Grace Manning
Name: Grace Manning ’21 Position: Opinions Editor
Veganism: Why it Should Not Be a Worldwide Movement
By Grace Manning ’21Opinions Editor Veganism, in my experience, is something that is very much understood, accepted, and discussed in the Western world, but not as much outside of it. This could be due to a few things: the relative facility with which we can access vegan alternatives […]
Racism Today: The Rise of Xenophobia During the Coronavirus and Climate Crises
By Grace Manning ’21Staff Writer In 21st century America, there is a common misconception that racism and xenophobia are issues that don’t exist anymore or that they aren’t topics so prevalent that they should be discussed on a large scale. However, the recent outbreak of the Coronavirus tells […]
Grace Manning
Name: Grace Manning ’21 Position: Opinions Editor (Spring 2019-present) Major: English and French Double Major and Peace and Conflict Studies Concentration
Tragedy without Surprise: How Government Neglect Leads to Catastrophe
Grace Manning ‘21 Opinions Editor Last October while travelling to Bafoussam, the West regional capital of Cameroon, as part of my study abroad program, we took a detour to visit the small village of Bamoungoum. The village had just suffered a huge landslide that is believed to have […]
Rebuilding One Cathedral Shouldn’t Mean We Don’t Care About Rebuilding Another
Grace Manning ’21 Opinions Editor “Rebuild This Cathedral,” dares a collage of photos depicting a rainforest, a reef, a beach coated in garbage and a cluster of bees swarming a hive. It has been shared and liked and has circled the world, drawing more and more attention to […]
Is Uber the Enemy?
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 […]
For the Love of a Scare
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 […]
Holy Cross Instates New Policy: Leave No Trace
Grace Manning ’21 Opinions Editor With the recent surge in numbers of Gen Zs speaking out against climate change and striving to be more environmentally friendly (think reusable coffee cups and metal straws), College of the Holy Cross has instituted a new school-wide policy. This policy, entitled “Leave […]
Who are We to Decide Who has the Right to Talk?
Grace Manning ’21 Staff Writer We have all experienced, partaken in, or heard of discrimination in our society today. Unfortunately, it is something that still very much exists and is relevant to everyone, whether white, black or any other ethnicity. However, we aren’t as familiar with discrimination towards white […]
Free (Wi-Fi) Heat Here!
“Free Wi-Fi Heat Here!” Grace Manning ’21 Opinions Editor My family lives in Ireland and my two little sisters called me the other day with pressing news. They told me that their tiny school up in the Wicklow Mountains didn’t have any heat that day, so they had […]
The Spire 