Rasaan Brooks, 21, a senior business administration student from Philadelphia, died Saturday evening due to kidney failure. Brooks was diagnosed with kidney disease at the age of two, and had received dialysis for the past two years. Rossi Brooks, Rasaans father, donated a kidney to Rasaan with hopes that it […]

BAGHDAD, Iraq-Elated crowds of liberated Baghdad residents handed yellow flowers to U.S. Marines on Wednesday. They flashed V-for-victory signs at passing U.S. Army tanks. They tied a rope noose around a towering statue of Saddam Hussein and they pulled it down. “It’s in the end game now,” said Marine Capt. […]

Using tuition vouchers to subsidize private and religious schools violates the Florida Constitution. The Florida voucher program grades schools on an “A-F” basis. It allows children at schools graded “F” for at least two out of four years to use a state-funded tuition voucher at any private school, including a […]

Tempers flared and students had to break up the “brawl in the hall” after Monday night’s weekly SGA Senate meeting. Freshmen senator Chelsea Hall and junior senator Robert Clemmon were restrained as they got into a heated debate and shouting match in the hallway outside the senate chambers after the […]

Middle Eastern students on financial aid may have to find other ways to fund their education if a bill is passed in the State House of Representatives. More than 822 foreign students on financial aid will be affected if House Bill 31 passes, which proposes to cut financial assistance in […]

Professor of history Larry E. Rivers was named the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Thursday. Rivers, 53, was the former director of the master of applied social science program from 1990 to 2001, won the 2001 Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s first place book […]

One week after the search committee for the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences released its unanimous recommendation of Larry E. Rivers, interim dean, he was selected for employment as dean. Yet, faculty members are questioning the decision. Bill Tucker, president of FAMU United Faculty of Florida and […]

You are one of the best players of all time in baseball. You hold the all-time record for hits. You transcended your position. You played the game with the kind of intensity managers and owners only wish were present in some of today’s athletes. Then, all of a sudden, you […]

The Florida legislature is attempting to sanction xenophobia. Rep. Dick Kravitz, R-Orange Park, sponsored a bill-HB 31-that would cut aid to students from countries the U.S. government says support terrorism. This bill will prohibit students from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria and Sudan from receiving any scholarships, fellowships, grants, fee waivers […]

Wouldn’t it be a shame to make a mistake and have your voice removed as punishment? Well, for 3.9 million Americans, more importantly 1.4 million black males and 400,000 Floridians, that is the penalty. Let’s say those 400,000 Floridians who are ex-convicts had been allowed to vote in the 2000 […]