The scent of homemade fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, ribs and a host of other “soul foods” is what second-year broadcast student Evan Miles associates with her fondest memories of her grandmother. For the rest of Tallahassee, however, the moment most ingrained in their memories is when Dorothy Inman Johnson […]
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Domino Effect
Board of Education chairman T. Willard Fair announced his resignation just one day after Florida education commissioner Eric Smith quit. Smith was hired to the State Board of Education in 2007, a time when Florida schools ranked 31st on the Quality Counts report by “Education Week.” As he leaves the […]
Budget Cuts Threaten Florida State Projects
A tight state budget will the advancement of Florida State’s Center for Asian Art, and other proposed university projects, according to local university officials. “The University has requested a matching appropriation through the Courtelis Matching Gift Program equal to the amount that was donated,” said Mark Bertolami, the director of […]
FAMU Football Hopes to Be MEAC Champs – without the ‘co’
As spring practice continues, the Florida A&M football team hopes to again become Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) champions. This time, they want to drop the co. The Rattlers had a record of 8-3 and was involved in a three-way tie for MEAC championship with Bethune-Cookman and South Caroline State. Willie […]
Some Students Seek ‘Mrs’ Degree
College is an institution of higher learning, but does higher learning mean the same thing to everyone? Does it mean degree and a career or is it marriage? Is college the place to snag that certain someone? Each of these answers trickles down to one motivation and that’s morals. Everyone […]
PUSH Productions Promotes Safe Sex at FAMU
What started as Ntozake Shange’s choreo-poem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,” was adapted into Tyler Perry’s hit film “For Colored Girls” in 2010. Florida A&M has joined the movement and is using the production’s themes to encourage female empowerment among students. PUSH Productions, […]
‘Real Talk’ Tonight for FAMU Men
#8220;The Real Talk for Real Men” is an initiative open to all collegiate men at Florida A&M University scheduled for on Wednesday March 30, 2011, from 6 – 9 p.m. in the School of Journalism and Graphic Communication Lecture Hall.. The theme of the event is “The Importance of Making […]
Make Your Voice Heard before it’s Silenced
Florida A&M’s restructuring is affecting everyone related to the university. After learning that the School of General Studies will be eliminated, about 1,500 students are being forced to declare a major. In my opinion, this could have been avoided. In 2008, record-breaking numbers, of African American voters helped to elect […]
Is Corporal Punishment at Home Necessary?
Pack up the van and the kids, honey, because the world is coming to an end. No, we’re not talking about the recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan, or snowstorms sweeping across the northwest. We’re talking about the 17-year-old in South Florida who pistol-whipped her mother into buying her […]
‘Grandma Mel’ Leads FAMU’s Wrestling Girls
The coaches call her grandma, her friends call her Mel, but everybody knows her as captain of Florida A&M’s women’s varsity wrestling team. Melanie Andrade is a freshman, Biology pre-med student. Andrade started wrestling her freshman year of high school. She was looking for a sport to participate in, […]