The two editorials below appeared in this week’s issue of the Crusader to explain why we are changing our name. James Gallagher wrote the “Last of the Crusader” part, and Jack Godar wrote “Up Next: The Spire” The Last of The Crusader On January 7, 1955, our predecessors at […]
Anamika Dutta Chief Culture Editor On January 20, 2018, around 1.5 million people around the world took to the streets for the second annual Women’s March: The People Persist. Last year’s empowering march, a response primarily to President Trump’s derogatory comments about women and threats to defund Planned […]
By John Godar, Editor in Chief Holy Cross Men’s Soccer made a thrilling run in the Patriot League Tournament this weekend, making it to the championship game and ultimately falling only one goal short of beating Colgate. After a 3-0 rout against Lafayette in the quarterfinals, Holy […]
Caroline Ahearn News Editor “I’m sorry, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, ‘cause she’s dead!” I, like many others, could not help but physically cringe the first time I heard Taylor Swift utter those words in her first solo song in […]
By Carly Priest “To unapologetically ignite, and together, rise” Immaculate Contraception “Take the Pill once a day, keep basic civil liberties at bay”? It’s not exactly the old adage about doctors and apples, but given the recent revisions to the Obama-era contraception mandate, maybe we should consider an […]
By Samuel Arciprete, Chief Opinions Editor This past week, I read an article that I encourage anyone reading this to look up. Manohla Dargis’ piece, “Louis C.K., The Latest in a Canon of Creeps,” looks back on her experience this past August watching Louis C.K.’s film “I Love You, […]
Anamika Dutta Culture Editor “Jane the Virgin” has consistently delivered complex and diverse characters leading its storylines: Latino/a, women, men, queer, old, and young. However, their queer characters, Rose and Luisa, are both highly unstable, and for the most part, highly unhappy. Their love often appears to […]
By Meghan Shaffer Culture Editor Cold weather has started to settle on to Mt. Saint James and there have even been a few sprinklings of snow, which can only mean one thing: Christmas season is upon us. Some will say that it is too early to begin celebrating […]
By Alexandra Smith, Chief Culture Editor In an era of influencers and fast fashion apps like Project September and Stitch Fix, what does it mean to have “personal style?” While Leandra Medine of Man Repeller argues in her article “We’re In It: The Era of Personal Style — but […]
By Anamika Dutta, Culture Editor Movies get a lot right, but often give into stereotypes when it comes to portraying women in a realistic multi-dimensional manner. The representation of women as either only career-oriented, only focused on love, only a feminist icon if she is allegedly “anti-men,” or forced […]
By Alexandra Smith, Chief Culture Editor Hometown: Philly Major: International Studies Best Dorm: Williams Favorite Holy Cross Class: Environmental Science 114 with Prof. Bertin Number of All-Nighters Last Semester: 0, I can’t skip sleep. Favorite Animal: Polar Bear Favorite Book: “Frog and Toad” Favorite Color: Red Favorite […]
By Meghan Shaffer, Culture Editor Spoilers below for Season 1 of “Stranger Things” On October 27, the long-awaited second season of Netflix series “Stranger Things” dropped just in time to binge for Halloween. Set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana in the 1980s, season one follows the residents […]
