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Coach Ray Treacy Wins His Own Award

By Eileen Flynn ’20 Sports Staff Ray Treacy is a respected and well-known name around Providence College’s campus and in the Cross Country and Track and Field communities. The school was recently reminded of the coach’s talents because Treacy was awarded the Northeast Region Women’s Coach of the Year award for the second consecutive year. […]

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Friars in the Pros

As Providence College athletics are Divison I, the Friars have seen many of their athletes go on to play professionally in their respective sports. Three writers gave updates on Friars who play on professional soccer, hockey, and basketball teams. Basketball By Jack Belanger ’21 Sports Co-Editor With their recent success in the Big East, Providence […]

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Post-College Plans: It’s Okay Not to Know

by McKenzie Tavella ’18 Opinion Staff Adults are always telling me, “Keep your options open,” but it seems like on Thanksgiving this advice goes right out the window. Even before I was a senior, I got asked the dreaded question, “So what do you plan on doing after you graduate?” Now, if you are like […]

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Where Does the PC Shuttle Take Students?

Office of Transportation Looking into Better Marketing Strategies by Sarah Gianni  ’18 News Staff For most Providence College students, a few options come to mind for traveling off campus. There is the RIPTA that makes its daily rounds passing through lower campus, delivering students to destinations like the Providence Place Mall and downtown Providence.  Apps […]

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Homecoming

by Connor Zimmerman ’20 Sinking into my couch, I begin to close my eyes. The sweet aromas of baking cookies travel around the house and begin to make me tired. I let out a long yawn, when suddenly my phone begins to buzz. I grab my phone lazily and look at it. Several texts pop […]

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PCI: College Athletes Should be Paid

By Chris McCormack ’18 Sports Staff The NCAA has a severe money problem. In 2016, the collegiate sports organization posted a revenue of $995.9 million. Meanwhile, the athletes, who are to thank for this revenue, do not see a dime of this. Many argue that they get paid with a free tuition, which should be […]

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Giving Yourself This Holiday Season

by Marla Gagne ’18 Editor-in-Chief After five days of eating copious amounts of food, going to war at malls across America, and catching up on much-needed sleep, it is time to say goodbye to Thanksgiving and hello to the Christmas season. Like many people, I spent the remainder of my break watching Hallmark Christmas movies […]

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PCI: College Athletes Should Not be Paid

By Ethan Ticehurst ’18 Sports Staff College athletes should not get paid. There is no acceptable reason why athletes should be paid. The payment for their services is the education that they receive at their institution. The main argument for paying college athletes is that the NCAA is making a lot of money off the […]

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Your Majesty

by Marelle Hipolito ’21   pebbles: are in the ocean. they stay in the background. give all their life to the surrounding ocean, and there is nothing; nothing left for them to uphold. everything to love about them: gone. Unless, of course, they are for the ocean. They are beautiful when wet, with the ocean […]

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Tangents and Tirades

Be Conscious of Our History We should all take advantage of the Thanksgiving holiday, but first we need to change it. Thanksgiving commemorates a fictionalized meal shared by the first Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people of North America. There may very well have been a temporary alliance between the first European arrivals and native peoples, […]

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