In the first ten minutes of BET’s new reality TV show, “College Hill,” Kevin, a recently born again football star was caught trying to play the field off the field. This example revealed the inherent contradictions that are destined to plague this series. “College Hill” looks like a low-budget homemade […]

Many people have been miseducated about the ideologies of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and it is imperative for those people who celebrate the life of King to realize the true essence of his movement. King’s movement was not truly nonviolent. In order for a movement to be truly nonviolent, […]

#8220;It’s not about where you live, it’s about what lives in you.” -Kwesi Mfume (American politician, social activist, and president of the NAACP) “Rep yo’ city!” The infectious slogan seeps into many current hip-hop albums. The hands of listeners instinctively shoot up and regions are instantaneously declared. This inherent need […]

Where is the 2004 football schedule? The Alumni, boosters and Rattler fans need to know the status of our 2004 football schedule, plans and committed teams we will play in 2004. Our athletic director apparently is not sure. Our president apparentlydoes not know the Board of Trustees don’t care . […]

The girl was sucking her teeth. The guy was raising his voice. The entire room sighed in frustration. “Whatever man, I don’t care about none of these people in here,” he loudly boasted. Like clockwork, hails of curses were shot at the couple from the rows of computers. Welcome to […]

After more than a year of justifying the necessity of a preemptive strike against Iraq, President W. Bush and his administration has backed away from their primary claim – the presence of weapons of mass destruction. If the Bush administration continues to separate itself from the original claims there will […]

Retired Army Sgt. 1st Class Lloyd Messam, 39, remembers the day he lost his wife. Staff Sgt. Joann Messam was 35 when she died after having a hysterectomy on the Fort Bragg Army base in North Carolina. The cause of death was attributed to medical malpractice. According to The Journal […]

With so many clubs and organizations on campus, a new group has set about the task of distinguishing itself, as well as confronting the problem of lobbying for students with SGA. The One FAMU Association, which was approved as an on-campus club on Jan. 19, will work to help students […]

With graduate school as an alternative for most students upon graduation, some on-campus organizations have come together to sponsor a seminar to better prepare the University’s undergraduate students for graduate school. The Graduate Student Association and the Beta Nu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity are hosting “Graduate School: Getting […]

After months of extensive examination, the Student Government Association finally completed its audits of positions within the SGA. Sen. Tarra Crawford briefly explained the audit’s findings at Monday’s meeting. The audit, which began last October, was intended to establish a defined set of guidelines for each position within the SGA. […]