The football-recruiting deadline is drawing near. Coaches are scrambling to retain the athletic services of the nation’s most highly touted prep stars. Florida A&M’s football staff is doing the same. However, the star in this case has arrived in the form of transfer student Casey Printers. Printers, a 20-year-old Dallas […]

SGA President Andrew Gillum said FAMU students will no longer have to go to Strozier Library after Coleman closes early if a $200,000 budget request is approved by the Florida Legislature. University lobbyist Jim Davis asked the State Legislature to grant the university more than $2 million from the state’s […]

When students are asked about saving the environment, visions of unruly environmental rights groups, faraway toxic waste dumps, unkempt beaches and pungent-smelling landfills usually come to mind. However, one local group is seeking out FAMU students to help save the environment on Tallahassee’s Southside. The Bond Environment Project attempts to […]

Cell phones are everywhere. They are in classrooms, on campus and in pockets. But with the rapidly expanding universe of wireless communication, choosing the right plan can be overwhelming. “Picking a phone company was confusing because there were so many options,” said Crystal Worlds, a senior health information management student […]

Trust me. Give me your credit card number, the keys to your apartment, your life savings. Let me hold your baby a moment. Smooth as honey, believable as a best friend, con artists scam thousands of victims each year – hapless “marks” who have no idea they’re being manipulated by […]

Flashy colors and wide brimmed hats graced Lee Hall Auditorium last Tuesday as hundreds gathered to celebrate 44 years of Ebony Fashion Fair. The theme for this year’s show was “Changing the Trends of Fashion,” and the innovative use of fur and leather made this an appropriate theme. “With the […]

#8220;Shooting 18 percent, who can you beat?” Norfolk State’s head coach, James Sweat posed this question in response to his team’s embarrassing performance against the Rattlerettes, Saturday. The Spartanettes struggled from the tip off and even more so in the second half, falling to the Rattlerettes 70-43 at Gaither Gym. […]

The city of Cambridge, Mass., is proposing the Controlled Choice Plan that would assign students to schools according to their parent’s income. This “liberal” city of 100,000, and home to Harvard University, is the first city to propose such a plan. The Controlled Choice Plan should be supported. It could […]

Black president, white president, does the color of someone’s skin determine his or her character? So often within our community, we stress the issues of injustice and inequality that we face as minorities. However, once the tables are turned, we fail to realize that discrimination and prejudice is not just […]

Finally vaulting over .500 in league play after a shaky conference start, the men’s basketball team still has a chance to finish in the upper division of the MEAC. After a 73-61 victory Saturday over Norfolk State in front of 1,915 at Gaither Gym, the Rattlers improved to 5-13 and […]