After surviving for 13 days without food or water, Terri Schiavo’s struggle finally ended Thursday morning. Her life ended just 12 hours after the Supreme Court rejected the last appeal. For 15 years, the Florida woman had been sustained by a single feeding tube that was being paid for by […]

Around 4 a.m. Thursday morning, intruders vandalized three floors of Gibbs Hall. The vandals littered the male dormitory with food products and feminine products on the floors, walls and doors. The FAMU Police Department was called to the scene at 4:34 a.m.by a housing clerk, said Lt. Louis Wichers. The […]

I am Keon Hardemon, a third-year, professional MBA student from Miami, Florida, and I am truly honored to serve Florida A&M University in the capacity of the 35th Student Senate president. The extraordinary and pressing ascension to the head of the Legislative Branch of Student Government Association has been one […]

The news broke Tuesday afternoon and a laden spirit saturated the campus not long after. Students roaming the hallways phoned home and offered the news to the uninformed. Johnnie Cochran just died, they uttered to anyone who would listen. “What? Are you serious?” the others asked. “Not Johnnie!” The blow […]

The FAMU Chapter of Progressive Black Men invites you to their seventh class induction ceremony in Lee Hall Auditorium Saturday at 11 a.m. For more information, visit http://www.famupbm.org or e-mail info@famupbm.org. The FAMU Writing Resource Center will be sponsoring a “Writing Effective Scholarship Essays” workshop Tuesday from 3-5 p.m. in […]

The School of Journalism and Graphic Communication’s building will be completed by the fall semester 2005, but its historical figures may not have the building named after them. The SJGC staff is in a split decision on whom to name the building after. Many of the journalism department’s staff want […]

To most people outside of the Washington DC area, go-go music is merely known as pots and pans with other people’s lyrics. To people within the area it’s more than music. It’s a culture, a lifestyle, a way of life. It’s something so big that it has made it’s way […]

I read an article in The Miami Herald that figuratively pained me: “Surgeons Reattach Severed Penis.” An unnamed 44-year-old man in Anchorage, Alaska, had his penis cut off by his ex-girlfriend Kim Tran, 35, in late February. She used a kitchen knife to dismember him after an intense argument involving […]

Pro seatbelt campaigns such as “Click It or Ticket” are aimed to encourage motorists to buckle up. However, it is not illegal for Floridians to ride in the back of pick-up trucks. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, in 2003, there were four fatalities and 119 injuries of passengers ages […]

Monique Mattingly is a softball pitcher and senior physical education student from Gainesville. Unknown to many, Mattingly was the MEAC pitcher of the week twice this season. With four straight no hitters during the last four softball games of the season, she hasn’t let her opponents get one swing at […]