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“Feeling Smaller in the Room”: Improving the P.O.C. Experience at PC

The year 1968 marked the end of the Civil Rights Movement, a time when African-Americans across the United States came together to demand equality for all. However, this is not where the story ended. As a predominantly white institution, Providence College tries to be an inclusive place for all, but is it succeeding? Is PC […]

Meghan Mitchell '23

Eleventh Atmospheric River of the Season Hits California

Record-breaking Storms In December, January, and March, California experienced severe flooding, rain, snow, and wind due to atmospheric rivers, areas of high moisture that transport water vapor from tropical regions to different locations across the world. Once atmospheric rivers arrive on land, they release water in the form of precipitation. These rivers can range anywhere […]

Kaelin Ferland '23

Harmful Algal Bloom Threatens Marine and Human Health

Florida’s Red Tide In October, a harmful algal bloom was detected in Florida. However, the red tide has recently become significantly more dangerous. Since then, the red tide has dispersed its red waters to the entire southwest coast of Florida, spanning 5,000 miles and devastating marine ecosystems. Since Dec. 12, 2022, 20 tons of fish […]

Kaelin Ferland '23

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in D Minor

It is as if water and leaves were muddling at the storm drain, And I have come to realize That everything is not enough. Even here it is all both having and wanting, And it is as if each bow drawn across the strings were sawing across the heart, Making a new course through which […]

Fiona Clarke '23

Holding Your Elected Officials Accountable

Defense of the Willow Project Contradicts Biden Administration’s Commitment to Clean Energy The ConocoPhillips Willow project is an incredibly overlooked fossil fuel initiative despite the devastating toll it will have on our planet and its environmental injustice implications. If approved, the Willow project will be the largest oil project in the country, extracting over 600 […]

Kaelin Ferland '23

Why I Will Never Join the DSA

Eugene Debs, George Orwell, Bernie Sanders: what do they all have in common? A commitment to democratic socialism. Once a dirty word in American politics, it has transformed into a rallying cry for economic and social justice. Youth membership in the Democratic Socialists of America has reached all-time highs, and likely will continue to do […]

David Salzillo Jr. '24

Accessibility: Actually for All

I’ve been missing Civ lately. I was always the odd man out because I enjoyed Providence College’s niche course, since I’m a history nerd at heart. Still, I’ve felt that my classes this semester lack something my Civ classes always featured: the potential for audiobooks. I’ve known since high school that I learn best when […]

Abby Brockway

my ghost and I

After lavender and magenta dissolve into twilight, twilight melts into darkness and my ghost comes to visit me fleeing her dwelling place she drips out of the glass picture frame, with pale skin and shaky hands she seeps underneath my chilled skin curling her toes into the muscle and tissue: a silent plea—          please […]

Meg Brodeur '24

What’s the Buzz About?

USDA Approves First Vaccine for Bees Recently, the United States Department of Agriculture approved a vaccine for honeybees to protect these crucial pollinators against American Foulbrood Disease, a highly contagious disease that infects bee larvae and pupae. AFB can spread quickly within honeybee colonies, as well as to other hives, making it particularly dangerous. Bees […]

Kaelin Ferland '23

An Open Letter to Sam Bankman-Fried

The rise and fall of your cryptocurrency empire/Ponzi scheme (sorry, but the truth is the truth) has raised many questions about the model of “effective altruism” you embraced. As for me, I can only think, “If only you had listened to the Church Fathers.” “Effective altruism,” as advocated for by philosophers like your mentor William […]

David Salzillo Jr. '24