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Annual USFSP night walk aims to improve campus safety 

March 3, 2026March 3, 2026 Julia Ferrara
Feature

USFSP alumna’s anthology explores Florida’s history through fiction 

March 3, 2026March 3, 2026 Julia Birdsall
Arts and Life

The Tampa Bay Journalism Project takes local news to the next level 

March 3, 2026March 3, 2026 Reagan Haskell
Local Sports Sports

Álex Palou powers past field for dominant win in 2026 St. Petersburg Grand Prix 

March 2, 2026March 2, 2026 Irena Mesa
Local Sports Sports

Local driver Nikita Johnson wins Indy NXT St. Petersburg Grand Prix  

March 2, 2026March 2, 2026 Dominic Feo
Local Sports Sports

Scott McLaughlin takes pole at IndyCar qualifying, Johnson finishes top two in NXT

February 28, 2026March 1, 2026 Dominic Feo
News Off-Campus News

St. Pete’s Obama Main Library is back and better than ever 

September 29, 2025October 3, 2025 Alisha Durosier

After exploring the reopened library, attendees quickly made themselves at home in the community space.  Photo courtesy of Makenna Wozniak | The Crow’s Nest By Alisha Durosier, Julia Ferrara and

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Feature

Rocky’s Book Club aims to unite community around a love of reading

September 29, 2025October 3, 2025 Irena Mesa

The “Thursday Murder Club,” written by Richard Osman was first published in 2020 and is the first installment in his “Thursday Murder Club” series. Photo courtesy Wikipedia.   By Irena Mesa

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Sports

Bucs stave off Jets comeback in home opener win

September 25, 2025October 3, 2025 Dominic Feo

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ first home game of the season ended in similar fashion to Tampa Bay’s previous two games, with a game-winning drive led by quarterback Baker Mayfield. Now

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Feature

Priced out of St. Pete: USFSP students struggle to afford living near campus

September 25, 2025October 8, 2025 Laura Troyer

As housing costs in downtown St. Petersburg rise, USFSP students share their struggle to find off-campus housing with minimal trade-offs. They consider what they are willing to sacrifice in order

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Opinion

New provider, new problems for The Nest  

September 25, 2025 Julia Birdsall

New and returning students adjust to Chartwells’ menu in the first weeks of the semester.  Photo courtesy of Kendall Bulkiewicz By Julia Birdsall McDonald’s has a new competitor for broken

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News

USFSP student leaders weigh in on how bulls can exercise their student rights

September 25, 2025October 1, 2025 Julia Ferrara

Photo by Makenna Wozniak | The Crow’s Nest By Julia Ferrara College campuses are known as spaces for political and civil activism, discourse, education and resources.   However, over the course

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Sports USF Sports

USF wraps up non-conference play with 56-7 win over South Carolina State  

September 24, 2025September 24, 2025 Dominic Feo

Photo by Alex Felski | The Crow’s Nest By Dominic Feo The University of South Florida’s offense, defense and special teams all contributed points towards the team’s 59-7 win over

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USF urges ‘civil discourse’ in wake of Charlie Kirk’s death

September 17, 2025September 19, 2025 Jasmin Parrado

Around 30 people at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus attended a candlelight vigil to mourn Kirk, three days after he was shot and killed Photo by Irena

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Sports

Àlex Palou’s historic season that started on the streets of St. Petersburg   

September 17, 2025September 17, 2025 Irena Mesa

Scott Dixon, Àlex Palou, and Josef Newgarden holding up their trophies from the St. Petersburg Grand Prix. Photo by Irena Mesa.   By Irena Mesa Àlex Palou started 8th at the

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Concert Reviews Music and Entertainment

From TikTok to Tampa: Jessie Murph live at the Yuengling Center 

September 16, 2025September 16, 2025 Kendall Bulkiewicz

Photo by Kendall Bulkiewicz | The Crow’s Nest By Kendall Bulkiewicz Jessie Murph’s worldwide Hysteria Tour stopped at Tampa’s Yuengling Center on Sept. 10, delivering a half-spectacle, half-pure emotional show

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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.

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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.

#usf #usfsp #grandprix #nascar
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
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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