By Maggie ConnollyOpinions Editor ‘21 Only three weeks left until my return to College Hill. Only three weeks left to listen to every episode of Pod Save America I’ve missed since I’ve been abroad. That means catching up on all of the news I’ve missed or brushed over […]
By Maggie Connolly ‘21 Opinions Editor Everyone’s a critic. Well, that is what people say at least. And in some sense, it is true. Studying abroad on a program directed towards understanding and learning about politics is obviously going to attract a group of politically active and aware […]
By Maggie Connolly ‘21Staff Writer A fifth summer of lifeguarding at a neighborhood pool. No business casual involved, getting paid, and getting a tan? Sure, sign me up! Getting paid just over Indiana’s measly minimum wage? Adding another year of hometown lifeguarding instead of a viable internship to […]
Maggie Connolly ’21Opinions Editor Every time I open my computer, I see a photo of O’Kane Hall I took on a walk to Kimball. It was a spring Wednesday evening last semester, and I was meeting my cousin for dinner. She was on the apartment meal plan and […]
Name: Maggie Connolly ’21 Position: Opinions Editor (Spring 2018-present) Major: English and Political Science
Maggie Connolly ’21 Opinions Editor Interestingly enough, this year there are more familiar names than just the incumbent president on the ballot for 2020. Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have both officially declared their candidacy for the Democratic primaries, Sanders falling short in the primaries in the 2016 […]
Maggie Connolly ’21 Opinions Editor As a Holy Cross student from the Midwest, I am seen as a borderline foreigner in Massachusetts. Being from Indiana can make matters even worse; most of the time people ask me if I am from the south, or what the weather is […]
Maggie Connolly ’21 Opinions Editor Holy Cross, as well as many other universities, require several semesters of studying a foreign language. Here, most study abroad programs involve at least three or four semesters of a language in order to study in a country with a language barrier. There […]
Maggie Connolly ’21 Opinions Editor In March, a new trend hit the streets for women, specifically those in their teens and early twenties: feminism! That is right. The once shunned, shamed social movement is hitting our Instagram stories and feeds! Welcome to the 21st century, where girls post […]
Maggie Connolly ’21 Opinions Editor 2020 has always sounded like a foreign year to many people. It has been used in TV series and movies of the past generations to allude to a futuristic time where people travel around on hoverboards and cell phones all create holograms instead […]
Maggie Connolly Opinions Editor Just four short weeks ago, Holy Cross came together as a community and attended up to three workshops with topics ranging from empathy on campus to sexual assault and how it has come to appear in our everyday lives. This community-wide event was called […]
Maggie Connolly ’21 Opinions Editor The midterm elections gave women a lot of firsts in the world of politics. The first two Muslim women were elected to Congress, the first woman senator was elected from the state of Tennessee and so on. Needless to say, women are making […]
