by Jonathan Coppe ’18 Among the dusty shelves I see it nestled —O wicked, foolish kin to leave it so!— O, what dreams lie herein? What foreign lands of sunset-colored love and joyful tears? So off the shelf it comes and to a desk. With greedy hands the cover comes undone. And here I see […]
by Madison Stevens ’19 She took two steps off the plane and knew she was home. The smell of metal and hand sanitizer filled her nostrils as she sauntered out of Terminal B and down to Baggage Claim C at Logan Airport. The bags slipped out one after another and onto the circular […]
by Kevin Copp ’18 Opinion Staff Friday night’s opening game for the Providence College Men’s Basketball Team demonstrated the need for more games to take place on campus. The Friars played in front of a raucous crowd and resulted in a demonstrative win for the Friars over Houston Baptist University inside Alumni Hall. However, the […]
by Kiley McMahon ’20 La vida es corta, La vie est courte, La vita é breve, Life is short. Soy de España, Je viens de la France, Vengo dall’Italia, I am from the United States. I make millions of dollars, While I find my next meal wherever I sleep. I used […]
by Andrea Traietti ’21 Opinion Staff Tuesday, November 7, marked the first regularly scheduled election day since Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race, and the results overwhelmingly showed that America is ready for change. Democrats took key victories in many states and on many different levels, proving that Americans are looking for a […]
By Meaghan Cahill ’20 Sports Co-Editor Andrew “Drew” Brown ’16 may not have physically been in Schneider Arena this past weekend, but his presence was surely known and felt as the Friars went on to beat University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Seven goals were scored for number seven on that emotional Saturday night of Nov. 11. It […]
by Kelsey Dass ’18 Opinion Staff Two hundred and eighteen days until the Providence College Class of 2018 steps into the great scary world. The question is: are we ready? The biggest concern about leaving PC is the fear of our worth. Are we going to be good enough? “218 Night,” sponsored by Student Congress, […]
by Jay Willett ’20 “Damian! They’re here! Damian!” Alyssa screamed over the bank’s sirens. I tossed aside the weeping attendant and ran for the glass door. Blue and red lights flashed across the Roman marble, blinding me as I peered from behind a column. The ride we had left on the curb was missing […]
by Hannah Paxton ’19 Assistant Opinion Editor “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” said Jane Lunin Perel, a professor emeritus of creative writing at Providence College, quoting English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at the College’s second annual Poetry and Fiction Series. Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey embodied this ideal as this year’s featured […]
By Joe Myko ’19 Sports Staff As the year creeps further into November, fall sports at Providence College are beginning to wrap-up. With the exception of volleyball, all the fall sports have ended. Now, before we fully turn our attention to hockey, basketball, and other winter sports, let’s take a look back on an […]