While most Panthers were sleeping or out of town, an estimated 500 students, faculty and staff worked in the Prairie View community early Saturday morning on Sept. 19, as a part of PAW (Panthers at Work), a biannual event that unifies students and the community through different projects. This year […]
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Dallas youth’s motivational speech a YouTube hit
DALLAS – Dalton Sherman is an 11-year-old motivational speaker, a talking testament to the difference a teacher’s belief can make in a student’s success. Last year Dalton gave an inspirational back-to-school speech that brought some 20,000 Dallas school teachers to their feet in thunderous applause and the video was posted […]
President Wright addresses students
Faculty, Staff, and Students: On Thursday, Sept. 17, Prairie View A&M University closed an $8.9 million purchase of an academic facility in northwest Harris County. The two-story building, near Tomball Parkway and FM 1960, is located at 9449 Grant Road north of Willowbrook Mall. With nearly 52,000 square feet of […]
Students schooled on professional mannerism
Students gathered around the dinner table in the Pardus Cafe to be educated on the subject of fine dining as part of the Department of Management and Marketing’s professional development program on Thursday. Professor Dewaynna Cates, of the College of Business said, “We have designated a series of professional development […]
Job seekers go to 39th career fair
The 39th Prairie View A&M University career fair took place in the Memorial Student Center Sept. 14 -17t. The fair’s theme “get connected” is exactly what students did as they networked in hopes of gaining employment upon graduation. It consisted of more than 88 different careers ranging from Texas Southern […]
President Wright holds forum
President George C. Wright held an open forum Monday in the Opal Johnson-Smith auditorium in the Memorial Student Center in an effort to push the year’s policy “A Year of Change.” Members of the staff and faculty came out to express their concerns about the issues on campus. Wright was […]
Kimbrough SPITs knowledge at PVAMU
#8220;Fight the Power,” an expression made popular by the 1980s hip-hop group Public Enemy, was Dr. Walter Kimbrough’s theme for the S.P.I.T. Knowledge Lecture series on campus in the Opal Johnson-Smith Auditorium of the Willie Albert Tempton, Sr. Memorial Student Center, Tuesday, Sept. 15 Students Participating In Transcendent (S.P.I.T.) Knowledge […]
PV celebrates Constitution Day
erleaders and the student body, PVAMU’s world renowned “Marching Storm” paraded around the yard in celebration of Constitution Day at a ceremony, held by the fountain on Sept. 17. Constitution Day is a day in which students and faculty members commemorate of the day that the Texas Constitution of 1876 […]
Sorority Row puts a spin on Sorority life
#8220;Sorority Row,” a remake of the less-known 1983 horror film “The House on Sorority Row,” is a fun imitation of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” a slasher style flick. The film delivers thrills, laughs and in the tradition of many slasher flicks, young scantily clad women running around […]
“Deja Vu
Xavier never did have much love for rainy days. It never failed that every time it rained, something bad would always come along his way. Today it was pouring, and as he sat in his car, sitting in student parking he stared hard at his cell phone. The buttons seemed […]