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Listomania: Things PC Could’ve Done Instead of a Torch

Built a New Dorm Renovated Aquinas Paid Adjuncts Exterminated Mice Spent More on Lawn Care Built a Petting Zoo Spent More Money on Student Health Updated The Cowl Office Brought in Edible Food Fixed Utilities in General Created More Student Parking Cloned Kris Dunn Built a Zipline to Downtown Providence Bought More Treadmills Literally Anything […]

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A New Beginning

  By Kiley McMahon ’20 Portfolio Staff   He sits, lingers, paces, runs, and begs.   He is starved, parched, alone, and weary.   He takes a train, far far away, from chaos, and clutter, that his future life brought.   A new beginning, a bottle released, left to scavenge, along with the past life, […]

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A House’s Heart

by Marisa Gonzalez ’18 Portfolio Staff   Green vines entangled the old brick house, sucking the life out of it. Not that there was much life to suck out, as Old Gladys had passed, but the brick house was being consumed and the sight was scary. There was a time when I thought the house […]

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Right Person, Wrong Time?

  by Sam Pellman ’20 Portfolio Staff   What had the potential to be the perfect summer instead turned into the summer of realization. The realization that sometimes no matter how hard you try or how badly you want it, love just isn’t enough. It isn’t enough right now, in this moment, but with time […]

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Sueño

by Julia Zygiel ’19 Portfolio Staff   She speaks in fragments of dreams, their syrup clinging to her lips, betraying the intensity of her sweetness. She is a waking fantasy, never completely here with me, but always present in my mind, in the pseudo-unreality of my dreams. She says, “I love you, but not in […]

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Safety & Security Changes Name to Public Safety

Security Office Makes Internal Changes to Better Serve Students By Sarah Giani ’18 News Staff In 2015, the Department of Public Safety at Providence College underwent an assessment by a group of external consultants and a committee of students and staff.  This review fostered a number of recommendations for consideration, highlighting what the department was […]

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Lost in the Current

by Connor Zimmerman ’20 Portfolio Staff   She sits there calmly looking at a mirror. With a penetrating gaze, she studies it like she can look through it. The people on the other side begin to squirm in discomfort, worried for reasons they do not fully understand. One of the guys says, “Dan, look at […]

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Provapalooza Fills PC with Color

BOP Puts on Colorful Event to Kick-Off the Fall Semester By Daria Purdy ’19 Assistant News Editor Last Friday, the annual Provapalooza, an event held by BOP that brings together the Providence College community for an afternoon of fun, was held on Smith Lawn. This year, the event was more colorful than ever—literally. Students ended […]

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Female Executives at Providence College

Executive Boards on Campus are Composed of Female Leaders By, Gabriella Pisano ’18 Assistant News Editor While Hillary Clinton may not have won the 2016 presidential election, four female Providence College students, Phionna-Cayola Claude ’18, Marcie Mai ’18, Elizabeth Jancsy ’18, and Simran Madhani ’18, have been elected to serve as presidents of four of […]

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Stopping Student Suicide

Providence College Receives a $300,000 Suicide Prevention Grant By Daria Purdy ’19 Assistant News Editor September is nationally recognized as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and this year Providence College is doing more than ever to prevent suicide on campus. PC is one of 17 schools in the nation, and the only school in Rhode Island, […]

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