Cracking or resealing the glass ceiling?
During any other election cycle, Trump’s campaign would’ve been over the moment it began. When Trump’s lead in the polls began to disintegrate, the Republican presidential nominee fired his second campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and Kellyanne Conway became the first female to manage a GOP presidential campaign. Conway first ventured into the 2016 spotlight when […]
Area Republicans produce mixed reactions to 2005 Trump comments
In a 2005 video released last week by the Washington Post, Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump is heard discussing kissing and groping women without consent. “When you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump said. The vulgar sexual comments prompted dozens of Republican party leaders to abandon their support for the candidate. Some elected […]
Clinton’s negative media coverage still trumps Trump
We live in a world where women have been taught to listen without interrupting and to expect male interruption in return. A world where women have been taught to speak their own quiet language. A language rooted in patriarchy, oppression and silence. Then women are asked why they do not speak up. Perhaps no individual […]
Glutton For Punishment
Staff Illustrator, Gareth Bentall Gareth is a cartoonist and illustrator currently in his junior year as a Communication Arts student. He specializes in political cartoons, humorous illustration, underground comic trivia, bird watching, hoarding, forwarding, boogie boarding and Parcheesi. Gareth currently resides inside of his inkpot. // Facebook bentallgr@commonwealthtimes.org
Poll indicates many Virginia republicans won’t back Trump
Republican primary frontrunner Donald Trump may repel republicans from voting in the general election if he is nominated for the presidential election in November, according to a new poll by the Judy Ford Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University. The poll found that in a hypothetical matchup between Trump and Democratic frontrunner […]
Unlike elders, college students favor Sanders, Rubio
While Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each carried Virginia in their respective presidential primary elections Tuesday, voting results among college students differed greatly. A computer analysis of election results from polling locations on or near university campuses in Virginia showed that college students strongly favored Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination and Marco Rubio […]
#NERDMARCHMADNESS: LIVE Super Tuesday coverage
Play the LIVE 102.9 Super Tuesday broadcast on WVCW.org here. http://tunein.com/radio/WVCW-s89898/ Last updated: 12 a.m. Trump wins Vermont and closes the night for GOP Super Tuesday states. DELEGATE COUNT Clinton: 508 Sanders: 295 Trump: 257 Cruz: 106 Rubio: 67 Kasich: 23 TRUMP WINS VERMONT, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont CRUZ: Oklahoma, Texas RUBIO: Minnesota CLINTON: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, […]
Trump overflows stadium at Liberty convocation
Donald Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, spoke to an audience of more than 8,000 Liberty University students at their tri-weekly convocation ceremony on Jan. 18. Trump spoke on a range of topics including the economy, national security and his goals as president. The event filled LU’s Vines Center past its capacity of 8,085 people. […]
Presidential candidates step on Muslim community as they climb to the top
Hiba Ahmad, Contributing Columnist Islamophobia is a growing trend in the United States that shames Muslims. It’s also a growing tactic used by political and social leaders in an effort to further their agendas. In 2014, Pew Research Center conducted their second ‘Religious Landscape Study’ which said there are 2.8 million Muslims currently living in the […]
Letter to the editor
Dear Editor, I commend your staff for wonderful photographs and talented reporting. However, I wish to clarify that my group – featured in the second photo (protesters)- is not affiliated with VCU. We are graduate students at Union Presbyterian Seminary, one clergy member, and friends from my church, East End Fellowship. We were there with […]