Category: Opinion

Goya, Face Masks, and In-Person Schooling: Political Discord Leads to Total Division in the United States

by Joseph Kulesza ’22 Opinion Staff   If you asked someone in 2010, “What is the commonality between face masks, going to school, and Goya canned beans,” your question would likely be met with a confused stare rather than a verbal response. Before the age of COVID-19 and today’s climate of mounting political divisiveness, disagreements […]

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Looking Back and Moving Forward

by Andrea Traietti ’21 Editor-in-Chief   The last time The Cowl was published was on March 5, 2020. When those of us on The Cowl staff left the office the night before, none of us thought that we had just wrapped up our last “Cowl Wednesday” and published our last issue of the 2019-2020 school […]

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Tangents & Tirades

Switch to Military Time If you manage to make it through all four years at Providence College without incorrectly setting your alarm, consider yourself one of the few. The 12-hour clock system is unnecessarily confusing, and it can easily be the reason that you sleep through a class or meeting. Although setting an alarm seems […]

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Reclaiming the Second Floor: Why Gender Norms Should Not Determine your Workout Equipment

by Marie Sweeney ’20 Opinion Staff For many of the female students at Providence College, the upper level of the Concannon Fitness Center is an unknown territory. This is due to the fact that it is predominantly occupied by male students, who use the space for its weight-lifting equipment. However, one’s gym routine is a […]

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Put Gendered Teams on an Equal Playing Field: Why PC Needs to Charge the Same for Female and Male Athletic Events

by Savannah Plaisted ’21 Opinion Co-Editor Have you ever noticed the difference between going to a women’s hockey game and a men’s hockey game at Providence College? It is not the location of the game, or the skill level of the athletes. It is simply $4.  In order to gain entry to men’s hockey games […]

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The Bachelor’s Fantasy Suites: Not All That Sweet

by Nicole Patano ’22 Copy-Editing Staff “Was Madison wrong for giving Peter an ultimatum?” Anyone watching the current season of The Bachelor needs no further prompting before launching into their opinion about Madison Prewett’s conversation with Peter Weber leading into Fantasy Suites week. One side—which includes Peter—thinks that Madison was right for “sharing her heart.” […]

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Where Are the Women? Fitting More Female Voices into the DWC Curriculum

by Julia McCoy ’20 Opinion Staff Providence College was once an all-male college. Luckily, the statistics today reflect a nearly split population of young men and women. But has our curriculum changed to fit the times? Anyone that tours PC will soon know what course students consider the most important—the Development of Western Civilization. A […]

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Tangents & Tirades

Addressing Period Poverty Recently, Scotland’s Parliament passed the first stage of the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill. First proposed in 2017 by Scottish Parliament member Monica Lennon, the bill would require the government to ensure that free period products, such as tampons and pads, are available for any woman who needs them. The Scottish […]

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Surveillance Capitalism: How Companies Profit off of Your Digital Footprint

  by Katie Belbusti ’22 Opinion Staff Surveillance capitalism is a term that has been increasingly used within the past decade. While it sounds like a complicated term, its definition is the collection of data through monitoring people’s behaviors on social media for the benefit of corporations to then tailor their advertisements to make more […]

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Providence College Needs a Communications Program: Students Interested in Journalism and Communications are Missing Out

  by Margaret Scales ’23 Opinion Staff In such a politically trying time, with both the left and right critiquing ‘fake news,’ it feels like there is no better time to support communications and journalism programs in higher education. Although some may argue that journalism is a ‘dying industry,’ is that something that we as […]

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