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Month: May 2025

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Arts and Life

Futurity pop-up offers an inclusive future for markets

May 27, 2025June 5, 2025 Julia Ferrara

Photographer Juniper “Junie” Johnson offers $15 portraits to market attendees.   Photo courtesy of Amanda N. Rivas By Julia Ferrara Under a setting sun and bubble-filled skies, you’ll find people decorating

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Opinion

Opinion: U.S. National Security is more vulnerable than ever  

May 27, 2025May 27, 2025 Jasmin Parrado

By Jasmin Parrado After President Donald Trump fired National Security Agency director Gen. Timothy Haugh and deputy director Wendy Noble on April 3, it has become undeniably clear that politicization

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Arts and Life Feature

How a local hot air balloon pilot overcame the odds to soar 

May 8, 2025 Skyla Rogers

A balloon glows at the Tampa Hot Air Balloon Festival 2025, in which hot air balloons are tethered to the ground once the sun sets and inflated with burners to

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Arts and Life

The allure of sports betting among college students

May 8, 2025 Kaylen Ross

Photo by Kaylen Sifon By Kaylen Ross For McKenzie Riggan, an English junior, it all began with a simple referral from a coworker. “My coworker at the time sent me

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Arts and Life Community

The St. Petersburg Lawn Bowling Club preserves a century-old tradition 

May 5, 2025 María José Solís

Photo by Maria Solis By Maria Solis In downtown St. Petersburg, history isn’t just something you read about; it rolls across the green every week.   Tucked between high rises and

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Arts and Life Campus

USFSP students face an adorable challenge raising puppies on campus

May 2, 2025 Irena Mesa

Kadin Knowles’ puppy, Leone, posing in front of a fountain. Photo by Irena Mesa By Irena Mesa The task of raising a puppy to one day become a service dog

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News Off-Campus News

How Tampa Bay journalists are contending with the Trump administration’s ‘firehose’  

May 2, 2025May 2, 2025 Alisha Durosier

International news network Voice of America was also a target of the Trump Administration. It was dismantled in March before being reinstated in April. Photo by Audio Engineering Society By

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Recent Posts

  • Annual USFSP night walk aims to improve campus safety 
  • USFSP alumna’s anthology explores Florida’s history through fiction 
  • The Tampa Bay Journalism Project takes local news to the next level 
  • Álex Palou powers past field for dominant win in 2026 St. Petersburg Grand Prix 
  • Local driver Nikita Johnson wins Indy NXT St. Petersburg Grand Prix  

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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! 

#gpstpete #usfsp #usf  #indycar
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.

#usfsp #usf #grandprix #gpstpete
Have you picked up the most recent issue of The Cr Have you picked up the most recent issue of The Crow’s Nest? 📰

We print bi-weekly and have over ten newsstands on the USF St. Petersburg campus. 

Want to learn more or contribute to CN? Send us a DM or stop by the office(PRW110) we’d love to hear from you 🐦‍⬛ 

#usfsp #oneusf #press #studentnewspaper
POV: You’re participating in the MLK Day parade. POV: You’re participating in the MLK Day parade. 

Spend the day with Marcella, our social media manager, as she joins USFSP in honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for St. Petersburg’s  annual MLK Parade. 

 🎥 Video by Marcella Copeland.
The closer they get, the clearer it becomes. You The closer they get, the clearer it becomes.

You hear it too, right?

Video 🎥: Marcella Copeland

#usfsp #usf
Just a regular day in the newsroom… or is it? 👀

Stay tuned — this story is only getting started! 

Video 🎥: Marcella Copeland 

#usf #usfsp
You are about to witness the most PAW-fect party o You are about to witness the most PAW-fect party on campus, as we celebrated our police therapy dog: Snowbird!

Snowbird is now three years old and yesterday he was able to celebrate with his furry friends and USF family! 

Comment your favorite thing about Snowbird 🐾

🎥 Video shot by Alisha Durosier and Jasmin Parrado, and edited by Marcella Copeland

#USFSP #SnowBird #Pawfection
Happy April Fools’ Day Bulls! @rockyd.bull made Happy April Fools’ Day Bulls! @rockyd.bull made sure to get into some mischief. 

Not only did he put photos of himself all around the campus gym, but he also made Snowbird his accomplice. 

Students were bamboozled to say the least as they walked in for their yoga class.

Make sure to grab a copy of our print issue this week for behind-the-scenes photos of this prank.

Comment down below what you would like to see him do next year ⬇️

🎥 Video by Sofía García Vargas.

#AprilFools #RockyDBull #Prank #USFSP #USFStPetersburg
Brews, views, and Bulls pride! 🍻🌊🤘 Che Brews, views, and Bulls pride! 🍻🌊🤘 

Cheers to a successful Bulls & Brews by the Bay at USF St. Pete! 

🎥 Video by Marcella Copeland.

#GoBulls #BullsAndBrews #USFSP

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