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Providence College Investigates

Going Overseas Compensates The Players By Thomas Zinzarella ’21 Sports Staff Top high school basketball players are caught in limbo in the fall and winter months of the year as they decide where they want to spend their college career and play basketball. But athletes looking to be paid for playing have another option—playing overseas. […]

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Friartown Runs on Dunkin’: Dunkin’ in Slavin Undergoes Big Renovation

Hannah Langley ’21 News Co-Editor We all know the slogan “America Runs on Dunkin’,” but as any member of the Providence College community well knows, so does Friartown. Over spring break, from March 10-17, the College has worked on newly renovating and remodeling the Dunkin’ located in Lower Slavin. The extensive changes made throughout the […]

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Women’s Hockey Heads to Semifinals

Friars Advance Beyond the Quarterfinals for the First Time Since 2013 By Meaghan Cahill ’20 Sports Co-Editor Last weekend, the Providence College Women’s Hockey Team hosted the Merrimack College Warriors in a best two-out-of-three games series at Schneider Arena for the Women’s Hockey East Quarterfinals. On Friday, March 1 the Friars skated to a 2-0 […]

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The Final Countdown: Seniors Scramble to Make Their Last Memories in Friartown

As the semester gets to the stressful point of looming midterms and spring break right around the corner, it is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day monotony of classes and homework. Instead of spending time with friends, most students find that their days and nights are spent in the library or cooped up […]

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Men’s Basketball Sweeps St. John’s

By Gavin Woods ’22 Sports Staff It has been a busy week for the Men’s Basketball Team. In the span of six days, Providence College played two home games versus St. John’s University and Marquette University, before their matchup at Butler University.  The Friars started the week with a home game against St. John’s, who […]

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Humanities Forum Explores Women’s Role in Ancient Church Liturgy

Voices of the Liturgy by Catherine Goldberg ’20 A&E Staff This past Friday, February 1, the Humanities Forum hosted Dr. Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Royce Family professor of teaching excellence and the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith professor of history and religion of Brown University. Dr. Harvey presented a lecture entitled “Voices of the Liturgy: […]

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Who Should Win the Naismith College Player of the Year?

Zion Williamson will Win Naismith Award by Sullivan Burgess ’20 This year’s Naismith College Basketball Player of the Year will go to none other than Duke University freshman Zion Williamson. If you are unfamiliar with Williamson, then prepare for what the sports media calls the next LeBron James, a title he has held since his […]

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Agency to End Abuse Sets Up On-Campus Training

by Alexandra Huzyk ’20 News Staff   Throughout the month of February, Providence College  will be holding training sessions on sexual assault, hosted and conducted by a Rhode Island agency called Day One. The training is open to all members of the PC community, as well as anyone else in the area who is interested. […]

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Fighting in the Federal Government Continues: An Overview of the Government Shutdown

by Kyle Burgess ’21 News Staff This past Saturday, January 11, marked the third week since President Trump’s refusal to sign a spending bill negotiated by Republicans and Democrats that would continue current border-security funding without the construction of a border wall on the United State’s southern border.Currently, this is the longest-lasting government shutdown in […]

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FORESHADOW: A Serial YA Anthology of Short Stories, Published Digitally

by: Sara Conway ’21 A&E Staff Foreshadow: to indicate a future event.  Emily X.R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma, both New York Times bestselling authors, used this definition as inspiration to create their own online Young Adult (YA) literary magazine.  Pan and Suma’s first connection occurred through Twitter, which possesses an active writing and bookish […]

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