Many people looking from the outside in would think that the loud screaming, the players chanting and the coaches screaming as an entertainment atmosphere. But to one of the Rattlers’ top players, baseball is a place for comfort. “I love baseball, it’s something that has been there for me my […]
Author: Leston Green
Students embody new form of dieting
The late Robert Atkins made millions from his famed Atkins Diet. However, FAMU has its own Atkins. His diet would make the four percent of Americans currently on the diet and 17 percent of Americans who have tried the diet envious. Teddy Atkins – four-time winner of the FAMU Fitness […]
Success must begin with vision, persistence
#8220;If you can see it, you can achieve it.” Two years ago, I watched a good friend of mine graduate. I made a promise to myself that day. Looking up in the sky, I vowed that the next graduation I would go to would be my own. April 30 will […]
FAMU Announcements
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Life’s puzzles pieced
Now what? Sounds like a reasonable question for someone who plans on graduating college in the next few days to ask. I’ve been asking myself that question for over a year. Now that I have a pretty good idea that I won’t end up back in Fort Lauderdale using my […]
Miller, Grant: “We’re tired, but we made it”
Throughout history, turmoil and change have often been platforms on which great leaders are built. SGA President and Vice President Virgil Miller and Keneshia Grant, who are both graduating April 30, have worked to exemplify this ideal. Throughout the halls of the H. Manning Efferson building (the student union building) […]
After six years, mission accomplished, almost
I dedicate my graduation to many things. First, I thank God for giving me the strength to get through six – count ’em – six years as a student at Florida A&M University. Eleven semesters (I took one off), nine crushes, seven stints in The Famuan, four presidents, three graduating […]
Public service works for student
Former President Bill Clinton and Dean David Pryor have recently founded the new University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock. The school has been highly selective in choosing students for its inaugural class. But one of FAMU’s very own, Malcom Glover, a graduating broadcast journalism student, […]
Miller ready to graduate fulfill more goals
FAMU was founded Oct. 3, 1887 as the State Normal College for Colored Students. In the beginning, there were 15 students and two instructors. More than 115 years later, there is no disputing the fact that the University has grown tremendously. It has seen some of the most brilliant, talented […]
Writer suffers from ‘Chronic Learning Disorder’
From the moment my parents dropped me off in front of Palmetto North Building 158-2 Room A fall 2001, my motto has been, “I cannot wait until graduation.” Yet today I stand before you with this decree: Hello. My name is Sheryl and I am a chronic learner. Many of […]