Press Box: Hokies choose performance over character
Virginia Tech announced that it would induct Michael Vick — perhaps the greatest athlete to ever represent Blacksburg — into its athletic Hall of Fame in August. Vick was subsequently honored on national television in the Hokies’ home loss to Clemson University on Sept. 30. Vick, who was sentenced to 23 months in prison in […]
Field hockey rights ship
Field hockey finished the weekend at the .500 mark over their two games, as the Rams were defeated 4-2 by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, but bounced back to beat the Towson University Tigers by a score of 3-0. The team finished off the week with a win and a loss, bringing their record […]
Ram in Action: Jailyn Maddox
In her first year as a Ram, sophomore shooting guard Jailyn Maddox made a name for herself. Last year in her freshman campaign, Maddox scored a career-high 15 points against the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Minutewomen in January, earning herself Virginia Lottery Student Athlete of the Week and A-10 Rookie of the Week honors. […]
Soccer: men exact revenge, win fourth straight; women split conference pair
Men’s soccer pushed its winning streak to four games last week with a pair of conference victories over Fordham University and Davidson College. The Rams gained a measure of revenge for last season’s heartbreaking loss to Fordham in penalty kicks in the A-10 title game with the win over the other Rams. Women’s soccer […]
VCU volleyball can’t stop winning amid nation’s longest active streak
Volleyball (19-2, 5-0 A-10) hosted the University of Maryland – Eastern Shore (14-6) on Tuesday, Oct. 3, Duquesne University (7-12, 2-3 A-10) on Friday, Oct. 6 and La Salle University (10-10, 1-4 A-10) on Sunday, Oct. 8. The Rams lost one of ten sets. La Salle VCU extended its win streak to 16, […]
How a moment of feminism in Saudi Arabia is distracting from crisis
In the wake of new legislation in Saudi Arabia allowing women to obtain a driver’s license — after a thirty-some year ban on female drivers — the question being overlooked is: why now? The Independent’s Jess Staufenberg reported just over a year ago, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, 32-year-old Mohammed bin Salman, said he was […]
After Las Vegas, it’s time for Americans to end our bond with guns
I was 10 years old when the Virginia Tech shooting occurred, the first American “deadliest mass shooting” of my lifetime. I was 19 years old when I experienced my second with the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. Sixteen months later, I am almost 21 years old and I’ve just experienced my third, and what I […]
Reported rapes nearly doubled at VCU due to awareness, police say
The number of reported rapes almost doubled at VCU last year, according to the campus police’s annual report. There were 15 reported rapes in 2016, eight the year before and five in 2014. In the past three years, almost all of the reported rapes occurred in dorms. VCU Police shifted the process for handling sexual […]