Jack Quinn ’20 Staff Writer As the Navy band played and families filled the Hart Center Basketball Arena on the afternoon of Friday, April 12th, the midshipmen of the Holy Cross NROTC prepared to march into the basketball court and commence the annual President’s Review ceremony. And while […]
Izzi Lambrecht ’19 “You are undeniably changing the city.” “Who do we do this for!?” “For the kids! For the kids! For the kids!” They continue to chant for another two minutes or so. Next comes the speech about how significant this work is for the city and […]
Grace Manning ’21 Opinions Editor Forwarded the article through Facebook by a concerned aunt, I was urged to read about Samantha Josephson, a senior at the University of South Carolina who was brutally killed by a man Josephson mistook as her Uber driver. This seemingly random crime of […]
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 […]
