by Hannah Langley ’21 News Co-Editor Providence College’s Dominican tradition inspires many students to embody the service oriented, selfless, and spiritual way of life the Dominican friars are known for. Tommy Heavren ’19, has embraced this way of life in his past three years at PC and is planning on continuing to do so throughout […]
by Alyssa Cohen ’21 Opinion Staff As Providence College students become entranced by the ambiance of the ever increasing beauty of the College’s campus, the PC bubble grows stronger and more resilient. While there is plenty to do on campus because of the College’s extensive extracurricular activities, Board of Programmers (BOP) events, and McPhail’s, as […]
by Elizabeth McGinn ’21 Opinion Staff Happiness: a state of being or emotion ranging from contentment to joy. Associated with sunshine, holiday mornings, the smell of freshly baked cookies, and all other delightful moments. While people generally search for this elusive emotion, what does it truly mean? Or can we even attain it? In […]
by Kelly Wheeler ’21 Opinion Staff As the semester comes to a close, many Providence College students are frantically realizing that they did a poor job saving enough Friar Bucks to use during the last few weeks of classes. Finding themselves completely wiped out of Friar Bucks, countless students are eagerly awaiting the arrival of […]
by Taylor Godfrey ’19 Editor-in-Chief During the past couple weeks, several meaningful conversations have taken place on campus. In the past few issues of The Cowl alone, we’ve published articles on the Campus Climate Survey Forum, the emails sent from Father Sicard, O.P., about the clergy sexual abuse crisis, and the new Community Dialogue Inclusion […]
Assign Essay Prompts Before Reading the Book We have all gone through it. Frantically skimming through a Civ book we previously read to try and find quotes that support the thesis statement in our paper. It is complete hell. It is almost as if we are trying to solve a mystery, and the clues are […]
by Connor Zimmerman ’20 Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick. What would be an eternity to any onlooker is only a few seconds to him. He sits in the chair, hearing only the clock and his thoughts. Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick. He refuses to look up, to see the world around him. Only the smell […]
by Sam Ward ’21 Restless nights bear peaceful mornings, A break from fear via alarm bell warnings. That’s it, rest easy. I want to take in the moment. Slip out, brush teeth, unnoticed. Sun dips through blinds like a golden colander And days dawdling dimly, seconds lackluster. But mornings like this one are so right, […]
by Sarah Kirchner ’21 Lights lit up the City of Love. The city of Paris was alive and many people roamed the streets. A young girl stood, searching for her love under the lights of the Eiffel Tower. He told her he would meet her there at precisely eight o’clock at night. She […]
by Jessica Polanco ’20 Everyone claims you’re just as tangible As a rainbow in the sky But there’s nothing to see Just a disappointment in disguise You creep into my heart Slowly, you infect my brain I think they call you LOVE? But sitting you against royalty Would be a shame You make people literally […]