Much controversy has surrounded the recent “Pimps Up, Ho’s Down” party organized by some Florida State University Law School students. A lot of people ask how FSU could be associated with such a degrading party. Several in attendance wore Afro wigs and false gold teeth, similar to the style of […]

Where is the book that says a male must be sexually promiscious in order to be a man? That question has befuddled me since I entered my junior year. I can’t lie, though. My freshman and sophomore years my hormones reached a high that I didn’t know they were capable […]

It seems that sex is on everyone’s mind nowadays. What is it about college and sex? Those of us who made it here without having done the horizontal tango seem to come to FAMU and stick it on our agenda list: “Swing by Foote-Hilyer, register, lose virginity, and buy Literaure […]

Picture this, it’s February 14th at approximately 10:30 pm. You are anxiously driving to that desired destination. Not to mention that you are excited about what awaits behind door number 504. You pull up to the house and your partner greets you in their Valentine’s best. The lights are dim, […]

In Florida, for every 1,000 young women, 57.3 are likely to become teen mothers. According to www.myflorida.com, Florida ranks fourth in adolescent births and women 19 years old or younger have 20 percent of the state’s births. Based on the Department of Health’s data, the 15-29 age group has the […]

On Friday, Student Health Services Director Shankar A. Shetty, M.D., released the number of sexually transmitted disease cases that the university has had from May of 2001 to January of this year. During this time, there have been 45 cases of chlamydia,the most common STD in the United States. Chlamydia […]

Buying a used car is not as risky an endeavor as it once was. Significant improvements in design, construction and reliability have pushed the used-car business to the forefront of the automotive industry. Although auto tampering and manipulated owner histories have not been eliminated from the car-buying experience, there are […]

I read an article that discussed the female/female relationships among black women. There was some truth in the article, but then again there were a lot of generalizations. Like when the author described females as being “needy, clingy, over emotional cowards.” Come on, all women aren’t like that. All of […]

I was disheartened to read of Florida A&M Interim President Henry Lewis’s censorship of university students recently. The president has withheld distribution of the campus yearbook, allegedly because of grammatical errors. The book also contains an article by the editor complaining of $10,000 missing from the publication’s campus account, according […]