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Month: September 2016

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Ferran Adrià Brings Food Exhibit to the Dalí

September 28, 2016September 28, 2016 Erin Murphy

[huge_it_slider id=”7″] “It wasn’t like food, it was like going to the symphony.” Such were the exclamations of those who dined at elBulli, the three-star Michelin restaurant in Spain that

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Feature

The Dalí Joins Fight Against Hunger

September 28, 2016 Tamiracle Williams

The new exhibit at the Dalí Museum, “Ferran Adrià: The Invention of Food”, displays art as food. Sadly, not everyone can afford to see cuisine as an artform. “We felt

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Sports USF Sports

Bulls Crushed by Seminoles

September 27, 2016September 29, 2016 Ryan Callihan

The USF Bulls football suffered a 55-35 defeat at the hands of the No. 12 FSU Seminoles. Saturday’s football game was USF’s biggest of the season. The previously undefeated Bulls

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Editorials Opinion

Administration Should Expand Parking As Enrollment Rises

September 27, 2016October 10, 2016 Nikki Sawyer

School safety employees directed students out of the parking garage after it filled to capacity on the morning of Sept. 20. I arrived on campus early that morning, narrowly escaping

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Editorials Opinion

Makeup is Optional, Female Autonomy is Not

September 27, 2016 Indhira Suero Acosta

Alicia Keys doesn’t want to wear makeup anymore, and that’s a problem for society. The award-winning songwriter has performed at the Democratic National Convention and the MTV Video Music Awards

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Feature

New Book To Display The Plight Of Civilians In War

September 27, 2016 Devin Rodriguez

For the past seven years Dr. Thomas Smith, a professor at USF St. Petersburg, has been listening to the often unheard stories of people affected by war. He’s received data

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News Off-Campus News

Students Show Interest in Cross-Bay Ferry

September 27, 2016 Ryan Callihan

Students will soon be able to traverse Tampa Bay on a 55-foot catamaran. In November, the Cross-Bay Ferry will open, providing public transportation between St. Petersburg and Tampa. Tickets cost

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Arts and Life Campus

Suave Samba Brings Taste of Carnival to Campus

September 26, 2016September 26, 2016 Tamiracle Williams

Samba performers, donned in sparkling and feathered costumes, danced with students around the USC ballrooms. The Multicultural Activities Council hosted the Suave Samba Night, and introduced students to Latin American

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Arts and Life Feature

At-Risk Teenagers Visit Campus, Experience College

September 26, 2016 Michael Moore Jr.

They have hopes, dreams and aspirations. Many of them want to be professional athletes when they grow up. Others are drawn toward the idea of being a mechanic. One wants

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Sports USF Sports

Bulls Kick Off Tennis Season With Strong Bedford Cup Showing

September 26, 2016October 4, 2016 Jeffrey Waitkevich

With three Bulls in the semifinals, USF kicked off its season with a splash. It appeared the Bedford Cup, a Florida-only invitational tournament, would sport the name of a USF

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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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