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Month: January 2018

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Stars and Scrubs Episode 7: Super Bowls and Superstars

January 30, 2018 USFSP Faculty

The Stars and Scrubs crew is back from an extended vacation to talk Super Bowl picks, All-Star games and Team LeBron vs Team Curry. Also, tune in to find out

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Letters Opinion

Letter to the Editor: I Will Be… Separately Accredited

January 29, 2018January 28, 2018 Mariah McQueen

By Mariah McQueen Some people think that the controversial bill containing language that would unravel USF St. Petersburg’s separate accreditation is a foregone conclusion. But I refuse to do nothing

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Book Review Music and Entertainment

Button Poetry’s Rudy Francisco’s first book triumphs

January 29, 2018January 29, 2018 Sara McDonald

By Sara M. McDonald Internet sensation Rudy Francisco, a Button Poetry artist made famous for his spoken word poem  “Scars/ To The New Boyfriend,” has finally made his written word

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Accreditation Campus News News

Tadlock remains calm despite uncertain future

January 29, 2018February 8, 2018 Whitney Elfstrom

By Whitney Elfstrom At several points around campus last week, The Crow’s Nest front page bearing the banner headline “Genshafted again?” was on prominent display. One was taped to the

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Arts and Life Feature

Meet the student who designed The Edge’s graphics

January 29, 2018January 29, 2018 Anna Bryson

Above photo: Gaby Mena is the artistic mind behind the graphic walls in The Edge. Anna Bryson | The Crow’s Nest By Anna Bryson Senior graphic design major Gaby Mena

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Campus News News

Accelerate your spring break with Ex Labs

January 29, 2018January 28, 2018 Delaney Brown

By Delaney Brown Not all learning happens in the classroom. Sometimes it happens in an accelerator lab. Ex Labs is a business boot camp that acts as an alternative spring

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Sports Sports Opinion

What’s the point of All-Star Games?

January 29, 2018January 28, 2018 Michael Fergusson

By Michael Fergusson The Pro Bowl was this weekend. Did you miss it? That’s OK, we all did. Let’s be real: All-Star games are terrible, awful, pointless endeavors. Right off

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Opinion

Presidential cussing, the least of our worries

January 29, 2018January 28, 2018 Luke Cross

By Luke Cross “Shithole.” Media outlets spent an entire weekend covering the presidential buzzword as soon as it spilled from President Donald Trump’s mouth during a meeting with lawmakers. Specifically,

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Accreditation Campus News News

Retirees speak out against House Bill 423

January 29, 2018February 8, 2018 Jeffrey Waitkevich

By Jeffrey Waitkevich Toting a resolution for revolution, a group of the university’s retired faculty and staff is standing up against the big shots. The Retired Faculty and Staff Association

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Feature

Gasparilla invades the streets again

January 29, 2018January 29, 2018 Dylan Hart

By Dylan Hart and Michael McDade An especially crowded Tampa, already filled to the brim with excited hockey fans downtown for the NHL All-Star event, invited festival-goers from far and

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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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