2008, and now USF St. Petersburg will be hosting one of its own with the inaugural Mr. and Ms. USFSP competition. Melanie Bullock, USFSP assistant director for activities and programs, is serving on this year’s pageant committee. “Our students are able to participate in the USF pageant

It’s been over a month since the water main break on Seventh Street and Central Avenue swallowed the sidewalk, part of the street, and the west wall of 670 Central Ave., but the area remains fenced off and the hole in the wall is still there. Manny Kool, manager of Daddy Kool Records on Central

After receiving a prestigious Rome Prize in 2013, Sherman D. Bundrick, USF St. Petersburg associate professor of art history, spent seven months living in Italy at a home on the Academic Academy in Rome’s 11-acre estate. Dr. Bundrick spent her time in Italy studying “ancient Athenian vases and their images among the Etruscans and how

The new Offshore Sailing Team at USF St. Petersburg aims to equip students with skills and safety knowledge that will benefit them beyond college. The team holds practice every Monday and Friday at 3:30 p.m., and participates in regattas on the weekends using waterfront-provided J-24 keel sailboats that range from 20 feet to more than

College students of Tampa Bay are going to have the ability to put their problem solving skills to the test at USF St. Petersburg’s Innovation Overnight. On April 10, a 20-hour “design-a-thon” will take place in the University Student Center ballrooms. Students will work in groups of five to “solve real-world problems proposed from the

On March 13, USF St. Petersburg hosted its inaugural Dance Marathon. The event raised money for All Children’s Hospital and included more than 100 participants from USF St. Petersburg and the public. At the event, the total amount raised was $6,776.14, tripling the original goal of $2,015. Teri Deardorff, the chair of fundraising for Dance

Residents of downtown St. Petersburg can take a collective sigh of relief. After nine months of incessant clanging caused by the construction of a new 19-story apartment complex near Third Street and Fourth Avenue South, the biggest culprit, a massive pile driver, came to a halt in January. The disturbances that downtown occupants have endured

The University of South Florida has some speech codes that “prohibit expression that would be protected by the First Amendment in society at large,” according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The Crow’s Nest reported on these codes in November, after USF St. Petersburg’s codes were scrutinized by the FIRE. But this semester,