Month: March 2010

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Health care bill could affect jobs

Congratulations to our president and the Democratic legislators who passed the healthcare bill last week, and it was officially completed in its entirety this Monday. This bill will most certainly change the way healthcare works. But apart of our search for employment and the pursuit of our professional goals, our […]

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Cheaters only prosper over the short-term

Now according to the University policy on cheating, this offense is subject to suspension and expulsion, along with further negative consequences. Yet I’m sure we all know students who persist in cheating. But why? I would like to say that at Prairie View A&M University, one of the premiere learning […]

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Prairie View teams up with Lone Star College in play

The place: Chicago, the year: 1964. Set around the time of the mid 1960s just before segregated schools merged, music brought two friends together but race and prejudice tore them apart in the play “The Good Times Are Killing Me,” based on the book by playwright, cartoonist, and author Lynda […]

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True Life:

I received my first relaxer going into the 8th grade and continued to get one every six months until about three years ago. I made the decision to go natural. Yes, I decided that I was no longer going to submit to the hair relaxer. I was no longer going […]

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What is more important, advertisement or textbooks?

Some of you might have noticed a few changes upon arriving on campus after the spring break. Those of us who are on campus quite frequently are just as astonished as I am to find out that “iRead: for enlightenment, to create, and to cultivate,” among many other reasons, according […]

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Motivated Panther, student-athlete changing the Grayscale

A senior mass communication major, SWAC champion in track indoor and outdoor and not to mention the father of four-month-old baby boy Savion, Jarryd Gray has accomplished and overcame countless feats during his career at Prairie View A&M University. Gray attended Southwest high school in Forth Worth, Texas where he […]

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Panthers good showing at PVAMU Relays

Prairie View A&M men and women’s track teams hosted the 81st annual Hoover Wright/Barbara Jacket relays on Saturday at the Blackshear field in Prairie View in front of a packed and excited crowd. Both teams dominated each event with outstanding performances. The events started with the women’s 100-meter hurdles, and […]

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Panthers split double header, lose deciding game to Grambling

On March 27 and 28, the Panther baseball team hosted the Tigers of Grambling State for an early three-game series in SWAC play, where the Panthers split the double-header. In the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, the Panthers fell to the Tigers 10-5. The Tigers started scoring early as they […]

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Panthers fall

Over the last weekend in March, the Lady Panther softball team took to the road to take on the Lady Golden Lions of Arkansas Pine-Bluff. In the first matchup, the Lady Panther offense couldn’t string together enough hits to tally runs. The Lady Golden Lions would cruised to a relatively […]

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Thanks Coop

More than just a big name, Cynthia Cooper-Dyke is a great basketball coach. After being named the head women’s basketball coach at Prairie View A&M University on Friday, July 1, 2005, the campus has never been the same. Coach Cooper-Dyke has a 71-57 record in her fifth season at the […]