Author: Carla Jones

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Election sparks debate

During another lengthy senate meeting Monday night, some senators debated the validity of the senate election last week, leading to an informal discussion Tuesday about the issue. Junior senator Brittani King, who brought up the issue on Monday, said the elections are invalid because of the use of absentee ballots […]

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Pitcher rises to top of childhood love

Monique Mattingly is a softball pitcher and senior physical education student from Gainesville. Unknown to many, Mattingly was the MEAC pitcher of the week twice this season. With four straight no hitters during the last four softball games of the season, she hasn’t let her opponents get one swing at […]

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Pick-up joy rides hazardous

Pro seatbelt campaigns such as “Click It or Ticket” are aimed to encourage motorists to buckle up. However, it is not illegal for Floridians to ride in the back of pick-up trucks. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, in 2003, there were four fatalities and 119 injuries of passengers ages […]

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Know when the affair is finished

I read an article in The Miami Herald that figuratively pained me: “Surgeons Reattach Severed Penis.” An unnamed 44-year-old man in Anchorage, Alaska, had his penis cut off by his ex-girlfriend Kim Tran, 35, in late February. She used a kitchen knife to dismember him after an intense argument involving […]

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Band helps popularize go-go music

To most people outside of the Washington DC area, go-go music is merely known as pots and pans with other people’s lyrics. To people within the area it’s more than music. It’s a culture, a lifestyle, a way of life. It’s something so big that it has made it’s way […]

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School split on building name

The School of Journalism and Graphic Communication’s building will be completed by the fall semester 2005, but its historical figures may not have the building named after them. The SJGC staff is in a split decision on whom to name the building after. Many of the journalism department’s staff want […]

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FAMU Announcements

The FAMU Chapter of Progressive Black Men invites you to their seventh class induction ceremony in Lee Hall Auditorium Saturday at 11 a.m. For more information, visit http://www.famupbm.org or e-mail info@famupbm.org. The FAMU Writing Resource Center will be sponsoring a “Writing Effective Scholarship Essays” workshop Tuesday from 3-5 p.m. in […]

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Howard Beats FAMU in Paper Chase

I recently visited your website and noticed that the masthead of your paper says that The FAMUAN is the most frequently published newspaper at an HBCU. While that may have been true a year ago, the title of most frequently published HBCU paper today rests with The Hilltop, of Howard […]

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Gays!

I think you should do a whole article on the gays at famu I even know alot of people who want to be in your magazine if you want pics because we are no longer in the closet. So if you are interested in that let me know. Thanks,Mike S

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Sequel’s congeniality reserved for title

In the first “Miss Congeniality,” undercover FBI agent Gracie Hart, played by Sandra Bullock, disguises herself as a contestant in the Miss United States pageant. Hart prevents the pageant from becoming a disaster by halting death threats against the competitors using nontraditional but comical techniques. Hart returns in “Miss Congeniality […]