When the 2008 football season kicked off, five Florida A&M University Rattler football players were named to the 2008 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Pre-season All-Star Team. Four games into the season, they are showing why they were honored. Vernon Wilder, a 6-0, 248-pound, senior, middle linebacker, from Miami, Taj Jenkines, a […]

Attending the Florida A&M University homecoming game in Rattler paraphernalia, and donations after graduation are not the only way alumni give back to the university. There are plenty of established programs with initiatives to actively support the institution. The Student National Alumni Association is one organization that encourages students who […]

When the Victoria’s Secret brand is mentioned, many people envision sexy underwear. However, the lingerie company is thinking bigger. Thursday, representatives from Florida A&M University and Victoria’s Secret gathered at Florida A&M University Park to discuss their new program sponsored by PINK. Victoria’s Secret PINK, a line geared toward younger […]

FRIDAY The Office of Student Activities would like to inform student organizations that Organization Certification is due today. It must be completed on the ratterlink.org Web site. Contact Ms. Felicia Barnes at (850) 599-3400 or felecia.barnes@famu.edu for more information. The Office of New Student Orientation is looking for university tour […]

Historically Black Colleges and Universities enroll less than 20 percent of black undergraduates but award one third of all bachelor degrees to black graduates. HBCUs also educate one-out-of-three black lawyers, half of all black engineers, two-thirds of black physicians and eight-out-of-ten black judges and teachers. With those kinds of numbers, […]

On Monday, Pizza Quick, located on Apalachee Parkway began delivering exclusively to Florida A&M University’s campus. Matthew Thompson, 25, the manager of the eighth-month-old restaurants said, “We’ve been promoting the store since the beginning of school and a lot of freshman complained about not having any transportation.” Rodger Smith, 22, […]

Investors on Wall Street aren’t the only people praying for a bailout. In addition to the pressures many of us have been enduring at the pump and the rising costs of other essentials, Tallahassee now has another brunt to bear. Because the city is attempting to recover millions of dollars […]

Dhyana Ziegler, a professor at Florida A&M University, recently traveled to England and was made a Dame of Justice. An educator at heart, Ziegler is known to colleagues and students as a hardworking individual, and she is proud to say that her dedication has paid off. “I went to the […]

WEDNESDAY The PRodigy Public Relations Firm will host the Strike Pink: Recycle Your Sweats clothing drive featuring Victoria’s Secrets’ PINK from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication in front of the Gallery. Members of the FAMU community are encouraged to bring their clean, […]

Hurricane Fay came through Tallahassee and flooded many homeowners out during the weekend of Aug. 22 in the Timber Lake subdivision. Valerie White, a professor at Florida A&M, is thankful that she is not like some of her neighbors that now face homelessness in the wake of Fay. “His house […]