Stephen Fleury Staff Writer To me, one of the most important measures of a college is the extent to which people can freely discuss controversial issues. The whole point of a liberal arts education is to learn how to think freely and openly about the world around us, […]
Carly Priest Opinions Editor [Trigger warning from the author: This piece contains statistics and themes surrounding sexual assaults on college campuses, including instances of rape.] As I tried to unleash the first “1972” column of the 2017-2018 school year, I sat stumped. Not with writer’s block— just the […]
Spencer Caron Opinions Editor National Constitution day passed last Sunday with little attention paid to the holiday. After attending a talk in Rehm Library the day after, I was made aware that the holiday is rather new, being passed as a line item on a larger 2004 bill. […]
By Olivia Pan Opinions Editor On September 5, the Trump administration announced plans to officially rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). According to CNN, DACA “had protected nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, from deportation.” The term “Dreamers” comes from legislation introduced […]
Sam Arciprete Chief Opinions Editor I’ve been giving a lot of thought about what I wanted to write about in the first issue of the year. I felt that whatever I wrote about, it needed to be important. This is an issue that was presented to me last […]
By James Dooley, Contributor Original Article: https://theholycrosscrusader.com/2017/01/05/1972to-unapologetically-ignite-and-together-rise-oh-for-gods-sake/ I’m a practicing Catholic from the Boston area with a rather large and loud Irish family (nine siblings). I grew up learning to love and serve my neighbor, as well as to never eat meat on Fridays during Lent (unless the […]
By Hanna Seariac, Chief Web Editor It is simply outrageous that the US and European countries have legalized murder. Doesn’t that sound awful? Well, abortion and child euthanasia are legal forms of murder. Currently, abortion is legal in most of Europe, United States, Canada, and other countries, while […]
By Emily Breakell, Former SGA Co-President I’m still mad because people I don’t know think it’s okay to ask me how same-gender sex works. I’m still mad because when we talk about “majority students” on this campus, we’re talking about white kids, not recognizing that an even […]
By Caroline Ahern, Copy Editor I remember when Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign in June of 2015. I remember laughing out loud, turning to my mother and saying, “Donald Trump? The guy from Celebrity Apprentice? The guy with an entire building in New York that pretty much […]
By Emily Kulp, Opinions Editor At the University of California, Berkeley, during the years of 1964 and 1965, the Free Speech Movement arose, a student protest against the school’s restriction of political activity. 52 years later, the University of California, Berkeley has been repeatedly linked to controversies representing […]
By Kyle Espinola, Student Contributor The following is written in response to an article which appeared in last week’s edition of The Crusader. The piece this article responds to was written by the Black Student Union and takes issue with Eggplant writer Stephan Duncan’s satirical piece titled “Racism […]
By Olivia Pan, Opinions Editor Recently, Holy Cross dedicated an entire week to the Campaign Against Microaggressions. A microaggression is defined as “the casual degradation of any marginalized group,” and was “coined by psychiatrist and Harvard University professor Chester M. Pierce in 1970.” Surprisingly, this term has been […]
