The College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is trying to move forward after being put on probation until June 30, 2008 by the Accreditation Council of Pharmacy Education.           “We do not know the exact date, but we know that SACS is returning in the spring, and we are doing everything […]

Like clockwork, FAMU is again in the news for financial and operational woes. On March 14 Interim President Castell Bryant received an audit report of all preliminary and tentative findings that sent up red flags in the auditor general’s operational audit of FAMU for the fiscal year, which ended June […]

Local residents gathered around Lake Ella Monday for a luminary memorial in support of bringing the troops home from the war in Iraq. From babies to senior citizens with pets, more than 100 people walked around the lake with anti-war signs from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and took part […]

The Florida A&M University football team celebrates one of its most impressive recruiting classes to date by signing top ranked defensive prospects in the hopes of improving a defense that lacked depth during the 2006 season. Head coach Rubin Carter, who will begin his third season as the Rattlers’ head […]

A verdict is pending in the first appeals case of the University’s spring elections. In the case of Chante Sessomes v. the Florida A&M University Electoral Commission, Chief Justice Kendra Rich ordered the commission to turn over all the ballots of the junior class to the judicial branch for further […]

Each department on campus receives grants through the University’s Division of Research to use for activities within a department, and students are wondering how these funds are being utilized. Currently, the College of Engineering Sciences Technology and Agriculture receives the most grant funds, earning a total of $8,031,347.17 for basic […]

The 23rd session of the Student Senate took a turn when upset student Kyle Washington told the senate he wanted to impeach Student Body President Phillip Agnew for neglecting to represent the students. “We need to impeach Philip Agnew for the basis on not doing his job, not informing us […]

The three former Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity members whose cases ended in mistrials entered plea bargains Monday in a state courtroom. Brian Bowman, 23; Cory Gray, 23; and Marcus Hughes, 21, stood before Circuit Judge Kathleen Dekker, and each pleaded no contest to one count of misdemeanor hazing. “Misdemeanor reduced […]

Students became upset Tuesday when the Orange Room was abruptly closed during their lunch break because of a flooding issue. Hanai Cole, 18, a first-year pharmacy candidate from Miramar, Fla. said the Orange Room normally reopens at 10:45 a.m., after a 10 a.m. breakfast break. When she arrived at 12:15 […]

Hoping to teach young Rattler women proper etiquette, the Office of Student Union Activities hosted a tea party in The Grand Ballroom Sunday. “The ability to communicate is what sets you aside from everyone else,” keynote speaker Myoushi Jones said. Jones, wife of former Senator Darrell Jones, was unable to […]