Many students experience homesickness when they leave home for college. The feeling of missing home is more common than you’d think, and it may take a week, a month or three months to kick in, depending on the person and how well they are adjusting to their new environment. It […]
Lifestyles
This Rattler is also a single father
Ke’Voughn Manning defies stereotypes. How you ask: the Florida A&M senior is a single father. “I try to spend most of my life and my activities around [my daughter],” Manning said. “She pretty much goes everywhere I go. She’s my life and I love her.” A fourth-year criminal justice major […]
Market Monday sets the tone for homecoming
Student entrepreneurs and local vendors set up booths and spread their tables for hours of business on the Quadrangle of FAMU’s campus Monday. The event started at noon. Student entrepreneur Joanna Ozia is the owner of Lovely Beads N Things. She sells waist beads, bracelets, anklets, purses and earrings. Monday, […]
Meet the ‘pumpkin patch’ church
The local community is well aware that the Tallahassee Heights United Methodist Church is known as the “Pumpkin Patch Church.” Farmer Richard Hamby started the pumpkin patch in 1979 after meeting with a North Carolina Methodist pastor whose church had a financial need. He agreed to let them sell the […]
Tarot a growing tool used for spirituality
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a surge of interest in astrology – more specifically, tarot. Fueled by Instagram meme accounts, venture capital-backed astrology apps like Co-Star, or the live card readings on Tik Tok’s “For You” page, more and more young adults are becoming more […]
Jackson is a proud breast cancer survivor
Gail Jackson is trying to adjust to a new life after winning her fight against breast cancer. After the devastating loss of her husband, Robert Lee Jackson, to colon cancer, the long-time Gadsden County School District employee had to summon the courage and strength to overcome adversity. Knowing the history […]
New Outdoor Club hikes, swims
The Florida A&M University Outdoor Club held its first meeting on Sept. 29 at Cascades Park. Students of both Florida State University and Tallahassee Community College were invited and encouraged to bring blankets for comfort purposes because all students would be sitting outside on the grass. FAMU’s Outdoor Club was […]
Dissecting elitism at FAMU
Conversations have circulated recently both on social media and on-campus of the elitism that takes place among HBCU students. Students have been discussing the negative effects of elitism on campus and how it affects everybody whether they participate in it or not. It is how students relate to each other […]
Women Wednesdays and FSU celebrate National Women in Entrepreneurship Week
Women Wednesdays hosted Women in Entrepreneurship Week: Students, Alumna and Community TogetHER on Wednesday, Oct. 20. The organization partnered with Florida State’s Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship, where it took place in their speaker hall at 1 PM. Women Wednesday is a series of programming by and for women to […]
Expand your music taste
There are many music genres which serve a purpose of catering only to specific audiences. Taking time to broaden the musical palette is essential when looking for creative expressions other artists have to offer. Music is not just something you listen to. It creates and alters emotions that all musicians […]