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Day: September 2, 2014

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Campus News News

Trail paved over street parking

September 2, 2014 Lenay Ruhl

Metered parking surrounding USF St. Petersburg was eliminated along 6th Avenue S. between Third and First streets. Grassy medians separate single lanes along Sixth Avenue S. A complementing wide sidewalk

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Campus News News Off-Campus News

Crash kills student on birthday

September 2, 2014 Mark Wolfenbarger

On the evening of his 21st birthday, USF St. Petersburg student Jordan A. Schleimer was killed in a car accident. Around 6:03 p.m. on Aug. 24, Schleimer was heading westbound

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Campus News News Off-Campus News

Longboards free to cruise

September 2, 2014 Jack Moscone

For the past two decades, skateboarding in the downtown area was illegal, resulting in a $93 fine for misconduct. But now, the ban is over. USF St. Petersburg students cruising

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Campus News News

Volleyball returns to campus

September 2, 2014March 29, 2017 Angelina Bruno

For now, a beach volleyball game requires a trip to the downtown North Shore Park or the Postcard Inn on St. Petersburg Beach. But that will soon change. Beach volleyball

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Arts and Life Community

The history of a city: backyard ‘Burg history

September 2, 2014 Joey Vars

St. Petersburg, or “the ‘Burg,” is full of quirky and weird sights with a history that is just as colorful as its modern nightlife. Unfamiliar with the area? Returning students

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Arts and Life Features Music and Entertainment Theatre

Lizards and laughs at the Mahaffey

September 2, 2014 Caitlin Ashworth

The Floridian reptile population set the tone for a night of humor at the Mahaffey Theater. MTV2’s Guy Code comedian Jermaine Fowler entertained more than 200 students at the Main

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Arts and Life Movies Music and Entertainment

Movie Review: “The Expendables 3”

September 2, 2014 Lenay Ruhl

Action movies never have convincing plots, but that doesn’t matter much. The action in The Expendables 3 is enjoyable, but it rambles on as if director Patrick Hughes is turning

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Local Sports Sports

Bucs line ready for win

September 2, 2014 Andrew Caplan

Just one season removed from the “Fire Schiano” campaign, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have evolved into a different team over night. During this past offseason, the team hired Head Coach

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Crowd power boosts Bulls

September 2, 2014 Andrew Caplan

As smoke filled the tunnel, the Bulls ran onto the field to start their 2014 season with a bang. Although the canons were not firing at Raymond James Stadium, a

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Opinion Opinion Columns

Opinion: Served, then scared: a day in the life of a process server

September 2, 2014 Andrew Caplan

It was just another day at work. Except on this day, I’m standing on a stranger’s porch with a gun pointed at my face. This is my job. It was

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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.

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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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