For the last two weeks, I have been trying to be happy. Most of the time I am, but lately it’s been a struggle. Lately, the only thing coming my way is a bunch of unhappy people. People I work with, people I go to school with and even people […]
Author: Tiffany Pitts
Local paper celebrates team’s run in NCAA
A celebration for the men’s basketball team was held Tuesday evening at The Moon nightclub. The festivity, which was sponsored by the Capital Outlook, was in honor of the team’s accomplishments this season. FAMU men’s basketball team went from having a losing record, to winning the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament […]
Dispelling the myth
For Cornelius Green, skipping and dodging classes in middle school constituted his attempts to conceal his learning disability from friends and teachers. “I would play sick, pretend to be sleepy, and skip class so nobody would know I had dyslexia.” Dyslexia is a learning disorder characterized by reading difficulties that […]
Group fuses Haitian culture with rap
They call themselves The All Mighty Zoes, a family of Haitian-bred rappers who emerged from Miami. Their latest album, “Can’t Sleep On It,” is the raw lyrical content of Cokane, TCK, Greedy Black and Gucciano, the four individuals who make up AMZ. The 19-track album throbs with aggressive club beats […]
Council first to help Oprah fight epidemic
The FAMU Section of The National Council of Negro Women is raising money to donate to Oprah Winfrey’s Oprah’s Angel Network for the AIDS pandemic in Africa. “We are the first HBCU to tackle this topic of raising money for the African AIDS epidemic,” said Sabrina Davis, president of the […]
Guards’ play makes FAMU proud
It’s funny how before my test in Introduction to Mass Media Thursday, I asked my professor to curve it by the amount of points our men’s basketball team was going to get beaten by on Friday. What wasn’t funny – at least in the minds of Kentucky fans – was […]
‘Dawn’ remake offers more laughs than screams
There was a time when scary movies were actually scary. They were the type of movies that parents warned their children not to watch, but never mind that, they did it any way. Then for some odd reason, the children would wake up in the middle of the night wondering […]
Kentucky delivers Rattlers’ final blow
COLUMBUS, Ohio – On a cold night in Columbus, Ohio, two warriors met at center court in Nationwide Arena. Punches were thrown and blows were dealt – it was a glorious melee. But as is the nature of these types of conflicts, only one warrior was able to walk away […]
History:
In a few weeks, Tallahassee residents will gather around the Capitol and downtown area for the annual “Springtime Tallahassee” celebration. According to the event’s Web site, the celebration is intended to honor the capital city’s physical beauty, as well as its history and culture. Recent television commercials flash images of […]
FAMU Announcements
The Beta Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. will sponsor free shuttles to women’s health clinics around Tallahassee between 1-5 p.m. Thursday. Contact Asley Jones at 671-3325 or e-mail betaalphaevents1932@yahoo.com. The Senior Class Cabinet has positions available. Applications are located in the Office of Student Activities and must […]