by Elizabeth McGinn ’21 Opinion Staff It is 11 a.m. on a Saturday in September. Girls stroll by in flashes of neon pinks, blues, greens, and whites, arranged in nautical or animal print dresses or skirts, paired with Jack Rogers sandals. Guys don tee-shirts embossed with a smiling whale and matching bold-colored Bermuda shorts. Today […]
by Erin Venuti ’20 With September brings the last goodbyes of summer, The last marshmallow toasted, Farewell photos posted Of what you’ll leave behind. With September brings the first greetings of autumn, New tales to tell And new stories to live. Novel characters featured in contemporary classics. With September brings the pressure, The preoccupation, And […]
by Bridget Blain ’19 Opinion Staff As the #MeToo movement continues to bring the prevalence of sexual harassment and sexual assault in professional and academic environments to light, women still often find themselves being discouraged from using their voice. The most recent public example of this silencing occurred when Serena Williams was charged with the […]
by Dawyn Henriquez ’19 The Mind does interesting things when you’re trying to keep certain thoughts from it. Like a genie, it can give you that wish of eternal life in the form of cancer. “That part of you will never die!” the man in the lamp assures you, as you slowly metastasize […]
by Nicholas Moran ’19 Opinion Staff All Tasmanian Wombats are endowed with an abnormally productive pituitary gland, reliant on a hyperactive mitochondrial orchestration involving myriad proteins… What is the “main idea” of this passage? Sifting through such gibberish at one’s rickety library desk, the hour is far closer to sunrise than sunset. This is a […]
by Taylor Godfrey ’19 Editor-in-Chief As the Providence College community enters its fourth week of classes, things around campus are beginning to calm down and transition to a regular rhythm. The stress of moving in with roommates, the flurry of seeing friends again after a summer apart, the anxiety of changing classes, finding textbooks, and […]
by Marelle Hipolito ’21 I hate being sensitive to normal things because of abnormal situations And I hate looking deeper into what’s meant to be surface-level interpretations Jokes and side notes, thinking every mirror has smoke Every double take and I go a little bit more insane I hate that my friends don’t hear me […]
Be Aware of Events Outside PC On a small campus like Providence College, it is easy to forget about everything else that is happening in the world. We hear stories and read headlines every day, but most of the time it is merely background noise or only given a single glance. We become so focused […]
Vice President Sam Lomax The time has come for a new dawn. The class of 2020 has reached a watershed in our Providence College journey. Our odyssey is halfway completed – our trajectory is set and our destinies are manifesting in front of our eyes. The future is bright, but now is not the time […]
Class Representative Maggie Burke My name is Maggie Burke and I am running for the position of Class Representative for the class of 2019. Having never been a part of Student Congress before, I am able to bring a fresh perspective to this organization along with the leadership experience to back it up that I’ve […]