After a site visit from the Accreditation Council of Pharmacy Education in early November, Florida A&M University’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science is now in compliance with all 30 accreditation standards. CPPS is expected to receive full accreditation for the next six years. Prior to the site visit, the […]

In conjunction with the Florida A&M University Tom Joyner School of the Month Campaign, the Tom Joyner Foundation will award scholarships to deserving FAMU students during the month of January 2008 for the spring semester. Scholarship recipients will be announced on the Tom Joyner Morning Show every Monday, Tuesday and […]

Beowulf is fighting for a top spot at the box office this holiday season, bringing an old action-packed epic to life with 3-D animation. The movie manages to appeal to the young, old, men, and women in the audience by teaching a powerful lesson about the price of riches and […]

#8220;This Christmas” and its all-star cast of well-known black actors warms the audience hearts with its great scenes. Coming into the movie, viewers do not know what to expect. From the billboard, you’re led to believe that Chris Brown is the movie’s main star and focus of the script. He […]

Professors in the English department are promoting creative writing classes to prevent them from being eliminated from the curriculum. Kristine Snodgrass, an English professor who also teaches creative writing, said a poetry class was closed this semester when only two students were enrolled.  “I think students just don’t know about […]

What makes an individual a whore? There has always been an unjust double standard when it comes to men, women, and sexuality. I am aware that we live in a male-dominated society. The very principles on which this country was founded, are the ideals and beliefs of the male specie, […]

What is the state of today’s black college student? Today’s black college student is now confronted with the growing problem of HIV/AIDS, incarceration and separation among themselves, which did not exist on such a large scale throughout the 60s and 70s. Black youth represent 65 percent of HIV/AIDS case among […]

Florida A&M University’s President, James H. Ammons, held a forum in Lee Hall Nov. 27, to speak to faculty, staff and students about the university’s status. Various issues such as FAMU’s probation, the investigation of grade changes, tuition increases and the importance of having a full-time schedule were discussed. Ammons […]

National Football League fans lost a great player Tuesday, and young aspiring NFL players lost a good role model. NFL Pro Bowl safety Sean Taylor died Tuesday after he was shot in his Florida home by an apparent intruder, leaving the Washington Redskins in mourning for a teammate who seemed […]

During high school, many students experience a course in sex education where slides of gruesome photos of sexually transmitted diseases are shown; thus enabling students to think of the physical consequences of sex, not the emotional one. According a Tallahassee Democrat article headlined, “More local girls juggle pregnancy, school”, Michelle […]