01 March 2010
Stop-Action films can be produced in a variety of ways; they can be seen through clay models, children’s toys and objects found around a house as characters. For the Brothers Quay porcelain dolls, scissors, pushpins, screws and other objects was the best way to create their films. The Brothers Quay, Stephen and Timothy Quay, are twin [...]
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01 March 2010
On Wednesday, March 3 the Clothesline Project, a domestic violence awareness exhibit, will be on display at USF St. Petersburg’s Harborside Lawn from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The project is co-sponsored by Community Action Stops Abuse, or CASA, a non-profit organization based in St. Petersburg and USF St. Petersburg’s Center for Counseling, Health and [...]
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01 March 2010
An old landmark at USF St. Petersburg gets a face lift to the tune of half a million dollars. The USF St. Petersburg College of Business moved from Bayboro Station to the newly renovated Piano Man building this semester. The Regional Vice Chancellor for Administrative and Financial Services, Ashok Dhingra, said upgrades to the building include [...]
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01 March 2010
Here at Crow’s Nest we are no strangers to diligence. As a part of this we aim to keep an open, honest, and, most of all, informative eye on the governing bodies of the university, specifically our own student government. In the spirit of this openness we recently sat down with student government vice president, [...]
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01 March 2010
A record-number of manatees have died in 2010, leaving many to speculate how the 301 deaths will impact the species’ endangered status. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said they are still collecting data and assessing, but for now, manatees remain “endangered” on the state and federal lists until further re-evaluation. FWC said the re-evaluation [...]
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01 March 2010
On Thursday, Feb. 18, the Black Student Association hosted Women’s Health with guest speakers Susan Gilbert and Dale Watson. The event was organized in the honor of Black History Month. “We, BSA, decided that women’s health was a big topic that should be discussed,” said Astrid Camy, vice president of BSA. According to a study done by [...]
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01 March 2010
Award winning journalist John Conroy, spoke to the USF St. Petersburg community Tuesday night, Feb. 16 with his harrowing presentation How to Make a Torturer. The topic at hand, how ordinary people become torturers, draws mainly from his acclaimed 2001 book, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture. In the book he examines just [...]
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01 March 2010
As the frigid air gives way to warmer temperatures, being outdoors finally seems tolerable. What better way to spend a day outside than munching on Cracker Jack and sipping on a cold beverage at a baseball game? Spring training gets underway this week in Florida and Arizona. After a relatively short off-season compared to other sports, [...]
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01 March 2010
Royalty and townsfolk alike greet you as honored guests at the 2010 Bay Area Renaissance Festival as it kicks off its 32nd annual run. The festival, held at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), brings the authentic 16th century European atmosphere of fun, food, and entertainment without so much the political strife, death and destruction. [...]
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01 March 2010
Student Government prepares to raise A&S fees for a health clinic and multi-purpose center for the 2012-2013 school year. The construction for the multi-purpose center will start in November 2010 and after it is completed, renovations in the Campus Activities Center will start for the health clinic. The health clinic and [...]
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Endangered status on hold for manatees
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