Your health, prosperity and love-life can be foretold in just around 100 characters – whether you’ll fail or succeed, if you should seek romance or lie low for some time. Your future foreseen with the touch of a button. These predictions are all over the media and are growing exceedingly accessible to anybody who will

I didn’t always want to leave St. Petersburg. In an eighth grade class project about my future goals, I wanted to study biology, attend the University of South Florida, and work at a zoo. Maybe I’d buy a house in Gulfport and enjoy the weekends near the beach. I’d write about it, and maybe that

At a university in Oklahoma, student government senators paused their senate meeting because they wanted ice cream. We aren’t kidding. All the senators got up, walked to their cafeteria and got the ice cream. Then they reconvened the meeting. But then they realized they forgot the spoons. So every single senator in the room got

On Sunday evening, a group of us staff writers arrived home from a media convention held in Philadelphia, PA. It was an opportunity I was originally reluctant to accept but I’m glad I did. Usually, I would find the excuses to tell myself. “It’s not worth it.” “I have to work.” “I probably won’t learn

What’s better than an all-day event of feel-good music, art vendors, delicious food trucks and quality solitude time? Nothing, really. The ability and freedom one experiences by venturing out on their own to explore would normally be an introvert’s worst nightmare; however, in my case, it was everything but. Attending the Coral Skies Music Festival

Ah, the internet. It’s revolutionized the way we receive our news, and the speed at which our news is reported to us. Yet, it complicates the process at times. Anyone can start their own website and post updates. And some Internet developers are talented at making fake news sites look real. In our browsers, our

Just as fast as the fear of Ebola has been traveling, so has misleading information and confusion about the decision of the USF St. Petersburg to cancel the Murrow Program. Therefore, I want to take this opportunity to address myths, assess risks and weigh facts. The 2014 Murrow Fellows include journalists from Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana,

I am a graduate student in journalism at the USF St. Petersburg. I helped run the Murrow Program last year. The International Visitor Leadership Program of the U.S. State Department leads the event.  I was assisting USFSP in the organization of the program for this year’s event.  It is a fantastic, life changing event. Some

Many can agree that doctors are allowed to “prescribe poisons” to patients such as Oxycodone, killing 16,000, and Tylenol, killing 12,000 people, annually. Attorney John Morgan made this argument Oct.13 live on Fox 13 news. He debated against Polk County Sheriff, Grady Judd, who insisted there are “loopholes” in the second amendment, allowing all “persons”