The FAMU Rattlers football team traveled to Hampton, Va. hoping to upset the undefeated Hampton University Pirates, but Hampton (10-0, 8-0 MEAC) defeated FAMU (5-5, 4-3 MEAC) 34-14 Saturday. Hampton junior defensive end Alden Blizzard blocked a 51-yard field goal attempt by FAMU sophomore kicker Wesley Taylor, resulting in the […]

The Rattlers men’s basketball team gave the home crowd a preview of what’s to come as they defeated Fort Valley State University 89-63 in Saturday’s season-opening exhibition in Gaither Gym. In a total team effort, the Rattlers had five players scoring in double-digits in the game, led by senior guard […]

Attention all motivated and dedicated female rattlers. The Diamond Back Athletic Recruitment team is searching for new members for the Spring. Applications are available in student. For more information e-mail Vontese Jones at FAMUDIAMONDBACK@yahoo.com If you own a digital camera, like to be the life of the party and enjoy […]

Dear Editor,I cannot help but realize how bias and unprincipled the Famuan has become. The Famuan has allowed itself to become a breeding ground for organizational upliftment, and fails to report the news, and fails to realize what IS news. I have been at FAMU for four years, and i […]

#8220;Granddad, you can’t tame the white supremacist with cheese.” For those who haven’t read the Boondocks, Aaron McGruder aired a new TV show based on his controversial comic strip Sunday night on Cartoon Network’s “Adult Swim.” McGruder, who is the show’s executive producer, introduces the Freeman family in the pilot: […]

The fourth annual FAMU Relay for Life is approaching and will open with a kickoff tomorrow at 6 p.m. in Perry Paige Auditorium. The event, brought to FAMU in 2001 by the Student Government Association Surgeon General Shara Senior, is the first Relay for life at an HBCU and in […]

Some may see the building located across from the Palmetto on campus apartments with the electronic message board and not know what it is or what all it offers. For those in the dark about that building, it is Big Bend Cares, an agency that serves an area encompassing eight […]

The purpose of The VIBE Game Club Tour, a nine week video game tour sponsored by Boost Mobile and Motorola is to allow students to be able to preview games coming out next year as well as participate in a forum on how to get into the game and entertainment […]

Dr. J. Alva Scruggs1804 Mayfair DriveTallahassee, Florida 32303 FRANKLY SPEAKINGLETTER TO EDITORGUEST WRITERCOLMUNIST POLITICIANS BUILD PUBLIC LIES ARE USED IN MAKING PUBLICY COMPENSATE THOSE WHO ARE HURT!!!! Thank God! it is finally of public notice that FAMU was always in the Black financially (e. g. Florida Board of Governors; flbog.org, […]

Federal Reserve officials have recently announced that the federal funds rate will once again be increased. According to the Washington Post, this will be the 12th consecutive increase since 2004. What does this mean for the average consumer? Don Schalagenhauf, professor of economics at Florida State University, explained what can […]