by Sarah Kelley ’18 Opinion Co-Editor This past Sunday, the surviving members of the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs held their first service since the shooting that took the lives of 26 of their fellow worshippers just over a week ago. While organizers had initially scheduled the memorial service to be held inside a […]
By Chris McCormack ’18 Sports Staff The Providence College Men’s Basketball Team kicked off their season last weekend with a 84-55 win over the Houston Baptist Huskies in Alumni Hall. With comic-con being held at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center on Nov. 10, the Friars were able to play the first men’s basketball game on […]
by Jessica Polanco ’20 Sharp Edges and Curves Without permission I am born and carved into all shapes and sizes. Cylinders, weird rectangles, and other dimensions I did not sign up for. They ink my skin with colors I hate. White, purple, and black. I wish they knew these things, I wish they knew […]
By Eileen Flynn ’20 Sports Staff On Sunday, November 5, Shalane Flanagan made history by becoming the first American woman to win the New York City Marathon in 40 years. Runners from all over the world gathered in New York City to compete against one another. Over 50,000 runners were set to race […]
by Lela Biggus ’18 Opinion Staff Last November’s resolve of grieving Democrats, “it’s only four years,” is not so comforting anymore. In the era of Trump, the United States will see its global economic dominance in sharp decline, with China already poised to take its place. Expert Thomas Sanderson spoke during a Board of Programmers-sponsored […]
By Ethan Ticehurst ’18 Sports Staff The hardest sport to officiate is soccer and there are several reasons why this is true. Soccer is a fast-paced game where many fouls are left up to the referees’ judgement which inevitably leads to some disagreement. In soccer, the game moves quickly.There are no stoppages of […]
by Paige Calabrese ’18 Associate Editor-in-Chief With Thanksgiving break quickly approaching, many of us here at Providence College are asking ourselves the same question: Where did the time go? Looking back on the semester, it feels as though Senior Ring Weekend happened just last week, but now we are cramming in last-minute papers and preparing […]
by Dawyn Henriquez ’19 I was six or seven. It was a scalding Dominican summer day that began with a hurried packing of bare essentials— underwear and shorts—as my aunt prepared me for a visit to my grandmother’s in the campo. It was basically out in the wilderness, some miles away from the city. […]
By Jeremy Perrigo ’18 Sports Staff Hockey has traditionally, and somewhat sarcastically, been called “the fastest game on ice.” While none of the other three major American sports (football, baseball, and basketball) take place on the same type of playing field, hockey still may be considered the fastest of the four, making it an […]
Is Thanksgiving Really a Break? With bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-95 stretching endlessly into the horizon, last year’s Thanksgiving break was already off to a poor start. A symphony of car horns and angry New York drivers blared outside my car window, yet home was still hours away. Once I pulled into my driveway, my jam-packed […]