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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 […]
Ben Kuchipudi ’25 Sports Editor It may have been ugly, but the Holy Cross Crusaders are still undefeated on the season after squeaking by the Lafayette Leopards 24-21. With this win, they remain undefeated on the season and in first place in the Patriot League. This was a […]
Yum Yiu ‘25 Opinions Editor Little Sheba! Come, Little Sheba! Come back! Come back, Little Sheba! – Lola Delaney, Come Back, Little Sheba After checking countless subscriptions that I do not own, I finally managed to find the movie, Come Back, Little Sheba, on YouTube. I have to […]
Stacey Kaliabakos ‘23 Chief Opinions Editor I would never dare to say I am particularly knowledgeable about art. I also could never refer to myself as an artist because I am admittedly very bad at drawing, painting, writing poetry, etc. However, I have always appreciated art. I remember […]
Ashwin Prabaharan ‘26 Opinions Staff Writer The last decade represented one of the most dramatic shifts in the identity of the Republican Party. The same once neoconservative-dominated party who revered the Bush family and rallied for interventionism has now adopted a protectionist platform steering it towards uniform cultural […]
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