OPINION
The yes man
By Ames Radwan | September 1, 2021Whenever I info-dump all of this onto someone, they are always surprised — or maybe horrified would be a better word?
Whenever I info-dump all of this onto someone, they are always surprised — or maybe horrified would be a better word?
The Miami Student Editorial Board is calling on university officials to remove the conscientious objection from the vaccine mandate policy.
That’s the issue with meeting people over a screen, if Zoom and iMessage can really be considered “meeting” — your first impressions are going to be nowhere near as accurate as they would’ve been in person. Mine weren’t. That’s just the truth.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been fully Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for more than 24 hours, and despite Miami’s COVID-19 website stating the university would be prepared to mandate vaccination once it achieved this status, officials have been silent.
With the Sex and The City reboot, “And Just Like That..” coming soon to HBO Max, I decided to re-watch the show from the beginning. It was my third time. And for the third time I wondered… Why didn’t Carrie end up with Aidan?
As we look onward to the fall, I have this to say to the student body: Stay safe, get vaccinated, and wear a mask. I know it feels like the goal post keeps moving every time we get close to the finish line. However, it’s still up to us to keep each other and our community safe.
Whenever an American is murdered, we have to take it personally.
Every time I go to the Walmart in Oxford, I see at least five people without masks. Most of them give me looks, as if I’m the one who’s doing something wrong for wearing one.
I already cherish those earlier, louder years.
While I can’t stop these things from happening, I can give you some of the tools to rebuild yourself after.
The legacy I want to leave at Miami is motivating and empowering our community to actively fight for respect and be critical of our purpose.
But if you’re currently reading this letter in a print edition of The Student, all hope is not lost.
It often feels like I’m screaming into the void.
The free exchange of ideas is enshrined in our Constitution and the foundation of the democratic process. Slowly, these ideals are eroding.
We understand that the markets act as a business, but they are also an essential student service. They should be catering more toward the latter.
Let them fade away into oblivion, knowing that they did this to themselves.
Faculty are increasingly concerned that expansions of academic workloads resulting from the pandemic are not just emergency measures, but permanent changes
So, yes, weed is fun. But the injustices surrounding it are dangerous and systemically racist.
It's become increasingly and vitally important to give ourselves a moment. To take upon ourselves the responsibility to recuperate our personal mental health.
But it meant everything to him, which is why it meant something to me.