Hello, I just wanted to touch on the fact that my name was spelled incorrectly in the paper. For future reference my name is T-I-F-F-I-N-E B-A-S-K-I-N. If for some reason you are not sure of the spelling I would appreciate you asking me rather than going on how you think […]

It’s time to decide where to live next semester. There are the traditional dormitories, the apartment-style dorms or off campus altogether. The only problem is the longer it takes to decide where to live, the higher the prices will be, and availability will decrease. “For college housing (apartments) the best […]

Cancer is prevalent in the black community, and has encouraged individuals like Jennifer Jones to become involved with this year’s Relay For Life fundraiser. “This definitely hits home for me,” said the 20-year-old chemistry premed student. “My dad died of leukemia, so I got a little emotional, especially when the […]

Two weeks after more than 2,000 students voted for SGA leaders, there is still no president, vice president or sophomore attendant for the 2003-2004 school year. Larry Rivers and Virgil Miller, candidates on the presidential ticket, won 1381 of the students’ votes in the runoff elections, over 400 more votes […]

Newspapers around the state came together Sunday to celebrate the laws that allow the media to serve the public unlike ever before. The Florida Society of Newspaper Editors decided to start “Sunshine Sunday” last year to celebrate the 1968 Sunshine Law, which grants access to public records, taking freedom of […]

Is FAMU attempting to have its own version of the 2000 U.S. presidential election or is it just a victim of a system that gives too much power to pseudo-politicians? Larry Rivers and Virgil Miller amassed more votes than their competition – not once, but twice. In fact, they got […]

The Florida State University College of Law’s Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Society (EASL) will present the first Entertainment, Arts and Sports Industry conference this Friday and Saturday at the college of law. Panelists will include entertainment, arts and sports lawyers, agents, professional athletes and representatives such as Clay Shiver […]

With spring football practice underway around the country and the Rattlers a week into theirs, here is a position-by-position status report on how FAMU is looking. Quarterback Key players lost: Casey Printers, Reggie HayesKey players returning: Ben Dougherty, Toney Scott Status: If a team loses both its starting and backup […]

It is my unfortunate displeasure to compliment how wonderful the housing is on FAMU’s campus. Upon visitation to FAMU’s campus, the nice bathrooms and the nice dorms are showed to ignorant freshmen, lacking true knowledge of how disgusting these dorms really are. For our president to be the second highest […]

At the start of the 2000-2001 school year, Sean Villery-Samuel narrowly escaped having to pay a lease for an apartment he did not want or could afford to live in. “If I hadn’t read my lease I would have been stuck with paying the rent for two apartments,” said the […]