Graphic design student Brittany Barr will join The Rattlers and Wildcats football players in showcasing their talent at the Walt Disney Florida Classic game as the winner of the design contest for both the football game and the State Farm Battle of the Bands. The 21-year-old senior from Jacksonville won […]

Hansel E. “Tootie” Tookes, a former Florida A&M University athletic administrator and educator, passed away Wednesday evening. He was 86. The funeral service is scheduled for Nov.19, at 11 a.m. at Bethel Baptist Church, 417 West Tenessee St.

Everything that is recyclable should not be. People are not only recycling paper goods and plastic containers these days, but now condoms have been added. According to a USA Today article headlined, “Used condoms are being ‘recycled’ as hair bands,” in an area of Southern China, used condoms are being […]

Albany State nearly pulled off a remarkable second half comeback against the Lady Rattler basketball team Wednesday at Gaither Gym. FAMU (3-0) (0-0) nearly blew a 22 point second half lead in defeating the Lady Rams 76-73 for their third consecutive victory of the 2007 season. Head Coach Debra Clark […]

It is not just a football game; it is one of the biggest rivalries in black college football, The Walt Disney World Florida Classic. In the Florida Citrus Bowl, in Orlando, the Rattlers take on the Wildcats of Bethune Cookman University in the largest-attended football game between two historically Black […]

Busloads of Florida A&M University students will be heading to Orlando, courtesy of FAMU’s Student Government Association, for the Walt Disney World Florida Classic today. Three buses were open to all students, on a first-come first-served basis, and two additional buses are reserved for SGA members and recruiters. Student body […]

Each time Kristina Ortiz rides down Highway 1 through Malibu, Calif. an empty feeling overcomes her. It was the place that she grew to know and love – it is gone now. Malibu Baptist Church, the place where Ortiz and her family spent their Christmases, fell victim to the blazing […]

A student in the School of Business and Industry on Florida A&M campus is already forming business ventures before graduating; he is the owner of Club Rayn. Christopher Dennis, 25, a senior business administration student from Miami, launched Club Rayn on August 13. This new club has a distinctively upscale […]

On November 10, the St. Petersburg Times reported that Florida A&M University’s former law professor Dale Rubin made negative comments about the University on his Web blog. “I have never had a more traumatic and disheartening experience,” said Rubin, about working for the University. Rubin was a visiting law professor […]

Florida A&M University’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is on the road to recovery. The college was scheduled for a site visit in April of 2008. But after turning in an interim report in August, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education has moved the site visit up to Wednesday. […]