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 […]
Maggie Connolly Opinions Editor This past Tuesday, November 6th, the midterm elections were held across America. The midterm elections tend to be on the back burner for many voters, especially young ones, but this midterm election was and is more important now than ever. In the eyes of […]
Maggie Connolly Opinions Editor About two weeks ago, Taylor Swift proclaimed herself as not only a voter, but an adamant voter. Her Instagram post reminding her followers to vote shook the world of social media, and was followed by an acceptance speech at the American Music Awards reminding […]
Maggie Connolly ’21 Opinions Editor This past Monday was the one-year anniversary of the shooting at a Jason Aldean concert in Las Vegas. At the concert, 58 people were killed and 489 were injured. This week, Las Vegas took the time to remember those who lost their lives […]
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