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Featured Friar: Maggie McKenna ’20

by Kyle Burgess ’21 News Co-Editor According to ESPN, the odds of making a half-court shot on a basketball court are roughly one in 100. However, for Maggie McKenna ’20, all it took to be that one was her closest friends, her lucky sweater, and a dream. The road to this moment began five years […]

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Winter Flea

by Hannah Langley ’21 News Co-Editor With the season of Christmas and gift-giving upon us, Providence College’s Board of Programmers (BOP) has invited several small, local companies from the Rhode Island area to attend their Winter Flea event this Friday, December 6. While BOP has held several of these indoor flea markets with local vendors […]

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Tangents & Tirades

Civ: An Unconventional Way of Connecting It is staggering how many people “hate” DWC, commonly referred to as Civ, when it brings some of the most fundamental life ideas full circle and creates some of the strongest bonds between professors and students.  Sure, perhaps one has a bad semester in the course–a tough seminar professor […]

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Taylor Swift Dominates American Music Awards

Singer Songwriter Receives Artist of the Decade Accolade by Anne DeLello ’20 A&E Staff Over the past 10 years, 29-year-old singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has reached great heights, from five No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Top 100 List to 10 Grammy awards. Due to Swift’s number of achievements since her debut album in 2006, she was […]

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Life at its Best

by Connor Christuk ’21 – Creative Writing Contest Honorable Mention How important is a moment? It all depends on if it’s your last A moment among many is not much, For a moment can only be so fast. But if that moment were happy, Would it mean so much more? Do we exist to be […]

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Private Considerations of Pronouns

by Emma McLaughlin ’20 – Creative Writing Contest Winner Your stare menaces from across the bed as I strain, choking on my words, to answer your questions. In my silence, you make me feel disbanded, shapeless without a label. Some construction of letters, he/she/they, for others to define me, ‘correctly’ discuss me. I grip the bedsheets […]

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Celebrating Fr. Thomas McGlynn , O.P.

An Inspiration to Dominicans and Artists Alike by: Catherine Goldberg ’20 A&E Staff Providence College and the Dominican community celebrated the feast day of the beloved Saint Martin de Porres, Dominican friar and the patron saint of interracial harmony on Nov. 3. Saint Martin  de Porres has been celebrated, in particular, at PC in the […]

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Congress Updates

by Thomas Beaton ’22 Student Congress Publicity On Tuesday, November 5, Student Congress welcomed Joe Stanley, dean of global education. The Center of Global Education has resources to advise students through the study abroad process and offers faculty-led abroad programs. Dean Stanley mentioned that Global Education has new initiatives including Civ in London and Providence […]

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Featured Friar: Sean Richardson ’20

by Max Waite ’21 News Staff During the college search, some people do not have to search very far to call a place home. For Sean Richardson ‘20, home was just a stone’s throw away. Richardson is a sociology and public/community service double major who grew up in the neighboring town of Pawtucket, where he […]

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EcoPC Hosts America Recycles Day

by Matthew Mazzella ’20 News Staff The Environmental Club of Providence College (ECOPC) and the Sustainability Representatives will be hosting an America Recycles Day Celebration on Nov. 15, which will take place on Slavin Lawn from 3:30–5:30 p.m. The event is in tangent with the nationwide celebration of “America Recycles Day,” and will dedicate the […]

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