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December 18, 2025

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May102017Summa Cum Laude, 2017

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May42017Death of the Darty

by Brianna Abbott ’17 Opinion Co-Editor Emerita Twice a year since the 1990s, a sea of pastel golfers has pulsed through Eaton Street, devouring nine kegs at nine different houses in the name of Golf Party and Lilly Pulitzer. This year, however, students were crammed into two houses or stuck standing on the Smith Quad, separated […]

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May42017Time To Take A Break

by Kevin Copp ’18 The casual observer at Providence College this time of year—when Saturdays at Ray mean boys in mid-nineties era NBA jerseys and girls in flower-print dresses—undoubtedly hears more statements lamenting the busyness of the last two weeks than the rest of the semester combined. Students deplore the papers and exams that they […]

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Mar232017PC: Let’s Clean Up Our Act

  by Jacquelyn Kelley ’17 Associate Editor-in-Chief When will we learn? It was only two years ago that a former Editor-in-Chief of The Cowl, Mason Sciotti ’15, wrote a column condemning aggressive and destructive behavior at off-campus parties. At the time, he was addressing the serious injury of Providence Police Officer Michael Clary, who was […]

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