After finishing fifth in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference a year ago, Head Baseball Coach Joe Durant and the Rattlers team envision a much better finish in the MEAC ranks this season. “We always go into the season feeling as if we have a great chance to finish first,” Durant said. […]

Recently, Leon County commissioner Bill Proctor commented that the Leon County Courthouse is “intimidating to blacks” because of heavy security measures and the historical “racial distinctions” of the justice system. For these reasons, Proctor said he believes blacks are not comfortable attending commission meetings. The same people who find themselves […]

I must admit that trying to fall asleep last night was quite pleasing, mainly because yesterday I heard everything I wanted to hear, most of which happened to be lies. We’d rather be misinformed and happy than informed and sad. It seems as if lies are therapeutic and comforting.Our society […]

Tuesday evening’s attempt to educate the campus about AIDS should have packed Lee Hall – and for a little while, it did. That is, until students had met the requirements set before them by their teachers and the seats around me began to empty. I don’t know if any of […]

Gov. Bush proposed on Wednesday, Feb. 2 a $70.8 billion budget that includes several increases involving higher education. He proposed a five percent increase in state undergraduate tuition, 7.5 percent increase in out-of-state and graduate tuition, $3.3 million to complete FSU medical school, $3.6 million to complete FAMU and FIU […]

#8220;I quit school 3 hours away from graduation. I didn’t want to be validated by a white college,” said Dick Gregory in his speech’s opening . Gregory addressed issues plaguing the black community with his cutting-edge comedy Wednesday night in Lee Hall auditorium. He was concerned with blacks being controlled […]

For the second year in a row Florida A&M University has failed to meet enrollment numbers required by the state. Each year the state gives the University money according to its proposed yearly budget. This budget is produced according to the enrollment numbers. Since 2004, FAMU has failed to meet […]

Rae Lewis-Thornton had a bright future in politics. She was the national youth director for Jesse Jackson Sr. in both his 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns. In 1992, she was the advance coordinator for Sen. Carol Moseley Braun’s, D-Illinois, senate race. Unfortunately, her future in politics dimmed when Lewis-Thornton contracted […]

Twenty members from Florida A&M’s Marching 100 graced the stage with Kanye West and Jamie Foxx at the 48th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles Wednesday. West and Foxx appeared in true marching band style, dressed as rival drum majors while the band members, with chins up and shoulders back […]

Students, faculty and community residents gathered Tuesday evening in Lee Hall auditorium to hear nationally recognized AIDS activist Rae Lewis Thornton. In recognition of National Black HIV Aids Awareness Day, the lower level of Lee Hall auditorium was full. Mostly young African-American women, who according to Center for Disease Control […]