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Committee Searches for New Head of Information Technology

The search committee is conducting a national and international search to find the best candidate to fill the Chief of Information Technology position. The deadline for applications is March 14. Former CIO Robert T. Seniors was removed from the position at the start of the Spring semester and was demoted […]

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Student continues voter Comedy Jam

It’s not easy to get full participation from the student body when it comes to school elections. However, Ashley Gray, a fourth-year English education student, has devoted countless hours to encouraging students to vote, by single-handedly coordinating last nights’ 5000 Voters Strike/Comedy Jam. Gray began organized the Comedy Jam, which, […]

Sports

FAMU Intramural Games Start

The Florida A&M intramurals program has begun its month-long basketball tournament. The tournament will include six regular-season games in a playoff system and the championship game. Natasha Kazan, the Assistant Intramurals Coordinator, said she was excited about the opportunities that the basketball league presented for the students at FAMU. “This […]

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Reggae Performance in Tally

See pictures of this reggae performance courtesy of Keenan Doanes, Photo Editor for The FAMUAN.

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Rattlers Win Close Away-Game against Pirates

The Florida A&M men’s basketball team ended its three-game road trip with a win over the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s fourth-ranked Hampton Pirates, 58-55. It was a close game at the HU Convocation Center with 3,741 Pirate fans in attendance. The Rattlers (12-16, 7-7 in the MEAC) ended the game with […]

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Lady Rattlers Lose to Pirates

The Florida A&M women’s basketball team started slowly against the No. 1 team in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference on Monday. The Hampton University Lady Pirates scored 48 first half points in route to an 88-49 victory. Antonia Bennett rolled her ankle early in the first half and played just 2 […]

Opinions

And They Race for the Title

With every election season, there are three groups of people. You have the candidates that try to sell themselves with their predictable platform, breakfast starters and shirts to add to everyone’s wardrobe; their supporters, then you have the rest of the campus, the people that could care less. I do […]

Opinions

Eating Disorders: It’s Not Just One Race that Suffers; It’s All of Us

It’s National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. For a historically black university, this may not register with many people because “black people don’t have eating disorders.” While eating disorders amongst black people may not be as common, this is far from true. For some of us, eating disorders hits close to […]

Opinions

High-Speed Rail: Access Denied

Recently, the Famuan published an opinions article on how high-speed rail can be beneficial to the state of Florida. 
 
 Obviously, Gov. Rick Scott didn’t get that edition of the paper, or skimmed over the article, because he denied the $2.4 billion the federal government was willing to pay […]

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Controversial Cookie Sales Prompt Debate

An affirmative action bake sale at Florida State has caused controversy and is now setting the tone for an upcoming debate between the Florida A&M debate team and the sale’s organizers on Thursday, Feb. 24. According to a Facebook event page, FSU’s College Republicans held the affirmative action bake sale […]