The alert reaction of the FAMU Police department resulted in the arrest of two FSU students attempting to burglarize a vehicle parked in the garage at the intersections of Gamble and Wahnish Way on Wednesday. Patrol officers Freddie Franklin and Evelyn Anderson were conducting routine surveillance of the parking garage […]

The swimming and diving team glided into fourth place overall at the Southern States Conference (SSC) Championships held February 13 -16. This fourth place finish saved Head Coach Jorge Olaves from having to shave off all of his hair, as he promised to do if the team finished among the […]

After scoring 22 runs in Tuesday’s doubleheader sweep of Savannah State, FAMU’s offense seemed to break out of an early season slump and looked to maintain its momentum against University of Illinois-Chicago. Limited to one run and eight hits in the first two games of a three-game series, the Rattlers […]

Sex is a major issue, it seems, among many college students. Yet, as with everything you do, there is ultimately a consequence. Many things should cross your mind before you engage in this activity, “Is the person safe? Do condoms really work? I could become pregnant. What if I become […]

I arise in the morning with questions on my mindWhy when troubles seem to follow, I’m the one it findsAt birth, my presence alone brought heart-ache and painNot knowing that through childhood, I would have moreto lose and nothing to gainA grandmother, whom no one could replace the thingsthat she […]

Life, outside my windowIs Yesterday’s newsColored by mind’s paintMiles’ “Flamenco Sketches”Yesterday’s bluesBlown for a foolIn Heart’s Yesterday’s hues Life outside, my windowRelives a tearless painColored, red, bloods vain descriptionTearless rejectionNo hope of resurrectionBlown pains, so painfulYet, playful destination To wonder At just what wonders, whishes whyTo hold, to thoughts so […]

As you see my face do you see my heart The crying of the doves Are your lips upon the mouth of pain or the love of your life Do you hear my words I meditate and listen but awhile I am the child with the lonely flower Growing is […]

I wait for her before sunseton top of a mountainso they all can see.I am sorry cuz I left her alone to longand scavengers thought that I was dead.Vultures, jackals, and foolish mentried in vain to creep inside her bed.They speak sugarcoated words hoping she’ll surrender, but she loves me.And […]

Black History month is here, as I’m sure you already know. I used to dread this month because it tended to be, and in most cases still is, filled with recycled information. During my first couple of years in elementary school, I mistook February to be “Commemoration of Dr. Martin […]

Women expect a lot from men. Females often complain when men fail to meet their wants or needs. “Women talk about men as if they are some misbehaved children,” said Billy Moore, a junior theater major from Washington, D.C. “We are called cheating dogs and filthy pigs.” Women look for […]