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Now that we’re a few weeks into another bustling school year, it seems those three “Rs”—reading, writing and arithmetic—remain at the helm of our education. We’ll never fully rid them from our endeavors, but quite honestly, we never should. Despite the Facebook distractions and busy hormones that hope “the one” is standing just a library
USF St. Petersburg will soon join a list of over 530 college campuses across the nation that have gone completely tobacco-free—whether students want it or not. Last semester, the administration asked Student Government to pass a symbolic resolution in support of the planned smoking ban. SG admirably refused to commit to an endorsement without student
Slow down your roll stop because St. Petersburg is installing red light cameras around the city. Warning notices start September 15 and will last for 30 days. Citations will be issued after October 15. “The intent of this program is to enhance safety for our residents,” Mayor Bill Foster told Creative Loafing this week They
The Project 10 Sting Ray program is for students with disabilities, to give them the opportunity to go to college just like every other regular student here at USFSP. I am the editor-in-chief for The Sting Ray Current, which similar to The Crow’s Nest. It’s about information and activities that we Sting Ray students do
A large number of freshmen reading this newspaper are likely not actually ready for college. ACT scores released on August 17 show that only 17 percent of Florida high school graduates are ready for higher education, better than only Tennessee and Mississippi. This is an alarming figure, even stacked up next to an average 25
I can’t believe that the school year is almost over, it seems like it was yesterday that The Crow’s Nest printed its first issue. Here we are, almost eight months later, with a completely different paper than what we started out with in August. As you have seen throughout the year, The Crow’s Nest took
Robbie Crowley Campus & Beyond Editor The semester is wrapping up at USFSP, and bitter-sweetly, so must the cackles from this hen in The Crow’s Nest. This is my hen song. While most students are cramming to do a semester’s worth of work in two weeks, The Cackling Hen must formulate a proper farewell in
The last issue of The Crow’s Nest featured an article about Manny Ramirez, the Tampa Bay Rays outfielder who was forced to serve a 50 game suspension for illicit use of a hormone typically given to women. The article, “Now Batting: Mandy Ramirez,” satirically claims that “a recent physical exam has indicated that the drug
Robbie Crowley Campus & Beyond Editor The Cackling Hen has resurrected. Chick-fil-A thought they could silence me, but I used one of my many body doubles to fool them. And since those body doubles are rubber chickens, that must have been a chewy batch of chicken sandwiches. But thankfully no one reported the chicken being
