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Reflections on bringing recycling to USFSP

October 14, 2013 Crow's Nest Staff

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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News Off-Campus News Opinion

View from the Nest: Marching against Monsanto

October 14, 2013 Crow's Nest Staff

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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Eating animals: lifestyle choice or murder?

October 14, 2013 Crow's Nest Staff

According to Jonathan Safran Foer, humans would make water undrinkable, eliminate fish from the ocean, destroy topsoil and fashion useless antibiotics, unless, somewhere along the way, they stop craving the

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A ‘surreal’ learning experience

October 7, 2013 Crow's Nest Staff

The Dalí Museum is partnering with the USF St. Petersburg College of Education to create the Dalí Mobile, a traveling museum experience for seventh grade math and science students. “Not

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Local Music Music and Entertainment

Listen Local: your guide to Don’t Stop St. Pete

September 30, 2013 Crow's Nest Staff

Don’t Stop St. Petersburg Music and Arts Festival   If you’ve always wanted to get into the local arts scene but didn’t know where to find it, or whether you

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Censorship in a digital world

September 24, 2013 Crow's Nest Staff

If ever there were a place to celebrate counterculture and off-limits literature, it would be a college library. On Thursday, Sept. 19, such a celebration occurred in USF St. Petersburg’s

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USFSP baseball club planned for spring

September 23, 2013 Crow's Nest Staff

This spring, sophomore Jeremy Berger may be bringing baseball to USF St. Petersburg. Berger is in the process of adding USFSP to the list of schools involved in the National

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Local Sports Sports

Beach volleyball comes to St. Pete

September 9, 2013 Crow's Nest Staff

The best volleyball players in the world will descend on St. Petersburg the weekend of Sept. 13-15 for the Association of Volleyball Professionals Tour events at Vinoy Park. The AVP

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Opinion Opinion Columns

Lens fits city’s ‘hip’ culture

August 27, 2013 Crow's Nest Staff

When it comes to the new pier we are beyond talking about the condition of the old inverted pyramid or the necessity of a new one. Like a married couple,

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St. Pete Pier is ‘comfort’

August 27, 2013 Crow's Nest Staff

Piers have been cycled in St. Petersburg since the late 19th century. Boardwalk styles, fancy titles like “The Million Dollar Pier,” and inverted pyramids have occupied the downtown stretch of

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Heading into the 2026 Indy NXT Firestone Grand Pri Heading into the 2026 Indy NXT Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, 17-year-old Gulfport-native Nikita Johnson was optimistic. 

“I’m super thrilled, it’s such a tough category, so to be in [Indy NXT] again and for my first full year is amazing. Hopefully we can pull off a few wins,” Johnson told The Crow’s Nest at the Grand Prix Kickoff Street Party on Feb. 25. 

Johnson got his first win as a full-time Indy NXT driver earlier than expected. Starting from P2 after exceeding expectations in qualifying, Johnson overtook grid leader Max Taylor on the race’s initial turn and led the rest of the way. 

“I saw there was an opportunity coming into turn one, so I went for it and stuck it,” Johnson said during the post-race press conference. “After that — I don’t want to say smooth sailing — but I had it pretty controlled. It was still a little bit tough. Max was right there all the time behind me.” 

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In a repeat of the 2025 Firestone Grand Prix of St In a repeat of the 2025 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Álex Palou parked his No.10 DHL Chip Ganassi Racing Honda in victory lane on March 1. He grabbed the lead in Lap 42 out of 100 and didn’t let go until the checkered flag waved. 

He finished 12.4948 seconds ahead of Scott McLaughlin, who took pole in qualifying on Feb. 28, for the largest margin of victory in the history of the street circuit. 

“[Palou] uses guard base and gets track position,” McLaughlin said in a post-race press conference. “Obviously, I think the correct decision today was probably to start with red tires, but we didn’t know that going in.” 

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Have you checked out Dave Crow’s participation a Have you checked out Dave Crow’s participation at the Grand Prix? You can find it on our latest print issue! 

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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.

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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.  

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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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