FLORIDA STATE BSU MEETS TO DISCUSS RACIAL TENSIONS
A group of students met in Florida State University’s Black Student Union earlier this month to express their feelings and discuss methods of change on racial relations on and around FSU’s campus. The incidents which spurred this discussion took place during FSU’s first home football game of the season. According to several students, numerous incidents in and around FSU’s stadium took place.
PEACE CORPS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM ON IT'S WAY TO FAMU
The Provost’s Office at Florida A&M recently announced a new collaboration with the Peace Corps available to FAMU students. FAMU and the Peace Corps have collaborated in the past and the university is one of 11 institutions in this new partnership. The program will provide FAMU students with the necessary skills and experience to participate in the Peace Corps or a myriad of other international non-profit jobs and opportunities. Starting next spring, students can participate in Peace Corps Prep, an interdisciplinary certificate program held through the Office of International Education.
FAMU POLICE CHIEF URGES STUDENTS,
"IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING."
At this point in our lives college students have a million and one things to worry about: grades, financial aid, homecoming, the future. The list goes on and on.
The absolute last thing anyone, especially students, would want to worry about is safety, especially on and around campus. Being safe is imperative for a positive environment; worrying about safety can affect peace of mind which can affect performance in school.
FAMU’S FLYEST:
MIKAYLA SMITH AND REMIXED THREADZ
“To whom much is given, much will be required.” Words from Luke 12:48, words that designer and third-year FAMU student Mikayla Smith are all too familiar with. Hailing from Baltimore, Smith has been, as she says in her own words, “chosen” to share her gifts, her talents and her vision with the world on her own terms.
YOGA-TO BE KIDDING ME: HOW COVID-19 IS CHANGING WELLNESS
#SickTok
A little more than 18 months have passed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic that brought the entire globe to its knees. Practically overnight entire countries had to figure out how to not just survive, but thrive in this new contactless world. For a lot of countries that meant almost immediate quarantines with no definite end date in sight.
Many of us left school, clocked out of work, and went home almost a little grateful for an extra break, but who knew it would turn into an ongoing series of unfortunate events in almost complete isolation.
EPIC RETURN? FAMU NAVIGATES HOMECOMING POST-PANDEMIC
“I love that campus is back open. Although I can’t get back that one year,” Yakora Pitts said. “It’s good. We out here, and I can experience the next year.”
Y’all hear that? That’s the collective sigh of relief now that homecoming is over.
The laces have been laid, the fits have been worn, and the Rattlers have struck. This was a great delight to some students on campus who have been looking forward to on-campus events since last month’s organizational fair.
Accurately titled “An Epic Return ,” this year’s homecoming was one for the books. In an interview with the Tallahassee Democrat, Col. Gregory Clark, president of the Florida A&M University National Alumni Association, said to expect as many as 40,000 people at the homecoming game. And with highly anticipated celebrity appearances all week, along with canceled homecoming at several HBCUs, FAMU ended with a whopping 31,887 in attendance and several thousands more in and around the stadium.
RATTLER TO RICHES?FAMU STUDENT TURNED MUSIC PRODUCER
Everyone at some point in their life had dreams of what they wanted to be when they grew up. For a lot of people, those dreams end when the reality of the world sets in.
However, 22-year-old FAMU student Cameron Morrell is dead set on turning his dreams into a reality. Morrell, or FuzeMusic as he’s known in the industry, has a career that even he had to do a double-take at. With producer credits including Bryson Tiller, Gucci Mane, Migos and other notable names; Morrell has already built an impressive catalog, and he hasn’t even graduated college yet.
ENDING VIOLENCE ON TALLAHASSEE'S SOUTHSIDE
“The conversation on violence is a public health issue, public violence is a public health issue.”
- Christic Henry, community advocate
On Tuesday evening the Fall 2021 Community Organizing Graduate Students of FAMU’s Institute of Public Health held a virtual community forum to discuss the increase in youth violence on Tallahassee’s Southside as well as other communities across the city. The purpose of the forum was to address specific issues as well as figure out next steps to assemble the community and to find solutions. Community advocates Nicole Everett, host of “Conversations with Nicole,” and Christic Henry, community liaison with FIPH served as facilitators of the conversation.
FAMU'S AFRICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION ON THE RISE
At any Florida A&M University function you are sure to hear students repping where they are from:
“404.” “850.” “478.” “DUUUVALL.”
However, then- freshman political science student Nykia Onubogu felt like a space for African students was missing, and she wanted to fill that void. After a little research Onubogu, who is Nigerian, found out about FAMU’s African Student Association and, having some ideas of her own, applied in fall 2019 for president of the organization.
“I don’t remember too many Africans at my school so when I came here I wanted to be around people with my same upbringing,” Onubogu said.
“When I got the opportunity to actually be a part of the African Student Association, I wanted to do it so other people can have this opportunity as well.”
SQUIRRELS, TURTLE SOUP AND… ORANGE COOKIES?
Refreshing is the word most people use to describe Sarah Gerwig-Moore’s zesty, sweet orange cookies that have been passed down through five generations.
Gerwig-Moore’s family came across their signature orange cookie recipe in a cookbook nestled between recipes for turtle soup and squirrel. Granny Gerwig’s family disregarded the turtles and squirrels in favor of the orange cookie recipe still found in the cookbook.