Local business owners such as Olean McCaskill, owner of Olean’s Café, are bracing themselves for a loss of revenue experienced each year when students vacate Tallahassee during winter break. During breaks, business drops about 30 percent, McCaskill said. This year’s break, which lasts 25 days, begins Dec. 10 for local […]

Time is winding down, plans must be made and University President Fred Gainous has begun to make arrangements for leaving his position. Gainous, who was fired after a 9-4 trustee vote Sept. 28, approached the Board of Trustees with several requests for his tenure following his leaving. Among the requests […]

Like many high school graduates, 24-year-old Sharifa Coffin, from Knoxville, Tenn., knew her next step would be to go to college. Upon her acceptance to the FAMU in August 1998, she had plans to make the best of her college career. Coffin planned to make good grades, meet new people […]

Considering the state of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, it is clear that there is a lot of work to be done to change the impression of HBCUs. More specifically, FAMU’s administration has its work cut out if they plan to successfully move the school forward. With article after article […]

#8220;The Beautiful and the Damned,” is a creation birthed from a union of DigitalGuestList and Epicurean Fashion Experience. The event, scheduled for Saturday night at Floyd’s, is set to be an evening of debauchery, fantasy and fun, according to Joe Womack III, founder and editor in chief of DGL. The […]

Manuel Patterson cringes at the idea of a new semester slowly approaching next month. But the senior co-operative computer information systems student said it’s not because finals are around the corner or even the hassle of arranging his schedule for the next semester, but the process of actually being a […]

There is a sea of faces at Florida A&M University. But with finals week looming, some members of the sea will feel the wrath of exams more than others. All tests, especially those during finals week, are harder to bear for students with test anxiety. Test anxiety affects a person’s […]

Let’s all sit back and watch Snoop Dogg try to jump over the bar set by his latest album’s first single “Drop It Like It’s Hot.” That bar was set so high, the overall effort on the rest of “R&G: Rhythm & Gangsta” seems, at best, mediocre. The over abundance […]

In arguably his most personal album to date, “Encore”, Marshall “Eminem” Mathers, takes listeners on an introspective ride through the mental ramblings of a white hip hop artist. With three albums already under his belt; one introducing him as an artist, the next rebelling against his celebrity and the third […]

When Jay-Z recently referred to T.I. as one of his favorite artists during a late-night interview with Carson Daly, one fact became strikingly clear: T.I. is at the top of his game. The self- proclaimed “King of the South” has been mentioned in music circles as a budding star for […]