Students in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will have the option of pursuing a Doctor of Public Health degree starting this semester. Cynthia M. Harris, director of the Institute of Public Health, said the Board of Governors approved the program in Sarasota on Oct. 21. FAMU is the […]

Past and present FAMU students and staff were honored at Tallahassee Community College’s fifth annual Black History Month celebration Monday at Turner Auditorium. For the past five years, TCC has published a calendar sponsored by local businesses in Leon County. The calendar is composed of blacks who have made an […]

A car was totaled after it caught fire Wednesday night in the parking lot behind Tucker Hall. Nearby students from Tucker Hall and the General Education Complex gathered from a distance to see the hood of a red 1999 Dodge Stratus engulfed in flames. The car, which belonged to Shaheed […]

Every day someone is fighting for his or her rights. There are women who fight for equal wage, minorities who fight for equal rights, and same-sex couples who fight for a union in holy matrimony. In a perfect world human beings would not have to fight for their rights. Those […]

Democracy is genuinely a great concept – in theory. Only a truly gifted orator can successfully argue against a system that gives each member of a society an equal opportunity to actively participate in government. Unfortunately, democracy is strictly a beautiful creation in theory. In practice, democracy has proven to […]

Interim Housing Director Oscar Crummity is planning to make some major renovations to FAMU’s dormitories. The renovations will include a recommendation to reduce the occupancy of Paddyfote from 466 students to 233 by converting the rooms into single bedrooms. There will also be renovations to McGuinn, Diamond, Wheatley and Cropper […]

The Lady Rattlers will travel to Delaware State to face the Lady Hornets in their upcoming game this weekend. After dropping two of their first three conference games, the Delaware State Lady Hornets have split its last four conference games to improve to 3-4 in MEAC play. Rattlers Head Coach […]

What’s up? There is a very important film being shown at the Tallahassee Mall called “Hotel Rwanda”. I think that we ought to go to the 7:15 show on Friday to see Hotel Rwanda. Don Cheadle is nominated for best actor in this film. Here is the information about it: […]

Every year in America, hundreds of thousands of young people leave the comforts of home in pursuit of higher education. Along the way, many of these students will be derailed by the influence of illegal narcotics that flood the halls of America’s universities. Many experts believe there are various reasons […]

The Rattlers appeared to heat up leftovers from the success of last season’s MEAC tournament victory over South Carolina State Monday night in a 67-60 win over the Bulldogs. The victory gave validity to the about-face from the regular season to the postseason last year, which saw the Rattlers go […]