Skip to content
  • About
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Full Issues
  • Staffing
The Crow's Nest

The Crow's Nest

at USF St. Petersburg

  • Home
  • News
  • Arts & Life
  • Sports
  • Feature
  • Opinion
  • Editorials
  • RHO Updates

Month: February 2011

  • Home
  • 2011
  • February
News

Ten TV channels you didn’t know you own – Archive

February 24, 2011 Lenay Ruhl

Nicole Miller Contributing Writer Way up in the skyscraping numbers of a Bright House digital cable box lays a buffet of fabulous channels often unsurfed. Let’s change that. 1. IFC

Read More
Arts and Life

Stepping Up During Black History Month – Archive

February 21, 2011 Lenay Ruhl

Nikeya Williams Editor in Chief Black Student Association hosted The Bulls Stampede Step Emporium event on Thursday, Feb. 17 in the CAC core. This event, which was one of BSA’s

Read More
News

New student center aims for LEED ranking – Archive

February 21, 2011 Keeley Sheehan

Keeley Sheehan Managing Editor USF St. Petersburg is tentatively scheduled to break ground on the new student center this spring, in either March or April. Earlier this month, the Student

Read More
Arts and Life

SG approves bike rental program – Archive

February 21, 2011 Lenay Ruhl

Tom Chang Online Editor Student Government approved $7,300 to start a campus bike program to allow students to check out biking equipment from the campus fitness center. “That is something

Read More
Aaron Moe Memorial
News

Students celebrate the life of a friend – Archive

February 21, 2011 Keeley Sheehan

Event photo by Aimee Alexander/Crow’s Nest. Keeley Sheehan Managing Editor The day was filled with more smiles than tears—he would have wanted it that way. Students and faculty from the

Read More
Taco Bus - Rene Valenzuela
Arts and Life

Get on the Bus! – Archive

February 21, 2011 Lenay Ruhl

Photo and Story by Aimee Alexander/Crow’s Nest Taco Bus owner,Rene Valenzuela, opened his much-anticipated Mexican restaurant in St. Petersburg on Feb.18,2 011. Aimee Alexander Photo Editor Residents of St. Petersburg

Read More
Sports

International baseball comes to St. Petersburg, FL – Archive

February 20, 2011 Lenay Ruhl

Greg Lindberg Sports Editor For the next several weeks, professional baseball players from three other countries will call St. Petersburg their home plate away from home. Teams from Canada, the

Read More
Logo
News

USF St. Petersburg logo marks change for university – Archive

February 7, 2011 Lenay Ruhl

Photo by Aimee Alexander/Crow’s Nest USFSP’s new logo adorns banners all across campus. University officials believe the new logo will help define the campus’ independent status. Robbie Crowley Campus &

Read More
Old Dali
News

USF St. Petersburg acquires former Dali Museum – Archive

February 7, 2011 Lenay Ruhl

Photo by Aimee Alexander/Crow’s Nest USF St. Petersburg now owns the newly renamed building, Harbor Hall, that once housed the largest comprehensive collection of Salvador Dali artwork. It is undetermined

Read More
Arts and Life

Five ways to boost your procrastination skills – Archive

February 7, 2011 Lenay Ruhl

Leave Facebook (and homework) behind with this ultimate guide on how not to do anything productive. Nicole Miller Contributing Writer 5-Second Films www.5secondfilms.com Love to watch funny videos? Hate it

Read More

Posts pagination

1 2 Next

Recent Posts

  • USFSP students discuss the most stressful week of their year 
  • USFSP Marine Science Laboratory totaled after two-alarm fire 
  • USF alums create opportunities for students 
  • USF Women’s Sailing places second in SAISA Championship, secures National Championship bid 
  • Ahead of St. Pete mayoral primary, candidates talk resilience, Historic Gas Plant District, affordability  

usfcrowsnest

The race for the next St. Petersburg mayor is a pa The race for the next St. Petersburg mayor is a packed one, with six candidates in the running, including the sitting mayor, Kenneth T. Welch and former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who was the latest to file as of April 27. 

Other candidates include long-serving public administrator Maria Scruggs, District 2 Councilwoman Brandi Gabbard, retired St. Petersburg Fire Chief Jim Large and former Shore Acres Neighborhood Association President Kevin Batdorf. 

The Crow’s Nest spoke to four of the seven candidates, who expanded on their campaign ideals and spoke of what they want the future of the city to look like. 

🎨 Graphic by Olivia Young

📲 Click the link in our bio to read the entire story.

✍️ Story by Julia Birdsall and Alisha Durosier

#usfsp #stpetemayor #stpeteelection
Fire crews are actively responding to a fire at th Fire crews are actively responding to a fire at the Marine Science Laboratory (MSL). 

While the cause is unclear, The Crow’s Nest received reports of either a chemical fire or a lightning strike as the cause.

At approximately 5 p.m., USF St. Petersburg students were met with sirens and a scene of smoke billowing from the peninsula of the St. Petersburg campus. University faculty and staff working near the area are being evacuated. 

The MSL is among the oldest buildings on the St. Petersburg campus, where the campus’s first classes were held in 1965. 

It was originally opened in 1939 as a maritime service training station. It currently houses research labs and faculty offices for the Marine Science Program.

This is a developing story.

🎥 Video courtesy of Joe Farías Alencar.

#usf #usfsp
As we approach the close of the Spring Semester of As we approach the close of the Spring Semester of 2026, we would like to recognize and say goodbye to our fellow senior staffers:

Online Editor – Julia Ferrara
News Editor – Jasmin Parrado
Arts & Life Editor – Matthew McGovern
Sports Editor – Dominic Feo
Opinions/Features Editor – Julia Birdsall
Staff Reporter – Irena Mesa
Marketing Manager – Marcella Copeland
Managing Editor - María José Solís

and our 

Editor in Chief – Alisha Durosier 

Congratulations to our seniors and we are wishing them the best as the fly away to a new chapter in their lives. 🐦‍⬛🎓

#usfsp #usf
After 12 years as the Dean of Students at the Univ After 12 years as the Dean of Students at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Jacob Diaz is resigning. 

Diaz’s last day is on May 15; he will then serve as the inaugural assistant vice president and dean of Students at the University of Maryland. 

 Diaz described his time as dean of students as a “dream come true.” 

🎨 Graphic by Olivia Young

📲 Click the link in our bio to read the entire story.

✍️ Story by Secilia Ruiz 

#usfsp #usf
The thought of an early graduation is a harrowing The thought of an early graduation is a harrowing thought for third year digital communications and multimedia journalism major Sophia Lowrie, who said that she wishes they had more time to assimilate to life on a college campus before being thrust into adult life. 

She is not the only one. 

🎨 Graphic by Olivia Young

📲 Click the link in our bio to read the entire story.

✍️ Story by Julia Birdsall 

#usfsp #usf

Whether the next steps involve graduate school or entering the workforce, many of the seniors at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg are feeling similarly anxious and uncertain in the weeks leading up to their graduation dates.
Nico Gramatica did not grow up playing football. Nico Gramatica did not grow up playing football. 

The sophomore kicker for the University of South Florida played club soccer and only started kicking footballs in his sophomore year of high school. 

“My dad kicked, my uncle kicked and people were asking me, ‘Why don’t you come out, try it for a year and see if you like it. If you don’t like it, you can be done after one year,’” Gramatica said. “I went out, had a great time and got to make some really good friends.” 

🎨 Graphic by Olivia Young

📸 Photos by Irena Mesa 

📲 Click the link in our bio to read the entire story.

✍️ Story by Irena Mesa 

#usfsp #usf
College campuses are a place where a strong sense College campuses are a place where a strong sense of community can be formed among students, but many commuter students, like junior English major Zoey Earles, feel that they have fewer opportunities to form these connections. 

“Positives [of being a commuter], I have my own apartment,” Earles said. “Negatives, I don’t make as [many] friends, and I don’t necessarily know about all the things that are happening on campus.” 

Events hosted on campus are a great way to meet people and find that sense of community, but sustainability senior Estela Najera said that being aware of events is difficult. 

🎨 Graphic by Olivia Young

📲 Click the link in our bio to read the entire story.

✍️ Story by Julia Birdsall 

#usfsp #usf
In the familiar currents of St. Petersburg, the Un In the familiar currents of St. Petersburg, the University of South Florida Women’s sailing team placed second at the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (SAISA) Women’s Team and Fleet Championship Races on April 12. 

The regatta secured USF a spot in the College Sailing Women’s Fleet National Championship, which USF St. Petersburg will also host from May 15-18. 

Before the competition, USF’s Division A Fleet Race starters Kailey Warrior and Madisen Hamai told The Crow’s Nest about the advantages of sailing in local waters. 

🎨 Graphic by Olivia Young

📸 Photos by Kendall Bulkiewicz | USF Athletics 

📲 Click the link in our bio to read the entire story.

✍️ Story by Dominic Feo 

#usfsp #usf
USF St. Petersburg Student Government Governor, El USF St. Petersburg Student Government Governor, Elise Prophete, is speaking out after not being able to give the speech she’d initially written for the annual Rocky's Leadership Award Ceremony.

“I am choosing to do what is right for me and provoke the thoughts that I hope are right for this campus. To shift the self-censoring, student-second attitudes back into a space where the stories we have are told and appreciated,” Prophete wrote.

📲 Click the link in our bio to read her entire column and her original speech.

✍️ Column by Elise Prophete.

All Rights Reserved –– The Crow's Nest 2023.
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Fairy by Candid Themes.