Grace Manning ’21 Opinions Editor Over the past few years, I, along with many Catholics of my generation, have struggled to find reasons to be proud of our religion. Our experience with Catholicism has involved scandal, abuses of power, crime, ostracization and often hate, which features prominently in […]
Joe Barbieri ’23 Opinions Editor Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump granted former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn a presidential pardon. Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, responded on Twitter to the pardon by calling it a “Pardon […]
Julia Maher ’23 Opinions Editor Since the beginning of the pandemic and Trump’s subsequent politicization of mask mandates and physical distancing, America has seemingly become divided into two groups of citizens, more or less: those who proactively follow the scientific pandemic guidelines, and those who minimize the severity […]
11/15/20 Speaker Updates: Sandy Burke from OSI gave a tutorial on how to use myHC, a platform with features to help RSO leaders and students with communication, organizing, and managing. RSO Re-Recognition and budget application will all be on this platform. It will be fully launched for the […]
Matthew Anderson ‘21 Guy Who Knew Exactly What He Was Signing Up For Holy Cross students woke up this morning to the long-overdue response by college administrators to the online petition made a month ago to institute pass/no pass this semester. For those who didn’t read the email, […]
11/13/2020 With the nail-biting wait of Election Day – or, more aptly, Election Week – behind us, many of our students have thoughts to share on what the results mean for the country and where we should go from here. Be sure to check out “The Future of […]
Ethan Bachand ‘22 Chief News Editor On Monday, Nov. 9, the Common Requirements Steering Committee at the College of the Holy Cross released their proposed goals for changing our current system. Interim Report IV, as it was titled, is a comprehensive report that introduces areas the committee feels […]
ALPHA SIGMA NU INDUCTEES Congratulations to the following students from the Class of 2021, who will be inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu at an Induction Ceremony on Sunday, November 15, 2020, at 2 p.m. ET. NAME Beaulieu, Gabrielle V Burke, Grace C. Burns, Margaret T. Cheng, Ting Cody, […]
Hannah Johnson ‘21 Chief Eggplant Editor
Hannah Johnson ‘21 Chief Eggplant Reporter The eyes of US citizens have been making shifty glances at Nevada after the 2020 election debacle. We here at the (Spire) want to offer you an inside look into the mind of Nevada, and what exactly they were trying to accomplish […]
Mike O’Brien ‘23 Chief Sports Editor For the next installment of the Spire’s Student-Athlete Spotlight, I caught up with Avery LaBarbara, a junior on the women’s basketball team. LaBarbara is coming off a phenomenal sophomore campaign, in which she was named to the 2019-20 All-Patriot League Second Team, […]
Grace Manning ’21 Opinions Editor With the results of the election finally established, there is a palpable sense of relief among my friends and family members. Many of us, young people in particular, have regained a sense of pride and hope that we had lost over the past […]
