As the NBA season draws to a close, the debauchery that some call a race to the MVP trophy is starting. The MVP race has been suspect because of the lack of specific criteria. Some say it’s about the player who has the greatest impact on his team. Then another […]

After finishing eighth in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference indoor track and field championships in February, men’s track team head coach Rey Robinson said expectations for the outdoor championships are higher. The road to the indoor MEAC championships was a long one as Robinson struggled to put together a young program. […]

FAMU faculty and students were shocked and saddened to hear about the death of fellow Rattler and School of Business and Industry professor Kenneth Gray. On Saturday evening, Gray suffered an apparent heart attack while serving as the lead climber on a rock-climbing excursion in Tennessee. However, the exact cause […]

Shredder is dead, the Foot Clan is now hired mercenaries, April O’Neal and Casey Jones have moved in together and the turtles are falling apart. “TMNT” brings back lean green fighting machines Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. With Shredder gone, there is a new evil […]

#8220;The Hills Have Eyes 2” is a movie about a set of diverse troops from the U.S. National Guard going to section 16, a mountaintop region in the hills, for training. Actors include Flex Alexander, the head sergeant responsible for his troop’s future deaths, and heartthrob Lee Thompson Young, who […]

As the first day of spring began March 20, so did practice for the Rattler football team. Coach Carter’s team took the field Wednesday for the first time in 2007. Willie Hayward was back to his talkative ways, place kicker Wesley Taylor was nailing cars in the parking lot as […]

It’s no secret skateboarding has become increasingly popular in the black community. Celebrities like music producer Pharrell Williams have moved the culture beyond the scope of just music. Pharrell, for example, has created not only the “Billionaire Boys Club Ice Cream” clothing line that features shoes and accessories for skaters, […]

FAMU yesterday, FAMU today, FAMU tomorrow. These are trying times in FAMU’s ongoing history of money problems, and although many people may be upset, we must not allow FAMU to crumble before our eyes. In an exchange about FAMU’s non-compliance made public Tuesday, State University System Chancellor Mark Rosenberg said […]

Breaking up with someone is never an easy thing to go through. But who ever thinks one can lose his or her life when calling it quits? Tynesha Stewart, a freshman at Texas A&M University, probably didn’t think her ex-boyfriend would strangle her to death when she broke up with […]

1. 1997: The state threatened to decertify the FAMU Boosters because the fundraising group failed to give audited financial statements to the state for two years. 2. 1997: A number of adjunct professors went without pay for several weeks because the school had overspent its $1-million adjunct faculty budget by […]