Homecoming is a time of unfettered celebration. Family, friends and alumni all come home for a good time. They come for the game, for the old friends, for the parties and for the memories. They do not come for the police blockades, the mall riots, the drunk drivers, the limited […]

Alumni, students and anyone planning to attend the Homecoming game should be prepared to pay for parking or walk. Or both. On game day fans can expect to pay $10 to park on the intramural field and five dollars to park at other lots. These lots include the parking garage, […]

In the wake of the sniper shootings, anti-gun advocates have been calling for more new gun control laws and a renewal of old gun control legislation. They claim that if tougher gun control laws were in place then the sniper attacks would not have occurred. What a load of crap! […]

Losing, or the lack of, accreditation has become a common problem for many historically black colleges and universities. But this is insignificant when considering the thousands of students who don’t find out about this problem when they step onto the respective “yards”. A lack of adequate research may lead to […]

Don’t count FAMU out just yet. Just when the Rattler’s ship looked like it might be sinking, the team got back to its winning ways last Saturday with a win over arch-nemesis North Carolina A&T, to salvage what was otherwise a three-game home stand to forget. The Rattlers (5-3, 3-2) […]

Here’s how Naomi Watts, whose new film “The Ring” opens Friday nationwide, sees herself in old age: “I’ll be in the home somewhere, looking at the sunset through the window, and some other geezer will roll his wheelchair up to mine and say, `Excuse me, but can you please explain […]

The annual homecoming worship service will kick off Homecoming week. The service, which is on Sunday, Oct. 27 from 4 – 6 p.m. in Lee Hall Auditorium, will feature alumnae Dr. Mary Willis. Willis, a native of Miami, received her bachelor’s degree in business education from FAMU, her master’s in […]

French author sued for Anti-Muslim comments Author Michel Houellebecq was sued by four Muslim groups for a comment he made stating “the stupidest religion, after all, is Islam.” The comment was made in an interview with Lire magazine back in 2001. When Houellebecq appeared in court in September, he claimed […]

Starting with a Richard Simon’s rendition of Adam Sandler’s “The Wedding Singer,” opening act Har Mar Superstar frightened us with his voice, his partially naked body and his saggy blue underwear. And unfortunately, that wasn’t enough. The middle aged “rockstar wannabe” attempted to redo a Steve Wonder classic and failed […]

HAMBURG, Germany – The first person to go on trial for charges in aiding the Sept. 11 hijackers acknowledged Tuesday that he had trained at an al-Qaida terrorist camp in Afghanistan, but denied knowing anything about the suicide attacks his friends were plotting. Mounir el Motassadeq, a 28-year-old Moroccan engineering […]