Author: Marco Brown

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Students still awaiting aid from Booth

Several Florida A&M University students are still trying to get their lives back on track, after being informed they would have to vacate the premises of seven apartment complexes, formerly owned by Booth Properties. Asset Campus Housing, hired to manage the newly foreclosed properties, made the decision to close the […]

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Books take a back seat to game

Let me just throw this out there. I like football just as much as the next person. As a member of the FAMU Strike Team, I love going out to support student athletes. However, the fact that the stadium was blocked off to students who needed to park to go […]

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Model bursts on to scene

Florida A&M University has a student climbing ladders in the modeling industry, Courtney Nicole Simms, as a spokesperson of Fashion Fair makeup products, and she is continuing to build a name for herself. Simms appeared as Miss March in Jet Magazine last year, and she said she wants to be […]

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A tribute to breast cancer survivors

The Beta Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is hosting the 15th annual Night Out for Breast Cancer event in Foster Tanner today at 7 p.m. The co-sponsor of the event is the Student Government Association. Night Out for Breast Cancer began in 1992, shortly after the death […]

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New student numbers increase

Enrollment at Florida A & M University has decreased but the number of first time in college students has increased, according to numbers compiled by the university registrar. Danielle M. Kennedy-Lamar, associate vice president for enrollment management, said recruitment might be a factor in the increase of FTIC students. “We […]

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Concerns in the chamber

In the 8th session of the 37th Senate meeting Monday evening, Kyle Washington, 20, a junior public relations student from Tallahassee expressed his disappointment with the senate for not being heavily involved in student and campus events. Washington questioned the senate’s involvement with the FAMU student body. He berated them […]

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Ticket disbursement underway

This year’s theme for homecoming is The Rattler Renaissance: A Rebirth of Rattler Pride and Spirit. As homecoming approaches, the university’s student government association, in a combined effort with the Office of Student Activities, has planned several events for the occasion including a dorm step show, a comedy/talent show and […]

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Police thwart break-in

Around 2p.m., the Tallahassee Police Department responded to a home invasion robbery at the Stratford Courtyard Tuesday. “TPD responded to a neighbor calling, saying a man entered a home with a ski mask on, and they believed it to be a robbery,” said Officer David McCraine, TPD’s public information officer. […]

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Society accepting of ill-doings

It is a subject that is on everyone’s minds. Whether they are young or old, black or white, Martin Lee Anderson is on the minds of many. There are so many wrongs that I must write. In speaking to Attorney Ben Crump, it was evident the verdict of not guilty […]

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Career should be your choice

I feel that people are continuing to make mistakes when it comes to careers, and it all begins with their choice of major in college. College students have been choosing the major that they think makes the most money or what seems to be the easiest. I have heard it […]