The Minority Alliance for Advocating Community Awareness, Inc. is continuing to fight HIV/AIDS going into the new year. Six groups, including MAACA, Inc., Florida A&M University’s Student Health Services, and the Florida Department of Health, are teaming up to increase HIV/AIDS awareness among black women in the capital city area. […]

While students are preparing for finals and graduation, Simply Marvelous is preparing to defend their national championship. Simply Marvelous, Florida A&M University’s female flag football team coached by Marvin Green, is getting ready to play in the National Intramural & Recreation Sports Association national championship tournament Dec. 27-29. Before reaching […]

Sistah Souljah, the critically acclaimed author of the best-selling novel, The Coldest Winter Ever, has done it again. After a two-year hiatus, she returns with Midnight, a “gangsta love story” and prequel to the former novel in which she explores the past of Winter Santiago’s mysterious love interest, Midnight. The […]

Florida A&M University men and women’s swim teams have a basic problem. They have no on-campus facility to practice swimming. The lack of pools for practices and hosting swim meets has been blamed on long term issues within the athletic department. Douglas Carrington, head coach of the men and women’s […]

Since the age of 12, I have been wearing a bra. Although it was a training bra, it was a bra nonetheless. During my adolescent years I grew four-cup sizes and by the time I graduated high school, I bypassed my five sisters and even my mother. In college I […]

The Bowl Championship Series is a horrible representation of college football that simply doesn’t work. Almost every year since the BCS system was implemented, there has been controversy over which teams belonged in the national championship. Despite losing to the Texas Longhorns earlier in the season, the Oklahoma Sooners jumped […]

The Rattler football team enjoyed one it’s best seasons in years. Looking into the stands, it might be hard to tell. Crowd attendance has decreased 11 percent at the Florida A&M University Rattlers home games since their 2007 football season, although the team has had a major turnaround on the […]

I’ve been receiving “beau coup” flack from students and professors alike for quitting a perfectly good job, with the economy being the way it is. I was hired as a cop reporter in September by the Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee’s local newspaper. They offered me benefits, and a 401K plan. But […]

As this semester comes to an end and I begin to embrace my final semester at Florida A&M University, I realize I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Sure our institution has improvements that can be made like financial aid services, but there are a lot of great attributes within this […]

#8220;Zero Debt for College Grads,” is a savior for college graduates. As Dec. 12 draws near, college graduates have mixed emotions about their careers, relationships and more importantly their money. With an average student loan debt of $23,000, a rising unemployment rate, decreasing excess to credit for graduate school loans […]