Tea Time with Tagwa: There goes VCU dropping the COVID ball
Tagwa Shammet, Opinions Editor Tea timers, surprise, surprise, VCU has dropped the ball, yet again. Today’s disappointment? Their handling of COVID-19 on campus. Listen, I won’t negate the stress that comes with trying to run a university during a pandemic. However, I have a brilliant idea: Do not allow socially hungry, 18-year-old college students onto your […]
Tea Time with Tagwa: Go be a conservative in the corner
Tagwa Shammet, Opinions Editor Tea timers, apparently it is so hard to be a conservative student these days. It is so hard to voice your support of a man who preaches racism and hate simply because he lives in the White House. It is so hard to flaunt your privilege of being in the majority. It […]
Tea Time with Tagwa: Returning to VCU’s campus during COVID-19
Tagwa Shammet, Opinions Editor Tea timers, it looks like I’ll be seeing you back on campus this fall. I can’t really decide if I’m excited or nervous about our return. It’s been nearly four months since we’ve left campus. Our lives have been uprooted, and most of us have returned back home to our high school […]
Tea Time with Tagwa: Removal of Confederate statues should not end the Black Lives Matter movement
Tagwa Shammet, Opinions Editor Tea timers, do not be fooled. Do not allow this one victory to halt the progress we are making. The removal of the Robert E. Lee statue is only the beginning of the change we need to see. During a press conference on Thursday, Gov. Ralph Northam announced the Department of […]
Tea Time with Tagwa: He couldn’t breathe
Tagwa Shammet, Opinions Editor Tea timers, “I can’t breathe.” I cannot believe I’m writing this piece right now. The utter disbelief that sits in my heart as I try to rationalize everything is unbearable. Another day, another innocent black man dead on the street. George Floyd. If you haven’t heard his name, you haven’t been tuned […]
Tea Time with Tagwa: Jogging while Black is now a crime
Tagwa Shammet, Opinions Editor Tea timers, I write to you with a heavy heart. I write to you on the heels of yet another injustice against this nation’s black community. I write to you about Ahmaud Arbery. I don’t even know where to begin. His story is one of confusion, yet clarity. Arbery was jogging on […]
Tea Time with Tagwa: COVID-19 does not excuse you from voting
Tagwa Shammet, Opinions Editor Tea timers, the coronavirus has stripped us of any sense of normal we have. The walls of our homes are starting to feel like the metal bars in a cell. We all feel confined and constricted, with no end in sight. However, there’s one thing that hasn’t changed: the importance of voting. […]
Tea Time with Tagwa: VCU should partially refund mandatory fees
Tagwa Shammet, Opinions Editor Tea timers, do you know what goes into your cost of attendance at VCU? For all of us, it’s different. Some of us live on campus, have meal plans, our tuition depends on our credit load, fees vary by school and major. However, one thing for all students is the same: our […]
Tea Time with Tagwa: Still want to go out? Read this, and you’ll have no excuse not to social distance
Tagwa Shammet, Opinions Editor Tea timers, I know you’re all bored beyond belief right now. We all are. I know I am. Because of the ever-growing reach of COVID- 19, we have all been restricted from the outside world. Our daily lives feel like they are on pause. The days trickle on by, with little idea […]
Tea Time with Tagwa: Closing on-campus housing hurts students who have nowhere else to go
Tagwa Shammet, Opinions Editor Tea timers, the apocalypse is upon us. Well, not really, but it’s easy to be extremely frightened by the highly discussed coronavirus. Over the past week, universities have begun extending their spring breaks and moving their in-person classes online. Virginia schools including: UVa, Virginia Tech, JMU and our own VCU have […]