Clarabel Smith ’20 Opinions Editor Last week, the clock face on Fenwick clock tower was lit up blue, but like me for most of the week, students might have been too busy running between Stein and Dinand on a caffeine high to notice, let alone wonder why. But […]
Maggie Connolly ’21 Opinions Editor As a Holy Cross student from the Midwest, I am seen as a borderline foreigner in Massachusetts. Being from Indiana can make matters even worse; most of the time people ask me if I am from the south, or what the weather is […]
Tyler Christiansen ’21 Opinions Editor Since its inception in 1995 with the release of “Toy Story,” Pixar has owned the animated movie landscape. Ask anyone what their favorite Pixar film is and you will most likely get a vast array of answers: “Finding Nemo,” “The Incredibles,” “Up,” etc. […]
Ryen Cinski ‘22 Opinions Editor At 2:00 a.m. on March 29, 2019, USC student Samantha Josephson got into a car that she believed to be her Uber. 14 hours and 90 miles later, her body was discovered in a field. Samantha died due to the many sharp force […]
Emily Nichols ’22 Guest Writer It’s a typical Saturday night and I’m sitting alone in my room. Most everyone on my floor left to party hours ago. How I long for a fun and lively venue to hang out with others like me that have chosen a substance-free […]
Dear members of the Holy Cross community, We, the members of Alpha Sigma Nu, write in support of the recent motion presented by the ad hoc Committee on Faculty Sexual Misconduct dated April 5, 2019. As members of this Jesuit Honors Society, we are motivated to strive to […]
Grace Manning ’21 Opinions Editor There is something about scary movies, scary books, scary stories, and scary anything, really, that we love as adults and often despise as children. It is actually the same thing that is to an equal degree hated when we are younger, and loved […]
Olivia Pan ’20 Chief Opinions Editor After being arrested and charged with staging a fake hate crime, “Empire” actor, Jussie Smollett, unexpectedly had all charges dropped against him by Chicago prosecutors, to the bewilderment and anger of many. However, there were some who quickly jumped to support Smollett […]
Maggie Connolly ’21 Opinions Editor Holy Cross, as well as many other universities, require several semesters of studying a foreign language. Here, most study abroad programs involve at least three or four semesters of a language in order to study in a country with a language barrier. There […]
Ryen Cinski ’22 Opinions Editor Uber ratings: Such a trivial matter. Yet I am completely and undeniably bothered by the fact that I don’t have a perfect 5-star rating. I ask myself what I possibly could’ve done to deserve my demerits, yet I can never pinpoint the exact […]
Tyler Christiansen ’21 Opinions Editor Jordan Peele, writer and director of 2017’s best film “Get Out,” returns to the horror genre with “Us,” a bloody and hilarious film that tackles many societal issues at once while also being super entertaining. Let me make something clear: if you come […]
Henry W. Noe ’22 Opinions Editor As end-of-semester exams start to roll around, some students begin to wonder how they will be able to adequately study for everything in time for a big exam. They oftentimes ask themselves, what are the most effective ways of studying? What types […]
