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Student Government should be at the center of campus culture, creating and fostering “college experiences,” said presidential candidate Mark Lombardi-Nelson. “One of our main priorities is providing a real college experience by getting more events out there, by supporting our clubs and making sure they’re successful,” Lombardi-Nelson said. If elected, Lombardi-Nelson said he will expand
Student Government doesn’t create campus culture, said SG presidential candidate James Scott. Rather, Scott and his vice presidential running mate April Parsons say SG should provide the services students need to create that culture for themselves. “We should provide the services, and provide the voice and the representation,” he said. The SG president should devote
Members of Awake Pinellas captured the voices of students angered with recent plans calling for substantial state cuts to the USF budget, as well as most other Florida public universities, setting up a small video camera by the Harborwalk fountain. Awake Pinellas is the local branch of Awake the State, a Florida group that started
Bayboro’s Coquina Club welcomed a trio of talented bands for a free weekend concert on March 2 sponsored by the Harborside Activities Board. Headlining the event was Mighty Mongo, a four-piece with local roots that has recently struck out onto the national music scene. The band, describing its sound as a fusion of rock, punk
Plans for a student-supervised ride service have been pushed back to the fall 2012 semester while Student Government and university police explore liability issues. A safe and free service for escorting students, faculty and staff—better known as a SAFE team—previously existed on campus. Students trained by the university police department offered rides to the parking
The university’s refusal to allow scrutiny of the dining service selection process highlights the vagaries of Florida’s open government laws and the difficulties of obtaining public documents. The Crow’s Nest requested documents pertaining to the contract process on Feb. 21, but was refused access by the university under its interpretation of an open records exemption
Brittany Ward drives 480 miles a week to get a college education. She wakes up at 5:30 a.m. to prepare for her drive from Sarasota to the University of South Florida in Tampa. She arrives earlier than most in order to get a parking spot, avoiding the “shark game” of preying on departing vehicles. She
Once every four years, we pick up an extra day somewhere. This year is a leap year, meaning February has 29 days instead of the usual 28. The four seasons don’t repeat in a whole number of days every year, so we add an extra day every four to correct for those small differences. Either
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Carol Barkalow will share what it was like to literally live in a man’s world during Women in Combat, an event honoring women in the military, hosted by the Office of Multicultural Affairs. “I was sometimes less than 10 percent and all the time less than 20 percent of the population so
