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View from the Nest: Marching against Monsanto

October 14, 2013 Lenay Ruhl

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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What they expect out of you

October 14, 2013 Lenay Ruhl

Get internships. Publish your writing. Start a blog. Use your Twitter handle. Keep your Facebook profile clean. Start a LinkedIn to make connections. College is no longer about getting A’s

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Something smells at Yale

October 11, 2013 Tyler Killette

Do they reflect the primal instincts of human beings, relating us to cousin ape? Are they representative of one’s infantile helplessness brought on by the economy? Or, were the feces-stained

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Use your voice, not your Facebook status

August 28, 2013 Lenay Ruhl

Students who actually pay attention to campus happenings are hard to come by. At USF St. Petersburg, there are three kinds of students — those who care, those who don’t

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Lens fits city’s ‘hip’ culture

August 27, 2013 USFSP Faculty

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 USFSP Faculty

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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A USFSP wish list for the future

April 29, 2013 Aimee Alexander

The St. Petersburg campus of the University of South Florida is at a major crossroads. What does the future hold? Do we want to continue to grow to 10,000 or

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Florida a source of unusual circumstance, humor

April 22, 2013 Lenay Ruhl

  It’s been a rough week for America — the bombings in Boston, the fertilizer plant explosion in West Texas and while the families of victims of the Sandy Hook

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Tragedy is universal, empathy should be too

April 22, 2013 Tyler Killette

On Oct. 30, 2006, A CIA strike on a religious school in Pakistan killed 80 civilians. Up to 69 were children. On Dec. 15, 2010, a U.S. attack on al-Majala

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Bostonian reflects on the bombings at Marathon

April 22, 2013 Mike Hopey

Before he attacked the Boston Marathon, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspected terrorists, wrote on the Internet that he had no American friends and didn’t understand them. In the days

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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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