Election results have finally been counted for Waller County.The new Criminal District Attorney for Waller County is William E. “Bill” Parham, who defeated Prairie View City Council member Sylvia Cedillo by more than 2,000 votes. Cedillo, the Democratic nominee and a civil rights attorney, is the director of the P.E.A.C.E. […]

Thousands of students flooded the Prairie View Community Center Tuesday, Nov. 2 to make their voices heard on Election Day, but what was their experience and could things have turned out better?Melody Barnett, Prairie View’s KPVU- FM radio diva, felt the elections were not well organized. When voters arrived at […]

Stunned, bewildered, and outraged are some of the words that describe the emotions that many students say they experienced last Wednesday morning. This was the same morning that Dan Rather boomed in a loud voice on CBS television, “George Bush will remain the President of the United States.” A number […]

Graduation commencement exercises at Prairie View A&M University have had a series of changes. From the early 70s to the late 80s it was just one service for the undergraduates, graduates, and the military. Then, in the 90s it changed to three separate commencement services. A morning service for the […]

Amparo Navarrete, recruitment program coordinator of the College of Arts & Sciences, is currently providing a new program for faculty and staff. She is teaching them Spanish in a class that meets every Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. The program is called Conversational Spanish sack lunch for […]

Last Tuesday, students, faculty, and staff were invited to enjoy a poetry reading presented at the Coleman Library by the creative writing program of the Department of Languages and Communications. Students and faculty from both Prairie View and neighboring Texas A&M shared the stage in presenting their works. This is […]

Prairie View A&M University has been invited to participate in the 2005 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge in Orlando, Florida. The All-Star Challenge is the first ever academic quiz competition for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.Begun in 1989, over 50, 000 students have competed in the Honda Campus All-Star […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ A two-drug combination pill dramatically reduced deaths among blacks with heart failure, a landmark finding that is expected to lead to government approval of the first medication marketed for a specific race. Black cardiologists hailed this form of racial profiling after years in which minorities got […]

#8220;Money, power, respect is the key to life…money, power, respect is what you need in life.” These are the words echoed from the hearts of men and women around the world and lyrically spoken by one artist. Some may say that without money, power, or respect, one has little or […]

Exercise is the one of the best – and most enjoyable – ways of lowering your chances of developing heart disease. Regular exercise helps your heart to become stronger, so it can pump more blood around your body with less effort. Indeed, if you exercise on a regular basis, the […]