TSU officials have expressed disappointment that proper university protocol wasn't followed by WSMV Nashville Channel 4 News during the station's recording of its Tuesday, Feb. 27, news segment about rumored male sororities on campus. Linda Sparks, TSU's associate director of public relations, said an "unwritten ethical" journalistic rule was violated when the policy, which requires an outside media group to request permission to come onto school property, was ignored. (0) comments
Even though Black History Month had come and gone, the sounds of the old African-American spirituals still lived on through the sanctuary of the Lake Providence Missionary Baptist Church in Nashville. More than 300 people gathered to hear the Golden Voices Choir from Tuskegee University at Lake Providence Missionary Baptist Church on Saturday, March 3. (0) comments
After filing a reverse discrimination complaint against interim TSU Police Chief Sylvia Russell, one TSU officer waits on a ruling from the university's Department of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action, EO/AA, to clear his name. Roy Yoquelet, a white man, issued a formal complaint that Russell, a black woman, has discriminated against him and another white officer, Malcolm Perry, by accusing them of mishandling an on-campus situation at the Brown-Daniel library in November. (0) comments
Ronnie Adkins, 18, was found guilty on Thursday, March 8, for the October 2005 slaying of Li Hong Peng, a deliveryman for the Best Wok Restaurant. Peng was killed on Oct. 31, 2005, while attempting to make a delivery to the Hankal Hall Residence Center on campus. (0) comments
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh gave false hope to citizens that were being treated for HIV/AIDS. Jammeh announced he discovered a cure for the disease that has wreaked havoc across Africa. "For a country's leader to come up with such an outlandish conclusion is not only irresponsible, but also very dangerous, and he should be reprimanded and stopped from proclaiming such nonsense," said Professor Jerry Coovadia of the University of Kwa Zulu Natal in South Africa. (0) comments
By Acquanetta Donnell Staff Reporter For many people who don't know, March is observed as Women's History Month. And one TSU administrator is on a mission to ensure that the ladies who reside in the Eppse Hall Residence Center know it. Rhonda Stewart, assistant residence director at Eppse, said she feels that women should always be recognized. (0) comments
