What would you do with $60 billion? I know I would probably pay off some bills or get a car or maybe even donate a few billion to the church. I know what I would not do. I would not use it to fund a war over in some minute […]

I was pleased to see the Nov. 19 article that addressed campus construction by Ms. Melissa Bridgewater. New buildings are indicative not only of physical growth but also of curriculum and program enhancement. I was saddened that the article did not mention the construction of the new Allied Health Building, […]

It’s hard to believe that some men have the mindset that Juanita Jordan is out to “get” Michael in the midst of their divorce. The common belief among the brothers is that she suckered poor Mike into marriage, the trifling skeezer. Yet no one has managed to catch that if […]

At the FAMU basketball weekly press luncheon, men’s coach Mike Gillespie joked that the highlights of his team’s non-conference schedule consisted of the top-flight restaurants visited by the Rattlers during its 11-game road trip, the longest in the NCAA. The fine dining continued last weekend as the Rattlers traveled to […]

#8220;There’s an old saying among black activists in terms of unemployment, ‘When the nation catches a cold, we (blacks) get pneumonia,’” said David Bositis, a senior political analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Blacks and Hispanics have been hit the hardest by the economic recession. Since […]

People tend to be gung ho about criticism until they’re the targets. Since my freshman year at FAMU, I’ve always had a knack for making at least one person or organization upset with something that I’ve written. Let’s run down the resume. During the fall of 2000 as an assistant, […]

The board of trustees meeting provided a forum for new Interim President Henry Lewis III to share his vision for a better university and to unveil the proposed timeline for the presidential search. Lewis said he wants to enhance FAMU’s image campus-wise, community-wise and legislative-wise. Being “customer-friendly” was one goal […]

PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH APPLICANTS Braja M. Das – Dean,College of Engineering and Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento Fred J. Gainous – Chancellor, The Alabama College System Department of Post-secondary Education Barbara Harden-Williams – Grant Reader, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Allan M. Hoffman – Dean, College of Health […]

TalTran has implemented security cameras on several of its buses. John L. Carter, executive director for TalTran, said that there are about 48 buses operating everyday. Out of those 48, nine have security cameras installed on them. “In 2001, Taltran received nine newer model buses and those were already equipped […]

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – Marines and Army military police drilled on how to transfer suspected terrorist prisoners of the al-Qaida and Taliban movements to this Caribbean outpost Thursday as U.S troops 8,000 miles away moved out the first group of hooded and chained prisoners from Afghanistan. “Obviously this […]