Luke Anthony ’23Sports Editor For the first time since 2009, the Patriot League football trophy is coming to Worcester. The Holy Cross football team finished 7-6 overall, but its 5-1 record in the Patriot League won the Crusaders the conference title outright and earned them a bid to […]
Matt Anderson ‘21 Big Christmas Guy As finals draw closer and most Holy Cross students teeter the line between ingesting lethal levels of caffeine and having a mental breakdown, a holiday mania has also begun to sweep campus. Trees, tinsel, and Mariah Carey have infiltrated every facet of […]
Photos by Kim Fetherston ’22, Madeleine Beaton ’23, Claudia Hajjar ’23, Valentina Moran ’23, and Zoe Petit ’22
By Grace Bromage ’22 Features Editor If you were in the Pit in O’Kane on December 5-7 at 7:30 or December 7-8 at 2:30, the sound of laughter was not out of place. What was causing this laughter was The Secret Life of Plants, an original play written […]
Greg Hausler ’20 Chief Eggplant Editor As we have made the campus wide transition from Tapingo to Grubhub there has been quite the learning curve for both Grubhub and the entire Holy Cross community. For non first years this learning curve simply consists of changing our vernacular from […]
Jackie Cannon ’20 Editor-in-Chief In the early morning hours of Wednesday, November 13, 39-year-old Lt. Jason Menard died in a four-alarm fire after helping to save two other crew members. Menard was assigned to Ladder 5 at the McKeon Road Fire Station, which includes the College of the […]
Update: Earlier versions of this article incorrectly stated that the Student Government Association (SGA) supported the protest against Mac Donald. Although some members of SGA participated in the protest, they did so in their capacity as students, not as SGA representatives, as the official SGA stance was to […]
Ethan Bachand ‘22 Chief News Editor On Tuesday, November 12th, the Holy Cross community gathered in Hogan Campus Center to demonstrate their support for migrants. This was in response to the beginning of Supreme Court hearings on the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) program the same day. […]
By Matt Anderson ‘21 Eggplant Editor Coming off of Holy Cross’ dodransbicentennial milestone (that’s classics for 175), many have overlooked that another beloved fixture of the college is experiencing its own anniversary. The student academic records system, or, as it is more affectionately known, “STAR,” has just turned 75! […]
By Kelly Gallagher ‘22Chief Features Editor Full of warmth, intimacy, and fun, the Department of Theatre and Dance’s production of Ah, Wilderness! is a lively retelling of a classic play. Originally performed in 1933, the play is the only comedy of American playwright Eugene O’Neill, a Nobel Prize […]
By Olivia Pan Chief Opinions Editor ‘20 On Monday, November 4th, President Trump received some bad news, much to the delight of many Americans. According to CNN, “A three-judge federal appeals court ruled that Trump cannot claim presidential immunity to avoid eight years of his tax returns being […]
Greg Hausler ’20 Chief Eggplant Editor Since his release from incarceration for armed robbery and kidnapping, former football star, national icon, and murderer OJ Simpson has made a return to public life via Twitter. While most are anxiously waiting to hear The Juice speak about his time behind […]
