Category: Editorial Board

Embracing Uncertainty

by Taylor Godfrey ’19 Editor-in-Chief For all college students, but especially seniors, there is often a sense that you should have everything figured out. Hearing stories of classmates with jobs or graduate programs already lined up can sometimes make you feel as if everyone already has a concrete plan and you are the only one […]

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Letter to the Editor

by Rakeb Max ’22 Guest Writer I’m Rakeb Max and I’m from Minnesota. Currently, I am an economics major with zero intentions of going on to Wall Street. Instead, my fascinations lie in domestic economic policy, specifically socioeconomic disparities in urban communities. I hope to eventually obtain a Master’s degree in public policy and work […]

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Make Magic Happen: Be Less “Careful” in Your Schoolwork

by Abigail Czerniecki ’19 Associate Editor-in-Chief In my art class earlier this week, my ceramics professor told me to “be careful, but don’t be too careful to the point that you lose the magic in your work.” He then proceeded to tell me that I should spit on my work after I think I have […]

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“Us. We. Together. Family. Friars.”

by Taylor Godfrey ’19 Editor-in-Chief As the Providence College community enters its fourth week of classes, things around campus are beginning to calm down and transition to a regular rhythm. The stress of moving in with roommates, the flurry of seeing friends again after a summer apart, the anxiety of changing classes, finding textbooks, and […]

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“Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone”: Reach for New Horizons at PC

by Abigail Czerniecki ’19 Associate Editor-in-Chief Transitioning into freshman year, or any new year of school, can be challenging. We have spent all summer in our comfort zones surrounded by familiarities, but college is a time to embrace your curiosities and challenge yourself. Whether you are a freshman or a senior at Providence College, the […]

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Striving For Veritas

by Taylor Godfrey ’19 Editor-in-Chief As we start a new academic year, The Cowl is back for its first issue, exploring issues at Providence College such as new housing programs and head coaches as well as topics ranging farther off campus such as food truck festivals in Providence and the importance of political engagement. Here […]

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Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, My time at Providence College is coming to a close. I write to you to discuss one of the clubs I currently lead at PC, the College Republicans, and the path forward I hope it paves for our community. The club changed course this year. Previously, we served primarily as a liaison to […]

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Picking Up the Gavel

As I sit down to write my first Editor’s Column, I cannot help feeling a mix of both sadness and excitement. Sadness about the seniors who are leaving us this year, since The Cowl will not be the same without them, and excitement as well for the new things that all of us are moving […]

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Passing on the Torch

by Marla Gagne ’18 and Paige Calabrese ’18 Spring is the ultimate time of transition—days that once required three layers of jackets and snow boots turn into days of laying out in the sun and blasting music on the quad. And as the warm weather comes, so does the chaos of wrapping up a college year […]

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Letter to the Editor

Dear Father Shanley, I hope you are well during this Easter season. I am now writing to you in the open forum after having tried to reach you privately in two letters dated March 17 and April 5 that have both gone unanswered.  Each of those letters was charitable and sincere yet my request for […]

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