Here’s a truth I learned in class recently: college is the only place where most people find it okay not to get their money’s worth. That got me thinking. Imagine going to a mechanic, paying him or her to fix and spray your bumper and then halfway through, him or […]
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‘Ball Til I Fall’ – Penalties for Bad Spending
As we inch closer and closer to the half mark of the semester and the fall breeze is settling in, we can definitely say it is that time of year again…it’s Christmas! Okay, all jokes aside, it’s homecoming and I couldn’t be any happier. Everyone is in the giving and […]
Steve Jobs Dies
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died tonight. He had long fought poor health, and last month, resigned as CEO from the company that he helped create and shape into one of the largest technology powerhouses this century. Tech will never be the same. Read The New York Times story about Steve […]
Education doesn’t require excess spending
Glitz and glamour have always been a main composite of Florida A&M’s Homecoming. Students will often spend their last in hopes of making a statement for the annual extravaganza. In a world where college homelessness is at its peak and campus bookstore sales are low, this is a problem. With […]
Don’t Shoot the Messenger
It’s one of the first lessons we learn on the playground in kindergarten: tell the teacher you were pushed off the monkey bars face-first into a pile of dirt and you’re a “snitch.” In childhood, it may not be a lesson we completely understand, but the concept is there. Like […]
Education doesn’t require excess spending
Glitz and glamour have always been a main composite of Florida A&M’s Homecoming. Students will often spend their last in hopes of making a statement for the annual extravaganza. In a world where college homelessness is at its peak and campus bookstore sales are low, this is a problem. With […]
Life Is Too Precious to be Wasted
Really? Are you Serious? Lord, please bless and strengthen me and all involved and all who knew him, in Jesus’ name, amen. This has been my avid prayer since 1999, when my second oldest brother, Richard, was murdered. My prayers became more fervent after my oldest brother, Ray, was murdered […]
Decent fashion still applies for homecoming
As students, alumni and Rattler fans prepare for celebration of homecoming week; one defining issue is on everyone’s mind. It may be a bigger issue than what events they plan to attend to ensure a good time and possibly more important than reserving a ticket to guarantee a good seat […]
Sex on the Hill
My grandma always annoyed me with her warnings about the latest “rape man” in our city, that I need to walk in packs with my friends, and park in well-lit places at night. But even though she annoyed and still to this day annoys me, she is right. We as […]
Cafeteria Religion
Religion is one subject I don’t argue about. There is no middle ground because, at the end of the day, everyone believes something different. When it comes to religion, some people try to pick and choose when they want to be religious. Others tend to be selective in what they […]