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BELIEVE in Equality: New Club Advocates for Students with Disabilities

By Kyle Burgess ’21 As Providence College students usher in a new school year, many new student organizations have burst onto the social scene on campus.  One organization is BELIEVE, which aims to advocate f-or PC students with disabilities. Members seek to “Be Educated, Live with Inspiration, and Evaluate Equity” (BELIEVE) through their meetings and […]

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PC Students RISE Up: Students Work to Educate About Sexual Assault

By Micaela Freeman ’20 Brianna O’Shaughnessy ’19 has decided to end her Providence College career with a statement by creating a new club on campus.  The Massachusetts native has launched a club that brings awareness to sexual violence prevention. The new club that has made its debut at PC is called RISE, and has a […]

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PC Community Comes Together at “A Day to End Hate”

by Micaela Freeman ’20 “A Day To End Hate” was held in McPhail’s on Monday, October 22 at 8 p.m. to help end hate towards marginalized communities. The event was sponsored by Board of Multicultiral Student Affairs (BMSA) and was a collaboration of Providence College’s Stopping Homophobia Eliminating Prejudice and Restoring Dignity (SHEPARD), the National […]

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Preview: Embody Love Workshop

by Julia Acquivita ’22 The Concannon Fitness Center at Providence College will be hosting an Embody Love Workshop this upcoming Friday, October 26 from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the group fitness studio.  The workshop was developed by Dr. Melody Moore, founder of the Embody Love Movement.  The event, led by Courtney Mackey, assistant […]

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“Women in STEM” Series Inspires Students: PC Welcomes Dr. Sarah Seaton and Dr. Katherine Lee

by Hannah Langley ’21   Providence College boasts impressive science departments that include biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, computer science, and more. These majors all fall under the academic umbrella  known as STEM, or science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. PC’s science departments want to take a particular interest in successful women in scientific industries and fields […]

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What Can Money Really Buy? : Professors Debate on the Morality of the Marketplace

by Micaela Freeman ’20 Campus Ministry, Providence College School of Business, and the Center for Catholic and Dominican Studies hosted a sparked debate  on Thursday in the Arthur F. and Patricia Ryan Center for Business Studies between two university professors.  The debate, titled “There are some things that money should not buy,” brought in PC’s […]

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Bursting the PC Bubble: Saudi Journalist Killed in Fist Fight

by Kelly Martella ’21 On Oct. 2, Jamal Khashoggi went missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain a legal document.  Suspicions began to rise around the world in the following weeks, and it became an international affair.  Although he was a Saudi citizen, Khashoggi was living in the United States with plans […]

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Featured Friar: Korey Lord ’21

by Kyle Burgess ’21 From overseeing fundraisers, to meeting with event committees made up of their peers in order to formulate ideas for student functions, class presidents often find themselves faced with a wide array of responsibilities. As president of the class of 2021, Windham, New Hampshire native Korey Lord ’21 is no stranger to […]

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Congress Updates

by Aine Redington ’20 James Campbell, assistant vice president for student development, and Cheryl Granai, coordinator of outreach and prevention, visited Student Congress for their weekly meeting on Tuesday, October 23. They shared various statistics about mental health on campus in light of mental health awareness month, including the effects of the “mental health and […]

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PC Galleries Unveils Murals in Fargnoli Park

by Malena Aylwin ’22 News Staff On Oct. 14, Providence College Galleries (PC-G) and the My HomeCourt activity unveiled Providence craftsman Jim Drain’s remarkable floor wall painting on the basketball courts of Fargnoli Park in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Providence.  PC-G, with the help of the Departments of Art and Art History at PC, presents […]

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