By Sullivan Burgess ’20 Sports Staff On Sunday, July 29, 2018, Cooperstown, New York will welcome four new inductees into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. This marks the fourth time in history four players were voted into Cooperstown, compared to last year’s three players. This year’s new members include third baseman Chipper Jones, […]
New Specialized Major in the Process of Getting Approved byAlexandra Huzyk ’20 News Staff In an increasingly competitive professional environment, students’ interests are expanding and changing. In response, Providence College continues to create new majors and courses, such as the new environmental biology major. The process of creating a new major begins with deciding what […]
By Jeremy Perrigo ’18 Sports Staff Since its inception in 1947, the National Hockey League All-Star Game has pitted the league’s best players against one another in an attempt to display hockey’s prime talent on a national stage. Since then, the rules of the game have changed. Originally the All-Star Game would feature the defending […]
Why the Celtics Will Make it to the Finals By Jack Belanger ’21 Sports Co-Editor Despite having multiple players suffer injuries and a tough stretch where they lost five out of six games, the Boston Celtics are where many expected them to be: first place in the Eastern Conference. Even without star […]
by Connor Zimmerman ’20 Staring at the ceiling, with a common feeling. Trying to leave my bed and overcome this dread. I steel my nerves, cause I’m living on the reserves. My alarm won’t stop, I slam the button on top. Punching in, punching out, I’m living on the clock. Looking at […]
PC Hosts Its Own “Comic-con” for Alumni & Family Weekend by Catherine Brewer ’20 News Staff With a suspenseful hype video posted on Facebook, Providence College’s Alumni & Family Weekend Committee announced last Thursday evening that it will host its first ever Friarcon on Friday, February 9, and it will be jam-packed with food, fun, […]
By Chris McCormack ’18 Sports Staff With the Winter Olympics right around the corner, there is always some debate on which Games are better: Summer or Winter? With that in mind it is necessary to understand the basic facts of the two. The Summer Olympics have been around for over a century, starting in 1896 […]
by Dawyn Henriquez ’19 “I needed this,” Don sighed, placing the pipe on the coffee table. The burnt-out bowl stared up at me from the mahogany— trees on trees. It smiled at me, an eccentric smoke signal coming from its glass lips. “Set me aflame,” it said. “Set me on fire so that I […]
By Ethan Ticehurst ’18 Sports Staff The Winter Olympics are the best kind of games simply because of the sports that are offered. The most significant example is hockey, a sport in which some sort of competitive balance still exists. As compared to basketball or gymnastics in the summer, both of which have been dominated […]
Dear Tiff and Earl, Where do I go now that Alumni Hall is closed on Sunday nights? I have no desire to kill myself on Guzman Stairs while trying to get to Eaton Street Café. Sincerely, “Hangry” Dear Hangry, GAHHHH. To be honest, the new hours in Alumni are just pissing me off. It’s […]