by LaJayah Blain/Staff Writer Music has drastically changed from what it used to be. Back in the day we could listen to love songs and not even realize what the underlying meaning was. As kids we were jamming to lyrics like “I’ll take you to the candy shop,” and not even understand what we were […]
LaJayah Blain/ Staff Writer African American women have been historically undermined and underappreciated. Black women have been consistently considered undesirable. Some find them to be too strong willed, or too difficult to handle. These negative stigmas of African American women have caused Black women to gain such negative connotations. But why? African American women are […]
by LaJayah Blain/ Staff Writer Joining fraternities and sororities can be a tradition that is passed down from generation to generation in a lot of families. In a way it is like a way of passage into an unknown world that you listen to your grandparents talk about. We look at pictures on the mantle […]
LaJayah Blain/ Staff Writer Students all over the world dream of the one day they’ll pack their bags, leave their parents’ house, and take their first step into adulthood by moving away to college. But now that we are all actually college students we realize the story never actually pans out the way we […]
LaJayah Blain/ Contributing Writer Veterans are the strong men and women that braved the unimaginable to make America the place we know today. Throughout history our veterans have been fighting for our freedom and the pursuit of happiness. Don’t you believe they deserve the same? Imagine enduring such traumatic events and seeing the unthinkable. Combat […]
LaJayah Blain/ Contributing Writer Imagine a world where every room you walked in everyone stared at you. A world where no matter how hard you try to express yourself everyone viewed you as handicapped. Imagine a place where all you wanted to do was belong, fit in and be normal but you couldn’t because society […]
LaJayah Blain/ Contributing Writer Homecoming is a celebration of tradition, comradery and new beginnings. Homecoming is our time to celebrate FIU, show our school spirit and get ready for what the bright new school year has to offer for us returning students and newcomers. Homecoming is a week full of explosive school spirit events ranging from the courting […]
