#8220;Focus, commit; do it and move on with confidence” was the advice of Cheryl Benton to a crowded room of Florida A&M students Thursday. Benton is the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Public Affairs. She helps Americans and non-nationals understand United States foreign policies and how […]

Florida A&M’s office of financial aid hosted a workshop Wednesday to update students about new policies that could potentially affect their aid in the 2012-2013 school year. Interim Director of Financial Aid, Michelle Williams, spoke to a nearly empty Perry Paige auditorium about how recent legislation has made changes to […]

Women residents of Florida A&M dormitories agreed Wednesday to a checklist of fashion do’s and don’ts that they believe will better represent the image of black women. The women named body suits and tights with colored underwear as unacceptable and pledged to wear more conservative clothes – like shirts that […]

Republican presidential hopeful Senator Rick Santorum continued to distance himself from opponents Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. He spoke Thursday at Florida State, just hours before a scheduled debate in Jacksonville, Fla., lobbying for last minute support at the event hosted by the FSU College Republicans. In four days, Florida […]

The annual Florida National Guard Day showcased this week military equipment used for the state of Florida and nation during times of crisis. The Florida National Guard is part of the National Guard force of the U.S. It is made up of the Florida Air National Guard and the Army […]

Chief Justice Christopher Weaver resigned from the judicial branch of the Student Government Association Monday night. This marks the second justice to resign in the last two weeks both only weeks before elections, a time when the judicial branch is very busy. As chief justice of the Supreme Court, Weaver […]

Former student senator Marquise McMiller Wednesday pushed Florida A&M’s SGA to fund a late-night shuttle service to off-campus apartment complexes for students. McMiller,19, a second-year political science student from Gary, Ind., defended the merits of the “Rattler’s Venom Guard” before the crowded senate chambers, a feat, he said, showed the […]

Florida Inspector General Derry Harper has given Florida A&M two weeks to provide documents to the Board of Governors’ Office that outline the university’s anti-hazing plans. In a letter to BOT Chairman Solomon Badger Friday, Harper gave the university until Feb. 7 to deliver “any written, typed, printed, recorded or […]

Gov. Rick Scott announced Friday that the last month of 2011 saw another decrease in the unemployment rate in Florida.In December, 5,100 private sector jobs were created. The state logged an unemployment rate of 9.9 percent down from to a 12 percent unemployment rate in December 2010. It is the […]

The Florida Board of Governors has for the last 18 months been striving towards new initiatives to be considered for legislation. Various committees for the State University System met last week for a two-day Board of Governors meeting in efforts to become more of a supportive aid for colleges and […]