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The medical corner: Trichomoniasis

Trichomoniasis is caused by a single-celled protozoan parasite, Trichomonas vaginalis.Trichomonas is the most common curable sexually transmitted disease in young, sexually active women. An estimated 7.4 million new cases occur each year in women and men (Centers for Disease Control). The most common site of infection in women is the […]

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Students now, alumni forever

Years have passed, yet the diploma hangs perfectly centered behind my chair and the graduation ring sits proudly atop my finger…constant reminders of the formative years I spent as an undergraduate. For the record, I did not attend Prairie View A&M University but I did attend an HBCU that provided […]

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Houton mayor uses private sector to help city

(AP) – HOUSTON – On a bridge over Buffalo Bayou, well-heeled Houstonians celebrated the public-private partnership responsible for transforming the concrete-lined swamp leading into downtown into a landscaped waterway.Mayor Bill White thanked the project’s three lead entrepreneurs and then tallied the city’s recent accomplishments: about 150,000 new residents from Hurricane […]

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Pine Bluff homecoming upset by Prairie View win

The Prairie View A&M Panther football program put another notch into their win column with a convincing 34-7 road victory over SWAC -west conference rival Arkansas Pine-Bluff. The Panthers beat the Golden Lions for the first time since a 35-16 victory in 2001. The Panthers jumped onto the scoreboard when […]

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Soccer loses in first round of SWAC tournament

Mississippi Valley State University scored a late goal in the closing minutes to eliminate Prairie View A&M University in the first round of the 2005 Southwestern Athletic Conference soccer championship at Robinson Stadium on Thursday, Nov. 3.The Lady Panthers got off to an inauspicious beginning, as Brooke Falke scored the […]

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If he’s so good why is he single

We’ve all seen it before….he’s tall, intelligent, attractive, well dressed, and seems to have the world at his finger tips. He’s a part of the local big brother program, has an outrageous sense of humor, and is a regular church member. This guy is an absolute dream, the perfect gentleman […]

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Women had key roles in civil rights movement

Ella Baker. Septima Poinsette Clark. Fannie Lou Hamer.They and others risked their lives and worked tirelessly, demanding a social revolution-but history has often overlooked them. They were the women of the civil rights movement. Though historians now acknowledge that women, particularly black women, were pivotal in the critical battles for […]

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BET returns to Pantherland with contests, prizes

Hundreds of students gathered in front of the Memorial Student Center Thursday, Nov. 3, as Black Entertainment Television came to campus as part of its annual Black College Tour, an event that supports entertainment and informative outreach to minority students. Four years ago, BET created the Black College Tour, which […]

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“Hollywood” comes back to Prairie View campus

The “small town girl with big time dreams,” alumna Tameka “Hollywood” Robinson has crept back on her old stomping grounds at PVAMU to conduct the world premiere of her first film, On The Inside Looking Out, which will be shown Thursday, Nov. 10, at 6 p.m., in the New Science […]

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20 Questions

1. Is there going to be another “delayed confusion” for the Alphas? 2. What did the Greeks do to the girl who wrote the story wrong about the Divine Nine? 3. Does she really think that she can still pledge? 4. How many girls were rejected from AKA or Delta […]