Providence College’s Late Night Madness event has been a long-standing tradition of the school, taking place on Homecoming Weekend and marking the beginning of practices for the upcoming basketball season. Along with performers such as the dance team and dance club, PC’s head basketball coaches Erin Batth and Kim English spoke at the event after […]
Providence College announced in Sept. 2022 the new addition of the School of Nursing and Health Sciences. The College now offers the new majors of nursing and health sciences, as well as incorporating the current major, health policy and management. The class of 2027 is the first to join the school, as PC received approval […]
Generations predating Gen Z frequently express their disdain regarding anonymous social media posting platforms like YikYak, citing that they allow for misinformation to be spread and harmful gossip to ensue. Within the past month, off-campus student homes have been broken into, burglarized–one an armed robbery–and on-campus residents have harbored peepers taking photos in bathrooms, while […]
On Monday, March 27, a 28-year-old individual shot and killed three children and three adults at the Covenant School in Nashville, TN. On Thursday, March 30, protestors lined the galleries of the Senate and House chambers of the state capitol. Legislation resumed that day after a brief break following the shooting; three representatives joined the […]
On Friday, April 14, over a thousand people joined the protests occupying Rhode Island School of Design’s campus in downtown Providence. These strikes, facilitated by custodians, groundskeepers, and movers, began on March 23. Supported by regional union organizers Teamsters Local 251, the strike was still ongoing this Monday. According to Antonio Suazo, a union representative […]
Students are often excited to spend their spring break avoiding schoolwork, spending time with their families, or traveling somewhere warm. However, one group of students, accompanied by three professors, enjoyed a spring break class trip to Oxford, England. A one-credit humanities reading course that focused on the work of C.S. Lewis was able to offer […]
Global Border Crossing is a class that is taught by Dr. Kara Cebulko and Deborah Lopez. To call it a class is a minimization of all that it truly is; the course really opens your eyes to a side of the world from which many PC students are normally sheltered. It’s less about immersion into a […]
Student Congress welcomed Dr. Nick Longo, professor of global studies, to our general assembly meeting on Tuesday, March 14. He was invited to present alongside Valeria Morillo ’23, a student fellow at the Dialogue, Inclusion, and Democracy (DID) Lab and the chair of the Awareness, Education, and Collaboration Committee of the 73rd Student Congress. Dr. […]
In the world of science, there’s always something exciting happening, and one of the latest developments is the discovery of a species of monkey in South America. The monkey, which has been named Xenothrix mcgregori, was previously thought to be extinct, until a recent study shed new light. X. mcgregori is a small, tree-dwelling monkey […]
Amidst already strained diplomatic relations between the United States and China following the U.S.’s shooting down of a purported Chinese spy balloon, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced over the weekend that China has considered providing “lethal support” in the form of arms and ammunition to Putin’s Russia in its war with Ukraine. In […]