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Our thoughts: Grateful for the experience

April 20, 2015 Mark Wolfenbarger

Note: As the year winds down # and graduation approaches # the editors at The Crow’s Nest want to offer their insight on life at USF St. Petersburg. This is

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Arts and Life

Review: Strung Out – Transmission. Alpha. Delta

April 20, 2015 Mark Wolfenbarger

California punk-metal trailblazers Strung Out have risen from the underground to unleash “Transmission. Alpha. Delta,” a 12-track barrage of adrenaline-fueled anthems. Twenty-five years since the band first hit the scene

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Opinion: I dread the Florida summer heat

March 30, 2015 Mark Wolfenbarger

Goodbye comfort, hello hell. As the final days of cool weather escape us, we can expect the temperature to steadily rise, culminating with the months-long period of African heat known

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Central Avenue building partially swallowed in water main leak

February 26, 2015 Mark Wolfenbarger

A water main leak created a massive hole on Thursday in downtown’s Central Arts District. Dwight Wilson, assistant director of water resources for the city of St. Petersburg, said crews

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Arts and Life Community

Review: Spiritual Independence

January 26, 2015 Mark Wolfenbarger

Italian black-mass metal maestros Mortuary Drape have awakened with Spiritual Independence, their first album in 10 years. Whereas previous album Buried in Time left many fans yearning for the ritualistic

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Campus News News

Professor funded for marine studies

October 27, 2014 Mark Wolfenbarger

Frank Muller-Karger began exploring the ocean as a child in coastal Venezuela. Born in Raleigh, N.C., Karger, 58, moved to the small town of Arrecifes at about 6 months old

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Opinion: Fox News hosts mock women

September 29, 2014 Mark Wolfenbarger

What can we say about the ever-objective, quality news outlet that is Fox News? The complete opposite. Fox News has made its name by taking news and turning into vitriol-laden

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Campus News News

Pool to reopen in the spring

September 22, 2014 Mark Wolfenbarger

Swimmers can expect to dive back into USF St. Petersburg’s Waterfront pool early next year. After meeting with engineers over the summer and weighing the cost-to-benefit of each possible solution,

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Opinion: It’s time to face ISIS

September 15, 2014 Mark Wolfenbarger

It’s time the United States helped put an end to ISIS. Those who worry the United States’ involvement could place our soldiers in another Iraq War situation need to think

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Graduation venue still a sore subject

September 8, 2014 Mark Wolfenbarger

Students weren’t happy with the size of the graduation commencement ceremony before the university decided to expand. With the approval of the strategic plan on Thursday, which will increase enrollment

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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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