I had a ton of hustles when I was in college: working at a rental car joint, writing papers for other people, promoting parties (from time to time you might have caught me selling counterfeit tickets to parties that I didn’t even throw – (hey, books and tuition cost money). […]

History does not lie. The Rattlers always need the first game to get it together. They have lost the past two season openers; and now, this one makes the third. However, they have walked away with winning seasons the past three years. I sat at WCTV in our conference room […]

Once students get to college, they suddenly become limited to the University cafeteria or inexpensive dishes they prepare at their off-campus apartment. It is not often they get to enjoy meals prepared by an experienced, gourmet chef. But just when students thought they had to say goodbye to mama’s amazing […]

What is “good hair?” Growing up in a black community, “good hair” has always been identified to me as straight, wavy or curly hair, actually any texture of hair except naturally kinky hair, also known as nappy hair. This strange notion that almost everyone appeared to share has never seemed […]

Myspace.com, Bebo.com, Facebook.com. What do these three websites have in common? All three are names of online social networks. These exciting, yet addictive, websites were created to begin, mend, and reunite relationships worldwide. Many are familiar with Blackplanet.com, another social network where people of all ages could create a name […]

The Office of Business and Auxiliary Services at Florida A&M University is offering an expanded meal plan option for Rattlers which could affect where students eat most of their meals. Michael Smith, the director of business and auxiliary services, said they enhanced the meal plan by adding flex bucks, which […]

Jasper W. Watkins III, a graduate of Florida A&M University’s School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, is now the Bureau Chief for statewide pharmaceutical services, for the Department of Health (DOH), Florida. Watkins is the first black person in the state of Florida and in the Armed Forces to have […]

This school year Florida A&M University has not only welcomed new students to the hill, but it has acquired new administrators: a new university president and new student body leaders. Last April, Monique Gillum, former student body vice president, was elected president of the student body and James Bland was […]

Students who still plan to apply for housing this year are going to have to get in line. This year’s waiting list for students who need housing was 364. Of those students, 239 are First Time In College students, while 125 of them are returning students. As of late Tuesday, […]

SJGC 3081. The office is not that large. And after recent budget cuts its occupancy has been tapered. The white letters scrawled across the glass sliding doors tells you where you stand. This is where the voice of Florida A&M continually echoes. This is the Famuan- a hub of journalistic […]