FAMU’s former starting quarterback is being scouted by several teams for the NFL draft, which will be Saturday and Sunday. Between student teaching at Lincoln high school, planning for his May 5 wedding and getting ready for his April 30 graduation, Ben Dougherty is also awaiting the results of the […]

The Florida A&M University student body is no stranger to change this semester. Interim President Castell V. Bryant announced Wednesday that she is suspending the operations of the Institute on Urban Policy and Commerce. A press release issued by the Bryant stated that she met with the Institute’s 23 staff […]

Once again, immaturity has reared its ugly head. This time, it can be seen on the plot for the Beta Alpha chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. in splashes of red and purple paint. The question remains as to why it came back to the Hill. This latest act […]

Just days after members of the Beta Nu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. repainted their plots, after vandals defaced them with red spray paint, the ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. may soon be doing the same. The AKAs arrived to campus Wednesday morning to find that […]

As the cost of tuition continues to rise, students are trying to find funds to help suppress the cost. Fortunately, for female students of Haitian descent, Cassandra Theramene has created a scholarship to do just that. Theramene, a spring 2004 SBI graduate, is going deep in her own pockets to […]

Thursday night the classroom expanded into the community for several hundred students enrolled in political science courses at FAMU. Lecture met life as the students, along with police officers, government officials, locals and attorneys gathered at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church for “Tasing and Police Conduct: Are We Safe?,” a […]

The recreation department is considering cutting back programs because of the lack of funding that it received from the Activities & Services committee for the 2005-2006 school year. Campus Recreation received $515,990 of the $1.2 million that it originally asked of the A&S committee. The funding was to go towards […]

Through the years some students have spread the word around campus that unpaid parking tickets could be ignored. But University Parking Services plans to prove to those students just how wrong they were. “If they have more than three tickets that equal to more than $100 they will be towed,” […]

For many, the process of buying a new car or apartment can be a difficult time because the person’s credit history is less than stellar. The problem heightens for college students and especially for college graduates as credit card companies flood e-mails and mailboxes. They are faced with credit card […]

Black male graduates have it the hardest. First, we represent the smallest number of graduates in the country. According to the1999 Digest of Educational Statistics, Black men make up 11 percent of the total college population. We endure the most paramount obstacles in life. To simply have a degree is […]