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A former Texas Southern University adjunct professor will serve 78 months in federal prison for a student financial aid fraud scheme that obtained more than $921,000 and left victims with debt in their names, federal prosecutors announced Friday. Emmanuel Olugbaike Finnih, 43, of Richmond, is a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Nigeria. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen imposed the prison sentence and three years of supervised release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas said in a news release. Finnih pleaded guilty March 20 to theft of government funds, fraud, unlawful use or transfer of identity documents,...

It goes down at these HBCU games! We just witnessed a brawl between Morgan State football players and Norfolk State band members just a few days ago, and here we go again as a Texas Southern Ocean of Soul tuba player rocked the soul out of a fan who effed around and found out. Assuming that the guy was a Jackson State fan, his trash talk didn’t go well for him whatsoever, and that’s an understatement. His team might have gotten the 21-19 dub to push them up to 7-3 on the season, and even did so in dramatic fashion...

With a mere 3 percent of Texas Southern University students graduating within four years — and less than a quarter earning their degree in a decade — the school’s president, John Rudley, knows that people are asking “What’s wrong with this institution?” and “What are they going to do about it?” ... Primarily a commuter campus, T.S.U. is a historically black college in the urban Third Ward in Houston, and it receives more state financing per student than the University of Texas at Austin. Would-be students “should be looking at the community college and not be lured into going to...

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