Category: Editor’s Column

A Year of Life in the Pandemic: Reflecting on Hope, Nostalgia, and “Normalcy”

A Year of Life in the Pandemic: Reflecting on Hope, Nostalgia, and “Normalcy” by Andrea Traietti ’21 Editor-in-Chief In a way that felt almost a little too poetic, last week I ended my isolation period after testing positive for COVID-19 on the very day that marked a full year of the pandemic.  On March 13, […]

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Women’s Week at PC: Reflecting on Women’s History at the College

Women’s Week at PC: Reflecting on Women’s History at the College by Andrea Traietti ’21 Editor-in-Chief When Providence College first opened its doors in 1917, it would be another 54 years before women would finally walk through them as enrolled students.  In the 50 years since 1971, when the first class of women began their […]

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A Few of My Favorite (PC) Things: Appreciating the Things that Make PC Home

By Andrea Traietti ’21 Editor-in-Chief This week’s Roving Photography question—“Tell me you’re a student at PC, without telling me you’re a student at PC”—is one of my favorites we’ve had in a while. (Shoutout to Bri Colletti ’21 and Aislinn Hoover ’21, photographers and Cowlers extraordinaire for the creativity this week!). We all love a […]

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A History Major’s Take on Valentine’s Day: What the History of the Holiday Can Offer Us

A Historical Perspective on Valentine’s Day What the History of the Holiday Offers Us by Andrea Traietti, ’21 The question of whether Valentine’s Day is a cheesy Hallmark-invented holiday or a meaningful day to celebrate love seems like an age-old debate, and with Valentine’s Day coming up this Sunday, it’s one that my roommates and […]

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Soul and Perspective on a New Semester: What Pixar’s New Movie Teaches Us

Soul and Perspective on a New Semester: What Pixar’s New Movie Teaches Us by Andrea Traietti ’21 Editor-in-Chief Two weeks ago, my roommates and I watched Soul, the new Pixar movie out on Disney+. The movie garnered attention as Pixar’s first to focus on a Black protagonist, and only the fourth American animated film to feature […]

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Reflecting on Transitions and Traditions

Reflecting on Transitions and Traditions by Andrea Traietti ’21  Editor-in-Chief This issue of The Cowl is the sixth and final issue we will be publishing this semester, and it’s quite an exciting selection of content with which to end. Covered in this issue, first and foremost, is the momentous national news from last week—Joe Biden […]

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The Cowl Launches Cross-Campus Listening Tour

The Cowl Launches Cross-Campus Listening Tour By Andrea Traietti ’21 Editor-in-Chief   This week’s issue marks the official start to The Cowl’s listening tour across campus, as we publish the first in a series of articles on the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at Providence College. As part of our listening tour series, […]

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Coping with Burnout and Building Resilience: Taking Time to Recharge Is a Sign of Strength

by Andrea Traietti ’21  Editor-in-Chief Academic burnout is something many of us college students are familiar with by now. It seems to build up slowly every semester until it catches up to us all at once, oftentimes right at the height of stress during midterms and finals week. This semester has been no exception when […]

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Appreciating the Many Ways We Can Lend a Helping Hand

Appreciating the Many Ways We Can Lend a Helping Hand by Andrea Traietti ’21 Editor-in-Chief Shortly before moving back to Providence this summer, I was having a conversation with my dad and he mentioned something he saw on Facebook that had really stuck with him. It was a quote that read, “Remember whenever you’re in […]

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Looking Back and Moving Forward

by Andrea Traietti ’21 Editor-in-Chief   The last time The Cowl was published was on March 5, 2020. When those of us on The Cowl staff left the office the night before, none of us thought that we had just wrapped up our last “Cowl Wednesday” and published our last issue of the 2019-2020 school […]

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