University of South Florida Scholar Commons Crow's Nest University History: Campus Publications 10-22-2018 Crow's Nest : 2018 : 10 : 22 University of South Florida St. Petersburg Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/crows_nest Recommended Citation University of South Florida St. Petersburg, "Crow's Nest : 2018 : 10 : 22" (2018). Crow's Nest. 781. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/crows_nest/781 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University History: Campus Publications at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Crow's Nest by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. OPINIONS, page 6 FEATURES, page 7 FEATURES, page 8 BREATH OF FRESH AIR? MEET ME AT THE POLLING BOOTH SPOOKY, SCARY, LITERARY Last week, the Harborside Activities Most college students run in the other Literary organization Wordier Than Board hosted the annual Homecoming direction when someone heads toward Thou aims to bring theater to the Ball. But HAB brought in one them with a clipboard. But one volunteer forefront of frights with a different questionable new feature: an oxygen bar. was able to register more than 800 USF kind of haunted house in Gulfport St. Petersburg students this fall. THE CROW’S NEST THE CAMPUS NEWSPAPER AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA ST. PETERSBURG Volume 51, Issue 10 - October 22, 2018 | Online at crowsneststpete.com @CrowsNestStPete @USFCrowsNest @USFCrowsNest @USFSPCrowsNest Merger Whom details will you murky vote for? By Emily Wunderlich as clock [email protected] and Jonah Hinebaugh ticks on [email protected] By Nancy McCann eginning Monday, 11 Contributor students will fight to fill 10 senate seats t was expected to be a B in the Student Government forum where Regional midterm elections. Chancellor Martin Tadlock I To qualify for candidacy, could finally pitch his vision students had to be enrolled for St. Petersburg’s role when in at least six credit hours as the three campuses of the USF an undergraduate or four as a system merge into one in 2020. graduate student. They also had But a lengthy meeting of to have a minimum 2.5 GPA and a consolidation task force collect 25 signatures from the subcommittee on Thursday student body. instead left more uncertainty Senators represent the student about the future of academic body and help allocate $1.6 programs at USF St. Petersburg. million in student fee revenue to Tadlock was not given clubs, organizations and events. an opportunity to deliver a They must sit on at least two presentation he had prepared committees and attend general on the vision he outlined in an COURTESY OF EMILY BOWERS | USFSP CONNECT assembly meetings. email to USF St. Petersburg Students can vote in The Reef employees three days earlier. Henry Burrows and Jadzia Duarte joined USF St. Petersburg royalty Oct. 16 as homecoming king and queen. Duarte said, “(Burrows is) fit for king and I’m so excited to be his queen.” from Oct. 22 to 23. Ralph Wilcox, the provost and executive vice president >> SEE VOTE on P4 at USF Tampa, said that the needs of students are more important than “the delivery of academic programs in any The Ball of Monte Carlo: A dance to remember particular location.” By Kelli Carmack “Rocky was here, so it make the student body proud her friends in the front And Rick Piccolo, president Contributor was cool to hang with him by advocating for them. cheering her on helped and CEO of the Sarasota- and get some cute pictures,” Duarte said her red dress calm her nerves. ascading streamers Bradenton International Palsule said. was “fit for a queen.” She “Henry is such an amazing and digital playing Airport and one of the three The South Florida All Stars said she was nervous when student leader,” Duarte said. cards projected onto subcommittee members, said C performed with glitz, glam and Rivera was announcing “He’s fit for king and I’m so the wall of the University he was disappointed that he sass as the crowd cheered. king and queen, but seeing excited to be his queen.” Student Center ballroom did not hear recommendations Domonique Gillen, a senior created an air of Monte Carlo on research initiatives from the biology major, was one of the elegance at the Harborside leaders of the three campuses. dancers who performed. Activities Board’s annual By the time the three-hour “There was so much homecoming ball. meeting was over, half of the energy from the crowd … it As USF St. Petersburg more than 100 people who had was great,” Gillen said. students walked into the packed the room in Davis Hall After the performance USC Oct. 16, they were met had departed, and the president Vanessa Rivera, HAB’s with an arch full of black, and CEO of the St. Petersburg director of traditions, crowned green and gold balloons near Area Chamber of Commerce Henry Burrows and Jadzia Rocky the Bull—a great had voiced concerns about the Duarte as homecoming king photo opportunity. pace of things. and queen. Inside, an oxygen bar filled “I don’t think we are having Burrows and Duarte had with brightly colored and the real conversations (about their first dance and invited flavored oxygen was provided, consolidation specifics) yet,” the crowd to join them. along with a photobooth for COURTESY OF EMILY BOWERS | USFSP CONNECT said chamber leader Chris “I’m so honored and students to experience. Steinocher. “We’ve got a clock proud,” Burrows said. Jadiza Duarte was up against two other candidates and said Asmita Palsule, a junior that by winning homecoming queen, her peers recognized that’s ticking.” As homecoming king, he accounting major, said she her efforts and all that she puts into the university. said that he will continue to >> SEE MERGER on P2 was impressed with the event. Editor’s note: There will be no Oct. 29 issue of The Crow’s Nest, as much of its staff will be attending a journalism conference out of state. Stories will still run online Monday as scheduled at crowsneststpete.com. THE CROW’S NEST THE CROW’S NEST IS THE WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA ST. Since 1969 PETERSBURG. ALL CONTENT IN THE PUBLICATION IS PRODUCED BY USFSP STUDENTS. SINGLE COPIES FREE. October 22, 2018 THE CROW’S NEST New assistant director of OMA takes over By Dinorah Prevost called to offer Johnson a leader from coordinator to “Working in housing sets remember sitting in the living [email protected] position open since April: assistant director was part of you up for any profession in room crying and I thought assistant director the Office of OMA’s changes. student affairs, whether that ‘They really don’t care about risten Johnson was Multicultural Affairs. “It’s been ‘hit the ground be counseling services, the (black people).’” praying for God’s “I started crying on the running’ since I got here. I’ve Wellness Center, Financial But Johnson doesn’t Tguidance when a phone phone because I felt like my been meeting with campus Aid, Multicultural Affairs,” consider herself a “diversity call came from USF St. prayers were answered and partners, learning about my she said. and inclusion guru.” She Petersburg. this is the place God created students (assistants in the “Housing gives you that admits to not knowing about She had been job searching for me,” Johnson said. office), seeing how they experience because you’re Diwali, a Hindu festival, until all summer and had other Now at OMA for a tick. OMA’s super busy and working with people from she got to USF St. Petersburg. interviews, but felt she month, Johnson, 29, is a key we have a lot of programs different backgrounds, so Moving forward with belonged at USF St. Petersburg. player in the office’s revamp planned so it hasn’t been a you’re learning how to talk OMA, she wants to take all “In the middle of my prayer, which started this semester. dull moment for me since I’ve across multicultural differences. identities into account. my phone rings and it says She replaced former office gotten here,” Johnson said. You can go through student “Are we thinking about ‘Jerrica Stovall.’ I said ‘Really coordinator Javier Gonzalez. She came to St. Petersburg conflicts so you’re learning holidays that may not get God, this is my phone call!’” Stovall said in a previous from Wisconsin, where she how people operate.” represented on campus? Are Stovall, assistant director interview with The Crow’s was a diversity program During her time as a residence we programming around that? of activities and programs, Nest that renaming OMA’s coordinator at University hall director at the University of Are we talking about different of Wisconsin-Madison. She Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, religions? Are we talking recalled how she considered Johnson realized that the diversity about identity groups that we the move. field was for her. may not be tapping into? We “I moved by myself. “Being able to program and have a lot of things that we’re I’m young, I don’t have any write lesson plans for that floor trying to tap into,” she said. children, I don’t have a husband, community, I was like ‘Yeah, this “I want people to come I’m about to take this chance and is what I really want to do. I have in here and challenge me on I’m just going to go. And so far a passion for this,’” she said. my thought process and my I have not regretted it,” she said.