Author: Myles Jenkins | Staff Reporter

Sports

Running back expects stellar season for FAMU

Junior running back Bishop Bonnett.   Running back Bishop Bonnett believes Florida A&M’s football team will flourish under the tutelage of new head coach Willie Simmons.  Bonnett believes the Rattlers are fully capable of going from 3-8 last season to 10-1 this fall. Though the Rattlers lost eight games a […]

Lifestyles

FAMU day care launches summer program

FAMU’s Educational Research Center for Child Development (ERCCD) Located on the highest of seven hills in Tallahassee, Florida A&M University provides a unique learning experience to all students, including the little children who are enrolled in the summer program at FAMU’s day care. Founded in 1986 as New Beginnings, […]

News

FAMU’s j-school wants to be more digital

In a 2013 McKinsey survey of young people and employers, 40 percent of employers say that lack of skill was the main reason for entry-level vacancies and 60 percent said new graduates were not prepared for the workforce. The biggest gap was in technical skills.  “I went to school […]

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FAMU at a crossroads

Talk of a grade point average increase spread like wildfire through the campus of Florida A&M University last week. The rumor stated that to continue being enrolled at the institution in 2019 students must maintain a 3.0 GPA. The rumor also said that to keep and secure future funds, […]

Lifestyles

Belk event benefits local non-profits

Belk in Tallahassee Mall.  ​Photo credit: flickriver.com Belk, located at the Centre of Tallahassee mall, is looking for non-profit organizations and charities for their charity day sale event on Aug. 25.  The event aims to raise money for organizations and charities as well as saving customers money when they come […]

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Roe new associate vice president of student affairs

Antoneia Roe pictured at Florida A&M University. Antoneia L. Roe was recently named Florida A&M University’s interim associate vice president of student affairs and dean of students. She was promoted to her new position on June 18. Roe, who has a law degree and is affectionately known as “Attorney Roe,” […]

Lifestyles

Fenton enjoys role in local deaf community

Photo of Stevie Fenton.   Stevie Fenton learned sign language when she was young because she had deaf friends. “It was an accident. In the time before people could become interpreters just because they knew some sign language,  I knew sign language because I had deaf friends as a child,” […]