Having friends in class is helpful. by Emily Ball ’22 Opinion Staff Yes, you should have friends in class. When the time comes to register for classes for the upcoming semester, it is a good choice to take classes with your friends or your roommates. Some might argue that having friends in your classes would […]
“One is Too Many” Mass Shootings’ Prevalence in American School Culture by Julia McCoy Trigger Warning: This article contains discussion of gun violence On December 14, 2012, there was a school shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty students and six staff members were killed in the attack with countless more […]
Putting Lipstick on a Pig Raymond Dining Hall Aesthetic Renovations Are Not Enough Joe Kulesza ’22 Providence College is in many ways a beautiful campus. The Gothic architecture of Ruane and Harkins Hall is a historic staple of Catholic colleges, situating PC in the greater tradition of liberal arts institutions. The west side of […]
Tangents & Tirades No Mask? Smile Up! Olivia Bretzman ’22 “Masking up” commonly connotes masking any emotions. In a way, it makes an individual rather lifeless—their facial features and expressions compromised in every social interaction. Last year, wearing masks outside created a really unemotive, often cold environment for Providence College students as they walked to […]
Speak Up and Complain Changing the Narrative of Female Stoicism By Angie Nguyen ’22 If you think about how people describe the most significant women in their lives, there are two ideas that tend to stick: that she always puts others before herself and that she never complains about it. These notions are outdated. The […]
Tangents & Tirades The Great Scholarly Divide: How Should We Take Notes? By Joseph Kulesza ’22 A particular controversy has been tacitly playing out all over college campuses for as long as colleges have been around. Only second to pen or pencil is the dilemma involving another aspect of students’ note-taking ability, that being […]
The Clothes Don’t Make the (Wo)Man Senior Year Offers Us a Chance to Start Over By Nicole Patano ’22 On Saturday, Aug. 28, a day before my scheduled move-in at Providence College, I sat in my room and finally began packing the clothes I would be bringing with me to campus. It wasn’t until […]
Check in on Yourself Alone Time Is Still Necessary as People Begin to Return to Normal By Maddie Morkin ’22 Returning to school after a long summer away from friends is often an exciting time filled with happy reunions. While friends and classmates settle back into Friartown together, it is also important to remember […]
Being Undeclared Is Not Uncool There Are Benefits to Exploring Your Options at PC By Emily Ball ’22 Coming into college, you are presented with a multitude of majors from which to choose. There are the sciences, the humanities, the business programs, and the arts. But within these categories there are even more specific […]
Making up for Lost Time The Importance of Fostering In-person Relationships By Olivia Bretzman ’22 Last year was a bust. Each grade missed out on some of the most pivotal moments of their college years – no exceptions, none better nor worse than the other. No one wants to hear the “woe is me” […]