The Dorchester Publishing Company is sponsoring the SHOMI Fiction Creative Writing Contest for aspiring authors 18 and older. The prize includes a guaranteed publishing contract.The contest covers novels in fantasy thriller, science fiction, romance, and subgenres of alternative romance (paranormal, futuristic, etc.). Entries should feature a storyline centering on a confident, capable young woman in […]
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No one has killed us yet!
People love to hate, it appears. Every week, we are bombarded by criticism, telling us that we have no life or that we are a messy paper. Just last week, we ran a story about Dr. Karen Martin using Facebook as a tool to file grievances with Judicial Affairs.While many students appreciated the warning, some […]
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Mychal Bell released from jail
The Associated Press contributed to this report.Mychal Bell, the last of the Jena Six imprisoned was released on bail late Thursday. Bell will now be tried in juvenile court and could serve little to no time in jail. “He goes home because a lot of people left their home. And stood up for him,” said […]
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Dying to be skinny
For the past year, a number of fashion trade groups have been trying to clean up the industry’s image by pushing designers to use healthier, heavier-looking models.Now, an ad campaign from an Italian label, Nolita, has done the opposite, using images of an emaciated 27-year-old woman, nude, with the line, “No. Anorexia.” Double-page spreads of […]
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Baseball team expects nothing less then success
The future seems to be bright for the Grambling State University Baseball team and hopefully for the G-Men the future is now.After going 18-29 overall and 9-15 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference last season, the Tigers are looking to turn it around by making their living the old fashioned way; 60-feet and six inches away […]
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Bag the pants issue and read
Four letter words are insanely popular here. I’m focused on one in particular. There’s no need to be appalled because it’s nothing profane. I’m focusing on the word belt because apparently, society’s newest old problem is sagging pants. What are we- afraid of the Big, Bad Exposed Undies? However, they’re only a nuisance on males. […]
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I had a eating disorder
April 11, 1983, 10:00 a.m. I, Jacqueline McKnight, was born to the proud parents of Earleen McKnight and Hermon Carradine. “She is a pretty chocolate baby,” my mother kept saying. Once the rest of the family saw me they said the same thing. I was their pretty girl. Everywhere I went people would stop my […]
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Did You Know?
When the North Louisiana Agricultural and Industrial School opened its doors in 1905, there was an enrollment of 152 students, including 25 boarding students, and a faculty of seven. The teachers, five of whom were Tuskegee graduates, had been schooled in agriculture, rural life problems and industrial pursuits. Included were Charles P. Adams and his […]
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‘Halo 3’ rocks competition
Halo 3 is quite possibly one of the greatest games to come out in the last 10 years. Now that’s giving the Bungie team, which created the game, a lot of credit but it is not undeserved. The third game in the Halo epic just like the two before it is exclusively for the Xbox […]
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It has not always been this way
“All the fellas want a fatty girl. A fatty girl.” Ludacris, LL Cool J and Keith Murray happily slapped some verses on the track to uplift the ever so shapely sistas with “perfect” crushed coke bottle shapes.This is because an hourglass figure is many men’s fantasy. Subsequently, it became many women’s goal. For some, sex […]