For many students, the college experience is about what happens in between classes: lifelong connections that produce true love for your alma mater. If you visit the main yard of any HBCU after a good game or in between classes, you will see this magic come to life. Students at […]

Kevin Simmonds’ return home was a trip based on perspective. Simmonds said he was happy to return to Tallahassee to play in front of family and friends but wasn’t going to let it cloud his focus. “It means more because I’m a senior but it’s not that big of a […]

As the smell of chlorine filled the air, shouting swimmers chanted “FAMU RELAY” before they splashed into the water at Saturday’s Orange and Green Intersquad meet. The Orange and Green meet is an event where the FAMU swimmers get to show off the hard work and effort they have put […]

A miseducated black person. If you have fallen into the same traps as most of today’s African Americans, then you are one. We have fought long and hard to obtain equal rights and to escape the subhuman status imposed on our ancestors. Therefore, I cannot, for the life of me, […]

Would Florida State fans leave at halftime if the Seminoles were down 30-0 in an important Atlantic Coast Conference game? No. Why then is it acceptable for Rattler fans to pour out of the stands when placed in the same situation? I have no idea. Every home game follows this […]

In one of the most gruesome and notorious crimes in New York City history, it was thought that the criminals were behind bars. In what is called the Central Park murder, a 28-year-old investment banker was jogging after work April 19, 1989, when she was dragged from the road, sexually […]

The Rattlers were looking to rebound after an ugly loss last week to South Carolina State, but they came up on the short end of a 28-24 score in front of 16,216 people at Bragg Memorial Stadium. It is only the fourth time in head coach Billy Joe’s eight seasons […]

WASHINGTON – Despite misgivings about “going it alone,” Congress moved resolutely Thursday toward granting President Bush the authority he sought to wage war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.The House of Representatives voted 296-133 in support of the president, and the Senate was certain to do the same by a similar margin, […]

The talk of war with Iraq gained additional momentum this week, as Congress voted to allow President George W. Bush the use of military force to bring the Middle Eastern nation in compliance with U.N. resolutions. Public reaction has been wide and varying, ranging from solid support to staunch opposition […]

Three months after President Fred Gainous took the helm at the university, changes are omnipresent. But some on campus still have mixed opinions about the progress of the university under the former student-turned-administrator. The closing of Gamble Street from Wahnish Way to Orr Drive, the entrance of the parking lots […]