You’re Never Alone in Friartown Midterm week is over, and all of the stress that came with it will be long gone in just a few short days when we’re on spring break. However, this past midterm week will be one that I will never forget. On Monday of midterm week, it was windy. To […]
by Savannah Plaisted ’21 Opinion Staff On Feb. 19, Michael Brown, Sr., looked out at the Providence College community with a 1,000-yard stare as he described the pain and suffering he felt after his unarmed son was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri five years ago. The shocked reactions coming from the […]
by Alyssa Cohen ’21 Opinion Staff Our present capitalist economic structure has created an equation of money with success and personal value within our society. In order to achieve the respect of our neighbors in today’s culture, we must earn a large paycheck. In turn, contemporary parents, generally, have deemphasized the importance of being […]
by Emily Ball ’22 Snow, holiday cheer, sledding down the hills on campus—winter on a college campus is something indescribable. As students get excited for the holiday season, school becomes more bearable and winter activities such as tree lightings and drinking hot chocolate occur. The Providence College campus is more beautiful and far livelier during […]
by Katherine Belbusti ’22 Spring break is a magical time of year. The break in the school year comes happily to all, as the stress of midterms comes to an end. For some, spring break is a time to travel to a warm place and thaw out a little from the harsh New England winters. […]
Extra-Murals: Make Intramurals Casual Again Joining an intramural team is usually a fantastic way to be active, socialize, and try to win the infamous league T-shirt for the sports’ best team or players. While it can be fun and games (excuse the pun), sometimes getting beaten mercilessly by dodgeballs can take part of the amusement away. […]
When passing by the Huxley Avenue gate at Providence College, there is a high chance of seeing at least one student being picked up or dropped off by an Uber or Lyft driver. Ride sharing services are frequently utilized by PC students to reach their off-campus destinations. However, as it stands, PC does not allow […]
Composting is a wonderful way for unwanted food scraps to transform plant life, a juxtaposition between the unattractive remains of food and the beauty that comes from flowers and other vegetation. Here at Providence College, there are currently no on-campus options for students interested in composting their leftover scraps. While off-campus options, such as the […]
“Walls work and walls save lives,” said President Donald J. Trump. Walls—we see them all around us, literally. They are used to separate two entities from each other. Be it the walls in our dorms, which sometimes we wish were thicker, or those hypothetical walls that some people create in their minds to protect themselves […]
Fascination with true crime is nothing new, but lately it seems impossible to get away from movies and documentaries about the dangers of charming criminals. Shows like Netflix’s You and Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, along with the recent film about Bundy, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, seem to have created […]