3 Dr. Fred Gainous Chancellor, The Alabama College System Department of Postsecondary Education Montgomery, Alabama 3 Dr. William Harris Formerly President, Alabama State University Montgomery, Alabama 3 Dr. Charles Nelms VP for Student Development and Diversity Professor of Higher Education Administration Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 3 Dr. Bobby Phills Dean, […]

#8220;Monster’s Ball” came to Tallahassee on Friday, on the wings of acclaim from critics. Billy Bob Thornton plays Hank Grotowski, a second-generation corrections officer from Georgia. He can’t seem to decide whether or not he’s a racist – one minute he’s looking in disgust at his slur-slinging father, played by […]

The Rattler Swimming and Diving team plans to make waves and break records at the Southern States Conference in Jacksonville this weekend. The conference, which will run from February 13-16, will host a large number of schools from the Southern region. Gardener-Webb University, North Carolina A & T, Catawba College […]

The Rattlerettes wrung their bats out Tuesday night, hoping for a torrent of hits to flow forth and end an early-season drought at the plate. Again, FAMU only saw a trickle. FAMU eked out one hit in the opener and three hits for the evening as Troy State rolled to […]

#8220;Oh, that a joy so soon should waste, Or so sweet a bliss as a kiss Might not forever last! So sugared, so melting, so delicious. The dew that lies on roses, When the morn herself discloses, Is not so precious. Oh, rather than I would it smother Were I […]

10. Let the Famuan chase your blues away. Everyone here spends so much time in Tucker Hall 309 that almost all of us are single. We feel your pain. 9. Laugh at all the girls on the Set struggling to carry those 200-pound teddy bears while in high heels. Laugh […]

Snowboarders cut a wide swath, not only through sick pow (great snow), but through English as we know it. So, as Olympic snowboarders get big air and ride fakie (backward) outside Salt Lake City this week, NBC commentator Kevin Delaney has his own trick to pull off. Besides providing analysis […]

In pressing situations, good men with good intentions sometimes make bad mistakes. These situations are what separate ‘good’ men from ‘great’ men. Do they continue on and quietly right their wrongs or do they question that which they have willingly succumbed to? If they do the latter, they are great. […]

I read a column in the Famuan a while ago. The topic was that the band deserved the same penalties as other Greek organizations or vice versa. I do believe that the band should be punished for the crimes they committed. I agreed with most of the column. The writer […]

Teenagers in Tennessee will be among the first in the United States to use new textbooks that discuss the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Schools in Tennessee are replacing their social studies materials this fall. So high school and middle school students in the state will be using revised textbooks […]