The Lady Panthers season came to an abrupt end as they fell short to No. 1 seeded Baylor University 66-30 Sunday. Their NCAA tournament birth came after winning SWAC championship and earning the automatic bid as a sixteen seed. The Lady Bears showed why they are considered as one of […]
Month: March 2011
Tennis gears up for championship sets
For the second time in the past seven years, Prairie View A&M University hosted the SWAC West Tennis Roundups Saturday and Sunday against Southern University, University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, and Grambling State University.Visiting tennis players played on the newly renovated Panther courts which displayed PVAMU school spirit. Unlimited fruit […]
Job hunting season begins
As the spring semester began, senior mass communications major Jessica Ferguson was faced with a difficult decision. Holding a position as News Editor at The Panther Newspaper, Ferguson’s tenure was being threatened by pressure to satisfy internship requirements for her degree program at Prairie View A&M University.She said, “I was […]
Rockeymoore speaks at lecture series
Maya Rockeymoore graced Prairie View A&M University with her insight Tuesday as the second speaker in this semester’s Students Participating In Transcendent Knowledge lecture series.Junior history major Teri Wilkerson said, “Dr. Rockeymoore said a lot in such a short time. I learned the importance of being a student leader. It’s […]
Jackson offers perception on media
University of Illinois professor and head of the Department of African-American Studies Ronald L. Jackson II was Monday’s guest speaker at the Writing Center Reading Series.Carrying the theme “Inscribing Black Male Bodies, Pathologizing Blackness: How Tyler Perry Imagines Black Cultural Authenticity,” Jackson explained Tyler Perry’s formula for success, referring to […]
Lady Panthers can’t stop, won’t stop
The Lady Panthers softball team seem to be on a mission headed to the top of the SWAC conference one game at a time. The season hasn’t even hit full swing yet and they’ve already doubled the amount of total wins they accumulated last season. In Thursday’s matchup it took […]
Lady Panthers on prowl for SWAC title
The Lady Panthers ended the regular season on a high note after two home victories against the Alcorn State University Lady Braves and the Southern University Lady Jaguars. Both wins secured the Lady Panthers a No. 2 seed in the SWAC Conference tournament. In the first two minutes of the […]
Seniors step up in meaningful games
This past week the men’s basketball program at Prairie View A&M University needed to defeat the Alcorn State University Braves at home to make their third consecutive appearance in the SWAC Tournament. Doing more than just making it, the Panthers were one step ahead of the game by defeating both […]
Big Sean rocks Prairie View
When Kanye West introduced Sean Michael Leonard Anderson as a member of the cipher on B.E.T.’s Hip Hop Honors Awards Show, many became familiar with Big Sean. When he visited Prairie View A&M University Wednesday, he made his official introduction to Pantherland as well. Sponsored by Boost Mobile, the event […]
Yearbook prepares for release date
#8220;Everything that I did on behalf of the yearbook was for the people and not myself. Giving Prairie View something that it hasn’t experienced in the new millennium is a memorable experience,” said Cynthia Dees, editor in chief of the Pantherland Yearbook as she described resurging the publication. After seven […]