I think it is high time that someone stood up and spoke out about the litany of rumors, innuendo, and outright falsehoods that have been spewed by a small group of opponents of the Pintail Landfill who feel such tactics are acceptable in order to gain support for their cause. […]
Month: January 2013
Prairie View welcomes new athletic complex
The student body voted Jan. 30 to build a new athletic complex at Prairie View A&M University. The athletic complex will include a 15,000 seat football stadium, field turf playing surface, reserved seating, a state of the art press box, ticket booths, club seating, luxury suites and enhanced tailgating and […]
Funding might affect university mission
Governor Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, and other state legislators have proposed tying state funding allocated to public collegiate institutions to graduation rates. According to the university administration, funding has decreased by 5 percent in the 2010-2011 school year and 15 percent in the current fiscal school year. If […]
From the Hill to Capitol Hill
Every four years, a new president of the United States of America is elected into office. This past term was very special because the very first black president was re-elected into office. Prairie View A&M University has been blessed to witness the inaugural celebration twice, although the first time only […]
Panthers claw Bulldogs in Babydome
School spirit filled the William “Billy” J. Nicks Fieldhouse as the students watched the Prairie View A&M University basketball teams send Alabama A&M home with an “L” on their season record. The men won 65-46 and women 68-59. Each game was exciting, keeping people suspense every second. During the Lady […]
University officials make final efforts to prevent the landfill
The fight against the HWY 6 Pintail landfill continues. With the beginning of the new semester, there has been an increased wave of activism as Waller county citizens and Prairie View students and officials have been working to increase the support against the landfill. Prairie View A&M University engineering professor […]
Students attend presidential inauguration in D.C.
As many students began to settle into their spring semester course load, nearly 250 Prairie View students stood in Washington D.C. to celebrate Barack Obama’s shift into his second term as President. Close to the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, students gathered alongside other Americans from across the […]