I was in eighth grade the day I signed up for Myspace. My best friend pressured me to join, convincing me it was the best social media site created. I was the last of my friends to be exposed to the art of HTML coding, graphics and the ability of […]

  Almost any and everywhere you look, there are people with their heads down staring at the glowing screen in their palm with a focused facial expression. Usually it is one of three things that they are looking at: a text message, social media or a game. Less than a […]

    John always struggled with decision-making. Choosing which pair of socks to wear in the morning had him bent out of shape. His indecisiveness was a joke to his close friends in college, but he was also battling the biggest decision he ever had to make – his sexual […]

  At 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, my friend and I left for a party at the second-floor penthouse near the pool area at Seminole Grand. When we arrived, we felt an unsettling presence. We were tempted to leave but decided to stay in an effort to be considerate to the […]

  “Guy Code: Sex from the Male Perspective” is the first event I coordinated on Florida A&M’s campus. I came up with the idea during the summer, and I wanted to see it implemented. I worked hard to ensure the substance of the seminar would be recognized and valued. My […]

  Growing up in the age of Miss Cleo scams and television shows such as “Charmed,” psychic reading always seemed like a joke. Believing psychic readings could be real meant that you must be some type of crazy. But after a recent experience, I think many other people should give […]

  Transcripts, pensions and binders full of women were a few zingers delivered by President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney during the second presidential debate Tuesday night. There were all sorts of responses, and I’m sure for Romney, regrets. Obama turned Romney’s five-point plan into a one-point plan. Romney […]

It is 82 degrees on a Saturday in Tallahassee, and the Florida A&M Rattlers are gearing up for another football game. The Rattler spirit is so thick in the air that you can smell it as soon as you step outside. As a proud Rattler, it is only right to […]

  One may support the notion that rappers of our generation are hypocrites because they are searching for a wife, yet the music they make implies they are searching for a promiscuous woman. If you support that notion, you are not alone, but that does not mean you are correct. […]

  The Supreme Court heard Abigail Noel Fisher’s case against the University of Texas at Austin on Oct. 10. This case comes 50 years after the landmark affirmative action case Herman Marion Sweatt v. University of Texas Law School verdict was delivered. Both cases are about affirmative action, but the […]