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Should PC Have an Armed-Guard Campus Police Force?

  by Savannah Plaisted ’21 Opinion Staff   The question of constitutional rights to gun ownership and how to apply them properly within public settings has been coming into question more and more in the United States given the number of mass shootings in recent years. With that, schools need to take into account how […]

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Party In the Desert: Highlights of Coachella 2019

Influencers and Musicians Dominate Festival Scene by Grace Whitman ’22 A&E Staff The 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California was an event to remember. The festival highlighted so many aspects of the music industry through inspiring debut performances, surprise appearances, and unforgettable headlining acts. The best pop, country, hip-hop, and indie […]

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Writer vs. Writer: Exams or Essays for Finals?

  EXAMS: by Kelly Wheeler ’21 Asst. Opinion Editor   As finals week approaches, stress and panic loom in the air around campus. Finals can come in many different forms, but most professors assess their students’ absorption of knowledge throughout the semester by way of either final examinations or final papers. Although neither option is […]

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Beyoncé Releases Netflix Documentary Homecoming

Celebrates Black Pride Looking Back at Coachella 2018 by Anne DeLello ’20 A&E Staff In between the two weekends of Coachella 2019, fans of the festival were pleasantly surprised by the reveal of Beyoncé’s Homecoming documentary, which details the road to her 2018 Coachella performance. Not only does Beyoncé’s documentary feature segments of her journey […]

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Reevaluating International Tragedies: Spread Awareness, Not Instagram Photos

  by Hannah Paxton ’19 Opinion Editor   In light of recent tragedies, like the burning of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral and the attacks in Sri Lanka that occured on Easter, it is interesting to see what types of events elicit a reaction from the world, especially from those who have the resources to […]

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You Want It, You Got It

by Dawyn Henriquez ’19 She was never the quiet type. Her voice was always the one booming through the jams at parties, the one to say hello as though you were a football field away when you were only a couple feet from her, the one who needed to be told that she was yelling […]

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Tincture

by Julia Zygiel ’19 My head is buried in my folded arms as my heart hammers in my chest. My nose presses uncomfortably into the desk, but this is the only tried and true method for hiding the cloud of piss yellow panic that’s trying to suffocate me. I pull the hood of my sweatshirt […]

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Co-Ed Housing Creates Stronger Community

  by Julia McCoy ’22 Opinion Staff   Regardless of what school you attend, freshman year is full of adjustments. Here at Providence College, those adjustments do not end after the first year. Students in their second year are finally able to live in the same building as their peers of the opposite gender. For […]

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Escaping the On-Campus Mindset: Learn to Take Advantage of Off-Campus Opportunities

  by Anthony Hart ’19 Guest Writer Providence College students miss out on essential life experience and personal development because, throughout their four years, they often remain in what many call the “PC Bubble.” During the school year, students tend to remain on campus or in the immediate surrounding neighborhoods with minimal exposure to the […]

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The Typical Town

by Sarah Kirchner ’21 The night sky looked typical tonight, With those stars that appear to always be falling down. The stars that represented the thousands of lights in a town, The town that I constantly tried to ignore. They say that this is normal And that “normal” was the life I was meant to […]

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