Month: April 2013

News

Miss Prairie View pageant reaches 44th year

The 44th Annual Miss Prairie View A&M University scholarship pageant was a night filled with beauty, talent, and class. The theme for the pageant was “Tales of the Taj Mahal.” The pageant contestants were Breanna Green, Morgan Roe, Chelsea Chore, and Meghan Guidry. The pageant began with a performance from […]

News

Boston Marathon has bomb finish

Prairie View A&M University students, faculty and staff have used the tragic bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Mass. as motivation to be prepared during similar threatening situations.  Sheleah Reed, executive director of communications, sent a notice Monday evening encouraging students to be aware of […]

News

Prairie View welcomes the Deep South

The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the black community is undeniable. Access to preventative and virus managing care in rural southern states disproportionately protects many in the black community.  Lisa Biagotti brought the “Deep South” to Prairie View A&M University to express why HIV/AIDS awareness is important to preventing and living […]

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Students learn how to articulate blackness

Terri Pantuso, professor of History of the English Language and students recently attended the “Speaking While Black or Brown: Language and Race” symposium at the University of Texas at San Antonio.  The students in the audience are studying Dr. H. Samy Alim and Dr. Geneva Smitherman’s book titled “Articulate While […]

Lifestyles

Emcee plans to change the game

Some feel it is hard for a female to make it in the hip-hop industry where men rule with an iron fist. However, rapper Aisha White, better known as A.I., is hoping to change the game.  “Back in the day female rap was in its prime, but it fell off […]

Sports

Lady Panthers strike out in U of H double header

to capture its second straight SWAC Western Division series in thrilling fashion as they thwarted a last-inning Grambling State rally for a 4-3 win. The Lady Panthers scored in the first inning for the sixth straight game as freshman Peyton Simms hit a leadoff triple and scored on Alisa Navarro’s […]

Lifestyles

Self image gets tangled in hair weave

Whether it is curly, straight, thick, fine, natural or relaxed, the debate about why African American women wear hair weaves remains unsettled.  There are many African American women who spend hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars solely on hair extensions. To this extent, questions are raised regarding their reasoning behind wearing […]

Sports

Women make history in Ultimate Fighter

The Ultimate Fighter 18 had an open tryout on Monday at the Palace Hotel & Casino ballroom in Las Vegas, Nev., with nearly 300 fighters in attendance and for the first time in UFC History women were apart of tryouts.  “I didn’t think this would happen any time within my […]

Lifestyles

Christian dating is evolving

The term “dating” cannot be found anywhere in the Holy Bible yet Christians still partake in this activity defined as searching for the perfect mate.  The evolution of Christian dating has many taboos, shoulds and should nots but the topic is more of a matter of opinion than fact. Many […]

News

SGA cheating allegations addressed

The Prairie View A&M University Student Government Association judicial board announced its ruling in the recent presidential and vice presidential election cheating scandal Wednesday afternoon.  Priscilla Barbour and Jarrick Brown are the SGA 2013-2014 president and vice president elect.  Demario Lowe and Justin Warren were named the 2013-2014 student government […]