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Tomb Raider Returns with a New Face

by Blaine Payer ’18 A&E Staff   It has been 13 years since the video game heroine Lara Croft of Tomb Raider graced movie screens, and fans of the beloved franchise are ready to see one of pop culture’s most iconic characters come to life once again. Although a spandex-clad Angelina Jolie comes to mind […]

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Album Review: A Crow Looked at Me

by Alexis Jais ’18 A&E Staff If our loved ones cannot live forever, at least their memory can exist in the form of our favorite songs or poems. This attitude has ensured that death remains a favorite and popular muse for artists. Artists can imply a lack of understanding of the severity and finality of […]

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Discover Rhode Island: Newport

by Catherine Goldberg ’20 A&E Staff Recently, Raymond Dining Hall served some classic “Ocean State eats.” The lines of hungry students packed the dining hall, as they awaited Rhode Island’s most iconic dishes: breaded calamari, coffee milk, and spinach-feta pie. While Sodexo attempted to make students feel at home in Rhode Island, there is no […]

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Rock Legend Tom Petty Dies at 66

  by Joe Clancy ’18 A&E Staff “I wanna free fall out into nothing/ gonna leave this world for a while,/ and I’m free falling.” The world of rock and roll lost another rock legend, Tom Petty, on Monday, October 2 after he suffered a heart attack. He was 66 years young. Petty started playing […]

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Falling in Love With Insomnia Cookies

by Joe’s Clancy ’18 A&E Staff It is that time of year again, the days are slightly less warm, the nights much cooler and un-air-conditioned rooms both on and off campus are farther from Dante’s Inferno in temperature. It is finally fall, which means long weeknights, exciting football and baseball games, the stress of nailing […]

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Tiffany and Earl

Dear Tiff and Earl, Why is Ruane Café NOT open on weekends?  I find this a terrible and grave injustice.  How can I live without my nightly Allie’s Donut and caramel macchiato? Sincerely, Weekdays Are For Losers​   Dear Weekends are for Losers, I have no idea why the Ruane Café is not open on […]

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Listomania: Things Our Professors Say

“We have to talk about the hot poker up the butt.” “Legit. Wait, do kids still say that?” “It did NOT involve penetration!” “Stop being high and contribute to the conversation.” “Yes, these people are naked.” “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to slap you.” “So you would eat somebody?” “You’d better be texting, not doing […]

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My Soul

by Jonathan Coppe ’18   I passed tonight beside some trash Within the nooks and crannies of a midnight street, Remains of a festivity since passed, A joy once in this space but now moved on. Is not this space so like my soul, This sometime temple of a distant joy, Now only a wasteland […]

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Giving Up

by Connor Zimmerman ’20   I wait for you, just trying to think About how I can ease the pain, Being torn between my heart and brain.      Because it’s all about to sink.   We walk along two different roads, Time always keeping us apart, Constantly stabbing us in the heart.     […]

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Hidden Beneath

by Marisa Gonzalez ’18   Beneath the murk, Beneath the sea, A World is hidden, From you and me.   From the surface One could see A web of branches As wondrous as can be.   Underwater There is more. A whole garden At its core.   Flowers grow. Creatures roam. For thousands It is […]

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