Def Jam or Elektra doesn’t back rap artists Bottom Side Up and gospel singer Sharita Calloway, but when the Homecoming parade is over and the out-of-towners return home, you may still see them milling about campus. The performers are part of the homegrown talent harvested directly from the red-clay hills […]

FAMU band director Julian White doesn’t plan to march to the beat of a different drum when the school starts playing Division 1-A schools next year. Despite the changes at football games in terms of competition and crowds, the band does not intend to changes its performances. “We’re going to […]

The sound of step teams representing their dorms as they display their skills, creativity and unity can mean only one thing. It’s time for the annual Dorm Step Show, one of FAMU’s biggest homecoming traditions. The show will be held, Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Gaither Gymnasium. “This year, we […]

Blood, blood and more blood. Blood from cuts, blood splattered on walls, blood shooting in geysers, blood in slow motion, blood animated, blood in silhouettes, blood in black and white. “Kill Bill – Vol. 1” is director Quentin Tarantino’s one-man mission to desensitize the audience to the sight of blood […]

A smile travels through the telephone as Hope Hampshire, the former Miss FAMU, talks about what the Royal Court events of Homecoming week meant to her last year. “It was surreal. I think it’s every girl’s dream to be honored, not just for her external beauty, but for the things […]

Hundreds of people will be walking and running around campus Oct. 21 in support of the NROTC Homecoming Spirit Run/Walk 2003 “Support Your Troops and Your Health.” “This year’s walk is a support effort for the troops as well as to help people gain knowledge about their health and diseases, […]

It’s final. Larry O. Rivers is the SGA president, according to university administration. Rivers’ impeachment and removal from office was overruled by administrators late last week because the SGA Student Senate’s impeachment “proceedings were unconstitutional,” stated a verdict ruling issued by the Office for Student Affairs Wednesday. Vice President for […]

Following a lengthy debate at Monday night’s SGA Student Senate meeting, Senate President Michael Morton decided to postpone a vote on a senate bill that complies student government’s Student Body Statutes with Florida House Bill 353. The senate will invite Florida Legislative Staff Director and Legislative Analyst Betty Tilton and […]

The School of Graduate Studies and Research is in the process of restructuringthe program and its new dean has narrowed down the areas in which she willfocus. Chanta Haywood, dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research, said shewill be giving a lot of attention to the assistantship program, […]

Not only are FAMU sports moving up to NCAA Division I-A in 2004 but the recreation department is also moving up with a new state of the art fitness complex. Campus Recreation Director Robert Carroll Jr. said the new fitness center expected to open in late 2004 will be one […]