Category: Editorials

Climate Change Threatens Future of Winter Olympics

by Taylor Godfrey ’19 Opinion Co-Editor From hockey to skiing to ice dancing to curling, there are plenty of sports to get excited about during the Winter Olympics. The games are a time to come together as an entire world and to celebrate not only our differing nationalities but also our commonalities as one human […]

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Meld Perspectives in the College Environment

by Gabrielle Bianco ’21 Opinion Staff Is college serving America’s needs?  This question served as the prompt for two commentary pieces in the Providence Journal regarding the role of colleges today.  The two pieces took contrasting views.  The first, written by Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University argued that the college institutions are worth […]

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Making the Most of a Semester Abroad

by Taylor Godfrey  ’19 Opinion Co-Editor Going abroad is one of the most talked about aspects of life at Providence College. Deciding whether or not to go, choosing a place, committing, organizing yourself, and submitting all of your documents on time: it is a daunting task for any student. While many students will go abroad, […]

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Amtrak System is Failing Its Customers

by Nicholas Moran ’19 Opinion Staff Sprinting down the concrete steps of Providence’s Amtrak station, I glanced nervously at my wristwatch. 12:02, two minutes after my train to Newark, NJ was scheduled to leave. Quickly, I burst through the steel doors, only to be greeted by empty tracks. As always, the train was late, leaving […]

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The Pitfalls of the Fitness Craze

by Kelsey Dass ’18 Opinion Staff Richard Simmons said, “No one is perfect…. absolutely no one. But why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.” Prior to the explosion of social media, especially Instagram, fitness was defined by movement. It was as simple as […]

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New York Times Article Normalizes Nazism

by Andrea Traietti ’21 Opinion Staff On Saturday, November 25, the New York Times published a piece titled “A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland.” If there is anything that should be called “fake news,” it should be this article—even though the article was, on all accounts, factually accurate. What makes this piece worthy of […]

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What Trump’s Decision Means For Palestine

by Nicholas Ogrinc ’19 Guest Writer In several days, President Donald Trump will announce his intentions to move the Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, an action that will severely impact Palestinians and the Palestinian government. This move comes shortly after the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which was propagated in 1917 and […]

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Yemen’s Forgotten War is Left Out of The Spotlight: U.S. Media Fails to Cover Humanitarian Crisis

by Lela Biggus ’18 Opinion Staff There is a war going on in Yemen and it has barely received any media coverage, especially here in the United States. By not sufficiently or accurately covering the conflict, American media is doing a disservice to its own people and an injustice to Yemeni civilians caught in the […]

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Beginning of a Solution: Rhode Island Promise Program

by Emily Miga  Guest Writer: Bentley Univeristy ’21 We are in the same position we were a century ago. At the turn of the 20th century, high school education was becoming increasingly valuable in order to secure a reasonable standard of living.  Many resisted this transition, not wanting to pay exorbitant amounts of money for […]

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