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RSS FeedI’ve been around this campus for more than 11 years and watched it grow tremendously. Gone is the parking lot that splayed out between the CAC and Davis, an environmentally friendly building in its place. The CAC where I used to play marbles with my little brother while my dad was working is closed, sitting
Who is Lana Del Rey? It’s a question I found myself asking in a media law class last week after my professor oh-so coolly dropped her name. Remembering an essay in Esquire magazine comparing her to Florence Welch, I figured it was time to investigate. I guess I do get paid to know this stuff.
Breast cancer is expected to cause 39,510 deaths in the U.S. in 2012, with over 200,000 new cases of breast cancer estimated for the year. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, which has invested nearly $2 billion in breast cancer research, awareness, education and health services since its start in 1982, details these specifics
Would anyone think twice if this newspaper published an LGBT-friendly editorial on this page? Would hundreds of people raise their pitchforks and torches, alert the mainstream media and call for an immediate apology? How about if we published an anti-LGBT article? That’s the situation the student newspaper at Shawano Community High School is facing after
I discovered Pinterest a few weeks ago. It’s a website, kind of like tumblr, but with more pretty pictures per capita and without all the words muddying up my feed. I’ve got a bunch of virtual boards, and I virtually pin pictures to those boards of things that catch my eye. The idea is to
I nearly choked on my “Collen McCollough” (sandwich at the Tavern) when I read your front-page stories about bidding exclusive dining contracts for students in campus housing. My only question: Why? As an undergrad in 1996, I endured the University of North Florida’s meal plan for a year before getting out from under that mandatory
When we think of bicycles in St. Petersburg, we might conjure up recollections of the Pinellas Trail on a weekend morning, when bicycling families swarm like locusts. Maybe we recall jousting with a peloton (group) of ill-mannered spandex-clad road racers while driving. Cycling is often associated with recreation and leisure. A friend of mine was
The rematch of our generation’s “Game of the Century” was not as exiting as it was hyped to be. The Crimson Tide of Alabama rolled over Louisiana State in the Bowl Championship Series’ Title Game played in LSU’s backyard the Louisiana Superdome, on Jan. 9, to a score of 21 to nil. The sixth quarter
USF St. Petersburg should continue its push toward sustainability by signing the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment. To date, 647 college and university presidents have signed it, and 434 have submitted climate action plans detailing how the schools plan to go, and stay, green. The President’s Climate Commitment was started by Second Nature
As out-of-work recessioneers headed back to college looking for a leg up in the competitive job market, politicians, too, looked toward higher education for economic answers. The pillars of the Florida economy have traditionally been tourism, agriculture, construction and aerospace, three of which have been bludgeoned by the global economic collapse. The future of Florida
