For many of us, coming to college with the dream that we are going to find someone to marry is exciting. Typically, for those who romanticize about the sweet ambiance of spending the rest of their lives with someone like your college sweetheart can be more than an illusion. However, […]
Month: September 2006
First home game suspended in third quarter
After being delayed twice due to weather conditions the Prairie View versus Langston football game was eventually suspended with 4:01 remaining in the third quarter. Langston scored first at the 6:51 mark of the first quarter on a Jimmy Early touchdown catch from quarterback Kendrick Dozier. Trint Rust’s extra point […]
Winning ways
For years now Prairie View has been looking for a resurrection to its once unstoppable football program. Several different coaches have come to Prairie View in search of a winning record since Coach Hoover J. Wright’s 5-4 season in 1967 but only two, Theopolis Danzy in 1972 and Haney Catchings […]
Historically black colleges face declining enrollment
RICHMOND, Va. – When prospective college student Jessica Page trundled off to Hampton University in March, she’d considered the visit a formality. She’d already made up her mind to attend the waterside school, considered by many a jewel among the nation’s historically black institutions.Then she saw the campus. The dorms […]
Prairie View Vs Grambling
On Saturday, Sept. 30, Prairie View A&M University and Grambling State University will battle it out for bragging rights at the annual State Fair Classic in Dallas, Texas.In this Texas-Louisiana rivalry, Grambling State leads the series. The Prairie View Panthers haven’t been victorious since 1986 with a final score of […]
Why are blacks still accepting the title of ‘nigger?’
I often sit and wonder why my people act the way they do? When I say my people I mean African Americans, the black folks, the colored people, my niggas, that nigger, or any other term that refers to people that have a dark phenotype. I am talking about us. […]
So what if I sleep around?
Sleeping around is just another remixed phrase for the word promiscuity. A new pop song sweeping the airwaves today captures the thought precisely, “You might be the type if I play my cards right, I’ll find out by the end of the night” (Promiscuous Girl, Nelly Furtado). There was a […]
Psychologically Speaking: Date Rape
Date rape is the forced or nonconsensual exploitation of a person in a sexual way. This may include sexual intercourse, anal sodomy, oral copulation, rape using a foreign object (such as a finger), or unwanted touching of intimate parts of a person’s body for the purpose of sexual arousal. The […]
Medical Corner
The flu (influenza) is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. The best way to prevent this illness is by getting a flu vaccination each fall. On average, each year the United States experiences 5 […]
20 Questions
1.Does The Panther not realize that people are still going to read 20 Questions despite their new look? 2.Who is the boy with the fade at the top and the cornrows at the bottom? Does he really think that’s fly? 3.Why did the Sedexho manager curse out his employee in […]