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Month: October 2013

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Campus News News

Credit hour cap costing students

October 20, 2013 Lenay Ruhl

State university students who enrolled after the 2009-2010 academic year and exceed more than 10 percent of the required credit hours for their degree will pay an additional 50 percent

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Arts and Life Community

Guide to a Haunted Weekend

October 20, 2013 Lenay Ruhl

On this pre-Halloween weekend, there is a lot going on in St. Petersburg for those with a taste for getting spooked. Here is the Crow’s Nest paper-tour-guide of things to

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Local Sports Sports

Bishop shines in 3-1 victory over Wild

October 17, 2013 Lenay Ruhl

For a team that is becoming known for its offensive prowess, it was the Tampa Bay Lightning’s goaltending that grabbed everyone’s attention against the Minnesota Wild. Ben Bishop made 25

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News Off-Campus News

Foster to Kriseman: ‘Prove St. Pete is just status quo’

October 15, 2013 USFSP Faculty

Mayor Bill Foster believes St. Petersburg is far above status quo. Challenger Rick Kriseman thinks a “better St. Petersburg” has yet to be achieved. The two mayoral candidates attempted to

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Editorials Opinion

Drug penalties pose war on higher ed

October 14, 2013 Lenay Ruhl

It’s question 23 on the FAFSA application. “Have you been convicted for the possession or sale of illegal drugs for an offense that occurred while you were receiving federal student

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Opinion Opinion Columns

The SLC echo

October 14, 2013 Lenay Ruhl

I have a cool job. I interact with students who I like everyday. I like most of my co-workers. I hear about campus happenings that I would otherwise miss. I

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Opinion Opinion Columns

Reflections on bringing recycling to USFSP

October 14, 2013 Lenay Ruhl

Raised in Dallas with more than 10 million people, finding a recycle bin on the street was practically impossible. I was the last person I ever suspected to propose a

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Campus News News

Smooth sailing with the Waterfront

October 14, 2013 Jennifer Nesslar

Students can sail away on a three-night voyage on USFSP’s Wanderer.

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News Off-Campus News Opinion

View from the Nest: Marching against Monsanto

October 14, 2013 Lenay Ruhl

Chanting “Hell No, GMO,” a fleet of health concerned consumers gathered outside the St. Petersburg city hall around noon, on Saturday, Oct. 12. They carried signs slathered with words of

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Arts and Life Community

Local studio to fund Gen Y’s creative dreams

October 14, 2013 Ryan Ballogg

The answer is always yes. It’s that simple. That is the phrase that has come to represent what playwright, actor and theater director Bob Devin Jones has done for St.

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Social media and protests are some of the main way Social media and protests are some of the main ways that people get involved in activism today. 

However, not everyone does this with selfless intention. 

Performative activism is when one involves themself with a social movement in a way that benefits them but not the movement they claim to support. 

“When it’s performative, it can come off a lot more like self-serving, or it can come off a lot more like you’re just here for the flashiness, but there’s no real work happening after,” said Harrison Lundy, the public policy director for Voices of Florida and a volunteer for 5051 Florida.  

It’s like putting on a mask, Elise Prophete, junior political science and sustainability major and Governor of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg’s student government, told The Crow’s Nest. 

When engaging in performative activism “we’re not allowing ourselves to be vulnerable and be at risk for the things we care about,” Prophete said. “We’re not allowing ourselves to truly care about them.” 
Performative activism has the effect of boosting one’s own social credit while devaluing a social movement.

✍️Story by Julia Birdsall
The poet laureate usually holds their position for The poet laureate usually holds their position for the mayor’s term and Johnson-Greene will join a distinguished body of poets who previously held the role, including Peter Meinke, Helen Wallace, and more recently, Gloria Muñoz.  

His reaction was one of surprise and astonishment.  

“I think I began to babble something like Courage the Cowardly dog,” Johnson-Green told The Crow’s Nest.  

Johnson-Green’s experience with poetry began about eight years ago, but he still considers himself new to it. He stayed away from the art form for a long time because of the sad connotations it carried.  

This changed when he attended a poetry open mic at Studio@620, a local visual and performing arts venue in downtown St. Petersburg.  

“The walls were a passionate red, the seating was cool and raised up like a theatre, and the poets were everyday people; the oldest around sixty-three and the youngest was about seven,” said Johnson-Green.  

✍️Story by Julia Ferrara
February was a month full of fun festivities. Here February was a month full of fun festivities. Here’s a look back at all the great events that happened on and off campus.

📲 Click the link in our bio to view all the photos.
The Nascar Craftsman Truck Series came to the stre The Nascar Craftsman Truck Series came to the streets of St. Petersburg for the first time this weekend and the on-track action did not disappoint. 

Layne Riggs started the race 28th after rain cancelled the practice and qualifying sessions that were scheduled for Friday afternoon. At the end of the first 20-lap stage, he already gained 21 positions and was 7th at the beginning of the second 20-lap stage. At the end, he was first. 

However, it was a three-way battle between Riggs, Ty Majeski, and Ben Rhodes in the closing laps of the race. Riggs wasn’t sure that he’d have enough fuel to even finish the race, let alone defend against Ty Majeski who finished in second. 

Riggs held on and captured his first win of the season. The Nascar Craftsman Trucks Series picks up again on March 20 for the Buckle Up South Carolina 200 in Darlington. 

📸 Photos by Makenna Wozniak and Irena Mesa | The Crow’s Nest.

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Dom and Irena stopped by the GP Party in the park Dom and Irena stopped by the GP Party in the park and asked some questions to the drivers! 

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Day 1 of the St. Petersburg Grand Prix brought pra Day 1 of the St. Petersburg Grand Prix brought practice and qualifying sessions to the downtown street course.

The Crow’s Nest will be covering the event all weekend. More coming soon.

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Hearing Depeche Mode’s “Black Celebration” i Hearing Depeche Mode’s “Black Celebration” in a crowded room was something pre-graphics arts sophomore Kea Shindel never thought she would experience.  

She was raised on goth and industrial music and partakes in the style. 

“It was crazy hearing that with a room full of people that were all liking the same thing,” Schindle said. “Which I’ve never experienced before.” 

It’s an experience that many students from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg can recall — walking into The Castle for the first time and feeling like they belong.  

The Crow’s Nest decided to take students’ word for it.  

✍️ Story by Julia Birdsall
Basketball has been a recreational activity for Un Basketball has been a recreational activity for University of South Florida students at the St. Petersburg campus since 2006. Twenty years later, the courts are more often hosting pickleball.   

Over a hundred USF St. Petersburg students have played the recent phenomenon since the Pickleball Club began in 2024

Club meetings have provided students four extra hours a week to play, while basketball still shares the regular time of 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday with pickleball.   

A few students organized this semester to help USF St. Petersburg basketball reach overtime. Senior business analytics and information systems major and club president, Gabriel Lopez and his friends have considered creating the St. Petersburg Basketball Club since last April. 

We knew that USF [St. Petersburg] needed a basketball club, we wanted the courts a little later, and we want to start building a consistent community with basketball,” Lopez said. 

The club gives basketball its own four additional hours, scheduling meetings every Friday and Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

✍️Story by Dominic Feo
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