WASHINGTON – The Bush administration quietly withdrew in the weeks after Barack Obama’s election a new rule requiring high-level approval before federal agents nationwide could arrest fugitive immigrants. The future for Obama’s aunt, who had been living in the country illegally, will be determined at an immigration court hearing in […]
Month: January 2009
Slab of the Week
Kendrick Brewer, 19- year-old sophomore from Dallas, Texas kicks off the spring semester right as owner of the first slab of the week with his gold and black 1995 Chevrolet Caprice. General Motors Co. introduced the Caprice to the world in 1965 and until the discontinuation of production in 1996, […]
Viewpoint: Reaching Across the Aisle
The American people are facing yet another stimulus package. To a lot of us, it means higher taxes. To some of us, it means absolutely nothing at all. Whatever it means to us individually, the fact still remains that the main headline on every news network is this new stimulus […]
Recent construction has many frustrated, annoyed
Prairie View students, faculty and guests are currently feeling the heat of the current road repairs on campus. According to Richard Norton, assistant vice president of the physical plant, the first phase of the 60-day project that officially started Jan. 5 includes roads T.R. Soloman and O.J. Thomas and is […]
PV students partake in historic journey during Road To Change Tour
On Jan. 20, President Barack Obama was sworn into office before an estimated crowd of 1.5 million people. Among those present were a few students from HBCUs who were in attendance on behalf of the “Road To Change Tour.” The tour was a ten-day educational bus journey from Houston, Texas […]
MLK legacy continues in annual Alpha march
Prairie View students celebrated the history of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 19 at this year’s 17th annual Martin Luther King Holiday march hosted by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. The event started at 10 a.m. in the MSC and from there the students walked across campus to the […]
AKAs host community coat drive
The Zeta Gamma Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. decided to expand its usual tradition of providing bottled water to the participants of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade to a project more hands-on in the Waller community. The chapter organized a community-wide coat drive called the […]
Panthers mourn loss of two peers
As the university ended the fall 2008 academic semester, the PVAMU community mourned the loss of freshman Kristopher L. Bookman, 18, who died Wednesday Dec. 10 in an auto accident near Texas Highway F.M. 159, while traveling north bound on Texas 6 reports the university’s public relations office. Bookman was […]
Viewpoint: Student tells her story about her break-in over the break
I was under the impression that my college campus was safe or at least my dorm room was. During the 2008 Thanksgiving break, which was all of exactly two days, the campus housing was burglarized. So imagine my paranoia during the 2008/2009 Christmas/New Year break. I did not feel safe. […]
Students continue to suffer from on-campus break-ins
During the Christmas and New Year’s holidays when people all around were celebrating with family and friends, menacing students on the campus of Prairie View A&M University decided to take advantage of the times by breaking into rooms in Phases I, II, and III. “We have heard rumors that there […]