Gov. Rick Scott and Florida State president Eric Barron announced on Feb. 10 that Bing Energy would relocate its headquarters to Tallahassee in collaboration with the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. “Tallahassee should be a significant big business center with the FAMU-FSU COE and Bing Energy,” Scott said at the press […]

NaKena Cromartie was elected Miss FAMU 2011-2012 yesterday in a runoff election. Cromartie won the title with 1,072 votes, besting runner-up Chelsea Earby, who had 734 votes. Cromartie, 22, a fourth-year accounting student from Tampa, Fla, came up short with votes on election night held on Tuesday with 1042 votes […]

See the results of the Spring 2011 Student Government Association elections from Tuesday, February 22. Click the links for full stories.

The search committee is conducting a national and international search to find the best candidate to fill the Chief of Information Technology position. The deadline for applications is March 14. Former CIO Robert T. Seniors was removed from the position at the start of the Spring semester and was demoted […]

Tallahassee will welcome its first annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Business Expo on Saturday. The LGBT Business Partners, a group within the Family Tree Community Center, is hosting the Expo. Local business owners, managers, sales people and non-profit organizations, along with the city’s LGBT community and its supporters will […]

President Barack Obama unveiled his proposed budget for the year, and some of his ideas to cut down the national budget may affect college students. One of the proposed ideas is to make cuts to the Federal Pell Grant Program, a program that provides need-based grant money to college students. […]

While the majority of FAMU students are black, there is still a wide diversity of culture on campus. A forum event called “Race Matters” was held on Monday in Gaither Gym and involved a group of students, as panelists, from different cultural backgrounds to discuss what it means to be […]

The state of Florida may be receiving some more aid in its battle against pill mills and their effect on the community. Pain clinics, or “pill-mills” as they are often called, are not your average pharmacy. Although these are pain-management clinics allow customers to book appointments and receive prescription drugs, […]

It’s not easy to get full participation from the student body when it comes to school elections. However, Ashley Gray, a fourth-year English education student, has devoted countless hours to encouraging students to vote, by single-handedly coordinating last nights’ 5000 Voters Strike/Comedy Jam. Gray began organized the Comedy Jam, which, […]

Florida lawmakers may repeal a mandate passed last year intended to make the state a safer, cleaner place. The law called for mandatory septic tank inspections. These inspections are to take place every five years to ensure that property owners are maintaining septic systems. Just weeks ago, Senate Bill 2A […]