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RSS FeedDuring the long, draining political battle to create a campus community center at USF St. Petersburg, the students who lobbied on behalf of their peers were faced with a choice: go along with the demands of USF system leadership, or lose everything. It was made clear to them, said the student lobbyists, that without a
“Today, women are more likely than men to start a business. They need a president who respects and understands what they do.” —Mitt Romney, accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for President of the United States “If we were in New York, there were plenty of moments we would have been arrested,” Brendon Hunt, an
Those who arrived early to Michael Grunwald’s talk in Harbor Hall last Tuesday may have spotted the journalist in the entrance, doing what journalists do—filing a story. Dressed in a crisp navy suit, with a Republican National Convention press pass hanging from his neck, Grunwald stood in front of his MacBook Pro, trying to find
American Style Magazine bestowed St. Petersburg the title of No. 1 mid-sized art destination in America for the third year in a row in May. The high-budgets of the Salvador Dali museum and Chihuly Collection certainly helped the city earn that distinction, but smaller, less visible art initiatives were also cited. Two such initiatives are
Most people have heard the phrase ”once in a blue moon” used at some point to denote a rare event, falling somewhere between pigs flying and hell freezing over on the scale of likelihoods. But blue moons, like the one that occurred on Aug. 31, are not as rare as most might guess. The modern
The Venture Compound, a non-traditional performance space in St. Petersburg’s Warehouse Arts District, is radiating sound waves in the underground scene. The living space, which doubles as a show space and triples as an art gallery, has hosted shows since December 2011, with six scheduled for September so far. “It’s not a bar. We’re not
With the opening of the University Student Center, students can meet, eat, study and sleep in what is destined to become the center of campus life while taking pride in their sacrifices that turned a 37-year-old dream into a concrete reality. The opening is especially sweet for the four current and former students who put
William Hogarth, a former dean of the College of Marine Science, has been named interim regional chancellor by USF President Judy Genshaft. Hogarth, 73, said his job will be to hold down the fort while a permanent replacement for Margaret Sullivan, who resigned a year earlier than expected on June 25. He will begin at
Electric-car charging stations, a LEED gold rated building and another expected in the fall, and the Student Green Energy Fund have shined an LED-lit path to a sustainable future for USFSP. However, the phrases “green policies,” “sustainable practices,” “earth-friendly products” and “energy-efficient systems” blur distinct practices and philosophies into the same vague environmental movement. Endless
The crowd assembled before the stage with their beer and café mochas as English literature professor Louis Simon welcomed everyone to the Sigma Tau Delta Open Mic & Book Drive. He cleverly arranged a stack of books from an adjacent table and brought them with him to the stage to read. One was “Surfing on
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