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Seniors look back at newspaper experience

April 22, 2019April 20, 2019 Dinorah Prevost

A home on campus Before I started at The Crow’s Nest, I was an introverted English major with big dreams of working in a Hollywood writer’s room one day. I

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Feature

Graphic design seniors ‘wing it’ ‘til the end

April 22, 2019April 20, 2019 Dinorah Prevost

By Dinorah Prevost Some seniors have a thesis paper. Senior graphic design majors have a thesis show. The newest crop of graphic design seniors will showcase their thesis projects at

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Arts and Life Campus

TEDx focuses on personal stories

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 Dinorah Prevost

By Dinorah Prevost Lexi Bishop teared up a bit during her TEDx talk. Partly because of her topic — mental health. Partly because of her mom’s reaction in the audience.

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TEDxUSFSP gears up for 5th annual event

April 7, 2019April 15, 2019 Dinorah Prevost

By Dinorah Prevost Albert Moreno was asked to speak at TEDxUSFSP for the past few years, but he was too busy to prepare for it. He was working as chair

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Arts and Life Community

Festival brings Good Vibes to St. Petersburg

April 7, 2019April 7, 2019 Dinorah Prevost

By Dylan Hart and Dinorah Prevost Artists and musicians from around St. Petersburg congregated in Williams Park on April 6 for the Good Vibes Only Festival. Student Government at USF

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Feature

The little things to miss about the old Daddy Kool

March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 Dinorah Prevost

By Dinorah Prevost One of the memorable scenes from the 1995 movie “Empire Records” involves a heavy metal band named GWAR. Mark, an employee, sits on the couch in the

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Opinion Opinion Columns

How I reclaimed my natural hair and stopped hiding

March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 Dinorah Prevost

By Dinorah Prevost After 22 years, I finally left the house with my hair out. Not down — out. This black girl learned to love her curls. And it’s been

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Arts and Life Community

Alumna takes record shop on the road

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 Dinorah Prevost

By Dinorah Prevost Out of her camper van, she works a record player and blasts Sly and the Family Stone’s “Sex Machine.” Arielle Stevenson does that with most of the

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Campus News News

Whites will soon be outnumbered, but there’s a twist

February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 Dinorah Prevost

By Dinorah Prevost In recent years, the U.S. Census Bureau has poked the beehive of race in the United States with statistics. It poked first in 2008 and more recently

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Feature

NPR radio host brings ‘jazz journalism’ to campus

February 18, 2019February 17, 2019 Dinorah Prevost

By Dinorah Prevost Radio host Joshua Johnson, away from the microphone and pop filter, is not the droning radio newscaster you think of when you hear the letters N-P-R. When

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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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