Over 500 organizations across the nation celebrated National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Monday, including Prairie View A&M University’s Panthers Promoting Healthy Decisions. In conjunction with the Texas Department of Health Services and Brubakers, PPHDs hosted a mini pep rally in the MSC area, which featured posters and bull horns being […]
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2010 SWAC Hall of Fame Inductees
Birmingham, Ala. – The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) announced today its 2010 inductees for the league’s Hall of Fame. The class includes six honorees affiliated with five of the league’s ten member institutions. The 2010 inductees are: Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd (Jackson State, baseball), Clyde Duncan (Texas Southern, track and […]
Panthers to play in 2011 MEAC/SWAC
The 2011 MEAC/SWAC Challenge presented by Disney, will feature Bethune-Cookman of the MEAC against Prairie View A&M of the SWAC, Sunday Sept. 4, 2011 at Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium in Orlando, Fla. The yearly event, which features teams from two prominent Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) leagues, will be […]
Conversations with Christine
This student thing can be very confusing. Coming from someone who is driven, goal-oriented and loves to learn, there is a point in where I am convinced that I am being “Punked.” Each semester becomes increasingly difficult and in spite of being warned in advance, I never feel as prepared […]
Sodexo, where’s our catfish?
This past Friday, while in the MSC eating I noticed some angry faces as I walked through. I wondered why many were unhappy. Itturns out Friday is a day that many students love in the MSC because it is home of the long time dish “catfish Fridays.” With the POWER […]
Where they do that at?
College students. That’s what we are right? So why aren’t we acting like it? I sat in my cognitive psychology class, a class free of freshmen, and listened to my peers complain and hassle our instructor about his syllabus and his willingness to give us extra credit. Extra credit was […]
SWAC well represented in Russell HBCU Bowl
Birmingham, Ala. – The SWAC is well represented with 27 players selected for the 2010 Russell HBCU Bowl, to be held on Dec. 18 in Atlanta, Ga. Each school has a player named to the HBCU Bowl. Prairie View A&M leads the way with seven selections, while Grambling State has […]
Baylor Bears feast on PVAMU Panthers
The Prairie View A&M men’s basketball team has yet again received a disappointing loss for their fifth straight game. Monday night in Waco they competed against Baylor University ending in a ridiculous final score of 90-45. The loss follows their appearance at the Cancun Challenge over Thanksgiving break. Baylor completely […]
University College hosts recognition banquet
The University College hosted a recognition banquet Tuesday, Jan. 25, to honor freshmen who earned a 3.5-4.0 GPA for the fall semester of 2010. Success by the Books” was the theme of the event. The advisors wanted to personally congratulate the freshmen who worked hard during their first semester. The […]
Accessible or unprepared?
Students remain shocked at the passing of freshman Tanika Owens, who failed to receive emergency medical attention after fainting in class. Many students have been questioning whether the main campus is accessible to emergency situations. Senior business management major Patrick King said, “It feels as if this incident shows the […]