The University Village presented a spectacular talent showcase titled “An Ode to Music” at the MSC auditorium on Oct. 21. The showcase featured many of the well-known and amateur talents on Prairie View’s campus that took the audience on a journey of a variety of music genres in our culture, […]

Come next Tuesday we will know who will be our next President. The many comments, debates, sound bytes, political rallies, e-mails and stump speeches will mercifully come to an end. I, like most Americans, want this process to end and for us to move on with life. But can we? […]

What is the whole purpose of voting? Sure, it’s fun if the person you vote for wins, but why do people vote? Many freshmen said they’re voting to make a difference, but some say that is not the correct reason for voting. Celestial Hall, a sophomore at stated, “The reason […]

So, the other day I had a conversation with a fellow student about the upcoming general election on Nov. 4, and the possibility of electing a black president. To this notion, my fellow Panther expressed his desire for Sen. Barack Obama to win because “it is about time for a […]

How black is Condoleezza Rice? What about Tiger Woods? Lenny Kravitz? What about Akon? Are their experiences accurate reflections of the African-American experience (remember, the last of them is actually from Senegal-not America)? The answers to these questions are multi-layered, and all of them are impossible to think about without […]

The Office of Multicultural Affairs in conjunction with Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Inc., presented the program “Inviting all Latinos to the Hill” on Oct. 23 in the MSC Ballroom. The program was hosted by Elma Gonzalez, director of multicultural affairs, who gave the audience a sense of togetherness that […]

Four agriculture economics majors were picked by the Monsanto Company, one of the largest agricultural companies in the country, to participate in its annual Council of 1890 Universities Student Leadership event in St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 19-21. Sophomores Bobby Smith II and Krystal Blakemore, junior Brady Faggard and senior Johnie […]

In celebration of Domestic Violence Awareness Month ABPsi hosted a relationships and domestic violence seminar in the Juvenile Justice building on Oct. 22. The purpose of the seminar was to discuss why relationships go wrong, and how to fix them once they go astray. The seminar served as an information […]

Many future doctors earned their white coats in the Undergraduate Medical Academy at the induction ceremony last Saturday night in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. The white coat ceremony began in 2004, bringing in the 2004 charter class and the start of the UMA. Next was the 2005 gold class, […]

SGA held a “Go Green” forum Oct. 23 in the Alvin I. Thomas administration building with Richard Norton, assistant vice president of physical plant administration, along with Dawn Self-Steph, AbitibiBowater recycling coordinator, in an effort to start a recycling program on campus. Self-Steph introduced the university’s AbitibiBowater Paper Retriever Program, […]