#PeopleOfTCC: Nae Elizabeth Abbott
By Amenah Charani Moving to Panama City, Fla. from Okinawa, Japan when she was 7 years old, Nae Elizabeth Abbott now finds herself a proud Tallahassee Community College Eagle. “In Japan, on every single main road, every five miles there’s a little lady on the side of the road withContinue Reading
New Study Says Students Need To Get More Sleep
By Alexis Benjamin Research has shown that sleep does more than effect physical health. Sleeping for at least eight hours a night impacts a person’s mood and how they behave as well as their ability to carry out a daily task or challenge. In the recent study, 47 college studentsContinue Reading
Five Helpful Tips to Reach Roko Belic’s ‘Happy’
By Amenah Charani “With happiness, the more you have, the more everyone has.” What is happiness? Where does it come from? What harbors your own happiness? What helps this state of ‘happy’ come and not go? Questions like these, along with the many more that humans naturally have about thisContinue Reading
Keys to Reduce Recent Rise in Campus Suicides
By Amenah Charani Birds chirp, flowers bloom, sneezing becomes uncontrollable, spring is here. While spring has many lovely qualities, for some, it causes the spiral into dark emotions that can become hard to control. Recently, the spring semester has brought along with it a rising number of campus suicides. ThomasContinue Reading
Students Volunteer for Aquaponics Education
By Sydney Selman On Monday April 4, about 15 Tallahassee Community College students invested their time in maintaining a local aquaponics farm at the Crawfordville Community Center in Crawfordville, Fla. This event was sparked by a community outreach project in the students’ College Success Course. So what is aquaponics? TheContinue Reading
Q&A with BSU’s Distinguished Lecturer Kevin Powell
By Angelique Fullwood As a part of the Black Student Union’s Distinguished Lecturer Series, author and activist Kevin Powell spent time with TCC students on February 23 to discuss his latest book, The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood. It is a critically acclaimed and brutally honestContinue Reading
Tallahassee Community Members Provides Aid to Flint, Michigan
By Angelique Fullwood There will be a citywide donation day taking place on April 15 to support people in Flint, Mich., who are living without access to clean water. A Tallahassee community group called Tally for Flint (#TallyForFlint) is preparing to ship its second 18-wheeler truckload of bottled water andContinue Reading
Florida Taxpayers Pay High Price for Low Wages
By Angelique Fullwood A recent report released by a Florida State University professor reveals that Florida taxpayers spend $11.4 Billion each year in public assistance due to low wages. Patrick L. Mason, professor of Economics at FSU released the report “The High Public Cost of Low Wage Employment” in earlyContinue Reading
Tallahassee Community Celebrates TCC’s Black History At Calendar Unveiling
By Angelique Fullwood On Jan 25 about 100 guests attended the 16th Annual Cherry Hall Alexander African-American History Calendar Unveiling ceremony in the Turner Auditorium of TCC’s Fine and Performing Arts Center. The calendar, which is distributed for free, serves to highlight and recognize achievements made by African American organizationsContinue Reading
Kanye Releases Seventh Studio Album: TLOP Review
By Alec Palombo In case you’ve been residing under a rock, Kanye West has had himself an interesting six months. Between the Yeezy boost hype, calling Bill Cosby innocent, his beef with Wiz (and Amber) on Twitter, changing the album title three times, and the birth of his first son,Continue Reading