Sports
May 31, 2007
Gillespie placed on paid leave
May 31, 2007
Head Men's Basketball Mike Gillespe , Sr., was placed on administrative leave yesterday. In a brief statement issue…
Showing posts from May, 2007
EIT chief fired
May 30, 2007
Larry Henderson , the embattled chief of the enterprise information technology office, was relieved of his duties this …
Making FAMU an undergraduate U. is not an option
May 30, 2007
This week's against the grain column by Roosevelt Wilson discusses the flawed "Pappas Report". The Pap…
Knock. Knock. Who's there? SACS!
May 29, 2007
Upon taking over, it seems that interim (whatever ya call him) Larry Robinson has discovered another potential mess le…
FAMU must be accountable
May 29, 2007
For FAMUans, the bad news seems relentless. The latest in a long string of stories about financial mismanagement at Flo…
No title
May 27, 2007
As we approach Memorial Day here are the names of those recently killed in combat. Someone's father, mother, son, d…
off topic
May 26, 2007
OT: "We All Witnesses" the Darfur tragedy... except LeBron
May 26, 2007
LeBron James and his Cleveland Cavaliers are not faring well in their playoff series against the Detroit Pistons, with…
Gillespie arrested
May 25, 2007
Tallahassee police today arrested FAMU basketball coach Mike Gillespie and charged him wil stalking. The victim contac…
Trustees
May 25, 2007
Castell's parting gift leaves FAMU with $4.3 million bill
May 25, 2007
Florida A&M must come up with $4.3 million to pay four computer consultant companies that have been working at the …
Pharmacy
May 24, 2007
Gov. vetoes money for Pharmacy
May 24, 2007
Gov. Charile Crist vetoed $7.5 million dollars for phased II of the FAMU College of Pharmacy today. The money was cri…
BOT Meeting Updates
May 24, 2007
Legislative Update The university loss of $4M from its operating budget because of declining enrollments in 2005-06 and…
Trustees meet today
May 24, 2007
The FAMU Board of Trustees meets at 8 a.m. today in the Grand Ballroom. Among the items on the agenda for the regular b…
Pharmacy
May 23, 2007
Pharmacy Dean steps down
May 23, 2007
Robert L. Thomas , interim dean, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has decided to resign. Actually, he t…
For Ammons to be successful, BoT, SUS roles must be clearly defined
May 23, 2007
Now that the interim president has resigned officially, the way has been cleared for incoming President James H. Ammons…
Castell gave contractors easy access to FAMU's money
May 22, 2007
As state auditors noted, FAMU doesn't quite have a handle on its outside contracting. Over the past two years, the…
FAMU's revolving door at the top
May 21, 2007
In the past week, Florida A&M University's interim president announced she was stepping down early and the prov…
Sports
May 21, 2007
Florida Classic payout nearly doubles
May 21, 2007
According to our sources, FAMU and Bethune-Cookman were each able to take home $1,400,190.76 from the 2006 Florida Clas…
The week in review
May 20, 2007
This week's top stories • The Bryant Legacy: 800 Days of Living Hell • Robinson named new interim • Fift…
Two losses sends Rattlers packing
May 19, 2007
The FAMU baseball team's late season rally ran into a brick wall at the MEAC Tournament as the number 2 seed Rattle…
Hell no, she won't go!
May 18, 2007
Laura Branker the lone remaining member of the "gang of six" who voted against incoming president James Ammo…
Leonard W. Johnson passes
May 17, 2007
Leonard W. Johnson , 79, a former President of the FAMU National Alumni Association, died of prostate cancer Saturday a…
Trustee Jenkins quits!
May 16, 2007
Another one bites the dust! Rattler Nation has learned that Trustee Leerie Jenkins has tendered his resignation toda…
Castell
May 16, 2007
The Bryant Years: A Legacy of Shame!
May 16, 2007
Bryant led FAMU into the light The Castell Bryant years began on a high note as the plain spoken, tough talking, Jasper…
No title
May 16, 2007
Usually, when someone like a university president retires the newspaper gives them their own "special seciton&quo…
Baseball team stranded for 12hrs on way to tourney
May 15, 2007
The Florida A&M baseball team has spent the past 12 hours at a Pilot truck stop in Valdosta, Ga. after the bus it w…
Debra Austin throws in the towel
May 15, 2007
FAMU Provost Debra Austin publically confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in town yesterday, that she had long ago…
Ammons
May 15, 2007
With Ammons there's cause to be hopeful
May 15, 2007
After Castell Bryant swept into town leading us through nearly 840 days of darkness, there is hope just around the cor…
Robinson named interim
May 14, 2007
The FAMU Trustees moved quickly today to name a former Provost Larry Robinson as the successor to replace Castell Brya…
Trustees to hold emergency meeting today
May 14, 2007
Upon the "abrupt" resignation of our embattled interim president Castell Bryant late Friday, FAMU trustees w…
FAMU oversight task force must make do on limited budget
May 14, 2007
The BOG task force overseeing FAMU's finances will have to scale back its lofty oversight plans. The task force ha…
Happy Mother's Day!
May 13, 2007
It's Mother's Day. And we've hopped a plane to go share it with the one who gave me life. We'll be ba…
Castell
May 12, 2007
Irreplaceable, Castell style!
May 12, 2007
HMMMMM To the left To the left Everything you own in the box to the left It’s in the audit That’s our stuff If FAMU bou…
Castell
May 11, 2007
Castell steps down!
May 11, 2007
It's official. Interim president Castell Bryant this afternoon told her staff that today will be her last day a…