Allyson Noenickx Editor-in-Chief After a historic two-day student-led sit-in and discussions between groups of students and members of the executive team, Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J., president formally addressed the student community in a written statement, offering an apology to students. Hundreds of students lined the hallway directly […]
Billy Fitzpatrick ’20 Chief Sports Editor Men’s Basketball The Crusaders (12-11 overall, 3-7 Patriot League) have faltered in conference play of late after a promising run in the non-conference portion of the schedule. Holy Cross has dropped games to Boston University, Loyola (Md.), and Navy in recent weeks, three teams […]
Allyson Noenickx ’19 Editor-in-Chief On January 31, Holy Cross Interim Director of Athletics Brendan Sullivan announced that longtime women’s basketball head coach Bill Gibbons has been suspended for the remainder of the 2018-2019 season. The suspension––effective immediately––is due to an “internal investigation into a personnel matter,” according to […]
The Holy Cross Marketing Team Meet-and-greet Planners Today, members of the Holy Cross student body lined the hallway outside Father Boroughs’s office for the sole purpose of letting him know what a great job he’s doing. They held signs and cheered every time he walked out of his […]
College of the Holy Cross campus made an unprecedented advance this past month when a student openly declared that he was straight. Although he felt comfortable sharing his identity with me and a few other people in Cool Beans, he requested that I would not include his name […]
Sofia Maietta ‘19 News Editor On Wednesday, January 23, Father Boroughs sent a campus-wide email detailing the several initiatives that would be undertaken by faculty, staff, and students alike during the spring semester, and outlining the College’s goals moving forward. To begin his email, Father Boroughs recalled the […]
Billy Fitzpatrick ’20 Chief Sports Editor The New England Patriots overwhelmed the Los Angeles Rams to win Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, Georgia, last weekend. In defeating the Rams by a score of 13-3, New England quarterback Tom Brady clinched his record sixth Super Bowl title. This was also the […]
Kate McLaughlin ‘21 News Editor On January 20, Dean Michele Murray, Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students, sent an email to the Holy Cross student body in which she outlined her plan to enact a series of new opportunities for students to voice their concerns, […]
Caroline Ahearn ’20 Chief News Editor At 6 a.m. on Friday, January 26, Holy Cross kicked off its annual giving challenge to raise money for the Holy Cross Fund, the Crusader Athletic Fund, as well as specific initiatives such as the Bishop Healy Emergency Fund, the LGBTQ+ Leadership Fund, […]
Ethan Bachand ‘22 News Editor On Thursday, January 31, Professor Jill Lepore gave a lecture titled “The Rise and Fall of the Truth” to the Holy Cross community in the Hogan Ballroom. The talk, which lasted an hour, covered a variety of historical events and our interpretation of […]
Henry W. Noe Opinions Editor In the cyclical nature of a college student’s day, it is reasonable to occasionally get into ruts and feel the onset of monotony with little else new to look forward to. Amid writing papers, scanning over practice problems and flipping page after page […]
Tyler Christiansen ’21 Opinions Editor There has been a lot of talk about how 2018 was a disappointing year for film. To those people, I say this: either you didn’t see enough films or you only saw Solo: A Star Wars Story. Despite these murmurings, 2018 has been not […]
