Best Icebreakers to Start off the Semester Anything other than name/major/hometown. What’s your least favorite icebreaker? What’s your favorite book? What song describes your life right now? If you were a potato, how would you like to be cooked? If you could audition for one TV show, which one would it be? If you could […]
by Aidan Lerner ’22 As Cowl readers will know, parietals have been in effect since women were introduced to Providence College in 1971. Their purpose was to encourage same-sex intimacy among first year students before they are exposed to the free world of non-gendered dorms. Is this performative wokeness? Sure. But in fairness to the […]
Book Review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz A Hopeful Tale of Love Amidst Hatred Tully Mahoney ’23 Heather Morris’s novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a compelling story of love that takes place within one of the dreariest environments possible: a concentration camp. Although the basis of this tale is incredibly intriguing, Morris does a poor […]
Book Review: Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr Continues to Prove His Mastery at Weaving Tales Together Tully Mahoney ’23 Anthony Doerr’s carefully crafted novel Cloud Cuckoo Land is yet another astonishing triumph for the author, who made waves in the literary world with All the Light We Cannot See in 2014. It’s nearly impossible to […]
Anna Pomeroy ’23 As the year’s clock begins to wind down, I am reminded of the infinite cycle that begins every new year. As it strikes midnight, we cheer and clink glasses filled with bubbly and Ambitious hopes for the next months to follow. Our warming smiles are not the only thing that lights […]
What is your guilty pleasure gift that you would never ask for but wish someone would read your mind and buy for you? Liam Tormey: Off-White VaporMax Shoes Sarah McLaughlin: Tickets to see Hamilton at PPAC (for the third time…) Madison Palmieri: Ridiculously expensive Taylor Swift merch Julia McCoy: the $95 Harry Styles sweatshirt that […]
Kate Ward ’23 Dear Diary, Another day in the workshop—you know, it’s exhausting being an elf. We’re given shoddy tools and forced to work year-round. Do you know how insufferable it is listening to Christmas music all year? The good part is the Big Man sometimes shares letters from the kids with us, so […]
Sarah McLaughlin ’23 It’s far too late for me to be lying on my back with my guitar in my lap and thinking about Homer. Olive’s hanging out with some friends. She invited me, but I said no, to no surprise, and she told me to have a good night as she left with her […]
Max Gilman ’25 When presented with an idea, One is intrigued to oppose, If they have knowledge In a field so similar To that of which is being argued, Because One yearns an ear, To lean to with words That accumulate And become known as The seeking of validation. So, When presented with a […]
Taylor Rogers ’24 I left a glittering ball of green at your doorstep, Knowing the emerald hue was a color you adored. Patiently, the sphere sits outside, Waiting for your comforting touch to pull it off the empty porch. The ornament watches the world in awe, As December rips off her white jacket, Letting […]