Grambling State’s Naomi Kiprop Win’s Women’s Mook Invitational

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Grambling State University’s Naomi Kiprop won the women’s race and Hassan Chepkwony placed third on the men’s course during Saturday’s Louisiana Tech Mook Invitational held at Tech Farm.

Running on the 4-mile course, Kiprop was in fourth place after two laps, but on the back end of the course, she turned it on and sprinted to a first-place time of 15 minutes and 37 seconds – beating the field by 14 seconds.

Halima Chepkwony placed just outside the Top 10 in 11th place, with a time of 16:46.8, while Winny Chirchir claimed 13th in 17:21.1. Priscilla Kibet finished 21st in 18:41.1 and Angelica Brown came across the line in 18:38.3, which was good enough for 26th.

Grambling State finished in a tie for second, but due to the tiebreaker, took third with 72 points. Northwestern State, which claimed spots third through eighth, won the meet with 29 points. Louisiana Tech also finished with 72 points, but won the tiebreaker over Grambling State to claim second. Louisiana-Monroe (104), Alcorn State (111) and Arkansas-Pine Bluff (129) rounded out the women’s field.

On the men’s side, Hassan Chepkwony run up toward the front of the pack and held the lead for most of the race, but couldn’t hold off runners from Northwestern State and Louisiana Tech in claiming third, with a time of 20:42.2.

Aaron Koech finished in 15th, with a time of 22:15.8, while Noah Rugut (22:33.6) and Hillary Kiprop (22:37.6) crossed in 18th and 20th, respectively. Jeremiah Kimeli (33rd) ran in 24:18.8 and Bryson Bradford (37th) finished in 25:00.4.

Grambling State finished in third with 79 points, as Louisiana Tech won the meet with 29 points. Northwestern State took second at 68 points. Arkansas-Pine Bluff (83), Jackson State (111) and Alcorn State (168) rounded out the men’s field.

Up Next
The Grambling State men’s and women’s cross country teams return to action Saturday, Sept. 29 at the McNeese Cowboy Stampede in Lake Charles, La.

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UAPB Suffers a Terrible Loss Against South Dakota State, 90-6

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South Dakota State rewrote its record book numerous times Saturday night, including setting new standards for points and total yards, in a 90-6 victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the 52nd Annual Beef Bowl at Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium.

The third-ranked Jackrabbits improved to 2-0 overall, while UAPB dropped to 1-2 on the season.

SDSU needed only five offensive plays to score its first three touchdowns — all on passes from senior quarterback Taryn Christion. After a 29-yard punt return by Marquise Lewis put SDSU deep in Golden Lion territory, the Jackrabbits needed only two plays to cash in as Christion found freshman tight end Blake Kunz over the middle for an 8-yard score.

A turnover on the next UAPB possession led to a 31-yard scoring pass from Christion to Adam Anderson, who leaped up and over two defenders to corral his first career touchdown. Moments later, Christion hooked up with reigning Missouri Valley Football Conference Offensive Player of the Week Cade Johnson deep down field for a 71-yard touchdown that gave SDSU a 21-3 lead.

On the play, Christion became the MVFC’s career leader in touchdown passes, surpassing the 78 thrown by Illinois State’s Matt Brown from 2009-12.

Jamie Gillan, who connected on a 47-yard field goal midway through the first quarter, added a 20-yarder later in the stanza to pull to within 21-6. However, the Jackrabbits would tally the final 69 points of the game and continued to churn out big plays as eight of the 13 touchdowns they scored on the night covered at least 30 yards.

Christion, who played only in the first half, threw two more touchdowns before exiting, finding Jacob Brown in the end zone from nine yards out late in the final minute of the first quarter and adding a 40-yard scoring strike to Johnson early in the second quarter. It marked the fifth five-touchdown game of Christion’s career.

Combined, three Jackrabbit quarterbacks went 19-for-21 passing with single-game school records of 557 yards and eight touchdowns. Christion was 13-of-14 for 332 yards, while backup Kanin Nelson finished 4-of-5 passing for 136 yards with touchdowns on screen passes of 66 yards to Pierre Strong Jr. and 37 yards to C.J. Wilson.

Third-string signal-caller Justin Roberts completed both of his passes for 89 yards, including a 76-yarder to Michael Wandmaker, who caught a pass on a quick out pattern, broke a tackle along the right sideline and rambled the rest of the way to paydirt.

The Jackrabbit running game also got in the act, headlined by Isaac Wallace’s 192 yards on only five carries. Wallace scored on runs of 58 and 79 yards, while Mikey Daniel plunged in twice on short runs and Blair Mulholland contributed a 14-yard touchdown run for his first collegiate touchdown.

SDSU tallied 369 rushing yards and a program-best 926 yards of total offense. The Jackrabbits’ 90 points also established a new school record, eclipsing the 85 points scored against Columbus College way back in 1922.

Johnson posted his second consecutive 100-yard receiving game with five catches for 162 yards. Anderson also eclipsed the century mark with four catches for 128 yards.

UAPB, which played without regular starting quarterback Shannon Patrick, went with Roger Totten II under center. He completed 9-of-21 passes for 131 yards and was intercepted twice — both in the end zone by Zy Mosley.

Eric Kleinschmit paced the Jackrabbit defense with seven tackles.

Taeyler Porter led the Golden Lion running game with 106 yards as UAPB finished with 310 yards of total offense. Josh Wilkes caught a team-high four passes for 80 yards and Nijul Canada notched a game-high nine tackles.

Courtesy: SDSU Athletics

Watch: NCAT – The Era of Bands Show

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Classic music touches the soul, unites generations and stands the test of time. In a tribute to R&B music, watch as the Blue and Gold Marching Machine performs their first show of the season entitled, “The Era of Bands.”

Watch in HD!! (Use headphones for surround sound) BGMM Media team: Damien Cash (Coordinator), Jasmine Kerr, Darius Davis, Trenton Pinnix, Fisher Reaves, Ryan Murray, Jarvis Hough, Jarrell Harris, Jacques Rogers, Dr. Lamon Lawhorn (Director) Like, share, subscribe to the channel and follow the band on social media: www.ncat.edu/band facebook.com/blueandgoldmarchingmachine Instagram: @b_gmm Twitter: @b_gmm Youtube: bgmmmedia

If you’d like to be placed in the recruitment database and receive more info about the Blue and Gold Marching Machine, text BGMMINFO to 41411 and fill out the requested information.

UAPB Founder To Be Inducted Into Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame

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Dr. Joseph Carter Corbin, principal of Branch Normal College (now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff) is among the 2018 list of inductees into the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame. The posthumous honor will be received on Corbin’s behalf by nominator and AM&N alumna Dr. Gladys Turner Finney.

“Professor Corbin used his education to change the world by making higher education available to former slaves and their descendants,” Finney said. “His unselfish devotion to educating others still remains, is immortal, and magnifies his birthplace, native state and alma mater.”

Corbin was born March 26, 1833 in Chillicothe, Ohio and was the son of former slaves, William and Susan Corbin, from Virginia. In 1850, he entered Ohio University at Athens as a sophomore and graduated in 1853, the third African American to attend Ohio University and the second to complete a bachelor’s degree. He would use his college degree to empower and establish a pathway for other African Americans to achieve higher education. In the years following his graduation from Ohio University, he served two terms as an elected trustee of the Cincinnati Colored School Board. Corbin was editor and co-publisher of the Colored Citizen Newspaper of Cincinnati from 1863-1869, when exercise of free speech by African Americans was difficult and dangerous.

During Reconstruction of the South following the Civil War, Corbin migrated to Little Rock, Arkansas to make his mark and spread higher education. Shortly after arriving in Arkansas, he was elected State Superintendent of Public Education. As Superintendent, he served as President of the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Industrial University (now the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville). In this role, he helped lay the foundation for a branch of the University at Pine Bluff for the education of African American teachers.

Corbin opened Branch Normal College on September 27, 1875 and served the next 27 years as its principal. Under Dr. Corbin’s leadership, Branch Normal College produced the first college educated African American in Arkansas. Corbin died January 9, 1911 in Pine Bluff and is buried in Forest Park, Illinois.

Joseph Carter Corbin is known as the “father of higher education for African Americans in Arkansas,” but his work had national impact. His advancement of education as a civil right for freed slaves and their descendants was not without personal sacrifice, political opposition, discrimination, and racism. Dr. Corbin was honored recently in his native Ohio with a historical marker at Ohio University – Chillicothe.

Dr. Gladys Turner Finney was born in Tamo (Jefferson County, Arkansas), and was a member of the last graduating class of J. C. Corbin High School in Pine Bluff. She holds a Master of Social Work degree from the Atlanta University School of Social Work. Her distinguished career as a clinician, teacher, and administrator in the field of social work spanned nearly four decades. In 2012, Finney’s undergraduate alma mater, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, conferred on her the Honorary Doctorate of Laws degree for her long commitment to social work and for her efforts in empowering others through advocacy and philanthropy. Author of the book, Joseph Carter Corbin: Educator Extraordinaire and Founder of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, she currently resides in Dayton, Ohio.

The Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame was created in 2009 through the collaborative efforts of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, Honda of America Mfg., Inc., Wright State University, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and PNC.* The Civil Rights Hall of Fame seeks to acknowledge outstanding Ohioans who are recognized as pioneers in human and civil rights and who have advanced the goals of equality and inclusion. Inductees of the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame are individuals who have made significant contributions in support of civil rights, cultural awareness and understanding in furtherance of a more just society.

Jackson State Enrollment Drops 10 Percent

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According to preliminary figures, Jackson State University’s fall 2018 enrollment has declined by 9.9 percent since fall 2017.

The current preliminary enrollment is 7,709 and represents a drop of 849 students from last year’s preliminary figure of 8,558.

The decline is related to several factors. JSU no longer allows students with prior balances to register for the current term unless payment plan arrangements have been made. In addition, this year, prior to reporting preliminary numbers we are verifying whether pre-registered students are attending class before we submit our numbers to IHL by having professors submit attendance rosters.

“As stated previously, our next three years will be difficult as we rebound from our current financial crisis,” Bynum said. “JSU has begun to initiate its first purge earlier. Previously, students were given a wider grace period to complete registration before removal from enrollment rosters. Now, however, they must complete this requirement within the designated reporting period or be purged from classes.”

Bynum also said, “We will continue to focus on becoming one of the most student-centered universities in the country.”

Watch: Police Investigating Altercation With White Male & FAMU Students

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Police are investigating an incident captured on a viral video that shows a heated exchange in which a man entering the Stadium Centre apartments displayed a gun while arguing with several Florida A&M University students.

Officer Damon Miller, a spokesman for the Tallahassee Police Department, said the department was notified following the late afternoon Saturday incident.

In the video, the man, whose name hasn’t been released by TPD, appears to be arguing with four younger men. The man holding the gun in the video has been identified by social media users as an employee of the Baymont Inn & Suites by Wyndham Hotels. Members of an activist group are calling for him to be fired.

Social media outrage bubbled up after it appears the older man was holding a gun while standing in the elevator of the Stadium Centre apartment building at 699 Gaines St.

He blocks the group of men from entering the elevator. On the video, three of the young men are black and one is white.

The Famuan is reporting the group of men are Florida A&M University students who were trying to visit the apartment.

On the video, the man in a baseball cap confronted the FAMU students and told them they were not getting into the building unless they were residents with keys. The students, according to the Famuan, explained to the man that they were visiting a friend who lived there. Another white resident intervened to help the FAMU students get into the building.

“Chad stepped in to help us because the other white man was being racist by not letting us in,” Isaiah Thomas, one of the four FAMU students, told the Famuan. 

In the video, the man identified as Chad said, “You’re just not man enough to go about your day.”

After the white resident entered the building, Stephen Brooks, another one of the four FAMU students, caught the door to enter.

The Famuan reported that the exchange between the FAMU students, Chad, and the older man escalated as they all approached the elevator. The man proclaimed that this was his elevator and he refused to let any of the FAMU students on.

Several people begin talking over each other in raised voices. It’s not clear whether there was any physical contact before, during or after the heated exchange.

The Tallahassee Community Action Committee, a local activist group, is calling for the person in the video to be fired and say the exchange and his display of a gun is racially motivated.

Regina Joseph, a TCAC co-founder, said the viral video was reminiscent of racially charged viral videos that have ended in controversy or violence. She said, after seeing the Tallahassee-based video, “it really hit too close to home.”

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Howard University Alum Takes Over as CFO at Citigroup

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The changes follow an executive shuffle a few weeks ago at Citigroup’s consumer bank, which has had trouble keeping up with performance expectations on Wall Street.

Mark Mason takes over the CFO role at a time of investor frustration with Citigroup’s lagging stock price, according to this memo. Its shares trade for about 1.2 times tangible book value compared with 2.1 times for shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), the largest U.S. bank by assets.

The Citigroup Inc. logo is displayed atop Tower 1 of Asia Square in Singapore, on Friday, June 14, 2013. Singapore’s central bank plans to reprimand banks in the city-state as early as today following an 11-month review into how benchmark interest rates are set, five people with knowledge of the matter said. Photographer: Munshi Ahmed/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The institutional clients group where Mason is now finance chief provides trading, lending, treasury and investment banking services to large companies. He is also responsible for submitting Citigroup’s capital plans to the U.S. Federal Reserve as part of its annual stress test, a process that determines how much money the bank can return to shareholders through dividends or stock buybacks.

In prior roles, Mason worked closely with Corbat to unload Citigroup’s troubled assets following the 2007-2009 financial crisis, and later ran the private bank that caters to ultra-wealthy individuals.

Mason grew up in Queens, New York, and lived in a house overlooking an expressway to John F. Kennedy International Airport, he said in a 2017 podcast interview with the president of Howard University, his alma mater.

He and his younger brother were raised by a single mother with help from family members who lived nearby. He went to public schools until attending Howard for his undergraduate degree, then getting an MBA from Harvard Business School.

“We didn’t have much, but we had a lot of family,” Mason said. “So, it was a good childhood, but it was one that was short of money in ways, so I learned very early on the importance of hard work and the correlation between that and achievement and money.”

HBCU Rankings 2019: Top Black Colleges from U.S. News

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This U.S. News ranking measures the quality of the undergraduate education at historically black colleges and universities. These HBCUs were compared only with one another for this ranking. To be on the list, a school must be currently listed as part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities registry.

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The Higher Education Act of 1965 defines an HBCU as “any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans, and that is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association determined by the Secretary (of Education) to be a reliable authority as to the quality of training offered or is, according to such an agency or association, making reasonable progress toward accreditation.”

To qualify for the U.S. News ranking, an HBCU also must be an undergraduate baccalaureate-granting institution that enrolls primarily first-year, first-time students and must be a school that is currently part of the 2019 Best Colleges rankings.

If an HBCU is listed as unranked in the 2019 Best Colleges rankings, it is also listed as unranked in the HBCU rankings; see more details below.

In total, 80 HBCUs were eligible to be included on the list; 76 of those were ranked, and four were unranked. Among the 76 ranked HBCUs, schools that place in the top three-fourths display their individual ranks. The remaining ranked schools display the bottom quartile ranking range and are listed alphabetically. U.S. News used the same data in the HBCU rankings as those published and used in the 2019 edition of the Best Colleges rankings, except for the peer survey results that were based on a separate HBCU peer assessment survey.

The U.S. News rankings system rests on two pillars: quantitative and qualitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality, and U.S. News’ view of what matters in education. The indicators used to capture academic quality fall into six categories: outcome measures, assessment by administrators at peer HBCUs, faculty resources, financial resources, student excellence and alumni giving. The indicators include input measures that reflect a school’s student body, its faculty and its financial resources, along with outcome measures – such as graduation rates and first-year student retention rates – that signal how well the institution educates students.

The HBCU rankings are based on mostly the same statistical indicators, but with different weights, as were used in the 2019 Best Colleges rankings for the schools in the Regional Universities and Regional Colleges categories. The following are detailed descriptions of the statistical indicators and weights that U.S. News used to measure academic quality among the HBCUs that were ranked.

Prairie View Transfer Student Killed in Botched Drug Deal

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Prairie View police are working to identify two suspects in what they now believe to be a botched drug deal that left a Prairie View A&M University student dead on Tuesday.

Darius LeCompte, a 24-year-old biology student from Missouri City, was found with three gunshot wounds in a pickup truck around 9:15 p.m. in the 200 block of West University Drive. Prairie View Police Chief Anthony Solomon said LeCompte was driving the truck when he crossed University and crashed in a nearby Subway parking lot. He had been living near the Prairie View A&M campus since transferring from Texas Southern University a few weeks ago. His family said he only needed a few more semesters of classes to graduate. Before the move to Prairie View, he worked for a railroad company and lived with his mother in Missouri City, Nikki said.He said witnesses saw two people get out of the vehicle and flee the scene.

Inside the truck, police found marijuana and around $200 in cash, which led them to believe it was a drug deal gone wrong, Solomon said. Solomon said his department, as well as the Texas Rangers, are investigating the case as a homicide. No arrests have been made.

She said she raised Darius in the home after moving there from Louisiana when he was two months old. She had most recently been living there with her two daughters and grandson.  Then, last Thursday, Aug. 30, the fire left all of their belongings destroyed beyond repair. “I don’t have anything from inside my house,” she said. Despite the damage to the home, Nikki said she is trying to organize a candlelight vigil in the driveway around 6:30 p.m. Saturday evening. The home is located in the 6600 block of Laughlin Drive.

Police found a Prairie View A&M student ID on him and a campus parking pass in his truck. Officials say LeCompte was shot by someone inside his vehicle. Police added the area where the shooting took place has had problems in the past. Last year, a student was shot on the same street after a party by a former student.

Carolyn Simpson was inside the minivan that was hit. She was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. “I was trapped in there and I detected a smell like gas and it could have exploded,” Simpson told ABC13.

The Predator Tuskegee University Screening

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The Predator Tuskegee University Screening

Date & Time: September 12, 2018; 7:00pm

AMC Classic Auburn 14
2130 E University Dr, Auburn, AL 36831

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THE PREDATOR | From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.

Former AG Loretta Lynch to speak at UAPB

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Pine Bluff, Ark. (September 4, 2018)  –   Loretta Lynch, the 83rd Attorney General of the United States (2015-2017), will be speaking at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) Thursday, September 6. The free, public event will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the J.M. Ross theatre of the Hathaway-Howard Fine Arts Building.

One of the most highly accomplished public figures in America today, former Attorney General Lynch has been a leading progressive voice during her 30-year highly distinguished career.

The first female African American Attorney General of the United States, Lynch was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2015.   She also served as the head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York twice, under both President Clinton and President Obama.  Described by President Obama as “the only lawyer in America who battles mobsters, drug lords and terrorists, and still has the reputation for being a charming ‘people person,” she has been instrumental in shaping the direction of the nation on a number of tough issues. She improved the relationship between local law enforcement and the communities they serve, and she has taken bold stances on criminal justice reform.

Lynch has spent years in the trenches rising through the ranks as a prosecutor, aggressively fighting terrorism, financial fraud and cybercrime — all while vigorously defending civil and human rights.

While leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Lynch became known for the high-profile civil rights conviction of two Brooklyn police officers who brutally assaulted Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. While in private practice, Lynch served as a volunteer legal advisor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, an organization she established to prosecute those responsible for human rights violations in the 1994 genocide in that nation.

Born in Greensboro, NC and the daughter of a school librarian and fourth generation Baptist minister, Lynch was also inspired by stories about her grandfather, a sharecropper in the 1930s, who helped members of his community who had no recourse under the Jim Crow system.

For more information, call (870) 575-7061.

Spelman College To Hosts Atlanta’s When We All Vote Rally

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ATLANTA (Sept. 5, 2018) – Spelman College will be the host site of a When We All Vote Rally in the Atlanta University Center on Thursday, Sept. 27. When We All Vote Co-Chair Janelle Monae will headline the event, which is open to students, faculty and staff of the AUC institutions.

In August, When We All Vote Co-Chair Michelle Obama announced a series of flagship events during When We All Vote’s National Week of Action (Sept. 22-29). In her video message, she urged Americans to sign up to volunteer and host events around the country to register voters, and get people engaged and prepared to vote in the midterm elections and beyond.

“There is no time more important than now to be civically engaged and exercise our right to vote,” said Spelman President Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D. “Spelman students have been registering their classmates to vote since August – signing up more than one third of our first-year class as soon as they stepped on campus. We are excited about the energy and advocacy When We All Vote will bring to the Atlanta University Center.”

This evening, Obama will participate in a special volunteer call asking Americans to host an event during the Week of Action. When We All Vote is teaming up with thousands of community leaders, colleges and universities, artists, athletes, and influencers to help organize, sign up volunteers and host events in communities across the country.

“Voting is the only way to ensure that our values and priorities are represented in the halls of power. And it’s not enough to just vote for president every four years,” said Obama, who will be headline events in Las Vegas (Sept. 23) and Miami (Sept. 28). “We all have to vote in every single election: for mayor, governor, school board, state legislature and Congress. The leaders we elect to these offices help determine just about every aspect of our lives and our democracy. So, the future of our families, our communities and our country belongs to those of us who show up, cast our votes, and make our voices heard.”

The rallies in Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Miami are three of at least a dozen flagship events that will be held in cities across the nation taking place during the Week of Action. Details on locations, ticketing and remaining flagship events, are forthcoming.

FLAGSHIP CITIES INCLUDE:
Detroit, MI
Los Angeles, CA
Baltimore, MD
Miami, FL
Atlanta, GA
Chicago, IL
Las Vegas, NV
New York, NY
Pittsburgh, PA
Nashville, TN
Houston, TX
Cleveland, OH

About When We All Vote
When We All Vote—a new national, nonpartisan not-for-profit—brings together citizens, institutions, and organizations to spark a conversation about our rights and responsibilities in shaping our democracy. Namely, the responsibility of registering and voting.

When We All Vote’s co-chairs are some of America’s most trusted voices, including Michelle Obama, Tom Hanks, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Janelle Monáe, Chris Paul, Faith Hill, and Tim McGraw. Join the conversation by talking to friends, family, and neighbors about the importance of their voice and their vote. Because When We All Vote, we can change the world. For more information on When We All Vote, Please visit: When We All Vote.

About Spelman College
Founded in 1881, Spelman College is a leading liberal arts college widely recognized as the global leader in the education of women of African descent. Located in Atlanta, the College’s picturesque campus is home to 2,100 students. Spelman is the country’s leading producer of Black women who complete Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The College’s status is confirmed by U.S. News and World Report, which ranked Spelman No. 61 among all liberal arts colleges and No. 1 among historically Black colleges and universities. The Wall Street Journal ranked the College No. 3, nationally, in terms of student satisfaction. Outstanding alumnae include Children’s Defense Fund Founder Marian Wright Edelman, Starbucks Group President and COO Rosalind Brewer, former Acting Surgeon General and Spelman’s first alumna President Audrey Forbes Manley, global bioinformatics geneticist Janina Jeff and author Pearl Cleage. For more information, visit www.spelman.edu.

Rankings Show Jackson State Among Most Affordable College Towns

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Jackson State University is located in one of the top ten most affordable college towns, according to Move.org.  Home to the HBCU, Jackson ranks No. 9, among 25 other towns on the list, due to the city’s median costs for rent and utilities falling on the cheaper end of the spectrum.

JSU also has the lowest in-state tuition at $20,221 per year when compared to Millsaps College and Belhaven University. All of its other factor expenses are pretty impressive, as well, making the numbers alone worth looking at living in the Magnolia State.

Expenses

    • Median monthly rent is $833.33, with monthly utilities averaging $124.54.
    • A gallon of gas is $2.24, while a one-way local train fare is $1.50.
    • A movie ticket is $8.50, and a 0.5-liter of domestic beer is $1.42.

Minimum wage starts at $7.25.

Students, Studies and Online Dating

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Today, we have thousands of students online making use of various online dating platforms to find their perfect date.

It’s also important to stress that not everyone schooling is cut out for online dating, and chance encounters don’t favor every student that makes use of dating websites.

You could contend that a student studying in the university should be too busy with academics rather than having time to find love the conventional way. In general, a student’s life centers on interacting with other people, either online or offline.  It wouldn’t be any surprise to hear students asking whether online dating is worth it.

Is Online Dating Worth Any Student’s Time?

For a lot of students in schools, this is ultimately the perfect time to explore themselves as a person. They get to meet new people from all walks of life, exploring life in a generally new way, attending classes, joining certain courses, clubs, societies, hanging out in parties etc.

Without a doubt, a lot of 20-somethings wouldn’t mind a Flirt dating site to find a hookup, as some just want to find a perfect date for themselves that will likely transform into something more serious as time unfolds.

Is Online Dating the Answer?

Well, there isn’t much difference between online dating and offline dating, but dating online comes with some major key advantages compared to dating offline.

A lot of students get super nervous meeting someone for the first time; don’t call them crazy, I get nervous myself, and I believe it’s because of that burning sensation inside you, on how things will metamorphose afterward.

Sometimes, a question plays in your head over and over during the course of meeting each other: “Are we still gonna be friends or something more?”

During a first time meet you also get to deal with the eye contact which can be a very tricky gesture to understand clearly. You never know for sure if it means they like you or just playing cards. However, online dating takes away the nerves, you easily start conversations without any sort of pressure.

With online dating, you get the opportunity to meet a wide variety of potential partners that you might end up meeting in real life. Most online dating websites will provide you different options of personalities to pick from.That can narrow your search to finding the best date for yourself.

Chance Encounters and Online Dating

Just as we know we are old enough to date, we should also be wise enough to realize that chance encounters online don’t get to smile at everyone.

For what is worth, dating sites give you the platform to connect with other people that might be of great interest to you likewise them, and when you find a date and along the line there is no spark, you have a chance to also go back and look again, you know, it just makes the world a really small place.

The Pros and Cons of Online Dating for Students

Beyond doubts, online dating is a serviceable method that will surely get you out there to meet people in the real online world and finally having a greater opportunity to meet offline too, however, some people still think the whole process of finding love online is fanatical. I beg to disagree.

Below are some pros and cons for students dating online.

Pro: Over 10 million students are dating online.

Con: It’s also swarming with fake people pretending to be someone else

Pro: About 4/5 relationship today somehow started online. No materwhether it was via social media or a dating site, the internet is filled with so many success stories.

Con: A lot of dishonest students are online too, lying about who they are and what they can do.

Given that, it’s not just enough to choose online dating because of peer influence. If you are going to give it a short, be sure you are giving your best and know exactly why you have to.