A prissy girl and a laid-back girl are two totally different people. Prissy girls are more time consuming than laid-back girls. However, they are alike in a few ways. A prissy girl’s nails have to be perfect. Her heels have to be clean and straight. Her skirt has to be neatly pressed. Her shirt has to be neatly tucked in.
When I first stepped foot on N.C. Central University I hated it. Then again, I was a home body and hated the idea of leaving home period, even if it was just two hours away. I remember taking a tour of the campus with my parents, the rainy weather didn’t help either. I kept thinking, there's no way in hell I’ll ever remember where anything is and all my friends are at home.
Now that Black History Month is over, can we continue in this all too sedentary vein of mediocrity? How should we comport ourselves in order to celebrate our rich heritage with dignity? How will history view this era of educated blacks? We hold a generation of potential leaders, but what will this legacy be 100 years from now?
I really hate it when I don’t get things done on time. I am always late for appointments and classes. I knew there had to be a better way to remember the things I need. I could organize my life so that my mind is not cluttered. This is a plan that should work with little effort; I will call it “Stick to the Plan.”
The thought of being a new mother brought a feeling of excitement and mystery to my mind. I was so ready to start school and put my son in daycare, so that me and my fiancé could work. I thought that it was going to be easy to find daycare for a 7-month- old, since we had already picked out the center that we wanted him to go to.
All I want is for people to stop being judgmental and start being receptive of others. It does not matter whether you are black or any other ethnicity.
There are some new and old trends and situations that are very detrimental to the progress of us as a people. One particular problem I see is the breakdown of the black family. Take a moment and think about how many single parents you know or people that were raised in a single parent home.
As the fall semester comes to an end, it is now time for students who wish to graduate in May to take a serious look at their transcripts and determine if they will have fulfilled all of the academic requirements to graduate.
NCCU is the focal point for thousands of determined and ambitious people trying to strengthen their chances for a better life.
... we are too quick to dismiss getting our education because of snow when we can get together and clean it up or make an effort to act like adults and deal with it and go to class.
The black liberation struggle and Black Arts movement of the 1960s and 70s marked a period of social reform and advancement in the African American community. Led by political leaders and artists like Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Amiri Baraka and Nikki Giovanni, this movement radiates the biblical notion that the least of us may be used in efforts to effect great change.
James E. Shepard was born Nov. 3, 1875 in Raleigh, just 10 years after America’s Civil War ended. The South was still smoldering under the tempest of social calamity when Shepard was born. Shepard was a visionary of the highest caliber. What could have formulated this sincerest devotion to the spirit of humanity in this 35-year-old giant of a man?
I recently heard a debate between two students that caught my attention. It also made feel ancient, and I’m just 26. The students were discussing which rapper was better, Soulja Boy or Wacka Flocka. I thought to myself, “not exactly the Biggie vs. Tupac or Ali vs. Tyson debate. These guys both kind of suck.”
It’s not unfamiliar for a man to hear a woman bragging about her “independence.” But she may do so while also requiring that her potential mate be independent himself. But is she truly independent? And what is independence?
What’s the difference between a woman and a man? In today’s society, nothing is really that different. I try my hardest to look at everyone as an equal, but with so much discrimination going on, that’s pretty hard to do. Women today face a lot.
"Alas Poor Yorick," the jest is never dead. Guilt in ribald, as Yorick suffered in Hamlet, can be disinterred to haunt again and again." Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial," exclaims Cassio in "Othello."
December 2009, I finally graduate from college. Not bad for a military guy who was never supposed to amount to anything. Summer 2008 was my first semester at N.C. Central University. I was transferring from Troy University in Montgomery, Ala.
Many of us are ready to head home for the holidays. We are looking forward to eating all of the good food that comes around once a year like no other. We are ready to see family that we haven’t seen all year ...
I remember a time when a dude would get joked on hard if he showed up to school wearing some tight jeans clinging to his legs. Yet, recently, there seems to be a growing number of closet, tight-jean lovers coming out everyday. The sight, even now, seems odd to me and conjures up a smile when I picture the tight jean wearers, looking back in 10 years and wondering what in the world they were thinking.
I am glad that we are having this discussion. I will try to delve deeper to relate some other considerations appertaining to this phenomenon. I would say those who need to read the “Saggy Pants, Baggy Pants” article have not read this objectively. The display of the butt in saggy pants derives, I think, from an evaluation of self. This fashion says: how I view myself might conflict with your notion of self. Mine is more important.
I agree that black is beautiful, but does that mean that blacks are more beautiful than any other culture? Has black pride become black arrogance? And what is it in the psychology of the youth hip-hop culture (male or female) that would have them think anyone else would be interested in what color drawers he or she happens to be wearing today?
Look at the people around you. Look at who you hang around, even at people in
your family. Then look at yourself. What has become a priority to people of
our generation?
In the high-paced, technologically advanced age we live in today, news and information come to us at a breakneck speed. President Obama can’t sneeze without the nation knowing about it before someone can even say “bless you.” With the emergence of Facebook, Twitter, blogs and text messaging, it seems our voices are well protected behind the safety of a keyboard. But in the same breath our opinions can just as easily be ignored and brushed aside without a second thought.
I just finished reading a news article on Yahoo lambasting President Barack Obama for calling Kanye West a "Jackass" in the aftermath of his outburst at the MTV Video Music Awards. Admittedly I am annoyed. First let me say, who cares about the VMAs?
The Millennium Hotel is the new housing for juniors, seniors, and grad and law school students. I am a junior and live at the hotel. We received notice about the housing change a week before move in.I had to move in early so I found out the day before I got to Durham so I didn’t have the time to make different living arrangements.
President Obama finds himself at the center of another controversy. Our president was elected based on his ability to unify and inspire our country to greater heights and now, the Presi-dent’s latest attempt to inspire has sparked outragefrom some Americans.
When I found out that I was being forced to live in the hotel I checked their website online and liked the picture, but when I arrived it was all lies and deception. The only good thing about living there is the big bed.
It's the end-of-the-year and our editors take stock of their days at NCCU and the Campus Echo
It's Campus Echo ritual. Each year Echo editors get emotional and say goodbye to their teachers, their Echo comrades, their friends and their advisers. Collected here are the "bye byes" of Echo editors from the past.
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