Mackenzie Hughes ’25 Features Staff Writer Ever wonder where your plate goes once you place it on one of the many green trays of the conveyor belt? Well, there aren’t little fairies who take and clean them… it’s Holy Cross students! These dining hall heroes are dedicated to ensuring […]
Michael Vail ‘24 Taking Over as Chief Sports Editor I’m sure most of you sports fans are already well aware, but the Holy Cross football team has been on a roll recently. Four wins and zero losses! That’s incredible. I didn’t get a chance to go to any […]
Ben Kuchipudi ‘25 Sports Editor Another Saturday, and another win for the Holy Cross Crusaders. Their victims? The Colgate Raiders. This was their first Patriot League opponent this year, so this game was huge for the defending PL champs. Like their previous three games, Holy Cross had one […]
Joey Abrams Chief News Editor ‘23 As Holy Cross students, parents, and alumni were tailgating between cornhole tosses and “go cross go” cheers, Worcester was having a party of its own. Saturday afternoon saw the 3rd annual Beats and Barbecue festival go down in the Worcester commons– in […]
Prof. Jenny Reed, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Guest Writer As a British expat, I was expecting to be asked about my reaction to Queen Elizabeth’s death. What I wasn’t expecting was my inability to answer these curious, well-meaning questions, which came, respectively, from my spouse, my friends, […]
Stacey Kaliabakos Chief Opinions Editor In an email sent out on July 21, 2022, entitled “Student policies under an endemic mindset,” Chief Risk and Compliance Officer Denielle Burl explained the new COVID-19 policies to be instituted at Holy Cross this fall. She began her email by acknowledging the […]
Michael Vail ‘24 Eggplant Staff Getting Old The most valuable part of the college experience is the boot camp you face as a freshman. When I was a freshman at the height of COVID, we did not have the typical campus welcome most other students receive. Before our […]
Colin Healy ’25 Sports Editor & Writer The albatross: a score of 3-under on a single hole. Tucked in between the ace and the eagle, it’s arguably the hardest accomplishment in the game of golf, even harder than the coveted hole-in-one. Making one is a rarity, even at […]
Joseph Abrams ’23 News Staff The long-awaited and highly anticipated Prior Performing Arts Center is set to open during the Community Day event beginning at 1 p.m on Sept. 24. In this opening event, community members will be able to tour the 84,000 square-foot arts center consisting of […]
Stacey Kaliabakos ‘23 Opinions Editor Not many parts of our lives as students are as stressful, worrisome, and decisive as final exams. Most of the time, finals serve as a benchmark for all that we have learned throughout the semester and require a lot of preparation. Although most […]
Kelly Gallagher ‘22 Senior Advisor My first step in writing a Features article is to always begin with questions, questions that I ask interviewees in the hopes of finding the heart of their story, or questions that will help me to understand how the event I’m covering contributes […]
Anna Lee ‘24 Chief Opinions Editor When Texan lawmakers enacted a controversial anti-abortion law last year, other Republican-led states sourced inspiration and followed suit. Most recently, Missouri Representative Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R-Arnold) introduced a new provision that would allow state citizens to sue anyone seeking abortions “regardless of […]
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