In the professional world there is a lot of talk about drug usage, particularly steroids. Although steroids are a performance enhancing drug, it is still forbidden, very dangerous, and it is not the only drug being abused in sports.Here at Prairie View A&M University, all athletes are required to take […]

The South Western Atlantic Conference ended tournament play Sunday with number one ranked Alabama A&M Bulldogs defeating cross state rival Alabama State Hornets. The Bulldogs (18-13) came in the game as the favorites led behind one of SWAC’s leading scorers and assist men, Obie Trotter. Trotter had been named SWAC’s […]

The Prairie View A&M Lady Panthers close out the regular season hosting the Alcorn State Lady Braves and the Southern University Jaguars. The Lady Panthers still have an outside chance of qualifying for the South Western Athletic Conference Tournament. In order to qualify, the Lady Panthers have to win out […]

In 1919 when Claude McKay wrote those now ever famous words, “If We Must Die,” one can not help but wonder if some eighty odd years later, we would still be dying. Only now, the difference being instead of us dying at the hands or racist whites, we would be […]

In celebration of Navy Houston Fleet week the NROTC sponsored a Navy flight simulator event for students to participate in. The event was held Wednesday, March 2 at 11 a.m. outside the Memorial Student Center.The flight simulator served as a carnival style ride in which students had the opportunity to […]

Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and coordinator for the STEM enhancement program, Dr. Freddie L. Frazier, was honored Saturday Feb. 26, for outstanding achievement at the 14th annual national conference of quality education for minorities (QEM), and mathematics, science and engineering (MSE) network.He was awarded the Etta Zuber Falconer Excellence in […]

Sickle-cell anemia is a birth condition that is slowly but surely attacking the African American community, without notice. Sickle-cell is an inherited chronic disease in which the red blood cells, which are normally disc-shaped, become crescent shaped. As a result abnormal function sets in and causes small blood clots. From […]

In a season of strapped state budgets, historically black colleges and universities, reliant on government funds and thin on endowments, have been particularly hard hit, according to black educators attending an annual convention Monday in Houston.The majority of students at public black colleges and universities – about 80 percent – […]

Many times we sit and wonder if our prayers are being heard and why we aren’t getting what we ask for. We don’t get what we want because we either don’t ask or when we do ask, the scripture says we ask “amiss” meaning improper or faulty. God says that […]

The most anticipated part of spring is here, no it’s not midterms, but a fresh lineup of television shows that are sure to keep T.V. sets hot.MTV heats things up with its new season of Real World/Road Rules : The Inferno 2, which puts alumni members of the two popular […]