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Foreign exchange students prepare Rattlers to study abroad Jonathan Heredia Correspondent
Teaching a class at 5 p.m. to a group of college students may sound like one is describing the life of a professor. However, it is the life of foreign exchange students at Florida A&M. A handful of Brazilian exchange students have volunteered to help the next batch of FAMU students traveling abroad. With no Portuguese classes available at the university, students were recommended to register elsewhere. Paris Proctor, a fourth-year business administration student, enrolled in a Portuguese class at Florida State University after FAMU’s Office of International Education and Development notified her. “I applied last spring, and I was accepted,” Proctor said. “During the summer, they notified me that I had to register for either the FSU class for Portuguese or at another university.” The students who were unable to enroll at another university were left with no options. The applicants for the study abroad program to Brazil must take at least one semester of Portuguese to be accepted. With no classes available at FAMU, Joseph Jones, project director of the Office of International Education and Development, took action. Jones reached out to a group of foreign exchange students and asked them to volunteer their time to teach an introduction to Portuguese class. The class has the schedule of a three-hour credit course, but students teach it at no cost. “They are jewels,” said Jones, speaking of the foreign exchange students. Jones said the students are manageable, teachable and adapting well to FAMU.
Floor collapse leaves more
Gina Cherelus Jasmine E. Harris Staff Writers
Since elementary school, Joseph Kelly knew he wanted to be in the military. He grew up in a family deeply rooted in serving in the armed forces with a lineage leading back to World War I. His father served as a lieutenant colonel, his uncle was a full colonel and Kelly always felt that was where he belonged. “I remember enjoying the sense of protection we had coming up as a military family,” Kelly said. “Although the military family has changed significantly since then, it is still a good place to be.” After graduating from the ROTC program at North Carolina A&T in 1997, Kelly was commissioned into the Army as a transportation officer and went through challenges he willingly accepted. From running convoys in Bosnia to being in combat in Afghanistan, the officer has a lot to show for his accomplishments and his love of serving his country. “Being in combat, yes, it gets scary,” Kelly said, “and you see some amazing things and some terrible things, but that’s a real time where we get to do our job and do it to the fullest.” FAMU’s Rattler Battalion program will be honoring the professor of military science Joseph D. Kelly in a promotion ceremony Wednesday. The Army ROTC professor will be pinned as a lieutenant colonel while family, friends, cadets and others are able to witness the occasion. Kelly said that everyone played a role in helping him make this great accomplishment. “I don’t want anyone to feel left out of this promotion because it takes a total team effort to get to this rank,” Kelly said. Kelly received his Bachelor of Science in See KELLY p. 2 Alvin McBean/The Famuan
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Army Maj. Joseph Kelly will be promoted Wednesday to lieutenant colonel. He serves as a professor of military science and is the head of Florida A&M’s Army ROTC Rattler Battalion.
Dream Defenders arrested for protesting
Fifteen student activists placed in jail after demonstrating outside final presidential Donovan Long Correspondent The steps taken to make a difference by 15 Dream Defenders were the same steps that led them to jail. A week ago in Boca Raton, 120 to 140 students and Dream Defenders of Florida A&M, Florida State University, the University of
Miami, Miami Dade College and the University of Florida protested an issue they felt had been ignored throughout the campaign. During the presidential debate, the students gathered at nearby Lynn University in an effort to create awareness of the criminalization of young black and brown children, preventing the
furthering of their education. “Education not incarceration” was chanted and illustrated across banners, as well as “scholarships not handcuffs” and “drop books not bombs.” Melanie Andrade is a Dream Defender and secondyear English student at FAMU. “We wanted to shed light on
the school-to-prison pipeline and the fact that the country spends more on prisons than educating students,” Andrade said. “It’s like the country is turning the justice system into a business.” Singing “We who believe in freedom cannot rest until its won,” nine women and six men sat down in the middle of the intersection of
Yamato Road and Military Trail, attempting to stage a roadblock as part of their protest. The 15 protesters were instructed by the police to remove themselves but refused. They were arrested on civil disobedience, trespassing with warning and unlawful assembly. See PROTEST p. 2
Greek step show missing from homecoming Evan Miles News Editor Rick Ross and Uncle Luke may be performing at Florida A&M, but there is one act that will be missing from this year’s homecoming. The Greek Homecoming Step Show, initially slated to take place Nov. 7, is cancelled. The Greek Homecoming Step Show has become a
staple in the lineup of events for FAMU’s homecoming in previous years. Those connected with Greek organizations said the administration’s decision to prohibit membership intake for all student organizations in January has had an immense effect on this event. “We didn’t have the adequate number of Greeks that would be able to participate,” said Marlon
Honeywell, adviser of the National Panhellenic Council. “Last year when we went under the moratorium, several organizations were not allowed to bring in new members. Because of that, we just did not have the numbers to have the usual show that we would put on.” The ban was in effect for the entire spring 2012 semester. Greek organizations were
allowed to accept new members again on Sept. 17. Kelle’ Wyatt, a senior public relations student from Elliott City, Md., and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, said with such a lack of participants, the show could have been held in a smaller venue. “It kind of made it difficult because of the ‘no intake’ for the whole year because people have graduated,” Wyatt said. “There were only
two or three organizations and, out of those, they only had five members in their whole chapter. For all of that, we can do it in Gaither.” Sponsors require that all organizations participate. Officials are concerned with the fairness of the competition because only a few of the groups have enough people to perform. “Most of them are See GREEK p. 2
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