Month: April 2008

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4th Annual PV Choice Awards goes Brazilian

Prairie View students rushed into the MSC Auditorium April 21 to participate in a night of entertainment and to witness the distribution of awards to the nominees. The PV Choice Awards was themed “Rio de Janeiro” and students were invited to experience a Brazilian based festival. “It was a collaboration […]

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Kara Willis crowned Miss Prairie View 2008-2009

Smiles and cheers started off the reign of Miss Prairie View A&M University’s 2008-2009 pageant winner Kara Willis, a 21- year-old junior agriculture economics major. The pageant was held April 16 in the Opal Johnson Smith Auditorium. “Purple Reign: A Glimpse Into Royalty” was the theme for the pageant. Family […]

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LULAC hosts district convention

The Prairie View Council of the League of Latin American Citizens hosted a district convention April 19 in the MSC. The local chapters of the organization invited area universities and high schools to attend the convention. Among the Universities represented were Texas Southern University, University of Houston, and Texas A&M […]

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Managing editor says goodbye to coworkers, students

The Panther means different things to different people. I am not na’ve to the fact that to most it’s just a 20 Questions holder or a Thursday distraction, but I hope that for some The Panther is a useful source of information and a record of priceless memories. For me, […]

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Editor-in-Chief bids The Panther farewell

My, how time flies when you are having fun. Such an understatement, as I prepare to say goodbye to my tenure as editor in chief of this award-winning newspaper, my awesome staff, and The Panther supporters in the student body. I have grown as a person and as a leader […]

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News editor bids farewell

All good things must come to an end… but I procrastinated as long as I could before writing this. Part of me is thanking God for an end to those Tuesday production nights that gradually became Wednesday production mornings…. but the other half of me is admitting I love Tuesdays […]

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Photo editor bids farewell to Panther

In the words of Christina Johnson, this is the final curtain call, well sort of. Unlike the others who have written farewells in this edition, I am not graduating yet. However, I am stepping down from my position of photo editor that I have loved so much over these last […]

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PV students continue to feel the burn of gas prices

Motoring students at Prairie View are feeling the crunch as gas prices are on the rise once again. As of April 22, gas prices have soared nationwide to a record $3.50 a gallon according to the Dallas Morning News. Many students have said that the new rise in energy prices […]

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More housing info coming soon

Students and parents will soon have a better way to obtain information about student housing options on or off the campus of Prairie View A&M University, possibly as soon as this fall, according to Prairie View Mayor Frank Jackson. Though the university distributes a list of housing options to students, […]

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U.S. Supreme Court lifts stays of execution for 3 death row inmates

HOUSTON (AP)- Prosecutors moved quickly Monday to set new execution dates for three death-row inmates, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a reprieve it granted last year so it could consider the constitutionality of lethal injection. The court blocked the executions of Thomas Arthur of Alabama, Earl Wesley Berry […]