by Sarah McCall ’26 on November 20, 2025
Opinion
Hey Cowl readers! I get the wonderful honor of wishing everyone a happy 90 year anniversary to everyone’s favorite part of Providence College: The Cowl! I know how beloved The Cowl is on campus (according to YikYak), so I am sure the PC community will be just as excited as we are for this anniversary. We were able to go to the archives and read some of the old editions this past week. My favorite was an article that criticized every person who was on The Cowl that year by name. The best part was about the two Editors-in-Chief. “Both illiterate,” with one being “of dubious tastes” and the other a “shifty individual with a shifty smile” who is responsible for the “misspelled words and misnamed photographs.” I am truly honored that Olivia and I still maintain that same dynamic from the 1947 co-EICs, Joe Shanley ’49 and Paul Kelley ’48.
It is also the last edition before Thanksgiving! So I hope everyone has a very happy and healthy Thanksgiving break! Personally, I don’t like most, if not all, Thanksgiving foods, but I am so excited to have a break and see my family. I am a little bit stressed though because that means senior year is one step closer to ending. I also have two big research assignments due the day before break, so I am not excited for that at all. Just like everything else this year, things are feeling super bittersweet.
Okay, now it is time for my favorite part!!! The random things that have been consuming my brain. I just went thrifting and got two new sweaters! Super excited about that. I also found a framed photograph of Richard Nixon at Savers, so I obviously got that as well. At this point, we have a fairly well-established Nixon Nook in our third-floor living room. I just visited my sister at Fordham University. I started a second crochet project. I am excited for Christmas shopping. And finally, I have been really liking the color orange lately, which objectively is an ugly color, so I am not sure what that is about.
The With Mutual Respect panel occurred last week. Two of my friends and Cowl members were on the panel. All of the panelists did a really good job. My only complaint was that I didn’t have a microphone as well. I thought a lot of the questions were very well thought out, and I really wanted to answer them. So in the spring, I would either enjoy being a panelist or I would want to be given the opportunity to interrupt whenever I see fit to give my two cents. Because obviously my every-other-week 500-word brain dump isn’t enough.
Go into Thanksgiving break grateful for everything. Be grateful that course registration is over, be grateful that it is almost time for snow, and most of all, be grateful for everyone’s favorite organization on campus. I will see you all in the Spring. TTYL!