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Cafeteria ready for an upgrade

A struggling economy has not stopped the plans for Florida A&M University’s café to get a makeover. The school is set to receive a $2.5 dollar makeover. Many students are fed up with the extensive line to get food in the café. Some even feel that it is not worth […]

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Economic plans unveiled

There is a fundamental difference at the heart of the health-care reform proposals of Senators John McCain and Barack Obama. McCain wants to weaken the employer’s responsibility to insure employees, while Obama wants to expand the existing employer and government-based insurance system. As the country heads into a recession, economists […]

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Defense Dollars

#8211; $6.4 million for the Future Affordable Multi-Utility Materials for the Army Future Combat Systems. This funding will help to continue research and develop advanced process sensors to be used by the U.S. Army’s unmanned vehicles, which gather intelligence and carry out various missions on the land and in the […]

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Early voting set to begin

For those who cannot wait until Nov 4., early voting for the 2008 presidential election will begin Monday in Leon county. The voting sites will be at Leon County Woodville Community Library, Leon County Ft. Braden Library, the northeast branch of the Leon County Public Library, and the Leon County […]

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FAMU tops FSU, TCC for coveted grant, gets $12.4 million to research new military combat technology

Congressman Allen Boyd (D-North Florida) secured money for defense research at three post-secondary institutions in Tallahassee. Florida State University is to receive $8.5 million and Tallahassee Community College will receive $800,000 for military research. Florida A&M University is to receive the most money with $12.4 million. The money will be […]

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Ammons strikes new deal

President James Ammons signed an agreement today with a Canadian organization that will allow Florida A&M University students to intern in Cairo, Egypt. The partnership with the Information Technology Academy Canada-Africa Branch, will allow 11 previously chosen students, to start the program next semester. Students were chosen from the School […]

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Athletes juggle class load

Florida A&M University athletes have practices to attend, games to play, but most importantly classes to go to. Along with intense athletic schedules, some still manage to have grade point averages of 3.0 or higher. Stanley Stuber, 21, a senior graphic design student from Tampa, who is on the men’s […]

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Rattlers look to keep rolling against Jaguars

With the continued celebration of Thursday’s victory against the Winston Salem State University Rams, the Florida A&M University Rattlers have much more to worry about going into Saturday’s game against Southern University. Eddie Battle, quarterback, insisted the 23-0 victory was a collective team effort. “It was an excellent feeling scoring […]

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Oral sex counts too, stay guarded

Bill Clinton said: oral sex is not sex. But it is, and teens and young adults are getting the message. In the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), 92 percent of teenagers performed oral sex within three years of losing their virginity. Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, hepatitis and HIV are […]

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Message not lost in edited music

If my grown, college-educated self were to leak anything resembling a curse within my mother’s hearing range, there would be consequences. The omitted word or an acceptable replacement for the word, still represents the same degradation as the curse word it replaces. For some reason, people believe that removing profanity […]