Author: Daneesha Davis

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Students to bury capsule

#8220;Leaving our Footprints Behind” was the theme of a twilight time capsule ceremony that paid homage to founders, Thomas Gibbs and Thomas Desalle Tucker. As a part of Founders Week, student government officials, students and a portion of the Marching 100 gathered around the eternal flame Wednesday to celebrate the […]

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Single-sex classes benefit students

Smaller class sizes. Higher test scores. Less disciplinary problems. Is it an educational heaven? In the future maybe. Presently, they are just some of the benefits of single-sex classrooms in public schools. Single-sex schools have been around for a long time, but single-sex classrooms are a relatively recent phenomena. In […]

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Maintaining tires helps maintain money

Rytonia Johnson didn’t know what hit her tire. “My tire just gave out on me,” said Johnson, 18, a freshman business administration student from Madison. Johnson’s tire blow out could have been caused by under or over-inflation, which are the main factors that cause tire complications, said Steve Wright, sales […]

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Rattlerettes shut out Bulldogs

Ram, jam, slam! It’s awesome baby! Those were the feelings of most fans in the Jake Gaither Athletic Center on Sunday after they watched the volleyball team take South Carolina State by storm winning the match in three straight games. The Rattlerettes finished off the Bulldogs in only an hour […]

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Misdemeanors should not warrant suspension

Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Randy Moss spent the night of Sept. 24 in jail and was later charged with careless driving and failure to obey a traffic officer. I wish I would’ve been there because from the reports that I read I still don’t understand what happened. Police spokeswoman Cyndi […]

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Ex-Negro League players seek pensions

In 1947, Jackie Robinson and Larry Dolby broke the color line into Major League Baseball. Fifty years later, Major League Baseball granted limited benefits to about 70 of the former Negro League players who played in the majors. To receive the pension, the ballplayer must have made the major league […]

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Young M.C. practices old tricks

Young MC has no business exposing his feeble attempts to create music to the public. This album is wack. It lacks both quality beats and rhymes. The album opens up with Young’s unwarranted boasting “My rhymes are like wine made from grapes on the vine/getting better with time to engage […]

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Precautions prevent theft

As a college town, Tallahassee is home to thousands of student drivers. Invariably, it is also home to several cases of auto theft and burglary. While many students have had their cars stolen or burglarized, some did not take the proper precautions to protect their cars from being targeted. “The […]

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Save works of art to preserve black culture

The famous economist John Maynard Keynes once remarked, “in the long run, we are all dead.” True. But it is also true that barring the failure of the Earth’s systems, generations of our progeny will continue on after we are gone. This essay has nothing to do with economics, but […]