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CAMPUS WELCOMES WORLD THE TUNE OF SHEN YUN HOMEWARD SOUND FEATURES, page 4 and 5 OPINIONS, page 6 FEATURES, page 8 The St. Petersburg Conference on World Have you seen billboards around town A Tampa singer is hoping to make it big Affairs returned to campus last week with advertising Shen Yun? Arts and Life Editor on The Voice. Contributor Gabby DaCosta panels covering topics from climate change to Carrie Pinkard reveals the true nature of the highlights Cameron Decker’s journey. language. show after it toured in St. Petersburg. THE CROW’S NEST THE CAMPUS NEWSPAPER AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA ST. PETERSBURG Volume 54, Issue 7 - February 24, 2020 | Online at crowsneststpete.com @CrowsNestStPete @USFCrowsNest @USFCrowsNest @USFSPCrowsNest CANDIDATES OFFER DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT VISIONS FOR SG By Katlynn Mullins be here, and can’t wait to keep [email protected] going as lieutenant governor.” An awkward time ne candidate for the top The election comes at post in St. Petersburg’s an awkward time for the St. OStudent Government is a Petersburg campus, which firebrand calling for wholesale is losing its independent change. He’s quick to point accreditation and consolidating out shortcomings in the way with Sarasota-Manatee and things are run and says members the much larger Tampa of SG should not be paid. campus on July 1. The other candidate Although final details are is a seasoned member of still being ironed out, each of the SG’s executive branch. She three USF campuses will have a advocates sitting down to talk governor and lieutenant governor things through and says that – who will essentially replace the students who invest time in SG current student body presidents should be paid something. and vice presidents; a six-member The two dramatically different campus council; and a campus platforms were on display Feb. financial officer, campus attorney 18 when the two candidates and campus public defender who for campus governor debated CASSIDY SCHUCK | THE CROW’S NEST are appointed by the governor before a sparse crowd of about The two starkly different platforms were on display Feb. 18 when the two candidates for and confirmed by the council. 30 students in The Reef. campus governor debated before a sparse crowd of about 30 students in The Reef. Meanwhile, the consolidated Emily Wunderlich and Dylan university will have a student Hart, the editor-in-chief and He was elected as a senator last drama from SG members. the director of sustainable body president and vice president, managing editor of The Crow’s fall and said he “understands Jimenez, a sophomore initiatives in the executive and a 60-member senate to Nest, moderated from seats how (general assembly) is run.” who made her way to SG branch, making $3,060 a year. preside over all three campuses. between the two podiums. “By understanding the process senate president as the result She stressed a platform At least initially, St. On the right were the in which legislation is passed of two resignations, did not built on “three pillars” – Petersburg will get nine seats outspoken reformer, Jonathan and understanding the basic speak during the debate. sustainability, diversity and in the senate, with 44 in Tampa Hatzistefanou, and his running administrative standards that SG On the other ticket, Campos, increasing the “promotion of the and seven in Sarasota-Manatee. mate, Veronica Jimenez. is based on,” he said, he feels a junior from Puerto Rico, many programs on campus.” That apparently means On the left were the more prepared to push for changes. started at the Student Green Castle, her running mate, a key job of student reserved Andrea Campos and He called for extended library Energy Fund and has worked on was elected to the senate in the government – allocating the her running mate, Isaiah Castle. hours during exam time, lower projects like the water bottle refill fall. He is a first-year junior who revenue from student fees to Hatzistefanou is a junior from costs for housing and meal stations and the ORCA mechanic has been invited to join several campus organizations – will Stuart on Florida’s east coast. plans and less controversy and biodigester project. Now, she’s organizations and is “happy to >> SEE VISIONS on P2 The Osprey dorm gets financial boost from Tampa campus By Jonah Hinebaugh Sodexo USA, a food Nest article published in commission rates. In the Business Journal, [email protected] service company that December, the number “USF does not David Lechner, senior vice SF St. Petersburg’s the university contracts of first-time-in-college find any of these president of business and new dorm, The for The Reef, reached an students dropped by options acceptable,” financial strategy, said, Osprey, will agreement in March 2019 52 percent between the document said. “Tampa took reserves they U with USF St. Petersburg fall 2018 and 2019. “The University believes had and gave an advance receive $1.5 million from USF Tampa’s to contribute $2.9 million In a Jan. 20 article in it is in its best interest to on the money to be paid dining auxiliary fund. to renovate the existing The Crow’s Nest, Regional fund the $1.5M dining back over a number of The gap in funding was dining center and equip Chancellor Martin Tadlock center improvements with years,” so the unaccounted “something known from the new one with furniture, said this was an “expected dining auxiliary cash costs didn’t get “pushed the early stages of the fixtures, kitchen equipment, dip.” As enrollment reserves to keep the St. down to students.” project,” according to an hoods, millwork, requirements have risen, Petersburg dining meal According to the agenda from the Feb. 18 finishes and flooring. incoming FTIC freshmen plan costs to students document, the contribution Board of Trustees’ finance The Tampa Bay Business numbers have dropped. affordable, preserve is in addition to the $30.7 committee meeting. Journal reported the Before the decision USF St. Petersburg’s million contract between But there was “an $1.5 million from Tampa to take the $1.5 million opportunity to realize USF Financing Corporation expectation that discussions would largely be used from the Tampa campus’ dining commissions, and and The Beck Group with Sodexo based on for plumbing, HVAC dining auxiliary, Sodexo benefit from the cost and –– an architectural, real increased enrollment and electrical work. suggested three other schedule controls with estate and construction and opportunities But the increase in solutions: Increase student Beck performing the added company based in Dallas would present workable enrollment that was meal plan rates, pay an dining scope,” it said. –– to design and build the solutions to fund the gap expected to cover extra annual fee to Sodexo for The document said there 375-bed housing facility and finish the facility,” expenditures never came. the additional cost of is an expectation the funds and an “unimproved” the document said. According to a Crow’s capital and/or renegotiate will be repaid over time. dining center. 2 February 24, 2020 THE CROW’S NEST the appropriations for other VISIONS, continued from P1 campus organizations. pass next year to a Tampa- It allocated more than $70,000 based senate, dominated by to pay salaries to 22 members Tampa-based students. of SG, including $10,968.75 Student Government in St. On the ballot March 2-5 for student body president and Petersburg has struggled for $8,325 for the vice president. relevance in recent years. Voting When the three campuses of USF are consolidated into one on July 1, Student Government will When Hatzistefanou joined turnout for SG elections has be led by a president and vice president and a 60-member senate (with 44 members from Tampa, nine from St. Petersburg and seven from Sarasota-Manatee). SG, he said, he wasn’t aware been poor, and SG itself has that members received salaries. been marked by controversy There are four presidential candidates in the student election March 2-5. “This was kind of a and internal disputes. shock to me seeing that SG In 2017, the vice president- One ticket is from St. Petersburg – Trevor Martindale and running mate Darnell Henderson. The is a voluntary position. elect was expelled from other three tickets are from Tampa. “Personally, and I don’t think school for allegedly sexually SG is going to like it when I say assaulting a female student. According to The Oracle, the Tampa campus newspaper, they are: Yusuf Fattah and Claire Mitchell; this,” Hatzistefanou said, “I don’t The year before, the SG siblings Kuchari and Hyelampa Thlala Kolo; and Guy Dayhoff and Peter Radulovic. But Dayhoff has think we should receive a salary.” president and vice president took dropped out, The Oracle reported Feb. 20. That earned some leaves of absence that were never whispers from spectators. explained before they resigned six Meanwhile, each of the three campuses will elect a governor and lieutenant governor and a campus Campos, who gets paid for her months later.

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