Most war movies would lead you to believe war is suspended sanity and unending horror. Dead bodies piled on top of more dead bodies. However, during the Gulf War, it is just suspended action and unending boredom. In a war not exactly known for its bloodshed, it should come as […]

The costs of utilities in Tallahassee are going up, but is a coal plant the solution to the problem? A referendum has been issued to the people of Tallahassee to vote on whether or not they feel it’s a good idea to build a coal plant 50 miles outside the […]

It appears that another whammy against Florida A&M University has emerged. And as usual, it seems that the destruction comes from within. The whammy: the decline of enrollment at the University. Michael Abrams, a journalism professor was quoted in yesterday’s Tallahassee Democrat as saying, “There are not enough minority students […]

Many people in America are wondering why President Bush’s job approval rating has fallen. According to a CBS News poll, 57 percent of Americans don’t approve of how Bush is running the White House and 35 percent of Americans still support him. There are several reasons why millions of Americans […]

Nothing is without defects. No experience, no person and certainly no movie. Even in our favorite movies, there is a scene or two that made you say to yourself, ‘they could have left that out’, but it doesn’t stop you from dubbing it your favorite movie. When I left the […]

She puts Donald Trump to shame in land ownership. She rivals Johnny Cochran when it comes to winning racial law suits. She could even rival Booker T. Washington with respect to his influence. In nineteenth century Florida when Spanish authorities heavily regulated east Florida, slavery reigned over the social climate […]

ESPN’s flagship show, SportsCenter, airs periodically throughout the day until the wee hours of the night, but the general consensus answer to the classic question, ‘which is your SportsCenter?’ remains: the first show upon waking up. “I am generally more of a, when I wake up and 1 a.m. kind […]

Volleyball fans near and far came to show their support as the Lady Rattlers beat their rival, the Wildcats of Bethune-Cookman College. The stands were full as the Lady Rattlers defeated BCC (30-14, 30-9, 30-9). “Point FAMU” was all you heard through Gaither Gymnasium as the Lady Rattlers destroyed BCC […]

The psychology department is conducting a multi-year study to locate reasons why some students at Historical Black Colleges & Universities suffer from certain mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression. Jermaine Robertson, an assistant professor of psychology, heads the study, titled “Mental Health Screening.” The department is studying a segment […]

Smoke filled the air as flames shot from a car Thursday afternoon. Stopped just in front of the new journalism building, the 1989 Buick, belonging to D’juan Ballinger, a senior agriculture student from Miami, caught fire while he stopped to talk to a friend. As the traffic piled up and […]