By G.Matthew Greco ’17, Speaker of the Senate On behalf of the College of the Holy Cross Senate: When asked in the seventh grade what I wanted to be when I grow up, I responded “Speaker of the House.” In between sporting events and ABC evening news with […]
By Emily Kulp Everything felt different when I first emerged from my dorm building on November 9. From what I later heard from friends, acquaintances, and the media, that day felt different for a lot of other people too. Yet for many this difference arose from a sudden […]
The Social Justice Coalition is a product of discussion that occurred in the wake of the 2015 Jesuit University Humanitarian Action Network (JUHAN) Conference. Attendees of the conference brainstormed how they could best apply what they learned at the conference to life back on campus, breaking up into […]
By Jonathan Thompson About a month ago now, let’s just say I was in no place to do much of anything. Still stunned by the results of the election, I was rendered a living vegetable, capable of going through the motions, not capable of doing much other than […]
Many students reflect fondly on the Holy Cross move-in day experience: an enthusiastic greeting from student volunteers is complemented by an overwhelming sense of excitement that comes with the independence and freedom of college. As students progress, this excitement is gradually subdued by the realization that many aspects […]
By Anamika Dutta Anxiously awaiting move-in day on August 27, I imagined how my new life would unfold atop Mount St. James. Even though I tried to keep my expectations neutral, I could not help but picture myself having a blast every day with a solid friend group […]
While my recollections of first grade are hazy at best, some random memories do stick out in focus: Danny and I were cast as the only two “evil gnomes” in the class play, I got in relatively big trouble for stomping on a sponge to see how deflated […]
By Katie Corrigan I doubt that I will ever forget waking up on November 9, 2016 with the realization that Donald Trump will be our next president. The sense of disbelief hung over me as my brain tried to process what exactly was happening. As I walked through […]
By John Albinson Donald Trump is going to be the next President of the United States. It still doesn’t feel good. I don’t think it ever will. It might, hopefully, get better, but I really don’t know. David Remnick of The New Yorker summed it up best in […]
Note from the editors: Although The Crusader does not typically publish anonymous articles, we felt that the personal nature of this story warranted the protection of this student’s privacy. There may be content in this article that you find difficult to read or that may bring certain situations […]
By Olivia Pan I woke up the day of the election feeling overwhelmingly confident that we would finally shatter the glass ceiling and elect Hillary Clinton, however flawed a candidate, to be our next president. I had always felt that her strengths outweighed her flaws, especially in light […]
This past weekend, I and many other Holy Cross students traveled to New York City to cheer for the Crusaders at the Ram Crusader Cup (most of us rashly dropping our studies in the process). If the crowd spirit at Yankee Stadium confirmed anything, it was my conviction […]
