Spartan Echo

     COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Michelle Obama is using an address to college students in Maryland to stress the importance of education to the African-American community. The first lady notes that Bowie State University was founded in 1865 to train black teachers and mentions the “hunger” that the school’s first students felt to be [...]

  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – State lawmakers are calling for more financial accountability at Norfolk State University, which has not been able to complete a financial audit for two years. Norfolk State does not have adequate administrative staff or documentation to complete the audits for fiscal years 2011 and 2012, state Auditor Of Public Accounts [...]

  BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — At Montana State University, final exams stress is going to the dogs. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/11pDoHV) Intermountain Therapy Animals is bringing dogs to campus this week and next to help students take a break from the stress of studying for and taking semester exams. Jacqueline Frank is the [...]

  NORFOLK, VA – Tim Reid’s Legacy Media Institute, in partnership with Norfolk State University and the City of Norfolk, will present its first annual International Film Festival November 8 – 10. In celebration of the art of filmmaking, the International Film Festival will present an international showcase of culturally diverse films, while providing local, national [...]

  Students interested in gaining experience and working on a student publication are encouraged to submit a Spartan “Reflections” Yearbook application. Applications are located on the Norfolk State University web site at https://www.nsu.edu/student-affairs/student-activities/forms. Applications should be sent to dwcrawford@nsu.edu as an email attachment, or submit a printed copy to the Office of Student Activities on the [...]

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — Police arrested three men and sought a fourth Tuesday, April 23, after two Virginia State University freshmen were swept away while trying to cross a swift, rain-swollen river as part of an initiation rite. The body of one freshman, identified as Marvell Edmonson, 19, of Portsmouth, was recovered Monday. The search continued [...]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators say Eric Justin Toth’s five-year run as a fugitive began when he was fired from his teaching job at a prestigious private school in Washington after being confronted about images of child pornography taken with a school camera in the man’s possession. It ended over the weekend when Nicaraguan authorities, [...]

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Many of the relatives of Californians killed in the Sept. 11 attacks never knew that millions of dollars were raised in their name for college scholarships, and now lawmakers want to give them another chance to apply for money that an Associated Press investigation and subsequent audit found was poorly [...]

  Being a mother of five children and having a full time job could be quite demanding, but it comes easy to Mrs. LaJuan Hines-Rome. Having her own non-profit organization, She Matters, as well as having her own magazine, BeOnique, Hines plans to build young girl’s hopes and dreams making them realize that they are [...]

  SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — The attorney for the family of a 15-year-old Northern California girl who hanged herself after she was allegedly sexually abused by three boys disputed an explanation by the school superintendent of why the boys were not kicked out of school. Saratoga schools Superintendent Bob Mistele said Wednesday the teens [...]

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot and killed at the campus outside Boston, authorities said early Friday. No arrests had been made, and a manhunt was on for the shooter. The officer was responding to report of a disturbance Thursday night when he was shot multiple times, [...]