Stop Sexualizing Female Halloween Costumes What are we trying to tell our girls? When you are a child, Halloween is about costume parades, trick-or-treating, and haunted houses with friends. For girls, at some point, they hit an age where that all changes. Halloween becomes about sex and revealing as much of yourself as possible until […]
by Katherine Torok ’20 Opinion Staff It has been about 47 years since Providence College accepted and enrolled its first female students. What began as an all-male private Roman Catholic school in 1917 has transformed into a co-ed college with around 57 percent of the student body comprised of females. Now jump to 2017, and […]
by Nicholas Moran ’19 Opinion Staff Besides the hum of the air-conditioning and distant footsteps, the Ruane Center for the Humanities was eerily silent on the night of Columbus Day. A stack of books and pages of class notes sat imposingly in front of me, living proof that my caffeine-fueled night of midterm studying was […]
by Lela Biggus ’18 Opinion Staff The passing of Columbus Day this year brings me back to one of the most embarrassing cultural blunders of my study abroad experience. Living with a homestay family in Buenos Aires, Argentina this past spring, misunderstandings were bound to be a part of my reality, but one instance was […]
by Bridget Blain ’19 Opinion Staff The accusations that have been made against Harvey Weinstein by more than a dozen women over the past two weeks are very horrifying and, unfortunately for many, not too surprising. Weinstein’s reputation of sexually harassing and assaulting young women in the entertainment industry has often been referred to by […]
Birth Control Prevents More Than Just Pregnancy If President Trump intends to prevent “risky sexual behavior,” rolling back birth control coverage is scientifically proven to be one of the worst ways to approach the issue. Regardless of religious views on abortion, forbidding usage of birth control is no better than hindering one’s access to other […]
by Laura Arango ’20 Opinion Staff The Atlantic has suffered through 13 named storms this season: eight hurricanes and five major hurricanes. Specifically Maria, Irma, and Jose have left a trail of disaster in their wake. Homes have been destroyed and countries have been reduced to functioning without power, running water, and food. Thus far, […]
by Kevin Copp ’18 Opinion Staff Presidential behavior is often controversial. There are questions and discussions about what is acceptable for the commander-in-chief to say and do. Such talking points can arise from issues as large as foreign policy to as small as what color suit the president wears. Yet despite how heated the conversation […]
by Kelsey Dass ’18 Opinion Staff Every child in America should be granted an equal opportunity to succeed, regardless of which state, city, race, religion, or gender the child associates with. Coming from the perspective of a senior elementary and special education major at Providence College, it is time to think about where to land […]
by Sarah Kelley ’18 Opinion Co-Editor To what extent can we as a nation allow divisive politics to dominate and influence our own children’s access to educational resources? In celebration of National Read a Book Day on Sept. 6, First Lady Melania Trump sent 10 Dr. Seuss books to a chosen school in each state […]