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Eichelberger earns his third weekly honor this season this season after averaging 22.3 points and 13 rebounds in three games, including finishing with 21 points and 16 rebounds in a win against Fort Valley State. The 6-foot-5 forward from Detroit, MI also averaged 1.7 assists and one steal while helping lead the Golden Tigers to a 2-1 record for the week which also included a win over conference-foe Paine. Averaging 17.5 points and 9.4 rebounds this season, Eichelberger currently ranks second in the SIAC in both scoring and rebounding, including a conference-leading 3.9 offensive rebounds, while ranking fourth with a .531 shooting percentage from the field. Eichelberger and the Golden Tigers are currently in first place in the SIAC with an 11-5 record.
Eubanks, a native of Tuscaloosa, AL, had a big week for the first-place Lady Tigers, averaging 20.3 points and 8.7 rebounds in three games. The 5-foot-10 forward also averaged four steals and 1.7 assists for the week, helping lead Stillman to a 2-1 record for the week with victories over Benedict and Albany State, moving the Lady Tigers to 12-3 in conference play. Eubanks is currently averaging 14.3 points and 8.1 rebounds per game on the season which ranks seventh and fifth in the SIAC, respectively.
Wherry, a guard from Huntsville, AL, averaged 13.7 points and 3.7 assists in three games. The 5-foot-9 Prairie View A&M University transfer also averaged 2.3 steals and two rebounds while helping the Tigers to a 3-0 record for the week with wins over Benedict, Fort Valley State, and Albany State to extend their current winning streak to five.
Darrett, a forward from Evansville, IN, nearly averaged a double-double with 9.5 points and nine rebounds in two games, earning his second weekly honor this season. The 6-foot-7 Vincennes University transfer also averaged 1.5 blocks and one steal while dishing out three assists per contest, helping lead the Thorobreds to a 2-0 record for the week with victories over LeMoyne-Owen and Miles. Darrett is currently averaging 1.9 blocks per game, which ranks second in the SIAC.
Lloyd, a guard from Ribbons, IL, averaged 12 points and three rebounds in two games. The 5-foot-6 Moraine Valley Community College transfer also averaged 2.5 assists and 1.5 steals on the week.
T.T offers up some wise words “the house isn’t who you are, it what you bought…onto the next dream.” Hopefully, this was an eye opener and in future episodes we see Malik in a more mature and positive light.
Jason gets a new co-anchor and no longer is the star of his own show. Needless to say he is fuming about this executive decision and turns to his bride Chardonnay for support but Chardonnay has issues of her own with Jason’s news. Chardonnay is insecure about the fact that Jason’s new “partner” is a white blonde, Jason’s past weakness. Jason assures her there is nothing to be concerned about and reminds her he has left his posh comfort zone and joined her in her meager one. As usual the couple makes up. This is a relationship I hope to see blossom as the season goes on, Brandy’s character is a great mix to the cast.
Melanie has her “showdown” with Tasha when the two are out on the town and end up at the same bar. The two are in a competition to see who can stay at the bar the longest apparently but the bartender informs them they must go. On Melanie’s way out she is the “bigger person” and wishes Tasha a good night. A reconciliation is due this season between these two and we may just be getting one or the feud could get much much steamier! Either one will make for good entertainment!
The list is compiled by the yield of students who enroll in a university after being accepted.
“This ranking shows that FAMU remains a popular choice of students across this country,” said FAMU President James H. Ammons. “We are proud of this ranking and all of the others we have received since fall 2011. This year marks our quasquicentennial and this achievement builds on our momentum as we celebrate our legacy of excellence.”
According to the U. S. News and World Report’s website, one of the best indicators of a school’s popularity among students is the school’s yield—the percentage of applicants accepted by a college who end up enrolling at that institution in the fall. In fall 2010, FAMU accepted 4,993 and the first year enrollment was 2,815; therefore, 56.4 percent of the students who were accepted were enrolled as part of the fall 2010 class.
This academic year, FAMU has received the following accolades:
• No. 1 public historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the 2012 U.S. News and World Report college ranking for HBCUs.
• FAMU was named one of the “Best Colleges in the Southeast” in The Princeton Review 2012 edition.
• In September 2011, FAMU was named one of Forbes magazine 2011 Best Colleges in the nation in their annual ranking of top colleges.
• In 2011, FAMU was selected as one of The Princeton Review’s “311 Green Colleges: 2011 Edition.” The list focused solely on colleges that have demonstrated a strong commitment to sustainability in their academic offerings, campus infrastructure, activities and career preparation.
• JET Magazine named FAMU one of the most affordable colleges.
• In September 2011, Washington Monthly magazine ranked FAMU as on of the “Top 100 National Universities.” This was FAMU’s second consecutive year making the list.
The evening is a powerful showcase of voices and artistic talents of the African diaspora, including music, poetry and art. Other featured performers include spoken word and dance artist Anna Mwalagho, Group Without a Name (GWN), concert pianist and Howard alumna Dana Morgan and various surprise guests.
The event will raise money and awareness to help 12 million people in the East African region who are at risk of starvation. This is due to the area experiencing the worst drought in 60 years, a decline in crop production, increases in food prices and political instability, which have led to dire famine conditions in the southern region of Somalia.
“In 2010, we raised $15,000 for the relief of Haiti. It is our hope that we exceed our fundraising goal for Somalia,” said Victoria Fortune, coordinator of Eternal Voices and founder of the Global Relief Fund. “The ultimate goal is to raise awareness and to take a hard look at the issues that are facing the African diaspora.”
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for students. Tickets are available at the Cramton Box Office and at www.ticketmaster.com. For additional ticket information, call (202) 806-7194. Proceeds will benefit the non-profit organization CARE International.
Eternal Voices is sponsored by Howard University Division of Student Affairs and Cramton Auditorium.
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After a defensive stop by the Lady Panthers with about one minute left in the game, freshman point guard Jeanette Jackson traveled after a dead ball inbounds play and committed a turnover. An inadvertent horn from the scorers table while the ball was in play confused her and others into thinking play had been stopped.
Trailing 52-51 and with the momentum seemingly on their side until that miscue, the Lady Panthers never recovered from that play and saw their final attempt at a last-second shot thwarted as the ball was poked away from behind out of the hands of Jackson on the game’s final possession as time expired.
“The refs dictated the game,” Prairie View A&M head coach Toyelle Wilson said. “We had to make the adjustment. We made some late plays at the end of the game, we just didn’t get that last rebound, and we had two turnovers in the last 45 seconds.”
Despite the close loss, the Lady Panthers received another solid performance by junior guard Latia Williams. She scored a team-high 20 points and added seven rebounds. Kiara Etienne fell one point below her season average with 13 points. She also had five rebounds and three steals in the loss.
On the other side of the ball, the Lady Panthers had a tough time containing the SWAC’s leading scorer Whiquitta Tobar, who finished with 20 points, 13 of which came in the second half. The Lady Panthers had the advantage in the first half.
Board of Trustees president Robert Davidson said Tuesday that no names have yet surfaced to succeed Franklin, who has headed the all-male institution for the last five years.
“We are in the process of forming a search committee to perform a rigorous search for someone who embodies the core values of Morehouse,” said Davidson, a 1967 graduate of the college.
“In the evolution of Morehouse, we want to remain one of the premier institutions in the country,” he added.
Davidson and other college officials praised Franklin for helping to renew the college’s commitment to academic vigor, for doubling alumni donations and for generating more than $90 million in support of the college.
“Robert has led by example, dedicating a substantial portion of his time to community service, which is one of the core values that Morehouse seeks to instill in each and every one of its students,” Davidson said. “We will miss him as the board endeavors to find a replacement who will help to usher the college into a new era.”
While officials were publicly praising Franklin for his leadership, however, college insiders say Franklin was coming under increased scrutiny from board members and influential alumni for poor management decisions that led to a series of fiscal challenges – some say fiascos – at the school.
In an interview with The Atlanta Voice this week, Franklin and Davidson declined to comment about speculation that board members – weary of poor leadership decisions – forced Franklin to step down.
“We have a strict policy that we cannot talk about the financial matters of our staff or the college,” Franklin said. “But I can assure you that Morehouse is operating strongly at this time.”
Read more at Black Voice News.
During a couple’s bike ride, Tiny makes a screeching U-turn when they approach a hill but T.I. being the trooper he is, keeps on peddling but succumbs to the intensity of the hill. The chain on his bike breaks and as he is stranded on the side of the road trying to fix his bike. A fan comes by and wants to give Tip his CD and request to be under his management. However, the adoring fan fails to offer T.I a ride. That guy has a more likely chance of becoming the President of Russia before being signed to Grand Hustle.
Back to the baby: Tiny expresses her desires of adding a new member to the family to her husband, and the Rubber Band Man immediately disagrees. T.I. points out that the couple already has six children that need special and individual attention and the house they are currently living in is already too small. But that doesn’t change Tiny’s mind, as she is still on board of the baby train.
E-40 attended Grambling before releasing Let’s Side with The Click in the early 1990s. Badu would release 1997’s solo debut, Baduizm, after the success of hit single “On & On” from the year prior.
Boots continued his thought about perceptions versus reality with artists, “I might tell you that the key to surviving in this world is to understand that the ruling class wants to put you down. A lot of [artists that identify with] Gangsta Rap will tell you that the key to surving this world is to understand that that dude over there that’s sellin’ dope wants to put you down. But in their mind they’re not doing something just to be hard, they’re putting their soul onto a record. They’re not as shallow as they’re made out to be.”
The Coup is said to be working on their sixth album, Sorry To Bother You. In recent years, Boots has worked with New Orleans, Louisiana Funk band Galactic, as well as his Street Sweeper Social Club band with former Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello.
Here is more on Erykah Badu & E-40 from Boots Riley
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Wilson will also lead the board in drafting a report on the results of participation in HBCU programs. The President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities advises the President and the Secretary of Education on strengthening these institutions.
The board will discuss the federal government’s support of HBCUs and possible strategies to best meet its duties.
The event takes place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Morgan State University, Student Center, 1700 E. Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore.
Courtesy of The Washington Informer
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Due to animal print’s eternal popularity among women and men alike, most fashion addicts realize that animal print is no longer a “trend,” as lace or bursts of floral have been in past seasons. Animal print has evolved into a fashion staple and a classic, which is now beginning to function as neutrals have.
Kate Dimmock, the fashion director of PeopleStyleWatch.com told the Houston Chronicle that designers are creating amazing pieces that function as a classic neutral would in a standard wardrobe. “Leopard-print pumps are a complete outfit-maker, and you can wear them with anything,” she told the interviewer.
However, the fashion faux-pas that gracing our college campuses is the overdosing on animal prints in our wardrobes. You should have the option of turning a wardrobe into wild kingdom, but with the hats, headbands, earrings, scarves, hoodies, leggings, and stilettos, students are adding leopard bags with leopard shoes to equal a fashion disaster.
Dimmock advises against two prints in the same outfit. “I wouldn’t ever pair a leopard shoe with a leopard bag,” she told the Houston Chronicle.
When wearing animal prints, remember that a little bit goes much further.
Stephanie Solomon, Bloomingdale’s fashion director, advises against wearing head-to-toe animal print. It should be worn in smaller doses. “Never, ever do a head-to-toe look in animal prints,” she told the Chicago Tribune. “A touch of these designs goes a long way.”
Animal print brings attention to the area where it is being worn, so it is best to wear zebra or cheetah sparingly when an outfit needs it.
Jennifer Uglialoro, a spokeswoman for H&M tells the Chicago Tribune, “They definitely don’t camouflage. If you want to draw attention away from your bottom half, maybe you don’t want to wear leopard pants.”
If there is a need to wear a large dose of animal print, be sure to tone the outfit down with neutrals. A leopard print dress should be paired with a neutral-colored blazer and stilettos that complement rather than distract from the animal print.
Most of all, the perfect complement to an animal print ensemble is confidence.
“When you wear any animal-print piece, you’re telling the world — in a good way — that you’re a little wild,” Solomon told the Chicago Tribune.
Have fun and get wild!
“That’s what we’re working on, being able to finish,” said head coach Donita Rogers. “You also have to look at [the fact that] we’re still starting two freshman in Savannah Carter and Cierra Ceazer.
The Lady Tigers outscored the Lady Braves 38-30 in the second half to clinch a 66-58 victory after being tied at 28 in the first period. Freshman Savannah Carter totaled 15 points and seven assists while her counterpart, freshman Cierra Ceazer, aided with 13 points.
After suffering losses to Texas Southern and Prairie View, in which the Lady Tigers were outscored in both second halves, the Lady Tigers outscored their opponents in the second half of five consecutive games, resulting in four wins, including two in the Hobdy Arena.
In the first half, Alcorn opened the game with a full court press which caused problems for Grambling. In the first three minutes of the game the Lady Tigers gave the ball away four times but still led 6-2. Carter, who went 1-11 in their win over Southern, did the majority of her damage in the first half by scoring nine points and converting 5-6 from the charity stripe.
“I just made my free-throws and layups,” Carter said.
They would eventually go on an 8-0 run to take a 20-14 lead with 7:40 left in the half, but instead of going into halftime with an advantage, Alcorn State took advantage of the 16 extra possessions courtesy of the Lady Tigers.
“Historically, we will cough it up early in the first half then we’ll get it together,” said head coach Donita Rogers. “They wouldn’t let my girls get their flow or a good dribble or anything going. As soon as they put it (the ball) on the floor they got one bounce maximum and the double is coming.”
The Tigers surely got it together. Their start to the second half was contrary to the first. The Tigers kept the ball and kept the lead. Rather jumping out to 6-2 lead early they went on an 11-2 within the first three minutes, and they doubled their largest lead in the first half and held a 49-37 with 12:35 left to play. The Lady Tigers never trailed in the second half.
It is not hard for Rodney Perry to stand out on the campus of Clark Atlanta University.
Impeccably dressed in all black and a crisp white shirt, he brushes back his shoulder-length dreadlocks as he mingles and laughs with fellow students on a recent freezing Wednesday morning.
A freshman class president straight out of central casting, Perry is part of a harder-to-find breed on college campuses — particularly historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) — a man.
Women outnumber men 3-to-2 at black colleges, according to the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. At the 100 accredited HBCUs, 61.5 percent of the students are women, up from 53 percent in 1976 and exceeding the overall national average of 56 percent. Ten percent of black males who attend college go to an HBCU, most of which are located in the South.
“Women are very motivated to pursue education. Their ambition is fueled by advancement,” said Michael L. Lomax, president of the United Negro College Fund, an umbrella organization of private HBCUs. “Black women get it, but for whatever reason, that same impetus hasn’t been happening with African-American men, or with men, period.”
Experts and students say black men are less prepared than their female counterparts for the rigors of college, face tougher financial hurdles, have fewer role models to inspire them to further their educations, and are less likely to ask for academic or financial assistance.
In addition, of the black males who make it to an HBCU, only 29 percent will graduate within six years, which is worse than the 33 percent national average of black males at all colleges. Nationally, the six-year graduation rate is 57 percent.
“We have gone from a situation where more males were in schools than females, and the trend seems to be continuing,” said Meldon Hollis, associate director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
But Johnny Taylor, president of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, an umbrella organization of public HBCUs, said the country is now seeing the results of programs created to address gender parity.
“I don’t know if we should try to reverse that,” Taylor said, “but there should not be such a disparity between men and women, especially when there is a black male crisis.”
In 2011, a report issued by Education Week showed that while the 72 percent high school graduation rate was the highest in decades, blacks were graduating at a paltry 57 percent clip. And while the overall black unemployment rate is around 15 percent, college-educated black men who are working still make far less than their white counterparts.
In Georgia, black males make up about 14 percent of the overall population.
The gender gap is magnified at CAU, where a staggering 74 percent of the students are female. Last fall, as the school welcomed one of the largest freshman classes in history — more than 1,000 — fewer than 100 were men.
“This is a national problem. What you see at CAU is a microcosm of education,” CAU Provost Joseph H. Silver Sr. said.
Why the gender gap?
Getting ready for an 11 a.m. class, Perry nods to every other guy he sees. He can’t help but know them all and said many came to get away from rocky home environments. The 18-year-old business major from Jackson, Tenn., was encouraged by his mother to move away.
“Being from a small place and having the ambitions that I had, I wanted to get away,” Perry said. “Everything that colleges are doing now should be attractive to 
men. But things like grades, finances and parental pressures are stopping a lot of men.”
Having ambition is only part of the battle. For every Perry, there are dozens with little hope of getting where he is.
“The literature is clear where this starts. Not the first year of college or the first year of high school, but the third grade,” Silver said. “If we don’t address it then, by the ninth grade they are preparing to drop out. Socially, we have allowed black males to have a bye in being held accountable for their actions and future.”
Across campus in a media law class, Ahshia Juss from New Orleans tells a story about how generations of her family went to college. Next to her, Destiney Mathis of Atlanta brags that she will be the first person in her family to earn a degree. Both have brothers. Neither tried to go to college and were not pressured by family members.
“Mothers raise their daughters and love their sons,” said University of Georgia counseling professor Deryl Bailey. “I will not say it is a piece of cake for black females, but the obstacles that impact males are more difficult.”
And even when black men get to college, there are temptations to take another path.
Curshawn Bussey, a senior from Atlanta, has had to fight the urge to drop out of CAU when lucrative — albeit freelance — jobs in television and news photography were offered.
“My brother stays on me every day about staying in college,” Bussey said, “and every morning when I get out of bed to go to class, I know someone else is getting out of bed to go to work.”
But the biggest challenge might be finances. CAU, which is a private school, charges around $30,000 annually. In-state students at Georgia State University pay less than $5,000 per semester.
The standard for attracting black males — by the very nature of its founding and mission — is Morehouse College, the country’s only black all-male school. This month, school officials were in Milwaukee recruiting students and partnering with corporations to help pay for their educations.
“We have great name recognition, so when we go to towns, people are excited to hear from us,” Dean of Admissions Kevin Williams said.
The school generally enrolls between 700 and 800 students through 2,600 applications, although enrollment is slightly down this year, which Williams blames on the sagging economy.
“State schools are competition because of the financial aspect,” Williams said.
It’s an issue that CAU officials understand well. Silver said it was a “buyer’s market,” and if CAU can be “competitive financially, we can attract the best and the brightest.” But CAU, like many HBCUs, struggles to provide scholarship money to students, 96 percent of whom are on some form of financial aid.
“The president has asked us to have a more focused approach to recruitment, scholarship and retention of black males, so we will see some changes soon,” said Silver, who retired from the University System of Georgia in 2006.
The dating game
The diversity at CAU is sometimes hard to find.
Take James McJunkins’ media arts class, where all of the students are female. Tahajah Samuels, a 20-year-old mass media major in the class, said she rarely has a class with more than three men.
Aside from the academic and cultural problems the gender imbalance creates, there are also simple social problems, such as dating.
“It can be unfortunate for the girls in terms of social life, because it almost feels like we are overpopulated,” said Carmella Baldwin, a senior from Detroit and the reigning Miss CAU. “And with dating, it is always, ‘You don’t want to talk to such-and-such, because he has already talked to so-and-so.’”
But for guys, it is golden.
“I can honestly say, being around so many accomplished women makes you very comfortable,” Perry said.
To address the imbalance, CAU has instituted a series of programs designed specifically for men.
“We have created an environment here were we preach success,” said Silver, noting Perry, who defeated three freshman women to become class president, “but these students are few and far between.”
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Highest percentage of women at HBCUs in fall 2010
School Women as Total black
percentage students
Coppin State University 76.6 4,212
University of Virgin Islands 74.8 2,464
Xavier University 74.5 2,863
Southern University at Shreveport 74.1 3,627
Dillard University 72.7 1,141
Southern University at New Orleans 72.5 3,627
Morehouse College of Medicine 71.6 268
Clark Atlanta University 71.3 3,846
Winston-Salem State University 69.3 5,607
Note: Atlanta’s Spelman College and Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C., are 100 percent female.
Georgia HBCUs and the percentage of women
School Women as Number of
percentage black students
Spelman College 100 2,083
Clark Atlanta University 71.3 3,846
Morehouse College of Medicine 71.6 268
Albany State University 67.1 4,606
Paine College 63.7 1,082
Savannah State University 57.3 4,024
Fort Valley State University 56.7 4,042
Interdenominational Theological Center 45.6 447
Morehouse College* 0 2,706
*All-male school
Source: U.S. Department of Education data provided by American Council on Education
Courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In a lawsuit that could shake the publishing industry, a Brooklyn woman is claiming Hearst Corporation owes wages to her and others who interned at Harper’s Bazaar and other magazines since February of 2006.
In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, Xuedan Wang says she was not paid for working 40-55 hours per week during 2011.
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The class action suit says Hearst, whose publications include Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping, violated federal and New York state minimum wage, overtime and record keeping laws. It seeks millions in compensation for interns across the country and for a subset of people who worked in New York.
Elizabeth Wagoner, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said in an interview that the case is the first of its kind to involve “interns” but that there are many successful precedents involving minimum wage violations and jobs in which workers were paid only with tips.
The case poses philosophic and economic challenges not just for the publishing industry but for an overall economy in which more and more businesses are using interns.
On one hand, internships can provide valuable experience and connections that lead young people into the workforce. But on the other, employers have come to regard internships as a pool of free labor that can be tapped with no reciprocal obligations to provide a job.
This reality means that internships can go not to the most talented candidates but to those with the financial means to treat them as a lifestyle choice.
Internships are widespread in the publishing business. The New York Times (NYSE: NYT), which regularly warns that internships can be exploitative, uses students for unpaid research work (I interned as a fact-checker in 2010, providing French translation and GDP calculations for its columnists. I didn’t receive a salary, a lunch or, some days, even a greeting).
In the case of Hearst, its practices may be no better or worse than the dozens of other companies that use interns. The publisher may simply have had the bad luck to have become a test case for the legal parameters of America’s internship economy.
Hearst is likely in for a fight as the lead plaintiff is represented by Outten & Golden, a firm experienced in employment-related class action. The firm paid to publicize the case on newswires this afternoon.
Wagoner said Hearst has yet to be served with the complaint. The company did not immediately return calls for comment.
Courtesy of PaidContent.org
