President Fred Gainous should be commended for the plans that he laid out during his State of the University Address on Thursday. Planning for FAMU to overcome the shadow of its unfulfilled grants and continue to grow was inspired. Nonetheless, Gainous failed to focus on one serious fault that he […]

Rarely does a man surrender control of his car’s musical play list to a female passenger. When it happened, I was surprised. But as I sat staring questionably at my friend’s collection of Eminem albums, the privilege didn’t last long. “Hand me that Eminem Show,” he said. Quite offended, I […]

Determination and good defense helped the Lady Rattler’s softball team defeat Florida International University (17-21) in both games of a doubleheader, each ending in extra innings, on Friday at the Lady Rattler’s Complex. In the first game of the doubleheader FAMU got off to a slow start by walking the […]

Fans of R&B singers Usher Raymond and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, of TLC, were shocked when the two started appearing in the media as a couple. Thomas, like many other women, received a lot of flack because she is eight years Raymond’s senior. However, almost no one criticized Raymond for dating […]

Gregory Kendall, a financial services representative at MetLife, was the keynote speaker at the Financial Empowerment Seminar Wednesday in Perry Paige Auditorium. The topic of the seminar was “Preparing for Life After Graduation.” One segment was “The 3 R’s of Credit,” which stands for risk, reporting and repair. Kendell said […]

The National Basketball Association completely changed the way the game is played when it approved zone defenses among a myriad of rule changes including defensive three seconds and the elimination of the illegal defensive violation in mid-April of 2001. Gone are the days of classic one-on-one matchups between great defensive […]

Florida lawmakers are planning the state’s budget for the upcoming year and have fallen back on a trusted solution to university funding – raising tuition. Reports in the Tallahassee Democrat state that the House and Senate have earmarked tuition increases for Florida’s public universities. Along with Gov. Jeb Bush’s proposed […]

President Fred Gainous extended a “challenge for change” during Thursday’s State of the University Address. He expressed the necessity of commitment on behalf of the faculty to transitions the University is making, highlighting the use of new technology and overcoming past mistakes. The president informed the audience that the Enterprise […]

Darn. Shoot. Flippin’. Booty. What is so wrong with using these words instead of the alternatives heard so often in today’s radio and television programs? Absolutely nothing. Instead of defiling our entertainment venues with profanity filled language, producers and screenwriters must start using the home training their parents hopefully instilled […]

Ladies and gentlemen, players and pimps, Negroes of the Necropolis – rise from your graves! Contrary to the popular opinion of the day, neither Chevrolet trucks nor sport utility vehicles represent the heartbeat of America, unless you have confused America’s heartbeat with the blood-hungry throb of capitalism that rules this […]