As the holidays approach, students driving long distances to visit family and friends need to make sure they stay awake while on the road. Harvey Lockhart, a 19-year-old sophomore music education student from Miami, said college students don’t understand the importance of getting enough sleep. “We don’t realize that staying […]

The University has weathered one wave of public embarrassment and should be the better because of this ordeal. It sometimes takes a crisis before flaws in our system are corrected. Blaming the previous employees who are now retired is not the answer or remedy. We’ve known for months that come […]

The shutdown of the entire FAMU Campus Technology Network on Friday has impacted students who are trying to get everything done before next week’s deadlines of final projects and papers. Saturday was the first full day of the shutdown and several students in Coleman Library seemed to have one thing […]

After much debate, the Student Senate confirmed Chris Griffin as Director Of Student Lobbying Monday night. The senate voted 22-7 in favor of Griffin. Griffin, a third year political science student from Sacramento, Calif., came before the Senate seeking confirmation for the second time in a month. Griffin was declined […]

Tyrra’s Waffles-N-Cream, known for its signature dish of homemade Belgian waffles and ice cream, located on Railroad Avenue, closed its doors last Friday because of financial problems. The owner Tyrra Carter, a 1997 graduate of FAMU’s School of Business and Industry, said after many calculations, she and her husband could […]

Appearing live at the Leon County Civic Center Friday night as part of Florida States University’s homecoming event, the Original King of Comedy, Cedric the Entertainer, had some audience members holding the sides of their stomachs, side effects from constant laughter. “You know us black people, we loved Bill Clinton, […]

Terrell Freeman, coordinator of student affairs at FAMU’s Sunshine Manor, said within the past five years, depression has increased in males although they tend not to seek help. “Males with signs of depression tend not to come in for counseling,” Freeman said. “Depression may be associated with an imbalance of […]

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More black males are in jail than are enrolled in colleges or universities. This is one of the findings in a recent study done by the Justice Policy Institute, a prison alternatives advocate group based in Washington, D.C. The institute found that in 2000, 791,600 black men were in prison […]

I used to like NFL football. There was nothing better than sitting down in front of the TV on a Sunday afternoon and watching the gridiron battles. As long as the games were entertaining, it didn’t really matter who won or lost – except when the Washington Redskins were playing. […]