When I am away it will start off slowThe soft hum of summer will rise to my windowThe sunlight will fall warm on my bed quiltAnd my decorations will symbolize home in the best way they can With each step I walk I will hope I have a purposeEven though I am alone I know […]
Enter the chorus of children; octaves fillthe empty halls of pews. There are no illfeelings towards their parents who missthe show: they work hard and slip a kisshere or two. While we wait for the handsof guardians to praise the tones and bandthat line the walls, the roads are silent.Snowfall dots the lane, but we […]
Hey Cowl readers! I get the wonderful honor of wishing everyone a happy 90 year anniversary to everyone’s favorite part of Providence College: The Cowl! I know how beloved The Cowl is on campus (according to YikYak), so I am sure the PC community will be just as excited as we are for this anniversary. […]
On Nov. 16, 1935, the very first edition of the Providence College newspaper we all know and love, The Cowl, was published. As I reflect on the 90th anniversary of The Cowl, I have come to recognize how remarkable it is for a student-run newspaper to survive and thrive for nine decades. I believe that […]
There’s no more faking any remnants of warm weather or trying to convince myself that there will be some sort of turnaround. There will be no fascinating shift in temperature, allowing the sun to pour over everything and letting the world forget about the onset of winter. Well, with the state of the environment and […]
I had the pleasure of attending Father Sicard’s panel, With Mutual Respect: Discussions on Contemporary Challenges, this past Thursday, Nov. 13. Although honestly, my primary motivations for showing up were to receive extra credit for some classes, this year’s discourse on the nuances of free speech left me thoroughly engaged, pondering, and in the best way, […]
On Thursday, Nov. 13, Providence College held the next installment of the series, With Mutual Respect: Discussions on Contemporary Challenges. This installment sought to discuss the topic of “Freedom of speech in crisis: What has gone wrong, and is there hope for civil discourse in America?” While the student panelists were expertly prepared, I believe […]
On Tuesday, Nov. 11, Student Congress did not have a guest speaker. The proposal of the Providence College chapter of Turning Point USA was voted on by an anonymous written ballot and did not pass. The only new legislation introduced was the proposal of the Car Club, which will be voted on at the next […]
The longest government shutdown in American history came to a close last Wednesday, Nov. 12, when a spending bill was passed by the House of Representatives and signed into law by President Donald Trump. The 43-day-long shutdown revealed deep partisan tensions in Congress, as lawmakers tried and failed for over a month to break the […]
On the evening of Friday, Nov. 7, on Olympia Drive in Amherst, MA, a fire sparked in a privately owned apartment building housing hundreds of students attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Firefighters who responded to the incident believe the sparks landed on the apartment complex as a result of a fire that began from […]