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RSS FeedThe Residence Hall One professional staff is planning to remove the front desk and renovate the area into office space in the near future. As the university expands, the RHO staff feels there should be a housing operation accessible to students. Students complained about the front desk removal and created a petition in protest. RHO
The article “Battles rage in St. Petersburg over Kerouac legacy” published in the Nov. 9 issue of The Crow’s Nest included text copied directly from several published articles. Whole paragraphs were copied without proper citation or attribution from articles in The St. Petersburg Times (“The fight over all things Kerouac,” Nov. 24, 2002; “Pinellas judge
With graduation and the future looming, the best thing students can do in an economy with a 9.1 percent unemployment rate is plan ahead and be proactive. Barbara Higel, assistant director of the Career Center, said the mentality and perception of students is “I don’t have to worry about [my career] until further on.” Higel
In Jan. 2012, USF St. Petersburg will be the first entire USF institution to go tobacco-free. The new campus-wide tobacco and smoking ban is a result of ongoing efforts by faculty and staff to create a healthier campus. Other Florida colleges have previously followed suit. In Nov. 2009, the USF Tampa College of Public Health
For college students in a struggling economy, there are two options after graduation: go big or go home. For many, this means securing a job, but for six university students, it means standing in front of three judges and selling them an idea. “An idea stands out only because of the obsessive compulsion of the
The possibility of school shootings, like those at Columbine High School in Colorado 1999 and Virginia Tech in 2007, have lead to more awareness of how vulnerable schools can be to sudden unforeseen acts of violence. On Nov. 14, University Police Chief Rene Chenevert presented the video “Shots Fired on Campus.” The purpose of the
Tyler Crawford graduated from USF St. Petersburg in spring 2011 with his bachelor’s degree in English and history. He celebrated his 23rd birthday on Monday, Nov. 7. Monday was also the day he received his first student loan bill for $80. Now he is a state organizer for the local chapter of Fight Back Florida,
Holocaust survivor George Lucius Salton lived through ten concentration camps, the deaths of his mother and father to the Nazis and the still unknown fate of his brother—whom he hasn’t heard from since the last time they saw each other in a concentration camp. On Nov. 1, Salton shared his experiences with the USFSP community.
A zombie apocalypse has arrived on campus. On Monday, Nov. 7, humans and “zombies” will launch a battle in a game hosted by students. Freshman Scott Mange organized a group to gather and play for seven days to see who will survive. According to humansvszombies.org, the game “Humans vs. Zombies” began at Groucher College in
Instant news from social media and contextualized news from traditional media were discussed with a group of 16 African journalists who visited in conjunction with the Edward R. Murrow Program on Nov. 3. Monica Ancu and Paul Wang, professors in the Department of Journalism & Media Studies, presented at the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library to
