Norfolk State University's Alpha Epsilon Rho chapter of the National Broadcast Society with resumes, business cards, and other examples of personal experience in hand, recently journeyed to Atlanta, Ga. for a networking trip. This advantageous trip, hosted by Paula Briggs, a mass communication professor at NSU, toured the thriving Atlanta media market.
The concepts surrounding numerology are some I have found intriguing and intoxicating. While I wouldn't go as far to say I am a devout enthusiast of the ancient art, I will admit I have found myself reading, studying and sometimes even delving into some of the principles it supports.
Ok, can some one please explain to me why are these public figure wives, standing by their cheating, lying and scandalous husbands after they humiliate them in front of the whole world? If my man even embarrasses me in the club, I have to rethink our relationship! I just don't understand how Silda Spitzer, wife of the former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, can stand next to her husband as he apologizes for allegedly spending thousands of dollars in a prostitution ring, without smacking him up side his head every time he opens his mouth.
Upon researching the subject of this article, I had to take a look at myself as a student. I started college with an emphasis of entrepreneurship as a business major. After three and a half years, I came to the decision that I had chosen a degree path that I was not pleased with.
This past Christmas, I made the biggest decision of my life. In the blistering cold of Newport News' scenic Oyster Point City Center, surrounded by extravagant lighting and decorations, I got down on one knee, opened up a box containing an engagement ring, and asked my girlfriend for her hand in marriage.
Too often, females catch themselves settling for less when it comes to relationships. It is usually in the beginning when they can see a person does not have everything they want. For a female that is going to school, working a part-time job, drives her own car and pays her own bills, she wants a guy that's on the same page as her.
Just when you thought it was safe to assume school and all the problems associated with it couldn't get any worse, here's another thing to add to the list of irritants: tuition and fees are due for increase. The jump in charges, set to immediately go into effect for the 2008-2009 school year, was approved by the NSU Board of Visitors in early March.
Yet another American school shooting took place on March, 3 2008 at Northern Illinois University. University President John Peters told CNN.com "A gunman dressed in black stepped from behind a curtain at the front of a large lecture hall at Northern Illinois University …and shot 21 people, five of them fatally, then shot and killed himself.
It's humorous, ironic even, that as a society we find undeniable interest in issues and individuals that directly conflict with our own morals. But everyday, on every news stand, in all entertainment news programs and littered on thousands of web sites, we find one of America's guiltiest pleasures-gossip.
Fiery, blunt, and spirited are words that describe Reverend Jeremiah Wright and his messages, but racist and un-American? Obama and his pastor have been caught up in a whirlwind of media attention recently, a media blitz if you will. All of this stemming from a 15-60 second clip of a sermon his former pastor preached that the media looped until our ears twitched (and for those who thought his comments racist, until theirs burned).
Q: Dear Ms. Tiree, I'm in a sticky situation. I'm a sophomore and my roommate and I have become best friends since my freshman year. We have the same major, same classes, same taste in clothes, and we do almost everything together. Last semester, she started talking to this guy in one of our classes.
How many times have you heard this argument: "The music of today has nothing on the music of the past"? To many people this statement is true, particularly to older people who grew up during music's golden era, when artists could actually sing and the songs meant something.
Norfolk State University has, without a doubt, provided me with an array of amazing opportunities. I've met people of different cultures, embraced a unique form of school spirit and encountered a motivated and dedicated faculty second to none. But when it comes to the indifference of students walking around this campus...
News flash: February is not just about Valentine's Day, although that is the first thing that pops in most people's minds when February rolls around. February 1 marks the beginning of Black History Month. It's a time when better educating yourself on the past should be more important than worrying about what gift to get your significant other.
Although voting for the first time during the primaries may be exciting for some students, there are others who are virtually unaffected, because they have no means of transportation to travel to their home towns to vote in designated districts. Why not have polls on campus that correspond to various states, and allow students to conveniently vote without taking a long trip home? Having polls on campus would heighten the political efficacy of the young voting population.
When Obama first announced that he desired to run for president, many predicted he would drop out of the race due to insufficient funds and the lack of support. However, when it was discovered that he would have the necessary funds, other candidates got a little nervous.
If graves could talk, I wonder what they would say. If the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were living today, would he be pleased with the accomplishments that we as a human race have made, or would he cringe at the very sight of us? Has his dream really come true, or is it merely a mirage of things not likely to occur? And what about Harriet Tubman, Carter G.
Dear Ms. Tiree, Q: I am a junior at NSU and I'm faced with a dilemma. I'm what most people would consider a good girl and I think because of that, it's been hard for me to meet a guy on campus. Don't get me wrong, I'm no angel, but I don't like wearing tight and revealing clothes or acting crazy in public to get guys attention.
Who do you talk to about your personal issues or problems? Maybe a relative, a friend, a counselor or even a professor you've become fond of? The truth is, many college students feel they have no one to talk to without the fear of being judged or labeled. We've seen in recent events how students like Seung-Hui Cho from Virginia Tech have resulted to suicide because they could no longer deal with the troubles they felt they had to hold inside.
Monday, January 28, 2008 marked the last State of the Union address from our current president of the United State George W. Bush. In his standard black suit and Carolina blue tie, Bush made his way through the crowd of standing applauders to the stage in which he would be given his final state of the union.
Almost a year to the date of his last address that caused much debate over his move to send 20,000 more troops over to Iraq, the audience seemed to be quite pleased with his many acts of change that he will propose to congress in the coming months.
An editorial by Tykia Cole
The months of January and February have become a time of self reflection for me as I become older and wiser.
As we recently celebrated the twenty first year anniversary of the holiday honoring the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I realize that some of us in this generation have turned our culture into a mockery as well as ignoring and attempting to forget the past from which we originated.
We watched as the battle raged on and on during the Democratic Debate in South Carolina. Edwards was almost a casualty of the spar (and of the polls, or vice versa?). The Democratic Debate hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus begs the question, which candidate is best for us? Historically, though we don't have to reach that far back, we know of the generalized affinity African Americans have for former President, Bill Clinton.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream remains exactly that: a dream. Young people today are too preoccupied with a false sense of reality to realize when they need to wake up. Music, movies, and media encourage them to have a bigger ego rather than a bigger brain.
Many people live life carelessly, not giving heed to time, past, present or future. When you ask a multitude of today's youth what are their plans for the future, they may not be able to tell you about plans past next month. A serious outlook towards a positive future is not a main concern.
There were a lot of off the field issues that affected the NFL 07-08 season. The season started off with all the steroid allegations. Once the league suspended the players for using steriods, Adam Jones popped back into the news. Jones was suspended from the NFL indefinetly.
