Be Conscious of Our History We should all take advantage of the Thanksgiving holiday, but first we need to change it. Thanksgiving commemorates a fictionalized meal shared by the first Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people of North America. There may very well have been a temporary alliance between the first European arrivals and native peoples, […]
by Kevin Copp ’18 Opinion Staff Friday night’s opening game for the Providence College Men’s Basketball Team demonstrated the need for more games to take place on campus. The Friars played in front of a raucous crowd and resulted in a demonstrative win for the Friars over Houston Baptist University inside Alumni Hall. However, the […]
by Andrea Traietti ’21 Opinion Staff Tuesday, November 7, marked the first regularly scheduled election day since Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race, and the results overwhelmingly showed that America is ready for change. Democrats took key victories in many states and on many different levels, proving that Americans are looking for a […]
by Kelsey Dass ’18 Opinion Staff Two hundred and eighteen days until the Providence College Class of 2018 steps into the great scary world. The question is: are we ready? The biggest concern about leaving PC is the fear of our worth. Are we going to be good enough? “218 Night,” sponsored by Student Congress, […]
by Hannah Paxton ’19 Assistant Opinion Editor “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” said Jane Lunin Perel, a professor emeritus of creative writing at Providence College, quoting English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at the College’s second annual Poetry and Fiction Series. Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey embodied this ideal as this year’s featured […]
by Sarah Kelley ’18 Opinion Co-Editor This past Sunday, the surviving members of the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs held their first service since the shooting that took the lives of 26 of their fellow worshippers just over a week ago. While organizers had initially scheduled the memorial service to be held inside a […]
by Lela Biggus ’18 Opinion Staff Last November’s resolve of grieving Democrats, “it’s only four years,” is not so comforting anymore. In the era of Trump, the United States will see its global economic dominance in sharp decline, with China already poised to take its place. Expert Thomas Sanderson spoke during a Board of Programmers-sponsored […]
Is Thanksgiving Really a Break? With bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-95 stretching endlessly into the horizon, last year’s Thanksgiving break was already off to a poor start. A symphony of car horns and angry New York drivers blared outside my car window, yet home was still hours away. Once I pulled into my driveway, my jam-packed […]
by Bridget Blain ’19 Opinion Staff Climate change has quickly become one of the most significant and pressing world issues. The impacts of climate change are becoming more and more obvious and destructive. On Friday, a report released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program stated that humans are the largest cause of climate change. […]
by Katherine Torok ’20 Opinion Staff Fall is arguably the most beautiful season to experience in New England. Vibrant fire-colored trees line the sides of small backroads, crisp air stirs some fallen leaves around, and the cheers of football fans are heard throughout small towns and big cities every Sunday night. For many years, […]