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RSS FeedThree days after education student Dwayne Scheuneman, 44, broke his neck in a pool diving accident, paralyzing him from the chest down, he woke up in the hospital to his friend saying, “Game on.” “I didn’t think too much about the future … I took it one day at a time,” Scheuneman said of his adjustment to living
Student Government elections concluded on Nov. 13 with a highly contested 27-candidate race for Senate. The 20 students selected for office will serve through the 2013-2014 academic year. This semester’s batch of hopeful senators marked one of the largest candidate pools in USF St. Petersburg history. Brandon Garbett, director of marketing and communications for SG,
Negotiations for USF St. Petersburg’s purchase of the Gulfcoast Legal Services property at 641 First St. S. are underway. USF announced its intention to buy the property at a Board of Trustees Finance and Audit Workgroup on Nov. 7. No agreement has been settled yet, Kathleen Mullin, executive director at Gulfcoast Legal Services, clarified in
Teri Deardorff, a junior, often walks alone to the USF St. Petersburg parking garage from her job at the Fitness Center after 11 p.m. Walking through campus late at night makes Deardorff and at least 10 other women at USF St. Petersburg feel unsafe. Equipping them with a solution and the skills to defend themselves,
Roughly 82 percent of the energy USF St. Petersburg purchases comes from non-renewable resources, according to a 2013 fuel mix report from Duke Energy. The other 18 percent is attributed to “purchase power,” or energy that Duke purchases from other providers. Renewable energy and biomass fuel are included in this category, though the numbers are
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
David Hendry, 51, recalls USF St. Petersburg as a cluster of buildings serving as a small extension of the Tampa campus. He was born at Bayfront Medical Center and educated at Shorecrest Preparatory School and St. Petersburg College. Years later, he returns to his hometown as USFSP’s new police director, pleased with the growth of
Daniel James Scott’s eyes filled with tears when Reuben Pressman was named the Rising Star at the Tampa Bay Technology Forum’s Industry Awards gala last month. Although Scott, associate director of the USF St. Petersburg Entrepreneurship Program, was named Technology Leader of the Year, it was Pressman’s award that made him emotional. Pressman graduated from
Twenty-four sandwiches a week, a 200-pound weight loss and a feature story in Indiana University’s student newspaper transformed the overweight Jared Fogle into Jared the Subway Guy. Fogle’s story began in the spring of 1998, when he was a student at Indiana University. He weighed more than 400 pounds. “I was sick and tired of
New bicycle and pedestrian paths will line the roads along USF St. Petersburg by November 2014. City Trails, an initiative by the City of St. Petersburg, is funding the creation of the Historic Booker Creek Trail. The recreational trail will allow access to non-motorized traffic, including bicycles, longboards and pedestrians. “It’ll look a
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