Author: Arize Ifejika

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Track team heads to relays

The men and women’s track team is preparing to travel to Landover, Md., this weekend to compete in the MEAC Indoor Conference Championships. This is the sixth meet of the year for both teams and members said they are more prepared and focused than ever. “We’ve had good practices the […]

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Hope Floats

At the HBCU invitational meet at North Carolina A&T University last week, Torrence Ford received the Most Valuable Player award. In fact, Ford has been an MVP his whole life, through miracles, perseverance and a drive surpassed by nothing. Ford, 22, a business administration student from Atlanta is the only […]

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Students respond to Haitian

The political administration of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been the cause of recent anti-government protests in Haiti. Aristide, a former Roman Catholic priest, was Haiti’s first freely elected leader in a landslide election in 1990. The United States helped Aristide claim the presidency a decade ago, but American officials […]

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My life has been ruined

Two years ago, a friend gave me two tickets to a Florida State-Maryland football game. My brother and I went, and we had the absolute best time anyone could possibly have. The atmosphere at that game was electric. You could literally feel the excitement in the air as 82,000-plus people […]

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Golden silence can tarnish relationships

I have a hard time letting people know how I feel. When I was younger, I adopted the silent treatment as a way of “telling” people I was mad at them or letting them know there was something I needed to say to them. I wish that method still worked. […]

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Tallahassee starts to soar

College students and Tallahassee citizens alike can now rejoice because the Tallahassee Regional Airport has at last moved into the new age. Airport officials announced Monday the addition of Continental Airlines to the list of airlines currently servicing the Tallahassee community. It is not impractical to think that with Tallahassee […]

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Blacks need political strategy

In regards to the upcoming presidential election, I have heard several blacks arguing that voting is a necessity to the survival of the black community. But I am very confused about this statement. I have yet to hear anyone bring forth any substantial evidence noting the changes that voting has […]

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Fuzzy math returns

After backing away from an adamant claim of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the Bush administration appears to be going down its list of claims and retracting them. On Wednesday, President Bush and his advisors backed away from its position that 2.6 million new jobs would be created in […]

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Joe, team at home in MEAC

The move back to Division I-AA has caused much debate at the University, but football head coach Billy Joe realizes that he still has a job to do. “It was not my decision,” Joe said. “As a football coach, I am a soldier in the army. Whatever direction given to […]

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“ALL WHITE” scholarship

I was listening to the Doug Banks morning show and I heard them mention an all white scholarship that was made at some school. Suposedly a hispanic student help set it up. It is worth only $50. It is a parody of minority scholarships, and was made as a point. […]