Month: September 2007

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Campus placed on emergency lockdown

University authorities ordered a campus lockdown Friday, Aug. 31 after a freshman began receiving a series of threatening phone calls from her estranged boyfriend. According to Lieutenant David Webb, the student’s boyfriend left messages telling her he was going to shoot her. Believing that the estranged boyfriend intended to do […]

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37th Annual Career Fair

The 37th annual Career Fair will be held in the Willie A Tempton Memorial Student center from September 19-September 20. The Technical Job Fair will be held on September 19 and the Non-Technical Job Fair will be held on September 20. Both career fairs will be open from 10 a.m. […]

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English professor Freeman retires

After 18 years of service at Prairie View A&M University, Dr. Blondell Jones “Bee Jay” Freeman, distinguished professor of English, retired Aug. 31. Freeman joined the university in 1989 as an associate professor for the Benjamin Banneker Honors College. “I’ve been here since ‘B.C.’ or before coffee,” said Freeman. For […]

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Financial aid office tries new ways

Every year the financial aid office is full of students inquiring about their financial aid status. This year has been no exception. Carlos Clark, assistant provost for the Office of Student Financial Aid, is helping to improve the organization and the overall financial aid process. “We are trying to create […]

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General assembly sparks new focus

The General Student Assembly held at the William “Billy” J. Nicks Auditorium Aug. 29 focused on assuring students of quality services and education. The assembly began with a welcome and invocation by Johnnie Jones, vice president of SGA, and Mark Williams II, Mr. Prairie View 2007-2008. By the end of […]

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Cyclists attend annual Tour de Pink bike tour

As the sun rose Sunday, Sept. 9, cars filled with cyclists swarmed onto campus for the third annual Tour de Pink bike tour. The bike tour is part of the Pink Ribbons Project, a motion to raise money to help fight breast cancer. Tour de Pink has raised more than […]

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Mina Eames, a pioneer, inspiration to classmates

Prairie View A&M University recently mourned the loss of one of its brightest and productive graduates, Mina Rosenthall-Eames. Eames, 31, the first graduate of the university’s Undergraduate Medical Academy in 2006, was fatally shot in Houston by her estranged husband Clifton Eames, 35, on Monday, Aug. 20. Eames was in […]

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Prostitution….legalize it

Let’s talk logically about the way a few things in our society are structured. Putting aside all of our individual feelings on the matter and completely approaching the subject of law and order is a difficult thing to do, but when it comes to thinking about the future of our […]