People tend to be gung ho about criticism until they’re the targets. Since my freshman year at FAMU, I’ve always had a knack for making at least one person or organization upset with something that I’ve written. Let’s run down the resume. During the fall of 2000 as an assistant, […]

The board of trustees meeting provided a forum for new Interim President Henry Lewis III to share his vision for a better university and to unveil the proposed timeline for the presidential search. Lewis said he wants to enhance FAMU’s image campus-wise, community-wise and legislative-wise. Being “customer-friendly” was one goal […]

PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH APPLICANTS Braja M. Das – Dean,College of Engineering and Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento Fred J. Gainous – Chancellor, The Alabama College System Department of Post-secondary Education Barbara Harden-Williams – Grant Reader, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Allan M. Hoffman – Dean, College of Health […]

TalTran has implemented security cameras on several of its buses. John L. Carter, executive director for TalTran, said that there are about 48 buses operating everyday. Out of those 48, nine have security cameras installed on them. “In 2001, Taltran received nine newer model buses and those were already equipped […]

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – Marines and Army military police drilled on how to transfer suspected terrorist prisoners of the al-Qaida and Taliban movements to this Caribbean outpost Thursday as U.S troops 8,000 miles away moved out the first group of hooded and chained prisoners from Afghanistan. “Obviously this […]

For many in music, 2002 is shaping up to be a sink-or-swim year. Artists who laid relatively low in 2001 need to make a big splash in the coming months. Here’s a guide to who’s got to prove they’ve still got it or risk being forgotten. MARIAH CAREY Flat sales […]

The men’s swimming and diving team thrilled the home crowd and made their fellow Rattlers proud, defeating Howard (115.5-86.5) while the women (80) defeated North Carolina A&T (30) falling to the Bison (96) in the second Annual HBCU Swimming and Diving Invitational Saturday. In the 200 yard IM, Torrence Ford […]

ANTHRAX Scare factor: 4 Reality: ½ The anthrax scariness factor is high in part because we don’t know who it will strike next, so we can’t predict our odds of getting it, as we can with heart disease or breast cancer. And the mortality rate with the inhaled variety is […]

Attending college, students deal with so much, ranging from family, relationships to academia. Students usually expres1s their feelings by stating that they are always stressed out or depressed. But do we really know what the term depression is? Can students be diagnosed with clinical depression or do they misuse the […]