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Disparate Representation: Candidate Photographs Play a Role in Local Providence Mayoral Race

Appearance and politics. The influence the media has in the democratic process. The  institutions that continue to have a presence in our daily lives. These are all present regarding the upcoming democratic primary in Providence, Rhode Island. Nirva LaFortune, a current city councilwoman, is opposing Brett Smiley and Gonzalo Cuervo for the upcoming mayoral election. […]

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Inside the New Student Success Center: A Place for Conversations

by Sarah McLaughlin ’23 Many places on campus have experienced a facelift over the summer, and the second floor of the Phillips Memorial Library isn’t excluded. The space is home to the new Student Success Center, which includes academic advising, academic support, accessibility services, the Multicultural Student Success Program, and the Writing Center. Bryan Marinelli, […]

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Infatuation

Sarah McLaughlin ’23 On the couch, we talked about everything and nothing. A number of things I’d remember, and a number of things I already forget. The movie watched and other movies, the songs we heard and other music, the things we liked about our grandparents and the things we hated, how many of them […]

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Parties in the Age of Crypto (Screenplay)

by Kathryn Libertini ’23   INT. AT A PARTY ME Hey what’s up! You okay? FINANCE MAJOR Yeah kinda. Ever since the market closed on Friday and Dogecoin went down I’ve just felt awful about myself. ME It’s just a stock, I’m sure it will go back up! FINANCE MAJOR Do you even know what […]

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But English Majors Love to Write!

by Kate Ward ’23 “As an English Major, you must love writing!” God, if only I had a tally over my head each time I heard that throughout college. And I do, I do love writing, but sometimes it’s a little much with three papers due a week plus an awkward Cowl deadline on the […]

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Blue Light

by Nicole Patano ’22   Past the student center she walks, a ringing in her ears. Her name is spoken in whispers  by the boys she met last year. The ones who took the chance to kiss her and then left her alone to cry silent tears.    Beyond their voices, another sound, steady as […]

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Listomania: Artists We Should’ve Had For Spring Concert

Artists We Should’ve Had For Spring Concert Pitbull  The Rock  Will Smith (ft. Chris Rock)  Machine Gun Kelly  Frank Sinatra (hologram version) Macklemore  Doja Cat  Kanye West (featuring Skeet) Travis Scott  Dr. Taylor Swift  Shawn Mendes (post breakup tour?) Rihanna (post hiatus tour?)  Ed Sheeran  My Chemical Romance  Big Time Rush (without Dixie D’Amelio) (sans […]

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A World Drawn in Pencil

by Caitlin Bartley ’24 I like to imagine that the world was drawn in pencil, my body an illustration on a canvas. Just think of all the things I could fix, stretch marks on my thighs erased like crooked lines on geometry homework, coffee stains on my teeth erased like dirty smudges on clean parchment. […]

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Help! It’s My Eye! It’s Gone!

by Max Gilman ’25 How do you fix a broken eye? There must be some way to mend the deteriorating oculi, In the time we live, there must be a way. There must be a way to fix my broken eye. Without an eye, it’s easy to spite and spit with no direction. With an […]

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Songs the Lonely Sing

by Madison Palmieri ’22 They are the ruffled wings of a little bird in flight, The muffled songs the lonely sing as day turns to night. The gentle tides ebb and, in turn, flow, The crashing of the waves, with which their secrets go. They are the aches and pains, The jealousies and vanities, They […]

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