Environments and surroundings often affect how people view their lives and what decisions they make. People may sometimes leave certain environments because they do not like them or do not feel comfortable. At FAMU, students and professors agree that a healthy or unhealthy working environment can often have a strong […]

About 39 students gathered Thursday night around the Eternal Flame to pay tribute to Delores Dupont-Randolph. Standing in a circle holding white candles, each student recalled an experience with the Student Government Association administrative assistant, who they knew as “Lady Du” or “Ms. Du.” Dupont died April 10 after struggling […]

Best Buddies is a growing worldwide, non-profit organization that allows students to get to know someone with an intellectual disability on a one-to-one basis. FSU and FAMU both offer this program. Unfortunately, FSU may not have the program for long, due to its unreliable members. The chapter at FSU was […]

Florida lawmakers are in the process of passing a bill that would change the requirements of the Florida Safety Belt law. The bill that was introduced by Rep. Irving Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, will make failing to fasten one’s seat belt a primary offense. In Florida, use of safety belts are […]

Advice to the good people of Florida: Get a gun license. Apparently the Florida Legislature thinks that citizens can be their own police. It recently voted in favor of HB-249, which gives the right for citizens to use “deadly force” when being threatened with guns or other deadly weapons. The […]

A routine trip from FAMU to the Leon County Jail ended in an accident for a FAMU Police Department officer Tuesday afternoon. The Tallahassee Police Department received a call at 3:19 p.m. after FAMUPD Officer Derrick Folson lost control of his no. 37 squad car. Folson was transporting two FAMU […]

The Greeks have gone wild. Organizations are always trying to compete against the others. But proving one’s organization is better than the other has definitely gotten out of hand. Campus benches, walls and plots of fraternities in the “Divine Nine” – all except Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi […]

About two months ago, black America paused to acknowledge the rapidly growing HIV/AIDS crisis in black communities on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness and Information Day. For 24 hours, students, parents, victims and volunteers wore T-shirts that read “Got AIDS?” and passed out literature in an effort to raise awareness of […]

To his friends, family and the campus organizations he affiliates with, he is known as Ronald Turner. However, to anyone in the music industry he is known as R-Tistic. Turner is a third-year CIS student from Los Angeles. He is also a producer, who has worked with several artists in […]