The growth and development of Tallahassee’s Frenchtown community were strong areas of focus at a recent dialogue held at the Leroy Collins Library. The forum consisted of Frenchtown residents and business owners. They discussed topics like the image the Tallahassee-Leon Shelter projects to potential developers and residents. Several members of […]
Author: Donathan Prater
Campus newspaper accused of promoting religious hatred
An editorial headlined “Islam Sucks” that ran in a student newspaper has drawn fire from an Arab-American group. The piece, published Tuesday in the daily campus newspaper of Wayne State University in Detroit and written by a student, says Islam “presents a danger to the welfare of many due to […]
Microbiologists targeted by FBI in Anthrax scare
As anthrax began showing up at the offices of news organizations, Congress, and postal facilities in the fall, Jeffry Stock, a Princeton University microbiologist, couldn’t help but wonder if he knew the culprit. “I was thinking, `I know some people who are strongly Muslim and have access to this kind […]
College Board revokes ‘Score Choice’ for SAT II
Students applying to college in the fall will no longer be able to withhold some of their test scores from admissions officers. The College Board, which sponsors the SAT, rescinded its nine-year-old “Score Choice” policy after admissions officials complained that they weren’t getting a complete picture of applicants. “They’d like […]
News Briefs
Local Air Tran requests $1.5 million from cityAir Tran has asked for $1.5 million in guaranteed revenue after two and half months of service.Air Tran has a revenue shortfall of about 42.4 million from Nov. 15 through Jan. 31.City officials said the shortfall in revenue is understandable after the events […]
September/October
September/October Looks like that was a busy time for us Sleepin’ on…creepin’ on…cheatin’ on a reality that we know is absolute but subjecting ourselves to RELATIVE TRUTHS tucked tightly under covers over whispers between stares Glares shaded by lust reinforced by just a touch from an earthly hand connected to […]
Physical features don’t determine worth
The true essence of understanding a woman’s worth is understanding the woman, the whole woman, the beauty, the ugly, the good, the bad, the goofy, and the embarrassing – in a nutshell the complexity. Too many times, beauty is the standard, the principal meaning of evaluating whether a woman is […]
Reno steps on gas in gubernatorial race
Driving her red pickup truck across Florida in a statewide campaign for governor, Janet Reno, spoke to a crowd in Tallahassee on education and health issues Wednesday. In her brief speech, the former U.S. Attorney General said she would strive to make all Florida schools the best in the country. […]
Skin color leads to needless insecurities
Honey, caramel, hazelnut and mocha. This may sound like the latte menu at Starbuck’s Coffee, but it is actually a sampler of the assorted skin colors on FAMU’s campus. A journalism class recently conducted a survey of 80 people on the issue of skin color at FAMU. The unscientific poll, […]
Women square off on football field
When I was in middle school, I used to look at the football players on the field in their jerseys, helmets, pads, cleats, long socks and tight pants. Most of the girls around me liked watching the game because of the way the players looked in those tight-fitting pants. I, […]