Speaking to a crowd of students, faculty, alumni, and for the first time FAMU DRS students, Jonathan Quarles, president of the university chapter of the NAACP set the tone for the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation. “We have not come to mourn the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King, […]

Lebron James is barely 18 and has already been compared to Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan. The 6’7″ high school senior from Akron, Ohio is the No. 1 high school player in the country. Shoe companies like Nike and Adidas, the NBA, and the sports media have courted […]

WASHINGTON–President Bush said Wednesday he would challenge the use of racial preferences in admissions to public universities while proposing an alternative way to guarantee diversity in college classrooms. If the Supreme Court follows his approach, efforts to achieve diversity in higher education–and by extension, in other institutions throughout society–could shift […]

Racism will be here until we educate the youth.Once we educate the youth on its origin low and behold a change will show. It will be hard to change 400 years plus of hard traning. You see racism was designed to keep people apart.In order to destory it we must […]

I am writing to Dominique Drake, regarding her story about the en-masse death-row commutation by Illinois Gov. George Ryan. (But, I would also like the editor to consider my short letter for publications in “Letters to the Editor.”) First, I am glad that FAMU, long characterized as a “liberal” or […]

Can you feel it? The FAMU Rattlerettes are definitely feeling it after defeating conference foe Howard University 82-72. The ladies were eager to get this win because they have not beaten the Lady Bison since the 1999 quarterfinals of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament when FAMU won 53-40. “It was […]

Nas stated it best, “Now let’s get it all in perspective.” Kicking in the NFL seems to be at an all time low. The place kicker was a position of promise for tired linemen and frustrated coaches caught in between a rock and a hard place in the final seconds […]

It is inconceivable that a team can lose a game before it even gets a chance to win it, but that is what can happen every time an NFL game goes into overtime. An NFL overtime starts with a coin toss. Whichever team wins the toss, receives possession of the […]

The man is fearless. “He plays with a reckless abandon,” said associate men’s basketball coach Lamont Franklin. Sophomore guard Dominique Jackson from Immokalee has developed an intrepid attitude in his life that has matriculated onto the basketball court. “I think sometimes he gets a little too carefree and that causes […]

With 25 points, six rebounds, three assists and one steal, junior guard Terrance Woods led the Rattlers (6-6, 2-2 MEAC) to an exciting win over the Howard Bison Monday night. The 75-64 win puts the team at .500 overall for the first time since 1992. Despite the fact that Woods […]