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Hometown: Auburn, New York Major: History Campus activities: Purple Key Society, Working for Worcester, SGA Favorite movie: Lincoln Favorite song: Bodak Yellow Favorite singer/group: ABBA Favorite color: Red Favorite sports team: Buffalo Bills Favorite class taken at Holy Cross: Hamilton’s America Favorite professor: Professor Yuhl Item on HC […]
Nicole Letendre ‘23 Chief Features Editor On Friday, October 21, CAB (Campus Activities Board) hosted a Halloween Cookie Decorating Event in the Loyola Ballroom. CAB members were dressed in an array of fun Halloween costumes, and they played spooky Halloween music to create an entertaining atmosphere. Several tables […]
Mackenzie Hughes ’25 Staff Editor On Oct. 21, Taylor Swift released “Midnights,” her first new record since “evermore” in 2021. The album has already sold 800,000 copies, claiming the title of the most streamed-album in a single day on Spotify. Many organizations came together on campus to celebrate […]
Edward Scott ’26 Guest Writer An argument commonly made on both sides of the political aisle is that candidate quality no longer matters. To quote Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi talking about Alexandra Ocasio Cortez’s district, “A glass of water with a (D) on it could win […]
George Caldwell ’24 Staff Writer “Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?” is a complicated gospel album from singer-songwriter Tyler Childers. The Kentucky native first gained a following by uploading acoustic country songs to SoundCloud, where several have received millions of listens. He burst onto the national country […]
Stacey Kaliabakos ’23 Chief Opinions Editor As a 20 year old college student who is somewhat active on social media, I can plainly see that many people suffer from negative body image issues. There are endless studies that support this theory that social media is an exacerbation, or […]
Matt Nickerson ’24 Eggplant Staff Writer This month, an Australian man named Nedd Brockmann broke a record by running from Perth to Sydney in a mere 47 days. That cross-country run took Brockmann across 3,953 kilometers– or 2,456 miles, to use one of the units of measurement mandated […]
Michael Vail ‘24 Entomologist I found a mosquito on a windowsill in Kimball today, at coordinates 42.2401347, -71.8083961. Feeling particularly philosophical, I referred to our mission statement in search of guidance. What are our obligations to one another? What is our special responsibility to the world’s poor […]
Patrick Grudberg ‘24 Staff Writer October 10th, 2017, was a dark day for soccer in the United States. But it didn’t start that way – the morning was filled with anticipation and excitement. All the U.S. needed to do was win or draw versus Trinidad and Tobago and […]
Jake Ruderman ’26 Sports Editor In the middle of last May, morale was extremely low in Philadelphia. The Sixers had just lost convincingly in the second round to their old friend Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat, the Eagles had been obliterated at the hands of Tom Brady’s […]
Colin Healy ‘25 Sports Editor The serenity that usually accompanies a PGA Tour season was nowhere to be found this past year. For the first time, a true rival golf league has risen to challenge the Tour for golf supremacy. The rival comes in the form of LIV […]
Ben Lepper ’25 Chief Sports Editor Congratulations, Tom Brady! You did it, and we’re all so proud of you. Of course, by “it”, I mean completely ruining your reputation in a four-month period, and by “proud”, I mean we all really wish you had just called it quits […]
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