Month: October 2012

Lifestyles

IEEE lends a helping hand

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers is an organization that started in 2008. Nationally, the main purpose is to advance technology for humanity. However, on campus the main focus is to help people with career development and networking. Although electrical and electronic engineering are both parts of the same […]

Lifestyles

Students reevaluate lifestyle choices

Many students gathered in the Memorial Student Center Auditorium Oct. 26-27 for the Dying to Live Summit with this year’s theme Pause: Where Are You Headed? Hooking the audience with her captivating and powerful voice Evangelist Ramona Stevens, founder and CEO of Mercy Chose Me Ministries, gave insight about “The […]

Opinion

Promiscuity is a choice

#8220;All I want for my birthday is a big booty h–.” As the song begins you rise to your feet repeating every word, stripper kicking, searching for that one nasty Que Dog in Fuentes to roll up, hoping your special dance in “that” dress which conveniently allows your behind to […]

Opinion

Good hair, bad hair debate continues

Rebelliously natural, with every curl, every kink, and every damn nap, I wonder why black women continue to believe the myth of good hair and bad hair. The kink versus the curl, both natural but different. Why does one rest uncriticized and prized while the other is forced to relax? […]

Lifestyles

Set it Out!

Attention all students interested in displaying your photography for the entire campus. Please enter our contest for a spotlight during the month of October in an issue of The Panther. For further information contact Amanda via email at amandaleon14@hotmail.com.

Lifestyles

Simmons on Super Rich

Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All written by Russell Simmons serves as a blueprint, for individuals who are open to receive and allow themselves to spiritually evolve to attract riches that are beyond what is viewed as valuable in today’s society. Super Rich does not focus on Russell’s […]

Opinion

Student complex fee could be coming

The Dallas Alumni Chapter sponsored its annual scholarship and fundraising gala Oct. 5. This year the main fundraiser was for the new athletic complex. The theme for the gala was “Greater Vision, Greater Expectation, Greater Giving.” Although the alumni are fundraising for the new athletic complex the student body needs […]

News

Past SGA President returns to “The Hill”

Covering a span of 12 years the Student Government Association Past President’s Forum brought home the last nine SGA presidents, on Oct. 19.  From Alene Riley Devereaux, SGA President 1999-2000, to Jarren Small, SGA President 2011-2012, Prairie View’s student body presidents of nearly a decade discussed their terms and fielded […]

Lifestyles

CAB gives students what they want

Campus Activities Board is a student run organization that satisfies the entertainment needs of the students of Prairie View A&M University.  CAB functions as the voice of the student body and is responsible for boosting the morale.  Game night, poetry night, talent shows and Humpday are some of the activities […]

Lifestyles

Red ribbon week promotes awareness

Red Ribbon week is an annual period that raises awareness to the dangers of drug abuse, which Prairie View A&M University will take part in from Oct. 22-27.  Many students however are not familiar with Red Ribbon Week. “Yeah I heard something, but I thought it was about AIDS,” said […]