The Florida A&M University High School boys’ basketball team is ready to start another season. But being disciplined and well conditioned is a major issue. On a team with only three seniors, the Baby Rattlers are searching for an identity and looking for leadership. Head Coach Ron Graham is coming […]

The Florida A&M University women’s volleyball team celebrated Senior Night with a 3-0 win over North Carolina A&T Friday in Gaither Gymnasium, extending its current match-winning streak. FAMU (22-2, 10-0 in MEAC), won 30-15, 30-15 and 30-11, led by sophomore outside hitter Maria Andonova with 11 kills. Junior outside hitter […]

Like at many public institutions in America, at Florida A&M University we enjoy two major breaks from school-Thanksgiving and winter break. With these breaks around the corner, I can’t help but reminisce on issues that arose around this time last year. Why did I catch malarkey from my professor when […]

President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair met on Friday to discuss plans to reach a peace settlement in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine. Both leaders indicated that the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was a key step forward in new opportunities to ignite […]

Florida A&M University held its seventh annual Coleman Library Showcase in Lee Hall Auditorium Tuesday night. The Student Government Association’s 34th Student Senate sponsored the event. According to a program distributed by the event’s organizers, two former senators, Stefan James and Dedra Mitchell, introduced the showcase to the campus of […]

The Florida A&M University Student National Alumni Association is working to recruit students and help them become alumni members before they are graduates. SNAA President Torey Alston, a junior business administration student from Fort Lauderdale, said the organization currently has about 80 dues-paying members, and the roster continues to grow […]

The Beta Nu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. held a probate show Friday, to celebrate the crossing of its first line since the fall of 2002. Rainy skies began to clear as onlookers and supporters gathered on Frank E. Pinder Drive, named after one of the chapter’s charter […]

Your team won the MEAC championship as well as a game in the NCAA tournament last year, but you are picked to finish fourth in the conference. How do you feel about that? Coach Mike Gillespie Sr.: I think it’s the right assessment. We lost Terrence (Woods), Demarcus (Wilkins) and […]

They are envied by some. They are imitated by many. They are admired by most. And as they engulf the football field in seemingly organized chaos, all eyes are drawn to the nine poised drum majors who guide the nearly four hundred members of the Marching 100. For 58 years, […]

There’s a bitter taste in Elana Greene’s mouth. The senior center for the Lady Rattlers basketball team can’t forget how bad it felt in March watching Delaware State make the winning basket with seconds left on the clock. The shot eliminated the Lady Rattlers from the MEAC conference tournament and […]