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RSS FeedCoach Stan Heath and the Bulls basketball team are the toast of the Tampa Bay area. The Bulls went to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 20 years and won two games before falling to Ohio, 62-56, on March 18. Though they fell one shy of the Sweet 16, Heath and company accomplished
The Student Green Energy Fund Committee hosted a series of workshops last Wednesday, March 21. The intent of the event was to educate students and staff about SGEF, and the business aspect of SGEF. Zaida Darley from the Tampa campus filled us in, and Reuben Pressman facilitated an amazing brainstorming activity. David O’Neill kicked off
Sushi is not an emergency. I think this is the hardest thing to wrap your head around when you’re a college student struggling to make ends meet. You’re told you should have a credit card to establish credit but to only use it for emergencies. The problem is: what constitutes an emergency? It’s Thursday night
For the 8 million students that take out federal subsidized Stafford loans each year, the interest rate may soon double for any loans taken out after July 30. The interest rate is set to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, and could mean “up to $5,000 in extra loan repayments after graduation,” according to
When it comes to USF sports, most discussions focus on football: how we compare to the other Florida schools, how our relatively young program fights for big wins, how each year starts so promising then ends in heartbreak, etc. Now the conversations are shifting to that other sport, you know, the one to which we
I am a motherless daughter. Seventeen years ago in a quiet Tampa hospital room at 2:37 a.m., I lost my mother to breast cancer. She was with me when I took my first breath, and I was with her when she took her last. Psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, author of “On Death and Dying,” created the
There has been a lot of recent hope and praise for the future of electric motor vehicles. President Barack Obama has said that when he gets out of office in “four and a half years” that he will purchase and drive a Chevrolet Volt. I am in favor of alternatives to gasoline-powered automobiles and our
Ernest Hemingway had the right idea. Or maybe it was Corey Stoll playing Hemingway in the Academy Award-winning film “Midnight in Paris.” “It was a good book because it was an honest book, and that’s what war does to me,” he said in the movie, talking about one of his first novels. “And there’s nothing
Voting for the Student Government general election begins Monday, March 5, and continues through Thursday, March 8. Polling locations in front of Bayboro Hall, the library, Residence Hall One and the Davis lounge will intersect with nearly every student’s path at some point throughout the week. Spend the few minutes it takes to have your
Imagine horses the size of housecats. They were called Sifrhippus, and they lived 56 million years ago. Weighing in at a tiny 12 pounds and eating mostly leaves, Sifrhippus didn’t look or act much like modern horses. They’re really only related through name and an ancient common ancestor. In fact, Sifrhippus got smaller before it
