Connecting To Our Community & Beyond One of my favorite things about coming to Providence College was the ability to use public transportation to explore the city of Providence. My freshman year orientation leader was very passionate about the Rhode Island Public Transport Authority (RIPTA) and made sure to tell us all about the benefits […]
On Tuesday, Oct. 14, Indiana University’s student-run newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, was informed that it would be cut for print, effective immediately. This came after media director Jim Rodenbush protested the school’s decision to omit all news coverage from print editions and was ultimately fired. The paper was set to hit the stands on […]
This was the question I posed to my dad when the chips and salsa arrived at our table at the Mexican restaurant. We had coincidentally just come from a Providence College men’s ice hockey game, where, during one of the intermissions, a girl was prompted to name as many condiments as possible in 30 seconds […]
It is reasonable to surmise that there’s remote danger in thinking too much about everything—your own life, others’ lives, and the world around you. Whether you’ve almost drowned in the pool of overthinking or even just slightly struggled to come up for air, there is a common understanding that no one likes to think too […]
If you have scrolled TikTok or Instagram lately or turned on the news, you’ve probably seen the panic surrounding the current government shutdown. Personally, I was scared. When I heard the shutdown was actually happening, I was worried about my flight home. Was it going to be cancelled or delayed? Should I get to the […]
A Letter to the Editors by Local Assembly Members The federal government could have fixed the gaps in traditional government-run Medicare and created an improved Medicare for All single-payer program, but instead, it paid private middlemen billions to offer Medicare Advantage plans. Seniors were lured into buying heavily advertised, “cheaper,” heavily subsidized Medicare Advantage plans […]
Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Protecting & Supporting Our Fellow Friars As a person who has friends and family members who have been survivors of domestic violence, Domestic Violence Awareness Month is a very important month full of reflection and education, which is not often enough brought to the forefront. The goal and purpose of Domestic […]
Hi again Cowl readers. We took a week off, so I hope you didn’t miss us too much. My thoughts this week are still about the future, so I will try to stray from the existential and focus more on the random things I have been thinking about. I just finished another book, and I […]
Public Discourse on D.I.D. Walls Inspired by the Phi Beta Kappa lecture shared by Dr. Shannon Jackson, “Arts, Democracy and The Public Life,” the Dialogue, Inclusion, and Democracy Wall (D.I.D.) wall in Slavin (next to the line for Dunkin’) asked the student body: “How can art be an agent for social change?” Although the talk […]
Disclaimer: This article was written prior to both Israel and Hamas violating the ceasefire. Celebrations erupted across Israel on Oct. 13 as the 20 hostages who remained alive in Gaza returned home. Hamas, the governing body of the Gaza Strip, agreed to release them as part of the first phase of a peace plan proposed […]