By: AARON RANDLE

“This is really uncomfortable.” The source, who requested to remain nameless, couldn’t stop fidgeting with his phone from the onset of our interview. With a barely audible voice filled with anxiety, it was clear that even though he was g...

By: VICTORIA FORTUNE

          The Howard University Haitian Students Association (HSA) remained hopeful despite the earthquake that took place in Haiti days ago leaving over 100,000 people dead. In an effort to help alleviate the situation ...

By: Britney Oliver

         At 10:10 a.m. on Sunday, Cramton Auditorium seats began to quickly become occupied by the enthused, diverse Sunday crowd.  Shawl covered heads entered Cramton along with the scent of mixed fragrances and wet fur...

By: Brittany Jacobs

   Walking down the refrigerator grocery isle was a middle class, 66-year old man with a long gray beard looking for the meat and potatoes. Robin Raindrop, on social security disability trust that his mayor “will take care of the old folks...

By: MICHAEL WATERS

Despite a valiant effort, the Lady Bison were defeated by the Long Island University (LIU) Blackbirds in a heartbreaking home loss in Burr Gymnasium on Saturday. LIU’s Connie James sank the go-ahead lay-up to put the Blackbirds up 67-66 with 1:03 le...

By: LAUREN MCEWEN

As the 2009 football season ended, the Bison left the field until next fall. Ending the season with a record of 2-9 after falling to Delaware State Saturday, it’s clear that Howard University’s football team has not made a dramatic turn-around...

By: BY OLLIE MONTGOMERY

Without a vote to spare, Senate Democrats have advanced major health care reform in Congress, opening the legislation up for debate and finally to a potential vote. With 60 votes in the affirmative, all Democrats and Independents were needed to pass the c...

By: Le’DIA J. SMITH

Women in their 40s should no longer get routine mammograms for early detection of breast cancer, according to updated guidelines set forth by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The task force, made up of 16 U.S. doctors, said women ages 40 to 49 sho...

By: VICTORIA KIRBY

Finals, elections, my birthday, and Thanksgiving: that is what the month of November always signaled in undergrad. I remember feeling a sense of dread each time this part of the semester arrived. It is a completely different feeling in graduate school. Fo...

By: RILEY WILSON

University of California (UC) students were beaten, tear-gassed and shot at, as they protested a 32-percent spike in tuition and the layoffs of more than 800 employees.  Students at UCLA, UC-Santa Cruz, UC-Davis and UC-Berkeley all participated in a ...

By: CAMILLE AUGUSTIN

“Crooklyn.” “Do The Right Thing.” “Malcolm X.” These are just a few of the many films that world-renowned director and documentarian, Spike Lee, has cultivated. Spike Lee came to speak to the students of Howard Universi...

By: BRITTANY JACOB

Howard students joined thousands of energetic residents on Saturday morning to come together for one common cause: homelessness. Bundled up in her winter gear, Mary Godie, junior broadcast journalism major, participated in the 22nd Annual Help the Homeles...

By: NATALIE CONE

The College of Arts and Sciences welcomed Zuma on Friday afternoon with a ceremony in the Browsing Room of Founders Library where President Sidney Ribeau delivered the official welcome....

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The year 2001 was marked by the Halle Berry’s outrageous and atypical performance as a seemingly promiscuous and troubled woman, and her even more shocking win at the Oscar awards. Her truly riveting, and equally controversial, role in “Monste...

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How do you define beauty? Do you define it by an unchangeable personality? Do you define it by the models you see in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, or in music videos? Do you let others define it for you? While we all may have our own definition, allow me to show y...

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MySpace burst onto the scene with an unprecedented popularity, marking one of the first highly successful social networking sites. Its success was closely followed by that of Facebook, and most recently, Twitter — which has turned out to be one of H...

By: TYLER DRAGON

Changing one’s skin color is very rare in today’s society. Most often the lightening of skin color is due to the disease vitiligo, a chronic disorder that causes depigmentation of one’s skin. The late entertainer, Michael Jackson suffere...

By: MICHAEL WATERS

For nearly every incoming college athlete, there is a time of adjustment as they transition from high school to college. Often, freshmen in college sports are regulated to smaller roles as they try to acclimate themselves to the nuances of the college gam...

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Dear Students, Faculty and Staff of Howard University: We are taking steps to prevent the spread of seasonal or H1N1 flu here at Howard University. We need your help to accomplish this. To date, the overwhelming majority of cases of new influenza A (H1N1)...