Making an attempt to bridge the gap between the administration and student body, the student senate passed a bill Monday approving a town hall meeting with President Fred Gainous. The meeting, organized by the Men of Distinction, is scheduled for next Monday at 6 p.m. in Lee Hall. The possibility […]
Author: Steven Jumper
Bush hides behind Cabinet members
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will appear on major national broadcast networks – ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS – TV Thursday at 9 a.m. to respond to allegations that the President neglected to act upon prior warnings of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Rice will testify before the Sept. 11 […]
Fashion not the best way to honor dead loved ones
In the black community it’s customary to immortalize our fallen brethren on cotton T-shirts with scanned portraits or airbrushed pictures. The purpose of these T-shirts is to keep a loved one’s memory alive postmortem. But this form of remembrance is completely trifling. This type of shallow tribute doesn’t reach the […]
Education minimizes rape risk
The statistics for the number of women sexually assaulted in America is rising. According to www.louisville.edu, one in four college women have been raped or suffered an attempted rape and every 21 hours there is a rape on an American college campus. Although women are sexually assaulted more often than […]
Blacks must break the silence
The black community is suffering. However, it is not because so many black communities are barely surviving in poverty-stricken slums, nor is it because blacks are being crammed into privatized prisons, nor is it because the rates of sexually transmitted diseases are rising at a staggering pace. Though these issues […]
Epicurean Fashion Experience presents the final fantasy in campus couture
Photos by Collin C.Chappelle, Adeleke Omitowoju and Tara Lynne S. Pixley/The Famuan An”extinction level event” occurred Sunday evening at the Civic Center when Epicurean Fashion Experience debuted its spring show to a packed crowd of well-dressed onlookers. Swimsuits, skirts and flailing shirts on models of all shapes, sizes and shades […]
Film gives voice to rape survivors
Aishah Shahidah Simmons was molested by a relative when she was 10 years old, by a friend of the family when she was 12 years old and was raped when she was 20. Fifteen years later, Simmons has boldly stepped forward with her feature length documentary titled “No!” that consists […]
New class in defense comes to campus
The United States has one of the highest rape rates in the world, with one out of three women having been a sexual assault victim, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey. As a result, a new class is being offered on campus to educate women on how to defend […]
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director for the Capital City area Chamber of Commerce, attended on behalf of the chamber to encourage students to intern with area businesses. “It’s all about networking, sharpening your skill set and building your portfolio,” Gray said. Gray said many students overlook the numerous career opportunities that local, black-owned businesses […]
Testimony will solve nothing
Is Condoleezza Rice going to come forward and really spill the beans? Surprisingly, President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney recently gave her the go-ahead to be publicly questioned under oath by the Sept. 11 commission regarding the current administration’s knowledge surrounding al-Qaida and whether preemptive tactics could have […]