Environmental Accountability: Ensuring Corporations Practice Sustainability Is Key to Climate Movement by Julia McCoy ’22 Asst. Opinion Editor As Earth Day approaches, many people are encouraging sustainable practices and ways to live a more earth-conscious life. Here at Providence College, EcoPC is promoting an Earth Day Challenge for the month leading up to Earth Day, […]
What History Fails to Teach Us: Teaching Sterilized Versions of History in Schools Is Detrimental by Joseph Kulesza ’22 Opinion Staff The prominent way that people gain knowledge about the world is through the means of testimonial knowledge: knowledge that is obtained from other people. With this said, very little of the world is understood […]
Fighting Fast Fashion: Consumers Must Stop Supporting Unsustainable Brands by Olivia Bretzman ’22 Opinion Staff Every second, about 20 tons of clothes-based waste is either dumped into a landfill or burned. Every day, college students buy fast-fashion styles online or in-store to keep up with the latest trends for their weekend or classroom looks. These are […]
Mirages of Perfection: Meghan Markle Proves We Never Know What Occurs Behind Closed Doors by Olivia Bretzman ’22 Opinion Staff Ever since Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the world has been questioning the morality of one of the longest-standing, traditional families in Western culture. Not only was this unveiling of truth […]
Evening the Playing Field: How Supporting Women’s Hobbies Could Impact Their Futures By Julia McCoy ’22 Do young women have hobbies? It seems like a simple answer would come from this question. Yes, of course they have hobbies, how else would they express their interests? And yet, the issue of women’s hobbies and interests is a […]
Trigger Warning: This piece talks about sexual assault. By Julia McCoy ’22 Imagine telling a deeply personal story about trauma that you have experienced and immediately facing backlash from people stating that you are lying or that your story is fabricated. Sadly, this is the difficulty that thousands of women who speak out about their […]