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RSS FeedA group of USF St. Petersburg students are teaming up with a local grassroots campaign called I Am Choice to defeat Florida’s Amendment 6 this November. The state constitutional amendment considers abortion “manslaughter,” and challenges a woman’s health and privacy rights, activists say. Founded by St. Petersburg native Ayele Hunt, I Am Choice is a
Students in the cafeteria stopped to watch what was unfolding on the video wall in the University Student Center. The screens were set to HLN news. Table talk stopped mid-sentence, as the lunchtime crowd looked up, transfixed by footage of a skunk with a mayonnaise jar stuck on his head. The skunk’s casual walk
A survey posted on USF St. Petersburg’s Facebook page last Monday asks for student input on how large the already-expanding student enrollment should become. With 4,648 undergraduate, graduate and non-degree students, university enrollment is up 6 percent this semester. Joseph Alber, a junior majoring in English, said expansion is a good idea, a “symbiotic relationship
After students demanded later dining hours via social media and good old-fashioned word of mouth, The Reef announced later dining hours starting on Sept. 17. The Reef will stay open until 11 p.m. Monday through Friday with a shortened menu. After-hour food begins at 8:30 p.m.—the previous closing time—and students cannot pay for Late Night
Come hone your craft at one of our special seminars. You’ll have the opportunity to work one-on-one with Crow’s Nest staff to learn some tricks of the trade. We’re also going to be teaching special lessons on topics like ledes, interviewing, how to structure a news story, how to get good quotes, cliches (there are
Julie Buckner Armstrong is a writer by nature. From journaling through her teen years to the release of her book “Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching”—13 years in the making—the USFSP associate professor of English has a knack for the written word. This year’s St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading on Sat., Oct. 22,
In a time of great economic duress, many have turned to higher education as a way out of poverty. But that has become increasingly less feasible. Dwindling Bright Future dollars, increases in tuition and budget cuts from the state are forcing students to foot the bill for their own education. Sometimes it seems like students
On Sept. 12, a Crow’s Nest editorial discussed the need for an “Arab Spring”—inspired, youthful reformation of America. Five days later, in response to Toronto-based publication Adbusters’ call to action, roughly 2,000 protesters descended on Wall Street to protest “crony capitalism” and a financial system that—with two decades of legal decisions, trillion-dollar bailouts and corporate
The start of a new semester calls to mind a number of images—trips to the store to buy the perfect notebook to store all your smart thoughts, hours in the local coffee shop pouring over textbooks, combing through the grocery store for the perfect seven-nights-a-week Ramen, university governing boards raising tuition. While you were at
The downward spiral in our economy has meant cutting corners, clipping coupons and forgoing certain luxuries. Goodbye caramel lattes, adios three course dinners at Ceviche, farewell organic dog food. Although I have pared down my needs to the essentials—mostly home-brewed coffee and ramen noodles—I am skeptical of the tradeoff in the long run. I’m still
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