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Matthew Anderson ‘21 Guy Who Knew Exactly What He Was Signing Up For Holy Cross students woke up this morning to the long-overdue response by college administrators to the online petition made a month ago to institute pass/no pass this semester. For those who didn’t read the email, […]
11/13/2020 With the nail-biting wait of Election Day – or, more aptly, Election Week – behind us, many of our students have thoughts to share on what the results mean for the country and where we should go from here. Be sure to check out “The Future of […]
Ethan Bachand ‘22 Chief News Editor On Monday, Nov. 9, the Common Requirements Steering Committee at the College of the Holy Cross released their proposed goals for changing our current system. Interim Report IV, as it was titled, is a comprehensive report that introduces areas the committee feels […]
ALPHA SIGMA NU INDUCTEES Congratulations to the following students from the Class of 2021, who will be inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu at an Induction Ceremony on Sunday, November 15, 2020, at 2 p.m. ET. NAME Beaulieu, Gabrielle V Burke, Grace C. Burns, Margaret T. Cheng, Ting Cody, […]
Hannah Johnson ‘21 Chief Eggplant Editor
Hannah Johnson ‘21 Chief Eggplant Reporter The eyes of US citizens have been making shifty glances at Nevada after the 2020 election debacle. We here at the (Spire) want to offer you an inside look into the mind of Nevada, and what exactly they were trying to accomplish […]
Mike O’Brien ‘23 Chief Sports Editor For the next installment of the Spire’s Student-Athlete Spotlight, I caught up with Avery LaBarbara, a junior on the women’s basketball team. LaBarbara is coming off a phenomenal sophomore campaign, in which she was named to the 2019-20 All-Patriot League Second Team, […]
Grace Manning ’21 Opinions Editor With the results of the election finally established, there is a palpable sense of relief among my friends and family members. Many of us, young people in particular, have regained a sense of pride and hope that we had lost over the past […]
Joe Barbieri ’23 Opinions Editor Last Saturday, former vice president Joe Biden became President-elect after he passed the 270 electoral college vote threshold needed to win the presidency. As major news networks began declaring the news, it was clear that President Donald Trump would not accept this truth. Pushing […]
Julia Maher ’23 Opinions Editor When the Associated Press (AP) announced Joe Biden’s victory as President-elect after many long days of anticipation and stress, both positive and negative uproar ensued. Those who logically settled for Biden danced in the streets, completely overjoyed, while Trump duped his supporters into […]
Devyn Forcina ’22 News Editor The College of the Holy Cross’s former Jenks Chair of Creative Writing, Robin Hemley, returned to the Holy Cross community on November 5, 2020 as a speaker in the Working Writer Series. This two-part event featured a Craft Talk at 3:30 and a […]
Sarah Carter ’24 News Editor This past Saturday, the McFarland Center at the College of the Holy Cross welcomed students and faculty to a live first viewing of “Pakachoag: Where the River Bends,” a film illuminating on the significance of commemorating the history of indigenous peoples native to […]
