Author: Britney Reed

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Weather keeps swim team from enjoying home meets

With just one home meet this season and a traveling schedule that takes it everywhere from North Carolina to Minnesota, decreasing gas prices would benefit the university’s swim team this season. Since the program’s return last year, the swim team has had many complications that have hindered its attempt to […]

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Students find means to relieve life’s stress

For some college students, trying to balance work, school and a social life can often be a precursor to stress. Stress is “mental, emotional, or physical strain caused, for example, by anxiety or overwork,” according to http://www.seachangecoach.com. Stress may cause such symptoms as raised blood pressure, and it could even […]

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Late vouchers vex students

Some students at the university have yet to receive their book vouchers because of changes made at the start of the year to the voucher computer system. “I felt angry because I wasn’t able to do the homework that was due, and I wasn’t able to keep up in my […]

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Accidental aid angers students

The Office of Financial Aid mistakenly issued unsubsidized loans to several students in the fall 2006 semester and plans to recollect the money from the students’ spring semester aid.Many students are upset they are paying for the university’s errors. Some students who receive financial aid noticed odd charges on their […]

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Community conflicted over building’s name

The renaming of a building shared by the two largest universities in Tallahassee has sparked controversy.The Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering has renamed its building in honor of the late Herbert F. Morgan, a FSU alumnus. But some students disagree with the building’s name change.”I feel that […]

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Tardy textbooks may be professors’ fault

Miscommunication between the university bookstore and professors has caused many students to begin classes without the proper textbooks. Much of the blame is being placed on students, but university staff members may be at fault. “Teachers are putting the orders in too late,” said Tran Henry, a supervisor at the […]

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Katrina relief aid diverted to Iraq

In 2001 the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the United States, according to an article in the New Orleans Times-Picayune. But the Bush administration decided in 2003 to […]

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Use research to choose best FAMU president

According to an article on www.tdo.com, the FAMU Presidential Search Committee might pick a new president in the next 10 days. Of the 12 finalists the committee named, three candidates are left: Thelma B. Thompson, Howard Johnson and James H. Ammons. Thompson, the president of the University of Maryland Eastern […]

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Intramural program offers new spring events

After a successful turnout for the fall, the university’s intramural program is back with a wide range of indoor and outdoor activities. Spring intramurals include the Madden 2007 tournament, coed volleyball, 7-on-7 soccer, 5-on-5 basketball, tennis, track and the water Olympics. Outdoor activities include the Rattlesnake Roundup, “Rattlers on the […]

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Students wear grills despite health risks

There is one thing rapper Paul Wall, music mogul Diddy and basketball star Steven Jackson all have in common – dental grills. For years, dental grills have been a prominent fashion statement in the hip hop community, but recently they have crossed over into the mainstream. Although grills brighten up […]