Category: Tangents

Tangents & Tirades

At Least Send Me a Rejection As the spring semester comes to an end, students find their summer fate in the hands of companies, firms, and publications. Due to the pandemic, this year’s internship search has been brutal. Many companies are hiring graduate students or post-graduate students in place of undergraduates as summer interns because of […]

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PC Should Offer Outdoor Workout Classes As any fitness-minded Providence College student knows, it is increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to sign up for a gym time at the Concannon Fitness Center. Because of COVID-19 guidelines and restrictions, there are only a limited number of spaces in the gym at any given time, creating an […]

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Dr. Seuss Ban: Racism Has No Place in Children’s Literature A couple weeks ago, Dr. Seuss’s estate decided to pull six of the late writer’s books from stores, citing concerns with their racist imagery. The move ignited a firestorm of backlash, with some saying the decision is an example of “cancel culture.” While some aspects […]

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Birth Control: Not Just for Pregnancy Prevention The creation of birth control as a contraceptive aimed towards the safety and protection of women astounded many when it was first introduced. Despite the fact that birth control safely prevents pregnancy and has many medical uses outside of pregnancy prevention, social acceptance of birth control is still lagging. […]

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Convert to Cold Showers Other than going to bed, a hot shower is one of the small things that people often look forward to at the end of each day. This welcomed event takes anywhere from five to possibly even 45 minutes, depending on how stressful of a day you had and how long you […]

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The Unrepresented Pros of Polarization: Disagreement Can Serve Us and Our Society By Sienna Strickland ’22 Political polarization has become a popular media buzzword used to indicate catastrophic political turmoil. This negative representation of the phenomenon is not unjustified.  There is a notable and problematic pattern of hatred simmering beneath the thin veneer of civilized […]

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Masks Should Not Embolden Risk-Taking by Joseph Kulesza ’22 Despite all of the controversy surrounding masks, the vast majority of people do not have an issue with wearing them. According to a KFF Health Tracking poll, 87% of Democrats, 71% of independents, and 55% of Republicans report that they wear masks every time they leave […]

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Remote Friars Are Still a Part of the Friar Family By Katie Belbusti ’22 Opinion Staff This year’s midterm week is more stressful than previous years, and a contributing factor to that stress is COVID-19. With such a large number of Providence College students studying remotely this semester, it can be difficult to check in […]

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The Harsh Realities of Outdoor Classrooms Providence College has attempted to normalize hybrid classrooms, in which both in-person and remote students are in class at the same time, but one new addition to campus has shown serious faults in providing all students an equal education—outdoor classrooms. Big white circus tents lit with inviting, warm bulbs […]

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Preparing for the “Real World” “College will prepare you for the real world.” This is what teenagers hear from the time they enter high school to when they walk across the stage at commencement as adults. Why, then, is it that so many college students enter the real world with no idea how to adequately […]

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