Category: Editorial Board

“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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Social Media is Skewing Our Relationships

by Kelsey Dass ’18 Opinion Staff Just about every other person you meet on a college campus is currently in a relationship, has been in one before, dated, or casually hooked up with another person they have come to really like.  Modern technology and ideologies surrounding dating have diminished the value and significance of relationships […]

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We Can Do Great Things

On Tuesday nights, you will usually find me in my literary non-fiction class in a dark room of lower level Ruane. For two and a half hours we talk about how to craft the perfect non-fiction story, and we even workshop our own pieces. But this Tuesday, we transported to Aquinas Lounge to hear published […]

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Ending the Stigma

  by Hannah Paxton ’19 Asst. Opinion Editor “Mental illness has nothing to do with if you’ll be successful or not,” said Brown University graduate student, Seth Akers-Campbell. Last Wednesday’s “Inside Mental Illness” event, presented by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, featured Akers-Campbell and other speakers who shared their personal experiences with various mental […]

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Standing Up to Sexual Assault

by Paige Calabrese ’18 Associate Editor-in-Chief April is designated as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, an entire month dedicated to calling attention to sexual violence and educating the public about statistics, prevention, and resources in an effort to combat stereotypes and reduce  violence. This month also plays an important role in empowering survivors and helping them […]

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