People “choose” abstinence for the wrong reasons. Most are victims of the conventional belief that sex is somehow about morality, and that desiring and enjoying premarital sex, as an adult, makes you a bad person. Someone else probably made the choice for you. Think about it. Growing up, how often […]

A day that may still be a vivid memory to some is September 11, 2001–– the day that many lives were lost as well as the lives of people’s loved ones. On that day, some people can recall exactly where they were and what they were doing. The freshman class […]

Let’s face it; the only way to remain free of sexually transmitted diseases and avoid pregnancy at a young age is through sexual abstinence– not having sex. Condoms and birth control pills are safe and reliable alternatives, but they are not 100 percent effective. According to the Centers for Disease […]

Paco Jeans, Sister Sister, and most of all Tupac and Biggie are all significant to the 90s era. Although many students on Florida A&M University’s campus can’t recall all that happened in this era, we are all influenced by the music, the fashion, and the television shows. Here’s a few […]

August 24th was the opening day for Sampson and Young Halls. It was the first time the housing staff and the public embraced the new residence facilities.  As a Resident Assistant, I never walked through the halls of a building wearing a bright orange housing staff shirt, but I have […]

While some may think that an HBCU—Historically Black Colleges and Universities is nothing more than an institution comprised of black people, it is far more than that. It is a community of intelligent, strong-minded and determined black men and women who prove the stereotype that claims that we are incompetent […]

Shannon Washington, a Florida A&M University student athlete was killed this past Sunday. Early Sunday morning, Tallahassee Police Department responded to a report of a stabbing at University Courtyard apartment complex. When they arrived, officers found Washington with a knife wound to the neck reportedly from her friend Starquinesha Palmer. […]

I represent Florida, Agricultural, And Mechanical, University, and October 3, 1887! What…? This is our chant this is who I am, I have heard several of my family members say I bleed orange and green, I am FAMU, I love FAMU, this is my university and I will fight whatever […]

It’s almost a tradition of its own that FAMU students express themselves in styles on weekly Set Friday’s, annual Be Out Day’s and even trips to the café. Countless students are seen in wardrobe that is fit for the runway. While FAMU Rattlers are no stranger to bringing a flair […]

America’s ability to unify after a major event never ceases to amaze me. America united in its sorrow after the events of 9/11. The attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa., cost the U.S. thousands of lives, yet it also brought an entire nation together under […]