An International Student’s Perspective on the Programs and Services Offered by Erin Garvey ’22 Opinion Staff When we think about the college application process, it can be very stressful, but most students do not have to worry about transitioning into and accepting new cultures. For international students, their college experience may involve culture […]
by Julia McCoy ’22 Opinion Staff Why is this country afraid of female leadership, especially considering our population is rather evenly split? Even with the record numbers of women in Congress, the House of Representatives is still only 23.2 percent female and the Senate is 25 percent female. While numbers are increasing in the […]
by Margaret Scales ’23 Opinion Staff College websites and advertisements often publicize their student-faculty ratios, flaunting how small their class settings are. Although these intimate environments are beneficial in theory, are they really what college students want? At Providence College, the Development of Western Civilization program—better known as “Civ” amongst students and faculty […]
by Savannah Plaisted ’21 Opinion Co-Editor Have you ever taken a class with a professor that required you to purchase a book they authored? Has this seemed problematic to you? As students that pay thousands upon thousands of dollars in tuition, that in turn pay for the salaries of these professors, does it seem […]
by Katherine Torok ’20 Associate Editor-in-Chief One of my favorite Providence College memories to date happened my sophomore year on February 14, 2018 at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center: the Men’s Basketball team defeated Villanova University 76-71. We stormed the court clad in black, white, and pink PC gear. Junior year, the Friars hosted the […]
The Shower Charade For nearly everyone, the shower serves as a type of modern shrine. While monks meditate in the mountains, we students seek a similar Zen state of mind in our very own showers. This comes as no surprise, though, because the shower is one of the only places where we can stare at […]
by Andrea Traietti ’21 Opinion Co-Editor If you are in a position where you can truthfully say “politics just don’t interest me,” or “I just don’t really care about politics,” then you are lucky. You are lucky because you have the privilege of not having to worry about how decisions made in Washington, D.C., […]
by Savannah Plaisted ’21 Opinion Co-Editor Do you feel safe on Providence College’s campus? Would you feel safer if some of the officers at PC were armed? According to a poll run by The Cowl’s opinion section last semester, 72 percent of students that answered said they would not feel safer with armed […]
by Alyssa Cohen ’21 Opinion Staff The recent concern of war with Iran amidst the height of the 2020 presidential campaign has brought the topic of military spending in the political limelight. The question remains whether the enormous sums of money the United States government channels into the Pentagon are legitimate. According to […]
by Kerry Torpey ’20 Editor-in-Chief Over winter break, I had the privilege of participating in the 9th annual PC in Hollywood trip. Alongside my fellow classmates and under the guidance of Father Kenneth Gumbert O.P., Patti Goff, and Paul Calle, we traveled throughout the City of Angels, meeting and networking with several alumni working in […]