Author: Donald Remy |

Lifestyles

Technology: A social interaction or distraction?

  Tweets, texts, blogs, posts and status updates have become a part of students’ daily lives, but for some it may be an obsession. Many Florida A&M students use smartphones and other devices to access social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. But the abundance of these gadgets […]

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Dropping the weight

Vitamins, extracts and drops. Oh what some college students would not do to shed those excess pounds quickly without stepping foot inside a gym. Many popular ways to lose weight include taking dietary supplements or using liquid weight-loss drops. Some students use raspberry ketones drops and supplements, green tea extract […]

Sports

Annual spring game showcased new talent

Will Small picks of a pass Courtesy Tallahassee.com During his freshman and sophomore years, linebacker William Smalls sat behind NFL prospect Brandon Hepburn, who led the team in tackles during his final season. Smalls recorded 18 tackles during his first two seasons. But after this spring, the Atlanta native made […]

Opinions

Wait for the right one

  The value of sex has almost become obsolete. Being intimate with someone sexually in modern times is like sharing some flour: People ask for it and they get it. It shouldn’t be that easy, and that’s the problem with this generation. Sex is too easy to get and people […]

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DOMA is a violation of civil rights

  As some may know, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law restricting marriage benefits and inter-state marriage recognition to only opposite-sex marriages. Specifically, the hearing was an effort to decide whether DOMA should be considered constitutional, with those in opposition […]

News

FAMU All-Star team competes against HBCUs in LA

  Florida A&M is competing against 48 historically black colleges and universities in the 24th annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge in Los Angeles. The HCASC, which began Saturday and will end Wednesday, is the only academic competition held between the various HBCUs around the country. The tournament will test the […]

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FAMU to interview two band director candidates

  The search for a new band director continues as Florida A&M released the interviewing schedules for two candidates. Both candidates, Sylvester Young, a former professor of music at Ohio University, and Don Roberts, an instrumental music coordinator for DeKalb County School District, are graduates of FAMU and will face […]

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Orange over green

After Florida A&M’s intrasquad spring football scrimmage at Bragg Memorial Stadium on Saturday, the Rattlers’ orange team pulled out a 31-26 victory over the green team. “The game was a high scoring affair, giving the defense a lot of credit to who took a healthy lead and showed a lot […]