The Florida A&M University Department of Public Safety has developed a new safety program to prepare for the upcoming holidays. Students are encouraged to file a Rattler Travel Plan with the FAMU Police Department before heading home for the holidays. “Every holiday there is some kind of accident,” said Crime […]

Students enrolled in black and white photography this semester find themselves without a lab for the last three weeks of classes. The third floor of Banneker Technology Building B closed Nov. 15 to begin renovations, but the photography labs in the new School of Journalism and Graphic Communications building are […]

This year’s faculty and staff endowment campaign contributions currently equal $148,000- increasing more than $16,000 from last year. 57 faculty and staff members contributed over $1,000 to this year’s 16th annual Faculty and Staff Scholarship Endowment Campaign. 15 of the donors were honored with small silver lapel pins at a […]

I have a question for “Sidney Wright for the Editorial Board”: has it been determined that FAMU students perpetrated these criminal acts? If not, it’s premature to jump to the conclusion that FAMU students are feeding into the negative image. For all we know, these crimes were carried out by […]

Picture this: You’re a college student at one of the many prestigious Universities on the Louisiana and Alabama coast line. You live the lifestyle of a college student. Then in the blink of an eye, hurricane Katrina, the worst storm in history, hits the United States and destroys your city […]

I’m not sure how many Rattlers will be able to relate to this story. However, it has happened to me once, as well as to people I know. Usually, a person may be kicking it with a couple of friends from Florida State and comments like, “y’all have that?” or […]

Congratulations FAMU. We’ve finally proven to the world that they were right about us. They say we’re thugs who can’t learn, and don’t deserve to have our own institutions of higher learning. They say we’re just ghetto hoodlums who do nothing but fight and cause trouble. Well, it seems “they” […]

Imagine you have planned a trip to the Grand Canyon and instead of driving your own car to Arizona, you decide to purchase airline tickets for yourself and your family. After two hours aboard the plane, three men pull out X-Acto knives and threaten to kill you and your 3-year-old […]

The MEAC is a conference that does nothing more than determine which team is the better loser. The MEAC might be the weakest collegiate basketball conference in the history of college basketball. It’s so unpredictable, virtually any team has the opportunity to be a conference champ. In fact, for the […]

College is an interesting institution with interesting people to encounter. If you are not cautious you can meet people whose intentions are to enter your life, play with your mind, change your character, alter your visions and help you lose focus of what you came here to achieve, YOUR EDUCATION! […]