Kelly Gallagher ‘22 & Matt Anderson ‘21 Editors-in-Chief As we edit our last edition of The Spire as Editors-in-Chief, we’ve been looking back on our time here and thinking about our team’s hard work over the past two semesters. It goes without saying that this year has presented […]
Matthew Anderson ‘21 Has the Makings of a Varsity Athlete Sometimes real-life events are stranger than anything we can come up with here at The Eggplant. According to a survey by J.D. Power, last month, Holy Cross became the second-largest furniture retailer in the nation (behind Ashley Furniture […]
Matt Anderson ’21 2017 Brooks-Mulledy Flood Survivor; 2018 Brooks Hall Fire Denier For many of today’s youth, at least before the pandemic, the first year at College is a right of passage. It’s part of a brief flicker of time where it’s socially acceptable for students to crush […]
Matt Anderson ’21 Big Board Guy Featured image by Hui Li ’21.
Matthew Anderson ‘21 Guy Who Knew Exactly What He Was Signing Up For Holy Cross students woke up this morning to the long-overdue response by college administrators to the online petition made a month ago to institute pass/no pass this semester. For those who didn’t read the email, […]
As Holy Cross students celebrate Halloween remotely this year, The Spire asked students to submit the strangest and spookiest sights one might report on the Hill. Thank you to all of our contributors for submitting your imaginative public safety blotters to our contest! We are pleased to award […]
Matthew Anderson ‘21 Polemicist Perhaps the most important discovery by certain Faculty and Administrators this semester at the College of the Holy Cross is that, by acknowledging how unorthodox this semester is, or by admitting the unique challenges it presents, it becomes permissible to assign the same amount […]
Name: Matt Anderson ’21 Position: Editor-in-Chief Major: History and PCON If you made a new section for the paper, it would be: Annex a page of the paper to double the size of the Eggplant and rechristen it ~The Aubergine~
Matt Anderson ‘21 Big Music Guy PSA: This article was written well before Father Buroughs announced he would be stepping down in June. We wish him good luck in the future, and want to thank him for his grace and his position, and to apologize for him having […]
Dear Holy Cross Community, The Spire is so excited to be back with you for the Fall 2020 semester. Holy Cross is a community dispersed, but thanks to the creativity and resilience of our individual members, we’ve still found ways to continue fostering our connections. We’re still an […]
Matt Anderson ‘21Part-Time Tyrant Although J.D. Power and Associates™ ranked The Eggplant as the nation’s most trustworthy publication named after a fruit or vegetable, it may distress our hordes of dedicated readers – who depend upon our column for the current goings-on at Mount St. James – that […]
Matt Anderson ‘21 Award-Winning Holy Cross Choir Roadie Back in 2007, Google™ embarked on an ambitious project, one that would see every one of your ex’s homes photographed. This culminated in what we now call Google Streetview™. Now, in 2020, in a fit of genius as well as […]
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